Disclaimer: Still don't own the X-Men or Marvel. What rotten luck!
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A week later, it was a slow Saturday night. Rogue, Kurt, Etienne, Remy, Kitty, Brooke, Jean and Scott were the only ones still at the mansion. The older adults had all left for a conference in New York City. The younger X-Men had all left en masse to go see the newest movie currently out in town. "So like, what do you guys want to do?" Kitty looked at Rogue and Jean.
"Why don't we send the guys into town to get a couple movies and a pizza while we make some snacks here?" Jean looked at the other two girls.
Just then Brooke walked into the kitchen. "What are ya'll talking about?"
"Like, Jean wants to send the boys for movies and pizza."
Brooke shrugged. "Sounds good to me. I want sausage and banana peppers on my pizza though."
Rogue made a face. "Sausage Ah can understand but banana peppers? Ugh! Ah want just plain pepperoni."
::Scott! We want you and the other guys to make a pizza and movie run.::
"Hey guys, Jean says the girls want to watch a movie here and eat pizza." Scott looked at Kurt and Etienne where they were playing Playstation in the Rec Room.
"Bon. I want meat lovers."
Kurt agreed with Etienne. "Jah, meat lovers would be gut!"
::Jean, we'll take a couple of those meat lover's pizzas. You want to go ahead and order them?::
::Sure thing. Kitty's calling now.::
"Ok guys, we have to go and find a couple movies." Scott and the others walked into the garage where they found Remy working on his bike.
"De femmes are sending us t' get a movie an' some pizza. Coming?" Etienne looked at his cousin.
"Sure t'ing." Gambit walked over to the sink and washed the grease off his hands. He and the other guys piled into the X-jeep with Scott driving. They got to the movie rental place with no problems.
"How about dis von?" Kurt held up the latest hack-and-slash horror movie, Freddy vs Jason.
"I don't think the girls would go for that, what about this?" Scott held up Save the Last Dance.
"Brooke would like dis one better." Etienne pulled out Underworld.
"Jah, dat is a gut movie. Kitty mentioned she vanted to see it." Kurt put his movie back.
Remy walked up with The Prince & Me. "All de femmes love dis one."
Kurt nodded his agreement. "Gut idea. Ve'll score big points vith dem."
Scott agreed with Kurt. "That's it then, we'll get Etienne and Remy's movies."
The four boys were walking back to the jeep when members of the Brotherhood interrupted them. "Well, well, if it isn't the X-Geeks. What you got in the bag?" Before they could move Lance had grabbed the bag from Scott. "Ha, sissy movies. It figures the pansy X-geeks would get sissy movies."
"That's enough Lance. Give us our movies back." Scott was getting annoyed at being called a pansy.
"Oh, I don't know." Lance tossed the bag to Toad. "What ya think Toad?"
Toad looked in the bag. "Ha! How much more wussy can you get?" He hocked one and spit in the bag. "That's what I think of that movie." The other members of the Brotherhood laughed.
All the X-Men were ticked off now. "Dat's enough. Give us de bag back or dere gona be trouble." Gambit stepped forward, taking his cards out of his jacket pocket.
Back at the mansion, the girls were in the kitchen making popcorn and gossiping. "So like, Brooke, do you like Etienne?" Jean and Kitty watched as the other girl blushed.
"I think he's cute."
Kitty giggled. "That eye patch makes him look like a sexy pirate straight out of the movies." Even Rogue had to laugh at how red Brooke got after that remark.
"Yeah, when I first met him I thought he looked like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Pietro had tried to grab the cards from Gambit who had retaliated by charging one and throwing it at him. Kurt had then jumped on the Blob, using his hands to momentarily blind him. Toad used his tongue to grab Scott's leg and flip him backwards. When Etienne tried to grab the tongue the Blob had retaliated by grabbing Kurt and throwing him at Etienne, knocking both boys on the ground.
"Ha! X-geeks really are wussy!" Lance stood back while Pietro stopped moving long enough to grab the visor from Scott's eyes, forcing him to keep them closed and effectively knocking him out of the fight.
Etienne growled and stood up, kicking out at Pietro as he whizzed past, dodging Gambit's charged cards.
The Toad jumped on Etienne, forcing him to fall on his bad leg. "You X-geeks really suck. Especially the weak one here."
Brooke clutched at her leg. "Ow! That freaking hurt!"
Jean exchanged a worried glance with Kitty and Rogue.
Gambit pulled out his bo-staff and used it to catapult over Toad, kicking him backwards as he landed. "Y' okay?"
