Disclaimer: The X-Men do not belong to me, at all. Leo, Benj, Ty, and Seth are mine. The future OCs I have asked for aren't mine either.

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Author's note: Awesome job guys! We've set a new record (for this story) since I posted chapter 6, I've gotten 99 hits on D-Factor. Alright! But I think next time we can definitely break 100 hits. Thanks to everyone who's reviewed, and sent me OCs.

Speaking of which I will be updating what I am looking for still with OCs on every chapter (and including) after the submissions form. As I get new ones the update will change on every chapter. For a more complete update check my profile (it will have small summaries and names). So here it is:

*OC Update: (Final) I have 5 characters, a gay 17-year-old guy (love interest for my own gay character), a straight 15-year-old girl, another straight 15-year-old girl/wolf, a 9 year-old boy, and his older sister a 16 year-old lesbian, oh and a straight 16 year-old-guy

Last thing with the OCs, I need to explain the difference between manslaughter and murder. Manslaughter is acidental, murder is on purpose. That's it.

Read and enjoy! (and review!)

The Brotherhood Boarding House

"Yo Lance, when are we gonna meet this girl of yours?" Toad yelled, hopping off the walls of the beat down Brotherhood Boarding House.

It was late August now, the heat was beginning to subside to a dull annoyance. Unlike August, Toad was not subsiding, but had grown into an extreme annoyance.

Lance stomped inside. He'd avoided their questions up until now. He also knew that the Brotherhood knew exactly who he was seeing on a regular basis.

"I don't know what you numbskulls are talking about." He grumbled, a convincing performance.

Pietro sped into the living room just as Lance plopped down on the couch. It was obvious he'd been on a date again, Lance was wearing jeans without holes and a button down blue shirt. "Oh come on Lance. Give up the charade. We all know you're dating Kitty."

Lance was silent. He had no need to admit anything now. If that's how Pietro wanted it then fine.

"Lance and Kitty sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Toad sang.

"Knock it off!" Lance yelled, his eyes rolling to the back of his head and the floor shaking violently.

"Aw, man!" Toad screamed, covering his head with his arms from the onset of debris falling from the ceiling.

"Lance! Do you want to bring the whole house down?" Pietro yelled above the rumbling. The shaking subsided, but Lance's irritation did not.

"Why do you care anyways?" he spat.

Pietro threw his hands up. "Because she's an X-Man, Men, Women, whatever! The enemy! When Magneto finds out about this we'll all get it."

Lance frowned and opened his mouth to say something when Wanda walked in the door.

"Wanda! Sugar-plum!" Toad called, hopping over to her.

"Uck, get away from me Toad." She said shoving him into the wall. She held a pile of letters in her hands. "Here, everyone's got mail. It's from Bayville High."

"Oh what do they want now?" The Blob grumbled as he lumbered over to his chair from the stairs.

The quickster, Pietro, snatched his letter from his sister's hands. "'Dear Pietro Maximoff,'… blah blah blah… 'We would like to invite you to return to school this semester'?" He exclaimed. "'The new principle to replace'… terdwad… 'Mr. Kelly, extends a personal welcome to the occupants of the Brotherhood Boarding House. You will be allowed three weeks of grace period, if your behavior is too severe you will be expelled again. Sincerely, the administration of Bayville High and new principle Nicholas Darth!'" He glanced around the room at the other Brotherhood's equally shocked faces. "They can't do that can they? I thought expelled meant expelled!"

"Apparently they can." Lance muttered darkly. "I say we take their invitation and make school another Hell for those X-Geeks!"

Ty was sitting at the desk in his room typing up a storm. He had a deadline to meet and was getting pissed off by the errors he was getting from his code. Most were logic-errors, which drove him crazy, because that meant it was him messing up. His hands ached from typing for so long. A faint heat was being emitted from his hands, but he had gotten it under control over the past couple weeks, he was no longer in danger of melting his keyboard.

Although he wasn't telling anyone he was excited for the image inducer he was supposed to be receiving. The professor was fine tuning it so Ty could look just like he did before his mutation took hold. It had been over two years since he'd saw his real face.

