Pietro called shotgun so Jean ended up sitting in the back with Todd. Never mind the fact that they were always fighting Lance still hated Jean for coming between him and Kitty so long ago. So she finally told Duncan to shove it and was beginning to see that Xavier was a crack pot, she was just like the Scott and she always will be.
Pietro on the other hand was intrigued by this change. He knew his father tried to get to her first but the Prof. X and her father were old friends. This was about her car. If he could manipulate her, maybe even recruit her, his father would be very impressed. Of course if his dad found him outside the boy's locker room dry humping a vending machine that would suck.
"What do you guys think about the Friends of Humanity?" Jean asked about a newly formed political party and community organization.
"There a hate group, you see them at shopping centers, outside businesses, even in the school recruiting people. They got kids handing out pamphlets and selling fundraiser candy bars. Has Xavier invited them over for tea and crumpets yet?" Pietro asked.
"We're still trying to fully identify the key players and who's funding all this. The Professor has been tracking their progress. They're get bigger everyday and Party leader Graydon Creed is courting some very powerful people. We heard him on a talk show comparing the mutant phenomenon to the meteor rock phenomenon when there totally different. You should hear this guy, how he just twists everything and the people…they all believe him. This is bad." She replied.
"No kidding, their crap propaganda whatever...It's everywhere on TV, radio, billboards. There're Nazis man." Todd said.
"That's exactly how it's going to be if these monkey children get elected. First it's the Mutant Registration Act, then they start imposing restrictions, next its segregation, detention, and…" Jean said.
"Not me, no way! I'll level this damn city before some Cro-Magnon marches me into a gas chamber. Besides Xavier might be dragging his butt, but Magneto and Mystique are all over this." Lance told her.
"What do they know? All the Prof. has is useless crap, like back round info. Tell me Magneto has the goods! Criminal records, substance abuse problems, mistresses, whether or not any those mistresses are boys or like Sponge Bob Square Pants." Jean said.
"What would you do Jean? How does malicious espionage and blackmail, fit into Xavier's passive resistance, let's hold hands and skip in a circle, way of doing things?" Pietro asked.
"Thanks to that psycho witch you finally have some points on the score board, we're still winning and as mutants we need to empower ourselves, and knowledge is power." Jean said.
"That psycho witch is my sister." Pietro stated.
"And?" Jean retorted.
"Let's say, we have what you were looking for? What would we get in return?" Lance asked hoping to halt this exchange before it escalated.
"Oh right yo, I know I can't join your team but that doesn't mean you can't help me and I can't help you!" Todd said in a high girly voice imitating her. "Oh yes baby Yes Yes OOOOHHH YYYEEESSS!" He cried imitating Duncan's assault on the vending machine.
"OK Toad we get the point, can you stop molesting the jeep now? Pietro said.
"Sorry." He said quietly.
"How many times have the X-men helped save your sorry butts? Gimme a chance, come shopping with me or we can do lunch? Duncan's buying." She said.
"Free food, I'm in." Todd said.
"Wait," Pietro said, "Lets get something clear first. This is test, and if you pass we work out a payment plan and you get the goods on the FOH. The only condition is that you give us a heads up on how you or the other X-men plan to use this information. Cool?" He asked
"Very." She answered