Chri: uhhh... what's in the new chapter?

Amanda: food.... LIKE BREAD!!! ::pulls out large loaf of bread and whacks Dani in the head with it:: chri: YAY!!! now we have the story all to ourselves!!! GET THE ANIME STRIPPERS!!!

::Inuyasha, Miroku, Kouga, Sesshomaru, Tai and Matt from Digimon, Knight from Duel masters, Musica and Haru from Rave master, Yami, Yugi, Joey, Duke, Marik, Bakura and Pegasus from Yu-Gi-Oh, Elijah wood, Orlando Bloom and Pietro enter room.::

Chri: Hey wait a minute... Elijah, Orlando and Pietro aren't from anime! Amanda: ::dancing with the Bishi Squad (we'll call them that from now on so I don't have to list em all):: And that matters why? Chri: It doesn't. ::joins in dancing::


Chapter 2

Aqua stepped off the bus and gazed curiously around Bayville. From what she had heard on the news, she'd anticipated strange looking people on every corner, blasting each other with their powers – but if there were any mutants among the people she saw, they looked normal enough.

But then again, so did she.

"You gonna stand there dreamin' all day?" Luna pushed her out of the way and gave the view a cursory once over. "Hey, pretty nice."

Aqua moved over to a bench and put down the box with her cat in. "Just one moment sweetie, I'll have you out of that nasty box in one moment."

The cat wandered out of the box, stretched and leapt onto Aqua's shoulder.

Luna shook her head. "No matter how many times I see that, I never get used to it."

"She likes to sit up there. She can see what's going on. Can't you baby?" Aqua petted the cat and hoisted her bag further up her shoulder. "So now what?"

"I guess we need to find where the Brotherhood live."

"Brotherhood?" Aqua wrinkled her nose. "I thought we came here to talk to that Xavier guy."

"You're not serious?" Luna burst out laughing. "We come all this way and you wanna get stuck in another home? Why? If we went to the Brotherhood, we'd be able to do what we want, not have to listen to anyone, not get pushed around by anyone."

"That's if the Brotherhood wanted us."

"Hey, how could they resist?"

"And besides, according to the papers, they're not exactly moral about how they use their powers. What's the use of having these powers if we don't use them to help people?"

"Oh c'mon! You know that when people find out about our powers they won't want anything to do with us. Why should we use our powers to help people who think we're freaks?"

"Because it's the right thing to do!"

"But now we're on our own, we shouldn't have to get pushed around anymore. Don't you wanna have fun for a change? No school, no rules, no jerks calling us names…you can't tell me you wouldn't like that."

"Well, yeah but…"

"Aqua, if you wanna go see that Xavier guy, be my guest. But he'll fill your head with all that hero crap and before you know it, you'll be stuck in his stupid Institute for freaks and you'll be back in school and have homework and curfew and adults ordering you around again – I didn't come all this way just to got through all that again."

"I guess you're right," said Aqua reluctantly. "But if we don't find the Brotherhood, we speak to Xavier. And I doubt that they advertise on a billboard outside the mall!"

"Speaking of the mall, I'm starved!" Luna grabbed Aqua's hand and pulled her in the direction of the bus timetables. "We'll go to the food court and check out the scene around Bayville. I want a burger. And you can probably grab some of that foreign junk you like so much."

"I just happen to prefer sushi to reprocessed cow," said Aqua.

"Well, raw fish can't be good for you."

"It's not just…"

"Come on! That bus over there's passing the mall!" Luna dragged Aqua over to the bus and hammered on the doors to stop it driving off without them.

When they got there, Aqua was beginning to feel overwhelmed by her friends excitement. Fortunately, Luna let her straight off to the food court and got into line to buy a burger, leaving Aqua free to buy a coffee and some egg flower soup and sushi. She chose a seat and managed to spend a quiet three-and-a-half minutes before Luna joined her.

"I wanna go to Hot Topic," announced Luna as she took the bun off her burger and added a large amount of ketchup. "I feel the urge to shop."

"I guess we could take a look," replied Aqua. "But we don't know how long we have to make the money last, so let's not go nuts."

"Because leaving our home town to come to a place where we may or may not be accepted by teams of mutants who spend their time fighting powerful enemies wasn't nuts?" Luna took a bite of the laden burger and gazed around at the shops. "Don't be a downer girl. And where's the cat?"

"No animals in the food court. She's around somewhere. She'll find us when
she's ready."

"You give that cat credit for too much intelligence. It's just a cat!" Luna slurped her cola noisily. "I needed that, I was starving. So what now? I vote we shop!"

"Just let's hang out here for a few minutes." Aqua took another sip of her coffee. "I'm beginning to wonder if we should have thought this through."

"Too late for doubts now." Luna wasn't even looking at Aqua, she'd spotted
some one in the queue at the food court. "Look at that guy!"

"All I can see is his back."

"Yeah, but baby got back!" Luna let out a loud wolf whistle and Aqua looked into her cup quickly, trying not to giggle. "Low profile Luna!" she murmured.

