Ok here's the start of Chapter Nine! I'm starting this...oooh about two days after I posted part eight. And once again Thank you SOOO much for the reviews! They are like crack to me! Hopefully this part will get written faster then the last part! I know how sucky it is having long waits for chapters!

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Normal POV

Wanda paced up and down the living room. The others sat on the couch and chairs around the room and followed her with their eyes like watching a tennis match.

"Where is he?! Are you sure none of you saw him at school!?" Wanda said stopping and glaring at each of them.

Lance sighed and rubbed her temples. "Wanda we've been over this! The last time any of us saw him was at lunch! He probably ditched again. He does it all the time."

"Then where is he?! Why isn't he here?!" Wanda yelled.

"He's probably at the mall picking up girls or guys or something. Or making more fast food workers cry. Or any number of the billion hobbies he has! Why don't we just give this up. He's only going to keep running if we keep cornering him and he seems fine now!" Lance told her.

"He's my brother! He's my twin! I have the right to know what's been going on with him!" Wanda yelled pacing again.

The others moaned and sunk lower in their seats. This was NOT going to be fun!

Just then the front door slammed open and closed and a breeze blew by and up the stairs.

Wanda stormed up the stairs after Pietro. "PIETRO! I want to talk to you!"

Pietro's door opened and he leaned against the door frame raising a eye brow in question as Wanda hit the top of the stairs and stalked towards his room. "Yes sister dear? Something I can do for you?"

Wanda shoved Pietro into his room and onto his bed then slammed the door and stood over him. "I want to know what's been going on with you! Where have you been?! None of us have seen you since lunch! I'm your sister and I have a right to know these things!"

Pietro rolled his eyes and leaned back on his elbows on the bed. "Well as for where I've been I was in class for most of the afternoon then Jean kidnapped me and duct taped me up after knocking me out for hours. I barely escaped with my life! Who knows what sick dastardly things she wanted to do with my body!"

Wanda froze and blinked slowly at her brother. "Wait. Are you telling me first last night Evan kidnapped you then today Jean kidnapped you?! What the Hell is going on?!"

Pietro shrugged and looked up at her innocently. "I don't know. Everybody wants me!"

Wanda started pacing in front of Pietro's bed. "There has got to be more to it then that! The X-Men just don't go around kidnapping people! There has got to be a reason why two of them would kidnapped you in as many days!"

Pietro suppressed a smirk. So Wanda was now obsessing about X-Men plots but she'd totally forgotten about making him let why he'd been acting weird.

Wanda reached down and pulled him to his feet. "Come on. We've got to tell the others. This could be major. Maybe they're trying to recruit you. Or they could come after us next!"

Pietro just walked mutely behind her as she half dragged him downstairs and into the living room.

"Guys! We have an emergency! The X-Men are up to something! They keep kidnapping Pietro! We could be next!" Wanda said as she pushed Pietro down into a chair.

"Huh?" The others replyed staring at Wanda.

"The X-Geeks keep kidnapping me. Wanda thinks it's an evil plot of some kind." Pietro explained.

Freddy scratched his head and looked confused. "I thought WE were the evil ones?"

"Ok then a GOOD plan. Ok?" Pietro snorted rolling his eyes.

Todd's eyes got wide. "Yo! That's why Pietro's been acting freaky! Those X-Geeks have been messing with his mind! They're tryin' to make him into one of them, yo! They're worse then the Borg!"

Pietro latched onto this idea and nodded rapidly. "Yeahyeahyeah! That's it! Those bastards!" Inside he was rolling on the floor clutching his sides laughing. This was better then anything he could have planed! His friends natural paranoia had come up with a perfect alibi for his weird behavior!

"We can't let them get away with this! They must pay! No body messes with our Pietro but us!" Wanda snarled pacing rapidly back and forth across the room.

"And this ain't the first time they've tried this, yo! They tried to get Freddy with Jean pretending to like him and they actually got Lance for a few days! Now the X-Geeks are tryin' to get 'Tro!" Todd yelled.

"They didn't GET me! I joined for Kitty but they hated me and treated me like a criminal so I left!" Lance grumbled glaring at Todd.

Todd waved a hand. "You just managed to some how break away from their mind control! We gotta stop those Jerks before they have us all running around being X-Losers with them!"

"Todd's right! We have to find a way to stop them! What can we do?!" Wanda growled pacing.

"Bucket Head!" Freddy suddenly yelled.

Everyone stopped and turned and looked at him. "Uh what Freddy?"

"Bucket Head! You're dad wears that dumb hat thing to keep The Professor from lookin' in his head! We need to get some of those bucket things!" Freddy said excitedly.

"You know I never thought I'd say this but Freddy's got a good idea! We need to find out how Magneto's bucket hat thing works and get us some!" Lance declared.

Wanda suddenly turned sharply and ran up the stairs. Everyone looked after her then at each other. "Any idea what that was about?" Lance asked.

Every one shrugged and waited to see if she'd come back.

Seconds later Wanda came running back holding a cell phone. Pietro's cell phone. "Ok Pietro which number is fathers?" She asked while trying to figure out how to turn the phone on.

