Disclaimer: I do not own x-men evo. 'nuff said.
"Tell me why we bother again." Roberto joined the remaining x-men at their lunch table.
"Uh, Roberto, you do know" Bobby began.
"Yes I am fully aware that I have casserole surprise hanging off my head, hence the question." He answered curtly. Bobby just mouthed 'sorry' and went back to examining his lunch.
"Because we're still humans, we just have gifts." Scott explained. Roberto shot him a very angry look. "True some people have problems accepting that." He added under his breath.
"Whatever." Roberto sat down with a huff and proceeded to pick food out of his hair.
"Hey there's Kurt." Amara spotted him on the other side of the lunchroom and waved. He just ducked his head and headed to a different table.
"Forget it, blue boys to busy being 'normal'" Rouge said with a sneer.
"Yeah, lucky him." Jean said sarcastically as she tried to ignore the glares she was receiving from her former 'friends'.
"Is it just me" Amara leaned over and whispered into Bobby's ear "or is everyone in a really bad mood today?" Bobby just nodded silently as he watched Scott stab his Salisbury steak with more than ample force.
"Ah the cafeteria. No other place quite inspires the wealth of emotions as this wondrous haven of nutrition."
"Wow Freddy, that was almost poetic." Pietro stated as the Brotherhood looked up at Fred in shock.
"Thank you."
"Of course" Lance began "that wealth of emotion is just nausea." Freddy frowned at a highly disrespectful Lance while the others just laughed.
"Whoops gotta go guys. I promised some ladies I would grace them with my presence for lunch." Pietro gave the gang a smug smile and then he was gone.
"What an ego." Wanda noted, rolling her eyes, while the rest of the boys just nodded.
"So Kitty, you gonna eat lunch with us?" Lance asked shyly as he ran his hand through his hair.
"Oh, sorry Lance I can't." Kitty replied unconvincingly.
"Hey that's fine, just thought I'd ask."
"Actually what he wanted to know" Pietro zipped up behind Lance "is if you wanted to 'spend the night'."
"Weren't you leaving!" Lance yelled as he tried to punch Pietro but Pietro just sped around him.
"Hey I was but I wanted to make sure Kitty was properly informed." Pietro gave Lance a slight pat on the head. "Toodles" he said as he zipped off.
"Pietro get back here!!!" Lance yelled his face red with rage.
"Uh, I'm gonna go Lance, bye." Kitty said hurriedly as she walked (rather quickly) away from the group.
"Wait Kitty" he called after her but she was already gone.
"Dude that's just pathetic, I mean she dumped you. Time to move on" Todd said.
"It's not that! I just wanted to know if she understood the Chemistry assignment that's all."
"Uh-huh, and I want to go on a diet." Freddy said as he walked past Lance.
"Good one, yo." Todd gave Freddy a high five as the two of them and Wanda left Lance standing alone.
"Why me?" he sighed.
"Hey Kitty, where you've been?" Scott smiled at Kitty.
"Around." She said meekly hoping no one would pry further.
"Yeah, 'around' with Lance." Bobby said. Kitty gave him the glare of death and he went back to trying to cut his meat.
"I was just saying hello." She added defensively after noticing the look of disapproval on Scott's and Jean's face.
"Get over him Kitty, you said yourself he was nothing more than a hood." Rouge advised.
"I know, it's just." Kitty let out a sigh "ok, I really do need advice." She sat down and Jean, Rouge, and even Amara gathered around her. Scott just moved over to sit next to Roberto and Bobby; no way was he getting involved in it. As much as Scott disliked Lance he knew better than try and be in 'girl talk'.
"So, guys, yeah." Scott said as he tried to strike up a conversation. Roberto and Bobby just looked at him and then went back to eating. 'Yup, there's nothing better than guy talk' he said silently to himself.
"Hello ladies." Pietro smiled at the girls from earlier that day "I think we were discussing lunch plans earlier."
"Hey Pietro" they all cooed in unison. Pietro smiled, he was too good.
"I guess the way I feel about Lance is—"
"Hey guys have you hear about Kelly?" Ray excitedly pushed his way between Amara and Jean cutting Kitty off.
"YES!" the girls shouted angry at the interruption.
"Sorry." Ray backed away from the angry girls and hid behind Scott and Bobby. The girls then went back to their conversation.
"I have never feared for my life as much as I did in that moment." Ray said quietly as he tried to grapple with the pure hatred he saw in their eyes.
"It'll be ok man." Scott said reassuringly.
"So, have you guys heard about Kelly?" Ray asked bouncing back from his traumatic experience rather easily. The other boys looked on in amazement at his speedy recovery.
