-The next day in Gym-

The Brotherhood boys stood on one side of the court each one dressed in red sweat pants and white t-shirts. Lance, following Wanda's advice, tied his long luxurious hippy hair into a loose ponytail. Wanda sat on the bleachers with the rest of the class while the couch selected their team. With a crash course in basketball taught by Pietro coupled with their mutant abilities they were confident in their victory.

The Coach smiled triumphantly as he assembled a mix of girls and boys to go up against the Brotherhood, "All right I want a clean game, nothin' fancy. First team to make ten baskets wins, got it?" All ten players nodded in confirmation.

Lance stood across from a very tall boy while the Coach was about to lob the ball into the air. He smirked, "Wait a minute," the Coach looked at him, "Todd you do it." The Brotherhood only smiled as Todd went to face the taller boy.

The Coach tossed the ball in the air, and almost immediately Todd leapt into the air and grabbed the ball leaving the rest of the class amazed, "Good day to be the Toad yo." He then tossed the ball toward one of his opponents.

The blonde girl smiled as she extended her arms to catch the ball, "What an idiot."

But as she finished her sentence, Pietro materialized in front of her and caught it, "Yeah but he's our idiot." He then tossed the ball to another opponent and caught it before they could, he repeated the process until he was under the basket and took his shot. It hit the backboard and fell through the hoop, "That's one."

The other team returned the ball all the way down the court, doing their best to avoid Todd and Pietro. But what one brunette boy didn't count on was running straight into the immovable. Freddy smirked, "You can't get passed me."

The brunette chuckled, "I don't need to," he jumped and took the shot, but what was sheer joy swiftly turned into shock. Freddy extended his arm and actually caught the ball. He pitched it underhanded toward the opposite goal. It flew in the air and descended through the hoop thoroughly rendering everyone, even the Brotherhood, speechless.

The game was pretty one sided, after the initial shock had worn off. The boys were rather prideful with their skills. Regan had taught St. John how to aim with his flamethrowers, which had the unforeseen effect to also give him an uncanny ability to shoot the ball from almost anywhere on the court and make a basket. Lance constantly held a smirk on his face as he lead his team down the court, always seeming to put the ball in the exact place that it would need to be. Todd literally hopped for joy when he discovered he could dunk all the way from the three-point line with little to no effort. Freddy learned a valuable lesson as well, that playing defensively and waiting for your opponent to come to you, is usually better than running in like a chicken with its head cutoff. Pietro simply enjoyed finally being able to use all of his abilities to play a game he loved as a child.

Needless to say everyone was amazed at the Brotherhood boys. The Coach eyed the boys, he stared long and hard until he smiled, "Don't cause any trouble, and you'll ace my class."

Wanda walked to the boys with a smirk on her face, "I thought I'd have to bail you idiots out with a hex or two, but you actually proved to be in control…" She paused, "For once."

-Several minutes later at lunch-

The Brotherhood members, minus one speed demon, had gathered outside at a picnic table, each one holding their lunch. They sat down and began poking at the gelatinous blob that occupied their trays.

Freddy was the first to bring it to his mouth, he chewed it for a minute then swallowed, "I think its pizza."

St. John shook his head, "Where oih come from pizza is cheesy, not a brown blob."

Wanda hexed her lunch, which gathered a stair from her teammates, "What? It moved."

Todd stuck out his tongue and licked his fork, "I eat bugs, and I still won't eat this crud yo."

Lance peeked an eyebrow, "Where'd Pietro go?"

Wanda shrugged, "As soon as he saw 'lunch' he took off."

As if on cue the absent speedster appeared at the table with his hands behind his back, "Lucky for us Mystique believes in a healthy and nutritious lunch," he pulled his hands from behind his back revealing several brown paper bags, "Just don't tell her I bought cheeseburgers and curly fries." Needless to say the Brotherhood were extremely happy. Then, as a team, they ripped through the bags and devoured everything edible.

-Several hours later in the Danger Room-

Anna stood in full uniform surveying her exhausted team. Costumes were ripped, bodies bruised and bleeding, but their spirits remained strong. She looked up to the command center, "Again." She then turned back to her team, "Switch it up, the Brotherhood are unpredictable and ah don't want anyone bein' caught off guard."