There was a faint knock on his door. Quickly saving his work, Ty got up and rushed to it. Kurt was standing in his doorway wearing a smile.

"Come on, Ty, the professor just finished calibrating your image inducer! Trust me, you'll love it." He finished by switching on his own hologram. Fuzzy blue Kurt was replaced by a pale, blue-black haired one.

Ty almost smiled, but then closed his mouth quickly. His grin was one full of razor sharp shark teeth, a horrifying look to him. He never realized that Kurt didn't care, Kurt was just happy to share his misery with someone else.

Emerging from his room, Ty slid the gray hood off of his head. The red horns and the rest of the top of his head shined. Kurt had jokingly given him wax, but Ty was finding that he liked it. If he could take a little pride in being a mutant he felt more alive.

Kurt and Ty walked down to Xavier's study. Inside was Forge, the slightly crazy genius, who was standing next to the professor with a screwdriver and what looked like a wristwatch in his hands.

"You must be Tyler!" he said as the pair walked in. Ty nodded. "We matched up the image inducer perfectly with the photo you gave us." He gestured to a picture lying on the professor's desk.

It was of Ty, Benj, Leo, their mother, and step-father. Leo and Benj were in the center of the picture, with a blonde-haired middle aged woman behind on the left. She had amber eyes like Leo. Although she never admitted to it, Ty was pretty sure she had been a mutant as well. Next to her was a Hispanic man with dark tan skin, dark eyes, and hair. Pablo had married their mother when Leo was three. He was the only real father Leo ever had, and the only one Ty would refer to. His eyes were crinkled from smiling so much. On the right was Tyler, before his mutation. He had been brown-haired with the same icy blue eyes. His hair was straight, and he always had worn it close to his head. His teeth in the picture were slightly pointed, a symbol of what was to come. Soon after the picture was taken he had started to rapidly loose and grow teeth. And then came the red skin, first small patches, and then his whole body. The horns had grown in shortly after, as had his tail. Ty was overly thankful that Pablo hadn't left him when his mutation came, unlike his biological father who left as soon as he saw Leo's tail.

Ty took a deep breath. He wasn't sure if he was ready to see his old face after so long.

"Well, here you go." Forge said, handing him the watch. He waited until Ty had put it on, then pointed to a side button. "This one will turn on and off the hologram. All the other buttons are for the actual watch. If the image inducer becomes uncalibrated, turn the face of the clock once. Kurt can tell you what happens if you mess with it too much." He said with a laugh.

Kurt frowned slightly and muttered, "Don't remind me."

Ty pressed the on/off button. The air around him seemed to buzz slightly, and the light bent to form a hologram. Where a red demon had stood a second before, now stood a young man with light brown hair and similar features to the woman in the photo.

He looked down at his hands, they were completely not red. That's all he cared about really, the claw-like nails he could've dealt with.

The professor rolled up to him and handed him a mirror. "Well what do you think Tyler?" he asked.

Ty inhaled sharply. He looked just like the man in the photo, the man that was no longer him. But now, now he could go outside without be mocked, shunned, or persecuted. He was able to do everything he'd missed out on the past two years he'd lived in seclusion in their house in Michigan. He could attend meetings of the board of programmers finally. They could see his real face again, instead of him having to act like he was sick, or call and be the man on the speaker phone. Everything he'd missed in life over the past two years he could make up for.

"It's… it's amazing professor" he said, cracking a faint smile. He turned to Kurt. "Let's go out somewhere. I haven't been open in public for two years."

Kurt smiled. "Great! I was going to see a movie with Rogue and Benj, you can come with!"

Ty followed him out of the study after thanking the professor and Forge multiple times.

Charles chuckled, it was times like this that he felt the X-Men were making a real difference.

"Hey guys! There's letters for everyone from school!" Bobby yelled to the mansion. Beast had just brought in the mail, which consisted of… many letters.

A puff of smoke appeared next to Bobby, and Kurt and Leo came out of the dispersing cloud.

"School? Does it have our classes?" Leo wondered aloud.

