Author Notes: Once again, I would like to thank everyone who review, fav and alerted this. It makes me always giggle with glee at the site of a new one. It will only be a matter of time though for the big reveal of how Magneto got his hands on Peter. But of course, there will be clues and little bits of information that I am sure you all will stink your teeth into. Anyway! Here is pretty much the first fight between the two sides to enjoy and pretty much a more clear idea where the story started in the timeline. Goodness knows it is hard to figure out in the first season when I tried watching and researching it.

Remember! I only on the idea! Not the characters!

CHAPTER THREE: MIDDLEVERSE

The start of the week should have really told him what the tone of how it was going to go for Peter. Even more so when he was force to spend it with the others. Well, he wasn't really force to hang around them as they never seem to think to step into the library and he didn't really have classes with any of them. It was mostly at lunch and after school anyway.

God, after school was not Peter's favorite time as they would all pile into Lance's jeep in a small space. Not to mention there really wasn't much in the way of food at the boarding house. Most of it seemed to feed Fred and Pietro due to their mutations. It was pretty much get in fast, grab something and retreat upstairs to his room to get his homework done and study.

But other than that, life was pretty much normal. It stuck ass, but he hadn't fought any of the X-Men or gotten into trouble. So, bonus points for that.

It wasn't as if Peter hated his roommates…he didn't really…though it was so easy in the case of Toad.

The boy didn't know the word bath.

They each had their own ticks, he just had to do his best to avoid them and stay out of the way. It was the same way he dealt with the kids at Midtown.

But even at Bayville, trouble seemed to find its way toward him.

"Don't you even care if you pass or not?" said Peter as he walked along with Lance and Fred on the Friday, end of Peter's first week. They just finish their English class after lunch and they had to move on to the next one, "You can't seriously think you are going to pass just by the skin of your teeth? What about after high school. Don't you want a good job?"

Fred snorted, "What does it matter? No one cares about guys like us."

Lance snorted, "It's all about the label. One look at us, and trouble and lost cause they see us as."

A sigh escape Peter's lips as they turned the corner and looked ahead only to see a couple of the so called X-Men in front of them. He never really talked to them after his first day, they kept their distance and Peter didn't want to cause trouble. But that seem like he couldn't avoid it as both of them looked pissed off for some reason or another as they glared at them.

"What are you looking at, Summers?" asked Lance as they just walked on through, Peter kept back as he held tight to his book bag. He didn't want to fight, really didn't want to fight in the middle the school's hallway. He didn't want to show that hey, he wants mutants to rule over humans, to crush them under his heel. Peter knew it wasn't true, but he couldn't tell them that.

He would be screw if he did, Aunt May would be in trouble…and…

"Where's Kurt?" asked Summers.

"Ha, like we would tell you?" scoffed Fred.

Peter looked confused. Kurt? The German guy? To his knowledge, none of them mess with him all day. At least, Peter was pretty sure as he never did anything all day except go to classes.

"What about your new buddy here? Decided to test him out on Kurt to show off what he can do," hissed Summers as he pointed at Peter, who was pretty much shock at the idea.

"W-W-What?! I didn't-can't-" protested Peter.

"Parker didn't do anything to the furball," said Lance.

That didn't seem to be the answer that he wanted as the guy in the shade charged forward and grabbed a hold of Lance of the shirt to only bash him against the locker.

"Scott!" the redhead called out.

"I said, where is he?" demanded Summers.

"Get off of me,"

"What have you done with Kurt?"

Oh this was not going good at all. Peter frozen in shock as a crowd of students started to form around them. A fight was going to happen and pretty much he was in the middle of it. Even more so when Fred grabbed a hold of Summers and lifted him off of Lance and ground, "Back off, Slim!"

"Put him down!" shouted the girl.

"Back off Red or I will rock ya," growled Lance.

"Guys, come on, we're drawing a crowd here," said Peter as other students watch on with glee, chanted that they want to see a throw down.

God, why did these things happen to him?

"What is going on here!?"

The loud authority voice was enough to scared off the crowd, to show the appearance of Ms. Darkhome and walked down at them with a mission in hand. That was not a good sign for any of them as there was nothing more than a piss off principal. At least, she would mostly favor them…right?

"We weren't doing nothin'," said Fred, still held Summers in the air.

"Yeah, Summers here went ballistic, trying to start a fight with Parker for no reason," added Lance.

"Why, why bring me into it more than I am already am?"

"Oh, I got a reason," said Summers as Fred finally dropped him to the ground. He looked like he was going to lash out if his friend didn't stop him.

