Chapter 76: Nothing but Trouble

-Castle Von Doom, Latveria-

"Here we are." Gavin said as he placed the various contracts in front of Doom as they were in his personal press office. "All we need is your signature to finalize everything." He added as the man took a pen.

"Of course." The man nodded as he signed the contracts after looking over them carefully. "There we are." He declared, flashes of newspaper cameras flashing as the deal was finished.

"Well this trip certainly went well." Rogue said, Amanda nodding in agreement. Damian meanwhile was busy making absurd little faces at the cameras, which got amused chuckles from the news crews.

(Later)

"It is a rare occurrence that I ever enjoy the company of those from outside of Latveria." Victor said as he saw the family off. "But I have indeed enjoyed this experience." He added honestly as he rubbed Damian on the head as the boy giggled. "If you ever find yourself in Latveria again, do not be afraid to say so." He continued before holding his hand out.

"I don't see why not." Gavin shrugged as he shook his hand.

"Until we meet again, Mrs. Shirakumo and family." The ruler said.

"Until next time." Amanda nodded. The group then took their leave for home.

(Elsewhere)

Meanwhile at the institute, Gabby was swinging her legs back and forth on the fountain as she and Laura watched their little brother play with Jonathan and Mr. T on the lawn.

It was then that they heard the sound of a trampoline somewhere near the fence. "Gabriella! Hey!" A voice said, causing them to turn and saw a familiar face bouncing over the other side of the fence on a trampoline that was held in place by several other boys. It was Diego and the Amigos. "Por aqui mi corazon! Over here!" The boy called as he continued to try bouncing over the fence to get their attention.

"Diego!" Gabby exclaimed happily as she ran over to the gate to let them in.

"Heyo!" The Amigos all said in unison as they came in. Laura walked over with a curious look.

"You know these guys, Gabby?" She asked.

"Yeah, these are my friends." Her sister nodded as she turned to them. The Amigos consisted of five latino boys. The leader of which was a boy with a hazelnut brown Mohawk and was wearing a zoot suit. The rest of them were all wearing different colored T-shirts. "This is Ramon Garcia, Nestor Cortez, Raul Ricardo, Lombardo Pedros, and Rinaldo Sonya." She said going from the Mohawked boy down to the last, whose head was shaved.

"And I am their leader, Diego Manolo Jesus Enrique DeSantez." Diego said while doing a small bow.

"Well I'm Laura Howlett. Welcome to the Institute, boys." The girl greeted the group. Drake meanwhile was still busy playing with his pets. "And that's our little brother, Drake." She added.

"Aw look at the little Chico!" Nestor smiled.

"Chica, you would not believe what just happened to us today." Ramond told the two.

"Why? What happened?" The cinnamon roll of a girl asked. The boys all grinned before they started recounting the story.

(Flashback)

At the park where the boys were practicing their music, Diego came screaming in on his bike with—we kid you not—Sabertooth on his tail, and in a moment he was sent over his handlebars and skidding next to the amigos while the beastial mutant slammed face first onto the concrete, skidding on it and trying to get up.

"Hey bro nice landing!" Ramon said as Diego dusted himself off.

"Eh I give it a 29.8." Nestor shrugged.

"I give up 10." Lombardo added before Sabertooth got up and lunged at them, but the kids backpedaled out of the way.

"Oh no no no, come on. Bring it, bring it on!" Ramon said as they all popped their hips out to egg the man on. "Kiss my tooshie!" He added as he turned around and spanked himself, the others minus Diego joining in.

"Kiss it kiss it!" They laughed.

"You little sausages. Come closer and I'll take you with ketchup." The blond man snarled as he tried to lunge at them again, but got the same results.

"First you gotta catch up!" Ramon jeered with a laugh, causing the man to growl. He then Tried to move towards them, but was having a hard time due to him still being dizzy.

"Ohhhh here he comes! You better move in half an hour!" Raul said as they started walking away from Sabertooth in slow motion before…

"RAAAAGH!" Sabertooth roared as he lunged at them only to miss again. But when Diego dodged, he did some dance moves without thinking.

"Hey! Nice moves, amigo!" The boys laughed before Sabertooth lunged again and slammed his face into the concrete causing a hole to form as he lifted it up.

"Ouch." He snarled.

"Oh, the little piggy got stuck." Raul said as the blonde slowly got up, his face healing as he put his nose back in place.

"Oh wait, no, he's leaving!" Nestor added as Sabertooth shook his head and spat out a loose tooth that replaced itself.

