Ldypebsaby: Well what better way for the Hellions to make an impact? As for Rogue you'll see.

TheLegendaryManHimself: Well Lorna and Wanda are really sisters in the comics, as for Wonder Man, yes he's a real Marvel character he's an Avenger like Wanda is in the comics who in the comics had a relationship with. As for the parent thing, yeah I know what you mean.

Commy: No problem I know how things get at times. As for Riseman/X23 I wanted a giant bombshell that no one has done before and when I found out about who the characters were modeled after, well it was too good to pass up. The reunion will be a separate fic called Prodigy Reunion. And Pietro and the others will have the last few chapter to themselves and an appearance by Crystal too.

Xmenfan: Okay first of the evolving thing will be awhile don't rush me on it I want to get it right. Keep in mind I have to balance the stories between over 30 characters and that's not easy. But I am going with the Annie/Alex/Lorna triangle for awhile to make things interesting, and don't forget that in the comics Lorna had changed so much after Alex had woken up she was no longer the woman that Alex fell in love with, they were just too different now, did you really want them in a marriage where Alex felt compelled to marry her instead of doing it for love? But there is some serious butt kicking in this chapter for ya.

Aaron: They're not exactly siblings, but you will see the other three in a one chapter story soon.

X00001: Thanks, is there a top 10 list? And what can I say I wanted one hell of a surprise for the readers.

Sparky Genocide: Yeah there was something between Wanda and him in the comics too. When Pietro finds out it will be a shock.

The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah well no one seemed to see it coming either so don't feel too left out. As for Sarah, well she'll just need time to some to terms with it all.

slickboy444: Thanks for the support and I'm glad you liked Sarah's reactions, I wasn't sure if it was good enough but I guess it was.

Red Witch: You're kidding? Man that is weird. But you got to admit in the show there did seem to be something with the doc, plus they do kind of look alike too. (Take into around they're based off of a real mother & daughter they should look kind of alike)

Thanks to: fire inu, Ruby631, LadyDeathStrike1, Proponent of EVO, celtcath74, DemonRogue13

ADJUSTMENTS

CHAPTER 23: PARTY CRASHERS

The mansion was a little more filled with excitement then normal but then again a lot of the students were looking forward to throwing a party, of course it was supposed to be a surprised party for Vince's eighteenth birthday and they were trying to keep him from finding out about it. So far they were using the music room since it was large enough and wasn't used often.

Everyone felt they needed a release from all the tension over the last few months so they also saw this as a way to unwind as well as celebrate a special day for someone among them.

A few of the students that weren't setting up were given the assignment of keeping him away from the room. Which wasn't proving too difficult since he had been preoccupied ever since Fury had given him that file about the last of the Prodigy survivors.

So now the group that were supposed to keep him busy were gathered in Rogue's room. There was Kitty, Piotr, Rogue of course and Kurt. "Well this easier then I thought it would be." Piotr said. He was sitting on the floor snuggling next to Kitty who wasn't minding it at all.

"Like tell me about it, but why am I on this duty?" Kitty asked. "I mean I wanted to cook along with Ororo, Blink, Paige and Amanda?" That group was made up of the those with cooking experience and had started last night and were doing the finishing touches this morning with the frosting and other things.

"Kitty we don't want him or anyone else gets food poisonin'." Rogue said rolling her eyes.

Kitty pouted her face slightly angry. "My cooking is NOT that bad." She said defensively.

"Kitty remember what happened ta Lockheed tha last time he ate one of your brownies?" Rogue asked her. Lockheed had gotten sick all day and the little guy didn't go anywhere near the kitchen for a week after that. "Ah mean that guy will eat anythin' that ain't nailed down or set on fire. And tha fire part is optional at times too."

Meanwhile Tabitha and Amara were going to the others gathering the gifts that each student had hidden somewhere and putting them in the music room. They were on their way to Jean's room now. Amara was about to knock but Tabitha just turned the knob and walked in. "Hey red you in?" Tabitha asked.

Jean nearly jumped in surprise she was fixing her hair for the party by combing it when Tabitha had stormed in. "Tabitha you should knock first."

Tabitha just shrugged. "Sorry I'm not used to it." Amara behind her gave her a sympathetic look. "Besides it's not like you and scooter got at it during the morning...do you?"

