X-men: The Brotherhood back to School
Part 3: Fights and Death
Last episode Animal, Kitty and Beast arrived in Beast's lab too late and found everything ruined and chemicals and a folder with all the mutants' health statistics stolen. Meanwhile Psy returns his precious package back to Magneto for the next move.
Xavier Mansion School for the Gifted
"I'm afraid I have some terrible news" said Charles as he sat at the front of the long rectangular table, in one of the many secret rooms.
"What's wrong professor?" asked Scott. The X-men were seated around the table with Alex crouched in a corner with Kitty.
"It seems that John managed to break into Hank's lab and steal valuable items of his".
"Like what?" asked Jean who sat next to Scott.
"A few certain chemicals and the X folder" replied Charles gravely.
Everyone gasped with shock, they all knew what was in that folder and how important it was too them, finally Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit broke the silence,
"What are the chemicals for?" Everyone snapped out of their grief and turned back to Charles,
"We don't know, but maybe Alex here can help us" he replied looking towards Alex.
Everyone looked towards Alex; instead of being embarrassed he looked right back and growled,
"John never mentioned anything to me except that he worked for the Brotherhood"
The X-men looked down slightly but Scott just glared at him,
"Of course he wouldn't have told him, why would he tell anything to him!" At once Alex stood up growling and bearing his fangs. The X-men jumped back in alarm while Scott began raising his hand to his visor,
"Scott! Stop this, you insulted him! It's your fault!" cried Jean glaring at him.
"I…I was only going to do it in self defence" stammered Scott lowering his arm and beginning to go red,
"Self defence my ass!" Logan growled, "You were going to hit him the moment he moved!"
"Can someone please tell me why Scott is so enraged with Alex?" asked Charles calmly, though with a stern glare,
"Well, on the night they arrived, Alex came an inch to dismembering Scott's face" replied Jean flatly.
"Scott, you shouldn't judge him on how you first met him honestly" said Charles.
"Before I was interrupted I was going to say that on top of that I can't seem to find any of the Brotherhood so we can't figure out where to look. So we will have to go about our lessons normally and when I find something you shall be informed."
The X-men nodded their heads and started to leave, Scott grabbed Jean by the arm and pulled her aside,
"Look I'm sorry all right" Scott said once everyone had left,
"Feel sorry for yourself!" Jean snapped and walked off towards her class.
Alex smiled from the other side of the wall and began racing off to find Kitty.
Next day
"So after my long explanation of compound interest, I expect everyone to have completed the homework by tomorrow." Jean stated as she dismissed the class.
Alex was walking to his next class when Bobby shouted from behind,
"Hey! I heard you went crazy at Scott!" Alex turned round to face him properly,
"So what of it?" he growled his tail flicking from side to side,
"Well you shouldn't of, he would of creamed you" Bobby replied smirking.
Alex ignored him and began to walk away when he was hit by a ball of ice,
"Hey I was talking to you!" he shouted walking closer towards Alex. People began crowding round both of them, making a circle around them and for neither of them to escape,
"You wanna make something of it?" Alex growled angrily, his tail moving even faster from side to side,
"Yeah! I do!" Bobby shouted and leapt at Alex.
Alex moved to the side and dodged him easily and smacked down on the top of his head with the back of his hand.
"You think your top stuff don'tya!" roared Bobby, he conjured up two ice daggers and plunged both of them into Alex's tail.
Alex shouted, that turned into a roar of pain and swung round, eyes turning black he crouched and sprung at Bobby, claws aimed for the chest,
Bobby quickly froze him in place then turned to face the audience,
"You see he isn't as dangerous as we thought" there was a roar behind him and he swung round to see Alex smash the ice into millions of pieces.
Alex shook the remaining ice off that was frozen to his hair and tail, this time he ran to the right quickly,
Bobby shot an ice beam, he suddenly changed direction, dodging the beam and launched himself into the air and landed on Bobby's chest.
Alex roared as he began ripping the skin off the arms, Bobby screamed in pain and the crowd fled.
Kitty was coming out of her English class when she saw Alex attacking Bobby,
she dropped her books and ran as fast as she could to get there,
"Alex! Stop!" Kitty cried as she arrived. Alex turned to her, growled then turned back and wrapped his bleeding tail around his neck and began to squeeze.
"Alex! Please! Whatever he did, he doesn't deserve this!" Kitty begged close to tears as Bobby's face began to go purple,
Alex looked back at her then growled softly, his eyes going back to its natural brown and he loosened his grip and stepped back.
Bobby coughed and spluttered then stood up,
"Thanks Kitty" he said looking at her, too afraid to look at Alex,
"I wasn't doing it for you! I was doing it for Alex!" she snapped and turned to go,
"Oh Crap" she said softly as Jean came running towards them. She had one look at Bobby's bleeding arms and Alex's bloodied hands,
"Both of you to the professor's room immediately! Kitty you had better come too." she commanded and directed them back to the school.
"What is the meaning of this?" Charles asked glancing at Bobby's arms.
"He provoked me, he threw an ice ball at me, he wanted to show that I wasn't a threat" Alex growled glaring at Bobby, who looked down at the ground,
"Is this true Bobby?" asked Charles shocked.
"Yes professor" Charles eyes narrowed,
"Why did you provoke Alex? You must of known what was going to happen" Charles asked,
"I don't know why I did it." Bobby stated glumly.
"Well in this case you shall be sitting out on the mission Bobby" Charles stated, bobby's eyes went wide with shock,
"What about him? Look what he did to my arms!" he cried. Charles turned to Alex and asked,
"Why did you do what you did?" Alex growled than moved his tail so Charles could see the two holes,
"He stabbed ice daggers through my tail." Charles moved backwards in shock and turned back to Bobby,
"Surely you know that Alex's tail is pure muscle" he stated, Bobby suddenly looked at Alex's tail and gasped,
"No! I had no idea" he exclaimed.