"Oh no, wait, that was his face!" Ramon exclaimed with a laugh, the others joining in as the man started turning around in aggravation.

"Remember dumplings, I know where you live." Sabertooth told them as he walked off.

"Yeah it's called land, lord face!" Nestor howled.

"Roll back any time, rubber butt!" Ramon called back to the man as he lumbered away.

"Yeah! See you later, scraggly!" Diego exclaimed before the others paused and laughed.

"That's cool. "See you Scraggly"!" Ramon laughed as they all started laughing.

(Flashback End)

"What?!" Laura almost shouted with a gaping expression.

"We put the hurt on that hombre." Diego laughed.

"Sent him crying home to mommy!" Lombardo added, this led to the rest of the boys howling in laughter.

Laura's mind was swimming. These kids-who she was pretty sure weren't mutants- just unknowingly had a close call against Sabertooth… And came out unscathed.

"That's so cool! You scared off Sabertooth!" Gabby smiled, Drake laughing at the story still as he rolled on the ground with Mr. T and Jonathan. It was at this point that Chelsea and Logan came to see them.

"Say what now?" The dragon queen asked.

"Gabby's friends here somehow managed to make Sabertooth leave them alone by making him trip up on himself over and over again." Laura told her. Chelsea let out an impressed whistle.

"Not bad, kids. Not bad at all." The woman praised.

"Bullshit." Logan said, crossing his arms as Gabby covered Drake's ears and Laura punched him in the arm.

"Let's tell him." Diego said as they started telling the story again.

(Elsewhere)

-Bayville train tunnels-

The brotherhood was riding a train to who knows where and during the whole ride, Wanda seemed to be rather upset. Though about what was unclear at the present moment.

Pietro glanced at her before noticing a man reading a newspaper with the recent act Apocalypse had done on the front page. With a sigh, he rushed by the man, blowing his apparent wig out of place in the process.

The man glared at them before leaving the train car as the silver haired boy crumpled up the newspaper. "Come on Wanda, so the old man bit the dust while picking a fight with another mutant, who gives a crap?" He said as he tossed the wad of paper over his shoulder.

"He was our father." The girl sighed.

"Well he wasn't exactly father of the year, sis. He wasn't as nice as you remember." The speedster retorted, getting a hiss from Daken to try and get him to shut up as Wanda powers flared and bent a support bar.

"You'd do well to shut your mouth." The Mohawked teen hissed.

"What? It's true. She hated him." The speedster stated, causing Wanda to clutch her head.

"Shut up!" She yelled before her powers flared again and then they started warping the train tracks, which then caused the train to go off the rails and crash, destroying the tunnel they were in and sending them flying.

(Elsewhere)

Gavin, Rogue and Damian soon arrived at the institute after Xavier had Scott pick them up. Rogue held Damian close to her chest as the three year old slept. After the plane ride, he was out like a light, the poor little guy.

"Welcome home you guys." Lance said as he worked on his Jeep, Kitty sitting on the fender next to him. The girl was currently dressed in a tank top and short shorts, the left strap of the shirt sliding off her shoulder.

"Yeah! Like, how was your trip? Where'd you even go?" Kitty added.

"It went well, and it was in Latveria." Gavin replied, causing them to pause.

"Uh, did I hear that right?" Lance asked, getting a nod from Scott.

"You did." The shaded teen nodded.

"Whoa, but isn't Latveria like—super authoritarian?" Kitty questioned.

"No, actually. It's surprisingly anti authoritarian up close. Even if the restrictions on freedom of assembly and press are a little too strict for my tastes." Gavin noted. "The good doctor has no problems with freedom of speech or expression and oddly enough, takes criticism in stride." He added. "It was honestly pretty surprising."

"Yeah. Ah was pretty surprised by what it was like there." Rogue nodded. "Their laws and constitution are pretty similar to ours. But it's definitely more monarchy focused."

"Makes sense." Scott shrugged.

"But it's Doom's love for his people that really caught me off guard." Gavin added. "He was adamant about the deals that we were making, having to benefit all of his people for him to even consider it. He made a point to make sure that X-Tremeade was absolutely safe for humans and mutants. And he even said he'd be willing to help us with the fight against Apocalypse."

"But if one drop of Latverian blood was spilled, he would not hesitate to declare war on the world." Rogue nodded as Damian yawned as she rocked him in her arms. "I even saw him help a little girl who hurt herself when she bumped into him. In person, Dr. Doom is one of the kindest monarchs I've ever met."

The others absorbed the information, and as they did, the image of Dr. Doom as a loving father figure to his people was painted in their minds. It was something they hadn't expected.

