Disclaimer: I don't own X-men evo, so sad, oh well.
I am soooo sorry for not updating in like, two months (or maybe four, it's been awhile) I have been so busy for school. In fact right now I should be studying for my finals but…
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy, it's not the best because I really have just cranked it out in bits and pieces, I'll try to update again soon.
"You know there's nothing on when you're reduced to watching the History Channel." Pietro frowned as he finally put the remote down.
"I like the History Channel." Fred spoke up.
"It's better than Lifetime." Lance added as he threw a candy bar wrapper at the TV in frustration.
"Hey hey, no disrespecting the television." Pietro shot Lance a disapproving glance as he threw the candy wrapper away. Lance frowned as he plopped down on the boys' new Lazy Boy; they had gotten new furniture before Kelly had canceled his credit card account.
"Forget you guys, I'm gonna see if Wanda wants to do something." Pietro gave Fred and Lance a dismissive way and headed upstairs with a huff.
"What's his problem?" Lance asked. Fred gave him a strange look. "Why am I asking you?"
"Hey Wanda I'm bored." Pietro flopped down on her bed and waited for his sister to do something. Wanda just continued reading her history book. "Uh…Wanda, I'm bored." He stated again.
"So?"
"Do something."
"Like what?" she finally put her book down and glared at him.
"I dunno, something." Pietro said as if that was enough to enlighten her.
"Fine" Wanda sighed as she tried to think of something to get Pietro out of her hair "do my math homework." She commanded.
"I'm already bored." He attempted to clarify for her. She gave him a look and he sighed as he reached for her homework.
"Done." He looked up at her with a sweet smile; he had even mimicked her handwriting.
"Ok" Wanda searched to see what else he could do "clean the bathroom, it's just nasty." Her face contorted in disgust at the thought of it.
"No way!" Pietro held up his hand as if to ward off her suggestion.
"Oh come on Pietro, please." Wanda flashed him a sweet smile.
"You serious?" his black eyebrows came together as he studied his twin's expression.
"Well, yeah." Wanda lied, she was actually messing with him, but if he did clean the bathroom…
"You seriously want me to clean the bathroom?"
"Yeah, it's gross and you can do it at super speed so it won't take all day like last time." Wanda explained trying to see how far she could push her twin.
"Can't you think of anything else?" Pietro gave her a pleading look hoping she would change her mind
"Look Pietro, you're the one who was bored. I just want you to leave me alone; you might as well do something productive while you're at it." Wanda snapped, she couldn't have Pietro do her history reading for her and his hyperactive self had been getting on her nerves for weeks.
"Ok." He said as he dejectedly left her room. Wanda watched her twin depart wondering if she had been too harsh. Then she heard the water start running in the bathroom and realized Pietro had begun cleaning.
"Whoa, he's actually doing what I said" an evil smile came over her as she realized the implications "I have the power." She let lose an evil laugh, her twin's dejected features quickly pushed to the back of her mind.
"Well that wasn't fun" Pietro zipped out of the spotless bathroom and leaned against the wall "but it did need cleaning" he sighed as he studied his worn fingers. He frowned as he thought of all that back-breaking labor, sure to everyone else it was done in a split second but to him it still took a looong time.
"Yo Pietro." Todd said behind an armload of bottles and towels as he headed to the bathroom.
"Hey Todd." Pietro replied automatically then went back to his musing. So here he was, the great Pietro Maximoff, reduced to cleaning bathrooms for the not quite sane Wanda Maximoff. Pietro sighed, he knew why he did it, he wanted his family to be perfect, but he also knew that no matter what he did for his sister or father his family would never be how he wanted it. Yet he still tried so hard no matter how much it hurt. "I'm such a loser" he sighed as he thought of all the pain he suffered for his father and, with a glance at his red fingers, all that he would go through for his sister.
"Bye Pietro." Todd said as he sauntered out of the bathroom.
"Bye To…" Pietro's voice trailed off as he looked up at Todd. His hair was cut short and bleached blonde with dark brown highlights running through it.
"Whaddya think?"
"You look like Justin!" Pietro blurted out with a laugh.
"Sweet." Todd said with a sly smile as he headed to Wanda's room.
Pietro shook his head in disbelief laughing to himself until he saw the bathroom. There was hair dye and towels everywhere. "TOAD!" he screamed "I JUST CLEANED THIS!" downstairs he could hear Lance laughing.
"Man what do I have to do to impress that girl?" Todd collapsed onto the couch in utter defeat.
"They're not worth it if they can't accept you for who you are." Lance replied sagely.
"Uh-huh, this from mister 'I can't do that, Kitty wouldn't approve'" Freddy said with a laugh.
"Oh shut up." Lance told him with a sneer. Then the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" He said as he leaped out of his chair. "Hey" he started as he opened the door "oh, it's you. Hey Wanda, Justin's here!" he called up closing the door on Justin's face and heading back to his seat to Fred's laughter.
"Where is he?" Wanda looked around as she joined the boys.
"What do you see in him?" Todd asked.
"Hygiene." She shot back.
"He's outside." Lance motioned with his hand to the front door so Wanda would move away from the TV set. She sighed and headed to the door only to be cut off by Pietro.
"Whoa, sorry sis." He said as he stopped himself from running her over. "Toad you are dead meat." He walked over angrily to where Todd was sitting.
