Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting

"How do I get into these messes?" Kitty muttered as she dodged a burst of flame. "Oh right, I'm an X-Man."

"Being a Misfit isn't exactly a bed of roses either!" Lance snapped as he dodged another burst of flame.

"Ha Ha Ha!" Pyro laughed maniacally. "Take that traitors!"

"He's calling us traitors?" Fred grumbled as he stepped back from the flame.

They were in a huge military compound somewhere in Spain. They had used the Misfit's teleportation device and Cerebro to track down Magneto. They found themselves walking into an ambush. Pyro along with several of Magneto's henchmen were battling both the X-Men and Misfit teams. Only the main X-Men were present however. Scott, Jean, Kitty, Kurt, Remy and Rogue were fighting along with Ororo and Logan. Roadblock was laying down cover fire trying to protect Xavier.

"I knew we should have brought the others," Althea grumbled. She then noticed some water pouring out of a nearby drain. "All right!"

"I think I can get a clear shot at Pyro!" Scott readied his visor.

"Hey! Cyclops! Jean! Get outta the way!" Althea shouted.

"What?" Scott turned around and saw the water rushing at them. Jean barely had time to levitate them out of the way of the water. "Watch it Wavedancer!"

"AGGGGHH!" Pyro screamed as the water washed him away.

"Hey I told you to get out of the way!" Althea shouted.

Meanwhile Lance was currently battling Cortez in a punching war. Both were evenly matched when suddenly an eyeblast separated them. "What are you trying to do Summers? Fry me?" Lance snapped. "I was handling him!"

"Yeah well why don't you try laying down those tremors where it will do some good?" Scott pointed to a group of Acolytes fighting.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Lance snapped.

"Yeah that's my job!" Wavedancer snapped. "Avalanche just do it!"

Meanwhile Kitty was trying to fight off a wolf like mutant that wielded a sword. She was barely phasing in time of his swings when suddenly he was knocked back wards. He grunted and held his stomach as if something had hit him. As he fell down Xi revealed himself.

"I didn't need your help!" Kitty snapped.

"It didn't look it to me," Xi said.

The ground rumbled. "Watch it with those tremors Avalanche!" Scott snapped.

"Why don't you watch it with your attitude and butt out of my fights!" Lance snapped.

"Will you kids stop fighting each other and start fighting Magneto's guys!" Logan growled as he tussled with Sabertooth.

Suddenly huge metal beams pinned most of the X-Men and the Misfits to the ground. Rogue and Fred managed to break out and were trying to get the others loose. Xavier was the only adult not pinned down but he found he couldn't move his wheelchair. "I was wondering when you would show up Magneto," Xavier said.

"Pathetic," Magneto loomed over them. With a wave of his hand he motioned for his henchmen to back away.

"Magneto why are you doing this?" Xavier asked.

"I would have thought it was obvious even for you Charles," Magneto said. "Our last few encounters have depleted my resources. Thanks to all of you, I have been forced to regroup and rebuild yet again."

"Oh ain't that a shame," Fred mocked as he finished freeing the Misfits.

"Well don't get too involved with your plans," Lance growled. "Because you may not live long enough to carry them out! I am looking for some serious payback after what you did to me!"

"Take a number!" Wanda snarled.

"I am doing this in order to insure our race survives and claims it's rightful position on Earth," Magneto said. "That is all I have ever fought for. To improve the lives of mutants."

"That's a load of bull!" Lance growled. "You're no better than a common terrorist! You lied and manipulated us and when we weren't good enough for you, you threw us away!"

"Yeah for somebody who feels so strongly that mutants are people you sure don't treat 'em like it!" Todd snarled.

"I do not expect people such as yourselves to understand the grand scheme of things," Magneto said coldly. "You however Quicksilver I expected more from."

"Oh I understand," Pietro glared at him. "I understand that your quest for power has driven you completely bonkers! I can't live with your lies and the way you treat me anymore!"

"You may not live at all if you continue to defy Magneto!" Cortez snarled.

"Enough Cortez," Magneto waved. "We have what we came for. Further fighting is pointless."

"Wanna bet?" Lance growled as he sent a huge wave of earth at him.

Magneto barely managed to float out of the way. He sent some barbed wire straight towards Lance. Luckily Fred blocked the path and Scott blasted some of it. "Invulnerable skin or not that still stings," Fred hissed.

"We will meet again Charles," Magneto spoke. "And next time circumstances may not be as favorable to you." With a motion of his hand he signaled one of his Acolytes to teleport half the group away. The rest escaped in the metal spheres they normally traveled in.

"Well there he goes," Todd grumbled.

"What were you thinking Avalanche pulling a stunt like that?" Scott snapped.

"I was trying to get Magneto!" Lance snapped back.

"Yeah well you nearly got killed," Jean told him.

"Hey at least he tried to do something to get him," Fred snapped. "Which is more than what you guys did!"

"That's enough," Ororo said. "Blaming each other right now isn't going to solve anything."

"What the lady said is right," Roadblock said. "We better prepare for another fight."

"Come on let's get out of here," Logan said. "Before the authorities come back."

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"Well once again the Misfits screw everything up!" Scott groaned as they returned home. They walked down the hallway.

"Wait a minute!" Lance snapped. "US? You were the ones in the way!"

"Taking care of Magneto is the X-Men's problem," Scott said.

"Yeah well we got a beef with Magneto so we're his problem!" Lance told him.

"That's no excuse! You have no right to butt in to our business!" Scott snapped.

"Hello? We work for the government!" Todd held up his hand. "Of course we have the right!"

"Yeah!" Fred said.

"Oh please you guys are a secret group attached to another secret government agency," Bobby groaned. "That's not exactly the same thing!"

"Yeah well it's a lot closer than you guys are!" Lance told him. "Hey technically doesn't that make you vigilantes or something?"

"Look the X-Men were founded to protect mutants," Scott got in his face. "There aren't exactly too many people out there willing to help us! Especially in the government!"

"Now who's making excuses?" Lance snapped.

"Here we go again," Kurt sighed. "Where's the adults when you need them?"

"They're in the war room," Xi said. "They said they were planning. Personally I think they're just trying to hide from us."

"There they go again," Althea sighed as Lance and Scott started shoving each other around. "Does anybody want to do something about it?"

"Leave them!" Jean moaned. "Just let them fight!" They left the two of them to duke it out in the hall.

"Yeah I'm not really in the mood to break them up again," Kitty waved as they went into the living room. "I'm so tired I don't even remember what day it is!"

"Well it's Saturday," Kurt groaned as he fell into a chair. "What a week!"

"Tell me about it! I've only been seventeen a week and I already feel like I'm at least thirty years older," Rogue groaned.

Some of the other X-Men were there. "So how did it go?" Jamie asked.

"How do you think it went?" Rogue grumbled. "We got our butts kicked!"

"I wouldn't go that far," Pietro frowned. "We did stomp most of them, despite your 'help'."

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Rogue snapped.

"Guys Lance and Summers are already fighting about this yo," Todd groaned. He heard something expensive break. Todd casually looked out into the hall. "You know you'd think Xavier would learn not to keep expensive things in the house by now."

"Hey Kitty, phone call," Bobby handed her a cell phone. "It's your mom."

"Hi Mom," Kitty answered the phone. "How are you? How was my week?" Her face turned a shade paler. "You want to know what's new?"

The house started to shake. "ALVERS!" Scott shouted.

"Oh nothing much," Kitty said as evenly as possible. "Actually, this week was kinda quiet."