The Gist of It: Enter... an asylum! Well, a mental institution, since I think "asylum" may be a little outdated. Anyway, our cueball protagonist wheels himself inside of a cell and awaits his "patient", a very volatile young woman who's not allowed to move her hands, and yet she has loads of makeup on. Er, sorry, that's just something I noticed O.o Anyway, said volatile young woman freaks out, gets lose, and runs amok, wreaking havoc all the way 'till she comes across the Prof, who subdues her with his spooky mind powers. They're about to start one of their little session thingies, but then a doctor comes in and says he needs to do doctorly things to Wanda, and so Professor X tells her to behave and the two are off to do... doctorly things...

Or so we THOUGHT! Instead, Doctor Man leads Wanda out of the building (gee, who'da thunk it?), where a spooky old lady awaits and utters something that puts Wanda to sleep. Did anybody else think the lady looked a little bit like old school Destiny even though it obviously wasn't her because Evo!Destiny isn't old? Anyway, Doctor Man's Mystique in disguise (duh), and she's all "I have something to attend to *spooky twang of spookiness*" and turns into a cop or something. I'm not sure because I was like... doing something else during that scene.

Cut to... (okay, here's where things'll probably get to be a little out of sequence, as I can't go and rewatch the tape at the moment because the TV's being occupied) Bayville High! Kurt's duking it out with his locker (why does he have a key, anyway? I don't have a locker key!), and Kitty comes along to save the day, only to commit a supreme act of villainy: she makes Kurt eat... A MUFFIN! (Guh. No more sugar for me today. I'm wound up and trying not to show it) Kurt, in return, gags, tells her nicely that her muffins suck, and run off, dropping the muffin (which... bounces... disturbingly). Cut to outside, where Scott and Jean are talking about their relationships with Duncan and Tara (uh, not respectively unless this was a slash show O.o).

Anyway, Duncan's not the man Jean married-- er, is dating, and Scott's less than enthused about being Tara's boytoy. He is then about to fess up his feelings for her, when... Duncan drives up and honks maniacally every time Scott opens his mouth. He gets kinda sad and leaves, while Jean's like "STUPID DUNCAN!" and goes off to his car. Yep.

Back at the BH House, Mystique comes in, spooking the boys (Pietro makes the cutest sound XD). They stand to attention and she basically berates them for being losers (and since this is Season 2, I agree with her completely XD Season 1 BH were kickass losers; Season 2 BH were just... losers half the time). Tabitcha then comes down the stairs and tries to act all tough and cool around Mystique, but it doesn't really work, since Mystique apparently thinks she's a dumbass and orders her to move out of her room. There is a cute scene where the idiot makes one of her Boomyballs, which Pietro grabs and the boys toss it around before Freddy gives it to Todd and tosses the poor froggy into the next room, where we hear him shriek XD

Anyway, Mystique talks about a secret weapon, Wanda's brought in, and Pietro's like "CRAP!!" and Wanda's like "BITCH!!" and wackiness ensues. Todd asks Pietro if she's a spurned ex, but Pietro responds with: "Worse. She's my sister!" Lance, acting like his old awesome pre-Kitty self does... Lance-like things, and eventually, Agatha comes in to subdue Wanda. And then... and here's one of the greatest scenes of all Season 2... TABITHA LEAVES THE BH!! *cackle* SHE'S GONE!! Though she'll probably come back like a rabid cockroach or something, but for now she's gone!

Back at the Mansion, there's some X-Geek scene involving Scott, Kurt, Kitty, rock-hard muffins and... something else that I don't remember. I think this is the scene where X tells his X-Dorks about Wanda and how she's loose and dangerous blah blah. Oh well! Back to the Brotherhood!

We get to see bunches of scenes-- okay, two or three-- of Wanda training with Agatha. During these scenes, there's brief glimpses of flashbacks in which Magneto and lil!Pietro are standing outside as young Wanda's dragged inside of the mental hospital. Wanda then chops her hair off (and it looks like mine! Well, mine's longer now... but it WAS that short!), and Pietro comes in, trying to make peace and whatnot. She's obviously very hostile towards him for being "just like Magneto" and abandoning her, but Pietro tries to tell his side of the story. We then get to see the whole flashback, which has a very sad looking (yet utterly adorable XD) little Pietro watching as his sister was being taken away. Uhh, but uhh... she doesn't really seem ready to forgive him yet. So, Wanda leaves and Mystique comes in, asking Pietro where his loyalties lie: her or Magneto. He says her because, well, Magneto's been a shitty father :P Then they talk about future plans (apparently Mystique wants to kick Magneto's ass...) and... then she's like "Time to test Wanda out against... the X-Dweebs!" only not in those exact words.

And so, the X-Geeks at their mansion talk, X is like "Wanda and the Brotherhood Boys are at the mall", the X-Geeks make comments on how the Brotherhood suck, then run off to save the day...

