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Chapter 13: Itty Bitty Brotherhood

Gambit had been up most of the night trying to figure out a plan of action. How was he going to steal the machine away from Magneto, and get it to the Institute? And why was he doing this in the first place?

Stealing the thing wouldn't be that hard. After all, he was a master thief. Stealing things was second nature to him. Getting it to the X-Men would prove difficult, but he was sure he could pull it off with the help of John and Piotr.

The final question was causing him the most difficulty. He tried to rationalize it, telling himself the real reason he was going this was that he was allying himself with the X-Men in case he had a fallowing out with Magneto, which was a growing possibility, with the way Magneto had been treating the Acolytes lately.

But he had a nagging suspicion he was doing this because he wanted a certain Southern Goth to like him.

John walked in just then, interrupting his musings. "'ello Gambit, wot you want?"

Remy had asked John and Piotr to met him in his room. Magneto was in his office, doing God knows what, and Sabertooth was out skulking. Quicksilver was at the Brotherhood house, pestering Lance, Todd, and Fred, more then likely. Remy wasn't to worried about being spied on.

"Wait until Colossus gets here, den Gambit won't have to say it twice."

Six minutes later Piotr knocked on the door.

"Get in 'ere!" shouted an impatient John.

Piotr opened the door, and closed securely behind him. "Magneto has gone out."

"Tha' a good piece of luck, ain't it?" said John.

"Do either of you know where dat machine is?" asked Remy.

"Nyet."

"Nope. I was a hoping you did mate, since you were the one wanting to impress the Sheila."

Remy glared at John, who smiled impishly, and said "Den we have to look in his office."

"Isn't it locked?" asked Piotr.

"Locks will be no problem." said Remy, pulling out his staff from his trench coat and extending it to its full length. Then he opened a compartment in it. It was filled with various lock picks, including a bobbie pin and a paper clip.

"Wait a minute 'ere. I'm still a lil' foggy on why Colossus and I are helping you."

"Do you have a problem with helpin' de poor lost doubles get home, where dey belong?"

"Well, no, but if Magneto found out...all I'm saying is I don't wanna wake up one noight and have a piece o' iron wrapped around my neck."

"Den we just have to make sure he doesn't find out, now won't we?" then Remy looked at Piotr. "You have any problem wit helpin' dem out?"

"Nyet. I would gladly help the X-Men, as long as there is no way I would be caught."

Remy knew this was no cowardice on Piotr's part. Magneto was blackmailing him, using Piotr's family as leverage. If Magneto found out that he had helped the X-Men, he would kill them.

"Don't worry, you will be de least involved." Remy said, patting Piotr on the shoulder.

"Emm, yoah sure we won't get caught?" John asked.

"If we are, it will be no fault of Gambits." said Remy, pointedly.

John and Remy stood in front of the door that opened into Magneto's office (Piotr was the watch dog, he was at the entrance to the hide out, and he would yell if he saw Magneto returning). Remy took out the paper clip.

"Tha' wot's going to unlock the doah? A paper clip?"

Remy didn't bother to answer John, he just continued fiddling with the clip in the door knob. Magneto's office was only locked by a simple lock that required a key. It was a nice lock, but it wasn't anything Remy couldn't handle. He silently wondered why Magneto hadn't bothered to put something that needed an access code, like the one at the entrance to the lair.

Click. Remy pushed the door in and stepped through. John heisted at the doorway, fearing there was some sort of trap.

Remy turned around to face John, and noticed his reluctance to enter. "You coming in? Or are you just going to stand dere?"

"I think I'll stay roight 'ere, if tha' alright with you."

Remy grabbed his arm and pulled him in. "Now help Gambit look for de machine."

John looked around nervously. Then he saw a filing cabinet. He walked over to it cautiously, and opened it quickly, then jumped back and covered his face with his arms.

He held that pose for a couple seconds then lowed his arms. Looking into the drawer, he saw a folder marked 'Rasputin'. Tucking it under his arm, he continued to rifle through the folders. Sure enough, there was one marked 'Allerdyce' and another one labeled 'LeBleu'.

John asked "Hey, Gambit, yoah last name is 'Lee Blue' roight?"

Remy winced at how he said his last name. "Oui, but its LeBleu, not 'Lee Blue'."

"Whatever. Magneto has files on all o' us."

Remy grabbed his file away from John.

