Meeting 'M'

Author's Note- I know when you read this it may seem a little out of order. But this is my fic I like it this way.

***Disclaimer-I don't own any of the Marvel Comics characters, and I'm very, very po', so it's evident that I'm not making money off this. ***

"Pietro!" Lance shouted as he stomped the ground once, sending a tremble throughout the house. Lance blinked once and Pietro was standing in front of his face. "What's up Lance, my man?!" Lance jumped, "Ah! Pietro, if you ever do that again I will throw you out the window. GOT IT?!" "I like to see you try." He said smirking, "You'd have to catch me first and we all now that no one can catch me. So what do you want Lancie Pooh?!"

Lance's sighs then asks, "Where's my shirt?"

"What shirt?" Pietro replies.

"The one I asked you to wash a month ago!"

"Ohhh, that shirt. I tossed it."

"You what?!"

"Yeah, Todd had spilled this nasty, slimy stuff on it. I figured you didn't want anyone after that."

"UGHHHH! I was gonna wear that on my…Never mind. I'll get another one."

"On your what?"

"It's nothing. Just forget I said anything."

"You're going on a date with one of those girls from the Xavier school, aren't you?"

"No. I wouldn't be caught dead with one of those X-geeks. Especially after I left that stupid school."

"Oh My God! It's Kitty."

"Shut up, Pietro!"

"Hey man, it's nothing to be ashamed of. If I were in your situation, I'd never deny I was with her."

He turns around, "Whatever, man."

Wanda peers around the corner, "Hey Losers. Mystique's here, She wants us all downstairs." Wanda hurried downstairs, Pietro and Lance right behind her.

 Wanda goes and sits next to Freddy on the couch, Pietro and Lance stand near the staircase, Todd crouched next to Lance, and Tabitha is standing in the way of the kitchen door. "So what's up, Myst?" Pietro asks, "Did you call us here to meet a new roomie, or is this a church meeting?" Mystique was standing with her back towards the front door. "I found this girl luring around Bayville." Mystique said, "And I recently discovered she has an amazing talent. I'm just glad that I'd gotten her before Xavier did. So I want her to live here with the Brotherhood."  

"So here is she?" Tabitha asks, "I think it will fun having another girl in the house." Wanda looks over at Tabitha appalled and states with an attitude, "Ha. Speak for yourself. It's bad enough that we have you as a tenant." "Wanda. Tabitha. No more of that either." Mystique orders, "If I find out you two girls have scared her off. I will have your heads for this." Lance is growing impatient and ready to leave so he asks, "So where is this girl? I have other business to attend to." Mystique goes to the door, her head turns the corner, she motions to the figure outside to come in.

Mystique introduces her to the family, "Everyone this is Monet. Monet St. Croix." Todd, Pietro, and Lance are mind-blown by the spectacle before them and all together they exclaimed "Whoa!" The young woman, about the age of 16 or 17, was wearing a red tank top, cut slanted to the right and looking like it's was torn off; dark denim flares; a long, black leather jacket, and long stiletto black leather boots. She stood about 5' 7'' about 125 lbs, she had curves in all the right places, she had long, silky, jet black hair, honey brown eyes, and fair, honey brown colored skin.

"Hello everyone." Monet said with an African accent. She began looking at everyone, having no facial expression at all. "Everyone. Introduce yourselves." Mystique told them. They began going around the room giving their real names and code names. They start with Todd and went clockwise around the room.

"Todd Tolanski, Toad."

"Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver"

"Freddy Dukes, Blob."

"Wanda, that's all you need to know."

"Tabitha Smith, Boom Boom. Oh, and that's Wanda Maximoff, her codename is Scarlet Witch." Wanda looks at Tabitha very peeved.

"Lance Alvers, Avalanche"

"I'll leave you all to get acquainted."

Mystique leaves out the front door. This leaves everyone in an awkward silence. Within only seconds, Pietro breaks the silence. " So  welcome to the brotherhood." "Thank you, aux cheveux blanc celui. (White haired one)" She told him.

"What country are you from?" Tabby asked.

"I'm from Algeria. But I was sent here about 5 years about. I was intended to go the Xavier, but I ran away before I could get there. I've been hiding for the past 5 years."

"Where'd you go after you ran?" Todd asked her.

"I was in the southern states, you know Georgia, South and North Carolina. But I was somehow drawn here. There was some kind of force leading me here."

"Creepy." Tabby said to her.

"So why are you here?" Lance asked rudely, "If you were meant to be with Xavier, why are you here with us? You seem like a goody-goody anyway."

Pietro began circling Monet, "Lance, man, don't you see." He stood beside her and began staring her down. "Mystique obviously thought that she would be an 'asset' to the brotherhood."

