Frenzy (Joanna Cargill)'s Story

Annabelle sucked in a few breaths before attempting to stand, this time she was good for standing and not having her lungs break down.
She watched as Colussus and Frenzy managed to knock the Juggernaut off his feet, followed by an assault by the Leviathan, she watched him curiously, 'He's a little familiar?' She thought to herself, more of a question than a statement. She looked harder and recognised him as the one of the guys from the trees. 'He's an x-man?' She asked the Professor through her telepathy, not comfortable around the others made her anxious enough without her attracting there attention by speaking. 'I mean, he's a bit violent.' She looked to the Professor from the corner of her eye.
Annabelle looked at the mutant trying to escape from Juggernaut's hands, he needed to calm down. Annabelle went to use her empathy and make him calm but he was tossed into a wall. She took a step forward to try and help him but thought about it, 'Yeah better not. The last 2 times I got involved were not good.'

Alice

she had been waiting a long time to give pay back to them all of them, she laughed inwardly at how pathetic her counterparts new family was 'there all little weak children especially that one' focusing most of her attention at Juggernaut who actually managd to break through the two shadow clones that had contricyed him before. not that it mattered the two simply crawled out of Scott and Annebelles shadows at first as disgusting black blobs that slowing morphed into the image of Alice. they all wore their signiture mask and coat the one by Scott looked back at him sensing his unease at how it came to be the mask forming into a creepy smile before standing to its full 6'2 height and walking over towards their master.

So far their were 3 new shadow clones two stood by Alice and another one appreared behind Maxx and noticing the morlocks that chased her a smile formed on its mask as it took them down with ease before walking back to its master. each one taunting the Juggernaut as he fought Colousus and Frenzy. They all luaghed at his little tantrum about killing then all as well as callking them weak. that hit a berve in Alice and her 3 clones who shared a look with one another. "oh so you think your all high and mighty do you but guess what im The Black Reaper and today i think ill take your life." stepping back she nodded at the 3 clones "do it" who nodded back before they began to lose shape and began to mold together before falling back into Alice's shadow.

"you know the diffrence between me and Ace is that im stronger than her and its shamful to have my own shadow torn by an idiot like you so as a heads up when i want to my shadow is unstopable when i want it to be" a smile on her face Alice stood back as her shadow detached itself from her body and rose up becomeing 3-D in form. Juggernaut simply watched what this weak woman did before laughing at her "you stupid woman like your shadow cando anything to me" Alice chuckled darkly "thats not my shadow you idiot thats yours" pointing to his own which was now gone as it was drawn to Alice. the two merged and started changing shape and size then it stopped. What stood before them was something huge and terrifying; a second Juggernaut this one just as strong as the real one mabye even stronger since it merged with Alice. its entire features were black you could only see a facial features a smile on its face before tackling the Juggernaut.

Charles watched In great unease as Juggernaut rampaged. Ryan, Frenzy and Colossus were dealing with him while most of the others finished up handling the remaining Morlocks. Annabelle contacted Charles telepathically. 'He's an x-man?' She asked the Professor through her telepathy. 'I mean, he's a bit violent.' She looked to the Professor from the corner of her eye.

Charles replied telepathically, “Ryan has taken on a sudden change just now. He is generally very gentle but I believe his feelings and desire to protect those close to him brought on a new change in him. I am actually glad that he is holding nothing back, for to do so with Juggernaut is a great mistake.” Charles then empathically calmed a few of the rampaging Morlocks, making them return home.

Ace had snapped and Alice took over. She was creating many shadow minions. Scott was freaked out by this ability and deeply questioned whether or not Ace’s other half could be trusted as a moral part of the team or did Alice need to be subdued? Alice created a shadow minion of the Juggernaut from his own shadow. He was just as strong as the Juggernaut and or maybe stronger, its entire features were black you could only see a facial features a smile on its face before tackling the Juggernaut.

The Juggernaut was very angry. “How dare you think you can take me?! No damn shadow can beat the Juggernaut!!” Juggernaut jabbed the shadow replica a few times and lodged his large foot into the shadow replica’s torso causing it to launch skyward. Juggernaut puffed and looked around at those who were nearby. “Anyone else wanna give me a go? HUH?!” He wondered if the group was prepare to attack him at once. He wasn’t really worried due to his invulnerability but it might not be too easy for him with all of their various abilities focused on him.

Kyle looked onward at the Juggernaut and felt a little sorry for him. He had gained a big chunk of the Juggernaut’s mind when he absorbed his power so he now understood Mr. Marko’s pain. He was seriously lashing out on everyone. Kyle hovered next to Hideki and Philip he then swiftly flew toward Juggernaut stopping just short of him. “Mr. Marko, please stop this. I know what you feel about your parents and the Professor. Your father may have hurt you but your brother loves you. He wants to make things better for you both. Please just talk to him. Killing him won’t solve your problem, it won’t make you feel better.” Kyle pleaded.

Juggernaut for brief moment looked surprised. Kyle’s concern actually hit home with him. He quickly shook off his being flustered and puffed in anger again. “Don’t wanna hear it pretty boy!! I gotta score to settle with my little BROTHER so butt out!” Juggernaut shoved Kyle backward into Colossus.

Kyle collided with Colossus who reverted back to his non-metal state in order to soften the collision with Kyle a little. It would not be so good to collide with a seriously hard metal body. “Are you okay my friend? It was a brave thing to try to talk things out with Juggernaut, he’s such an angry thickheaded man.” Colossus said to Kyle while helping him to his feet. He smiled brightly.

Kyle replied, “Yeah, It’d be great to knock into you more often.” The two laughed and blushed about it.

While Juggernaut was distracted Philip whispered to Aidan, “Can you get me close to him?”