"I wasn't going to read it!" said an offended John.

"Sure." said Gambit as he flipped through some of the pages contained in the file.

"Magneto 'ave something on you, like Colossus?"

"No!" said Remy defensively.

"Okay, okay, no need to get snappy. Do you think we should leave the files 'ere? Because if he finds out there gone, he'll know we were in 'ere."

"Oui, we should leave dem here, but call Colossus."

John put his file back in, showed Remy where Piotr's and his own had been, and left the room. Remy could hear him scream "COLOSSUS! COME 'ERE!" out in the hallway. Then he came back in.

"Now go be de watch dog."

"You know, you could o' told me tha' before I came back in." Then he left the room again, and met Piotr running up the hallway.

"What is it?" asked Piotr.

"I found files on us-" he didn't get to finish, because Piotr ran past him, into the room.

John then continued walking down the hallway towards the entrance, amusing himself by playing with his lighter.

Remy gave Piotr his file, and put his own back in the drawer, where John had shown him where he had taken it out. Then he continued his search for the machine.

Piotr read his file silently, memorizing facts that would come in handy if he ever decided to leave Magneto.

When he was done, Remy put it back in the drawer, and shut it. "De machine isn't in here." he said.

"Where else would it be?"

"Gambit don' know. How many storage rooms are in dis buildin'?"

"A lot." said Piotr.

"Lets check his bedroom."

"How long do you think he's going to be gone?"

"Gambit don' know dat either. Lets just look quickly."

Magneto's room was very neat. The bed was made, the dresser and desk were clear of clutter. Besides one thing. The machine was sitting on the dresser.

"He's going to notice if you take that." said Piotr.

"Gambit have a plan. Tomorrow afternoon, when Magneto has his meeting with Quicksilver, about de Brotherhood, Gambit will go to de Institute. When Magneto is done his meeting, and if he leaves his office, you or John will distract him. While you doin' dat, Gambit is convincin' de X-Men to attack dis place, and steal de machine."

"Won't Magneto be suspicious about how the X-Men knew about it in the first place?"

"De X-Man, Nightcrawler, saw John and Gambit at de mall. If we tell dat to Magneto, he will dink dat Xavier figured it out."

"That's a very risky plan."

"Well, oui, it is, but it will work." said Remy confidently.

Just then they heard "HE'S COMING!" and they rushed out of the room, Piotr closing the door behind him.

~*~ x ~*~

~Kitty woke up to find someone shaking her.

"What is it?" she said groggily.

"Want to come to school today?" said a cherry voice.

"Huh?" Opening her eyes, she saw Kitty standing there, already dressed for school.

"Do you, like, want to go to school today? Since nothings going to happen until four o'clock, I thought maybe you'd like to come to school with us."

"Umm..." ~Kitty sat up in bed, trying to wake up enough to understand what Kitty was saying to her.

"I already asked the Professor, and your ~Kurt thinks it would be good for you, and, like, won't you be bored all day with nothing to do?"

"School...?"

"Haven't you been listening? Do you want to come to school with us, because, like, won't it be boring and stuff? Make up your mind quick, its almost time to go."

"I'm coming, I'm coming." ~Kitty mumbled, slowly pushing the blankets off of her. "What will I ware?"

"This!" said Kitty happily, showing off a pink blouse with bell sleeves, and some blue jeans. "Or this, or this..." More cloths were shown to a befuddled ~Kitty and she finally grabbed a random top and jeans to get Kitty to stop talking.

"I'll barrow this. How much time do I have?"

Kitty produced a pair of shoes, from out of a bag she had by her on the floor. "These should match that outfit. If you hurry, you might be able to get some breakfast before Kurt and Evan eat it all."

~Kitty jumped out of the bed and quickly ran over to the mirror that was over the dresser. Kitty had given her one of her numerous brushes, and ~Kitty quickly went to work to get her wayward hair under control. Kitty left her, after saying to be sure to be down stairs by seven o'clock.

~Kitty was down there by six forty, but still not fully awake. Flopping into a chair at the kitchen table she took a look at her surroundings. Both Kurts were eating like there was no tomorrow, and Evan was fallowing close behind, every five seconds taking a swig of milk. Kitty was eating daintily, and Rogue was eating like a normal person. Ororo asked what ~Kitty wanted to eat.