So, we get to the mall and a bigass fight scene ensues in which the BH does pretty well, but still end up getting their asses kicked. Pietro almost beats Kurt with clothes, acting very... very... VERY fruity. If I had any doubt before on Pietro's sexuality, it's all gone now. All gone... Anyway! The X-Dweebs are all "Huzzah, we won!" but then... Wanda comes down the escalator looking awesome XD And she promptly kicks their asses single-handedly to the point where the X-Geeks all retreat. Huzzah! Anywho, Pietro goes to congratulate Wanda, but he makes the mistake of mentioning Magneto, so it doesn't look like they're gonna have a normal brother-sister relationship anytime soon.

Oh yeah, and the X-Men throw a tantrum because they actually lost for once. The Prof seems pretty disappointed in them; not because they lost, but because of the way they took it. Oh well!

Brotherhood Moments: Practically the whole episode. We see them at home, we see them at the mall destroying things (which is actually kinda funny, considering "Shadowed Past"), we see them in a flashback (well, Pietro, Wanda, and Mags)... we get lotsa BH! And Tabby GOES AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (can you not see my happiness?)

My Opinion: Rosiel's in love... Gimme Wanda and I'll move to Vermont or something!! XD Er, no, seriously, this is my new favorite episode. Not only was it chock fulla BH goodness, but there wasn't too much Lance/Kitty crap, Boom Boom LEFT!!!! SHE LEFT!!!!, Pietro's actually alive and waaay fruitier than ever, lotsa hot Mystique (hey, I don't have to be a lesbian to admit that O.o), cute Toddliness, Lil!Pietro and Lil!Wanda and Magneto!Magneto (kinda reminds me of "Spectacular Spectacular!"), Evan somehow didn't annoy me, annnd well, there was just lotsa stuff that I utterly adored XD I love seeing the BH acting like *gasp!* villains again. I mean, sure it's cool when badguys and goodguys team up (ala "Survival of the Fittest"), but when they become watered down dorks (*cough cough*Lance*cough*), it's just no fun watching them. Hence the reason I like VILLAINS who are actually... VILLAINS O.o; Even quasi-villains (like Pyro was sometimes, with his whole... "nice for a bad guy" thing) are better than whatever happened to Season 2 BH prior to this ep!

Did I say that I love Wanda yet? Wellll, I do. I love her design (though I really was looking forward to the foofy curly hair she's known for), her clothes, her bitter personality, the way she tried to impale Pietro (I still love the lil guy! XD), and my only regret was that she didn't accidentally kill Boom Boom. Oh yeah, and I regret that I have to make a new Wanda chibi now... Damn.

Oh yeah, and the X-Men are babies. I mean, geez! The Brotherhood's lost... how many times now? But they don't dwell on it! Well, maybe they do, I dunno... but they don't throw little tantrums about it! Or maybe they do and we just don't see it. Ah well! I probably would've acted like Scott, too, had I been in his situation. No, wait... I'd be more like... Todd... In the battle for two seconds then knocked out O.o; Or Pietro with the whole "Death by Shoes" thing! I wish Kitty died... Oops, did I type that?

Godddd, I can't wait for the next new ep XD Problem is: I love Magneto. I love the BH. I love Mystique. Who the hell do I root for?! *whimper* Here's what I'm hoping for, even though it'll never happen: The BH goes to fight Magneto and they run into the Acolytes XD My two favorite villain teams duke it out!! Yesss... I mean, after all, "Operation: Rebirth" DID leave an opening for Cortez and his wacky band of Magneto-Lovin' Psychopaths! Magneto needs power ups, Cortez is a living power up thingie, and Magneto needs followers, which gives us... Acolytes! I would love to see what would happen if Cortez and Wanda fought, since he'd make her powers go nutty and she'd... probably kick his ass with her nutty powers... Or maybe they'll bring back Sabretooth, who I'm suddenly liking for some reason! Or the Hellfire Club-- okay, that's a stretch. I mean, the Acolytes alone are a huge stretch that probably won't happen. Hm. I would love to see EvoCortez, but that's really not the reason I want the Acolytes in Evo O.o It's because of... Frenzy/Cargil! She's so cool! And Scanner and Voght. And Exodus. Man, I love them O.o But not as much as the BH!

On another note... Now, I know I'm supposed to hate Jean and all... and I love Scott... but I acutally wouldn't mind them getting together at this point O.o;

Rating (out of 5): 5. Yes, I know I said that anything with Boom Boom gets an automatic 2 point deduction, but she left in this episode; therefore, it should get a 2 point... anti-deduction up to 7 O.o

BH Babble:

: *hides* Must... hide... from... sis...
: Man, Pietro, and I thought your FATHER was messed up!
: >.< I heard that! *hexbolts Lance*
: ...who're you? O.o;
: .... x_x
: I'm Wanda, damn it!
: Uhh... Wanda has... black hair. That's short. And a perpetual scowl.
: Uhh... I'm... Wanda pre-haircut with... a... dye job?
: No you ain't, yo! You're... *gasps* Canon-Wanda!
: Oh, you're the non-homicidal version of my sister... *comes out of the closet-- er... that he was hiding in* Yay!
: Think again >=D
: O.O Meep.
: .... x_x (Don't worry, kiddies, he's not dead, he's just sleeping!)