Ronnie's Fan: Glad you're liking this. Yeah, I noticed that people weren't touching on that side of him and I guess it's because some may think it makes him look like he has too much of a conscience when in the comics and cartoons he's insane but I tried to stray a little, but not to far, from what Stan Lee made of Pyro. It's not the end for another few chapters, so just keep reading and reviewing and I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as you enjoyed the last one. Bye!
Raven: Yep, he's pissed. Nope, not good for Logan and if you keep reading until the end I thing you'll see I justified how it should end....I dunno though, just keep reading and reviewing. :) Bye!
Chapter four: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II
John's POV"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to Raven 'Mystique' Darkholm. She was a lovely woman…."
I stood there, clad completely in black, and understanding for the first time why people always wear black to funerals…because it reflects how they feel inside. I felt completely empty inside. I stared at the coffin that held Mystique and wondered what she was doing right now, this very moment up there. Probably watching over us right now, smirking at how much injustice the homily did her. She was fun like that.
I know it's strange how I got to know Magneto and Mystique better than most people did with only one week of living with them, but it's true. I did know them a lot better than even the Professor knew them…. He always spoke of them as some poor souls that needed finding. Stupid Professor.
Once the funeral was over and Mystique was buried, Magneto and I walked over to pay our last respects.
"Mystique, my dearest, I'm sorry. We should've gotten there quicker…we shouldn't have delayed. But you're in a better place now and all I can do is pray that you are at your happiest there. May the Good Lord, His son, and Mother watch over you. I'll be back to see you again soon…. Here's Pyro," Magneto said, with some difficulty but managing not to burst out in tears.
I walked to her tombstone and stared for a minute before saying, "Hey, Mystique. How's is going up there? I'm really sorry for what happened and Mags is right, we shouldn't have delayed but I promise that no matter what it takes, I will make Logan pay…I swear it right here on your grave that he will regret ever having met me let alone murdering you…. I swear it." My voice began shaking with anger and my insides burned again so I finished off with, "May God watch over you always and see how good an angel you are. He's right to have chosen you to be up there with Him…. (It got really cloudy really quick and it started pouring down bullets of rain) Don't cry 'cause it's not 'goodbye', Mystique, even though it was in the sermon…. It's just…'see ya later'. I'll be back here soon, …I promise." Just as I finished saying that, it stopped raining and cleared up. I stood up and walked away from the grave with Magneto on my heels.
Once we were out of the cemetery, we just crossed the road and walked across the front yard and into our house.
I went straight to my room and collapsed onto the bed, still dressed in my clack jeans and top and sneakers. I shivered slightly and decided I better change before I caught pneumonia. I walked over to the drawer and sifted through it to find something warm…. It was freezing in the house. Once I did find something, I shed my other clothes and put the dry clothes on and lay back down to sleep.
A week had passes since the funeral and things were still kind of lonely but getting along fine. I was in the kitchen, eating cereal when Mags came in and said, "Hurry up and finish that so we can get a move on."
The spoon was halfway to my mouth when I asked, "Get a move on what?"
"Finding Toad and Sabertooth and a few more mutants that I've researched and now know that they are tired of their life style so we'll be picking them up."
"Oh," was all I said and then continued eating my cereal.
Half an hour later we were on his jet and flying over East New York and looking for a building that didn't accentuate the fact that it had a ship on top of it and once we did, we jumped off and climbed down the fire escapes to the ground.
We were supposed to be finding the newest recruits first so that they could help us break Toad and Sabertooth out of their specialized prison cells in Upstate New York.
Walking down the cracked block and looking for any hoodlums that looked…different…from the others, I kept clicking my lighter open and shut out of habit and trying to keep from setting something on fire.
"What are these kids' names again?" I asked Mags as we looked down a dark alley, where a loud crash had come from a second ago.
"Their aliases are Avalanche, Blob, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver…. They've never met each other nor ourselves so be careful…especially Quicksilver," he said, looking down another alley and stopping.
"He's dangerous?"
"Yeah, …it was in his school file…. He was expelled from his previous school for sticking up the school for a pack of Laffy Taffies…. How he did that with a speed mutation, I will never know and that's a good thing."
I nodded and looked down the alley as well and saw this weird, silver blur moving from spot to spot with such quickness that I had trouble even convincing myself that it was there.
"And there he is," said Magneto, smirking with pride.
I had a strange feeling that Mags knew more about Quicksilver than he was letting on. He probably knew at least two of them and they had to at least know each other because there's a two out of three probability that they knew each other…it's just the way it is. Like back at the institute, half the kids there used to live at my orphanage.
