1The Plot Thickens

Here is chapter five. At this point I'm planning for a 12 chapter "season". 6 and 11/12 are big ones. I also have 6, 7, either 8 or 9, 10 and 11/12 planned, but I need ideas for possible things for the other 8 or 9 episode. No introduce "xy character". The last four have been relatively centered on Bobby aside from the new recruit, and this one is a little Bobby heavy, as will episode 7, but after that I'm going to try and spread the wealth a little. So here you go.

"Hey fatty, why don't you get off our beach?"

"Leave me alone man."

"Did you hear that Derrick? This pig is riding you."

The boy, Derek nodded at his friend and threw the football he was holding at the heavy boy, right in the face. It hit him directly in the eye, causing the extremely large young man to sit down hard on the sand, making a huge ripple. The two boys laughed hard at the large kid's pain.

The boy began to turn red, "STOP LAUGHING AT ME."

Derrick grinned, "Looks like the freak is getting angry."

"HEY!"

Derrick and his friend turned to see a young fit man with blonde hair walk up to them. "What do you want loser?" Derrick's friend asked.

"I want you to get away from my friend jerk."

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Derrick asked.

The young man smiled and his hand glowed a bright yellow. He pointed at the sand directly in front of the boys and a yellow beam shot out of his hand, causing the sand to burn. "I'm the guy that's going to kick your asses unless you beat it." Naturally the two boys ran away.

After giving a cocky laugh, the blonde boy walked over to his friend. "What happened back there Freddy? You coulda taken those punks easy dude."

Freddy looked at the ground, "You know how I get when they laugh at me Alex, I just can't take it."

"No one has to laugh at you any longer."

The two boys spun around to see a man in a suit, with a circular brimmed hat pulled down over his eyes.

Alex asked the man, "Who are you?"

The man gave a slow smile and gestured toward a lifeguard chair which was held up by steel poles. With a wave of his hand the chair ripped out of the ground and fell over. "I am a friend. A friend who can give you a glimpse of your destiny, if you choose to follow me. Alex, Fred, what do you say?"

Alex cocked an eyebrow, "How do you know our names?"

The man smiled, "I know all about you...Mister Summers."

"Computer, run Iceman simulation, level 10."

Iceman looked up at the control booth, "Ten Hank?"

Logan and Beast looked down from the control room, "Yeah Ice-cube, you'll be ok." Logan said.

Beast said, "Ok Bobby you know the rules. Storm is down there with you, but she can only use her powers one time, and only how and when you say so."

Bobby saluted to the control room. At that moment the danger room transformed into a warehouse. Two large, grayish bald behemoths walked in through the main entrance.

"Do I get any intel on ugly and uglier?"

Hank grinned, "We can only give you one piece of information. They are both temperature resistant."

Bobby groaned, "Beautiful."

At that moment the first big thing ran at him. Bobby sidestepped and created a path of ice for the monster to slip on and crash into a pile of crates. He ran over to the other and grabbed him by the wrist. Both tried to break the other's grip, but then Bobby looked at how the monster was standing.

"I generally feel REALLY dirty doing this, but seeing as how you're so ugly that you'll never use them..." He pulled back his foot and kicked the monster hard in the balls. The behemoth groaned and fell over. Bobby looked around the room.

"Ok. That's not gonna do much. I'm not strong enough to beat them and my powers don't do much. Think." Both monsters were beginning to get up and look for Bobby. Bobby looked around more frantically and then saw something interesting. He ran over to the corner of the room and picked up a pipe that was about 3 feet long. He spun it around and walked over to the two monsters.

"Batter up."

He jabbed the pipe in one of the monster's stomachs. He then wound up and hit the other one as hard as he could in the head. The monster looked surprised for a second, but then shook his head and continued to advance on Bobby.

"Oh...ok. New plan."

The monster ran at him, and Bobby used its momentum to throw one monster into the other. He then iced the tip of the pipe into a point and stabbed it through both monsters. He yelled, "Storm, lightning bolt."

