avatar: Sorry there were no notes for last chap. I have no idea what happened. Anyhow, more fighting in this chapter. Yay for fighting! Bio and his friend continue to fight, and Sabretooth also fights with Wolvie and his clone. Disclaimer today will be done by Kurt.

Kurt: avatarjk137 does not own X-Men Evolution. If he did, he vouldn't have ended it at four seasons, and Jean vould not be such a Mary Sue. Also, ve'd have met Cable. He's awesome.

Chapter 7

Turn For The Better

"Do you really think you can beat all four of us, mon ami?" Gambit asked. "'Cause if you do, I'm just itchin' for some payback."

"You and me both," Kurt said, inspecting the wound on his chest. It hadn't slashed through much more than his uniform.

"Payback?" Bio laughed. "You guys can't fight your collective way out of a paper bag. I'm surprised you can dress yourself without help."

"Why did you like, attack us, and take our stuff?" Kitty asked angrily.

"That's for me to know and you guys to never find out."

At this point, Gambit attacked. He tossed several playing cards into the air, which came down in front, behind, and to each side of Bio. Then Nightcrawler teleported right in front of Bio and punched him in the face. "If you leave the circle," Kurt said, following up with a kick, "The cards will go off. You can't escape," he punched and kicked Bio more, "but I can."

Bio caught his next punch, and gritted his teeth. Wooden spikes popped through his jacket, from his shoulders, arms, back, and chest, causing Nightcrawler to back off a little. "I can always go up!" Bio threw his vines straight up, and they latched onto a flagpole, pulling him upwards. Nightcrawler teleported to the top, hanging by his tail, and stomped Bio's head as he rose. Bio fell back downwards, but kicked off from the wall of the building so he didn't land on a card. He rolled as he hit the pavement, but when he came up, Gambit's staff was waiting for his face.

"Now's mah chance!" Rogue transformed into a tiger, and charged toward Bio to back Remy up. But suddenly a flying blur tackled her. When the world stopped spinning, she looked up. The white tiger that had tackled her transformed back into the blond boy. "He's outnumbered enough already, don't you think?"

Pyro was really beginning to lose his breath. He didn't want to show it, but no amount of normal training and physical conditioning would allow him to keep up on a rooftop chase with Sabretooth, Wolverine, and X23, whose powers seemed to grant them unlimited stamina. He had let loose a spray of flame with his flamethrower, and was now shaping it into a serpentine dragon, which flew alongside and around them as they chased Sabretooth from rooftop to rooftop. His legs were burning, his lungs were screaming for air, and the dragon was beginning to flicker as so many things fought for his attention. However, Pyro wasn't about to give up: Sabretooth knew what had happened to Pyro's pyromania, and he was going to get it back. It defined his character, it shaped his decisions, and most of all, it made him happy.

Suddenly, Sabretooth jumped down from the roof two stories onto a flagpole hanging off the side of a building, and used it as a springboard to vault over a street to the buildings on the other side. He stood on the rooftops, grinning across the street to his pursuers. "Are ya too chicken to come?"

"Ya gotta be kiddin' me, mate," Pyro moaned. "I'm surprised even he can do that!" Suddenly, X23 mimicked Sabretooth's acrobatic feat, springboarding over the street. Victor began to run, but X23 landed from her leap literally right on top of him, her foot-claws at the ready. Logan laughed at Sabretooth's obvious pain, and did the same springboard move to go join them, forgetting that Pyro was left behind, due to the fact that healing wasn't his superpower (and he was recently no longer certifiably insane). "No way am I getting over there!" Then he looked down the other side of the building. He noticed a fight going on below: His former Acolyte teammates and the X-Men versus two mutants he didn't recognize. He also noticed a fire escape leading down that direction. "But I can easily get down there!" He began hopping down the fire escapes one entire floor at a time, hoping the fight didn't end before he could get some revenge.

Sabretooth roared in pain and grabbed X23. With a strength and ferocity that was rarely found in the civilized, he tossed X23 across the rooftop, where she landed on an air conditioning unit (breaking it). He began to run in that direction, but was interrupted by Wolverine raking his adamantium claws across Victor's face. He grinned and bit down on Wolverine's arm, pummeling the X-Man with both hands. He then released his jaws in time to kick Wolverine in the jaw. Before Logan hit the ground, X23 was on him again. He dodged her claws and tried to counterattack with his own, somewhat shorter ones, but she was extremely fast and weaved around his attacks. She then raked her claws across his gut. She tried to follow up with a clawed kick, but he grabbed her leg and threw her into an incoming Wolverine.

While they untangled their claws from each other's bodies, he grabbed the air conditioning unit he had already smashed with a small, angry teenage girl and threw it at them. Logan jumped up first and sliced up the incoming appliance. X23 jumped over him and claw-tackled Sabretooth. He pried her loose and punched her hard in the face, but Wolverine then clawed him across the back. He roared in frustration and pain, then grabbed both of them by their shirts and lifted them off of the ground. "You guys are so cute together," he said, a hideous leer on his bloody (but no longer wounded) face.

"What do you know about what happened to Pyro?" Wolverine asked, as X23 dug her claws into Sabretooth's ribcage.

"I know more than I'm going to tell you," Victor replied, his own blood dripping from his mouth. Then, with another roar, he threw them both off the building.

End of Chapter

Next chapter will have stuff besides action, like character development and angst. But don't worry, there will be some action in there, too!