A/N: If you still haven't voted for the gender of Kyro's child VOTE now on my profile, Poll closes as soon as the baby is born. Here's chapter 14, ENJOY

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Chapter 14
"Rise of The Brotherhood of Mutants"

Pyro and Magneto sat quietly in the back of the old abandoned church attending the mutant meeting, the host was deciding on a political approach while getting a lot of negative responses from the attendance.

"How should we, mutants, respond? Here's what I think. This is about getting organized, bringing our complaints to the right people. We need to put together a committee and talk to the government." The host said. Magneto merely chuckled at that statement, "They don't understand what it means to be a mutant. We need to show them, educate them, let them know that we're here to stay." The host continued.

"Now that we can agree." Magneto whispered to Pyro. Some mutants agreed but some shouted out that "They want to exterminate us!"

"This cure is voluntary. Nobody's talking about extermination." The host assured.

Magneto stood up, "No one ever talks about it. They just do it." He said as he and his favored lieutenant walks up to take the stand. "And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then, one day, when the air is still and the night has fallen, they come for you."

"Excuse me but-" The host was interrupted by Pyro holding his hand up to his face.

"It's only then you realize, while you were talking about organizing and committees, the extermination has already begun. Make no mistake, my brothers. They will draw first blood." Magneto explained like a preacher on a Sunday morning, "They will force their cure upon us. The only question is, will you join my brotherhood and fight... or wait for the inevitable genocide?" The crowd look to each other, "Who will you stand with, the humans? Or US?" Magneto and Pyro step down to give the community something to think about as they made way to the entrance,

"You talk pretty tough for a guy in a cape." A mutant said walking up to them. Pyro ignited a ball of flame into his palm intimidating the Asian mutant with a strange tattoo displaying on his chin.

"Back off." Pyro growled. Two female mutants walk up to Magneto,

"If you are so proud of being a mutant, where's your mark?" One of them asked.

"I have been marked once, my dear, and let me assure you..." Magneto said pulling up his sleeve to reveal the numbers 214782 tattooed on his forearm, "No needle shall ever touch my skin again."

Erik Lehnsherr was a Jewish POW during WWII in his youth, Nazi Germany experimented on him and managed to slip away using his powers to manipulate metal of all sorts or shape and form.

"You know who you are talkin' to?" Pyro asked. The Asian mutant unleashed pine needles from his skin,

"Do you?" He asked. Pyro only smirked,

"What can you do?" Magneto asked the female mutant known as Callisto. She demonstrated her super speed, and right back to him. "Hmm. So, you have talents." The elder smirked.

"That and more. I know you can control metal. And I know there's 87 mutants in here and none of them above class three, other than you two." She said.

"You can sense other mutants and their powers?" Magneto asked, "Could you locate one for me?"

"I suppose so, who do you have in mind?" Callisto asked.

"A shape shifter, one in custody." Pyro said. Callisto closes her eyes and concentrates,

"I got one, female?"

"Yes." Magneto said.

"She's in a transport with other mutants heading this way."

Magneto grips her shoulders, "Welcome to the brotherhood." Pyro went with Magneto to rescue their brother in arms, Mystique. She seemed to do her part in locating the most dangerous mutants to recruit. Morning dawned and the Brotherhood lied in wait as the transport made it's way down the road, Magneto stood in the street preparing to use his powers to rid the armed escort.

Pyro felt strange, as like some one was penetrating his mind. There was only one person with an ability to do this and it was Charles Xavier, Pyro knew he was using cerebro,

"He found me." Pyro muttered.

"What are you blabbering about?" Quill asked. Pyro rubbed his temples and pinched the bridge of his nose, he could hear whispers in the pit of his mind and a soothing voice of Professor X popped in out of no where, "Don't do this Lucius, you are better then this. You must fight the hold Erik has on you, do it for your child." Then the voice was gone, the strange feeling was gone. Pyro remembered how a noble man Xavier was, he didn't beg he only offered words of wisdom. Pyro didn't hear from him again after that.

"My... child." Pyro mumbled under his breath. He was shaken out of his thoughts when the prison transport was stopped by Magneto and the armed escort was dispatched. Magneto pulled off the sealed door of the cargo hold from the back of the truck and stepped inside with Pyro behind him. Mystique came walking up free from her cell,

"About time." She said.

"I was busy." Magneto replied, "Did you find what you were looking for?"

"The source of the cure is a mutant, a child at Worthington Labs. Without him they have nothing." She said. Magneto smiled and handed Pyro a clipboard,

"Read off the guest list." Pyro began looking at the list of names,

"Cell 41205. James Madrox. This one robbed seven banks." Pyro said, Magneto pulled the door open and Madrox stepped out and clones of him stepped out after him one and another and another.

"At the same time." Mystique added.

Magneto smiled, "I could use a man of your talents." All clones shifted back into the multiplier's body and shrugged.

"I'm in." He said.

"Welcome to the brotherhood." Pyro continued looking at the list, Mystique warned them about the next one.

"Cain Marko. Solitary confinement. Now, check this out. "Prisoner must be confined at all times. If he builds any momentum no object could stop him."

"How fascinating." Magneto pulled the metal door of the cell, Marko was still attached to the wall with heavy duty confinements. "And what do they call you?"

"Juggernaut." his burley voice said.

"I can't imagine why." Magneto smirked.

"You gonna let me out of her? I need to pee." Marko grunted. Magneto pulled off the confinements and Juggernaut stepped down causing the cargo hold to shake to his footsteps.

"Nice helmet." Pyro said, eying the stone helmet hugging Marko's head much like Magneto's. "They have something in common then."

"Keeps my face pretty." Juggernaut smiled.

"I think He'll make a fine edition to our army."

"Yeah." Pyro nodded.

"NO!" Mystique shouted as she covered Magneto's back when she was suddenly shot by a needle, and fell to the ground. Magneto caused the gun to fly into his hand and Pyro shot a stream of fire burning the guard to ash. They all turned down to Mystique who was no longer in her blue and scaly self, she was human now, cured.

"You saved me." Magneto said turning away from her.

"Erik..." She sniffed, tears falling from her now ocean blue eyes.

"I'm sorry my dear. You're not one of us anymore." Magneto said with no emotion. Pyro looked to him in disbelief, she saved him and yet he left her there like she didn't matter. Pyro stayed behind and tried to help her but Magneto called for him,

"John..." Mystique said grabbing his hand.

"I'm sorry... Raven." Pyro said walking back to Magneto,

"Such a shame, she was so beautiful." Magneto said bitterly. Pyro clinched his fists, Mystique was loyal and she was his mentor, a friend. Xavier's words still rang in his mind.