The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah she does have it bad, and things won't be easy for everyone.

Rogue14: I know it is but you got to admit I know how to leave you hanging for more.

Aaron: Yeah Mastermind is back, and we'll just have to see how well it works on her. As for Mystique only time will tell and you know Kurt will be really hurt seeing the new Wanda.

Ldypebsaby: Yes it is wrong but you got to admit it his Magneto's style. True he is a bad parent goes without saying really, as for Mystique you'll see in this chapter.

Sean Malloy-1: You'll just have to wait an see I don't like to give away endings and as for Mystique well…that will come in the sequel Rogue's Life.

Slickboy444: Yeah that's what Mastermind is going to do to Wanda. Glad you liked how I'm handling Mystique in this I wanted to go a different route and I'm happy you're enjoying this so much.

Quillian: No I don't plan on Amanda doing something like that, she's too nice a girl and that would be OOC and I hate doing that to a person.

Thanks to: Cammy, GothikStrawberry, TheLegendaryManHimself, X00001, Red Witch, Ruby631, jenskott, Silver Warrior

WANDA'S LIFE

CHAPTER 14: THE NEW SCARLET WITCH

Mystique was currently in her car leaning back on the driver's seat panting a bit. She was in a lot of pain and walking to her car had been incredibly hard, not to mention one of the longest walks in her life. She reached into her purse and pulled out her car keys, her hand was slightly shaking a bit but biting her lip and focusing she managed to place it in the ignition. She sighed but that started a coughing fit. She could heal any surface damage with her powers but internal ones were impossible or at least very difficult for her.

She just hoped that she could actually drive to Xavier's. Then after telling them all she knew then all she cared about was finding some place to hole up in and just black out. She started up her car and used the gearshift and immediately a shot of pain hit her ribs. 'It's a good thing I only need to do that one more time', she pulling out and then shifting one last time into drive. She had to use only one hand on the wheel seeing as using her left hurt to much and it was still a very slow and agonizing drive.

But she wasn't going to let this stop her, her entire life had been filled with hardships and pain and she had been through worse things then this. She gritted her teeth as she drove on, and when she reached the gates she had never been so happy to see anything at the moment. She stopped outside them and rolled down her power windows to reach for the intercom next to it.

"Yes, can I help you?" Came a feminine voice of an adult that had to be from Storm.

"Please let me in…it's Mystique…I…need to talk to…Xavier," She managed to say with much difficulty and decided to say one last thing. "Please…Magneto…he…has Wanda."

The gates opened and she drove up to the front doors. She managed to park and get out but as she was making her way to the front doors her vision was swimming and just as the door was opening she fell to the ground. It would have hurt but she was too far gone to blacking out and reverted back to her true state and her white dress.

Ororo and Logan were at the door and they were both surprised to see Mystique just lying there. Ororo walked over cautiously to her and looked her over. "Is she playing possum?" Logan asked his claws out.

Ororo shook her head, "I don't believe so, and she is genially injured."

'Ororo, Logan. Please take her inside.'

'Are you sure Chuck?' Logan asked Xavier as he heard his voice in his head.

'Yes, I've been trying to find Wanda since Ororo told me what she said but I can't locate her. I fear she may be honest about something happening to her.' Charles said gravely, he didn't like the idea of Magneto going after his students but he had to wonder why he would come after Wanda after so long a time.

Logan gave a low growl as he picked up Mystique, he wasn't sure what pissed him off more. The fact that he was helping an enemy or the fact they needed her to find out what the hell was going on with Wanda. He carried in the shape shifter into the mansion with Ororo holding the door open. They were halfway across the foyer before one of the students saw her and it wasn't one that was too happy to see her.

"What tha hell is she doin' here!" Rogue demanded seeing them from the top of the stairs. She had just been on her way to the kitchen for a snack and seeing her 'adopted mother' wasn't something she wanted to see. She still found it hard that Mystique was her legally adopted mother. Leaving her alone all that time in the care of Irene hadn't been too bad but if she had cared for her then why hadn't she ever visited.