"You talking about how he is on fire with some weird multi-colored flame." All the X-boys turned there heads to see who this newcomer was.
"Oh, hey." Scott greeted emotionlessly.
"Hey Tabitha, haven't seen you around lately." Bobby said.
"Yeah, well life's been interesting." She replied as she sat down and proceeded to eat some of Bobby's lunch.
"Have you actually seen Kelly?" Ray asked steering the conversation back to the most important topic.
"Well if you haven't he's right there." Roberto pointed to the far cafeteria doors where a still flaming Kelly had just appeared.
"We should do something." Scott said determinedly.
"Nah, it looks like the administration's got it." Bobby said referring to the fact that the Vice Principal, two secretaries, and the janitor were chasing Principal Kelly with fire extinguishers trying to put his head out.
"I guess." He replied uncertainly, he wasn't sure about just letting someone suffer but he also didn't want to leave Boom-Boom with the remainder of his lunch.
"I so feel the love." Todd smiled as he walked through a crowd of sneering faces.
"Man this is crap." Lance angrily slammed his lunch tray on the table. "It wouldn't be like this except for that damn no power rule."
"Yeah, they even jipped me on my mac and cheese." Fred frowned as he looked at his miniscule portion.
"Ewww, I can't believe you eat this stuff." Todd said as he looked at the cafeteria food, everyone else just stared at him in disbelief. "What?"
"I can't believe you guys." Wanda stated as she sat down. "Are you telling me that you can't take out some of these kids without your powers?"
"Hey your right sweet 'ums. We can take all these losers out." He looked up to see Freddy nodding his head vigorously.
"One problem, even if we don't use our powers people are still gonna say we did." Lance added unhappily.
"But the school can only punish us for what we do on school grounds right?" Wanda looked up at Lance with an evil glint in her eyes.
"So we bide our time." He said the look in his eyes mirroring her's.
"But what about the X-geeks?" Freddy motioned with his head to two tables down where the x-men were sitting.
"Hey Pietro said he wanted us to get ride of the X-men." Lance pointed out with a smile "so what's to hold us back?" The other members smiled, x-men or not they were gonna teach some kids a lesson.
"Hey Wanda, you gonna eat that?" Freddy asked. Lance smiled; life hadn't changed that much after all.
"Don't you think mutants are the most disgusting creatures?" The brunette, Trist, leaned over to Pietro.
"Huh?" Pietro was completely confused by her behavior. One moment they had been flirting and the next she was busting on his kind.
"Yeah, you know, mutants. There's a bunch in this school, don't you watch the news?" She, and her two friends (or mini-Trists as Pietro liked to think of them), were perplexed by Pietro's strange reaction.
"Oh" Pietro said and then he realized what was going on. None of the regular students at school knew he was a mutant. He wasn't shown on T.V. where the rest were exposed and unless they knew he lived at the Brotherhood house they wouldn't even suspect it. "Oh, yeah, the mutants."
"I mean they are so gross, they're just unnatural you know." Trist continued to drone on and on about how much she detested mutants while Pietro weighed his situation. He could keep quite and pretend he was a normal human but then again. Pietro smiled.
"Hey Trist." He said cutting her off.
"Yeah Piet Ahhh!" She cried as a cold liquid fell on her head and back. She looked up in shock to see Pietro holding an empty Slushee cup over her head.
"My mutant power is super speed." He gave her an arrogant smirk and then ran off to join his friends.
"Oh my gosh." The two mini-Trists said as they stared in shock at their leader and then the empty spot where Pietro stood.
"What the hell is their problem?" Lance glanced over to where the X-girls were sitting. "They keep looking over here."
"They're checking you out yo!" Todd laughed.
"No, that's not a checking out look." Wanda said "it's a 'we're talking about you behind your back' look."
"Lovely" Lance muttered sarcastically, he really hated the x-geeks.
"Why so down guys?" Pietro rested his elbow on the table and smiled at the group.
"Pietro don't you have some women to harass?" Lance said.
"Well, usually I do have women whose hearts I need to lighten" he knew that's what Lance really meant "but something came to my attention recently and it's something I need to remedy." The entire group looked up at him in confusion.
"This can't be good." Wanda said.
"Ladies and Gentlemen may I have your attention!" Pietro yelled across the lunchroom as he climbed on top of the table. "My name is Pietro Maximoff and the most astonishing thing was brought to my attention today. It turns out that many people don't know who I am!"
"You're the sexiest guy in school!" a table of girls yelled out. Pietro just smiled.