Monet giggles a little, but she returns to her serious, emotionless facial expression rather quickly.

"Oh come on. You know you want to laugh at that." Pietro states. Her face doesn't chance, so he moves on to a question. "So what's your mutant power, sweet cheeks?"

He tries to put his hand over her shoulder, but Monet grabs him, and throws him into the couch, causing it to break.

Pietro is stunned; he was shocked by the fact that a girl had just thrown him clear across the room. Lance took one look at Pietro and burst out with laughter.

"Let me guess..." Pietro said strained, "Super strength." And he collapsed on the split chair.

"What did you do that for?!" Wanda said angrily, she wasn't mad that she tossed her brother through the room, she was pissed that this girl had broken the couch. "What are we gonna sit on now?"

"I have one in a old house, down the street. I will go and get it. It will only be a minute." Monet replied. She slowly opened the door, as the gang sat back and watched her, Monet zoomed out the yard and down the street. They were confused, Pietro getting up, started rubbing his eyes, trying to figure out if what he just saw was real. This girl has just scurried down the street as fast as he normally does. They heard a light swoosh sound in the front, they hurried to front to see what it was. Monet was sitting on a blue couch in the front yard. "Can you all make room, so I can put this inside?" They made a pathway, and watched as she brought the couch inside the house all by herself, cleared away the old broken couch, and put the new one in its place.

Still shocked, Tabby said, "Um, I guess I'll show you where your room is."

"Ok. Thanks. Just let me get my bags first." She went outside and got her bags and followed Tabby upstairs to her room. Lance and Pietro just stood back in the living room amazed.

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Later on that night, Tabby sat in Monet's room with her and spoke with her. The two had a very interesting conversation. Monet was unpacking her things as she conversed with Tabitha. Tabby wanted to know more about her mysterious personality. "So is that all of your mutant powers?" she asked. "No, I can do more. But nothing too great." Monet replied.

"So what else can you do?"

Monet turned and faced her, "Here I'll show you."

She stood in the middle of the floor; her eyes began rolling towards the back of her head. She began shaking a little, Tabby sat back confused yet intrigued. Monet's body began stretching sideways in opposite directions, like she was splitting. Tabby blinked her eyes, and in front of her stood two girls.
"Whoa. You can multiply yourself?"

The two girls giggled, the two said in unison "No, silly.  We're twins."

"Wow! This is cool."

One of the girls stepped closer to her, "My name is Nicole St. Croix."

The other stood in the same spot, "Hi, the name's Claudette."
"So you two can merge together to make a superhuman?"

"You could say that." Claudette said as she and her sister looked at each other.

"This is amazing." We've got to tell the others. They're gonna be very surprised."

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"Kitty, why do you keep canceling on me?" Lance said talking into the cordless phone outside the house.

Kitty was at the mansion, in the closet of her room with the telephone, so no one would hear her talking to Lance. "I'm sorry, Lance. I can't go. If I get caught sneaking out, I'll be on blackbird cleaning duty for the next month."

"So don't get caught." Lance replies, "I just want to see you for only 10 minutes. Please come."

"There's another thing I've been meaning to tell you." She stated, "Lance, I can't do this anymore. I don't think we should be seeing each other anymore."

"What? Why?"

"I can't do this anymore. The sneaking around…it's not getting us anywhere. Things were great when you were like here with us. But now it's like…I don't know"

"Whatever. Just save the story for someone else. I'm not buying it. If you don't want to be with me, then say it straight. That way we can move on."

"Lance, I'm like so sor…"

Lance hung up on her before she could say anything else. He went back in the house, trying to hide hurt, which he did very well actually. As he shut the door, Tabby came down stairs with some news. The acolytes were home by now to meet the newest member of the house. Freddy, Todd, Pietro, John, and Wanda were downstairs watching TV.

"Everyone." She announced, "I'm now presenting, the newest members of the brotherhood. Nicole and Claudette St. Croix. Also known as Monet."

After Tabitha announced that, the girls came down the stairs, and stood in front of the staircase. Everyone downstairs were very confused. Freddy started scratching his head.

"We twins, you guys." Nicole stated, "Our greatest mutant ability is merging with each other to become Monet."

"So you guys are really twins?" Pietro asked.

"That's right, baby." Claudette answered, "Mothers, lock up yours sons and bolt your windows. The St. Croix sisters are in town."

Nicole rolled her eyes at her sister. All the guys and Tabby were laughing at her comment. Wanda didn't see the amusement. Lance was probably the only one who noticed Nicole at that time. He saw the expression on her face, it was the same as when they first met Monet. Her seriousness reminded him of his from time to time. He was attracted to her, he felt like that she would be the girl to get his mind off of Kitty. But time would only tell, tomorrow was the girls' first day of school...