"Yo, who are you?" The one called Toad asked. "You look like an X-geek but I ain't remembering you being one of them." He said. He was on the stairs of the Brother Hood house and she couldn't see any of the other members of the Brother Hood.

"Who're X-geeks?" Rogue asked. She wanted to lure the froggy off the stairs.

"Who're you?" Toad asked. He was beginning to hop down the stairs.

"Ah'm a mutant, that's all y'need t'know." Rogue replied. Toad had leapt down the last step. Rogue side kicked him immediately and he flew back onto his back.

"Ow! What'd you do that for?!" Toad groaned. Rogue didn't reply though. She did an axis kick but Toad rolled away and Rogue's foot hit the ground.

"What are you trying to do? Kill me?!" Toad demanded. He jumped over her head. She turned around and a tongue wrapped around her wrist. It pulled her, but she dug her heels into the carpet to stop herself from going any further, then thrust her wrist back. Toad fell face forward and his tongue loosened.

Rogue twisted her wrist free, but Toad was back on his feet.

"Could you quiet down in there?!" A voice yelled from a room nearby. Toad was distracted and Rogue punched him in the chest.

"Umph! Fred!!" Toad yelled as he fell to the ground and Rogue put her foot on his neck.

The huge boy called Blob came into the hallway. He was obviously slow in the head, because he stared dumbly at the two for a couple of seconds before reacting.

He reached out a hand to grip her but she pulled off a glove and held hers out warningly. "Ah wouldn' touch meh if Ah were you!" Rogue warned.

The Blob looked at his hand, then withdrew it. His anger was rising though.

"Come on-Fred. I'm dyin' here yo!" Todd squeaked under Rogue's foot.

The ground began to tremble under Rogue and she had to release Toad to keep from falling.

She put her glove back on as the ground continued to rumble. "Avalanche." She muttered. She looked around to see the boy that went by that name. His eyes were rolled up into his head and he was concentrating hard on what he was doing.

If she could get to him he'd be taken off guard. She did a front hand spring. She then grabbed the boys shoulder. His eyes unrolled and the ground stopped shaking. He looked down at her just in time to see her knee hit his stomach.

Two humongous hands wrapped around her upper arms and pulled her away. Blob was holding her, and with enough force to bruise her arms. "What do you want?!" Blob demanded in a dumb voice.

"Jus' a lil' fight is all!" Rogue yelled, before swinging her body up and around so her arms twisted out of Blob's fingers. It was luck though. He hadn't been ready for her to do that. He was too slow. He had bronze. not brains!

She then leapt at Avalanche who had recovered from her blow to his stomach. He dodged away from her and she had to duck some green goop from Toad.

She leapt at Lance again. The rest were too far from her.

Arms wrapped around her waist from behind and then she was speeding around going so fast the scenery was a blur.

Rogue snatched off a glove and reached up. Her bare skin met the boy's bare cheek. He yelped and came to a stop in what must have been their back yard.

QuickSilver fell to the ground unconscious. Blob was lumbering out and Lance and Todd followed.

Blob snarled like a raged bull as he looked down at the unconscious Pietro. He then lunged himself at Rogue, but she dodged with ease; too fast for the Blob to have even hoped to catch her.

Lance stared in surprise while Blob began getting up. Toad jumped at her. She zoomed forward, gripping Toad's ankle and disrupting his jump while hardening his fall.

Lance stomped with one foot and the land under her lifted up, jolting so much she fell to her hands and knees.

Blob was on his feet now and his face was red with anger. Rogue ran down the piece of land and rushed toward Toad.

She rammed her palm into his chest and he fell backwards. Before he could stagger back more then three steps Rogue was behind him with a stone in her hand. She knocked it over his head and he fell down unconscious.

"Two down, two t'go." Rogue said. Two large arms wrapped around her and she was being lifted up. The Blob had hold of her and he seemed furious.

"Who are you?" Lance demanded.

"What's your power?" Fred demanded.

"Y'wanna know?" Rogue said, fighting for breath. He was holding her so tightly that breathing was difficult.

Rogue tried to pull her bare hand up enough to touch Fred.

"Who are you!" Lance repeated louder.

Fred gasped and his hold loosened. He then fell to the ground with a loud 'THUD'.

"Wha-whaddya do?" Lance asked, looking at the fallen teen.

"Three down, one ta go." Rogue said, approaching Lance.

Avalanche's eyes flicked to the three unconscious boys, then back to Rogue.

"Okay, now you've done it!" Lance growled. His eyes rolled and he swayed, lifting his foot to stomp it. Rogue didn't wait for it to hit the ground though. She was behind him in a flash.

She brought her hand down on Lance's head with Blob's strength and Lance fell to the ground.

Rogue then looked around. She was full of luck wasn't she? If she had not gotten the chance to touch Pietro, she certainly would have lost.

The orb landed next to her. She acknowledged it, but didn't get in. She walked over to Eric Lensher's son and retrieved her gloves. She then returned to the orb and hopped in.