I stared at the blur for a while before it stopped right in front of us to show that it was a teenage kid about my age, maybe a little younger, with pure white hair and an albino look to him…except he didn't have red eyes. The kid was real fit and was wearing a black shirt with three quarter sleeves and a pair of faded denim jeans. He had this hyped up look on his face…he was either high or had too much candy.
"Pietro Maximoff?" asked Magneto.
"What'sittoya?" said the kid, quickly moving his head so that he was face to face with Mags in a split second.
"Huh? Slow down, would ya?"
He swiveled his head quickly to me, eyes wide and crazed and said in the slowest tone ever, "What's…it…to…ya?"
I sneered at him and Mags said, "We're here to take you in."
"Whatd'youmean?" he asked.
I sucked my teeth and he said, "I mean, what…d'you…mean?"
"You're a mutant, am I right?" Mags asked.
"Yeah, and?" the kid said, finally speaking normally. He looked at Magneto strangely as he spoke…like he was trying to figure out where he had seen him before.
"Well, so am I and so is he," he said, pointing himself and myself in turn.
The kid nodded and said, "So, what's your point?"
"My point is that instead of causing mayhem among humans alone, you can come with us and cause way worse damage in their systems and governments."
"What'sinitforme? Sorry, I mean, what's…in…it…for…me?"
"Ruling over the humans alongside me," said Mags with a smirk.
The kid got a smirk on his face too and said, "Yeah, okay, I see where you're going…. But I'll go with you on only one condition."
"And what is that, my dear boy?"
"That's exactly what I want."
"Huh?" I said.
"To be his dear boy. Dad, you can't hide it anymore…. Does he know?" he asked gesturing to me.
"No," I said, looking between him and Mags. "What're you talking about? Mags, is this your son?"
"Yes…." He turned to me and said, "Yes he is. And Scarlet Witch is his twin sister…."
"…. Oh…. So you have kids? That's…cool…strange, but cool."
"Why'sitstrange?"
It took me a while before I figured out what he said and then I said, "Exactly how long have you been running the streets?"
"About ten years," said the kid.
"The you haven't seen the things he's done to people…. But then again, I guess you could assume he had kids…always worries about me," I said.
"Ah, I see…. Well, Dad, you've never been the one to just go out one day and find one of his kids (he paused for a second to take in what he said and chuckle lightly), so what is it that you need me for."
"I need you and three others, including your sister, to join my team and help show the humans why they need to respect us…and if they still don't know why after we show them…then we'll just have to get physical."
The kid nodded then stopped and said, "Wait! Wanda? You gotta be fucking kidding me! Wanda hates you, Dad! If she could've she would've killed you right there on the spot at Bellevue!"
"I don't care. I need her and she needs me to get her out of there, so she'll be smart enough to at least wait until she's out of there before she kills me."
Quicksilver nodded apprehensively and said nothing after that.
"Now, let's go."
We both nodded and followed Magneto down the block and into a ten story apartment building that looked like a good kick could take it down. We walked up the stairs and stopped at a fifth floor apartment labeled E8 and knocked on the door.
A few seconds later, a boy, once again about my age, with brown, messy hair answered the door and asked, "Yeah? Whaddya want?"
"Dominic Szilard Janos Petro?" asked Magneto, never faltering in pronouncing the name. (A/N: I say that because I had trouble pronouncing it too…and I don't even know if I am pronouncing it right.)
He looked at Magneto incredulously and said, "Yeah…. How'd you know?"
"Never mind that…. You go by the alias: Avalanche, no?"
He nodded.
"My name is Eric Lehnsherr…but you can call me Magneto."
"Hey, how come you didn't introduce yourself to me?" whined Pietro.
"Because you already knew who I was…. Anyway, Avalanche, are you interested in joining a team that doesn't stand for humans treating us mutants badly instead of running the streets by yourself and having to worry about someday being caught and then beaten to a pulp…even with your mutation?"
"How d'you know I'm a mutant?"
"You've spent many a angry nights here, have you not?"
"Yeah."
"The building shows it…. It looks like it's about to fall apart."
He smiled sheepishly and said, "Yeah…. So, you guys are a group? A team?"
"Yes."
"And you do what exactly?"
"Well, we look for ways to make it clear to humans that you don't mess with us, the legal way first, though and then if that doesn't work, we take matters into our own hands…literally."
He smirked and stepped out of the apartment, shutting the door behind him. "Where do I sign up?"
Magneto smirked and said, "We have to find one more mutant out here before we go to Bellevue and get my daughter out."