Ororo's eyes turned white as she brought down a powerful bolt of lightning on the metal rod protruding from the top monster's stomach. Both monsters convulsed and then passed out.

"I win." Bobby said gleefully.

Hank and Logan both lowered there way down from the control room. Hank began to walk over to congratulate Bobby, but Bobby had already walked over to Wolverine and asked, "How did I do dude?"

Wolverine began to lead Bobby out of the Danger Room, "You looked good kid. You were a little sloppy in the beginning. I had Hank plant that pipe there purposely, I figured you would get to it eventually. Took you a little longer than I had hoped."

Bobby looked at the ground, "Yeah well, it's hard to think when you're fighting giant monsterish things."

Wolverine punched Bobby in the arm, and their voices trailed off. Hank could hear Logan saying, "It's cool Ice-cube. Making the jump from level 6 to 10 is tough. Even I would break a little bit of a sweat."

Storm looked over at Beast who was watching Bobby and Logan walk away sadly. "Is everything alright Henry?"

The Beast gave Storm a said smile, "Would you get mad if I said everything was wrong because you're here?"

Storm nodded, "Because if I was not here, Logan would not be, and nor would Kitty or Kurt, correct?"

Hank nodded.

Storm said, "You know, over the past few weeks that I have been here, I have noticed that there is something that separates you from the other students here."

Hank looked at her curiously, "It used to be that I'm blue, but apparently that's a new trend now."

Storm shook her head, "No. Although Scott seems more apt for leadership, your ability to help your classmates, and to teach them new things is astounding. Coupled with the fact that you are done with conventional schooling, it may be time for you to be promoted."

"You mean be one of the faculty here?"

Storm smiled, "Yes. You are old enough, and I believe that your wisdom greatly surpasses mine and Logan's."

Henry nodded, "It was what I planned on doing eventually, but things are happening quickly. First I turn blue, then I lose my friend, then I'm a teacher."

"To quote a movie that Bobby made me watch with him, 'Good things take time. Great things happen all at once.'"

"You watched Rat Race?"

"It was surprisingly entertaining. Come on, let us go speak with the Professor."

Meanwhile, after finishing his talk with Logan, Bobby walked over to Kitty's room. He knocked on the door a few times and then opened it. Kitty was sitting at her desk, with her reading glasses on, typing away at what she had told Bobby was her history term paper.

"How's it coming four-eyes?" Bobby asked playfully.

Kitty stuck her tongue out at him and said, "I'm almost done. This thing is getting on my nerves though."

Bobby walked up to her, picked her up out of her chair and said, "Let's take a break then."

"You want me to fail don't you?"

"No, but I think it's healthy to get an A- once in a while."

Kitty gave him an angry look and Bobby pouted. Kitty sighed and said, "Fine let's go get some lunch in town."

"McDonald's?"

"No. I don't eat dog."

"Ha-ha."

At the same time Beast and Storm were looking for the Professor in the sub-basement of the Mansion. After looking in the briefing room and his study, the two finally approached Cerebro, which by the sound coming from the inside, was in use.

Storm said, "Let's wait here for a moment, he never uses his machine for very long periods of time."

At that moment the Professor wheeled out of Cerebro sweating profusely. Hank grinned at him, "Ah sir. Ororo and I wished to have a word with you."

The Professor cut him off, "Not now. There is some form of magnetic based mutant disturbance in Orlando. All available X-men are needed there now. Shadowcat and Iceman are in town and Angel is still sleeping. Go find Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean, and Nightcrawler and come to the Blackbird immediately.

A few minutes later, the six X-men and the Professor strapped in to the Blackbird and rocketed off to Orlando.

Meanwhile, Mastermind assembled Toad, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch in the living room of the Brotherhood Boarding House.

"What did you need us for yo?" Toad asked.

Scarlet Witch glared at him, "Maybe if you stopped talking, you would hear what he has to say. And cleaning your ears would be helpful."

Toad jabbed Quicksilver in the ribs, "She wants me yo."