Aidan smirked and replied, “I can do just about anything lad.” Aiden then activated his power and spoke “You are on Juggernaut’s back and in position to unlock a latch on his helmet.” Philip then appeared on Juggernaut’s back. He quickly slipped a small time bomb under a latch. Juggernaut grabbed Philip and threw him into Stinger who stood not far away. The time bomb blew and the latch popped off of Juggernaut’s helmet. There was only one latch left near the front of his helmet. Just then the Shadow Juggernaut attacked the real Juggernaut once more and he was giving him a run for him money.

Pietro sat in the War room of the Xavier institute watching the monitors. The battle with the Juggernaut was going strong and the X-men had not yet been able to subdue the powerful man. Pietro was decided to stay behind and look after those that remained at the mansion. He didn’t want anyone to jump on the opportunity of thrashing the mansion while most of the formal X-men team was away. Pietro sat reclined in one of the War Room chairs with his arms behind his head propping it up. “Hmm… it looks like they got rid of those nasty little Morlocks, finally! That Callisto woman freaks me out too bossy… hehehe…” He chuckled. “I’m glad the institute somehow managed to get a video transmission through all of that interference! Else I’d have to dig through poppa Magneto’s DVD’s for a movie… God only knows what horrors I’d find!” Pietro joked.

Pietro at one point couldn’t help but feel like he himself was being watched. There was a ghostly and chilling presence in the room. He was unaware that agent six was watching him. He embraced himself and rubbed his arms as if he were suddenly chilled due to the eerie vibe the room suddenly presented. But just as it arose, the feeling faded. Pietro decided that he’d better check on the rest of the mansion. He zoomed from room to room surveying the atmosphere. He finally stopped by the holding cells where X-23 was kept. She was staring at him like a caged tiger.

“I don’t know why I thought coming here would make me feel any less creepy. Gosh I’m losing it!” Pietro said as he backed away from the cell. He then quickly zipped out of the room and back into the war room where he could see on the monitors that the battle with Juggernaut had made a new development.

At the scene of the battle, the shadow Juggernaut and the real Juggernaut swapped blows back and forth. The Shadow Juggernaut created by Ace was indeed stronger than the original by having combined the shadows of the others with Juggernaut’s shadow to surpass juggernaut’s power. Charles stood nearby worried at the way in which things were unfolding. Juggernaut no matter what refused to tire out. The shadows power began to wane, and eventually it became vulnerable enough for Juggernaut to land a well placed punch through the shadow’s torso. It’s dark and sinister face seemed to now be in an excruciating expression before it faded away.

“PATHETIC!! CHARLES, are you FINALLY done hiding behind these weaklings or are you finally going to step up and take your beating and death like a real man? I’d hate to have to get serious and wreck all your precious little students and friends just to get to you.” The Juggernaut taunted.

Magneto and Cain had heard enough and both were ready to attack the Juggernaut with everything they had. They lifted anything heavy and metal to hurl at Juggernaut. Their assault was still not strong enough to put the juggernaut down for the count. He simply slowly continued to stomp toward Charles, who stood next to Vincent and Philip, while hurling the metal away from him. Aidan could have been of far more help but chose to wait it out and see if Charles would beg him to do more. So far he was disappointed. The juggernaut, in a rage, threw a large hunk of metal that was forcing him to slow his pace back at Magneto and Cain. Their magnetic assault ceased.

Wolverine and Sabertooth lunged at the titan slashing at him in vain but were quickly smacked backward into a light pole [Logan] and a building [Sabertooth]. The Juggernaut roared and began to charge toward Charles. Kent placed up a quick barrier but Juggernaut had smashed right through it as he had gained far too much momentum. David shot a rocket at the Juggernaut but he emerged from the blast still steamrolling toward Charles.

Aidan decided to finally help and used his power to place Charles and Vincent a few more feet away from the Juggernaut. At this point the juggernaut was almost unstoppable. Fuyumi ran toward him, placing herself into his trajectory. He was prepared to plow right through the thin and pale Japanese woman but he received a surprise. Fuyumi phased out and pulled him down under the ground. She rose up from the cement unharmed and stepped away.

“He’s still coming. That won’t stop him for long.” Fuyumi panted.

The group heard a rumbling of the earth beneath them. The juggernaut was punching his way out of the ground and toward the surface. The concrete near Charles exploded and rose up the Juggernaut in an outrage. Hideki quickly tapped into the light energy stored into his body and achieved a feat he rarely before could utilize. He converted his body mass to light and at light speed appeared in front of Charles placing himself between the Juggernaut and the professor. His hands illuminated with light energy and he clapped them together in front of him to create a blindingly bright white flash. The Juggernaut couldn’t see a thing.

“AAAAAHHH!!! You little…. YOU Freakin’ BLINDED ME!!! OOO WHEN I FIND YOU I’M GONNA TEAR THAT PRETTY LITTLE HEAD OF YOURS OFF!!” Juggernaut exclaimed as he grabbed around.

The Juggernaut almost caught hold of Hideki but Aidan ran up a pulled the young man back toward himself. “That was a cute move lad, but cute could have gotten you killed. I’d hate to see such a bright student go to waste.” Aidan said Hideki with a flirtatious snicker.

Kyle flew swiftly and grabbed juggernaut. He used all of his might to pick the heavy man up and toss him toward Colossus and Frenzy who stood waiting to deliver Juggernaut a blow to the stomach making him double over. Colossus Grabbed Juggernaut’s arms and restrained him He was about the only one strong enough to do so. Frenzy leaped up onto Juggernaut’s shoulders and began to yank off the Juggernaut’s helmet. It was finally off. She hurled it into the distance far from the battle so he couldn’t quickly reclaim it. Frenzy then leaped off of Juggernaut.