Jean was really regretting letting that secret out, as she could see the blush in the mirror. "T-that's none of your concern what me and Scott do is private."

"Alright, keep calm. Anyway where's your gift?"

"In a box in the closet." Jean told her. Amara was closer so she went to the closet and looked through it, she saw two boxes in the corner and pulled out one of them and opened it.

What she saw made her raise her eyebrows. "Uh...Jean...I don't think these would uh fit him." Both Jean and Tabitha turned around with confused looks on their faces then when Jean saw which box she had pulled out she gasped and turned bright red.

Tabitha grabbed the box and smirked as she pulled out a very revealing schoolgirl's uniform. She looked at Jean. "Well who knew? Looks like they like to play a little." Jean grabbed the box from her with her powers her face as red as her hair. Tabitha turned to look at the closet. "What else you got in there? Any handcuffs, studded leather or whips?"

"Tabitha!" Both Amara and Jean shouted.

"Look me and Scott just like to make things...well...interesting from time to time." Jean admitted. "And NO there aren't anything what you just described we're NOT a pair of kinky sex freaks or anything."

"This from the girl who sometimes like to dress up." Muttered Amara from under her breath.

"Man I suddenly got a whole new respect for ya red, I mean it's really cool that you two can let lose from time to time, I feel like I should be taking notes from you already." She said smiling. Jean however was both dying from embarrassment and fuming. She marched to the closet and pulled out another box and handed it to Amara.

"This is the gift." Jean told them. Amara nodded and decided she had learned enough about Jean's sex life for the rest of the day and got out of there.

Tabitha went with her but stopped at the door. She looked out side checking the halls for a bit then rushed back to Jean. I uh...borrow that for a little? I want to give Sam a thrill."

"Tabitha! You and Sam are still sixteen!" Jean said shocked.

"It's not for sex!" She said but in her mind she said 'yet' but tried not to project that. "I just want to give him a little eye candy." She said grinning. "Besides if you do I won't tell a soul about this."

Jean thought about it, she knew Tabitha wouldn't hesitate to blab this is she could. She sighed and handed her the box. "But clean it after words."

Tabitha grinned and took it under her arm. "Thanks!" And she ran out the door to put it somewhere in her room while Jean just slumped down in her chair hoping this didn't get out or she and Scott wouldn't hear the end of it.

While everyone was getting things ready Vince had been meditating since it helped him to think at times and he had a lot on his mind at the moment. After he got out of his meditation, unfortunately with no answers, which vexed him a little he looked at the folder yet again. He had been thinking on what to do with the information he got about the last three members.

He decided to do some training but he felt the need for solitude so he decided to stay in his room. He figured Piotr was out with Kitty or something since he hadn't really been back in their room all day so he decided to do some katras in this room or something for something to focus on he needed to get his mind off of it.

LATER THAT DAY

Everything was ready and now it was time to get the birthday boy. Vince was staying in his room a lot deep in thought but the few times he did come out they had to make sure he didn't go near the kitchen or bump into someone. Kitty had to cut him off in the hall once when he nearly saw Jamie and Roberto in the hall carrying their gifts, at lunch he wanted to get something to eat and Kurt had took him out for lunch saying he just wanted to be nice.

Vince was sure they were up to something, but with everything going on he was a little too busy to think about it. It was when Rogue came to get him that he knew things were up when she asked him to follow her, when he asked what for she was evasive and said they had to hurry. He wasn't sure what was going on or why she was leading him to the music room, or why the mansion felt so quiet. When she opened the doors and everyone there yelled out surprised he felt so stupid at that moment for not seeing it.

"What did you do forget it was your own birthday?" Bobby said seeing the surprised look on his face. "You sure you got a photographic memory?"

He just shrugged. "Well I've had a lot on my mind." He said slightly laughing. He looked around there was a long table with a multi layered cake since there were so many people and the place was decorated and there even was a giant 18 make of ice, most likely formed by Bobby.

Sarah watched Vince and everyone uncertain what exactly was going on. She had asked what a birthday was to Logan and a few of the others. When they told her it was a celebration of a person's birth she was beginning to wonder what kind of celebration. She looked around her as people seemed happy and they were laughing and talking.

"Something wrong kid?" Logan asked walking up next to her.

