Disclaimer: All I own in life is an iPod and some cloths so I sure don't own any characters or the short song verse in this story.
This would have been out sooner but here is a quote as to why it wasn't.
"Die, Die, Die, Die stupid computer virus!
"Pietro show Aria to her quarters," ordered Magneto.
Pietro zipped around and draped his arm around Aria's shoulders, "Come on Baby; let me show you to your room."
Ducking under his arm, Aria turned and looked right at him, "Let's get one thing straight you're not my type and never will be. But hey maybe one day you'll meet a girl as much of a player and as egomaniacal as you." She walked off down a metal corridor calling over her shoulder, "Is this the right way?"
Pietro rocketed after her turning her down a different metal hallway their footsteps echoing against the cold grey surface.
Just five minutes ago the metal spheres had arrived at Magneto's hidden base somewhere in the Midwest. Magneto had boasted to Aria about how he made all his bases out of metal so he could use even the walls and floors to attack his enemies.
As Aria struggled to keep up with Pietro she shivered imaging the fates of anyone trapped under all that metal. It would not be pretty.
Pietro had come to a sudden stop and Aria had almost walked into him.
Coming back to reality she noticed he was say something, "Are you listening. Huh. Huh. Huh." He started poking her.
"Stop that!" Aria snapped, "Now I'm listening."
"I said we arrived at our destination," Pietro opened a door that had big glittery words proclaiming the Brotherhood on it, "But what do you mean by 'now I'm listening'. Were you ignoring me before?" (1)
"People always ignore you. You talk too much." A black short haired girl wearing scarlet tank top and dark jean spoke without even looking up from her book.
"This is my twin Wanda," Pietro introduced Wanda.
"Don't you have better things to do than bother me," Wanda snapped at her brother. She turned to Aria, "We may be related but don't let that fool you we're nothing alike."
"I'm Aria," Aria introduced herself; "I also have a twin I hate."
Wanda smirked, "I guess we have a lot in common then." With an evil smile she turned to Pietro and said, "Hey I think you're getting a pimple on your cheek."
"Oh no, my perfect features!" Pietro wailed and rushed off into the nearest bathroom.
Wanda went back to reading her book her nose buried in the pages.
"So is it a good book?" Aria tried to make small talk.
"Yeah I when I was little Father recommended it to me. He said it was one of his favorites." Wanda mentioned.
"I guess you have a lot to talk about then." Aria said.
"A lot to talk about what," Wanda snapped.
"The book," Aria answered.
"Not really when I asked him about the book last night he just looked confused and didn't seem to remember the plot at all. I guess he just forgot. This seems to be happening more often, where I can remember something everybody else can't. It's strange." Wanda responded.
Wanda got up and walked towards her room muttering something that sounded like, "Must have hit my head or something to be talking to a stranger."
"Wait!" Aria cried out.
Wanda stopped in the threshold of the doorway leading to her room, "What do you want?"
"Well Pietro never showed me where my room was. I was wondering if you could show me." Aria asked hopefully.
"Sounds like my brother," Wanda pointed at a door across the hall, "That's your room. Here's a key. Trust me you'll want to keep your door locked." She handed Aria a key on silver chain.
As she was setting down her book Aria happened to notice the title, it read Redeeming Love.
Aria exclaimed, "Redeeming Love! I love that book!"
"Yeah it's cool," Wanda shrugged.
"I feel sorry for the girl Angel and how she was abandoned in a brothel and her Father didn't even come and get her. The last thing she heard him say was that he wanted her dead!" Aria remarked.
"Yeah, I guess. At least she found an escape from that life." Wanda agreed.
"Yeah but she sure has a lot of names. When she was a child she was Sarah, and the brothel owners named her Angel. Also at one point her lover Michael tells her the name Mara fits her 'cause it means bitter and she is also called Amanda by some people."Aria rattled off as they came up to her room.
"Interesting," Wanda rolled her eyes. "Well here's your room."
Aria opened the door and had to squint with the amount of pink the assaulted her eyes. After a few minutes she stated, "It's so pink."
"I told them you would hate it," Wanda stood in the doorway behind her. "I'm so glad you're not one of those preppy girls."
"Maybe I'm a preppy girl who hates pink." Aria grinned.
"Is there such a kind?" Wanda smirked, "You can ask my brother to fix it."
"He designs rooms," Aria asked.
"No, but he could rip up that carpet in a matter of seconds and sew you a new bedspread and paint your walls before you can say exterminate three times fast. He has super speed." Wanda explained.
"I could tell. So where would he be?" Aria replied.
"He's probably in the rec. room with the rest of insane goofballs." Wanda remarked.
"There are more of them?" Aria pondered.
"Too many." Wanda groaned.
"Will you introduce me?" Aria asked.
"Might as well," Wanda shrugged.
They wandered over to a creamy colored carpeted room outfit with a couch, rabbit eared TV, dart board, and pool table. Sitting on the couch were four boys.
Wanda stalked over and pick out her brother, "Aria needs you to redo her room." Turning to the others she said, "Told you she wouldn't like it."
Pietro zipped over to Aria, "What color scheme would you like."
"Dark blue and gold," Aria answered.
"The same colors as your cloths, favorite colors I bet," Pietro said wiggling an eyebrow. "They're mine too."
"They are not," Wanda snapped. "Stop trying to seduce her and get to work."
"I said I wasn't interested," Aria growled.
"Okay I can tell when I'm not wanted." Pietro quickly backpedaled away from the angry girls.
"No, you can't that's what the problem is." Wanda called out after her twin's retreating back.
A boy with green tinged skin hopped over, "Hi, I'm Todd. What's your name?"
"I'm Aria," Aria answered.
"Looks like you made friends with my babycakes. She needs more friends; it's not healthy for people to be so isolated from everyone else." Todd beamed at Wanda.
"Don't call me babycakes," Wanda shoved past Todd.
"I love you too," Todd grinned lopsidedly.
Todd hopped after Wanda who was leaning against the sofa. She turned to him and snarled, "Say anything and I will hex you into next week."
Todd just smiled and said, "You don't mean that do you sweetcheeks." Then he broke out in song, "I b-b-b-believe I'm in love."
Wanda whirled around a hexbolt forming on her hand.
This is all you get until I finish part two of this chapter. But don't worry Todd fans, no Toads were hurt in the making of this story.