The Juggernaut began to regain his vision and broke free of Colossus’ grasp. He grabbed Colossus’ head and slammed him down into the pavement in front of him. With his helmet off Charles and Vincent began to unleash a psychic maelstrom on Juggernaut’s mind. He screamed and yelled in anguish before he eventually collapsed. Charles and Vincent together managed to extinguish Juggernaut’s mental rages and brought him in to a normal state of mind and calmed him down.

The Juggernaut got up from the ground after about 5 minutes. “Oooo… my head splits. Brother… what the hell happened?” the Juggernaut held his head in confusion. He now felt bad for what he had done. The professor explained the situation and the Juggernaut agreed to temporarily take him into the mansion.

Alice

She had not been expecting The Juggernaut to punch straight through the shadow, despite the fact that she had fused everyone’s shadow with hers and the Juggernauts own. Alice doubled over, holding her stomach as she felt the pain that her shadow felt. She coughed up a little blood and fell to her knees, shaking her head Alice eye was no longer all black as the color began to recede, returning to its original color.
Ace
Ace was back but she let out a string of curses that would have made any sailor jealous. “You ugly damned Bastard the firkin Hurt! DAMMIT!” she snarled but her body hurt too much for her to move very well.

“Damn if she hadn’t intervened this wouldn’t have happened” she growled. Standing back up Ace suddenly went rigid when shadows began to return back to their original masters, but Ace’s now had a strange hole exactly where the Juggernaut punched her, including the Juggernauts own shadow. “Shit” as she lost conscious and fell forwards, right into her own shadow, and disappeared; only to appear besides where Logan was.

The others didn’t seem too pleased with the invitation of Juggernaut to the mansion. Xavier understood their feelings but Juggernaut was his brother and he much needed to make peace with him if at all possible. Things were, for a moment, slightly calm. The fighting had ceased yet agitation lingered in the air. The police and armed forces were headed toward the scene of the incident. Most of the morlocks had fled or were incapacitated. Calypso ordered those who could to retreat and carry anyone who wasn’t able to flee on their own strength away to the safety of the sewers.

Logan noticed Ace appear near him. He knelt down to make sure she was alright. She seemed to be in a good deal of pain. He could hear the sirens nearing them. The police would be there in a matter of moments. “We’d better get the hell outta dodge Professor!” Logan called to Charles.

Vincent touched his head to perform a mental probe of the minds in the nearby area. “The military is coming… A special force assigned as a countermeasure to mutants. They believe that we were in on the Juggernaut’s attack, that we intended to harm the city. Logan is right we must leave now.” Vincent said to the group, his tone seemingly calm.

Aidan, with a flirtatious grin on his face, softly and quickly stroked Hideki’s cheek with his finger and said, “Well Love, it looks like I should be taking my leave now. Tell Charles to take care of you well until I come to whisk you away for myself.” Aidan had seriously taken up a fascination and liking to Hideki, one to which confused and flustered Hideki. Aidan then turned to Charles and spoke, “Well Charles it’s been great fun but at last I bid you goodbye. Try not to get caught lad.” With that Aidan spoke a few words and utterly vanished into thin air using his power.

The armed forces came and began to attempt to set a perimeter up around the area. Cain was very upset with the situation. He began to use his telepathic abilities to communicate with the countermeasures group. “We were trying to stop this aggressive non-mutant’s attack on the city. We’ve done no one harm. Call your forces off now.” Cain was very serious in tone. Charles and Vincent knew that if the armed forces didn’t allow them passage Cain would indeed strike them down.

The armed forced replied, “You are to stand down mutant hostiles. Surrender yourselves to the house of mutant registration immediately! I repeat, surrender yourselves to the house of mutant registration immediately!”

A moment passed and no action was taken. Charles had begun to use his powers to telepathically cloak the entire team of mutants from the vision of the armed forces. “Let’s retreat now. Those of you that can make it to the blackbird head there for transport. Mutt Ant should be nearby and possibly able to drive a few back to the mansion. I will contact him telepathically and ask him for this favor. Kent also has a Vehicle and can take some to safety. We shall meet back at the mansion. We leave no one behind understood?” Charles communicated with the group telepathically.

Victor was curious about the young woman that had her hand on his cheeks as he woke up from previously being knocked into a nearby building. He hadn’t spoken a word to her yet. He was simply observing her. She was definitely a mutant but she didn’t seem like the physically advanced type like him. He began to smirk a little. “She’s pretty cute.” He thought to himself. He decided to make his way back to the Blackbird to head to the X-mansion. He turned to Annabelle and finally spoke, “Hey you coming on the jet or not?” He asked with a tilted head and a raised eyebrow.

One by one everyone made their way back to the X-mansion. No one seemed to have been caught by the armed forces. Vincent was able to persuade Cain to stand down and not attack the threatening humans. Cain hated the fact that they had to run away like they were the guilty ones. They were being pegged like villains, mutants who were pure evil, but they were in actuality good and trying to stop a magically enhanced human that was running amok. He didn’t like the world as it was, a world that Vincent, his counterpart had grown to accept.

When things settled down, Cain spoke to Charles, Vincent, Magneto, and Pietro. They all came to grips with who and what Cain was. Charles and Magneto accepted Cain immediately with joy and gladness as their new son just as they had with Vincent. Afterward Cain was approached by Philip. Philip had heard in detail about Cain from Vincent but was curious about a few things. Philip knocked on Cain’s room door.

Cain answered by opening the door with his matter manipulation abilities. He sat on his bed relaxing and motioned for Philip to enter. After the two greeted one another, Cain asked, “So what bring you here Philip.” He looked up at Philip with a genuinely bright smile. He was happy to see Philip the feeling was different than that he felt for others.

