Introducing: Uh... Kurt's past?

The Gist of It: Rogue's been having some recurring nightmares that have apparently come from her absorbing Mystique's memories. Anyway, it's about Kurt's past, so he's super excited about it. Professor X decides to talk to Mystique about it, and she gets pissed off, while Kurt's all giddy and then argues with Rogue and bamfs away. Mystique then gives Pietro a letter and tells him to leave it at Kurt's door. He complies. Also, Logan's on his way to the spooky castle once owned by Magneto, so that he can find out what happened to the infant Kurt while he was in Magneto's possession.

Kurt gets the horribly suspicious letter and, like an idiot, decides to "COME ALOOOONE" to the mall construction site. The X-Men find out that Pietro's been in the house, and search Kurt's room. They come across the letter and decide to go help him. While all that's going on, Logan's inspecting the castle, which then blows up. Luckily, Logan's smart and escapes before it does. Woohoo.

Kurt goes to the site and meets up with Mystique. He finds out that she's his mother and then has a "NOOOOO!" Luke Skywalker moment. Blob jumps down and roars, as he apparently lost the ability to speak like a normal person. Then Toad, Quicksilver, and SUPER LANCE join the scene. (Sorry, Lance does this silly pose you can see for about two seconds before the view is obscured by Pietro's ass. Anyway, he looks like SUPER LANCE!) Anyway, their job was to keep Kurt away from Mystique and... yeah...

They easily win the fight-- or, rather, TOAD wins the fight. But then the stupid X-Men show up and a generic battle ensues. Blob, for some idiotic reason, chooses to charge at KITTY, of all people, and ends up stuck in a cement mixer. Toad attacks Spyke, and ends up being flung by his tongue into some scrap pile. SUPER LANCE (okay, I'll stop doing that now) then stomps the ground, making things shake, and says "Time to rock and roll!". He is then tackled by Rogue. ~_~;;;

Meanwhile, Quicksilver's fighting Cyclops!! HEHE! This is probably the most amusing scene in the whole episode. He's zipping around, taunting Scott, then he hits him and starts cackling. Then Jean lifts him off the ground and he's shot by stupid-head Scott. ~_~; We then get to see poor Avalanche get his powers absorbed by Rogue-- well, at least he looks very cute and helpless while unconscious. Yeah, yeah, I'm pathetic... Er, anyway, Mystique tries to run away, and Rogue attempts to stop her with Lance's powers. Mystique turns into a bird and flies away.

Then, there's the touching conclusion. Awww.

Brotherhood Moments: We get to see Pietro quite a bit in this episode, as he talks to Mystique, sneaks into the mansion, talks to Magneto on his cell phone, then fights the X-Men (Cyclops). We also see Toad sort of kicking ass for once-- er, sort of... And Blob going "Huah! Arr! Grr!" and running into a cement mixer... And then there's Lance being his usual self.

Episode Highlights: The Brotherhood fight at the end, as pointless as it was. It was probably the most interesting part of the episode, in my opinion, but that's probably because I already knew what was going to happen in the episode before I saw it, so there was no element of "GASP! Mystique's Kurt's mother and Magneto's a huge hypocrite who for some reason performs Nazi-esque experiments on mutants!"...

My Opinion on the Episode: I liked it a lot, but only because of the scenes with Pietro and the Brotherhood... Yeah, I know, that's kind of a dumb reason to like any episode, but come one, what else am I gonna do when I don't give a damn about most of the good guys, especially Kurt? Well, I did like him in this episode, especially his reaction to Mystique... It made me sad...

Narration Time!
Rating: On a scale of 1 to 5, it'd be a 4.

: Quit calling me Super Lance!
: Wow, I didn't know my ass was obscuring your pose... I'm sorry, Super Lance.
: ARGH! Shaddup!
: I got to hurt Kurt, I got to hurt Kurt! *does a little toady jig*
: HUAH!! RWAAAH! FLOOB!
: Ah, man, I forgot that Freddy lost the ability to speak coherent English in this episode...
: ARRRGLEFURGLE!
: Well, that's messed up.
: I wonder if Mystique hates us now...
: *g* I think she's always hated us. Oh well! I got to smack Summers and you didn't, Lance! Haha!
: Oh, shut up before I lay the smack-down on you... I can't believe I got taken out by Rogue!
: Well, you know... you did look pretty cute while unconscious...
: *arches an eyebrow* You didn't violate me, did you?
: NO!
: *continues his little toady jig*

Rosiel: Okay, that was weird... I'm in a strange mood right now...