Neb: By the pole of the Lady Vampress, Vibrant is dragged within the forest. It was clear it didn't matter where he was in the world anymore. He was now in her domain, plenty of shadows to hide in and drag people towards and now two mutants and lots of Hydra Soldiers to prey on. I do not own X-Men Evolution.

"What is happening to me," Vibrant grunted. When he was in the cave he couldn't sense anything within the perimeter, now he is picking up two forms of life where he was headed. "Dammit, where am I going!" He saw himself heading towards a huge Oak Tree with a hole carved into it making it kind of like a cave. "Stop this!" He grunted as he struggled to free his mind from the attack on it. Why couldn't he do it, was that his weakness, invasion of the mind. Granted there are no particles in whatever psychic field was being used on him, so he really couldn't effect it if he wanted to.

"Ricky, Ricky, Ricky!" A voice was shouting out to him, but not within his head this time. Oh god, he knew who it was also, how did she survive the explosion. Lilly stepped out of the shadows into a spot light, lighten by a single bulb hanging from the ceiling. "It's unlike you to be so unvibrant!"

"Not a word," he smiled trying to figure a way out of this.

"Of course it isn't," she laughed like a maniac. "Cause I had to event a word just for you Ricky dear!" She pulled out a pistol and pointed it at his face. He felt something breathing hot breath against his neck and grunted. "I'll give you the mercy of shooting you before my pet rips you to shreds."

"I-I took the metal band off of her," he grunted as his eyes tried to move behind him.

"I'm a genius you moron," she yelled. "I keep spares. I was saving it for X-23 so I could get my two million dollars I was offered, but you just had to break my artwork!"

"W-wait, you invented those things," he responded and she leaned in on him smiling. He saw her arm was now replaced with a metallic one.

"Turns out I have powers to, but not like you dumb ass mutants," she whispered. "I have the power of just simply thinking! A rarity among people, let alone a freaking highschool teenage cheerleader who has to act dumb for whatever reason! Thinking combined with dedication involves learning, learning makes understanding, and understanding helps you build stuff. Teams, inventions, a new life, whatever!" Vibrant struggled against the monster that had him held in one place. He couldn't use his powers at the moment, he still had over used them yesterday. Hell, using it on that many people usually would have him passed out for a week. "You don't understand how badly I want that smiling politely, scarred face of your, that if I had just taken the band off of my other pet, I could make you one... but that isn't possible without putting my own life in danger. So I have to kill you and resume my hunt for X-23! Hopefully I won't have anymore thorns in my side."

"What happened to you after we split up," Vibrant growled.

"Oh, well I made my way to the next state and was nearly killed by a mugger. I had robbed a few places along the way for survival, but that was where it was going to end. Then she saved me." She pointed to Lady Vampress who held onto Vibrant tight. "In her human form she was the most beautiful rescuer I had ever laid eyes on... her beast form was gross and disgusting! I wanted someone who looked as good as you to be my sidekick, not some hideous beast! Hydra had latter come looking for her and I found my next opportunity." She held the gun to him once more and smiled. "By Ricky!" She turned around as she heard a roar of anger come her way.

Vibrant ducked as X-23 slashed across Lady Vampress's arm. The mutant screamed in agony as she fell to the floor. Lilly went for her gun, but Vibrant stepped on it as he created a fireball. "Alright, I can still do this," he grinned. "Honestly, it's like my body can't cope with how many things I can do with these powers. I've been trading between holding people in place, to phasing them, to fireballs, and sensing things around me. I miss when it was all picking locks, but you I had to be a pioneer and see what I can really do. I thought sense I joined the Brotherhood maybe there was more I could do then be a thief and smile, and I was right... but at what cost." X- 23 was busy fighting Lady Vampress who was having trouble keeping up with her. "We left the same school, with or without powers. You were spoiled and I was alone, but we both became thieves who smile like idiots and then shot for something bigger. I wound up with it all back firing earlier then you sadly, but maybe you can come to realize if you continue to climb higher and higher, your setting yourself up for a big fall."

She swung at him with her robot arm and he ducked before she slammed her foot in his stomach sending him into a wall. "No, the only reason people climb higher is because there is a destination ahead. You only fall because you keep jumping, like you have to be someone who punishes himself!" She swung another punch with her robot arm and he fazed his hand through it before pulling some wires out. She fell to the ground and screamed as she tried to move it.

"Look at what Hydra did to you," he yelled. "They made you a monster who preys on innocent people!"

"Some people are just made to be suckers," she yelled. She unlatched her metal arm from her body and started kicking at him. "Don't act like a saint, don't act like you all of a sudden stopped realizing there are two people in this world! Suckers and winners!"

"My god," he yelled as he started laughing. She looked at him confused and he continued to laugh. "That's why I hated Summers so much! I understand now, I didn't before, but he was off putting!"

"What are you talking about," she yelled.

"If I forced him to join the brotherhood, he would fall into a category, a sucker from my grand scheme, I'd be a winner and that was that." X 23 looked at him in confusion, not understanding what was happening. "I hated him, because he wasn't winning anything, but he wasn't a sucker either!" Lilly wasn't sure what was happening, but she started running away out of the tunnel. X 23 fell to her knees as Lady Vampress got a hold of her from behind. Vibrant turned around and fired a fireball at her sending her back, then X 23 ran up to her and hit her in the face as hard as she could without using her blades. The mutant knocked out and Vibrant sighed in relief. "Well done sis," he grinned, not realizing what he said.

"Don't call me that," she yelled punching him in the stomach. She then tackled into him and grabbed him by the shirt. "I don't have family! I can't have family!"

"Relax your temper," he grunted and she hit him in the face again drawing some blood this time.

"Stop treating me like a child! I am not a child!"

"But you are," he yelled back. "Your just only capable of releasing explosive anger right now, but imagine, you could be so much more! You don't have to be what they made you. He felt the blade to his throat one more time." Was it his laughing that set her off. Did he just accidentally confess he understood more emotions then pain. "Don't hurt people, just because you can't understand them!"

"Don't pretend to be something your not," she yelled back and his smile vanished. "You talk about how much of a crap life you have and yet you try to pretend your fine anyway!" Vibrant had never considered that before... well he had, but he usually shrugged it off.

"Get off me," he yelled and he pushed her off. "I was trying to help you!"

"The only thing that will help me is Hydra's destruction, and whoever was responsible for making me this, dies!"

"B-b-but..." Vibrant grunted as he was shaking again. "Dammit," he grunted and saw X-23 turn around.

"I'm going to find who made me this and kill him," she growled. "Keep heading west from here and you'll find civilization. you can find your way to where ever from there."

"Y-you knew the whole time. Why didn't you say anything?"

"I... I don't know," she grunted before punching a wall.

"Why do you keep doing that, why are you so angry all the time?!"

"Why do you always smile if there is nothing to smile about?!"

"I don't understand you," they both yelled at each other before X-23 ran out of the Hideout. Vibrant ran out after her hoping to catch her and apologize, but she was long gone. He grunts before looking down for a second.

"She's a good survivor," he reminded himself. "I just gotta hope she finds a family one day, whether it is me or not."