Just so you'll know, I realize that the Scarlet Witch turned good in the early 60's, but having Magneto as her father and her great power, I couldn't resist adding her in. Enjoy! Oh, and I hope you like fight scenes, 'cause that's what the next few chapters are going to be  

Storm was having no luck at all in her assignment. Not a single footprint, scrap of costume, dead animal, nothing. If she didn't know better, she would suspect that Logan was on the Blackbird sipping a beer. All she needed was one little clue…!

            The trees all swayed lightly with the breeze. She felt sorry for the other X-Men. They were probably cold in only their costumes. Sure, they were thermal, but nothing worked as well as shining the sun on you directly. Besides, if she ever grew too hot (which was unlikely, considering where she had lived for the majority of her early life), she could always make a nice breeze to cool her off.

Suddenly, she heard a light rustle in one tree to her left. The noise stopped nearly as soon as it had begun, so she paid it no mind and continued her search.

"Logan, Logan, why did you have to get so stubborn?" she muttered. She hoped the others were having better luck than she was.

Suddenly, she felt something huge, something heavy, fall onto her back with a monstrous grip around her neck. She fell to the ground quickly and could feel the air being forced out of her. "Aauhg!" she choked. There was no way to escape the grip. Unless…

She could hear the beast's cry of anguish as the lightning bolt struck his back. Ororo was not feeling kind today. The monster slid off her back and she got up and turned around in time to see it lying before her.

"Sabretooth!" she cried.

"Just playin' possum, sugar!" mumbled the mutant. He suddenly, as unexpected as the lightning had been, leapt upon Storm and scraped the skin off her back with a quick swipe. Storm gave a howl of throbbing as the blood ran down her back. Sabretooth went for the next swipe as quickly as the first, but this time Ororo was prepared. Her eyes went white, and a gust of wind flew Sabretooth far away from her. She could hear the thud as his monstrous form struck a giant redwood.

Ignoring the throbbing in her back, she flew swiftly to the spot where he lay rubbing his head. She summoned another gust and knocked him into the tree again. And again. And again.

"What do you want with the X-Men, Sabretooth?!? Who are you working for? Did you kidnap Silverback? Speak, monster!!!"

She let the wind stop long enough for an answer from Sabretooth: "Give it up, sister!'

She held him with the wind and began focusing yet again. "So be it." As Sabretooth watched in terror, a gigantic tornado began to appear behind her. Trees flew from side to side like playthings tossed by a child. The wind crashed around her, and as she flew higher, until she was directly in front of her cyclone, she had never looked more like a goddess.

She heard Sabretooth's cry of "Noooooooo!" and observed as her twister picked him up. And she watched as it threw him miles back. Once she knew he had hit the ground, she let her tornado cease, and radioed in Cyclops on her com link. "Be ready, Scott. I don't think we're alone in this forest. And I've got a bad back wound. I'll see you up in the Blackbird."

Sabretooth radioed in Magneto on his own com link. "Boss, I've got bad news. I got matched up against the weather-witch, and I lost big time. Be prepared, 'cause I'm pretty sure we're each gonna end up facing an X-Man. Sabretooth, over and out."

So, Magneto thought. He would be facing an X-Man too, eh? All the better. He looked forward to crushing him or her. The Menace would win this war, and no team of human-lovers was going to stop him.