"Cereal please. Where is Scott and Jean?"

Ororo grabbed a bowl down from the cupboard, and took a box of cereal out of the pantry and placed them in front of ~Kitty.

Rogue said "Jean is probably still brushing her hair, Scott finished eating and went up there ta see if Jean would be ready ta go sometime this year."

~Kitty got up and took the jug of milk out of the refrigerator, and poured a liberal amount in the bowl on top of the cereal. Then she passed it to Evan, who had already drained his first glass.

Kitty said "We're going to have so much fun! I can introduce you to everyone, we can say you're my cousin, and you can meet..."

A list of names came forth, and ~Kitty couldn't help but tune it out. She starting eating her cereal, nodding every once in awhile. She could listen to Forge talk about his newest invention, and understand a considerable amount of it, but this she couldn't take.

Rogue, noticing that ~Kitty's nods where coming at seven second intervals, said "Kitty, your making her go brain dead."

"Huh? Oh, like, I'm sorry, was I going to fast?"

~Kitty was saved from answering by the arrival of the Professor.

"~Kitty, the teachers at Bayville high will think you are shadowing there, because I told them your parents are interested in the school. You won't have to enroll there, since your stay here will not be that long. Just follow Kitty around." Then he added, "Do you want to go to school today? I was under the impression that you would like to."

Kitty looked at her pleadingly, and ~Kitty knew where the Professor had gotten 'the impression.' "Sure, it will be fun." she said, not really meaning it.

"The Brotherhood of Mutants will be there, but you shouldn't have a problem, just stick to the story that you are Kitty's cousin."

"The Brotherhood go to the same school?" ~Kurt asked, a smile starting to form.

"~Kurt." ~Kitty said threateningly.

"Vhat? I wasn't going to laugh again."

The Professor looked confused for a second, then chuckled a little bit, he had just gotten what ~Kurt was thinking about.

Rogue looked at ~Kitty questioningly. ~Kitty explained, "He thinks its funny that the Brotherhood are teenagers."

"Oh. I guess their not in your universe then?"

"Nope. All grown up."

Scott walked into the kitchen. "Everybody ready?"

"Scott, everybody won't be able ta fit inta your car." said Rogue, counting the amount of people going, and knowing Scott's car only fit five people, six if everyone crammed in.

"I'll drive them." said ~Kurt. "I can follow Scott in his car."

"You just want to see the teenage Brotherhood." ~Kitty said.

"Ja. I do." ~Kurt said agreeably.

"Okay, lets get going, or we'll be late." said Scott.

"What about Jean?" asked Kitty.

"She's coming, she's just finishing up with her hair."

Rogue snorted.

When everyone was outside Kurt and ~Kurt turned on their image inducers at the same time, which amused the Kittys.

Evan, Jean (when she finally showed up), Kurt, and Scott got into his car, and both Kittys and Rogue got into the car ~Kurt was borrowing.

"Ya know how ta drive, right? Ah mean, cars may have changed since whenever ya came from." said Rogue.

"They couldn't have changed that much." said ~Kurt as he started the car.

"I hope not." said ~Kitty, imagining them crashing into a tree.

"Have a little faith in me." said ~Kurt as he began driving.

~Kitty made sure he was looking when she clutched her Star of David necklace, closed her eyes tight, and started mumbling.

"Hey, I'm not that bad of a driver." he said, noticing Kitty and Rogue were giving each other worried looks.

"Well, I bet your not as bad as Rogue is." said Kitty. Rogue wacked Kitty's head with her hand, and Kitty said "Oww!"

"Baby." said Rogue.

"Am not! That hurt."

"Umm, vhere did Scott go?" asked ~Kurt.

"Turn left." said Rogue.

They made it to the school, in one piece, and ~Kurt said "So vhere's the itty bitty Brotherhood?".

Kitty and Rogue scanned the crowd of students in front of the school building. "There's Lance." said Rogue, and pointed.

"Avalanche?" asked ~Kurt.

"Yeah. I think he saw us." said Kitty, as Lance waved in their general direction, then went into the school.

"Why did he wave?" asked ~Kitty.

"Umm..." said Kitty.

"Because Kitty and him used ta date, and Ah don't think he knows it's over." said Rogue.

"Like, thanks so much, Rogue." Kitty said sarcastically.

"Anytime." said Rogue, has she opened the door to the car.

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