"Seems we were too quick to judge old metal face." Lance said finally.

"Yeah, but you gotta admit he can be a bit… extreme sometimes." Kitty added.

"Well he's not perfect or the most innocent of people. But he's definitely not pure evil either." Gavin shrugged, before they all heard a huge explosion in the distance. "What the-!" He exclaimed in surprise as he snapped his head in the direction of the blast.

"That looks like it came from the train station downtown." Lance said, it was at this point that Devin and Roxy came running their way.

"The train's been derailed, and there's people trapped inside. We just heard it on the news." Roxy told them.

"We should go and see if we can help." Devin added.

"Right as we just got back…" Gavin sighed as he and Rogue rushed to get themselves ready.

(Elsewhere)

Back with the Brotherhood, they were slowly coming to and Toad was panicking as he tried to find an exit, and Wanda was accidentally pinned underneath a collapsed part of the train car ceiling by her midsection.

"There's no exit!" Toad exclaimed in a panicked tone as Daken woke up and spotted Wanda under the debris before rushing to help her. Fred woke up and spotted Wanda too before going to help the scraggly teen.

"On three! Ready?!" Daken exclaimed.

"Ready!" The obese teen replied with a nod.

"One, two, three!" The son of Wolverine counted as the two lifted the metal off their friend. Wanda gasped as she clutched her side, her ribs having been damaged due to the collapse. Daken quickly picked her up and turned to Fred. "Blob. Do us all a favor and start making a door." He ordered.

"You got it!" The teen nodded as he started storming through the doors to the cars of the train, creating an exit for everybody. Everyone soon started bolting and the civilians followed suit, but one poor unfortunate soul—an elderly woman who seemed to be paralyzed—-was unable to move due to her wheelchair being damaged beyond repair.

"Help! Someone!" She called, hoping someone would hear her. Right as Daken was running, he heard the woman calling out and quickly ran to help her.

"I'm getting you out of here!" He told her as he picked her up and threw her on his back before he started running for the exit, carrying both her and Wanda. The brotherhood then ran through the train and out of the tunnel like a pack of bats outta hell right as the fire department arrived and the train was about to blow.

"How many people are left down there?!" One of the firefighters asked urgently.

"Just three." Toad said as he bucked a guy off him. "Hey get off!" He yelled as the train blew and Daken came walking out to the smoke carrying Wanda and the old woman.

"Can I get two gurneys over here? I'm not sure how much longer I can hold these two!" He called as the X-men watched them.

"Well I'll be a monkey's uncle." The pseudo vampire said in surprise.

"This is unexpected." Devin added in equal surprise.

"Since when are they the rescuing type?" Kitty added.

"They're not." Lance told her. "At least not from what I remember." He continued.

"It's probably a one-off." Scott shrugged as some press members started interviewing the Brotherhood.

"I wouldn't hold my breath on that." Gavin muttered as he watched Toad start boasting.

(The next day)

Gavin sat at the other side of a pane of glass at the New York federal penitentiary, where the former principal of Bayville High, Edward Kelly sat in an orange jumpsuit at the other side. Damian sat in his father's lap, his little arms folded and his face contorted in a mock glare that seemed more adorable than intimidating.

"Meanie!" The three year old spat as he pointed at Kelly angrily.

"That he is, son." The pseudo vampire nodded before looking at the man. "Enjoying life behind bars, Kelly? I hear this Prison has pretty good mystery meat rations." He jeered.

"Shut it, you freak! It's your fault I'm in here suffering instead of doing what needs to be done!" The man growled angrily.

"Needs to be done? Don't make me laugh. Your way of thinking is in the minority nowadays, even with Apocalypse running around." The boy scoffed. "And besides, it's not my fault you're here. You're the one who spread lies about mutants. You caused the division that ruined your reputation. And it was you who gave Duncan the gun he used to try and murder Scott and Jean. All I did was bring your crimes to the light." He retorted, his son nodding in smug agreement.

"Uh Huh." The tyke nodded as Gavin rubbed his head, arms crossed.

"Your kind are a menace to the public! All of you need to be caged and exterminated to keep humanity pure!" Kelly barked in a fanatical tone, much to the young CEO's disgust.

"Are you sure you're not related to Hitler?" The boy retorted. "Because that's exactly what he said about Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and anyone who wasn't white or German." He added. A few guards that were listening in silently agreed with that sentiment.

"I don't need to justify myself to you, or that hideous little rat in your lap you call a child." The former principal spat. If it weren't for Damian's age, the tyke would flip him off. So he just huffed indignantly and folded his arms instead, blowing a raspberry at him.

