A friend of mine helped me write this chapter. I don't remember what his pen name is but I'll be sure to have it posted on the next chapter.

Toad the Troubled Troublemaker

"Would you like to explain what happened?" Logan asked.

"I was going to make myself a snack," Serena lied. She had always been good at telling stories, and acting. "I got out one of the knives, but it slipped. I tried to grab it and," she showed him her cut hand, "this happened."

Logan raised an eyebrow. "What did you need with a knife?"

"I was going to have some strawberries."

He sighed. "Alright, let's get this taken care of before we go see the professor."

"The professor?"

"Yeah, he wanted to have a few words with you."

"Alright." After Serena had bandaged her hand, Logan led her up to the professor's office.

"You wanted to see me professor?"

"Yes, I have notice that you seem to be progressing very well over the past few days." Xavier told her. "If your pace of progress continues, you may be ready to go back to school in two weeks. Or perhaps one, depending on how well you do."

"If I may professor, it's really more of my empathy that's bothering me."

"Do not worry, we'll be working to control that." He assured her.

"Thank you sir. I'll try hard."

"Good, that will be all." She got up and left.

"Do you really think that's a good idea Chuck?" Logan asked.

"The girl has been doing exceptionally well Logan. You yourself said that she has improved."

"Yeah, well I just hope that the other kids are ready for her."

(A few hours later…)

After school the X-Men walked in soaking wet, looking like they had just walked through a car wash.

"What happened?" Serena asked trying to keep a straight face.

"The Brotherhood." Kurt growled.

"What did they do?" Serena asked.

"You want a list?" Kitty mumbled.

"That bad huh?"

"You wanna here the whole story?" Scott asked her.

"Sure." She smiled. "Enlighten me."

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It was very quiet in the Brotherhood house. Todd sat there on the couch looking guiltily at the floor. The other four Brotherhood members stood there with their arms crossed and serious looks on their faces. They were soaking wet and covered in suds from the mayhem Todd had caused at the school. They stood there staring at him as he fiddled with his thumbs just for something to do. Todd could understand why they were mad at him. He had done some pretty stupid things, but today he took the cake. Even though he knew that deep… very deep down they were proud of him, what he did went far beyond anything than what all of them put together would ever do.

Lance was the first to break the silence. "So, you wanna tell us what's up?"

"The sky?" Todd said with a hint of sarcasm.

"This is not the right time to be joking Hopper." Tabitha said.

"What did I do wrong?"

"How could you possibly ask that?" Pietro asked him.

"In case you've forgotten, you completely trashed the school." Lance told him. "In fact, I'm surprised it's still standing."

Todd felt like reminding Lance about how he had collapsed an entire school before, but thought it best not to. Instead he said, "I was just releasing some stress."

"And you thought the only way to release it was to unleash havoc?" Lance asked skeptically.

"Don't get us wrong or anything. I was totally impressed by what you did." Tabitha said.

"But you could've exposed yourself, gotten expelled..." Lance listed.

"Plus not to mention getting beaten up by the entire school." Pietro cut in.

"And that includes the students and the teachers." Tabitha added.

"As if the school wasn't enough, oh no, you had to damage the school bus too." Lance said exasperatedly.

"Although it was funny to watch people crawl through the windows trying to get out." Tabitha pointed out.

"What did you do?" Pietro asked him.

Todd smiled. "Slimed the door shut and broke off the emergency handles."

"What we're really upset about is why you didn't let us in on the fun!" Pietro whined. Tabitha whapped Pietro over the head.

"I'm sorry yo. Isn't my week suspension enough without getting reprimanded by you guys?"

Lance sighed. "We just want to know everything that happened from start to finish."

Todd took a deep breath. He knew this was gonna be a long story. "I guess it all started last night…"

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Todd was sitting in his room with Pietro. They were doing breathing exercises but Pietro was going to fast Todd was getting winded.

"Breathinbreathoutbreathinbreathout!" Pietro commanded.

"Stop!" Todd shouted. "Geez, only you could make breathing a pain Pietro!"

"No, you do that pretty well yourself." Pietro remarked.

Todd frowned. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean the intoxicating smell of your room is killing me." Pietro joked.

"Take that back!"

"Hey easy, I'm just messing with you."

"You know you're supposed to be solving my problems, not making them more difficult for me."

