Breaking Point

As always thanks for the reviews. The last chapter I totally blanked on and forgot to put in the dividers...sowwy. Two people asked for a Grim Reminder type episode...which I already have planned out, but I think I'm going to go for the Juggernaut idea for either episode 8 or 9. This is an important chapter, so enjoy.

Westchester, New York. Seven years ago.

"Mystique, I believe that I have yet to introduce you to Mastermind." A tall man with grey hair gestured to a younger, dark haired man. The man called Mastermind offered his hand to Raven, a pale woman with dark hair pulled back into a bun.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Mystique, my real name is Jason." Mastermind said.

The grey haired man narrowed his eyes at Jason, "No it is not. Rule number one of my philosophy, the name I give you is your real name. Your name IS Mastermind."

Mastermind looked at the ground. Mystique patted him on the back and said, "Erik, please..."

Erik glared at her, "MAGNETOཀ"

Mystique frowned, "Sorry."

At that moment, seven-year-old Pietro and Wanda Maximoff ran into the room where Erik, Mystique, and Jason were meeting.

Wanda tugged on Magneto's jacket, "Daddy, the girl that Ms. Mystique brought is weird."

Mystique smiled at the girl, "That's my daughter sweetie."

Pietro stuck his tongue at Mystique, "Well she's freaky and so are you."

Magneto glared at his son, "Pietro."

Pietro looked at the ground "Sorry father."

Mastermind asked, "Why don't they have special mutant names sir?"

"They have been given names, but not until they come to the age of eighteen will their new names be their identity."

Mastermind knelt down next to Wanda and Pietro, "What are your special names children?"

Wanda smiled, "Scarlet Witch."

"Super Amazing Speedy Boy."

"Pietroཀ"

"Quicksilver."

"Run along now children. Daddy is speaking."

The two children ran out of the room. Magneto smiled after them and then turned to Mystique, "You asked me to meet with you Mystique. I am not a man who wants his time wasted."

Mystique said, "It is about your plan. I do believe in mutant superiority, but I think that at this point, when our numbers are so limited, it is a bad idea to expose ourselves."

At that moment, a little girl with a full length cloak ran into the room. She had long brown hair and very bright green eyes. "Mama Ah wanna go home. Wanda and Speedy boy are mean."

Mystique saw Magneto's face darkening and said, "Not now Rogue."

Suddenly Magneto's hand struck her across the face, "You DARE DISSENTཀ"

Mystique touched her lip and looked at her hand, and found blood on her fingers. "I don't care who you are. You will pay for that. ARGHཀ" Mystique ran at Magneto and kicked him across the face.

Magneto then made a fist and a desk levitated in mid air. "My dear you dare defy the Master of Magnetism? You stand no chance." He threw the desk at Mystique. After she went down he continued to pick it up and slam it down on her again and again.

Nearby, Rogue had started to cry, "Mama? Mama get upཀ" She looked at the sick smile Magneto had, and then at her own hands. After closing her eyes, she pulled one of her gloves off. She walked over to Magneto and grabbed one of his wrists. Magneto looked down at the girl and began to convulse. Mystique looked up and saw what Rogue was doing. "Yes. Absorb him Rogue. Drain the life out of him"

Rogue was crying as she held Magneto. The front of her hair began to turn the same color grey that Magneto's was, and eventually brightened into a white color. She let go and Magneto fell on the ground in a heap. Rogue ran over to Mystique and threw her arm around her waist. "Come on Mama." The two lifted into the air and crashed through the roof of Magneto's home.

Magneto looked up at the two and yelled, "LEAVE! DON'T YOU DARE SHOW YOUR FACE AROUND ME OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"

Bayville Present Time

Mystique was walking through the halls of Bayville High with her newest protegee Fred "The Blob" Dukes. "So you see Freddy. We believe in the same things as your Brotherhood. But we also believe in concealing our talents until victory is assured."

Fred nodded thoughtfully, "I can prolly pound the crap outta any punk that calls me a mutant freak, but I don't think I could take on the army by myself."

Mystique nodded, "Even mutants have their limits Fred. We must amass power as a group, so that when banded together, we are limitless."

Fred smiled, "I want in."

Mystique nodded, "Good."

Further down the hallway, Bobby and Kitty were walking to their next class.