“I was curious about what was said in the talk with Vincent and the others. You said that you feel what Vincent feels as if they were your own feelings, like how he feels about the people Vincent cares about.” Philip asked hesitantly.

“Yes. That’s right.” Cain replied calmly. After a brief moment of silence Cain continued. “I suppose you’re wondering where you and I stand with each other huh? That’s a wise thing for you to want to straighten out Philip. I shouldn’t have expected anything less from my brother’s lover.” Cain chuckled a little.

Philip was still nervous. “Well?” Philip asked nervously. Speaking to Cain was like speaking to a new side of Vincent’s personality that had a different face and body. It made Philip slightly uneasy yet slightly flustered. He felt close with him yet very distant at the same time. It was indeed a strange phenomenon.

Cain replied, “I share most of the same feelings that Vincent feels emotionally and I understand him as if we were still the same being. In the case of you… like Vincent, I love you, romantically. When you’re in Vincent’s presence his heart flutters. My heart flutters just like his when you’re around me. He wants to do things to you, so do I. In fact, I’m telepathically calming myself as we speak so that my emotions don’t get the better of me a do something to you that you and I will regret. So yes, we are very strongly linked, Vincent and I. However, I will never act on my emotions for you. You’re dating my other half after all, not me. You needn’t worry, I won’t ever act on these feelings and eventually I’ll perfect controlling them, I hope.” Cain began to blush a little. He felt bad that he had to have this conversation with Philip and for making Philip worried.

Philip finally smiled as he began to feel relief from worry. “I see. I’m sorry Cain, it must be difficult for you to deal with.” Philip replied.

“For now, it’s a little challenging but it also feels nice. I like being in love, It’s like receiving all the pleasurable highlights of love without actually having to do anything. I feel like I’m cheating a little. Hahaha…” Cain chuckled.

Cain reassured Philip once more and he gave Philip a hug. The two parted ways and Cain decided to take a much needed nap. The events of the day played back through his mind. He remembered his frustrations, and joys. He was glad that Philip came. It put him at ease where he before felt a bit on edge.

Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Kent Van Pelt

Scott and Kent led Dr. Strange and son to Professor Xavier’s office to talk. The Professor’s meeting concluded and the Dr. left. Professor X headed to his quarters to rest. He had a long day. Scott and Kent sat in the living room chatting. It had been a long time since Scott and Kent last spoke. Kent was an unofficial member of the X-men yet everyone considered him a part of the team. He was glad to stick around the mansion. It was like being home again.

There was one more ringing of the newly fixed doorbell. Scott and Kent went to answer the door and greet the guest. Low and behold stood Jean Grey back from Ireland and ready to assist the x-men once again. Scott was shocked. He wasn’t expecting Jean back until a week later. Scott’s eyes began to tear up. “Jean… you’re back…” Scott said softly.

Jean simply smiled and gave Scott a big hug. “I miss you so much Scott. It’s good to be back with you.” The two embraced and kissed.

Kent smiled as he stepped back and allowed the couple to have their moment. Jean then greeted Kent with a warm smile. “So sorry Kent. I didn’t mean to ignore you. It’s just been a little while since Scott and I have been together.” Jean explained.

“Before she could continue Kent said, “I know. There’s no need to apologize. You’re absolutely fine.” Jean gave Kent a big hug. She was very glad to see Kent as well. Jean and Scott went to get Jean settled in again. Reunions were needed, but they would have to come later.

One their way to the Jean and Scott’s room, the group passed the War room, in it sat Logan and Frenzy talking quietly. Logan looked up and saw Jean. Their eyes met and Logan’s heart sunk in. He wasn’t ready to see her. He quickly got his expression together and greeted Jean. “Hey Jean. It’s been a while huh?” Logan said in a indifferently.

Jean smiled and replied, “Indeed it has. It’s good to see you Logan.”

Scott made way toward their bedroom and carried Jean’s belongings with him. Kent decided to stay with Logan and Frenzy in the war room and enjoy their conversation.

Vincent Xavier, Abe Fuyumi

“Well now, do you remember him or have we turned you into the wrong guy?” Vincent said jokingly. Ryan only smiled, the tears now falling freely from his eyes. "No... No, that's me. That's how I used to look... Thank you! Thank you so much Vincent!" Ryan said, running over to Vincent and tackling him with a huge hug. "I'm me again!" Ryan yelled into Vincent's chest, his voice muffled slightly. He pulled away for a moment, running directly over to Professor Fuyumi, flinging himself onto her as he did Vincent before. "We did it. I'm so happy. Thank you for the mirror." After a brief moment, Ryan stepped away from Fuyumi and looked at himself. "I need to... I need to train, to practice. I have to be able to turn this off and on again whenever I want to. I need to... I need to paint. God, I haven't been able to paint without huge clawed hands for years. I want to... I want to do so many things! I can... I can... I can be me, Vincent. I can be me again." Ryan finished, his cheeks rosy, his smile massive.

Vincent’s smiling and laughter continued. He knew Ryan had the drive and determination to train diligently. Discovering one’s self takes work. Fuyumi was so glad to see Ryan so genuinely happy. Ryan always made Fuyumi feel like a maternal figure when he was around her. It was a good feeling. He was in fact the closest thing to a sibling or son she had. She had always figured that she came off as distant to others because she was so quiet and to herself. She was glad that now she knew for sure that she didn’t make Ryan feel as if he were being pushed away.

The celebration was cut short when Agent Six, who was currently in the mansion’s sub-levels, sent her observer spirit into the mirror it took up the entirety of its surface, a long spindly arm shot out grabbing the wine bottle and slamming it into the mirror. The mirror itself was fine with a few cracks but the wine bottle shattered on impact the liquid ran down the surface of the mirror but never reached the floor as it should. Instead it took shape with the observer spirit giving it more space to take on a small form that looked like the upper body of a person, Agent Six. It reached out towards Vincent brushing against his throat almost like she was trying to choke him but physical contact should help in what she was going to say next.