"Well in the mean time that will be all with punishments, now, Kitty could you get the rest of the X-men I found something that can help us" Charles stated and dismissed Bobby.
The X-men arrived and glanced questioningly from the blood on the floor to Alex's claws and bleeding tail,
"What happened here professor?" asked Ororo looking at Alex,
"There was a fight between Bobby and Alex, Bobby will be sitting this one out due to unexplainable behaviour."
The X-men glanced at each other but knew not to ask any more questions. Logan came up behind Alex and whispered,
"Who won?" Alex turned than tapped his chest with his tail,
"Good man, he was getting too cocky" Logan complemented, Alex smiled than turned back to Charles.
"Now I have brought you all here to tell you that I have found Mystique wandering around a bare patch of woodland about three miles from here,
I want Archangel, Cyclops, Colossus, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Shadowcat and Animal to take the X-jet and find out what she's doing there, be careful." Charles said and dismissed them.
On the X-jet Animal stretched and tried out his X-suit then he walked over to Wolverine and muttered something, Logan chuckled and said,
"Don't worry bout it, same thing happened to me with my claws" he said and with one claw made a hole at the back of the pants where his tail suddenly popped out,
Alex looked over and saw Kitty laughing at him,
"Shuttup" he growled as she tried to hide her smile. Logan finished his job and Alex stood there wearing only ripped shorts with a X on the left and right side,
"Much better, cheers" he said to Logan,
"No prob" he replied and began looking out the window.
When they arrived Cyclops gave them a briefing, "Ok, no-one does anything stupid, we go in we ask questions or threaten then leave nothing else, got it, good let's go"
Three hours earlier
"This is what's going to happen" started Magneto,
"Mystique will be bait for the X-men and draw them out, Mirage here will place a field around the woods so when they arrive they can't see us, after they talk to Mystique for a while she'll run off and jump through the field.
While they're confused for a few seconds Mirage will lower the field and we'll rush out and attack them" he explained.
The rest of the brotherhood smiled while Psy frowned at him,
"What's the point of this mission again?" he asked Magneto.
Magneto turned to him and smiled,
"Just to injure them my young friend, just to injure them so getting to the children will be easier" he explained.
Now
The X-men walked down the hatch towards Mystique with Cyclops at the front and Animal and Shadowcat near the back.
"Mystique, we would like to talk to you" Cyclops began, Mystique said nothing,
"Why have you stolen the chemicals?" he asked, she still said nothing,
"Why did you steal the X-folder?" he asked again, still she said nothing,
"Looks like we're going to have use force" said Cyclops taking a step forwards, suddenly Mystique turned, ran and jumped between two trees, instantly she vanished.
"What the…?" Cyclops began, then where they thought was woods was filled with the Brotherhood,
"Attack!" roared Magneto.
Avalanche clapped his hands together and knocked the X-men to the ground as the rest of the Brotherhood attacked.
Beast managed to get up in time and hurl Pyro into a tree before Juggernaut smashed him in the face with one.
Toad snuck up from behind and wrapped his tongue around Shadowcat's waist.
She screamed in shock causing Animal to turn and see Toad, with a roar he came down with one of his claws and sliced the tongue in half,
as he yelled in pain Animal leapt at Toad and with a quick twist of Toad's neck with his tail, broke it.
Meanwhile Archangel had his right wing burned as Pyro got up and started burning anything he could find,
Animal leapt off a tree, swung off a branch then jumped up as Pyro aimed his flamethrower and went to burn Alex,
who quickly covered himself in metal then leapt and kicked Pyro out with one of his clawed feet.
Phoenix had levitated and thrown juggernaut through three trees, while Wolverine was tackling Mammomax as Cyclopsblasted Mystique into a boulder and she fell silent.
Animal growled loudly as he saw Psy floating down from the sky as he threw Nightcrawler towards a tree,
he quickly Bamfed and started helping Colossus with Avalanche.
"How could you turn against me!" Animal roared lunging for Psy,
"Quite easily Alex" he replied freezing Alex and sending him through a tree. Cyclops aimed for Psy and was lifted clear off the ground and hurling towards Alex.
Alex got up coughing up splinters of wood hesensed someone rushing towards him and he spun round with his claws ready.
Thud.
Alex's eyes widened in horror as he saw Cyclops, punctured in the chest by his claws.
Cyclops started gasping as began coughing up blood onto Alex, then with one last groan crumpled, under Animal's claws.
The rest of the battle seemed to go in slow motion for Alex, watching Jean cry in shock while Logan was yelling orders for them to retreat.
Colossus carefully prised Cyclops off Alex then gently lifted both Cyclops and Animal and ran into the ship.
Alex sat in the corner, furthest away from everyone else with Kitty, kneeling in front of him comforting, while Jean crouched over Cyclop's body with Logan's arm round her.
"Hey, it wasn't your fault, it was a natural reaction, no-one blames you" Kitty sympathised as she rubbed his arm.
He ignored her and faced the wall.
Next day
"We are gathered here today, to honour a great friend and teacher." Charles began,
"Cyclops was one of my first mutants at this school and even from a young age, he showed leadership like nothing I had seen.
Yes there were times when he seemed to dislike people but no-one can be perfect"
he turned to Jean who was wearing black and sobbing,
"Jean, would you like say something?" he asked.
Jean rose and faced the crowd of X-men and students of the school,
"I loved Scott he was not only a close friend he was also my husband. Rest in peace"
she finished and headed off to the mansion, before she left, she turned and said,
"Alex, I'm so sorry, none of this was your fault" and walked away.