avatar: Long chapter this week. Don't expect me to make all of them this long.

Magneto: avatarjk137 does not own X-Men Evolution. He does own Spectrum and Bio. I'm not evil anymore! FEAR ME!

avatar: Mags, the good guys don't usually say 'fear me'. BTW, ego cream pie for anybody who knows what the chapter title originally was.

Chapter 3

Man Found Beaten, Robbed By Police

"Ugghh!" X23 moaned. "Logan was just teaching me about defeating people without killing them, and look at what I just did!"

"Yeah, Logan's gonna be sooo mad…" Nightcrawler said, uncertain of what else he should be saying.

Suddenly, Bio straightened up a bit. "Don't you guys worry about me, I'm fine." He blew into X23's face, scattering fine spores. X23 immediately fell, unconscious, and Bio caught her and gently set her down on the ground.

"How are you still alive?" Nightcrawler asked incredulously. "You're bleeding pretty badly."

"That's not blood," Gambit said, "that's sap coming from his chest."

"Sap?"

"Yes," Bio said thru gritted teeth, "Sap. Like you." He grabbed Kurt with his vines, and smacked the blue X-man's skull against the wall, knocking him out. Suddenly, he lurched forward. Rahne had tackled him from behind in her wolf form, and sunken her front claws into the back of his shoulders. Bio lashed his vines behind him, grabbing Wolfsbane and slamming her to the floor. "Bad doggy." His vines held her down as one of them bloomed, spraying more of the sleep spores in Rahne's face. He then jumped back to avoid another downward slam from Remy's staff. The explosion from the staff further damaged the floor, causing a gaping hole in the hallway to the floor below. Bio shot his vines forward again, but an exploding card blew them to bits. "Whoa. Stabby girl must've taken more out of me than I thought," he mumbled, retracting his burnt vine stumps. Suddenly, Gambit charged through the smoke cloud, and swung his staff, catching Bio in the head. Bio fell to the ground, swearing; the sap on his chest wound was gumming up, but more sap was flowing from the wound on his head.

"Looks like I got you, veggie-head. Se la vi!"

"Oh, come on… THAT WASN'T EVEN FRENCH!" Bio staggered to his feet, and waved his arms. Gambit turned around, and noticed too late that he was standing at a window. A tree branch smashed through the glass, and quickly grabbed a stunned Remy. Bio grinned as he heard screams outside. "Just like Poltergeist…" He used fresh vines to lower himself into the hole in the floor.

"Doesn't this guy have enough powers already?!" Berzerker complained, blasting away with his lightning. Spectrum laughed as he dodged the bolt by shooting into the air. Combining Magma and Cannonball's powers, he dropped like a flaming meteor down towards Berzerker. Kitty quickly hugged Ray, causing Spectrum to fade through both of them. "Ahhh!" Berzerker cried in pain. "Kitty, I thought that can't hurt us when you phase us thru like that!"

Kitty was wincing as she brushed embers off her uniform. "It doesn't work with heat…"

Beast grabbed the recovering Spectrum with one arm and began savagely punching him with the other. "STOP…HURTING…MY…STUDENTS!"

Spectrum's eyes glowed, and ice coated his body. "You ain't the boss of me!" He slammed Hank in the chin with his own super-strength, and followed up by freezing the blue, furry teacher's feet to the ground. Fire began to appear side-by-side with the ice, causing steam to pour from Spectrum's body. The steam flooded the room.

"I can't see anything!" Berzerker yelled, charging his electricity, but not firing it.

Spectrum snuck up behind him, and rapped him lightly on the head. Ray instantly fell to the ground, unconscious. "Whine, whine, whine," Spectrum gloated. "Do you ever stop complaining?"

"Ray? Mr. McCoy?" Shadowcat called through the sauna. "Are you okay?" Spectrum followed the sound of her voice, and shot a weak blast of fire in her direction. Kitty phased through it, but judging by her yelp, the heat still got her. He followed up with a freezing blast, and the sudden change in temperature shocked Kitty into unconsciousness.

"And then there was one," Spectrum narrated, turning to where he had left Beast.

"Sometimes, one is enough." Beast rammed Spectrum with his shoulder, knocking him across the room. Spectrum staggered to his feet. Due to Beast's enhanced senses, both of them could see each other in the warm steam.

Spectrum suddenly erupted into a coughing fit, and Beast took the opportunity to charge forward again. Using Sam's power, Spectrum rocketed away, over to where Kitty lay. She was half-phased through a wall she'd tried to escape through. He sunk his hand into her phased arm. "C'mon, I need your power, too." Suddenly, Spectrum cried out in agony. He stumbled back from Kitty and began to flash. He screamed until his breath was gone, and then collapsed to the floor. "That…was…weird…"

"I'm going to detain you and call the professor," Beast growled. He opened a door, letting the steam out. "The dampening handcuffs should be in here…"

He was very surprised to find Bio standing behind the door, wearing bandages that had previously been some of the X-Men's spare tablecloth. "You were expecting maybe Apocalypse?" He asked, noticing the shocked expression on Hank's face. Then he exhaled sleep spores, knocking out the older X-Man. Bio helped Spectrum to his feet. "I think you overdid it."

"You and me both," Spectrum observed, laughing weakly. Then he started coughing again. He looked at his clothes, which were burned halfway to ashes. "I loved this trench coat."

"Come on, let's get what we came for." Bio found the elevator, and they navigated through the secret basement of the mansion. Spectrum used Sam's powers again to force open the door to Cerebro. Then they tore open the console and began to take pieces here and there. "I'll finish taking this stuff. You go find Beast's lab," Bio instructed.

"When did you start giving orders?"

Pyro rolled out of bed, mumbling. He rubbed his eyes, and walked downstairs to the kitchen. He pulled open the refrigerator, and grabbed a pitcher labeled 'property of Pyro – drink at your own risk!' He grabbed a large plastic cup from the pantry, and poured a large glass of the liquid. It was vaguely orange, with something unidentifiable floating in it. He felt the weight of the pitcher. "Pietro's been tapping into my supply again, the little bitch."

"What's in that stuff, anyway?" Toad said, as he hopped in, drinking a can of cola.

"Some Monster Khaos, some Sunkist, some peppercorns…" Pyro downed the cupful in three gulps. He stared at Toad. "It was YOU who stole some, wasn't it? WASN'T IT?"

"Yo… I-I'm sorry, St. John-"

"For the last, time call me Pyro!" Pyro pulled a lighter out of the freezer.

"Did you hide lighters all around the house?!" Toad stammered.

"Yes." Pyro blasted Toad with a wave of fire. Lance, who had just entered the room, slapped his hand to his forehead.

"Todd, you have got to stop pissing Pyro off… you cause him to do this every day, you're gonna end up dead!" After stopping, dropping, and rolling, Toad was fine. However, Pyro was acting odd; he was looking at his hands, a look of horror on his face. "What's wrong, Pyro? I mean, you light Toad on fire literally every day…"

"I… I lit him on fire…"

"So?

I didn't… I DIDN'T ENJOY IT!!!"

End of Chapter

Pyro? Not enjoying burning stuff? Something must be wrong! Check back on thursday to find out!