Laura walked up to her leader, "Shouldn't we just exploit their weaknesses?"

Anna nodded, "They have individual weaknesses, but they also share one weakness as a group."

Laura peeked an eyebrow in interest, "Which would be?"

Anna smirked, "They need the ground." As she finished her sentence Brotherhood replicas made themselves present, "Take 'em down." She flew through the air and knocked the head off the Pietro duplicate clean off.

-Meanwhile at the Boarding House-

Lance was sitting on the steps to the back door reading the paper. Pietro soon made his way through the door and sat with him.

He peeked an eyebrow at what he saw, "Lance?"

Lance didn't look up from the paper, "What?"

Pietro pointed to Regan and Todd, "What's wrong with your wife?"

Lance looked up and saw several posts in the ground with Regan and Todd leaping from one to another engaged in a sparing match, "She thought she gained five pounds, so she threw some fence posts into the ground and decided to take over Todd's training." Pietro suddenly shivered, "What?"

Pietro shook his head, "I don't know, bad vibe I guess."

Lance returned to his newspaper. After a few minutes he spoke again, "Are you ready for the Senior class field trip tomorrow?"

Pietro smirked, "We haven't been in school a week and we already have a field trip?"

Lance smiled, "Senior year is supposed to be the easiest one."

The Brotherhood discussion was soon cut short by Freddy's voice, "Bad Deuce! Bad Deuce! Bad Deuce!" and with that a massive jet-black dog barreled through the side fence into the backyard dragging Freddy by the pants leg.

Wanda kicked open the backdoor, sending Lance and Pietro to the ground, "Freddy if you hurt my dog, I'm going to throw you off the Statue of Liberty head first!" The dog let go of Freddy on sight of Wanda and shrunk down into the puppy the Brotherhood boys knew and loathed.

Lance got to his feet and dusted himself off, he then gave off a tremor which caused everyone, including Deuce, to pause in place, "Wanda keep an eye on your dog, Freddy stay away from the dog, and Regan let go of Todd's head. I'm gonna take a nap."

Wanda peeked an eyebrow, "What's his problem?"

Pietro only shrugged, as Freddy caught his breath, and Todd fell off the post when Regan released his head.

-A few hours later in the X-mansion living room-

Jean was frantically pacing back and forth. Her plump belly had grown significantly since last we saw the read head.

Kitty stared at Jean with worry, "Jean you totally need to sit down."

Piotr nodded in agreement, "I do not think it is good for the little one."

Jean paused and shook her head, "No you don't understand. I haven't told my parents about…" she motioned to her stomach.

Kitty peeked an eyebrow, "You haven't told them that your, like, pregnant?"

Jean sighed, "I always meant to. But how do you tell your parents you're pregnant? Much less you're in a lesbian relationship with a witch, and she's actually the father?"

Piotr scratched his head, "Very slowly?" At that moment a knock came at the door.

Jean began to panic, "They're here. I am so dead." Jean inched her way to the door until she was finally close enough to open it. There stood her parents, the ones responsible for her birth, and under present circumstances, quite possibly the ones responsible for her death.

Needless to say the Grey's were extremely shocked to see their daughter in this 'situation.'

Elaine Grey took a step forward and hugged her daughter, "Jean, how?"

Jean returned the hug, "I fell in love."

Elaine smiled, "How far along are you?"

Jean thought about it for a few seconds, "About seven months."

After the initial shock wore off Dr. John Grey joined the hug as well, "Is that nice Scott boy the father?"

Jean's eyes went wide, obviously she still hadn't decided on what to tell her parents, "Scott? Father? No. It's… someone else."

Elaine nodded, "Well does he stay at the institute?"

Jean flinched inwardly at the use of the word 'he,' but she continued to smile, "Um… no he lives at the Brotherhood Boarding House, behind the high school."

Dr. Grey frowned, "Aren't those the boys that give you such a hard time?"

Jean tried to avoid the rocky subject, "Well they have started turning their lives around."

This statement caused Dr. Grey to smile, "So when do we get to meet the young man?"

Before Jean could stop herself she answered, "How about after you settle in?"

The Grey's were visibly excited, "That sounds great honey."