"What? Sh-she ain't dangerous or nothing, right?"
"Depends."
"On what?"
"On whether or not she sees you as a threat."
He gulped and nodded as he followed us out of the building and up the block, back to the building where we hid the jet. We got on the jet and played Poker as Magneto flew to this field somewhere down South, where a carnival was being held.
"Mags?" I asked as we entered one of the tents in which there was this huge guy moving boxes around and mumbling something about small freaks.
"What?"
"What're we doing here?"
"Looking for him," he said pointing to the huge guy.
"Oh," I said, watching the guy turn around at the sound of our voices and tower completely over us. I stared wide-eyed at him and quickly looked for an excuse to leave and avoid being crushed. One came to mind quickly. "Mags, I'm gonna get some cotton candy. I'll be right back." I turned to leave when Quicksilver sped over to me, turned me to face him and asked, "Where're you going?" I sneered at him and snatched out of his grip to turn back to the huge guy.
"Fred J. Duke?" asked Mags.
Fred nodded and said, "Yeah, and you are?"
"Eric Lehnsherr, but you can call me Magneto. What's your Alias?" he asked, obviously trying to be nice to him as to not set off his temper and get squashed.
"Blob," he said simply.
"Well, Blob, …" the conversation went exactly the same way it did at Avalanche's, more or less. A few changes here or there about people making fun of him outside the carnival and once he joined our team he would be able to put a stop to that. In the end, he joined and now we were on our way back to the ship.
"I bet you thirty bucks he breaks the ship down as soon as he steps on," whispered Avalanche to Pietro and I as we made our way back towards the hidden cornfield the ship was hidden in.
I rolled my eyes and walked ahead with Magneto and Blob who were talking about Magneto's past.
"I was separated from my mother in 1942, during the Holocaust."
"What's that?" asked Fred.
"The killing of millions of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII," I said, causing them to both face me and give me 'how-did-you-know-that?' looks. "Scott made me study it one day all day for a test…which I passed."
Magneto said, "Oh, I see."
"But I don't really know exactly what happened because Scott thought it inapt to be studying such a thing at such a young age…. Dumb ass."
"Yes," said Magneto.
"Will you tell me more about this 'Holocaust' thing?"
"Of course. You too, John. You seem interested."
"I am," I said, pushing aside the stalks of corn as we walked through the field, ignoring the snickers coming from Pietro and Avalanche behind us.
Once we arrived at the ship, Pietro was richer by thirty bucks because he bet against Fred breaking the ship down.
We flew to Bellevue Hospital next and snuck in using Quicksilver's speed mutation.
"You're pretty light for a dude," he said, putting me down on the linoleum floor of the hospital.
I stuck my tongue out at him and followed Mags as he walked over to a map on the wall. He traced down a list of sections and what floors they were on with his index finger until he stopped on the 'Psychiatric Help Ward', which was on the floor above us.
"Let's go," Mags said, waving us towards a door that led to a staircase.
We walked up the stares quietly and once we got to the next landing, we went through the door one by one so as to not attract any attention.
"What room is she in, Mags?" I asked as we walked down the hall looking next to doors for the patients' names.
"This one," he said stopping at a door across the one I was looking at.
He tried to turn the doorknob, but it was locked, so I walked over, clicked my lighter open and called the flame to my palm. I melted the knob away and then pushed the little button that clicked the lock open.
Mags looked at me questioningly and I said, "Same lock that was on my door at my orphanage."
"Oh," he said pushing the door open and walking in.
We followed him inside and Quicksilver switched on the light and sped over to a limp form on the floor, which was now in Pietro's arms trying to break free of his hold and the straight jacket around her.
"Wanda, calm down! We're trying to get you out!" he whispered frantically.
The girl continued to thrash against his chest, but he still wouldn't let go.
"If you stay still, I can get the jacket off you!" he whispered in her ear causing her to calm down long enough for him to loosen the straps of the jacket enough for her to start using her mutation on him.
Once I saw her mutation, I knew why they called her Scarlet Witch.
Her hands slipped out from the jacket and formed into a claw-like shape…then they started glowing red. She screamed angrily and a stream of red and black lightning shot from her hands and towards Pietro, surrounding him quickly and causing him to twitch as she bewitched him to stand up straight and walked towards Magneto to slap him repeatedly.
The girl was standing up straight now and her hands were still up in the air, controlling Pietro.
"Wanda, please stop! I need your help," said Magneto.
"You should've thought of that ten years ago when you put me in here!" she yelled over Pietro's screams of pain.
