-A few minutes later at the Boarding House-

Karima sat on the couch in front of her lap top. She wore only a sports bra and a pair of bike short. Her right arm was directly connected to various ports on the computer while her left hand flew across the keyboard, as her eyes darted back and forth taking in as much information as her cybernetically enhanced brain could.

Wanda sat next to the bionic woman and stared for a moment, but neither woman would be the first to speak in this particular household.

"What are you doin' Sheila, troihin' to get rid of some spam?" St. John asked.

Karima kept her eyes fixated on the screen, "Several of my cybernetic files have been corrupted," she said in a monotone voice, "I'm attempting to isolate them, repair, and finally reinstall them."

"So… it is spam," Wanda said with a peeked eyebrow and a smile on her face.

Karima let a small smile cross her face, "You could say that," the computer began beeping and the screen flashed several times, "I'm one hundred percent virus free," she said with a feint smile.

"At least we know who the calm one is," St. John said with a nod.

Wanda furrowed her brow, "What do you mean by that?" she asked in confusion.

"Well Regan's the rude sarcastic one; Wanda, you're the voiholent and angry one; Karima's the serious and calm one; and Dad's the one that'll kill us all in our sleep," St. John said in a completely serious tone.

"It's scary when he makes sense," Karima said in complete shock.

Wanda could only nod in agreement.

-A few hours later in Lance and Regan's room-

Lance sat on his bed holding his wallet. He stared at it for a few minutes before finally opening it. Regan's face made him smile. It was a picture of their Wedding ceremony. The Brotherhood all cleaned up wearing tuxedos and a dress in Wanda's case, and the happy bride and groom in the middle.

He turned the flap to reveal another picture. This one was of the five original Brotherhood members; Todd, Lance, Anna, Freddy, and Pietro. Each person was in a pose that fairly represented their personality. Todd was several feet in the air with a large toothy smile. Lance pinching the bridge of his nose totally annoyed at the entire situation. Anna stood in the middle with her arms crossed across her chest, with a small smile on her face. Freddy stood behind everyone giving a slightly shy smile. And finally Pietro stood to Anna's left running his fingers through his hair with his classic Quicksilver smirk in his face.

Lance then flipped that flap over too, to reveal the Brotherhood minus Anna, plus Wanda and St. John. Lance chuckled; the Brotherhood boys were all on the floor while Wanda stood proudly over them, her hands still glowing with a blue hex bolt.

Finally he looked around the room to make sure he was alone before he slid a picture out from behind the current picture.

The picture was old, but the couple in the picture was very young. They didn't look any older than Lance was right now. He smiled. The couple consisted of a beautiful Mexican woman with a kind face. Although the picture was faded her eyes still seemed to be piercing and intelligent. Next to her Julio had an arm wrapped around her waist, holding her somewhat possessively.

"Dad," Lance said to the picture, "I'm sorry for hating you all these years…" he paused for a moment, "Raven said you were a good and honest man. That you worked hard, and that you had a bad temper," Lance laughed, "I guess we got that in common," Lance smiled surreally, "She said you'd do anything to protect the people you loved, I'm glad we have that in common too," he put the picture back in its place, "I hope I made you proud."

Lance got to his feet, and shoved his wallet into his back pocket. He then made his way to the hallway, and down the stairs. He paused at the entrance to the living room, and stared at his new family crowded around the coffee table.

Were they related by blood? No, they weren't, but to Lance it didn't matter. They were outcasts, thugs, and hoodlums born and bred.

Brotherhood, they'd always known but sometimes you just need a spark. Something to remind you that nothing is simpler than brotherhood. That when your body hits the mat, bloody and bruised, you can always count on your brothers to pick you back up.

"Hey Lance!"

Lance snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the youngest person in the house, a person he was proud to call a brother in arms, "Yeah, Todd?" he asked.

"Your wife… has something to tell you," Todd said, as the rest of the Brotherhood began laughing.

"Regan, what are they talking about?" he asked with a confused look on his face.

"I…" she paused for a moment, "I think I'm pregnant Lance," she said hurriedly.

Lance's eyes went wide then he feinted.

"All right I won the pool!" Todd exclaimed.

"That's not fair. With his anger issues, he should have shaken the house off its foundation," Karima said somewhat unsatisfied.

"Oih though he was gonna give himself an aneurism," St. John said poking Lance's foot, "What did you have Sheila?"

Wanda shook her head, "He was supposed to disappoint her and say something insensitive like, 'oh crap,'" she said with a grin on her face.

Pietro hopped onto the couch and leaned back, "Doesn't matter now, Todd won," he said with an indifferent tone.

"What did you have?" Wanda asked.

"That he would be supportive," the Brotherhood members stared at him, "I went for the long shot, sue me," he explained.

