Disclaimer: I no own x-men evo, how many times do I have to say this?
"Ow ow ow ow ow" Todd said to himself as he limped along. He had thought about heading back to the Brotherhood house but on remembering the look on Wanda's face he changed his mind. "Woe is me."
"I think it's time to put you freaks in your place."
"Yeah, on top of the food chain!" A voice shouted from behind the boys, they turned to see four kids dressed in brightly colored spandex wearing masks and striking a ridiculous pose.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean? We're not going to eat them." One of them said to the leader.
"Hey it's the only thing that popped in my head ok" the boy returned defensively.
"I knew we should have rehearsed this thing." The third one spoke throwing his hands up in the air.
"Uh, guys." The final one spoke pointing to the five guys who were about to pounce on them.
"Eep." They all said right before they were tackled to the ground.
"Weird." Todd muttered as he limped off in another direction leaving the sounds of fighting behind.
* * *
"I'm just running around in circles just running around in circles" Pietro sang to himself as he zipped through Kansas City for the second time that day. He needed to get out of the house after the Great Remote War, he lost and Lance threatened him with Lifetime, sometimes Lance was such a jerk. So here he was just running, one of his favorite pastime next to picking on Evans, who has disappeared.
"Ohhh, candy." Pietro came to a halt in front of the Candy Palace back in Bayville, drool forming in his mouth. Pietro checked his pockets only to find them empty. "The moral dilemmas that I must face" Pietro sighed as he cast a forlorn glance skywards. "Eh, the devil made me do it." He shrugged as he zipped in and then came out a second later arms and mouth full of chocolate and candy.
* * *
"Man that was freaky." Todd mused as he continued to limp along his way. "Who were those masked morons anyways?" he asked his faced turned towards the setting sun in a super dramatic pose (A/N Wanda's dinner was just a mid-afternoon deal). "Oh well" he shrugged his shoulders and limped on.
* * *
"Ohhh chocolate bunnies" Pietro squealed as he savagely bite off the head of a chocolate rabbit. "Oh man chocolate is goood, I wonder why I don't eat it more often?" he wondered as he finished his rabbit and moved onto his candy apple.
"Yo Pietro!" Pietro turned his head to see Todd limp over to him. "Whatcha doing?"
"Eating." Pietro gave Todd a suspicious look; he only had so much candy.
"Uh, should you be eating that much sugar?" Todd asked nervously as he saw the mass of chocolate in Pietro's hands.
"I don't see why not?" he shrugged as he popped in some caramel chews.
"Just, you and sugar, you know, not good." Todd answered lamely.
"What do you mean man, I can handle my sugar just fine." Pietro replied defensively.
"Hey man, it's cool you know, don't get all defensive."
"Hey I can quite anytime I want to!" Pietro screamed jumping up from the park bench.
"Not saying you can't dude" Todd backed off as Pietro closed in on him.
"I don't have a problem!" Pietro's eyes went wide and his hand started to twitch.
"Dude, I'm not saying you do! Do whatever you want yo!" Todd began backing up as fast as his injured body would carry him eyes fixed on Pietro's contorting features.
"I AM IN CONTROL!" Pietro screamed at the top of his lung as he turned his head upwards and then let loose a maniacal laugh.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Todd turned and hopped away, ignoring the pain in his leg.
* * *
"Well what now fearless leader?" one of the masked people said with a sneer.
"Hey it's not my fault." The 'leader' said defensively "we won didn't we."
"Yeah but not after I got a bloody noise" a female voice answered bitterly.
"Sorry." The leader mumbled. The group of four sat in silence.
"So, uh, how do we get these masks off?"
* * *
"Ha ha ha ha!" Pietro was laughing so hard tears were coming out of his eyes. "Man that was too great." He sighed trying to catch his breath. Sugar usually ran through Pietro's system that he only incurred minor sugar highs, but for some reason everyone thought that just because he was hyper normally (due to his super speed) he would go insane if he had sugar.
"I thought you mutants were supposed to stick together." Pietro looked up to see an auburn short-hair girl approach him. She had green eyes and a holster top on with hip-hugger jeans.
"Who the hell are you?" he asked wiping the chocolate from his mouth and fixing his hair.
"I'm Adriana and you're mutant extraordinaire, Pietro Maximoff." She said putting her finger on his chest.
"Got that right, now what are you doing spying on me?"
"I was just minding my own business when I heard you guys fighting and walked on over. Pretty mean scaring your friend like that." She said airily flashing him a sweet smile "but absolutely fucking hilarious."
"Yeah, well, I'm a funny guy." Pietro plopped down on the park bench and put his hands behind his head.
"Yeah, so you gonna share?" she pointed to the pile of chocolates Pietro still had left.
"Nope."
"Why the hell not?" she asked sitting down next to him "I doubt it cost you anything."
"Why say that?" Pietro arched one fine eyebrow at her; he didn't think he had a reputation as a thief.
"Well why pay money when you're super fast." She locked eyes with him and gave a sly grin "it's logic you know."
"Hey, I had to pay a price to my deeply disturbed moral conscience for this." Pietro leaned over and gave the most regretful look he could muster.
"Like hell" she snorted. Pietro gave a smile and handed her one of his chocolates, she wasn't too bad.
* * *
"Argh dammit come off!" the female voice cut through the room like a knife.
"Keep it down, we'll get caught!" a nervous southern accent sounded form across the room.