"No, only you can solve your problems." Pietro corrected. "Everyone knows that."

"How do you solve your problems?" Todd asked.

"Me?" Pietro said in slight surprise. "I don't have problems. I'm too busy causing problems for everyone else."

"I'll bet." Todd muttered.

"Well that's enough counseling for tonight. Later!" Pietro rushed out of the room.

Todd laid back onto his bed and thought deeply about what Pietro had said. I don't have problems. I'm too busy causing problems for everyone else. As Todd thought more and more about it, the more tempting the idea became. He decided that tomorrow he would take Pietro's advice. It would be Friday, the perfect day. And tomorrow came.

Todd was completely wound up, much so that he was slightly edgy. The rest of the Brotherhood pretended not to notice thinking that he was just a little stressed. They arrived at school a little earlier than usual. Todd thought he should probably get started.

"I'll catch up with you guys later." He said and hurried off.

Pietro watched him go suspiciously. "Where's he headed?"

"Never mind Speedy." Tabitha said warningly.

"I'm sure he just needs a little space this morning." Lance said casually.

Todd worked on his pranks until the school bell rang. He headed back to his first period class and sat down in his desk. Mr. Peterson, the English teacher, called roll and then he stood up from his chair. At least, he tried to anyway.

"What in the?" He realized he was stuck to his chair.

The students laughed as he rolled around trying to get up from his seat but with no luck. Finally he gave a huge jerk and… RIIIIIIP! He class exploded with laughter as he sat back down on the chair.

"I'll be right back class," he said red-faced as he wheeled himself out of the room, "as soon as I fix my pants and report this to Principal Kelly."

Todd grinned to himself. He could feel his stress melting away as all the other kids around him laughed and joked about what had just happened. He snuck out of the classroom unnoticed, but not before putting some slime on the text books for a later joke. He watched as several teachers came wheeling or hopping, depending on what kind of chairs they had, from their classrooms towards the principals office. Yes, he had done the same thing to all the teachers. That wasn't as nearly as good as what he had done to the speakers and the textbooks. He hopped off to do his next prank.

On their way to class people realized there was bubble gum all over the floor in the hall way. People kept stepping in it which caused several preps suffering from having gum all over their shoes. People had also noticed that there were several jackets stuck to the ceiling. Some of the owners were jumping up and down trying to get their jackets down. During second hour Principal Kelly tried to make an announcement. The sound on the slime-covered speakers inflated into huge slime bubbles which exploded resulting in slime covered classrooms, students, and teachers. Many of the teachers were also having problems with textbooks being stuck to the desks.

During fourth hour, which was Chemistry, Todd saw that Serena wasn't there. He had noticed that for the past few days she hadn't been coming to school. Oh well, he thought. It was probably best she didn't come today anyway. He watched Kurt walk in. When Kurt spotted him he shot him an ugly look. He sat down to the seat next to him.

"I know it's you who is causing all this trouble Toad!" He hissed.

"Who me?" Todd said in mock innocence.

They were mixing chemicals that day and Todd had an idea. In middle of class there was an announcement. "Attention all students. There has been a series of pranks going throughout the school. Those who are responsible will be dealt with severely."

During the announcement everyone's attention was turned towards the speakers. While everyone was distracted Todd poured an entire vile of "substance A" into Kurt's beaker. When Kurt turned his head back to his project he paled when he saw it was black and bubbling. It burst and blew out a thick cloud of dark smoke right into his face. When the smoke cleared he was completely covered in black. Everyone started laughing at the sight of Kurt.

Todd was laughing himself. "Hey fuzzy, maybe you should consider adding an afro to your halo watch." Kurt glared at him. Several people were making jokes about him.

"Man, I thought they hadn't gotten rid of black and white TV."

"Since when does a black man speak German?"

"Mr. Wagner, go to the bathroom and get yourself cleaned up." The teacher told him. Kurt got up still glaring at Todd and walked out of the classroom. On his way to the bathroom he bumped into the Brotherhood roaming the halls.

Tabitha smiled. "Now I know why they call you Nightcrawler."

"So I guess you really are the black sheep of the group." Lance remarked.

"Oh stuff it!" Kurt said shoving past them.

"The fur's always bluer on the other side!" Pietro called after him.

Fred scratched his head. "I thought black history month wasn't until next year."