"Who knows," Kurt said, grabbing his. More X-Men came filing out of the several hallways leading to the entrance hall. Bobby threw the other letters on a table to the side and ripped his open.

"Yep, it's got our schedules in here alright. Aw, man I got Mr. Fredrickson for English! There goes my chance of passing." He sighed, waving his schedule in the air.

Kurt glanced at his, then noticed the second sheet of paper inside the envelope. "Vat's this?" All the other X-Men had grabbed their letters by now. "Guys! Listen up!" he shouted. Everyone stopped.

"Did anyone else get this second sheet?" there was some murmuring as the others found the other piece of paper. "'Dear students,'" Kurt read aloud. "'The administration of Bayville High regrets to inform you that your principal, Mr. Kelly, has resigned to pursue his political career. The following is a message from your new principal, Mr. Nicholas Darth:

"'Hello, I am pleased to join you for this new school year. Following my predecessor I have decided to make some changes. Bayville High will be a model school this year, discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. As such a few new rules are being put into play. All sports teams will be required to have at least one mutant team mate, who must in turn agree to a no-powers contract. We will keep competition fair and diverse. Secondly bullying of any kind due to mutation, non-mutation, religion, sexual orientation, race, or the like will be met with the most severe punishments. This high school is where it started, and we will be a model school. Anyone who cannot abide by these rules will be asked to transfer.

'Sincerely Your New Principal,

'Nicholas Darth'" Kurt finished. There were several moments of silence.

"Nicholas Darth? Who the heck is that?" Rogue asked. This was going to be her senior year. "Ah mean Ah'm fine that Kelly's outah there but, Ah'm not sure if the othah human students will enjoy his new rules." She had a point.

Leo shrugged, he was as usual wearing a red sleeveless shirt, khaki shorts, and a shark tooth necklace. "I don't care too much. At my last school I got picked on pretty badly. I wasn't allowed on the soccer team after they found out I was a mutant." His face darkened for a second. His mind was flashing back to all the times jocks had stuffed him in lockers, trashcans, and tubas. He thought that he was a part of the band, and the soccer team but when it really counted they left him out in the cold. He snarled.

Benj put a hand on his shoulder, "Relax, remember, we're starting fresh here." He gestured to the X-Men, "And this time we have friends who will back us up."

"That's right!" Kurt said. "Now let's see who you guys have this year." Kurt took Leo's schedule, "Junior year and you're taking biology?"

Leo shrugged, he'd held off taking Biology until his last two years so he could pursue a career in the Biology field. "Why not?"

"Well, at least you got the good biology teacher."

The Brotherhood Boarding House

The Brotherhood guys were fighting about returning to school. Lance was all for it, for two reasons: One, he got to rub it in the X-Men's faces, and two, because he got to be with Kitty more that way. Pietro, on the other hand, was not about to head back to school. He didn't think they should give in.

As the argument escalated into shouts, the front door knob turned. All argument stopped.

The door flew open and in walked Magneto.

Wanda stood up, "Father?"

He walked into the living room wearing a suit and tie. It was completely bizarre. "Hello, my Brotherhood." Magneto said, smiling.

"Magneto? What are you doing here?" Lance asked carefully.

"I have a job for you."

Pietro ran a hand threw his white hair, "Just what kind of job?"

"Yo, I can't believe all Magneto wanted us to do was check out our new principal!" Toad whined as he and Quicksilver watched the man leave the school building.

Pietro was twice as pissed off. First because Magneto hadn't made contact with them for weeks, second because he asked them to follow the new principal Darth around, and thirdly because he gave the job of messing with the X-Men to Lance! He, Blob, and Wanda were guaranteed to already be making trouble at the abandoned mall. And Pietro loved giving the stupid X-Men a hard time.

"I mean what does he expect us to find out? The man is ten time more boring than a can of soup!" Toad grumbled on.

"A can of soup? Really Toad? In what world does that make sense?" Pietro asked. Toad shrugged and went back to trying to catch the fly buzzing around his head.

