"Hi-YA!!" She leapt out and landed, sitting on Lance's shoulders with her legs wrapped around his neck she sunk her psychic knife into the top of his head. In a moments notice he collapsed to the ground, unconscious or at least close to it. The entire Brotherhood took notice of her entrance but it didn't much matter. In what seemed less than a second, she had Toad in a headlock and held her psychic knife inches from his skull.

"Hey! Hey, lemme go! Please I'll--I'll do anything just don' stick me with that!" Toad scrambled every which way but couldn't break free.

"Betsy!" Bobby said in a forced cheerful voice. "It's--it's you." he stammered.

"Bobby? You went with them too? Man, Logan is going to have your HEAD!"

"Logan sent you?!?" Jubilee asked in a panicky voice.

"No! He doesn't even know you've gone this far out of your way. All he knows now is probably that you'r--we're nowhere on institute grounds. He probably thinks that I went with you cause I followed you out." Siryn eyed the motorcycle sitting in the alley.

"That was you?!? We saw you following us but we didn't know it was YOU. I didn't even know you had a bike!"

"Well, I do." She looked down at the scrambling Toad under her arm.

"Somebody do somethin!!" Toad yelled to his teammates. He looked at Wanda who wasn't even paying attention.

"I'll get you outta that tight spot, Toady." Boom Boom replied, powering up a big time bomb in her hands.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Anyone but you." It was too late cause right then she hurled it at Betsy. Being quite strong on her own, she hoisted Toad into the air and used him to shield herself. At that point her grips was not tight around him and Quicksilver whizzed by, snatching Toad out of her hands.

"Not so fast speedster!! You will soon learn I am NOT a person to mess with!" She lifted her left hand to her temple to concentrate. A pink, translucent bolt shot out of her mind and attacked him, causing him to collapse on the spot. Even the other Recruits were stunned at this. Even though they lay on the ground in some sort of pain, Sam and Roberto had also been watching.

"Whoa!" Sam commented, getting up. "What did you just do to him?" Betsy simply smiled at how fascinated they were by her abilities, her mental bolts in particular. She watched Pietro hold his head, as it did not knock him out. Suddenly she realized there was lack of movement around them. Her eyes narrowed as she scrutinized the scene.

"Where'd the rest of them go?" She asked to no one in particular, barely audible. Everyone else looked around and saw the only ones they could see were the fallen Avalanche and Quicksilver. Even Toad had vanished.

"We sure showed them!" Bobby said proudly. Seeing the look Betsy gave him, his smile faded.

Siryn's eyes were closed and she was concentrating hard, all the others began to notice, but they didn't dare say a word. Without even opening her eyes she lifted a hand and pointed to a small alleyway to the left. Betsy and Sunspot crept quietly in that direction. He scaled a building wall and she searched on the ground. Betsy's eyes were having trouble adjusting in the darkness when suddenly the two dumpsters down that way came to life and started moving towards her.

"Where are you Witch?!? Show yourself!!" She shouted, dodging a dumpster every now and then. Betsy, even though she was in motion, could focus her mind. The only problem was she might not recognize the thoughts in Wanda's head, therefore she'd be unable to pinpoint her. Then, it was like a prick in her mind, an instinctual sense. Leaping into the air, she grabbed onto a drainpipe to catch herself in the air and through the darkness spotted some movement. "There you are." She thought silently to herself. She swung herself down right next to Wanda, but she was prepared. Wanda sent a hex bolt Betsy's way, making her freeze up and become defenseless.

On the rooftop Sunspot saw this, but before he could come to the rescue Toad leapt out from nowhere and kicked him in the side. He rolled off and was dangling, his hands barely gripping the gutter. He got ready to power up but then noticed that the sun had disappeared behind a storm cloud. He was stuck.

"Look! Up there!" Jubilee shouted as she shot fireworks at Toad who kept jumping up and down, dodging the attack.

"Come ON Sam, get up! You could knock him off the roof." Bobby yelled as he ran up to the entrance of the alleyway. When he looked back, expecting to see Cannonball there saw nothing but air. He had barely sat up and looked slightly dizzy. "Okay…" He mumbled to himself "Maybe not." Iceman shot an ice beam right at Wanda but she was prepared this time and, multitasking, she repelled his powers as well. Luckily he too was prepared this time and dove out of the way before he was frozen by his own beam. All the others remaining could see the pleading look Betsy gave them all. For some reason she thought of, she needed her powers.

"Hey…." Siryn's mind just clicked on. "Jubilee! Sunfire! You guys focus your attacks on the Scarlet Witch, then that should distract her enough for me too close in and blast her ears." Both of them nodded, determinedly. "You too Iceman."

Carrying out the plan, those three began attacking randomly, making sure to keep Wanda's hands full. Siryn flew into the sky behind Wanda and filled her lungs with air, ready to let out a scream. Behind the three remaining recruits, Toad, Blob and Boom Boom sneaked up to attack. Betsy knew their mistake from the beginning but had no way to communicate it to them. Good tactics would mean NOT leaving your backsides unprotected. Then suddenly out of nowhere…

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" An earsplitting scream rang into the air, her own ears were pounding but so were Wanda's and she was forced to release Betsy's powers because of the pain.

"Think clearly. Think clearly. Think clearly." Betsy repeated over and over to herself but Siryn's abilities were way too overpowering and it drowned out her own thoughts. The only way to communicate to the other Recruits that the Brotherhood was ready to attack was by continuously pointing at them. Finally Iceman turned his head, ears still covered and saw three of them cowering and doing the same.

While all this was going on, Sunspot lost his weak grip because of the scream and plummeted to the ground. Fortunately he landed in a dumpster filled to the rim and so nothing was injured, he would just smell bad.

Every chance they got Iceman, Sunfire and Jubilee would send out some of their powers which slowly subdued the remainders of the Brotherhood. Of course, technically, Siryn's scream subdued them plenty already.

The tides had indeed turned and the New Recruits were winning. Even though some sustained injuries. Betsy was relieved she had arrived in time and succeeded; however, their triumph was short-lived. Screams pierced the air from bystanders as they began running every which way. Everywhere, there were road signs, traffic lights, and light posts bending and moving from magnetic influence. Then walking in to view came five mutants. One was coated in metal rather than skin from head to toe, another was surrounded by a twister of fire that swirled out a flame-thrower on his back. Another wore a trench coat and had with him a long pole and a deck of cards. The only female among them had long blonde hair, wore a white halter-top dress that reached her thighs with tall white high-heeled boots, and a billowing white cape at her shoulders. The last was Magneto, taking the lead.

Iceman, like the others, could do nothing but stare, thinking nothing but "oh no, reinforcements." Yes they were a rebellious bunch who rarely abided by the rules and avoided learning but they knew this much, that they were no match for someone like Magneto and apparently his handpicked group of allies. The fleeting sense of dread within Betsy came back full force as she wasted no time.

"Professor, I am sorry for my actions but… We need your help!" She sent the thought a long way, her hope was that she wasn't too frustrated to fail.

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