A/N yes, I've switched from italics to bold. All hail the power of boldness. Italics are just too hard to read. Anyways, thanks to: mikomi bansiki, SickmindedSucker, Princess of Mirrors, Internutter, Maiden Genisis, Raliena, TheDreamerLady, and Idypebsaby for reviewing! Hope you enjoy this chapter.

"Jamie, I understand that you were disappointed that you couldn't go out trick-or-treating," the Professor said, "however, stealing candy from the other students isn't the right way to go about it."

It had been two months since his first candy raid, and the first night, the professor had called Jamie down to his study to have a talk, which Jamie didn't really listen to, but he nodded whenever the professor paused, which seemed to work out fine.

But now he had been caught again. There wasn't much candy left, but Bobby had noticed that his candy supply got smaller every time he went to school. And since Jamie was the only one who didn't go to school, and since he had a history of stealing candy, he was the first one that was blamed.

"I know you're bored, Jamie, but you need to find different ways of entertaining yourself," Xavier said.

"Yes Professor," Jamie said, his head bowed down in shame. Of course, it wasn't real shame. He wasn't sorry at all. Everyone else just had too much candy, and Wolverine hadn't gotten him nearly enough to fill up his sugar cravings. The professor hadn't said anything about giving the candy back, and Jamie wasn't planning on giving it out of the goodness of his heart, so really, everything was fine.

"Can I go now?" Jamie asked.

The professor smirked slightly at his impatience, but nodded his head, allowing Jamie to run out of the study as quickly as he could. His right arm was still in a cast, and the left one still with an IV in it, which was attached to a fanny-pack around his waist, so he wasn't able to move that quickly.

When he got to his room, he headed straight for the box under his bed, which was were he had hidden all the candy. But when he opened it, it was completely empty.

"Hey, what gives?" Jamie said out loud to himself.

"Hey shrimp," Bobby said, closing the bedroom door which he was hiding behind. In his hand, he had a bag, which Jamie figured held all his candy that he stole.

"That's mine," he told Bobby, even though it really wasn't, but he figured he might be able to reason with him.

"Please Jamie, we both know you're the one who's been sneaking into my room since Halloween," Bobby said.

"Finders keepers, losers weepers," Jamie said, saying the first thing he could think of to keep his precious candy.

"You are so dead twerp," Bobby said, starting to ice up, "Jubilee and I went out for three hours to get this much candy, and most of the people who recognized us as mutants slammed the door in our face."

"Well you should have worn a mask to hide that ugly face of yours," Jamie said, trying to keep Bobby distracted as he edged toward the window.

"Oh that was original you little…" Bobby was cut short by the alarm going off. Quickly, Bobby iced himself a slide, and raced out the door, giving Jamie a glare that promised he would be back. Jamie decided that, since he wasn't going to be allowed to fight, and Bobby left the bag of candy, he would eat as much as he could before Bobby got back.

Jamie fell back on his bed, candy in hand, listening to the voices and the fighting downstairs.

"What are you doing here, Creed?"

"Hey, guys, need a hand here, Pyro's melting all my ice."

"Hey, Mystique, nice cast, the shrimp give it to?"

"Where are all the other guys?"

"At the mall or something."

"Fine timing for that. Hey, watch it Ray!"

"Get out of the way then you idiot!"

"Try aiming!"

"Less fighting, or you guys get detention for a month."

Jamie laughed at Wolverine's comment. He really was the only guy he knew who could fight, and threaten his own teammates at once. But the fact that Sabertooth, Pyro, and Mystique were here worried him. Why would Mystique come back to the mansion?

Jamie got scared, and put a chair in front of his door. He didn't want to fight again. Suddenly, he heard a crash from his window. The glass was shattered all around the floor, and in the midst of it all was Gambit.