She shrugged. "I've never been to a party before let alone a birthday one."

Logan smirked. "Well think of this as a preview since the file I read on ya says that your birthday is commin' up in a few months." Sarah looked at her 'father' and wasn't sure what she was feeling at that moment. She never had a birthday before and if this was what one was like...then she thought it might be interesting. Plus it was one more thing she knew she had been denied, and she wanted to reclaim much of what she had lost.

Things were turning out pretty good so far, after about fifteen minutes everyone who had gotten him a gift since he had told all the new guys not to give him anything since they just met, wanted to see who got him the best gift.

There were a few new shirts, mainly due to the fact for some reason ever since he had gotten there he had ruined several pairs already and buying replacement was starting to eat up his savings. Jamie had gotten him the Shogun DVD which he couldn't wait to show it during the next movie night they had, although since it was a mini-series he had to plan for it be a little earlier then normal.

Kurt had gotten him the first season of Samurai Jack DVD, and he was moving on to opening one from Ray when the center of the room was engulfed in a giant fire. Everyone scrambled away then the flames retreated and a woman with long dark hair and in black leather that was something that a dominatrix would wear with a dark cape stood before them.

"Well hello there, for those of you that don't know me I'm Selene. The Black Queen and in charge of the Hellions." She stated to them.

Xavier wheeled himself in front of her. "What do you want here?" He said with a trace of anger in his voice, which was a rare thing to ever hear from him.

"Easy. My own students are the elite of this world, the best of the best and we want to prove them against your X-Men." She said with an evil grin on her face. She coldly walked right in front of him and then placed a foot on his chair right between his legs and she bent down to glare at him. "And they will face my Hellions."

She then kicked out with her foot sending Xavier back and then outstretched her hands and before anyone could react Bobby, Jamie, Paige, Sam, Tabitha, Jubilee, Amara, Logan and Sarah had flaming circles around their bodies like restraints but didn't seem to burn.

Then with a wicked laugh she waved her hands and in flames they were all gone. "Now if you want to see your friends again send you X-Men out to the gravel pit outside of Bayville." She smiled at them and then she too vanished in flames.

Everyone was talking at once trying to make sense of everything. Ororo was helping Charles back into his chair since it had toppled not far after Selene had kicked it. "We have to go after them Charles." Ororo said filled with concern.

"Yes we do." He said sternly. "Everyone quiet and calm yourselves!" Xavier said over the noise. "I want the X-Men suited up and ready to go as fast as possible. Wanda, Piotr I want the both of you to go as well."

"You want us to go?" Wanda questioned. "I thought you said we needed more training?"

"I believe I'll make an exception for this circumstance." Xavier said grimly. "Besides I hope to surprise her a little with you two."

"What about the rest of us?" Blink asked him.

"While Ororo goes with the team I want everyone else to stay here in case this is a trick to make us either leave not enough people behind to defend the mansion or no one left here at all and there are certain things I don't want to fall into the wrong hands."

"Alright, everyone going to meet the Hellions we better get moving." Scott said going into leader mode.

GRAVEL PIT OUTSIDE OF BAYVILLE

The Hellions were waiting for the arrival of the X-Men in their uniforms, which were all red with boots and gloves. Selene was sitting on the throne watching her captives now held just above the air with mystic rings around their wrists and ankles unable to move. And Emma Frost in a pure white battle outfit that was leather jeans, boots, gloves, a duster and a top on that wasn't the least bit modest.

"Well it shouldn't be long now." Selene said then walked over to Amara and grinned. "Well hello again. You know I've thought of nothing but how many ways to end your life in the most painful and torturous methods that I could come up with. And I can't wait to start."

Amara just sent pale and silently gulped. She knew better then anyone else what she was capable of and her mind was filled with all the horror stories from her childhood that she had heard of Selene and what she could and had done to her people.

Empath however had other ideas. He walked to Amara and looked her up and down. "My, my aren't you a pretty one." He traced a finger along her face and learned at her. "Say Selene before you ruin her goods looks permanently how about I get to have a little fun with her?"

"Don't you touch her you creep!" Tabitha snarled at him, along with a few other threats from her friends.

Empath just grinned at them. "Why I won't do anything that she doesn't want me to." He said and grinned she looked at her and his eyes glowed slightly. "How about a kiss huh?"