Pietro made a face, "That's my sister man, gross."

Mastermind yelled, "ENOUGH. Now, we have two new members joining us today, and it would be nice if all of you were on your best behavior. Boys, please join us."

From the hallway leading into the kitchen, Alex and Freddy walked into the living room, both wearing their new uniforms. Alex's uniform was a completely black body suit, with a white bull's eye in the middle. Fred's was an open green vest with a belt made of chains and brass knuckles.

Mastermind gestured to the two boys, "May I present to you, Havok and the Blob."

Pietro started laughing, "The Blob? That is the dumbest name I've ever heard."

Fred turned bright red and said, "Don't laugh at me!" He picked up Pietro and began to squeeze him.

Pietro gasped out, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Fred eventually relented and threw Pietro down on the couch.

Wanda walked over to Alex and asked, "So what can you do handsome?"

Toad stepped in front of Wanda, "Hey! Hey! What's goin' on here?"

Alex's hand glowed and shot a plasma blast at Toad, shooting him into the couch on top of Pietro, "Pretty much different variations of that."

"Man get off me, you smell."

"Shut up yo."

Alex, Fred and Wanda all sat back down, and Alex asked, "So what is this meeting about sir?"

Mastermind smiled, "Due to the fortuitous nature of our employer, a magnetic interference was found attacking frequency in Orlando. A group of X-men was sent to investigate the problem."

"So?" Pietro asked.

Mastermind continued, "Notice how I said a GROUP and not ALL. It seems that a few X-men still remain at the mansion, three to be precise, and they are not Wolverine, Storm, or Xavier."

Toad gasped, "You wanna snatch some X-kids?"

Mastermind smiled, "Precisely. We will capture them, but allow ourselves to be tracked. We will then allow our two new members to have some fun with the X-men."

Wanda asked, "What about Sabertooth? Is he going to come?"

Mastermind shook his head, "Victor has personal business to attend to, so he will not be joining us. So everybody suit up, we will be leaving immediately."

About a half hour later, Bobby and Kitty returned to the X-mansion from their lunch date. They had already checked in the rec room, and the sub-basement and couldn't find any of the others. They made their way up to the dorms and checked in Jean, Scott, and Kurt's rooms but couldn't find anyone. Finally they walked to Warren's room and Kitty was about to knock on the door when they heard singing coming from the inside.

"Dirty baaaaaaaabe. You see the shackles baby I'm your slaaaaaaaaaaaaave. I'll let you whip me if I misbehaaaaaaave." Warren sang from the inside.

Kitty phased herself and Bobby into Warren's room, where he was currently wearing his i-Pod and sunglasses and a pair of boxers, and singing "SexyBack" into a hairbrush.

Just as he was claiming that "no one made him feel this way" Warren spun around, saw Kitty and Bobby, and slipped on a shirt that was sitting on the floor. As he took his earphones out and stood up, Bobby started laughing hysterically at Warren.

"Well buddy, that was the sexiest thing I've seen in a while, so mission accomplished."

"Bobby, be nice."

"Kitty, he was singing Justin Timberlake."

Angel said defensively, "I like the lyrics."

Kitty rolled her eyes, "Fine. Whatever. Do you know where any of the others are? We checked and we couldn't find Scott, Jean or Kurt. Did they go somewhere."

Warren nodded, "Yeah. I was asleep, but when I woke up the Professor contacted me telepathically and told me that everyone else had gone to Orlando to check something out. I kinda figured that he actually meant everybody."

Bobby grinned, "So you thought you'd play Backstreet Boy?"

Kitty rolled her eyes, "NSYNC...and you totally knew that...don't lie."

Just then, the lightbulb in Warren's room exploded.

"That was like freaky" Kitty said.

"Definitely." Bobby agreed. "Let's go find a spare." The three walked out of Warren's room and into the hallway. As they walked towards the elevator, whichever lightbulb they were walking under exploded.

"Coincidence?" Warren asked.

Bobby grinned, "I think not."

Kitt rolled her eyes, "Oy vey."