Kitty asked Bobby, "So like why exactly did you switch into my Advance Placement Calculus course?"

Bobby smiled, "'Cause math is my best class so this is the only honors you take that I can dream about handling. Also, we don't have any classes together, and I'm so lonely without seeing you allllll dayyyyy."

Kitty rolled her eyes but blushed, "Fine. Kurt is going to miss you in Pre-Calc."

"Yeah because no one is going to be there to wake him up."

"Well according to him, he has to wake you up."

"Well according to me—heyཀ Watch itཀ" Bobby was so busy talking to Kitty that he had not been watching where he was going. He turned around to see Havok giving him the evil eye.

Havok nodded at the two and looked down at his scattered books, "So not only do you two have to contribute to the beat down given to me and my friends, but you knock my stuff down?"

Kitty smiled, "Sorry." She began to help him pick up his stuff and glared at Bobby when he made no move to help.

Bobby glared at Alex, "We wouldn't have had to beat on you if you weren't hangin' with those losers. Speaking of losers, where's fatty? I mean blubber. I mean Fred."

Havok glared at him, "You're a jackass."

Bobby grinned with pride, "I know." He looked down at the scattered books and saw that one of his books was open. He picked it up and his eyes went wide. "Is this you?"

Havok looked at Bobby quizzically, "Um yeah. Hence I had the book. I'm not that shitty of a bad guy that I steal textbooks."

Bobby showed Kitty the book and she gasped, "Summers? Your name is Alex Summers?"

Alex looked at the confused, "Um yeah...why?"

Bobby glared at him, "Any family?"

Alex's cocky grin faltered and he gave a sad smile, "No. Both my parents and my older brother died in a plane crash."

Bobby muttered under his breath, "Holy shit."

"What?" Alex asked.

"Nothing." Kitty said.

"Tell me what you guys are flipping out about. NOW."

Bobby sighed, "By any chance, was your brother named Scott?"

"How did you know that?"

"Did he have light brown hair and pretty much had a permanent stick up his ass?"

"Hey that's my brother manཀ"

"Answer the question."

"Yeah."

"Ok. Stay with me now. Picture your brother at 16, with a pair of red sunglasses on."

Alex thought for a second and then gasped, "Holy shit."

"Oh yeah."

"Cyclops...is my brother?"

Kitty nodded.

"Damn."

Kitty looked at Bobby, "The Professor had to have realized."

Bobby nodded, "Logan too probably. So there has to be a reason for them not telling Scott."

"The reason called Scott would flip out."

"Is Scott capable of flipping out?"

"He's done it to you a few times Bobby."

Alex raised his hand, "Um excuse me? Losers? Long lost brother standing here."

Bobby opened his mouth and pointed at Alex, "Well ya know what? I'm bored with you so I'm leaving. We aren't saying anything to Scott. You can if you want to, but I think he'll realize that you aren't smart enough to have figured it out...so he'll come looking for us anyway. Bye." The two walked away leaving Alex to his thoughts.

Meanwhile at the Institute, Henry was speaking with Professor Xavier.

"So you wish to be a teacher at the Institute Henry?"

Hank sighed, "It was originally what I intended on doing eventually. I was speaking with Storm, about the isolation I've been feeling since Kurt and Kitty came, and she suggested I make the jump now.

The Professor nodded, "I also wished for you to be a teacher here...are you certain you are ready."

Hank nodded, "I believe so. What would I really be teaching. I can help you in discovering possible new uses for students powers, and if necessary I can run Danger Room courses, and program them as well."

The Professor smiled, "I believe this would be a very good think for you Henry, or should I say Mr. McCoy."

"Thank you very much sir."

Mystique was currently in a limousine with the Blob.

Blob asked, "Where did you get this kind of money?"

"When you're a shapeshifter it's relatively easy to gain wealth. Most of the places I've gotten my money from are completely legitimate, but the way that I got it, was less than legal. We're here. Come meet my other young charges."

Fred stepped out of the limo, and looked at the large house in front of him. "Lady you are loaded."

Mystique laughed, "Yes, yes I am."

The two entered into the house. Right when the door closed, Rogue floated into the room. "Mama you're home. Who is this fella?"

"This is Fred Rogue. Fred this is Rogue, she has the ability to drain the powers of any individual from mere skin to skin contact, so no touching. Even if she didn't have that power, no touching either." Mystique glared.