Pietro sighed, and watched the new principal get into his car. The man had jet black hair that was buzzed close to his head, eerie purple colored eyes, and a faded blue wavy scare that ran over his left eye. His suit was the same jet black as his hair, and he wore a silver tie.

Quicksilver and Toad were on top of the school building dressed in everyday clothes. As Darth got into his car he looked straight at them and waved. Quicksilver's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

"He knew we were here the whole time! How the hell did he know?" He cried, kicking Toad.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Toad yelled, clutching his bruised leg. "How am I supposed to know?"

Darth's car began to pull out of the parking lot. "Come on Toad, we better follow him."

Things had settled back down at the Xavier Institute. The teens were comparing schedules and playing video games, trying to squeeze in as much free time as they could before school started.

Ty was proving himself to be a gaming expert. Bobby invited him to play Call of Battle with him, Ray, and Sam. Ty was whooping all of their butts at the same time.

"Aw, man! That's the fifth time ya've killed me!" Sam whined meekly. They had just started a second round of player vs. player combat, and it was only forty-five seconds into the game.

Ty shrugged as his character on screen took aim at Bobby's.

"Nnoooooooooooo!" Bobby yelled. "I had a 10-hit killing streak! Aw, now I have to start all over!"

Leo chuckled from the side of the couch. "You wanted him to play with you icicle, and you got it."

"I play winner!" A higher pitched voice said, Jamie.

"No way, Jamie, this game is far too advanced for your mind." Bobby said.

"No, wait." Ty said. "Jamie, you can take my controller. I've got a deadline to meet anyways."

Bobby complained loudly at first, but the red-skinned mutant got up and walked away anyways.

'X-Men, I need to see Scott, Jean, Rogue, Kitty, Kurt, and Bobby down in Cerebro. Now. The Brotherhood is causing trouble again.' The professor's mental voice rang out.

"All right! Goin' on a mission" Bobby cheered as he threw his controller to Leo.

The old abandoned mall was to the west of the Institute on the very outskirts of town. After the Bayville mall had opened this one lost all its customers to the newer mall.

The X-Van pulled up to the cracked pavement parking lot. The X-Men filed out of the van and looked around.

"Why would the Brotherhood want to cause trouble here?" Nightcrawler asked, gesturing around to the abandoned building. Weeds grew up through the cracks in the ground, and tall grass had taken root everywhere.

Across the parking lot sitting on a huge broken chunk of cement was the Brotherhood. Avalanche grinned smugly and stood up from his seat on the cement.

"Well look who it is, the X-Geeks. I heard you got some new recruits! I was hopin' to meet them, maybe show them that they made the wrong choice!" He yelled as he took a stance and held his hand out. The ground began to shake violently, buckling and heaving under the X-Men's feet.

Most of the X-Men stumbled back, but Nightcrawler used his agility to hope over the pulsing ground to tackle Avalanche. Instantly the ground settled down.

"X-Men, go!" Cyclops shouted. He sent an optic blast toward The Blob, but Wanda's hands glowed blue and she deflected it.

"Gonna hafta do better than that Summers!" Blob yelled, rushing toward him. He raised a massive fist and tried to bring it down on Cyclops' head. He dodged to the side and blasted Blob from behind. The energy's impact sent the giant teen flying through the air.

Iceman created a wall of ice for Blob to smash through, hoping to knock him out. Instead Blob's flight was ended early, and the ice fell around him.

Avalanche finally managed to throw Nightcrawler off of him, and he sent a fissure toward Cyclops. Scott still had his attention focused on Blob who was shaking of ice shards from Iceman's wall. Suddenly the ground gave out beneath him and his leg fell into a rapidly growing crack.

"Watch where you step Summers!" Avalanche taunted.

"Ah'd say the same to ya, Lance."

He whirled around and came face-to-face with Rogue and Shadowcat. "Rogue!" He extended his hand again, but this time Rogue grabbed him and flipped him over. He landed hard on a large piece of upturned cement.

"Lance, like what the hell are you doing?" Kitty said with a dangerous edge.

Before he could answer, a blue light hit Rogue square in the chest.