At lunch Todd sat down with the Brotherhood. Lance looked at him. "We haven't seen you all day man."

"Yeah what have you been doing?" Pietro asked curiously.

"Whatever you do don't eat the jell-o." Todd whispered to them indicating the green gelatin on their trays.

Tabitha raised an eyebrow. "Why not?" They noticed that everybody ad started moaning and vomiting all over the place after eating just a spoonful of the green desert.

"You slime the jell-o?" Pietro said disbelievingly. Todd shook his head.

"Nope. That stuff is one hundred percent slime. They all stared at it in dismay.

Fred walked up to them. "Hey guys."

"Freddy you didn't eat the jell-o did you?"

"What's wrong with it?" Fred asked. "I thought it was pretty good. In fact are you gonna eat yours?" They all shoved their trays at him, too nauseated to eat.

For all of lunch hour Todd was spreading his mischief. He had found a box of shot-put balls in the ball closet and had dropped the box while jumping up into the air, destroying the gym floor. He had also punctured all of the balls, but only just so that they would leak air out slowly. That way when people started to play with them they would start to get flat, and they would continuously refill it with air before they finally realized there was a hole in the ball. During fifth period he decided to tepee the entire football field. He had also jammed a few of the classroom doors shut so that some teachers were locked in their rooms. He had also flooded every bathroom in the school by clogging up the sinks and toilets and letting them overflow with water. During gym class he had collected all of the guys' boxers and made a collage with them in the hallway with the owners name printed on their underwear.

"Hey Summers, nice underwear." Duncan said mockingly indicating the ones with hearts all over them.

"Nice teddy bears." Scott said indicating Duncan's underwear. Between seventh and eighth period the Brotherhood bumped into Todd in the hallways.

"Man, can you believe everything that's been going on today?" Lance asked. Suddenly the speakers started to blare and everyone was covering there ears.

"It's okay guys!" Todd shouted and the song "Beat it" started playing. "They're playing my song yo!"

Realization hit Lance. "Toad, have you been doing all of this?"

"Who do you think was doing it, Martha Stuart?"

"Wow, I don't think even Speedy here could do this much damage in one day." Tabitha laughed.

Pietro shot a look at her. "Hey! I resent that!"

"Speaking of which Pietro I need you to me a little favor." Todd whispered something into Pietro's ear and Pietro grinned wickedly.

"You are so evil! I like it!" He zoomed off.

"What are you planning?" Lance asked anxiously. "Do I even want to know?"

Todd smirked. "You'll find out soon enough."

Throughout the day he had stripped everyone of their wallets (yes, everyone) and had piled them up in one of the foyers. Pietro had lit them all on fire setting of the fire alarms and causing it to rain all over the soap strewn floor (compliments of Pietro) causing dozens of screaming kids to slip and slide all over each other. While everyone was busy with that Todd had rigged up the grand finale and rushed out to the parking lot where he had placed nails, broken glass, and spikes right underneath everyone's car tires. Then he spotted a red car, assumed it was Cyclops's, and decided to cover it with whipped cream, mustard, and ketchup from the school cafeteria.

"MR. TOLANSKY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TO MY CAR?" Todd jumped and turned around to see a very angry Principal Kelly. "So you're the one who's been causing all this trouble!" Todd's heart raced. He had to think of something clever fast.

"Okay I know I messed up your car," he said quickly. "But you can't prove that I did any of that other stuff. I'm mean come on yo, I'm only one kid. How could I have possibly done all that? Especially since I attended all my classes."

"What makes you think I would believe…" He was cut off by an explosion. Fireworks were going off on top of the school building.

Kelly stared at the scene in horror. "For the love of… THESE KIDS ARE TRYING TO KILL ME!"

"See? See? This proves I'm not guilty!" Todd said pointing.

Kelly thought about this and knew the runt was right. No matter how bad of a trouble maker he was, he was only one troublemaker. "Very well," he said in an infuriated voice, "but you still damaged my car. Therefore, you are suspended from school for all of next week."

"Okay sounds fair." Todd said and began trotting off away from the school.

"Gaud I hate my job!" Kelly wailed.

"Ahh, it feels good being diabolical." Todd thought and he walked off smiling as he heard sirens wailing in the distance.

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! I know I did. Please, oh please review! I'm gonna need some good ideas for the upcoming chapters.