The boy turned and grinned at them. The other people in the queue also turned, but most of them were offering glares at the two girls. Luna smiled back at him and raised an eyebrow.

"You're a menace," said Aqua with a smile. "Wanna go look around the shops now?"

"Uh, maybe in a minute. It's not like we're in a hurry."

"You just wanna stare at that guy!" Aqua smirked, but in truth she wasn't bothered. It was nice to just hang out and do normal things. Everything had been hectic since the moment the boy in her lit. class had snatched her walkman.

'Teach me to fall for the cute one's. They're nothing but trouble!'

The object of Luna's affection paid for his food and went over to a table where two other boys and a girl waited. Aqua glanced at them idly, then her eyes widened. One of the boys was the hugest guy she'd ever seen, the other had perfectly styled hair, which was pure white. The girl wore red and black and scowled suspiciously at the food in front of her.

"Luna, you moron!" hissed Aqua. "You're making eyes at the Brotherhood!"

"Well we needed to find them didn't we?" Luna shot the boy another smile. "Which one's he?"

"Don't you watch the news? That's Lance something-or-other, the big guy they call the Blob and the others are siblings, I don't remember their names…"

"You don't remember my name?"

Aqua looked up in surprise. The boy with white hair was stood beside their table, but she was sure she hadn't seen him leave his seat.

"I'm hurt," continued the boy, sitting down uninvited. At the table where his friends were sat, Aqua saw Lance something-or-other grimace. Obviously he wasn't too happy with his team-mates actions.

"My name's Pietro, you may have seen me on TV. I'm the handsome one of the team!"

"Oh my God." Aqua rolled her eyes in disbelief. "Have you heard yourself?"

"Hey, um, Pete-O, you're friend single?" Luna glanced back over at Lance. "Coz he's kinda cute."

"It's Pietro." Pietro was obviously not impressed by the way the conversation was going. "So if you know who we are, who're you two? Haven't seen you around here before. Don't tell me, you traveled here to get our autographs."

"As if." Aqua noticed that the boy had brought his bottle of mineral water with him and began to get an idea.

"But if I could get your friends phone number…" Luna looked over Pietro's shoulder and winked at Lance.

"Thing is, Lance is still hung up on his ex," replied Pietro. "I, on the other hand, have no baggage and a free two hours before my next date. So…which of you girls is the lucky one? Or are you taking an hour each?"

Without warning, Pietro's bottle of water disgorged its contents in an upwards stream, landing squarely on the boys lap. Luna shrieked with laughter and Aqua smirked as Pietro stood up and glanced in dismay at his jeans. The other members of the Brotherhood began laughing too as Pietro suddenly disappeared, the blue and white blur the only indication of where he went.

"Come on." Aqua grabbed Luna's hand and hurried away from the food court. "We've already attracted too much attention and pissed off the Brotherhood. Looks like we blew our chances there."

"Oh yeah!" Luna got over her mirth in a hurry as the realization hit her. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"

"Well yeah, but I didn't think…"

"You wanted us to go to the Xavier place so you screwed up with the Brotherhood!"

"It wasn't like that!" Aqua held her hands up placatingly. "I just wanted to get him to go away! I wasn't thinking about the future, about the mutant thing, he just pissed me off so much…Look, I'm sorry, OK?"

Luna sighed. "I'm sorry too, I know you didn't sabotage things. I wish you'd chosen a better way of dealing with ego boy though."

"Me too." Aqua's shoulders slumped. "So. What now?"

"Let's have a look in a few shops," replied Luna. "Maybe we'll hit on some ideas when we get away from the food court."

As the two wandered towards Claire's Accessories, neither of them realized that they were being watched.

Lance narrowed his eyes as the pair entered the shop. "Blondie's defiantly a mutant. She made that drink soak Pietro."

"And I missed it yo!" Todd sounded unhappy. "If I'd known, I wouldn't have been hanging around the bins!"

"Why do you guys even care?" asked Wanda, bored. "So they're mutants. Big deal."

"Better we get on the right side of any new mutants in Bayville," replied Lance. "Thanks to Pietro, we might have alienated them."

"This is because that girl was interested, not because of any interest in the towns mutant population," said Wanda.

"Is she a mutant too?" asked Todd.

"What am I, telepathic?" Lance didn't take his eyes off the exit.

"I'm only here because I like what they did to my brother," added Wanda "It's been a while since I've seen a girl show him up like that!"

"All I know is, they're not with the X-Men and at least one of them has powers."

Lance watched the girls progress as they exited the shop, Luna pulling a spiky wrist band from a bag to put on straight away. "That's a good enough excuse to find out why they're here."

A/N (Amanda)- Seems like I'm the only one doing these things... Anyway, I'd like to apologize for the text again if it's messed up. My computer has recently decided to prove that it is all-powerful and delights in destroying every thing of value on this computer. BUT MY YAOI YU-GI-OH PICTURES ARE FINE AND I CAN USE MY SMASHING PUMPKINS WALLPAPER NOW, YOU DISGUSTING PIECE OF ELECTRONIC HELL!!!!!!!! uh... heh heh.