Vincent was very startled. It’s not very easy to catch him off guard seeing as that he tends to receive a psionic warning when danger is imminent. Fuyumi shrieked as the strange arm shot from the mirror and the form seemingly choked Vincent. Vincent didn’t know exactly what he was going to do as he hadn’t gotten a hold on all that was happening to him.

"Jonathan" was the only word it spoke but to Vincent he would have seen a flurry of images of what had happened telling him exactly where Jonathan was. Vincent now knew that he wasn’t being attacked but he was being warned. This was a cry for help from Agent Six. With that the observer spirit lost its form, the wine splashed to the ground.

Suddenly they heard a noise from outside of the kitchen. “Professor!” April Barber, the schools head nurse, screamed as she ran down the hallways, eventually leading out into the kitchens. “Vincent! There’s something upstairs!” she panted, leaning against the door frame. “I think Ace’s powers are manifesting themselves!” It took some time for her to catch her breath and when she finally did the sight of Ryan almost made her lose it again. “Ryan!? Oh my god!” she exclaimed, mouth slightly agape. “Is that you?” she asked dumbfounded.

Fuyumi after calming down, turned to April and smiled, “Yes this is Ryan. We’ll definitely have to explain it to you later.”

Vincent sighed heavily. “Yes… well that settles it. If one freaky happening didn’t settle it then this does. So Ace is the cause of what’s attacking Jonathan and Agent Six…” Vincent said in a pondering manner. “Well that was a warning from Agent Six. She and Jonathan are in danger and I fear the we are as well. Ace must have lost control of her shadow power again. But is this Alice’s doing?” Vincent said to the group. He then turned to Ryan. “Ryan do you think you can still defend yourself in this state for now? I’m not sure if we have the time to change you back. Just stick with me and I’ll have your back. We need to warn the others. There are construction workers outside as well that need to be safeguarded. We most definitely can risk civilians getting hurt.” Vincent instructed. He wondered why Ace lost control. Alice seemed to be under wraps lately but what would have set that power out of whack? There was definitely something at work here, Vincent thought to himself.

Vincent ran down to the sub-basement levels of the mansion. Fuyumi followed behind Vincent. She then phased down through the floor to the Sub-basement and began searching for Jonathan and Agent Six. She ran from corridor to corridor until she spotted them. Agent six sat on the floor cradling Jonathan’s head in her lap. It looked as if she was trying to protect him from the large shadow figure looming over them. Fuyumi phased through the floor and arose next to Jonathan and Agent Six. “It’s me Shadow or Fuyumi. He’s unconscious huh?” Fuyumi asked after introducing herself to agent six. Agent Six was blind and also she and Fuyumi have had little chance to get acquainted with one another so Fuyumi felt a brief intro was in order. “I’ve got you two don’t worry.” Fuyumi said while she placed her hands, one on Agent Six, the other on Jonathan (making sure not to touch his skin but his clothing) and phased the two through the ground and into the next room.”
Fuyumi made sure the two were okay. While looking at Jonathan she thought to herself. “It must be so hard for him to deal with his power. I remember how it felt not to be tangible for a while. It was horrible not to be able to touch a thing. But I imagine he has it worse. He can have skin contact with another at all. Such a handsome young man, yet I’m sure he’s not even attempting to date in his condition. I do hope he gains control of his ability so he too can have a more normal life.”

Vincent made it downstairs. He had taken note that Fuyumi had gotten Agent Six and Jonathan to safety. He looked at the creature of the shadows face to face. It seemed to be examining him as well. Vincent’s thoughts raced. “How do I shut this creature down? Usually Professor psionically arrests the Alice persona into the shadow realm. However I’m sensing Ace is actually unconscious. I think the shadows themselves have struck out on their own. So how will I Psionically dismiss them without their creator conscious and aware? Perhaps I can telekinetically disperse the shadow? It won’t kill it but it will force it to split apart and disperse. That would at least buy us some time to regroup.” Vincent said.

He placed his hands on his temples and concentrated on a combustible telekinetic force. The shadow charged at him shrieking viciously in an unearthly tone. Just in time the shadow dispersed into a black mist and faded away. Vincent rejoined Fuyumi, Agent Six and Jonathan in the next room over. “I think I commandeered us some time. We need to move him to safety.” Vincent said to the group.

Matsuzawa Hideki, Pietro Maximoff, Logan, Frenzy, Kent Van Pelt

Hideki was walking to his room from outside. He still couldn’t shake the strange feeling he had. Like something was stirring in the atmosphere. “Gosh I keep getting these horrible chilling feelings… this premonition stuff if best left to the telepaths like Vincent or professor X geez…” He complained.

Hideki wondered what Aidan was up to. The man was so mysterious. “That man was a friend of Professor X according to the Professor, although he didn’t seem much like Xavier only in the manner of being obviously wealthy.” Hideki thought to himself. The man that creeped Hideki out was now becoming the subject of much curiosity. Hideki’s thought processes were cut short when Pietro sprinted swiftly around the corner and toward Hideki. Pietro moved so fast it seemed as if he was going to crash into Hideki. However, Pietro saw Hideki well before he reached him. His reaction time is superb so Pietro was able to stop right in front of Hideki. His face bore a cool smirk. Hideki fell backward in fear of a possible collision.

“What the hell!? Pietro didn’t anyone ever tell you not to run in the house?!” Hideki fussed. He was already feeling uneasy today, but this only made his heart feel like it was going to burst through his chest.