"Suit up?"

"I think so."

The three X-men went back to their respective rooms, and reconvened back in the hallway a few minutes later.

"Let's go check the rec room." Bobby said.

"What makes you the leader?" Warren asked.

Bobby sighed, "Fine, if you want Warren to be the leader raise your hand." Warren put his hand up, "Ok you lose. Let's go."

The three took the elevator down to the rec room of the mansion. After they got inside the room, there was a small creak from behind one of the chairs. Bobby put his finger to his lips and then pointed at the chair. It instantaneously became incased in ice and Toad jumped out from behind it and yelled, "YO THAT"S COLD!"

Bobby pretended to be shocked, "Really? Cold? You mean me, Iceman, made cold? Crazy!"

At that moment Quicksilver streaked in and rammed Bobby hard into a wall. He looked at Kitty and said, "You're next." He charged her at full speed, but right before he hit, she turned intangible, and he crashed into a wall.

"Looks like you didn't do your homework loser."

Angel was helping Bobby up when Wanda made her way into the mansion. Bobby said to Wanda, "We already took out both of your friends Wanda, we can take you three on one so maybe you should give up."

Wanda smiled, "Or even the odds."

An explosion came in from the other side of the room and Havok and Blob walked through a giant hole that was now in one of the walls.

"Hey! You better pay for that!" Bobby said.

Warren asked, "Who are these clowns."

"X-men allow me to introduce my new friends, Alex and Fred, Havok and Blob. Gentlemen, attack."

Angel rushed Havok, who immediately shot him out of the air. Warren kept trying to get up, but each time he got to his feet, Havok shot him back down.

Kitty was easily able to dodge all of Blob's punches, but eventually, Blob just decided to belly flop on top of Kitty. Kitty was able to phase through Blob's attack, but the fact that what she had just phased through was so dense, she was fainted from nausea.

Further down the line, Bobby was squared off against Scarlet Witch. They were both able to dodge or parry the other's force beams, but eventually Wanda waved her hand and created a ring of fire around Iceman.

"It's over Iceman, you lose."

Bobby looked to Kitty and Warren's unconscious bodies, and then to the flaming ring surrounding him. He sighed, and de-iced himself and then kneeled on the ground. Blob casually walked up to him and punched him hard in the back of the head.

Wanda nodded, "Wonderful. Blob, pick up the bird and the girl. I'll revive Toad and Quicksilver. Mastermind will be waiting for us. Havok write the note."

As Blob and Wanda attended to their teammates and hostages, Havok quickly scribbled a note and taped it to the couch that was in the rec room. After a quick nod to Wanda, they all walked out.

Meanwhile, the other X-men had arrived in Orlando, and discovered that the place where there had been a magnetic disturbance, was a souvenir shop in the Epcot theme park. Nightcrawler walked over to the commemorative pin display and picked one up.

"Professor! Look Dopey! Can ve buy it?"

"No Kurt."

Scott sighed, "It looks like we've been had Professor."

Wolverine gave a sarcastic smile, "What was your first clue Slim?"

The Professor nodded, "I'll contact Bobby, Kitty, and Warren and tell them we are on our way back. Hmm. That's odd. I can't make telepathic contact with any of them. This is a problem."

"Do you think they've been captured sir?" Hank asked.

"It is not out of the realm of possibility Henry. We must get back immediately."

About an hour later, the team arrived back at the X-Mansion. They entered into the rec room and were surprised to find a giant hole in the wall, and a broken window.

Logan barked quickly, "Fan out. Search for some kind of lead."

Jean picked up the note that Havok wrote, "Like this? It says abandoned construction yard."

Storm asked, "Do you think that it is a trap Professor?"

Scott shook his head, "It's not a trap if you know it's coming."

Kurt nodded, "It's a challenge."

"Indeed. Let's go to the construction yard" The Professor nodded.

Eventually, the team made it to the construction yard. All six X-men and the Professor exited the Blackbird, to find Mastermind, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Toad, Havok, and Blob waiting for them. Kitty, Bobby, and Warren were all tied up behind them.