"Quiet!" shouted Ms. Darkhome, "You two come with me now."

That didn't leave room for questions as Summers and the redhead trailed on after Ms. Darkhome. Dark looks were exchanged as Lance and Fred seem to take pleasure in the fact the two of them got into trouble and they were for once scott free of this mess for once..

"Ha! Can you believe the look on Summers' face. I never seem him so piss! And Ms. Prefect in trouble too, this is awesome," laughed Lance as they walked down the hallway.

"Yeah, what a loser," said Fred, but it left Peter puzzle.

"But why would he think we did something to Kurt?"

"Who cares," said Lance with a wave of his hand as the two of them walked off.

It only cause Peter to worry more as he watch the two X-Men left with Ms. Darkhome, and had to wonder for a second if they knew who she was under it all. It wasn't his problem and Peter already had enough on his shoulder as he better head out. He started to head to his last class of the day before he noticed Rogue. She was there too, hiding behind an open locker door as she watched on.

"Hey," he said.

That seemed had caught her off guard and slammed the door shut on his face. Peter felt a familiar tingle and took to backing off a bit.

"What do you want?"

"Hello to you too," said Peter, with a frown, "I just wanted to see what was up, even though you were hiding here."

"Ah wasn't hidin'," she protest, "Beside, Ah don't want to get into trouble cause ya stupid fights."

"You think I do?"

"Ah didn't see ya try and stop them."

She got him with that one. He didn't really try and stop Lance or Fred or the X-Men from fighting. He just didn't want to get involve so he stood back…yeah, that pretty much was it. Peter didn't want to make everyone issues and problems his own. It might help Peter become more attach and grow to 'like' them when he just wanted nothing more than to run back to New York.

"It isn't like I could do anything…."

Rogue only scoffed at him as she stared to walk away.

Great, Not Peter felt more like crap.

That feeling didn't go as he went to his last class of the day and moved through the motions. It wasn't like he couldn't take them down without being busted anyway. Come on, weren't they not supposed to use their powers in public or try to keep it on the low down.

Beside, why should he be concern about Kurt anyway, the guy was most likely hiding or something. They might have found him already so no big deal. Anyway, Peter wanted to call Aunt May and catch up. He never had been away from her for so long. He just wanted to hear her voice, to reaffirm the reason why the heck he was here.

"You little toad!"

Mystique being upset with any of the members of the Brotherhood wasn't anything new. She would always shout at them for one reason or another. Mostly at Todd for the mess he always left around the place with his slime and other reasons. There was also always the fight and the massive repairs she had to pay for if there was 'accidents' when the boys fought each other.

But when that little pest caused her office and her brand new car to disappear, she wasn't happy.

Toad leaped out of the way of the chair she threw at him, "Come on, it was just a joke," he said with a nervous laugh.

"I'll show you a joke when I get my hands on you and ring your neck."

She took a hold of a lamp and threw it as Avalanche opened the door as the rest of the Brotherhood started to come back to the boarding house as school ended.

"Duck!"

The four of them did so as the lamp flew over their head and outside with a loud crash. The boys stared and could see the living area that was somewhat livable when they left this morning was a whole lot more of mess now that they had return. At the sight of a piss off Mystique, they all knew that they should just keep their mouth shut. Even more so when she glared at them with hate and anger in her eyes than normal.

"Where is Rogue?" she demanded.

"I don't know," said Avalanche as they entered inside, "She didn't want a ride home, so she could be at the mall or something."

"I bet she still at school, yo," said Toad, "she was in this hidden lab last time I saw her, found that machine that got rid of one of the X-Geeks."

"What? She did that?" gasped Parker.

"The machine that you use to screw up with my car and office!" screeched Mystique.

"Y-Y-Yeah…"

Now while she was completely angry with the fact he caused her brand new car to disappear and not to mention her office furniture. But if there was something out there that could make the X-Men disappeared, who she to question it

"Go and get her and that blasted thing, now!"

"No way, I'm not going to go chasing after that girl," protest Pietro, "There is a party tonight, girls wanting to be with me, and I'm not going to miss it to chase her around."

"You are going to and-"

She didn't have enough time to finish her rant before Pietro ran off in a blur and only left with the wind that blew through the room. That was pretty much a sign that he was gone and left the rest of them to fend for themselves.

And she wasn't going to let them get away that easily.

"You four! Suit up and get her and that device."

"But I want to call-" protested Parker only for her to stand right in front of him, displease and angry enough for him to shut his mouth.

"I don't care what you want right now," sneered Mystique, 'You have yet to prove yourself to the cause and that isn't good for you. So I suggest you join the others in getting Rogue and the device or else I report back to him."