"Yes that's true" he continued "but I'm also a proud member of Homo Superior! That's right, I'm a mutant!" At this bold declaration there were cries of despair and shock from across the cafeteria.
"What is he up to?" Scott frowned as he and the others watched Pietro (and the other members of the Brotherhood) closely.
"Now my mutant power is super speed, not only can I run faster than all of you but I also think faster in my sleep then you are capable of thinking at any time!" Pietro smirked at his declaration of superiority.
"You tell him Pietro!" Todd cheered from his seat.
"Hey Todd what you doing down there?" Todd looked up at Pietro not understanding his question. "Hey you're a member of Homo Superior be proud stand up and be counted. Mutant pride!" Pietro punched the air in a triumphant gesture feeding off the energy of his own impromptu speech.
"You're right!" Todd yelled as he hopped onto the table next to Pietro. "Yo, my name is Todd Tolensky I go by the name of Toad and my powers are…uh…well…I don't know how to really describe them." Todd finished weakly.
"But you're mutant and proud!" Pietro yelled.
"Yeah, I'm mutant and proud!" Todd screamed. Fred, Wanda, and Lance burst into applause also caught up in the moment.
"My name is Fred Dukes I go by the Blob my powers are strength and nothing hurts me!" Fred shouted after standing up (but not on any furniture) "and I'm a mutant and proud!"
"Alright" Pietro and the others cheered.
"My name is Wanda Maximoff" Wanda stepped up to stand next to her brother totally swept away in the moment "I'm Pietro's twin sister"
"Don't we just look so much alike?" Pietro joked.
"My powers are too hard to explain but they are kick-ass and I'm a mutant and proud!"
"I'm Lance Alvers, go by Avalanche and my powers will just rock your world!" Lance screamed from a top his chair the rest of the brotherhood cheering him on.
"Now that you've met the cool mutants of Bayville High" Pietro continued "I'll go ahead and introduce you to the X-geeks" with this Pietro ran on top the x-men's lunch table at super speed causing food to go all over them.
"Hey wait a second!" Tabitha shouted as she jumped on top of a table "My name is Tabitha Smith, I go by Boom-Boom and I make things explode, but I am also unaffiliated at this time" she added.
"And" Pietro prompted.
"I'm mutant and proud!" she screamed.
"I'm Ray Crisp, go by Berserker, and I shoot stuff from my hands!"
"Ray get down!" Scott ordered upset that he was doing something with Pietro.
"And I'm mutant and proud!" he screamed ignoring Scott.
"I'm Bobby, otherwise known as the Iceman!"
"I'm Roberto, Sunspot."
"I'm Amara, Magma, and I'm a princess."
"And we're mutants and proud!" They all screamed together joining hands and raising them in triumph. The Brotherhood cheered along with the new mutants in this new found bond while Scott dared any one else to stand.
"Come on guys!" Lance yelled to the X-men. Kitty looked at him and then gave a devilish smile.
"I'm Kitty Pryde" she stood up on the table causing Scott to have conniptions.
"And I'm Rouge." The goth smiled at Kitty and they both raised their hands in the air.
"And we're mutants and proud!"
"Guys this is totally unacceptable." Scott said through clenched teeth.
"Oh come on" Pietro zipped up to Scott and Jean "shouldn't we be proud of who we are, especially since our pride in ourselves might be the only things we have. It's not like anyone out there will pick us up when we feel down." Pietro motioned to the crowd of students in the lunch room, most of whom either were in shock or had looks of disgust and anger.
"You're right." Jean stood up on the table.
"Jean!!!"
"Scott, ever since people found out who I really was they have shunned me and hated me. The least I can do is be proud in myself." Scott looked up at her indecision raging in him. He looked at her, at Pietro's cocky grin, and then at the look of distrust on his peers faces.
"You're right." He said as he climbed on to the table. "My name is Scott Summers!"
"And I'm Jean Grey."
"And we're mutants and proud!" They both shouted.
"Yeah, we're mutants and proud!" Pietro joined them standing next to Cyclops and soon all of them we're chanting it 'we're mutants and proud, mutants and proud'.
In the back of the cafeteria a sad looking figure was heading towards the door.
"Kurt?" Amanda softly said behind him.
"Oh Amanda." He turned quickly surprised to see her.
"You're not going up there?"
"No, no I'm not." Kurt looked at her and then at his friends, and enemies, as they proudly declared who they were. "Bye." He said quickly and then he bounded through the doors before she could say anything else.
A/N: Wow, this is a long chapter. Hope you all enjoy it cause I liked writing this one. Please review and I thank you all who have review before it really means a lot to me.
P.S. what does *rn* mean? I've seen it a few times and I am confused.