"... if we weren't separated by glass right now… I'd kill you." Gavin snarled as he covered his son's ears as he leaned forward. "You better watch your back, Kelly, you see I have a business deal with some of the inmates here. They work in my factories for reductions in their sentences. And they'll do anything for extra hours, and I mean anything." He added. His words caused the racist man to gulp nervously.

"What are you implying?" Kelly asked. Gavin then grinned evilly as he leaned forward, his fangs flashing.

"They could get carless, cause an accident… one that'd be fatal for you." The mutant stated warningly. "And since the inmates who like to exercise get X-Tremeade to drink, it makes this place even more dangerous for you." He added. "Mark my words, Eddie, your days are numbered. You hear me? You will regret ever insulting my son in front of me… from six feet under."

The former principal sweated nervously at his words. He'd seen the glares he got from the inmates here that worked at the X-Tremade factories, and he never felt safe outside of his cell. He felt like a guppy in front of a dozen hungry sharks.

Gavin signaled to the guards that he was done before picking Damian up and getting up, the toddler blowing another raspberry at the man as they walked away.

"Well, I didn't like his attitude one bit, what about you buddy?" The boy asked his son.

"He's a dummy!" The toddler huffed in reply.

"Took the words right outta my mouth." His father nodded as they left the building. "I know, how about we go get a hot dog at Stan's stand before getting some Ice Cream with your mom. Whaddya say?" He asked.

"Yay!" Damian cheered happily.

(Elsewhere)

"Can you believe this balony?" Kitty said as she tossed the newspaper on the table, Chelsea, Logan and Scott looking at it while Gabby was busy reading the funny pages with Drake and Laura.

"These twerps? Heroes? I doubt that." The dragoness huffed.

"Akihito never really struck me as the heroic type, wonder what's changed?" Logan wondered.

Scott then took the paper and looked at it with Lance before they took it to Xavier who was working on the construction proposal for Latveria's Institute with Rogue.

"Hm. This is unusual, indeed. Perhaps they've started to change." The man mused.

"No way, there's no chance those clowns would save anyone but themselves." Scott said.

"I'm with Scotty on this one, those guys aren't the heroic type. Take it from a guy who's lived with 'em." Lance added.

"Perhaps, but this incident could show them the benefits of being the good guys." Xavier stated. "Hopefully they'll stay out of trouble."

"I highly doubt that. Now that they've had a taste, they'll probably milk it for its worth." The tremor generating teen said with a shake of his head.

"Right. And it's only a matter of time until they mess it up." Scott added.

"Let's pray it doesn't, Ah don't need the extra headache." Rogue sighed, putting her hand on her forehead.

"Do you need to take time off, Rogue? You seem rather worn out." Xavier noted.

"That'd be nice, but I don't want to dump all my work on you." She told him.

"I'm sure I can handle it. You must take care of yourself as well as your work, Rogue." The bald telepath told her.

The southern belle nodded as she decided to set her things down and went to the kitchen to get some water to take some Advil.

"He's right, you know." Chelsea told her. "My family is practically filled with former workaholics, so I know what working all the time can do to you, and your family." She added seriously.

"Ah'll take that advice, then." Rogue sighed as she downed her meds and drank some water. It was at this point that Gavin walked in with Damian, both carrying hot dogs.

"Hey Anna." The boy said as he kissed her on the cheek cheek and handing her one of the dogs. "Me and Damian were wondering if you'd like to go get ice cream with us if you're not busy."

"Oh, Ah could go for chocolate ice cream right now…" Rogue sighed longingly.

"Let's go, then." Gavin beckoned as he walked out of the room. Rogue immediately followed after him, Damian crawling into his mother's arms.

"These kids have way too much time on their hands." Chelsea said simply, watching her kids snicker at the funny pages and Laura get stumped with the crossword puzzles.

"What exactly did you expect? They're not eligible for real jobs yet." Logan shrugged.

"Most of them anyway." Chelsea said as she read the article on Gavin's deal with Doom on the second page.

(A few days later)

In the days following, The Brotherhood had been solving problems left and right. The rate of which seemed to be a little too trendy to be a coincidence. It made everyone else suspicious.

"Am i the only one who finds this way too coincidental?" Bast asked as she and Johan had breakfast at the institute with Katerina and Romano.

"Nope. There's a pattern here." Romano nodded. Marcus meanwhile wasn't paying attention.

"Well, all this good publicity that the kids are drumming up is doing me some good at least." The man said.

"How so?" Chelsea asked, the Italian American then held up a contract.

