At the brotherhood's place, Lance was pacing angrily.

'How dare she?' he shouted picking pieces of goo off his fuming face. 'What? Is she like…' he paused scratching his nose, 'a morphed? Like Mystique?'

Quicksilver watched him with a bored expression on his bruised face, from the sofa. On the top of a wardrobe, Toad crouched watching the situation.

'I kinda like her.' said Pietro uninterestedly, gingerly touching his painful cheek.

'Oh great!' exclaimed Toad from his perch, 'Now everyone likes someone from the X-men except me.'

'I don't.' retorted Lance glaring at him, Toad rolled his eyes.

'Yeah, right.' he said 'Kitty didn't send that valentine's card herself, you know?' the earth trembled and he fell flat on his face on the ground.

'Dude, don't do that!' said Pietro angrily. Suddenly the phone rang… but noone moved.

'Blob get it.' said Pietro bored, lying down on the moth-eaten couch.

'You get it!' he retorted angrily. There was a short pause in which the phone continued to ring.

'Toad!' they all shouted looking at the boy, sitting on the floor leaning on the wardrobe. He glared and hopped off, muttering moodily.

'Hello?' he said putting the receiver up to his ear, 'Yeah… noone wanted to get it.'

'It's not Mystique.' said the blond boy on the settee. They all sighed with relief.

'What's it worth?' continued Todd trying to sound cool but failing miserably. 'Yeah… okay… you'll do that? Ouch… right.' the others looked over at him in alarm.

'Maybe it is…' said Lance nervously, gazing at the phone uncomfortably.

'Okay, I'll pass it to him…' said Toad quickly, 'just please don't cut them off in my sleep.' Lance and Pietro exchanged a terrified look. 'It's for you.' continued Toad holding out the phone for Lance.

'Who is it?' he asked petrified.

'The blond girl from earlier.' he replied nodding respectfully at the phone.

'What's she gonna cut off?' asked Pietro with a naughty look of pleasure, but Todd just frowned.

'Heya Foxy, what's up?' said Avalanche trying to sound non-chalant. 'Okay… Vixen. What? Speakerphone? Sure.' he pressed a speakerphone button and her voice filled the room.

'Hi boys.' she said flirtily.

'Hey sweet cheeks.' said Pietro flirtatiously leaning towards the phone, 'So what are you gonna cut off in Toad's sleep?' On the other end of the receiver they heard girls giggling and someone shushing them.

'Um…' she said slowly, 'His teddy bears ears.' she said with a smile in her striking voice. 'But it could mean some other things…'

Toad's eyes widened in terror, the other boys laughed out loud at him.

'You do all realise that that goes for all of you guys.' continued Vixen, still on the speaker phone.

'You don't know where we are.' said Lance arrogantly, inspecting his dirty nails and looking pretentious.

'I might not,' said the girl, 'but I know someone who does…' there was a pause and then another girl voice came on.

'Like, hi Lance.' came Kitty's voice on the other end of the phone line. Lance's eyes widened in surprise. Then Vixen's voice came back on.

'So.' she said slowly. 'You think you're good, huh?' there was a hint of maliciousness in her pretty voice, as though she was trying to provoke the teenaged and overconfident boys.

'Better than you.' answered Toad leaning towards the phone as though he could make his voice sound louder.

'Right,' came her voice again, 'and I guess that's why we beat you earlier.' she said conceitedly then she continued provocatively. 'Even though you outnumbered us.'

'We could beat you guys any day of the week.' shouted Blob taking a threatening step towards the phone even though he couldn't touch her.

'Sure you could,' came Jade's voice down the line, 'in your dreams!'

'Shut up Jade, you're not helping.' came the blond girl's voice again. 'Any way. I was just calling to say…' she paused for a moment holding them in suspense. 'you sucked… big time!'

'What?!?' shouted Avalanche at the phone, 'We weren't expecting 3 of you!'

'That just makes us sound even more pathetic.' said Quicksilver rationally. 'Since we were 4.'

'Exactly.' said Vixen. 'See you guys at school.' whereupon she put the phone down.

'Man, you don't have to take her side!' shouted Lance at Pietro who yawned deeply.

'I wasn't.' he answered, 'I was just stating a fact.' Lance glared at him furiously before stomping off to his room upstairs.