What Do You Mean There's No Party?

"All right it's party time!" Todd cried out as the Misfits teleported into the Xavier Mansion. "Bring on the cake and congrat the grads!"

"Hey what's going on?" Pietro looked around. "Nobody's celebrating."

"What are you guys doing here?" Amara walked up to them. Paige was with her.

"The party, remember?" Althea said.

"So where are the graduates?" Todd asked. "How was the ceremony?"

"Awful," Paige sighed.

"Uh oh…" Pietro sighed. "Looks like mutant luck has struck again!"

"Mutant luck?" Paige asked.

"Yeah all bad," Lance said. "What happened? Where's Jean and Summers? Why isn't there a party?"

"That's because we all got trashed," Bobby groaned as he walked in. "Even Magneto!"

"Is Rogue okay?" Paige asked.

"She's as okay as can be expected after Mesmero possessed her," Bobby shrugged.

"Wait a minute…back up…" Lance held up his hands. "What's this about Magneto?"

"Well at the beginning of the ceremony in the middle of Senator Kelly's anti-mutant address Magneto and his goons showed up," Bobby told them. "It seems Mesmero had Rogue under his control again."

"Who's Mesmero?" Xi asked.

"He's a mutant that can control minds," Todd told them. "Nasty guy. Had Rogue under his control so Apocalypse could break outta prison."

"Well he did it again only this time to get some kind of weapon," Bobby said. "But that's not all. Not only did he get the thing, but also when we all caught up to him he trashed us good. Threw Magneto around like a rag doll. And there's more, Mystique's been turned to stone."

"She's been what now?" Pietro looked at them.

"Stone as in a rock stone?" Todd asked. They nodded. "Wow…Don't show up for a few days and you miss everything!"

"So that's why nobody's celebrating," Bobby sighed.

"Says who?" Lance huffed. "Mystique's dead! I say we party!"

"Best news I heard all week," Todd nodded.