"Kid I'm going to neuter you personally if you touch her again." Logan growled out.

"So the barbarian speaks." Empath said amused. "And how will you get out of there?"

Amara's face changed from her frightened and revolted look to a softer one. "Yes." She said in a monotone voice. Empath was only too happy to obliged. The others looked on with sock. When he pulled away Amara shook her head and snapped out of Empath's powers. She found her courage and a snarl was on her face for what he just did.

"So how was that?" Empath asked. Amara responded by spitting in his face, which cause a few of the others to start laughing.

Selene backhanded Amara then. "Now that's not the way for a princess to act. You've been spending to much of your time with these common folk."

The other Hellions were watching with interests. Well all but one, Roulette had noticed that Tarot didn't look too pleased. "What's the matter huh?" She said grinning. "Wishing a certain blond mutant had his attention on you rather then the princess?" She teased.

"Shut it." Tarot snapped. This caused Roulette to grin even more.

"Hey we got company!" King Bedlam shouted and they all turned to see the X-Jet coming towards them and landed. When it finished out stepped, Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Rogue, Kitty, Mayhem, Nightcrawler, and finally Scarlet Witch and Colossus.

"Well looks like they added a few, no matter." Emma said. "I want the redhead the others are fair game to the rest of you." She commanded them.

Roulette looked at them and grinned. "Pity to spoil the looks of a couple of them, a few of them are really cute."

Storm looked at Selene with pure hatred seeing the others like they were. "Let them go now!"

Selene smiled. "As if." Storm flew up into the air and started to fire lightning blast at her, but she created some kind of mystic shield to deflect the blow.

Emma stepped up to Jean and looked her over. "Nice uniform." She said sarcastically. "Let's see how has the stronger mind shall we?" Then she launched a telepathic assault on Jean but she was holding her own.

Beef was currently grappling with Colossus, while Empath was fighting Kitty. Empath used his powers to make the her sudden afraid of him when he realized he was losing the fight since every blow he tried to land only ended up going through her and then she would counter attack and now she of them was fighting the urge to run away.

Mayhem was fighting Bevatron who was fighting Vincent with his fighting skills and loving it. Every punch was charged with static pulses that may not have injured Vince's tough body but they still hurt. However he soon found that the slightly older X-Man was more skilled as a fighter and soon found himself on his back.

He grinned and got up. "Now THIS is fun, you have any idea how hard it is to find a challenge?" He said grinning. Vince nodded then got into a fighting stance and gestured him to go on. Bevatron was more then happy to comply.

Kurt was doing his best against Catseye. She kept transforming into her cat and were-cat forms and her attacks were shift so he had to teleport from time to time to avoid getting the business ends of her claws. "You know...you kind of look like a giant blue mouse to me." She said grinning. Kurt didn't like the look in her eyes and the battle picked up after that.

Scott sent an optic blast to King Bedlam but he dodged it. Scott looked to Rogue who was nearby. "Rogue! Exit often under the sea and cheat!" He shouted which surprised him since that wasn't close to what he wanted to say. "Complete the race?" Rogue looked on in confusion as Tarot took this moment to take out her cards and suddenly Rogue found herself in a glass jar. She tried punching it but for some reason it didn't' break.

King Bedlam laughed. His powers not only shielded his mind from telepaths but he could also make other people say nothing but gibberish and mess with their perceptions. Now Scott's vision swam as the world seemed to twist and turn. He lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Wanda had had enough of this. She was battling Roulette as both of them sent their own probability altering energy attacks at each other but both kept dodging them. "Well I won't be upstaged by some Goth." Roulette spat at her.

"And I'm not going to let from French slut beat me!" Wanda said back and sent another Hex bolt. Roulette sent her own energy disk and both attacks collided with each other and seemed to merge. Then they started to pulsate and grow. "This can't be good." Wanda muttered then there was a huge explosion as the energies violently reacted with one another.

Everyone was thrown off their feet and as the dust settled everyone slowly got back up. The Hellions that had been using their powers had lost their concentration so now Kitty was no longer feeling fear, Rogue was out of the jar and Scott could think clearly again.

Selene however wasn't please as she got up and dusted herself off. "That was intolerable Roulette, be more careful with those!"