Plus the whole thing about trying to trick her to join the Brotherhood was also a reason she didn't like her. The only good thing out of being a part of her family was having Kurt for a brother. Sure he was a foster brother but living as an only child it helped to fill a void in her for never having a real family, even though she had never said so to anyone.

But seeing her here just brought back all sorts of negative emotions.

"Stripes we got no time for this," Logan said not stopping, "Something is up and we need her for the moment."

"Why tha hell do we need her for?" She demanded.

"Rogue please," Ororo said to her in a smoothing tone, "Just trust us on this."

Rogue watched both of them go to the elevators to the lower levels and she was still fuming mad. Why the hell didn't they tell her what was going on with Mystique of all people? She was wondering what could possibly be going on when Kurt teleported near the front door looking out it. He turned to see Rogue on the stairs. "Hey have you seen Vanda? She's late and ve had plans."

Rogue blinked a few times, she knew Wanda would chew her own leg off them be late for anything especially with Kurt. She suddenly looked to where the adults had gone and she felt a shard of fear stab her chest as cold as ice. She was telling herself it was fine and just a coincidence but she couldn't shake this feeling of dread over her, "Kurt…ah think we need ta speak with tha professor."

-Magneto's Base-

Lance was walking the halls of some kind of metallic complex. The others had told him to come outside and he found several spheres of metal on the ground outside the Brotherhood place. They told him Magneto had new plans for them and they also told him that Mystique was no longer in the picture. He was fine with that, hell he wished he could have seen that women get what was coming to her, she was supposed to lead them but hadn't done that great a job on it. So it was no great loss to him, he just wondered where they were exactly.

The ride in those stupid spheres had been crapped and long and his body still had cramps in it from sitting in those things for who knew how long. They were following Magneto at the moment as he led them through the complex and then after a set of double doors they came to a large room with entire section in glass. Looking out they could all see they were on what looked like a floating asteroid mixed in with a city, "Whoa," Lance said looking out over the view.

"Welcome to Asteroid M," Magneto in his deep voice that echoed off the large empty viewing room, "I have brought you all here because I feel that my operations in Bayville are no longer feasible with Mystique no longer loyal enough to my cause."

"Wait, you mean we're not going back?" Lance asked him with a hint of anxiety.

"No," Was all he said but that was enough for Lance's heart to sink. He knew that there was only one thing in that stupid town that kept him there. That was a certain brunette girl, Kitty. Now he would never see he again and he didn't even get the chance to say goodbye. He was thinking how unfair this was, how he should have at least been given an option a choice but then again…he had nowhere else to go without Magneto. He doubted the X-geeks would want him and what if he had been given a choice? Just say no to the only man that was willing to help him?

He was taken out of his thoughts as one of the doors on the far side of the round chamber opened and he saw a large man with long blond hair, clawed fingernails in a brown leather jacket with torn off sleeves and feral look to him. He guessed that was Sabertooth, they had heard of him but hadn't actually seen him since today and all of the boys could agree if they thought an angry Mystique had been scary then this guy was scary made manifest. He was followed by a hunched over ugly looking monkey faced man with a lot of facial hair and in a dark bulky coat.

"Children these are Sabertooth and Mastermind. I also have one more introduction to make to you all, but I want to be clear on something. You are NOT to discuss her past at all, you will act like you haven't met her at all, with the exception of you Pietro." Magneto's tone implied that they shouldn't go against him on that or else they wouldn't like what would happen to them.

Then another form came from the doorway and everyone there was taken by surprise. There came Wanda only now she wore a red and black uniform. She had on a black bodysuit that went up to her neck with the shoulders cut out of it and long black gloves on. She wore a red piece of clothing over her torso with a long squared strip from a belt at her waist that went down to her calves that was mirror behind her. She also had on long red boots that reached halfway up her thigh.

