Lance fell to the floor weakly. Gasping and panting.

"Haha, Never knew about that power I had did you Lance? Na, I only use it on the special people, you should be honored! Yeah, you may feel just a little queasy, maybe even a little nauseas." Pietro cackled at him. "Maybe you should just sit down!"

Lance tried to stand up, his legs were wobbling and he was feeling so uneasy on his feet.

He zoomed around a weight with two large dumbbells on each end. Causing it to fly in his direction, knocking him down under it.

"You said you'd give anything to be normal…well, what do you think?" He sneered at Lance, glaring down at him. "Oh, I almost forgot. Kitty, a deal's a deal. You're off the hook." He zoomed around her, taking the rope from around her body and the gag from her mouth.

"Oh, and by the way Lancey. Isn't she just an amazing little actress?" Pietro smirked at her, picking her up and twirling her around.

"Stop it." Kitty whispered, still in tears.

"What?" Lance asked in confusion.

"She was only using you to get info for me, duh!" Pietro stated,

"Yo, sorry Lance, but…we all agreed that you were getting' a little to good for our likin'...and when we heard about who your dad was? There was no way you could stay in the hood…sayin' that Pietro's gonna' start it again." Toad explained while walking in.

"Yeah, I can't believe we lived with Xavier's kid for so long and never killed him!" Fred added, walking next to Toad.

Pietro gave a wide grin and then pulled Kitty's face towards his. "I couldn't have done it without you Kitten."

Kitty pushed him away and gazed at Lance.

"No, it wasn't like that, I just…I couldn't…(sigh)…I'm so sorry Lance!"

Tears filled up in her eyes as all she could do was watch Todd and Fred beat Lance to the ground. Mocking and teasing him.

Pietro snapped his fingers. "Boys, enough already, leave him to suffer. We've got a job to do!"

Todd and Fred looked at each other and followed Pietro as they walked off.

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They arrived at the vault. Fred knocked down the door easily.

"I guess it's only mutant proof from the inside." He chuckled.

Pietro walked in, Todd and Fred not far behind him. Around the vault was what used to be Bayville's heroes: Iceman, Cyclops, Storm, Multiple, Cannonball, Jubilee, Wolfsbane, Berzerker and Sunspot.

"Hey guys." Pietro grinned. "Want a ticket out of here?"

They all stood up and walked towards the door.

"Xavier told you he was here to help, and then what did he do? He locked you in here when you put your powers to good use. Are you gonna' let him get away with that?"

All of the mutants shook their heads and grumbled amongst each other.

"Well? What are you gonna' do about it?"

"I say burn him!" Sunspot yelled and the mutants cheered.

"Freeze him!" Iceman joined in, the mutants cheered once more.

"We'll give him a storm to remember!" Storm screeched and they all cheered.

"Great! Join me guys, I can help you! With me as your leader, mutants will be the most powerful beings on earth!" Pietro called to them.

"Hooray!" They all cheered and followed his lead.

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Evan was practicing some new tricks on his skateboard outside the X-men institute, when he noticed a loud, unusual noise coming from outside the gate. He looked up and saw the ex-men (haha, gettit?) making their way to the institute. They had less than appeasing looks on their faces.

"Whoa! Aw man, I was hoping for a relaxing day!" Evan groaned, he zoomed on his skateboard to inside the institute, skating into the professor's room without even knocking.

"Prof! We've got trouble! The guys you locked away? They kinda got out! And they're at the gate!" He yelled frantically.

The professor gasped and sent a telepathic message to Wolverine, Ray and Beast to defend the institute as much as they could.

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Chhhing! Chhhing! Scott was in Bayville town centre. He was destroying buildings, roads, cars, anything in his path.

Petrified screams and yells could be heard from the distraught people of Bayville.

"Where's Avalanche?"

"Why won't he save us?"

"Has Cyclops gone mad?"

"Come out and fight Alvers!" Scott yelled as he zapped Bayville's primary school, many children and teachers ran out. Others didn't make it that far.

Lance watched from the hill, feeling helpless and weak. He took a deep breath and started to walk down the hill, towards the town.

"Lance!" He heard Kitty running towards him, but ignored her cries and carried on.

She phased through him and stopped in front of him. She pushed his chest, making him stop.

"You can't face him! Without your powers he'll kill you easily!" She said, her voice full of fear and concern. Her eyes were bloodshot and swollen, it was easy to see that she'd been crying.

"There's worse things than death Kitty." He pushed her aside and proceeded to walk towards the town.

She ran down after him. As soon as Scott saw Lance, he zapped him, sending him flying to a wall and curling up into a ball. Kitty ran over and clung to his arm. She phased the two of them as Scott sent another laser in Lance's direction.

Lance pushed her away.

"Kitty…get out of here." He groaned in pain as he pushed her away.

She looked at him sadly. He wouldn't let her help him. She couldn't just let him be killed.

Then, she heard a frantic neighing from a nearby stable.

She walked in slowly, and saw Pegasus. He had a rope tied around his nose, which stopped him from moving very freely. Many of his feathers had been plucked and lay on the floor.