The esteemed members of the Brotherhood were brought back to attention by a loud slapping noise followed by a grunt.

The Brotherhood watched as Lance rubbed his aching cheek.

"I had the weirdest dream," Lance said getting into a sitting position, "You were pregnant," he said with a small chuckle.

Regan glared at him, with large glowing white eyes.

"Oh," he said, "I thought you were on the…"

Regan immediately cut him off, "Apparently I forgot to take one of the pills, and now here we are," she said annoyed at the entire situation.

"What do we do?" Lance asked.

Regan glared at him again.

"Right," he said, "Boys we're going to the drug store," he got to his feet, "Johnny you stay here… 'cause honestly I don't know how to categorize you right now."

St. John only nodded, as Lance and the rest of the boys left the house.

-Outside in the driveway-

The boy made their way to Lance's prized Challenger. Lance paused in front of the car for a few moments, staring at the keys in his hand.

"Lance, you okay?" Pietro asked.

"Yeah," Lance said barely above a whisper, "Hey Todd, why don't you drive this time?" Lance tossed the keys, which proceeded to hit Todd in his shocked face.

-A few minutes later, on the streets of Bayville-

The Challenger roared down the empty street. At this hour few would be awake, but in all honesty the Brotherhood Boys of Bayville didn't feel up to the task of talking to anyone. They were currently a man down, and the hospital had already banned them from entering, until the following day, when Freddy would be cleared for release.

Todd pulled into the drug store parking lot, and parked right in front of the store.

Lance opened the door and looked at his brothers, "You guys want anything?" he asked.

Both teens shook their heads, and Lance left into the store.

"If she's pregnant there are going to be some serious changes," Pietro said as he watched Lance enter the store.

"Yeah, we ain't gonna be able to drink ourselves stupid anymore…" he paused, "Should we stop anyways?" he asked, "You know for health reasons."

Pietro shrugged, "Probably, our mutations are physical, so it wouldn't be a bad idea," he said looking up to watch three people wearing masks run into the store, "Hey lets back up, Lance."

-Inside the store-

Lance now had his hands in the air. He had a small smirk on his face as the three people kept waving guns in his face and in the face of the clerk.

"Just give us the money old man," Robber number one pleaded rather than demanded.

Lance emitted a steady tremor, gradually increasing in intensity.

"What's going on?" the female robber asked in freight.

"It's him! It's gotta be him!" Robber number two exclaimed, no pointing his gun at Lance's face.

All three robbers pointed their weapons at Lance, "You guys must be new in town," Lance said with a smirk.

Robber number one took a step back, "How do you know?" he asked.

Lance let his hands drop to his side, "Cause if you were from around here you'd know that the Brotherhood runs these streets," the words came from his mouth as more of a warning than as a boast.

Robber number two grinned, "Well, I think you've ruled for long enough," all three robbers shot at once, but to their utter shock Lance was unharmed.

"He told you we run these streets."

The three robbers looked to the side and saw Pietro leaning against a chip rack. He tossed the three slugs onto the floor.

Before the three robbers could fire any more rounds off three shots of slime covered there hands and weapons, making it next to impossible to pull the trigger. Then to cap off their day Pietro sped around the wrapping them with a long extension cord, effectively hindering escape.

Lance walked to the clerk, and handed him some cash, "You gonna be okay until the cops show up?" he asked putting his purchase into a brown paper bag. The clerk only nodded as the boys left the store, got into the car, and sped off down the street.

Robber number two looked up, and pulled a large buck knife from his boot, making short work of the cord. All three robbers got to their feet. They all removed their masks. The woman had long flowing green hair.

"Why couldn't we use our powers?" she asked.

"Quiet Vertigo," a man with a build even larger than Lance, but quite bald said, "We did our job."

Vertigo snorted, "But if we could have used our powers, we wouldn't have had to waste our time, Blockbuster," she said utterly annoyed.

The third man came up behind both of them and slung his arms around their shoulders, "Come on now, Sinister wouldn't like us to kill his guinea pigs," the man said, his face, as well as the rest of his body, made of prism said.

"Shut up, Prism," Blockbuster and Vertigo said in unison.

"Fine, fine," Prism held his hands up in defeat, "But what do we do with the clerk?" he asked.

Blockbuster smirked as he walked up to the clerk, who was still frozen in fear. He cocked back his arm and punched the clerk splattering him across the wall, "What clerk?" he asked.

"Oh its good to be back!" Prism exclaimed, "The Marauders are gonna clean up!"

"Please, shut up," Vertigo said pinching the bridge of her nose, "We still have to shadow those kids."

With that they left the scene of their crime and ventured out into the night, to stalk our beloved heroes.