Pietro squatted down and offered to help Hideki up. “Yeah sure they did… like I would ever listen to that. Sorry kiddo. I was heading out for a jog.” Pietro replied.

“I had heard something about Cain going on an outing and taking a few others with him. I thought you were supposed to go. What happened to that?” Hideki asked.

“Well… yeah about that. I was all fine and dandy with Cain asking me and all, but my dad was going too. He and I don’t gel too well so I decided to pass. However my half bro and I are gonna have a little bonding time later. He’re going clubbing~” Pietro smiled. He was in a pretty jovial mood. He was looking forward to spending time with Cain and getting to know him. He only hoped that his new brother wasn’t too much like their father Magneto.

The sound of critters seemed to rustle and rattle around them. It was strange and the sounds rapidly increased in frequency. Suddenly little shadow creatures sprang up from the shadowy areas of the corridor and scurried towards Pietro and Hideki. “What the…?” Pietro was unsure of what it was he was seeing.

Hideki felt that shudder in his body, this was the cause of what he was feeling earlier, he realized. He fired a spray of plasmatic flares at the shadow creatures and they seemed to be in pain. Several scurried away in terror while those that were struck faded away. They definitely didn’t like bright light. “Pietro cover your eyes!” Hideki warned. Pietro quickly followed instructions and covered his eyes as the blinding white lite illuminated all over the hallway from Hideki’s body. The monsters were eradicated. “We’d better warn the others.” Hideki said as he turned toward Pietro.

Pietro quickly swept Hideki off his feet and raced down the hall. Looking for someone that could help, they found Logan sitting quietly in the war room, with Kent Van Pelt, and Fenzy. They sat talking quietly with each other as Pietro and Hideki rushed into the quiet atmosphere. “Perfect it’s the tin man Wolverine. Hey we’ve got ourselves a nasty little shadow critter situation around here and light bright here can’t be expected to blind everyone trying to get rid of them all alone.” Pietro spoke swiftly as he did most everything else.

Logan responded, “Look here Bub! I ain’t no tin man. And if you keep that little cute act up, you’ll have a much bigger problem than Flare here flashing a few bright lights in your smug face.” Logan huffed in a bit of an attitude.

Kent laughed a little nervously, “Sorry about that Quicksilver. Logan’s in a bit of a bad mood right now. However we’re here to help. As much as I’d hate to break up their moment, we’d better go get Scott and Jean.” Kent said.

Logan seemed to perk up instantly at the sound of busting up Scott and Jean. “Well let’s get going team!” Logan said with a smirk no one could miss.

Hideki let out a sigh, “Oh well… So much for Kyle and my ‘one true pairing’ dreams for Scott and Logan…They made the perfect anti couple…” Hideki mopped to himself.

David North, Victor Creed, Stinger, Magneto and Cain

ignoring the hand Canaan growled at the both of them "then your just like everyone else always wanting to take advantage of Terra's abilitys well guess what its a simple no we dont need you help" her eyes narrowed.

Cain was a bit hurt by her skepticism. He honestly wanted to help them perfect their abilities. He wished that mutant could and would trust each other more. He felt that if they didn’t stick together, they’d be wiped out by those that would want to hurt them. David, Victor and Frenzy didn’t care for the young mutant’s attitude much yet they kept themselves in check and avoided interjecting. Cain could sense that Memory had had a run in with a Morlock. She did manage to handle herself and hide. But Canaan was beginning to pick up on her presence. Sabertooth and David both immediately picked up on the noise as well.

Glaring at Cain Canaan was about to turn away except she heard a sound, an unwelcomed sound of a body hitting the ground. the tip of her tail twitched just once and already Canaan pushed past Cain and the rest with unatural grace befitting a cat hybrid such as herself. a growl escaped her throat as she advanced on the intruder, Cain readied himself to act. He watched closely and sharply. He was prepared to subdue anyone that dared to hurt his team including Canaan if need be. but suddenly a small tremor shook the tunnels dislodging a few slabs of rock.

Canaan snapped her head in the direction of where she had come from, fear in her eyes. "shit Terra" her voice rose and se was gone running towards where her brother was. passing the group of X-Men stopping just for a moment "first of all when your come visit us don’t take all you man power with you. And second go deal with that little rat you have tailong behind that wall" her voice low and threatening. so with that Canaan ran past the gate towards Terra who laid still but it was obvious that he was the cause of that tremor.

Cain glanced over to Magneto, who remained silent. He wanted to allow Cain to proceed as he saw fit. He truly believed in his children as leaders, with the exception of Pietro perhaps. David looked over to Cain and Magneto. “So we have a stalker?” He said sarcastically.

Cain sighed and replied, “Memory Ashcroft. I’ve been aware of her presence for a while now but I decided to proceed without blowing her cover. She did an excellent job in masking her location. However my telepathy is exceptionally strong and hard to hide from.”

David smirked then turned around and headed toward Memory’s general direction. “Hey Wonder twin. You can come out now. The jigs up. I’ll look after you Memory. We’ll go in together and I promise to bring you back to your brother safe and sound. Sound good?” David spoke flirtatiously. He really enjoyed Memory. She was an interesting person to David.

Victor grinned, “Did he mention that he’s more than twice her age? Don’t let his artificially halted pretty boy looks fool you.” He commented loudly.
Stinger asked Cain, “Well aren’t we gonna get outta here? I mean the little twerp said she didn’t want any help so we should just beat it.” She was ready to leave the sewers.

Cain shook his head. “I need to try again. I hope they will understand my heart.” He proceeded over toward Canaan. The other Morlocks didn’t want the group anywhere in their space. Cain knelt down by Canaan and Terra. “You know the morlocks haven’t been able to help you attain any growth in developing your power in the recent past. I can feel it. Both you and Terra feel as if you’ve hit a wall and wished you could continue to grow. Well you can, with the right help.” He motioned toward the others. These people are far from being defined as all of my man power. They are very strong but the X-men as a team is unstoppable. I just wanted to make sure that nothing unnecessary happened, they are here to insure that.” Cain turned back to Canaan, “please give us a chance.”