"I finally got permission to open up my weed shop downtown." He told them.

"Something tells me you're gonna get a lot of business, then. Don't ask. It's just a hunch." Katerina stated with a shrug.

"Congratulations Marc." Romano said.

"Yeah." Bast added. Johan, meanwhile, seemed concerned.

"So today I learned that Edward Kelly's been moved from Gen pop to solitary confinement." He told them. This actually took them by surprise.

"Wait, what? Why?" His lover asked.

"The other inmates have been attempting to off him several times over the course of the past few days. One attempt nearly succeeded." The man explained.

"Damn. I know the guy's a prick, but I didn't think the inmates would try to kill him." Bobby said with a wince.

"Who gives a fuck? He's a racist Neo nazi in disguise. We'd be better off with him dead." Gavin huffed.

"That's kinda dark, Gav." Roxy stated, getting a scoff from the pseudo vampire.

(Elsewhere)

"So what do you think we should do now? I mean we already got a lot of stuff so far." Fred asked as he sat down.

"I wanna keep getting famous. I mean look at this, we're only on the third page!" Toad said as he looked at the newspaper.

"You're all so petty, what we should be thinking about is how we can use this fame and power to worm one of our mayor candidates into our pockets." Daken told them. "That way his decisions will be dependent on us."

"Dude's got a point." Pietro nodded.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Wanda asked as she laid on the couch, her ribs still wrapped in bandages.

"I've worked with the Yakuza. Trust me, it's the right move." Daken told her. "And the extremely pro mutant candidate Mayor Richardson is perfect for just that." He added. "His opponent is just a liberal who doesn't care about either humans or mutants, just getting money from the taxpayers. With Richardson in our pockets? We as well as all mutants in Bayville stand to benefit."

"Now there's an idea." Toad said, a smirk on his face.

"Let's pay him a visit then, shall we?" Daken said as the rest of the boys chuckled.

(Elsewhere)

Back at the institute Gavin and Devin were both with their girlfriends, the pseudo vampire kissing Rogue's neck and making out with her, while the living terminator was busy kneading his girlfriend's ass and motorboating her breasts as the grey skinned girl gave him a lap dance.

"You like that?" The girl purred as she rubbed her supple ass against the bulge in her boyfriend's pants.

"Oh, that feels good." Devin grunted. Roxy smiled as she took off their shirts and rubbed her bare breasts against his chest, and then pushed his pants down to get to the rod inside, before she started licking it.

Meanwhile with Rogue and Gavin, the young CEO currently had his girlfriend bent over their bed, both already completely stripped, as he grabbed her hips from behind and mounted her.

"Damn, I've missed this!" Gavin groaned as he thrusted into his girlfriend.

"So big! Oh that feels so much better!" The girl moaned as she was ravaged by her lover from behind as he squeezed her breasts.

Little did they know that their activities were causing a few other people to feel rather horny. Namely Logan and Chelsea. The blonde dragoness threw her head back on the pillows as she and her husband laid in bed together, both feeling rather frustrated, Chelsea especially.

"I can hear them through the walls." She groaned.

"Yeah? So? How is that our business?" He questioned.

"I'm frustrated. That's how it's our business." Chelsea huffed.

"Well what do you want to do about it?" Logan asked.

"I got an idea." The dragon queen growled before she started making out with Logan. Deciding to take charge, the man flipped her over and got on top of her and sucked on her breasts.

"Okay, what position do you want this to be in?" He questioned.

"I'll gladly take it from behind!" Chelsea moaned before she was flipped on her stomach with her ass in the air.

"You are such an animal." He snarled as he bit the back of her neck, her weak spot. This caused her to moan as he mounted her and started slamming into her.

"So… Are you!" She moaned as she was ravaged.

(Elsewhere, the next morning)

The brotherhood stood in front of the campaign office of candidate Richardson as the man was getting his next campaign move ready. "So, Mr. Richardson." Pietro said as he and the guys stood in front of him. "How'd you like to enter a little partnership with a team of heroes?" The speedster asked as he and his team all smirked.

Dragon Emperor0: Well, seems like the boys are certainly making the most of their current situation.

ThermalsniperN7: Yep, and Kelly is still a prick, apparently. Seems like he can't learn.

Dragon Emperor0: You see, that's what racism looks like. So I have no idea why the left wants to people who are nothing like him as such just because they disagree… but I digress. Anyway guys, stay tuned for next time. Because it's the episode that will replace Target X. It's called: Disney Worldpool.

ThermalsniperN7: Let the theme park antics begin! … Next time. See you then!