"Bye guys." Wanda called as she headed out the door.
"Bye sis. Todd do you know how long it took me to…wait a second, where's Wanda going?"
"Out with Justin." Freddy answered with a sing-song voice.
"Whoa, time out." Pietro said as he zipped out of the house and stopped Wanda from shutting Justin's car door. "Why didn't you tell me you were going out?"
"I don't know Pietro; does it have something to do with that fact that you're not my mother?" Wanda asked sarcastically as she pulled the door shut.
"Don't use that tone on me young lady." Pietro scolded doing a bad old lady impression. Wanda opened her mouth to respond but busted out laughing. "Laugh now but when somebody gets hurt…" Pietro continued trying not to crack up himself.
"Pietro" Wanda began after getting control of herself "you are so weird."
"It's genetic." He replied with a cocky grin while Wanda rolled her eyes. "Have her home by ten young man." Pietro leaned over and told Justin.
"Pietro" Wanda scolded him giving him the glare.
"Or not." Pietro backed away from the car and flashed Wanda one more smirk before heading back into the house.
"Your brother is weird."
"I think it's his mutation, does something to the head." Wanda answered as they sped off.
"You know something" Pietro said as he grabbed the remote from Lance's hand and plopped down on the couch "I never did find out what they were doing. Oh well."
"Hey I was watching that!" Lance shouted as Pietro began flipping through the channels.
"Powerpuff Girls?" Pietro asked giving Lance a 'you-got-to-be-kidding' look.
"Yes." He answered through clenched teeth.
"It all ends the same 'and the day was saved thanks to the powerpuff girls' so you aren't missing anything."
"Actually some episodes end differently" Freddy began and then noticed the look the other two were giving him "shutting up now" he finished quickly.
"Hey where's Todd?" Pietro asked noticing for the first time that the object of his ire was missing.
"I dunno." Freddy answered realizing that Lance was too distracted trying to grab the remote from Pietro to answer.
"Odd." Pietro said right before Lance managed to tackle him and wrestle the remote from his hands but before Lance could change the channel back Pietro had grabbed it again and so it went on for hours, the Great Remote War.
Meanwhile…
"So is it always that crazy at your place?" Justin asked.
"It varies. In fact that was one of the less hetic days." Wanda answered.
"So who's in charge of you guys? I mean, you have to have a guardian or something."
"Well, there was this one mutant who was in charge until mutants got exposed. After that, well I guess no one had the guts to evict a bunch of teenage mutants." Wanda smiled as she pictured what the Brotherhood would do to any would be evictors.
"Guess not. Well here we are." Justin said as he pulled into a parking lot. "The best burgers in town."
"I can feel my arteries clogging from here." Wanda muttered sarcastically as she stared up at the Burger Bop's neon sign. Justin flashed her a smile as he lead the way inside.
"So what is up with you guys?" Justin asked as he shoved another fry into his mouth.
"What do you mean?"
"Well shouldn't social services be on you butt or something? I mean it doesn't seem like you guys have a guardian or something."
"You know I never really thought about that. At first Mystique was in charge of all the Brotherhood stuff, she was a shape-shifter so she could do stuff like that but now" Wanda just shrugged as she went back to her milkshake.
"What about your dad?"
"What about my father?" Wanda's blue eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Hey just wondering." He replied defensively "Pietro just makes it sound like he's still alive so I was, you know, just wondering."
"Oh" Wanda relaxed, but only a little, "he hasn't been around much, he's busy."
"Does he know about you…"
"Being a mutant?" Justin nodded. "Yeah, he does." She said with a wry smile.
"What about your brother's mutant pride thingy?"
"I don't know if he knows about that. He kinda lets us do our own thing" Wanda's eyes narrowed in concentration as she tried to sort out the jumble of memories in her head.
"That's cool." Justin let a sly smile cross his lips. "So do you talk to him or anything, or do you just let him do his own thing?"
"I think Pietro has his cell phone number" Wanda shook her head, she was beginning to get a headache "but I haven't talked to my dad in awhile, I guess he's busy."
"Whatever right?" Justin leaned back in the chair and smiled, he had gotten what he wanted out of Wanda, now to see if he could get that cell phone number.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" a loud scream came out of the kitchen. Wanda and Justin turned to a cart burst through the kitchen doors trailing flame.
"PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!" a panicked voice shouted from atop the cart. The cart ran into a table and caused the person on it to go flying. The person skidded across tables and ended up landing smack dab on Wanda's burger which was fortunate for him cause it put the fire on his butt out. "Hey baby cakes" Todd waved weakly as he looked up at Wanda from his back.
"TOAD!" she screamed in rage.
"Yikes!" he yelled as he hopped away as fast as he could with hex bolts flying behind him.
"Man I love the History channel." Blob said with awe as the history of food ended.
"Totally, who would have thought Twinkies were so fascinating?" Lance echoed.
"Where is he?" Wanda yelled as she stomped into the house.
"Who?" both boys asked in unison.
"Toad." Both boys shrugged in ignorance and went back to see what was coming on.
"Ugh." Wanda cried in frustration and headed towards her room.
"Oh man they're going to have the history of the mob on next!" Blob exclaimed excitedly.
"Alright!"