"Allow me to welcome my daughter into the Brotherhood, Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch," He said to them all but they were more entranced by the way she looked mainly the smile on her face and the look in her eyes that wasn't what they normally had seen. They could tell this wasn't the same Wanda and they were all wondering just what the hell happened.

"It's nice to meet you all, father has told me about his Brotherhood and I can't wait to fight along side my dear brother again,' The other kept giving each other confused looks not sure what she was talking about and Toad was going to say something but Pietro quickly covered his mouth. He didn't trust Todd to say something stupid like how she was here, she already knew them or worse about her past.

Pietro stepped forward a bit consciously. "Wanda?"

She actually smiled at him, "Hello brother I'm glad that father thinks I'm ready to fight by you in our cause, it's been too long," She hugged him then and he was too shocked at first to respond but hugged her back.

"Uh…hey sis, how's it going?"

"I'm fine, father said that the training he put me through to control my powers is finished," She said happily.

"Yo, nice to meet ya babe." Toad said catching on and hoping that whatever was going on with her maybe he had a chance now.

Wanda looked at him and cringed, "Oh god is that smell you? Don't you bath?" The smell of him was making her a bit nauseous and was wondering how the others could deal with it.

"Oh come on babycakes that's just the smell of a all natural man."

"Oh please," She said rolling her eyes and hexed him away from her.

When Toad landed there was only one thought going through his mind, 'The more things change the more they stay the same,' He was wondering if all this was worth it but he might as well go for it, he still had a better chance with her now that she didn't remember her past or of blue boy.

-Xavier's, Infirmary-

Mystique groaned and saw a bright light, considering her past she knew it wasn't the light at the end of the tunnel and as her vision became clearer she saw it was some sort of infirmary, and she was on a medical bead. Looking down she saw her ribs had been bandaged and an IV tube in her arm. She also didn't feel any pain and her head felt a bit light headed and she guessed they had been giving her painkillers.

She was grateful for that at least.

"Ah see you finally regained consciousness," She turned her head to see Xavier had been waiting for her. "I must say this is a sight I never thought I would see Raven."

"Spare me Charles…so do you know that Wanda is gone yet or did you look in my mind?" She said rather flatly.

"Normally I wouldn't invade another's mind but since Wanda has been missing for over twenty four hours at least-" She cut him off at the point shocked that a full day had passed and she bolted up in bed but the pain in her ribs even with the medication still hurt her so he went back down onto the bed. "I saw in your mind how you were attacked and why…I must say you knew that Magneto wouldn't be pleased by you laying to him like that, but what you did for the happiness of your son was very noble of you."

"Please don't go there," She said to him turning her face away from her, "I'm far from anything 'noble' I just wanted to see my son happy…even if he didn't know it…I wasn't there for him, I couldn't be there for him so I just wanted just once…to be able to give one of my children happiness just once. He deserves some amount of happiness at least."

"Well I had to tell everyone why you were here and Kurt had asked me why you were attacked…I had to tell him that it was what you did for him."

She just groaned, "Why did you do that?"

"He needed to know, that perhaps the woman that gave birth to him, that was his biological mother has some redeeming qualities after all. When he found out that you were his real mother he was a bit crushed, but he also hoped that there would be hope for you. I think he might be right Raven."

"Can we just stick to business," She said quickly shutting her eyes. She didn't need to hear that, she didn't want to hear that, so she wanted to just get to get back to why she was here, "Now I take it you have been having trouble finding her?"

Xavier decided to let that go for now and get back to the topic of Wanda, "Yes I have, I can't find her or anyone else from the Brotherhood for that matter." He saw her confusion when she turned to face him and so he elaborated, "I sent Logan over there since they weren't at school today. He said that all the boys had left about yesterday and haven't been back since."