"Wanda, please, just hear me out and then you can do what you want to me," Magneto said, his head swinging from side to side with every slap.
Wanda seemed to be in thought before she let her hands fall to her side but still maintain control over Pietro.
"Thank you…. Wanda, I'm sorry I had to put you in here, but you must understand that you were out of control," said Magneto, with a pleading look on his face as he spoke to Wanda.
She rolled her eyes as he continued, "Look, I'm breaking you out today and you're never coming back here, but I need your help tonight with something…."
"What is it?" she asked trying to sound as though she wasn't interested but had a crease in her forehead to show that she was listening intently.
"I need you to help me get some of my old team members out of high security prisons in Westchester," he said.
"What's in it for me?"
"A spot on my team and my eternal regret for putting you in here…. You know, I did try everything I could to help you control the power you have before I put you in here, but you were just too angry and out of control."
She scowled and said, "You should've tried harder!"
"I know…."
"…. Well, okay, I'll help you and since I have nowhere else to go I guess I have to join your team."
"I do hope you can forgive me…. No father wants to put his little girl in a mental institution."
"The why did you?"
Magneto hung his head in sorrow.
She had every right to be angry…. My parents may not have put in one these places but they did put me up for adoption as soon as they found out I was a mutant.
She sighed and said, "Look, it's gonna take some time, but I think I ca forgive you…it'll be hard but I think I can…(her hands twitched and Pietro was bent over backward about to break his back and she realized what she was doing so she release him of her control), but can you need to get some kind of help for me…for this."
Magneto nodded and she smiled.
"Right, let's go. We need to get Toad and Sabertooth out of there," he said, taking Wanda's hand and walking out of the room as Pietro stood up straight causing his back to give a loud crack!
We followed Magneto out of the building, quietly with Wanda, who now tat I looked at her carefully didn't look that bad. She had scarlet/black hair and a tan complexion that was quite the opposite of Pietro…you'd never be able to tell they were twins.
We got on the ship and flew for about half an hour to Westchester and the hopped off.
I was getting tired of doing this.
Magneto looked at the building where Toad and Sabertooth were being held and said, "We need a diversion…. Avalanche, you cause an earthquake strong enough to make people fall out of the building but weak so it doesn't collapse. Quicksilver, you catch the falling people and bring them to Fred who will show them the way out of the fallen ruble. Scarlet Witch, you float Pyro and I up to the tenth story window and wait until we're at the window again so you can float all of us back down."
We all nodded and three seconds later, Avalanche was causing an earthquake and people were being caught by Pietro while Mags and I were floated up to the tenth story window by Wanda. Once Mags and I were inside Mags said, "Toad's in the call down the hall to your right."
I nodded and set off down the hall and turned right to come face to face with metal prison bars and Security guards that were holding on to them so they wouldn't somehow stray over to the window right in front of them and fall out. I looked to my right for any means to knock them out and saw an electric tazer. I picked it up and shocked the two guards before they even noticed that I was there.
Smirking, I looked into the cell and saw that in one of the corners was Toad, crouching and eyes glinting eerily in the dark.
"Come to stare at the ugly Toad, eh?" he asked in his Australian accent.
"No, I've come to break you out," I said, pulling out my lighter and calling the flame to my palm. I enlarged the flame so that it reached across all the bars of the cells and burned twice as much in half the time. The bars had melted away in about five minutes and toad was leaping behind me as I went to meet Magneto, who had freed Sabertooth and was now standing at the window signaling Wanda to float us down.
Sabertooth went first, almost being dropped because of a piece of the building that almost hit Wanda. Next was Toad, who had opted for jumping down now that he was free and wanted to try it. Then it was Mags, who I was afraid she'd drop because of hatred for him and last was me. I had a comfortable float back down and she smiled at me when I landed in front of her. I smiled back and then walked over to Magneto, who was now calling Quicksilver, Fred and Avalanche away from the scene.
We ran down the block and to this abandoned parking lot where we had parked the ship and onto the ship to fly back home.
We flew back to the house and on the way there we played Bull Shit. We arrived at the mansion in an hour's time and walked in and into the living room, where we sat down and discussed what we would call our group.
We'd spent half an hour arguing over names that sounded stupider than anything else and I, finally having enough, said over their voices, "Why not just call ourselves the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II?"
Everything went quiet and then uproar of approval sounded and then Magneto said, "Okay, okay. Now, we've got a name; so get to bed all of you. We have a long day tomorrow."
"Yes, sir," we chorused
I went to my room to change into my sleepwear and watch some TV before going to sleep as Mags showed the others to their rooms.
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