Parker didn't really need to ask who 'him' was as he merely nodded his head.

It was only someone like Nightcrawler could get himself in a mess like this.

Cyclops was only glad that he was still ok, even though he didn't know what happen nor who that guy with Kurt was. He only just hoped that they would be fast enough before the portal close and they would be trapped wherever they are forever.

"There they are."

Not good as the X-Men turned around to see three of the Brotherhood members entered into the lab, already suit up and ready for a fight.

"And they still have that vap ray I was telling ya about," said Toad.

"Rogue, Mystique set us to find you," said Avalanche, "Are you with us or them?"

All attention turned to the two colo hair girl as she stood there, a mixture of shame across her face as she held her arms closer to her. Scott didn't want to believe it that she was actually with them, not after the help she had given them with trying to find Kurt.

"Mystique," he spoke, "You're working for her?"

She was quick to cover her emotions and seemed angry as she poked him in the chest, "Summers, ya got yer friends, Ah got mine."

With that said, she turned and walked away from them as she headed straight for the exit without a second glance, "But this ain't my fight. Ah'm out of here."

That just left them with a four on three fight still as the Brotherhood goons sneered, happy to have a throw down with them.

"Fork it over, losers," demand Fred.

'Yeah, or this place is going to fall down on your head," said Lance.

"The projector stays with us," said Cyclops as he reached up to his visor, "X-Men, keep that por-"

The order fell out as he found pain in his head as something from behind caught him off guard. He thought for sure the only thing behind him was the portal and the others. No one should have gotten the drop on him. But the truth was that someone did as he was on the ground because of the slip up.

Not that he had much time to recover as the ground started to rumble, a sure sign that the fight was on.

"The portal, keep them away," ordered Scott as they moved out to fight, only to see that the numbers even up in the second he looked up to spotted someone in a crouch position with red and black hoodie with some kind of spider design, the lower part of his face covered with a web design and goggles over his face. But it was clear enough to him who this was.

"We can finally see what you can do now, Parker," said Cyclops as he fired a shot at the young teen.

"Miss!" Parker cheered as he performed a backflip on to Blob's shoulders which hit him instead. Didn't do much damage as the heavy set mutant backed up with a stumble but Parker seemed to somehow stay on.

One of the many questions they had to ask when they found out that the new guy was a member of the Brotherhood was the fact that the professor never noticed him in the first place. When they told Professor Xavier about it, he tried to find Peter Parker on Cerebro, but he couldn't. It didn't seem possible for the computer to see the Brotherhood but not their new member. It was if he wasn't even a mutant to begin with.

Evan came up with some crazy theory that maybe the guy was something of an invisible man, made himself undetectable the prefect spy.

Given that Kurt disappeared like that this afternoon, Scott almost believed that idea for a bit.

"Jean, a little help here," called out Scott as he fired another beam at the Blob.

It off settled Fred a bit as Jean was able to focus in and tore the ground right from under his feet. With a cry of shock and surprise as he fell into the hole she created on to his back like a turtle. Parker easily leaped up and it was a surprise to see him on the ceiling and holding on without a problem. Scott reached to attempt to shoot him down, but found his vision block by something white and sticky.

"Scott!" called out Jean as he tried to get it off

"Lights out, one eye," mocked Parker as he took shooting something from his wrists at Jean's mouth to silence her, "And seriously, you would hurt ears with that shrieking."

"Ha, good one Spider," laughed Blob as he got back up and both sides seem to regroup. Scott blasted off the webbing from his visor but Jean struggled with the stuff on her face.

"All right, why not let us have it," demand Lance as the Brotherhood stood there…well, three of them while 'Spider' seem to be fine on the ceiling.

Time though was on their side as a loud honk and a car charged through the portal with Kurt and his new friend in the front. The car would have crash into a wall if it hadn't crashed into Fred first. Once the car came to a stop, the portal from the projector disappeared as well, which could be explain by the fact that the car crush it under its weight on its re-entry.

"Whoa…good thing I am the Blob," mumbled Fred.

"Heheh, ya," agreed Toad as they moved away from the remains of the car.

Lance turned to see the remains of the device and merely shrug his shoulder as there was nothing for them left here now, "Come on, guys. Party's over."

The three of them walked on out as Parker dropped down to the ground as he looked at the remains of the projector and then back at the X-Men. It was hard to tell his expression with his face covered up before he dashed his way out after the other Brotherhood members.

But it wasn't Scott's concern as they had to get that stuff off of Jean and make sure Kurt and they guy he brought with him were ok.