"Oh, you poor thing!" Kitty whispered, more to herself than to the winged horse. "How could anyone do something like this?"

She slowly walked towards the traumatized animal. "Easy, okay, calm down." She said softly to him. "Come on buddy, we have to find Kurt, Lance is in trouble and he's the only one that he'll listen to."

Once she had untied him, Kitty and Pegasus flew away, back towards Germany where Kurt had gone back to.

When they arrived there, they found him by a river where he was sitting with four nymphs, who were petting and grooming his fur. He seemed very content.

"Kurt!" Kitty yelled as they landed. She jumped off Pegasus and ran towards him.

"Kurt, Lance needs your help!" She said when she stopped in front of him.

'He doesn't need me vhen he has loyal friends like you!" Kurt sneered sarcastically.

"He's not listening to me."

"Nice to know he's learned somezing."

"Kurt! I know I changed but what happened to you? Where's the lovable fuzzy elf I know? This isn't him! Lance needs help, and if you don't help him now he'll be killed!" Kitty said, half in tears.

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"Hey Xavier!" The professor heard a voice behind him, he turned around and saw no-one, so he turned back to the window and nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw Pietro a few inches from his face.

"Quicksilver? What are you doing? What makes you think that you can just…" His sentence was interrupted when Pietro snapped his fingers, before Xavier knew it, he was thrown from his wheelchair, blown into the air and was frozen up to his neck.

He looked at some people who were once apart of his team; Storm, Bobby, Sam, etc.

A thought suddenly rushed through him. Why?
Why did so many of his students, whom, he had worked so hard to train, turn against him? And what caused one of his teachers to be apart of the process too?

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"You're still as pathetic as ever, you know that Alvers?" Scott sneered as he shot beam after beam at poor Lance. Lance had tried to dodge them, but he was too worn out. Scott had beaten him, he just braced himself and took the beams as they were shot at him. Trying to ignore the pain of loosing the love of his life.

A poof was heard and a small amount of blue smoke could be seen. The smoke soon cleared to reveal Pegasus, on his back was Kurt and Kitty.

"Kurt." Lance sighed weakly as Kurt ran over to him.

"Vhat are you doing? You can't let Cyclops beat you!" Kurt asked, grabbing Lance and teleporting him from the direction of the beam which Scott had just thrown at them.

"I can't do anything without my power Kurt. It's hopeless."

"Hey, about a year ago, you vould have given anyzing to beat Scott Summers! Now's your chance! C'mon, you've done it once and you can do it again!" Kurt exclaimed, helping Lance up. "Come on Bro, I'm right by your side!"

Lance smirked and they both ran towards Scott, dodging his laser. Lance tackled Scott as Kurt grabbed his shoulders. Scott managed to send off one last laser before both he and Kurt disappeared though blue smoke. The laser hit the top of the town statue, making it's head fall quickly to the ground.

Lance didn't notice the large concrete object falling towards him, he knelt on the ground, trying to catch his breath.

"Lance! Move!" He heard Kitty scream. He looked towards her, only to be pushed out of the way. He watched in horror as the large head fall on top of Kitty's petite body.

"Kitty! No!" He yelled, he tried to pick up the piece of stone, but it was way to heavy. He grunted and gasped and he pulled, pushed, lifted. It was no use, he wasn't that strong. He suddenly felt a sudden adrenalin rush. He put his hands to the piece of rock and closed his eyes, concentrating hard. The rock shook and quickly broke apart to mere pebbles. Lance easily pulled Kitty out. She whined in pain as he moved her.

"What happened?" He asked in shock.

"Pietro's deal's broken. He promised I wouldn't get hurt." Kitty breathed.

Her breathing was heavy and quick. Lance knelt down and cradled her in his arms as he looked down at her in terror. He heard a poof, followed by Kurt's gasp. He glanced up to see Kurt looking over in worry. Then looked back at Kitty, who was gazing back up at him.

"K…Kitty, why didn't you phase it?" He asked her softly.

"I don't know." She whispered back with a weak smile. "I didn't get time to think about phasing."

"Oh Kitty." He pulled her closer to him. "Why did you do that crazy stunt?"

"People do crazy things when they're in love Lance." She whispered in pain. Giving him a weak smile.

"K…Kitty." He sniffed, sobbing for her pain. "I…I…"

"You're so articulate." Kitty chuckled. "You don't have much time left. You can still stop Pietro."

"You go Lance, I'll get her to a hospital." Kurt told him. Picking up his beloved Kitty from his arms.

"You'll be okay. I'll be back soon." Lance reassured her, lifting her chin up to him and kissing her nose.

He jumped onto Pegasus' back and they flew towards the institute.

"Why are you doing this Pietro?" The professor asked, trying to reason with Quicksilver.

"This is my world now, and I'm prepared to eliminate anyone who gets in my way. That involves you, and your little son." Pietro answered coolly.

"A little too full of yourself as always." Lance yelled, he jumped from Pegasus' back and landed in front of Pietro.

Pietro glared at him and stood up straight.

"Well, think you can beat me huh? Well, you wanna' play chase? Let's play chase!"