She mind was thinking of all the possibilities on what that could mean and only one worked out but she had to be sure, "You can't find any of them with Cerebro?" He shook his head and that had given her what she needed to know, "Magneto was working on something he called Asteroid M, I don't know where it is since he didn't trust me with that kind of information…but I know he was shielding it from everything including Cerebro. If he took them there then I'm afraid he's planning on taking things to the next level Charles."

Xavier didn't like the sound of that at all he questioned her for sometime before letting her rest. He had to confer with Ororo and Logan and try to come up with a way to find Wanda and this Asteroid M.

Later on she woke up to the smell of food and looked to see Kurt carrying a tray of food for her, she found that she was hungry and guessed it was meal time. "I zought you vould like some food."

She could see that he was struggling on what to do, on the one hand she was his biological mother on the other she had also been his enemy and still might be one day. "Thank you Kurt," It was the only thing she could think of saying. He looked like he hadn't been sleeping well and she guessed why, but it was still nice to see him when not on the battlefield. He had grown into such a nice boy and wished she could tell him that, but whenever she tried the words never reached her throat.

There was an awkward silence between the two of them.

"God just ask her already," Came a southern voice and Mystique hadn't noticed that Rogue had been in the room too. She was against the wall and when Kurt had told her he was going to see her Rogue decided that she would join him just to make sure. She still didn't trust Mystique.

Kurt looked a bit nervous and he had to ask her, "Vhy did you lie to Magneto about me and Vanda?"

"Does it matter?"

"Ja…it does to me."

Mystique sighed, "You wouldn't believe me."

Kurt took her hand and she never knew how wonderful having a hand hold hers could be, she hadn't touched Kurt since he was just a baby and she hadn't known just how much she missed it. She tried not to show it, showing her true emotions wasn't her but looking into those eyes, eyes that she remembered seeing for the very first time with a joy in them. She had been shocked at what Kurt had looked like but when he had looked up at her with those eyes and smiled, she didn't care how he looked and had decided as soon as she was well enough she would try and escape from Magneto.

Now looking into his eyes was like looking into them when he was just a baby. "Fine…I…I did it because I saw how happy she made you, like that night at the fair on the ferris wheel."

"You were there?" Kurt asked him surprised at that.

"I've been watching you, you and your sister whenever I could."

"What! You've been watchin' both of us?" Rogue took her place from the wall and walked over to them.

"Yes, and I saw how lonely you were, that's why I think I took you in. You remind me so much of myself, never able to get close to another, and always feeling so alone in the world. You were just a small child when I found you, you most likely don't even remember that day but I couldn't leave you alone in the world so I took you in an placed you with my only friend in the world Irene. I didn't want Magneto to know about you so I entrusted your care to her."

Rogue had been wondering why she had done that, she had thought it was because she just didn't want to be bothered but she also had to wonder why adopt her in the first place. She didn't want to believe any of this but she seemed so honest for the first time they knew her. She would hold out judgment on her for later though now was not the time.

"You vanted me to be happy?" Kurt asked her.

"Of course Kurt, that's why I left you with the Wagners. They took you in despite your looks and I knew they could take care of you and cherish you in a way that I wouldn't be able to with Magneto on my trail. I went back to him because it would keep him from knowing about you…but now I guess…I owe him nothing." Mystique said looking up at the ceiling.

"Vell…I'll let you eat zhen…get vell." Kurt said and walked off, he needed to think on things. Maybe his biological mother and him could have a relationship after all this was done? He would always consider his adopted parents his real family, but knowing his real mother would be a nice thing to have in his life too.

Rogue looked at Mystique once and left without another word. She didn't want to be left alone with her but the same thoughts that Kurt had were running through her mind as well. As for Mystique she didn't know what the future had in store for her, all she knew is that she would have to find a new life for herself now and didn't know where to start.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 15: TO THE RESCUE OR INTO THE TRAP?

By the way sorry for the lack of updates but I've been sick for nearly a whole week and still am but I'm getting better.