"Normally Remy doesn't like to take candy from kids, but he will make an exception this time," he said, and walked toward the bag and took some candy out. "Sorry about this," he said, grabbing Jamie, and jumped out the window. Jamie stated screaming, they were falling out the second story window, but before they hit the ground, they suddenly stopped.

Magneto was floating not to far away, and had stopped the fall before they could get hurt.

"Put him in and let's go," he told Gambit as he dropped them on the ground.

Gambit quickly wrapped some tape around his hands, and shoved him into one of the metal orbs that Magneto always traveled in.

"Hey, what are you doing? What's going on?" Jamie protested as the orb closed, putting him in complete darkness.

He could still hear what was going on outside. Mystique and the others and pulled back, making the X-men think they had won, and they were cheering and celebrating. It wouldn't be for a few more minutes until they realized he wasn't up in his room like they thought.

"Farewell Charles," he heard Magneto say, and Jamie felt the orb start to move. He tried to grab onto something, but it was completely smooth. Obviously, Magneto didn't care about the treatment of his prisoners.

"Prisoners…?" It took a few minutes to dawn on Jamie. "Oh my gosh, I've been captured! This is horrible, this is terrible…this would be so cool if it wasn't real!"

Down on the ground, Wolverine was wondering why Sabertooth had left. They were in the middle of a fight, he still could have won. But he just left. Something was definitely wrong, he just didn't know what.

"Is anybody hurt?" Hank asked, looking around.

"No, I don't think so," Bobby said.

"Was it just me, or did it seem like they weren't really fighting?" Amara asked.

"Yeah, it was almost like they were just distracting us," Storm said, "but why?"

"I don't know" Bobby said, "but I've got some unfinished business to attend to."

He went up the stairs to Jamie's room, and laughed when he realized that Jamie had barricaded the door.

"Let me in shrimp," he called out, "if you don't, I'm going to break down the door."

He paused when he didn't hear an answer. "Come on Jamie, let me in!" There was still no answer. Bobby started to get worried, and kicked at the door. Unfortunately, since the door was blocked by a chair, all that happened was he really hurt his leg.

"Jamie, open this door right now!" Bobby yelled, pounding on the door. The noise had attracted the mutants from downstairs, who quickly ran up.

"What's wrong, Bobby?" Storm asked.

"Jamie won't open the door, and there's something in front of it, I can't get in," Bobby told her, giving up on trying to get Jamie to open the door, and started holding his leg.

"Let me try," Logan said. His claws popped out, and with a few quick strikes, the door was in pieces on the floor.

"Where is he?" Jubilee asked as they went into his room.

Logan knelt down near the broken window, and picked up a single card off the floor. It was the Queen of hearts. "I think I know," he said.

Jamie had been traveling in the dark for a long time. The least Magneto could have done was install a radio.

Suddenly, the orb crashed down, jerking Jamie's head into the side. The door was opened, and Sabertooth reached in and pulled Jamie out. His hands were still bound in front of him, and Sabertooth had him raised in the air high enough so his feet couldn't touch the ground.

"Hello there Multiple, funny, you don't look like Multiple Man," Magneto said, emerging from his orb. He, Mystique, Gambit, and Pyro were all standing in front of him, on what looked like a beach. Jamie looked around, they were on a beach, and there was a metal door on one of the rocky mountain sides, which Jamie figured led to a hidden base.

"It's so nice to see you again, Jamie," Mystique said sarcastically. Jamie smirked when he noticed the cast on her arm.

"Guess I'm not a reject anymore, huh Mystique?" He laughed.

Mystique looked like she was going to slap him, but Magneto stopped her. "No, Multiple, we don't think you're a reject. Far from it actually. In fact, we need your help on something."

"Yeah, like I would help you with something," Jamie said, a lot braver than he actually felt. There was a bunch of adult mutants, probably fully evolved if Magneto had anything to say about it, and he was just a kid, arms pretty much useless and in a cast, and not able to reach the floor. The odds weren't looking good for Jamie.