Fred looked at Rogue who was still hovering above the ground, "You can fly too?"

Rogue shook her head, "No. Once tahm when Ah was lil Ah drained Magneto. Ah held on so long that Ah've had is flight abilities evah since. But fa some reason, Ah can't control metal. Weird huh?"

"Yeah."

Mystique interrupted, "Where are the others Rogue."

"John and Lance are both in the basement Mama."

Mystique went to retrieve the other boys while Fred asked Rogue, "Who are John and Lance?"

"They're both mutants too. John is called Pyro, and he can control fire. Lance can make earthquakes and we call him Avalanche."

Mystique returned to the room with the two boys. One of them was very tall with long brown hair, while the other was slightly shorter with spikey red hair.

The spiky haired kid asked, "Oy 'oos this fat lubba?"

The other boy frowned at the other boy, "Don't be a dick John." He held out his hand to Fred, "My name is Avalanche, this is Pyro, welcome."

Fred nodded at him, "My name is Fred, Blob."

Mystique quieted the boys and said, "Now is the perfect time to strike against Magneto."

Pyro interrupted, "Why is that Sheila?"

Mystique frowned, "I was GETTING THERE PYRO! As is was SAYING. We have just recruited a young man who was once a member of the Brotherhood. He knows what we are up against."

Lance looked at Fred, "You know about those punks?"

Fred nodded, "Yeah. Without me, they've got four kids and two trainers. They've got Quicksilver, who is super fast, Toad, who is what his name says, Havok, who can shoot beams out of his hands, and Scarlet Witch, who I don't even KNOW what she does, but it's creepy. They also have Mastermind the illusion guy and Sabertooth training them."

Mystique said, "Well if we were just to take on the children, we would have them easily beaten. However, being that we don't have a telepath, we can't handle Mastermind, and lack the strength to dispatch Sabertooth."

Rogue asked, "So what are we gonna do?"

"Simple my child. We will bait the X-men into the battle, play both sides against the middle, and destroy whoever remains."

Blob asked, "But how are we gonna get them both to fight?"

Mystique said, "Simple again. Magneto's team does not realize that you have left them. You will draw them to a particular place, the X-men will follow, and then we will attack."

Avalanche raised his hand, "Another question...what about Magneto? If he comes to the party can we handle him?"

"If Magneto arrives, which I doubt he will, he will be left to me. Now, Blob please return to the Brotherhood house, and we will put our plan into action."

Meanwhile back at the Institute, Kitty and Bobby had both approached the Professor with the news that they had discovered during the day. Reading their minds before they had entered his office, he also summed Jean and Logan.

"Wait so your saying that we SHOULDN'T tell Scott that his BROTHER isn't dead?" Bobby asked.

Logan nodded, "That's exactly what we're sayin' Ice-cube."

"That makes no sense!" Kitty said.

Bobby agreed, "You guys don't find that a pretty jerkish thing to do?" He looked at Jean and said, "You're his girlfriend, and I barely like the guy, and I'M defending him. You don't think we should tell him?"

Jean shook her head. "I do little brother but the Professor says that it's best for Scott if we don't say anything, so I'm just going to take his word for it."

The Professor finally spoke, "Can I trust you two to keep this secret?"

Kitty reluctantly nodded, and the group looked at Bobby. Bobby eventually nodded but said, "I'll shut up, but I won't like it."

Logan laughed, "You NEVER like it when you have to shut up Ice pop."

The Professor said, "Very well, you are all dismissed. Logan I wish to talk to you afterwards."

After the others cleared out Logan said, "What's up Charles?"

"Do you think the students will keep this a secret?"

Logan nodded, "Jean will for sure, since she thinks it's best for Slim. Kitty will too. Ice-cube I'm not so sure about. Kid's got a good heart and doesn't want to keep things from his friends. But Kitty and Jean'll keep him quiet."

The Professor agreed, "Jean has been a great help in dealing with Bobby's impulsiveness. Hopefully Katherine will prove to be the same, but as you said he is a good kid. Speaking of which, I have never seen you have a soft spot for one of the kids before."