"Uhhh.....where'd you find that? It's supposed to be hidden!" Pietro yelped jumping up and grabbing the phone from her in a blur.

Wanda rolled her eyes and yanked the phone back. "Oh please. Hiding it under your mattress! Everybody knows to look there first! No tell me how to turn this thing on and call father!"

Pietro glared and yanked the phone back yet again. "I'm not supposed to call unless it's an emergency!"

Wanda grabbed the phone back then hexed him into the wall. "I'd say the X-Geeks mind controlling us is an emergency if anything is! Now tell me!"

Pietro rubbed the back of his head glaring at Wanda as he climbed to his feet. "Can't you feel the love in the room?" He said with sarcasm. "Fine, fine. Push and hold the button that says 'Power' at the top, then scroll with the arrow button till you see the number listed 'Father'. But don't be surprised if father threatens to skin you." Pietro warned as he flopped down into a chair.

Wanda regressed for a moment and stuck her tongue out at Pietro while she turned the phone on and searched for her fathers number.

"What is it Pietro?! This had better be important! You know I've told you not to call here unless it's dire!" Magneto answered her phone sounding annoyed.

"Daddy? It's Wanda. And it is important! The X-Men keep kidnapping Pietro and we think they're going to come after the rest of us next! We need to know how your helmet thingy works so Jean and The Professor can't brainwash us!" Wanda yelled.

Magneto sat behind his desk slowly blinking trying to digest what his dagger had just said to him. "Wanda? Your brother has been captured by The X-Men?!"

"Well they kidnapped him twice but he escaped both times. First it was Evan then Jean. And we also think they've been doing thinks to his mind for weeks now! He's been acting really strange lately! You have to help us, Daddy! Before they get to all of us and next thing you know we're all running around in spandex saving people!" Wanda told Magneto.

Magneto frowned. Kidnapping was not Charles style at all. "Wanda? Is Pietro there? Put him on."

"Father? Heyhow'sisgoing?!What'sup?!" Pietro asked rapidly.

"What's this your sister is telling me you were kidnapped twice? And what's this about Charles and Jean controlling your mind?" Magneto growled at his son.

"Uhh well last night I was just minding my own business in the park when Ev-err Daniels practically throws me over his shoulder and drags be back to the Institute so since I'm already there I take the change to mooch some free food and stuff. Uh thenthis afternoonatschoolJeanknockedmeoutwithherpowersandwhenIwokeupIwasducttapedtoachair. Ibarelyescapedalive! Lordonlyknowswhatdepravedthingsshehadplanedforme!" Pietro declared dramatically putting every drop of acting skills into his performance.

Magneto pinched the bridge of his nose. He severely doubted that Charles or his prize student would be brain washing anyone least of all his idiot progeny or the rest of The Brotherhood. And it was not pleasant to hear that his son was so easily captured by the enemy. "Pietro stop being a drama queen. I hardly think Charles or Jean is trying to brain wash you. But if they are kidnapping you there must be a reason. I shall look into this. Stay away from them for now until I find out more about what is going on." Magneto ordered before hanging up.

Pietro stuffed the cell phone into his pocket then turned to see everyone staring at him impatiently. "He said he'd look into it. Oh and we're ditching till he figures out whats going on." Pietro told them then dashed out of the room to the kitchen to get a snack. AKA enough food to feed a small family.

Wanda follow him as the others cheered at getting PERMISSION to ditch for who knows how long. "Pietro? Are you sure you're ok? What do you think reversed whatever the X-freaks were doing to you?"

Pietro thought fast as he shrugged casually. "Who knows. Maybe my mind works different from non-me people. Ya know the thinking in super speed thing. Or maybe I ODed on whatever they were doing and it stopped working."

Wanda nodded. "That makes sense. You always had to be different from everybody else." She said teasingly as she swiped a chip off his plate.

Pietro scowled at her sister for a moment before smirking. "I'm the normal one. It's everyone else that different."

Wanda snorted and rolled her eyes. "So is daddy going to come here?"

Pietro shrugged and waited a second till her swallowed to answer her. "I don't know. He didn't say. He said he'd look into it and to stay away from the X-Geeks."

Wanda frowned. "So wait he didn't specifically say to ditch school? Pietro....man you just love living life on the edge don't you?"

Pietro grinned. "Oh you know it!"

Wanda shook her head in amusement at her brother. "I really don't think dad wanted all of us ditching school for who knows how long."

Pietro grinned around his 12th sandwich. "Ya gotta learn to live on the wild side sis! Take a few risks! Have some fun!"

Wanda rolled her eyes. "Our ideas of fun are very different Pietro."

Pietro speed washed the dishes he'd used and stuck them back in the cupboard. "Yeah guess you're right on that. I don't blast people into walls for fun!"

Wanda's fingers twitched and she debated for a minute on blasting Pietro. "Funny brother. Funnnnny."

Pietro grinned. "You know it sis! Well I gotta jet. Things to see and people to do you know!" He tossed her a last smirk and disappeared off to who knows where.