Agent Six

She didn’t understand for his need to protect her. Agent Six didn’t care if she died it might be painful but she would welcome it with open arms but with the absence of a smile. Staring down at his face, a hand touched her but she ignored it as well as the voice that accompanied it. For a brief moment her body felt strange but it soon passed, she knew for a fact that they had phased through the floors, Agent Six did catch the woman’s name; Fuyumi or Shadow as some would call her. Weapon X had files on her that Agent Six had been told about so she already knew what Fuyumi had done.

It looked as if Agent Six furrowed her brow at the fact that Jonathan had asked about her safety not really understanding why he bothered to ask if he could see her face looking down at his from her lap. In one swift movement Agent Six flicked his forehead; too fast for his ability to affect her, a single word escaped her lips “idiot”. But just for a brief moment Agent Six saw color but it was like blinking and the color was gone. Then Vincent spoke about buying them some time not that it would help since they would just keep coming back. But Agent Six remained silent as always not caring to 'watch' them as she should in case something happened.


Canaan

She really didn’t like Cain at the moment, the concern in his voice as if he knew what she had been through. Snorting Canaan looked at him from the corner of her eye, tail lashing behind the only thing that gave away her emotion at the time. "Unstoppable huh, no one’s unstoppable not even you X-Men-" she spat at him "-not even Terra" she said on a softer note. Canaan's mind began to go into overdrive trying to come up with a reason not to take their help but she was just being her stubborn self and really didn’t want to admit needing help from people she didn’t even know.

Letting out a sigh Canaan’s tail floated down to rest on the ground in defeat but she continued to glare at Cain. “Let you help us this one time but once Terra wakes up were leaving” and with that Canaan leaned down, lifting up Terra holding him in her arms with ease. Canaan made sure to avoid eye contact with the others, her tail floated behind her like silk. At the last minute before she passed Memory her tail flicked across the older girls face, and then it trailed behind Canaan who looked as if nothing happened.


Shadows

the last shadow GateKeeper left its home, it began to stalk the halls making sure to avoid those it did not wish to deal with yet. this one was different from the others, smarter and faster, it relied on its ability to outsmart its prey than on its strength like its twin(the one who attacked Jonathan and Agent Six)they both guarded the same being The Third Child but for now they must destroy all and any threats to their masters recovery.

sniffing the air it smiled, sticky strands kept its mouth from forming into a full smile but it was a smile nonetheless, it had found the source of pain, it had found the one who always bothered its second master, Alice. for each personality had its own shadow GateKeeper, Ace's had been dispersed temporarily but it would soon return to haunt this mansion. while the one stalking its prey belonged to Alice, the one it had found was none other than Charles Xavier and it was going to kill tonight no matter the cost.

---------- Somewhere else in Mansion -------------------

the third shadow from before had found the Juggernaut or rather his scent and it too had a savage grin. it let out a hiss that only those with enhanced hear could hear, almost like a dog whistle. its hiss traveled all around the mansion alerting its brethren that it had found their intended target. soon smaller shadows skittered across the floors in huge amounts, some even ran over one another trying to be the first to taste flesh that it craved as whole . . .

(OOC:i let you guys deal with what happens with the smaller ones as they are currently running in the halls in waves, have fun)

David North, Victor Creed, Stinger, Magneto and Cain

David smirked as he watched Memory stand up, cross her arms and step out into the dim light of the sewers.

"Oh boys, the age doesn't both me," she began flirtatiously as she began her walk in their direction the shoes were making little noise in space they were in. After a few seconds she reached them, stopping just around a meter away. "he's still got that pretty face." She smiled sweetly, with a hidden seduction beneath, before sauntering past them. Suddenly, Memory stopped and looked over her shoulder at them with a cheeky grin.
"Then again, with that age, I just hope everything still works as well as his pretty little face." She spoke slowly, her eyes trailing down his body to the top of the legs, focusing on a specific area for a moment, before returning to his eyes. Giving a quick wink, Memory continued on her way away from the men.

David’s smirk became a full blown smile. He was delighted to see that she seemed to enjoy his attention maybe as much as he enjoyed hers. He brushed a few strands of un-slicked hair back behind his ear and took a few steps closer to Memory. “Well now, how about you give me a thorough check up Miss Ashcroft? I’m sure everything would be in excellent working order and especially to your liking. Once we blow this little popsicle stand, I’ll reserve all the time in the world for you. Scouts honor.” David stood directly in front of Memory, intimately close.

Stinger giggled nonstop. It was all too amusing to her. She always considered David to be quite the slut but this was just too good. Watching him with this young woman was priceless. She had to admit though, Memory did make her feel a tiny bit self-conscious. She was so young, sassy and pretty. It actually made Stinger feel a tad bit old. Stinger quickly frowned and shook her head in annoyance trying to clear her mind of the voice saying she was getting older. Stinger could never shake her vanity and neither could David. He and her actually slept together once. Things were great physically but emotionally, it was sex and sex alone. Absolutely nothing emotional came out of that encounter. Stinger hoped that if Memory actually slept with David, that she either not get attached to him or that he is actually serious about her. The only thing Stinger said to the flirtatious couple was, “Well sweetheart, I’ll have you know North here is very much forbidden fruit. Know that well before you take that delicious bite.”