Etienne stood back up favoring his leg. "Yeah. Give me y' staff so I can woop dat asshole inta tomorrow." He grit his teeth, feeling the familiar burning sensation beginning to spread across his chest.
Gambit tossed the staff to his cousin, pulling a few more cards out of his jacket as he did so.
Kurt had gotten back up by this time and had teleported to grab Scott's visor from where Pietro had dropped it. "Here, Scott." He handed the visor back.
"Kurt, you grab Toad. I'll take the Blob. Gambit, you and Etienne handle Quicksilver."
Kurt teleported behind Toad, wrapping his tail around his throat and attempting to choke him as he fought to keep Toad's tongue turned away from him. "Gah! You stink vorse up close."
Gambit used a couple of his cards to turn the running Pietro so that he was heading back towards Etienne and himself.
At that moment, Scott used his visor to send a blast at the ground under the Blob's feet, causing him to lose his balance. Pietro was going to fast to avoid the other boy and tripped, sending him flying into Etienne who had the misfortune to be in his way. Both boys fell, Etienne on the bottom, and all the boys heard a loud snap as the still healing bones in his right arm broke.
Etienne was pissed that their planned evening with the girls was being interrupted by the Brotherhood and his leg was throbbing from where he had fallen on it again. Before he even had time to think, Pietro came flying at him and he fell on his bad arm. He could hear the bones snap as he landed wrong. The pain was excruciating, and it didn't help that he was having another one of the heat attacks. Unexpectedly he could feel the bond he had with Brooke flare in the back of his mind, brought to life by his pain. Unable to withstand it anymore, he screamed.
Brooke grabbed her head with both hands and dropped to her knees. "It hurts! Make it stop!" It felt like when she was using her mutant power, but this was even more painful and it seemed like someone was trying to drill a hole in her skull at the same time.
Jean was over in a flash. "Where does it hurt?" She looked over at Kitty. "We need to get her to the Medical Bay."
Everyone froze when they heard the scream from the bottom of the pile. They backed off as Pietro went airborne when he was flung away. Gambit felt his jaw drop as he looked at what had been his cousin. The dragon opened its jaws and hissed, twisting onto its feet and lunging for Pietro.
::Jean, we have a HUGE problem here, somehow Etienne just turned into a dragon like Brooke can.::
::Lead him here, maybe she can calm him down.::
Jean turned to the other girls. "The guys have run into some major problems and are on their way back. We need to get Brooke outside. Rogue, please call the Professor and tell him we are going to need everyone back as soon as they can be here."
Kitty looked at her. "Are you sure we shouldn't just take her to the Med Bay?"
"No, she's right. Something's wrong with Etienne isn't it?" Brooke stood up, unsteady on her feet.
"Pietro, if you value your life run to the mansion." Scott hated helping a member of the Brotherhood, but he figured Etienne would follow. Pietro didn't wait, he turned and pelted down the street, running as if his life depended on it, which it did.
The dragon screamed loud enough to wake the dead on seeing his prey getting away. He launched himself skyward, heading out over the town back towards the mansion.
Brooke shrieked and grabbed her head as she felt the link with Etienne suddenly flare again, causing inconceivable pain. It felt like her skull was going to split open. She felt the change come, the heat spreading as her bones melted and reformed. The other girls backed up as the kitchen was suddenly filled with one very pissed off dragon. Brooke took one look at the other girls who were staring at her in horror and leaped out the window, breaking the glass as she went. She jumped into the sky, clawing for air, aiming for the roof of the mansion. She knew the object of her anger was headed back her way and she wanted a good vantage point from which to pounce.
::Scott, Brooke just morphed too. We have a bigger problem than we thought.::
"Kurt, we need you to teleport us back to the mansion."
Kurt nodded, waiting while Gambit and Scott each grabbed an arm before transporting them back to the mansion. They reappeared on the front drive just in time to see the girls run out of the front door. A growl drew everyone's heads up to see a dragon sitting on the roof of the mansion, outlined in the light of the dying sun.
"What the hell happened?" Rogue came down the steps followed by Kitty.
"The Brotherhood jumped us." Scott was looking back down the road for Pietro.
"That doesn't explain why Brooke went off the deep end!"
Gambit put a hand on her arm. "Chere, Etienne got hurt pretty bad. She must o' felt dat."
"Then where is he?"
At that moment Scott pointed into the air. "He's right there."
Rogue sucked in a breath. "Ya didn't say he was a dragon to!"
At that moment everyone could see the grey blur that was Quicksilver fast approaching. The dragon on the rooftop jumped with a snarl, landing in the driveway forcing him to stop.
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Author's Note: Ha! A cliffy! Feel free to review and let me know what you think.