"You should listen to your own advice lady." Came a gruff and dangerous voice. She turned to see Logan standing behind her with the other captives. The explosion had knocked her control of the spell and they were all free. Normally Logan didn't like to hit woman but in this case he would make an exception and he clocked Selene with his hands and his adamantium laced bones made the hit that much harder on her face.

Selene got up and put a hand on her face and looking enraged that this man had the audacity to strike her. Then she now noticed that they were outnumbered, her Hellions were doing well against the X-Men but with the extra mutants now things odds were not in her side, in fact she saw several of the X-Men team up against her students. She knew the day was lost but she vowed to get back at this humiliation.

"You may have won the day barbarian." She snarled at him. "But we will win the war." She reached up into the sky and her and the Hellions vanished in flames.

"Lady I'm looking forward to that day." Logan muttered under his breath.

AFTER THE BATTLE

Vince was out back sitting on the ground. 'Well all things considered this birthday was anything but boring.' He brooded. The day had gone so well until those Hellions had called them out for a fight, and of course the X-Men had to go out to meet them, or no telling what those guys would have done. Not to mention a few of his friends had gotten hurt, luckily it wasn't too bad.

"Ya all right?" Vince smiled at the familiar voice.

"I guess...hey I've had worse days right?" He said trying to make light of the situation to Rogue. She however sat down next to him.

He saw the pissed look on her face. "Ah can't believe those guys decided to chose today of all days to make themselves known. Ah mean everyone worked hard ta make your first birthday here special and they ruined everything."

"Well...it was interesting I'll say that much." He told her grinning. She just smiled and shook her head, she just didn't understand how he tried to make others around him comfortable or feel better. Vince noticed something next to her. "Is that my present?"

Rogue got nervous. She had thought so hard about what to give him and was afraid he wouldn't like it. She bit her lower lip slightly and handed him the package after some of the other gifts he had got she wasn't sure it would measure up. "I-it's nothin' ah'm not sure you'll lahke it." She told him playing with one of her white bangs, a nervous habit she had for years.

Vincent smiled and opened the box. He was surprised at first seeing some kind of book with the word memories on it. He took it out and now Rogue was even more nervous thinking he didn't like it. Vince however opened it and was shocked to see it had photos in it, but the thing was they were from his time in Toronto.

The first page was of his first days at the orphanage and as he turned to the pages they were pictures of his entire life in Toronto. There were pictures of his past birthdays and holidays, times with his two best friends, special events in his life like a picture of him and his sensei when he won his first martial arts competition, all of the happiest times he could remember were in these pages. The last pages that still had photos were more recent and the last page with pictures had three specific ones. One was a shot of everyone in front of the mansion before he had arrived and then there was one of April and lastly one of Rogue. The rest of the book was blank.

"A-ah figured that you'd like something ta help ya remember all the good times in your life." She said nervously. "Ah got in contact with Father Michaels and with Mary, Benny and with your sensei, Mr. Kansuke. Since they couldn't beh here ah got them to send ya copies of all their favorite pictures of ya."

Vince looked at the inside cover of the photo album and there was something written there, he read it out loud. "To one of my favorite sons a Father could have, to the best friend a girl could know, to the best 'big brother' a boy could ask for, for the best student a teacher could have and...to the greatest love in my life." They were all sighed Father Michaels, Mary Jones, Benny Parker, Ryu Kansuke and finally Rogue under each of their handwritten words.

"They sent it here a week ago with somethin' each of them wrote down with the pictures they sent. Ah know it's silly and I shouldn't have gotten it ah'm sorry ah-"But she was cut off as he kissed her on the lips gently. She was surprised by this but soon sent it back to him.

He pulled back and with his right hand started to caress her cheek. "It's perfect, thank you." It truly did mean a lot to him. When he left his old home he didn't get anything much to remember his time there but this was something that helped fill that void in his life. And this wasn't just a gift form her, but from all the people that cared about him back home too.

Rogue smiled glad he liked it she leaned next to him resting her head on his shoulder. They sat there sitting next to each other for a little while, she felt him tilt his head. "Want to see if there's any cake left over?" He asked her.

She rolled her eyes but still smiled. "Sure."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 24: VISITING

Illyana comes back next chapter for a visit! See how she reacts to the fact that Piotr is now got a girlfriend and she won't be alone either.