Logan nodded, "Me and the Ice-pop are pretty similar. Both of us are hotheaded and have big tempers, but he, and I like to believe that I do most o' the time, has a good heart. Problem is, the hothead part can sometimes make you fall backwards into something you don't want." Wolverine popped his claws and looked at them. "I don't want the same thing to happen to the kid. If that takes beating the temper out o' him, then that's what it'll take." Logan grinned.

The Professor smiled, "Well I can honestly say it is good to have someone on Bobby's wavelength. I'm sure you know this already, but he looks up to you a great deal. When you first got here and you weren't in earshot, he was calling people 'bub.'"

Wolverine laughed but then frowned, "Well hopefully acting like me won't get him in the life that I've had to deal with."

At that same moment the Blob rushed into the Brotherhood Boarding house, pretending to be panicked.

Pietro's head popped up from over the couch and said, "Whoa where's the fire big guy?"

"I need ta talk to Mastermind now!"

"What is it Blob?" Blob turned around to see Mastermind walking down the stairs.

"The X-Geeks. They're down at the construction warehouse where we fought them last. There was some kid I don't know with them. I think they were tryin' to turn him into an X-Geek."

Mastermind scowled, "Pietro find Toad, Wanda, Alex, and Sabertooth. We're going to take them out."

Meanwhile, a similar display was taking place at the Xavier Institute. Cyclops burst in on Wolverine and the Professor.

"Hey Slim! Try knocking." Logan growled.

"Sorry Wolverine, but I was in the Danger Room, and Cerebro was going crazy. I went to check in on it, and the Brotherhood is en-route to the construction yard. We're talking Mastermind, Sabertooth, Toad, Quicksilver, Scarlet-Witch, Blob and Havok." Cyclops blurted out.

The Professor put a hand to his temple and issued a mental command to all of the X-men to report to the briefing room. A few moments later, Storm, Jean, Angel, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Iceman all entered the room.

Angel said, "We came as soon as we could Professor. What's the problem?"

"We have the Brotherhood. All of them. We need to get to the construction yard as soon as possible."

Bobby shot Scott an apprehensive look then looked back at the Professor, "Are you sure that that is a great idea."

Scott asked, "Why wouldn't it be."

Kitty glared at Bobby and Jean said in his head Drop it Bobby.

Bobby sighed, "No reason, let's go."

A few minutes later, the Brotherhood had assembled at the yard. Toad looked around and said, "Hey yo Blob? Where are the X-Geeks?"

Blob laughed nervously, "They must be hiding."

Mastermind nodded, "Blob is right, fan out, find them."

"No need for zhat mein freund!"

Mastermind whipped around to see Nightcrawler and the other X-men sitting on a pile of boxes right behind the Brotherhood.

Mastermind yelled, "X-MEN! Turn over the recruit now!"

Nightcrawler answered, "Um...vhat are you talking about?"

Pietro pointed a finger at them, "Don't lie to us blue boy, we know you were here to recruit some new mutant. Where did you take him?"

Jean rolled her eyes, "Pietro we weren't here for that. We came because we saw that all of you were moving towards this area."

Toad held up his hands, "Wait wait. So you didn't come here to get anyone yo?"

Scott glared at Toad, "Yeah Toad, the first two times we said it, it was a joke. Yeah there's a recruit. And what are you looking at?" Scott had noticed that Havok was starring at him funnily.

Alex quickly looked at the ground, "Who? Um, me nothing, nothing."

Scarlet Witch tapped her foot impatiently, "So what is happening here exactly. We both thought the other had a hidden agenda here. So who exactly set this up?"

"That would be me Ms. Maximoff." The group turned around and there was Mystique, Avalanche, Pyro, and Rogue behind her.

Pietro looked shocked, "Mystique? What are you doing here?"

Angel leaned in to Logan, "What's a Mystique besides a blue hottie?"

"Shape-shifter. Used to be a huge player in the mutant/human game but she's been quiet for a while. That girl over there must be her daughter."

Alex asked Mystique, "How did you know that we were all going to be here?"

"Simple, I had my newest recruit have the two teams "informed" that the other would be here."

Mastermind asked, "New recruit? Who?"

"That would be me." Blob said as he walked to join Mystique's team.

Alex asked, "Blob, why?"

"You left me to DIE! You left me alone, and then after I struggled to move, and get home, no one even APOLOGIZED for LEAVING ME." Blob yelled.

