Deader than disco... I like that.

-Cobra Commander, GI Joe

The trip from Brooklyn to Bayville was over before either woman in the car realized it. As the car rolled up to the Brotherhood Boarding House and the sun rolled down into the horizon the driver reverted back to her natural form. Envee just shook her head as she watched Mystique transform from a buxom blonde into a blue skinned person again. It was a little odd to say the least.

Mystique had a thoughtful expression as they pulled up to the house. She had only hoped Lance had organized everyone long enough to prepare Wanda's room to hold another person.

When Lance received Mystique's call earlier he had told Mystique that a room would be made up for the new member. After Magneto 'died' during his attack in Mexico Pietro was quickly ousted as Brotherhood leader. Even his own sister had stood against him. And now the Quicksilver was a distant second-in-command, 'The Avalanche' Lance Alvers now the sole leader. Compared to the apparent second-in-command of the Acolytes one Remy 'Gambit' Lebeau and the X-Men's field leader Scott 'Cyclops' Summers Lance was not the best of leaders. Scott had learned tactics since he started at the mansion and Remy was supposed to have been groomed as the next leader of the Thieves Guild of New Orleans and hence had to understand what it took to be a good leader.

Lance learned to be a leader by using his powers to make some thugs at his old school fall in line. The same thing was mostly done with the Brotherhood. He never learned about deployment or how to issue commands in the middle of a fight. The Brotherhood's teamwork was also rather lacking, while they knew each other very well as any group who lived in the same house should they never trained, as a team or alone. Meanwhile the X-Men were drilled in teamwork repeatedly to work as a cohesive whole rather than the mismatched combatants the Brotherhood had.

Lance had only three real things that made him a leader. The first was his power to create seismic disruptions in the ground under him, allowing him to move the earth as he saw fit, a power limited only by the headaches they caused him. The second was he able to focus on what needed to be done. Toad and Blob tended to get distracted, Toad by The Scarlet Witch and Blob by food.

The third however was the main reason. There wasn't anyone else qualified for it. No one in the house would follow Pietro unless Magneto got medieval on them again and even then they would listen to Lance over Pietro, Toad was too much of a coward, Wanda 'The Scarlet Witch' Maximoff was too unstable and angry, Blob was both angry and dumb and Tabitha 'Boom Boom' Smith was just plain unstable!

Still, regardless of how he came into his position he was the leader. And it was his job to tell Wanda to prepare for the new arrival. Of course he came to quickly realize one fact.

Anything that involved Wanda would not be easy.

"Out of the question! Not happening! I am not sharing my room!"

"Hey, Mystique said the new girl is sharing with you! So don't wig out about it!"

The Brotherhood house had six bedrooms. Mystique being the boss had one to herself, as did Wanda and Boom Boom. They used to room together, but after a short catfight it was deemed that they be placed in separate rooms. Pietro had his own room as no one wanted to room with him, Todd 'The Toad' Tolansky had one to his lonesome because he both snored and smelled awful. That left Lance to room with Fred 'The Blob' Dukes. If the truth had to be told he liked Blob as his roommate, he was less messy than he was, didn't snore and at least tried not to wake him as he snuck downstairs to the kitchen in the middle of the night.

"Not going to happen, I will not have another roommate after what happened with Blondie!" Wanda shouted out as the lights started flickering rapidly. The gathered Brotherhood members backed away slightly and Lance held his hands up in surrender. Yet another reason he was the leader, he knew when to back down.

"Well she needs a room to sleep in, and I doubt we can room her with Tabby without something blowing up." Lance turned to glare at the girl in question who shrugged in response. The now infamous catfight began when Tabitha used her pyrotechnic powers to form a small bomb, which she placed under Wanda's bed sheets just before the Scarlet Witch laid down to sleep. The weak bomb's 'fuse' as it were was about five minutes long and Tabitha stayed awake the whole time. When it did go off Wanda screamed as she jumped from the bed, the bomb placed nicely under her butt. It had stung, but no more that a slap would have been. Boom Boom later stated her head nearly hit the ceiling. Of course Tabitha had laughed at her 'joke' and Wanda's reaction to it.

Wanda didn't share her humour. She didn't even consider her powers as she leapt at the other girl, grabbing her pyjama's top.

By the time Pietro had arrived Tabby's top was undone, buttons scattered across the room.

By the time Toad arrived the top was torn off, showing Tabby didn't bother with bras in bed.

By the time Lance got there Tabby had the tables turned, tearing Wanda's top off and displaying her bra, much to Toad's delight.

When Blob had arrived Wanda experienced a 'wardrobe malfunction' that caused her bra to be pushed over her breasts baring them to the room.

Shortly after Toad fainted with a nosebleed Wanda had gotten a grip on Tabitha's panties under her pyjama pants and quickly gave the bomb-making mutant a wedgie.

By the time Mystique arrived Boom Boom had returned the favour.

Shortly after that Mystique slapped the back of Lance's head.

Shortly after that the two of them had managed with great difficulty to pull the two girls away from each other.

Since then the two girls had been given separate rooms and was able to tolerate each other. Barley.

"Well..." Freddy started, "why not move Todd into Pietro's room, then we have one free."

"No way, yo! I ain't sharing with Daddy's boy over there." Todd said pointing a thumb towards towards Pietro 'Quicksilver' Maximoff, or as Evan used to call him 'The fastest jack-ass on the planet'.

"Well that's good, cause I ain't sharing a room with him either. If I start to smell like him how the hell do I pick up chicks?"

Lance rolled his eyes for a moment. "Well the only other 'room' we have is the old doghouse, but who would sleep in that?"

The housemates pondered a moment. Then five of the six people in the room arrived at the same answer, starting with Wanda then Lance, Boom Boom then Pietro and ending with Blob. Five heads turned to the Brotherhood's sixth member.

Todd noticed all the attention he was getting his head looking around in confusion. Then it hit him.

"Aw no! No way! Come on, hey! Lance leggo! Pietro! Sweetie-cakes help! I said help put the collar down! Boom Boom I don't need a leash! Come on! No Blob, help me not them! GUYS!"

The car was parked as the ladies exited the vehicle, Envee taking a moment to grab her bag. The house was definitely in disrepair, but it was a step up. After looking around for a moment the dark skinned beauty blinked. "Hey Misty? Who's the guy in the dog house?"

Mystique rolled her eyes at being called 'Misty' and looked over at what Envee was looking at.

There was Toad squatted down, his arms draped on his legs as his fingers drummed at his thighs. A dog collar was fitted around his neck and a leash connected the collar to the doghouse. No one knew how or why the doghouse was there, it just was. It was a large one though, so Toad could fit inside well enough, provided he curled up. A sleeping bag and pillow had been stuffed inside; no one wanted him to freeze to death. And for a finishing touch Boom Boom had found some green spray paint and used it to spell 'TOAD' over the house's entrance. The doghouse's new resident sighed and shook his head. "This ain't cool, yo..."

Mystique groaned slightly and place a hand on her forehead. "I can't wait to hear this one."