The Scarlet Witch and Jean had been fighting for several minutes, but Wanda had succeeded in subduing Jean by trapping her beneath a slab of concrete. She was now moving on to Rogue.

Rogue groaned, then got up and ran at Wanda. Since Rogue had no powers that the witch could exploit easily, the fight became hand-to-hand combat.

Kitty turned back to Lance, who was draped on a block of concrete. "What are you doing here?" She growled.

He shook his head. "Kitty, I-I uh…"

"Oh you idiot," Kitty whispered, and left him laying on the hard concrete to free Jean.

Rogue took off one of her gloves, and was trying to get in close enough to touch Wanda. Not that she really wanted the girl inside her head again, but the fight was getting dragged out. She dodged blue streaks of energy, and swung her fists at Wanda.

Rogue at last caught Wanda with a kick in the stomach, causing the witch to buckle over. Taking her opportunity, Rogue placed her bare hand on Wanda's face.

A surge of life force syphoned from Wanda into Rogue. She scanned the battlefield. Lance was still laying on the concrete, she was starting to suspect that she'd injured him; and Cyclops, Bobby and Nightcrawler were facing off with The Blob. In the corner of her eye she saw Shadowcat phasing through a piece of concrete that had trapped Jean.

"Alright," she said frustrated, "Ah'm tired of this." She held her hands out and used Wanda's powers to encase Blob in blue light. He yelled in anger as she lifted him up and flung him across the parking lot and into the run-down mall.

"Alright, Lance. Why were ya and ya stupid team here?" She asked angrily. "And more importantly, where are Toad and Quicksilvah?"

Lance groaned as he turned toward her. With a second look Rogue could now see that his knee was twisted. "How should I know? Magneto gave us our assignments."

"Gawd, Lance, your leg." Rogue sighed. "Ya can come back to the Institute if ya need ta."

Lance scrunched up his face in a mix of pain and disgust. "I'd rather face Magneto."

The other X-Men walked over.

"Has anyone else noticed that Quicksilver and Toad are missing?" Kurt asked.

The last rays of light stretched over the downtown of Bayville. Toad sat on top of a bell tower atop of a church. His beady red eyes were focused on a pitch black car in the midst of traffic. He turned on his comm-link.

"Yo, Pietro. I got a visual on our new principal's car." He said into the mike. "I'm gonna start tailin' it."

"Bzzzt- Roger that Toad, I'll follow it from the street." A white blur sped through the diminishing crowds on the sidewalk.

The traffic light changed to green, allowing the principal's car to continue on. Toad hopped from rooftop to rooftop, alongside the black car. On the sidewalk below Pietro would run a little ways then pose casually and get another view of the car.

The chase continued for nearly another twenty minutes, it seemed that Principal Darth was taking every twist and turn he could. He had led the two Brotherhood boys in circles, but they didn't give up the chase.

Pietro stopped again and watched as the car turned a corner down an alley that he knew was a dead end.

"Finally!" He exclaimed, speeding around the corner. Magneto had given him specific instructions on what to do when they caught up. Pietro's old man had his suspicions.

As he turned the corner he came to a screeching halt. He was staring at an empty blank wall at the end of the alley. There was no car in sight.

"What the hell?" He yelled. Toad dropped down from the rooftop above.

"What are we stoppin' for?" He asked. "Did you lose the car?"

Pietro gestured angrily at the alley. "The car is GONE!"

The Brotherhood had returned to the Brotherhood Boarding House. Spirits were incredibly low.

Lance had his leg propped up on the coffee table. As much as he didn't want to, he still had needed the X-Men to take a look at his leg. Rogue had twisted his knee when she flipped him. It wasn't too serious, he just needed a brace, but it was humiliating being beaten by the X-Men and then he had to ask for help from them.

"Well that could've gone better." Lance grumbled.

"No kidding," Pietro and Wanda said together.

"Actually," a deep voice said. Magneto strolled in the room, wearing a gray suit and red tie. "everything went according to plan."

Ooooh! Foreshadowing! Tune in next time. And yes of course there will be Darth Vader jokes coming. I'll be taking a short writing break due to projects and finals that threaten to kill me. (YAY!)