Toad raised his hand, "I was sorry yo."

Wanda glared at him, "Shut up Toad."

Iceman looked at Cyclops, "What's your call Cyclops?"

"Take them out."

Mastermind yelled to his team, "Brotherhood attack! Mystique's team and the X-men are both fair game!"

All three teams dove in to battle. Each team took on another, and no one was safe. Iceman and Pyro were the first two to match up, something that all of the others had seen coming.

Iceman grinned at Pyro, "Fire huh?"

"You bet mate."

Pyro shot the flames out of his flamethrower and created a bird to chase after Iceman. Bobby quickly whipped up an ice slide and race away from the bird. The bird was right on his tail and he needed to think quickly. He got an idea and quickly jumped off his ice-slide. Before hitting the ground he turned, and charged Pyro on a new ice slide. Once he was close enough, he blasted his flamethrower with an ice beam, causing it to ice over, and the fire bird to disappear. Before Pyro could react Iceman jumped off his slide and mule kicked Pyro in the gut.

Further down the line, other matchups were taking place. Jean was challenging Mastermind, Nightcrawler was fighting Toad, Avalanche was chasing after the Scarlet Witch and Beast was doing his best to distract Blob. Storm, Quicksilver and Mystique were all wrapped up in a three-way battle, each struggling to gain the other hand, and backing away to catch a breath while the other tow continued to fight.

Angel was doing his best to find someone to help, but everyone was wrapped up in their respective battles. He looked over to Wolverine who was fighting with Sabertooth and began to fly towards them, but then saw Wolverine stab Sabertooth through the gut, making blood spurt out. "Nope, that would be a bad idea."

"What's wrong sugah? Squeamish?" Warren turned around to find Rogue hovering behind him.

"What's a pretty girl like you doing with the bad guys?"

Rogue floated over to him. "Y'know I'm not really workin' for Mystique. Ah'm a mole for you Professor."

"Really?"

"No." Suddenly Rogue's hand darted out and grabbed Warren's bare face. He screamed as he fell to the ground and crashed into a tractor. Rogue grinned as she sprouted wings and flew towards her mother, to try and help to relieve her of one of her enemies.

Wolverine and Sabertooth were still equally locked in battle. Wolverine showed a claw through Sabertooth's leg, and Sabertooth responded by biting Wolverine's biceps.

"Having fun runt?" Sabertooth snarled.

"You bet ya loser." Wolverine growled back.

Sabertooth roared and slashed Wolverine across the stomach. Wolverine kicked Sabertooth in the knee-cap causing his leg to bend backwards. He used Sabertooth's surprise to grab him and flip him into a cement mixer. He threw Sabertooth inside and pushed it closed. He started the cement cycle, so that the machine was creating cement while Sabertooth was trapped inside.

Wolverine laughed, "That should hold him."

Cyclops, meanwhile, was taking shots at Havok, but every time his optic blasts connected, the had no effect. He continued to fire at him, and each blast accentuated his words. "WHY! WON'T! THIS! WORK!" Havok continued to take the hits, and nothing happened to him.

Scott finally said, "Screw it!" He dove on top of Havok and the two rolled around, attempting to get the upper hand on the other. Finally, Cyclops pinned Alex to the ground. Alex sat calmly while Cyclops was on top. "Go ahead, kill your brother."

"Sorry, I don't buy into the whole BROTHERHOOD of mutants thing."

"I don't mean that, I mean you're BROTHER. My name is Alex Summers."

Scott started to get angry, "I wasn't going to hurt you, but NOW I am. Don't talk about my brother! You aren't him!"

Alex nodded yes I am. "You're two years, four months, two weeks, and a day older than me. Our dad was a pilot named Christopher. Our mom was Katherine, she made possibly the best chicken pot pie ever. They pushed us out of a plane to save us. I was adopted in Hawaii."

Cyclops let him go and backed away. "No way."

"Way."

"Alex, I don't even believe this."

"Me either."

The two unfortunately had their conversation stopped by a loud yell of, "ENOUGH!". The group turned to see a man descend from the sky, he was wearing a red body-suit, a purple cape, and a red helmet.

"Magneto." Scott whispered.

Quicksilver asked, "Father, what are you doing here?"

Iceman asked Quicksilver, "That whack-job is your dad?"