Logan snarled, "Let them go."

Mastermind smiled, "Temper Logan. You may have them back." The Blob picked up the three and threw them to the others, who helped to untie them. "It seems you have not met my new friends. This is Blob, and this is Havok."

Wolverine glared at Mastermind, "I don't care who they are, we're taking you out."

With that the battle was on. Quicksilver charged Angel who took off. Nightcrawler squared off against Wanda and Beast challenged Toad. Wolverine and Storm double teamed Mastermind, while Kitty and Bobby took Blob, and Jean and Scott handled Havok.

Angel was flying at full speed and frantically trying to dodge Quicksilver's attacks.

"Give up slowpoke, you can't do this for much longer. I mean, how fast can you go." Quicksilver asked.

"It doesn't matter, the only thing that does is how fast you can turn." With that, he quickly pulled upward, and before Quicksilver knew it, he had crashed into a wall.

Unlike Angel, Nightcrawler was having a hard time with his adversary. Every time he teleported, he wound up in a completely different place than he had intended."

"Stop doing zat!" Kurt yelled at her.

"Um...no?"

Suddenly, Beast flung Toad into Wanda who was knocked unconscious. As Kurt gave a thank you wave to Beast, Toad hovered over the Scarlet Witch.

"Wanda? Are you ok? Wake up." He shook her gently. "This is not going too good." He hoisted Wanda over his shoulder, and ran over to Pietro to do the same.

Wolverine was able to easily dispatch Mastermind, who had forgotten that illusions don't work well on mutants with hyper senses. Blob had once again charged Kitty, but the immovable object was halted when Iceman froze the ground he was running on, causing him to fall over.

The final battle was Havok against Jean and Scott. After dodging about a half a dozen of Alex's blasts, Jean was able to lift him up into the air.

"Now Scott!"

Scott opened his visor and shot a beam at Alex. For some reason, it had no effect.

Alex laughed, "What a lame power. It doesn't even do anything to me. I'll show you what a real power is." He charged up and unleashed a powerful blast at Scott. It had no effect either.

"What the hell?" Alex asked.

Alex began to fire blast after blast at Scott, and none had an affect. Toad ran up behind Jean, and hit her in the back of the head, causing her to lose her grip on Alex. He fell to the ground and Toad yelled, "Come on man let's go!"

Alex ran over to Mastermind and picked him up over hid shoulder. Fred was still stuck on the ground and yelled, "Alex! Help me!"

Mastermind said, "Leave him, we're going."

The Brotherhood members all ran away and left Blob in a pile of mud on the ground. "Alex? Alex?!"

After the X-men returned to the X-mansion, Jean and Logan went to speak with the Professor.

"I know what you are both about to ask me. I'm not sure myself."

Logan said, "Professor, you are sure. I smelled the kid, and his scent is too similar to Slim's for them not to be related."

Jean nodded, "I read his mind too, Havok is definitely Alex Summers."

The Professor sighed, "Yes I know. I was planning to recruit him eventually to the institute, but he is not ready yet. You must both promise me not to say anything about this to Scott. He isn't ready yet."

Logan agreed, but Jean bit her lip nervously. She considered it for a minute, and then nodded slowly.

The Professor nodded, "Good."

A few days later, Fred Dukes was sitting in the school guidance counselor's room.

"So you say that this Alex person used to be your friend, but he and your new friends abandoned you?" She asked.

"Yes."

"How does that make you feel Fred?"

"I don't know. I'm not really good at this talking thing Ms. Darkholme."

"How would you like to be in a place, where people believe in loyalty Fred. Where you're mutant gifts along with you are accepted."

Fred looked confused, "How did you know that I'm a mutant?"

Ms. Darkholme's skin began to turn blue and her hair turned a deep red, and her eyes glowed yellow. "It's my job Freddy, It's all part of my mystique."

Corny ending I know. I'm not going to say anything about chpt 6 except that we will have major developments. Bye for now.