"Well the damn thing won't come off." She hissed.
"Look, we've been at this for hours let's just fess up and get this crap off." A weary male voice sounded.
"No way man we are not giving up on the cause." The leader said standing up to face his three beleaguered friends.
"Then get these masks off us!" the other three screamed in unison.
"Ok ok, sheesh. Give me a moment to think."
"What the hell have you been doing for the last two hours!" the three screamed again.
"Hey chill!" the leader put his hands up defensively backing down from the angry onslaught "besides it's only been one hour." At this the three others jumped him in rage.
* * *
Kurt swung his legs back and forth; he was sitting on the edge of the railing letting the moonlight shine down on him. "I'm blue, oh so blue…" Kurt sang quietly as he reflected on the events of that week. "Man I am a traitor." He sighed as he thought of all his teammates standing so tall in all their mutant glory.
"Hey Kurt." He jumped as he heard the whisper come from the shadows.
"Who is there?" he asked trying to locate the voice.
"Down here Kurt, I need your help." Kurt looked at the floor of his porch to see a masked head appear.
"Vat the hell are you?" he asked eyes wide.
"I dunno Kurt, who do you know that can float through ceilings?" The head asked snippily.
"Kitty?!?" Kurt's eyes grew even wider at this realization.
"Bingo. Meet me down in the storage room in a few minutes 'k, and don't, like, let anyone see you."
"Vill do." Kurt nodded solemnly as he watched Kitty phase out "vat's with the get up?" he asked himself.
* * *
"Home at last" Todd let out a contented sigh as he started up at the beauteous Brotherhood house complete with new paint job. He limped through the door and headed upstairs. Freddie was preparing a midnight snack and Lance was watching late night TV. Todd figured Wanda would be asleep by now, or at least not mad enough to kill him on sight.
"My bed, how I've missed you" tears of longing began forming in his eyes as he thought of his wonderful pillow he turned the corner only to come face to face with the spectra of death.
"Todd." Wanda said in an emotionless voice, blue eyes shooting through Todd.
"Bye." He whispered, eyes as big as dinner plates, and then he turned and leapt down the stairs and out of the house.
"I will have my revenge." She said to herself in the same monotone voice "of course I figured scaring the shit out of him two times in one day is good enough. Time to hit the sack." She smiled and headed to her own room, letting the events of the day disappear to the back of her mind.
* * *
"I hate my life." Todd trudged through the streets of Bayville with nowhere to turn. No one liked Todd except the brotherhood and at this moment he wasn't safe going back there. "That looks like a decent spot." Todd's eyes fell on an abandoned warehouse where he could shack in for the night.
* * *
"Vat did you do to yourselves?" Kurt stared in disbelief at the four mutants sitting in the store room floor. They were wearing horrible brightly colored mask with blue and white spandex. Kurt couldn't decide if the looks of the four mutants were more surprising than the actual storeroom itself. It was decorated with a huge banner saying "Mutant Pride Strike Force" hanging on the wall. There was a news monitoring station and a computer hooked up not to mention a giant map of Bayville hanging up.
"Look, just get these masks off. Then we'll explain."
Kurt took out a knife and cut off the masks to reveal Kitty, Sam, Bobby, and Ray. "Now explain."
"Ok ok, where to start." Ray took a deep breath "well you know about the Mutant Pride movement and most of us, especially the younger ones, really think it's a just cause. Well, we decided to help enforce, how shall I say, equal rights for mutants."
"Yeah, like, if a mutant is being picked on, we'll be there." Kitty chimed in.
"If a mutant is being disgraced, we'll be there." Bobby added.
"Anywhere there is injustice against mutant kind, we'll be there!" Sam yelled jumping to his feet.
"Hush!" the other three commanded while Kitty put her hand over his mouth.
"We're not sure if the prof knows for sure…" Bobby began.
"And we certainly can't let Scott or Jean find out." Ray finished.
"Oh man, you are going to get in so much trouble." Kurt pointed out.
"No we're not." Ray said with a slight smirk. Kurt looked up at him in confusion. "With your powers we'll never be caught. You want to support Mutant Pride right?" Ray put his hand reassuringly on Kurt's shoulder and all four mutants looked at him eagerly.
"Vell…" Kurt looked around uncertain what to do. He then thought about his shame for not standing up in the cafeteria, for not being by his friends. "I'll do it." He grasped Ray's hand is his in earnestness, his eyes burning with the fire of one who is setting out to change the world.
* * *
"Where have you been?" Pietro stopped and looked at Lance who was sitting on the couch.
"Why do you care?" he asked as he leaned against the doorframe.
"I don't." Lance shot back "just wanted to make sure you weren't doing anything stupid." Pietro rolled his eyes and headed upstairs "and to make sure you weren't stabbing us in the back" Lance whispered under his breath.
Pietro continued up the stairs as if he didn't hear Lance, but he did.
* * *
Todd woke up to sunlight streaming in his eyes. "Man this sucks yo." He said to himself as he attempted to stand, much to the protest of his body. 'Oh well' he thought 'at least no one's gonna really notice that I didn't shower this morning'. With that he left the building and headed to school, only to have it to start pouring on his head. "Man my life sucks." He mumbled as he continued on his way.
A/N~ well I cranked out this chapter, consider this a small consolation for my month long (or longer) absence. Please review and uh…enjoy. (Don't know what else to say so I'll just shut up now.)