Magneto ignored his comment, and examined his cast and the IV connected from his arm into the fanny pack. "What is this for?" He asked, holding up the IV, examining the liquid going through it.

"It's an IV," Jamie told him.

"I noticed that, why do you need it?"

Jamie wasn't sure if he should say. On the one hand, if Magneto knew he was sick, he might let him go, on the other hand, he might see Jamie as useless, and kill him rather then let him go back to the mansion.

"Its oste…osteo…it's a big long word that I can't remember," Jamie said truthfully.

"Maybe I can help you remember," Sabertooth said, holding his claws dangerously close to Jamie's face.

"Sabertooth, don't do that," Magneto scolded him. "You don't want to scare him, now do you?"

He started heading towards the mountain with the metal door. With a wave of his hand, the door opened, and the others started to follow him inside. Sabertooth dropped Jamie on the ground, and pushed him toward the door. Apparently, he was not in the mood to carry a struggling pre-teen any more.

Inside was a huge space, all made of metal, with machines covering the entire floor space. Jamie had never seen so many machines in his life. He didn't recognize any, but really, he never got the chance to wander through secret labs, so he wasn't too surprised.

Sabertooth shoved him past the machines, down a set of stairs towards the back of the room. Pyro had followed them, flicking his lighter on and off, but the others stayed up.

Finally, they reached the end of a corridor, where there were three plain cells, with a bed, a toilet, and a sink. Sabertooth unlocked the first cell, opened the door, and shoved Jamie in.

"Hey, don't I even get my one phone call?" Jamie asked sarcastically as Sabertooth walked away.

"One phone call…? What are you talking about?" Pyro asked. Suddenly it dawned on him. "Oh! One phone call! I get it! Hah, that's funny! Wow kid, you're okay after all. Much better than any of the blokes Mags got stuck here now. Man, none of them can take a joke. I burned Remy's clothes a couple days ago, and he flipped! So, where you from kid?" He asked, leaning against the wall.

Jamie stared at him for a couple of seconds. He had heard that Pyro was not exactly sane, but this was really weird. "I'm from the institute," he told Pyro.

"Institute? Nah, that's where the nuts go, believe me, I know," Pyro told him with a laugh. "No, you're from Xavier's place. Magneto said he's got big plans for you. Of course, once he gets into his whole 'mutants will take over the world' speech, I kind of blank out. I mean I've got it all memorized."

He stood up straight, and mimicked in the deepest voice he could, "'mutants will take over the world from these pathetic Homo sapiens, we will not accept failure, and we will defeat Charles's X-men. We are the future,'" he finished with a punch in the air.

Jamie laughed, he couldn't help it. From what he had heard, that was a pretty good example of what Magneto said.

"Really, as long as I can burn something, I'm happy, I don't care who wins this war Mags keeps telling us about," Pyro continued, back to slouching against the wall. "So, what's up with you?" Jamie had a feeling he was in for an interesting night.

Back at the Mansion, the X-men were looking for any clue they could find to see where Magneto had taken Jamie. They had searched Jamie's room, and the area where they had fought Mystique, Pyro, and Sabertooth, but all they found was some sand.

Hank had taken it down to his lab, but doubted he could find anything out until morning.

Meanwhile, the new recruits had given up looking for clues, and were camped out in the room Ray and Roberto shared.

"So he's really gone, isn't he?" Amara asked. "I mean, he's not just hiding somewhere."

"Well, he's been gone for seven hours, I doubt he went out for milk," Ray said sarcastically.

"Where do you think he is?" Jubilee asked, sitting next to Bobby on his bed.

"Who knows," Bobby said, "with Magneto, he could be in outer space for all we know."

"What do you bet he rebuilt Asteroid M?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, Magneto doesn't seem like the creative type," Roberto said, "he probably reuses all his ideas."

"And he probably doesn't even make them up," Rahne said, "He's probably got a ton of people he pays to make up plans for him."