Magneto repeated, "Enough! Mystique organized this little gathering to draw me out to fight. If you wish to fight Mystique, let us."

Mystique roared and dove at Magneto. She kept trying to punch him, but he blocked with magnetic fields.

Mystique roared at him, "COWARD!" She continued to try and kick him but he kept on blocking her.

Magneto shrugged and waved his had towards two sharp metal rods. He spun the around and began to attack Mystique with them. One shot at her but Mystique was able to deflect it and send it flying...right into Mastermind's chest.

"Ulrp" Mastermind sputtered and fell to the ground. Toad hopped over to him and felt his pulse, "Yo, either Mastermind should cut out his sugar, or he ain't gonna make it."

Magneto and Mystique continued to fight and ignored Toad. Eventually, Mystique got close to Magneto and tried to punch him, but he grabbed her wrist and spun her around. When here back was turned to him, he plunged the other rod into her back.

"Nooo." Mystique groaned as she fell to the ground.

Wolverine nodded to the other X-men. "Hide until this is over. We'll check it out then."

Cyclops looked at Havok and said, "Come with us."

Havok looked at the ground, "No man. The X-men thing isn't for me. The Brotherhood thing isn't either. I'm goin' home before things get more out of hand." He ran away before Magneto noticed. Cyclops smiled after him, and chased after the other X-men.

Rogue knelt beside Mystique's body. "Mama? Mama get up!" She got up and took her glove off. Magneto smiled at her, and locked up her body.

"Not this time girl. Leave us."

The tears began to stream down Rogue's face and she yelled, "NO!" and flew away.

Magneto stood over Toad who was knelt next to Mastermind. "An unfortunate loss. He was a loyal member of my Brotherhood." He turned to the remaining villains, "Good work Brotherhood, you have caused the X-men to retreat." He then turned to Mystique's group. "Blob, you are to pledge your loyalty to me again. Avalanche, Pyro, you will now be joining my team."

Avalanche and Pyro nodded and said, "Yes, sir."

Magneto continued, "Mastermind has been defeated, it is time to elect a new leader for all of you." He turned to his son, "This is your job Quicksilver. You will continue to battle the X-men, and recruit new talent into our Brotherhood. I will be in contact soon." he flew off. Quicksilver nodded to his new team, and the group made their way back to the Brotherhood Boarding House.

The X-men soon regrouped at the yard. They saw Mastermind and Mystique's bodies on the ground and decided that it was best to leave. Before going, Logan checked the cement mixer. He looked inside and gave a low growl.

Back at the Institute, Logan was making his way to Xavier's office when Iceman stepped in front of him. "What's up dude?"

"Not now Ice-cube."

"Where are you goin?"

Logan sighed, "I need to talk to Xavier. I'm headin' out in a little while."

"Can I come?"

"No, now move." He pushed past Bobby and entered into Xavier's office. He threw a piece of paper at Xavier, "Sabertooth left this in the cement mixer."

Xavier read it, "Weapon X, Alberta Canada. I take it you're leaving?"

Wolverine said, "Yup."

"I'm not going to stop you. Good luck."

Wolverine headed out of Xavier's office to prep the X-Jet. After he left Xavier summoned the other X-men to a training session. Once they arrived he looked around at all of them and said, "Where is Bobby?" All of the others gave confused looks except for Kurt who looked at the ground nervously.

"Kurt?" The Professor asked.

"Who me?"

Kitty grabbed him by the tail and said, "Where. Is. My. Boyfriend?!"

Kurt gave a nervous laugh, "Um...Canada?"

Xavier sighed as he heard the X-Jet roar and take off.

Beast groaned and said, "Oh my stars and garters."

Meanwhile, in the construction yard, Mystique groaned and rolled over, and pulled the rod out of her back. She sat up and looked around and saw no one to be found. She smiled, transformed into a raven, and flew off into the night sky.

Well there is episode six, I hope you like it. Obviously from the end of this story you can tell that I'm doing a variation of Grim Reminder next up. I've also titled the remainder of the "episodes" for the rest of the season.

7: Origins uncovered

8: Team Up

9: Unstoppable

10: Friend or Foe

11/12: Show Down part one and two

speculate as you will. I'm going away for the next week so I'm going to try and write another episode this week, but I make no promises.