Disclaimer:
Dani: Maybe I can get through the disclaimer without losing consciousness…
Chri: (hits Dani over the head with frozen haddock) Not gonna happen today!
Amanda: Where did that come from?
Chri: I just had it lying around.
Amanda: OK. We don't own X-Men: Evolution.
Dani (regains consciousness) I own many Pietro clones that I made by stealing his DNA from his hairbrush. They do my chores while naked. Nya nya!
(Amanda and Chri exchange looks)
Amanda: Naked Pietro clones?
Chri: (hits Dani over the head with frozen haddock again) Let's go steal them!
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"No way! You did not bring them back here!"
Pietro raced agitatedly around the kitchen, occasionally stopping to glare at Aqua and Luna, who were smirking at the upset look on his face. The rest of the Brotherhood were trying not to laugh at their teammates distress.
"I invited them," said Wanda sweetly. "You got a problem with that?"
"Hell y – I mean, not with you." Pietro changed his mind about yelling at his sister when her hands started glowing blue. She wasn't exactly known for her restraint. "But did you see what they did to me? That wasn't funny."
"Actually it was." Lance strolled over to the fridge. "Do either of you want a drink?"
"I dunno," said Luna. "Is the stuff inside the fridge in the same state as the units in here?"
"We've been shopping in the last week."
"Then yeah, I'll have a drink."
"And do you have some milk for my cat?" Aqua stroked the cat's head absently.
"That's another thing," said Pietro, glaring at the furry visitor. "You know I hate cats!"
{Asshole}
"Asshole." Aqua frowned. She hadn't meant to say that…
"I am not an asshole! You're an asshole!"
Aqua laughed. "Great comeback Pietro."
Lance grabbed the least grubby plate from out of the sink and took the milk out of the fridge. When the carton refused to yield its contents, Lance scowled and stuck a fork into it, spearing a lump of milk and dumping it on the saucer. "Wow, that's rank! How long has that been in there?"
{No way am I drinking that!}
"No way am I drinking that!"
Everyone looked at Aqua with the look usually reserved for smelly weirdoes on the subway who ask strangers if they've found religion. "Um, no one's asking you to drink it," said Luna. "It's for the cat, remember?"
"We've got cola for us." Lance pulled the bottle out and showed it to her.
"You asked this freak into our house!" Pietro waved his hands around, trying to impress on the others how foolish they'd been. "She thinks she's a cat!"
The stagnant water residing in the sink began draining onto the floor, the droplets defying gravity and forming the shape of a cat. The Brotherhood watched in disbelief as it advanced on Pietro, who backed away and then fled the room. The liquid cat jumped back onto the stack of dirty dishes and disintegrated into droplets of water again.
"Cool," grinned Fred.
"I wouldn't have soaked him again," said Aqua.
"Liar!" Luna nudged Aqua in the ribs, smirking. "You love tormenting that boy."
"Nah. It's too easy."
"RAAAAHH!!"
Luna blinked. "Uh, what the hell was that?"
"Just Toad playing with his Lego," replied Fred with a shrug. "It's best not to disturb him."
Instead, Aqua and Luna wandered into the living room to see Todd stamping on the carefully constructed houses, bricks flying around the room.
"I am all-powerful! I am TOADZILLA! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
"And Pietro thinks I'M weird?" Aqua shuddered. "That boy has issues."
"Tremble before me, puny mortals! Tremble before TOADZILLA!"
A hex-bolt knocked the all-powerful Toadzilla into a wall, where he lay in a heap and groaned. Wanda smiled at the two girls.
"You wanna glass of cola or what?"
"Is he hurt?" asked Aqua, looking at the still-smouldering heap that was Toad.
"He always gets back up." Wanda didn't even spare Todd a glance. "Do you know what would piss off my brother? If you two stayed for a while."
Aqua and Luna exchanged glances, trying to work out how to play this. Aqua decided that hard to get would be the best way to win over the Brotherhood. "I dunno," she said. "I mean we came to Bayville to learn to control our powers and we heard that the X-Men…"
"Losers." Wanda led them back into the kitchen and began rinsing the least grubby glasses out. "If you stay here with us, there's no curfew or rules. If you go there, you'll end up stuck with so much stuff to do that you'll have to please them before yourself."
"You're thinking about staying?" Lance looked pleased. "You should. We have loads more fun that the X-Men do!"
"Well…" Luna grinned at Aqua. "Is there enough room?"
"If you don't mind sharing, Mystique's room's pretty big." Wanda smirked. "I don't think she'll be back."
"In that case, sure! We'd love to stay here!"
Pietro walked back into the room and overheard Luna's last comment. "Oh no. No way! Magneto left ME in charge and I say they're not staying here!"
"We took a vote," lied Wanda. "The rest of us think it's an excellent idea. I think it'd be nice to have some more girls around, Toad and Fred agreed under pain of pain and Lance thinks he's gonna get laid."
Lance looked embarrassed, but even that didn't cheer Pietro up. He stepped toward Aqua and pointed into her face. "She's insane! She soaked me, she chased me with the dishwater and she thinks she's a cat!"
"Then she'll fit right in," said Wanda. "They're staying in Mystique's room."
"Yeah," said Aqua with a grin. "And if you spend too long in the bathroom, I can always chase you out with the toilet water!"
Todd, recovered from his hexing, laughed as he heard this. "Pietro spends about three hours every morning in the bathroom!"
"Not any more," grinned Lance.
"Hey!" Pietro scowled. "I owe it to the women of Bayville to look good! And it makes up for all the time you don't spend in there, frog-boy."
"Hey, I had a shower in June yo!"
"Yeah, June 1999!"
Aqua grinned as she watched the group bickering. Life was about to get very interesting…