The recruits all laughed, and discussed how Magneto had ghostwriters for his evil schemes, but Tabitha just sat in a chair they had dragged up from the library.

She didn't hate Jamie, but that's probably what every one else thought. That's definitely what everyone else thought. Then again, she didn't try to make friends. She wasn't good at it; she was used to moving to often to keep the few friends she made.

But Jamie was missing, kidnapped by their worst enemies. It didn't seem fair. Jamie was the youngest, the one who really couldn't protect himself, just like Todd. Tabitha suddenly got a flashback of when she was still with the Brotherhood. She missed them, in a way, she connected to them better than she would ever connect to the X-men, but Mystique would never let them take her back, so she was stuck here.

But Jamie was the youngest, and knowing the Professor and Hank, they would take forever analyzing the facts, and by then it could be too late. Tabitha had to do something. Not only to prove that she didn't hate Jamie, but to save him. But it was too big of a job for just her. Her powers were useless tracking wise. And if, by some odd chance, she was able to find Magneto's lair, she wouldn't be able to defeat all the Brotherhood.

"Hey, guys," she butted into the conversation. "What do you think about going to find Jamie ourselves?"

The recruits stared at her like she was crazy. Then they burst out laughing.

"Please, Tabitha," Bobby said. "Even if we were able to get past the professor, and Logan, and Hank and Storm, how are we supposed to find Magneto, and defeat them?"

"Yeah Tabitha, Magneto flew off, there's not even a scent to follow," Rahne said.

"I'm serious you guys," Tabitha told them, "Xavier's too busy in Cerebro to pay attention to us, and Logan and the others are downstairs in the lab, they won't know until we're gone."

"What about the older X-men?" Ray asked. "Kitty and Kurt might let us slide, but Scott and Jean would never let us go."

"So we leave a few people behind, they cover for us, and we bring Jamie home safely," Tabby said.

"Since when are you so interested in the shrimp's welfare?" Ray asked suspiciously.

"Since we can finally prove we can be on the real X-team," Tabby lied quickly. She didn't want anyone to know she really cared about Jamie. It would trash her 'tough girl' image.

Bobby's eyes lit up at Tabby's comment. It was his dream to be on the real team. This was his chance. He immediately took over, letting Tabby relax, sit back, and watch her plan go into action.

"Okay, we'll need at least two people to stay here," he said. He looked around the room. "Amara, you're one of them."

"What! That's not fair!" Amara protested.

"We know Pyro's there, he can probably control you, and we don't want that," Bobby explained. "And…" he surveyed the room again, "Rahne, we'll need your tracking senses, Sam, Roberto, we'll need to get places fast, Ray, we'll need you if we need to blow up something…Jubilee, looks like you're it."

"What! What about Tabby?" Jubilee asked.

"It was her idea," Bobby said, "and I'm the leader. Sorry Jubes." He turned to the remaining recruits. "Okay men…" to which Rahne coughed, "and women, we've got a big mission here. Bigger than us, than Logan, bigger than Blob. We've got ourselves a teammate to save. Either we come back with Jamie, or we don't come back at all!" He shoved his fist in the air, expecting a round of applause for his stirring speech, but the other recruits just rolled their eyes and left the room.

"Nice speech, popsicle," Tabby smirked as she left the room. "See you in the morning, we'll leave tomorrow." Even if the plan did fail, Bobby was so sure it was his plan by now, he'd get all the blame. It was perfect.

Hmmm… (Scratches self on head) when this started out, Jamie wasn't supposed to get kidnapped until the next chapter, and then he was supposed to escape by himself…which must mean... Ahh! My fingers have been taken over by some demon writer from another dimension…oh, or, my little sister says it's because I have no idea where this story is going now. Why does Magneto needs Jamie? Will the recruits find him? Will this story have an end? I'll tell you as soon as I make something up. R&R please!