When Cain went to talk once more to Canaan she replied, "Unstoppable huh, no one’s unstoppable not even you X-Men-" she spat at him "-not even Terra" she said on a softer note. Letting out a sigh Canaan’s tail floated down to rest on the ground in defeat but she continued to glare at Cain. “I’ll let you help us this one time but once Terra wakes up were leaving” and with that Canaan leaned down, lifting up Terra holding him in her arms with ease. Canaan avoided eye contact with the others, her tail floated behind her like silk. At the last minute before she passed Memory her tail flicked across the older girls face, and then it trailed behind Canaan who looked as if nothing happened.

Cain was relieved that Canaan agreed to come along, even if it was only temporarily. He had faith that once Canaan and Terra experienced life with the X-men they’d understand Charles and Eric’s mission. Calypso watched the whole time in the shadows. Now that Canaan and Terra were actually going with the X-men she was angered enough to take action. She charged out of the shadows and commanded the group to stop.

“You surface dwelling X-scum, how dare you waltz down here and take your pick of our Morlock family as if we were tools at your disposal?! You’ve got some nerve!” Calypso yelled, standing behind the group. “And Canaan, I can save you a wasted trip. The X-men won’t accept you. Think about it? They wanted nothing to do with those they attacked a day ago on the surface did they?” Calypso’s voice carried a mocking tone. Her voice began to take a calmer tone, “This is a mistake Canaan. I’m not angry with you for going, but I am livid with these self-righteous pricks! I wouldn’t be a good leader if I didn’t try to stop them from taking you out of here. So as acting leader of the Morlocks, while the official leader Storm is still absent, I order every able Morlock to hunt them down and prevent the X-men from taking Canaan and Terra out of here! They are our family and we won’t lose them to these X-freaks!! NOW GO!!”

Calypso gave the order and the Morlocks attacked. Morlocks seemed to filter in from everywhere. The group was easily surrounded. Magneto turned to Canaan and snipped, “You wondered why we needed such man power? There is always a method to my madness young lady.” Magneto’s tone was that of a teacher. He and Cain knew full well that Calypso would never allow them to simply walk out of the sewers with two of her prized mutants. She did care for Canaan and Terra greatly but she would never willingly recognize that the X-men were better able to help them than she was.

Victor huffed, “I will never get used to being called an X-men… Fuck I might as well turn into that damned Wolverine.” He griped out loud to the group.

David laughed, “Well ‘Saber-ine’ at least you’ll get the action your blood boiled for.” He so enjoyed poking fun at Sabertooth.

Sabertooth growled, “North I swear I’m going to kill you in the ugliest way imaginable.”

David replied while drawing his guns from his holsters, “Aww… sorry Victor. Look baby I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I was just having a little fun. Please don’t be mad, stay up and keep something warm for me tonight~” David joked and promptly began to laugh mischievously.

Sabertooth could never remain pissed and keep an angry disposition with David when he pulled his notoriously gay jokes. “Damn it North!! I’m losing my fury momentum with you gaying it up over there! Shut-up and watch your girl’s back for Christ’s sake!” Sabertooth couldn’t fight the smile that crept across his face. David was truly the only friend Victor had.

David stood with Memory, “Hey love, stick with me alright. You’ll be fine. I’ve never minded a tight squeeze.” David said with a wink. He then unstrapped a pistol affixed to his thigh and gave it to Memory. “Here, I hope you don’t mind shooting sewer scum cause it won’t mind attacking you. Get my drift?” David hoped she knew how to use that gun and could bring herself to shoot someone.

Cain telepathically warned them all. “Do NOT kill anyone if possible. You can hurt but not kill. They may be hostiles but they are still our mutant brethren. If we murder today, we will lose the trust and faith of those we came to recruit as well as damage our chance at a united mutant-kind. Our goal is to escape. Let’s clear a pathway out with minimal bloodshed. I have faith in you all.”

Vincent Xavier, Abe Fuyumi

"I'll carry Jonathan, can one of you get the other?" Ryan asked, bending down and hefting the large Texan over his shoulder with much more effort than such exertions used to take. "Oof. Starting to miss my old strength." Ryan joked. "Hey Vince, mind shifting me back?" Ryan asked. He'd only just managed to get back to the way he used to be, but the current situation demanded the use of his strength. "It's ok. We can always try to get me back again later. Besides, I miss my tail." Ryan chuckled, a brave smile on his face.

Vincent nodded in agreement. “We will iron out time for sure to work on this later Ryan I promise.” Vincent smiled. “But you’re right, for now we need you at 100%.” Vincent and Ryan repeated the procedure they followed the last time in in a matter of a minute or two, Ryan way back to normal again. Vincent was glad that Ryan actually wanted to change back. That meant that he had accepted that part of himself. Ryan was now much better able to carry Jonathan than in his previous state.

“We need to get him up to the infirmary; running around this place is the last thing he needs at the moment. Plus Ace is up there locked in a room, I have the spare key somewhere in my office.” April said.

Vincent agreed. “April’s right. Alright then, the others need to be found and alerted. I sense that most others are aware of what’s happening. But a few aren’t. My Telepathy seems to be meeting with some interference. It’s not impossible to get through but still not easy. Looks like we’ll have to see to Jonathan first, and trust the other to see to Ace. I’ll try to get a telepathic transmission to Scott to rescue Ace. Let’s head up to Aprils office and get Jonathan and Six to safety.” The group headed upstairs from the sub-basement.

Matsuzawa Hideki, Pietro Maximoff, Logan, Frenzy, Kent Van Pelt, Jean Grey and Scott Summers

The group [Hideki, Pietro, Logan, Frenzy, and Kent] had found Scott and Jean in their bedroom, catching up after a long absence from each other. After giving the couple a moment, they all headed down the halls to seek out the new threat. Scott received a telepathic warning from Vincent. He turned to the group, “Everyone this is our objective, we need to rescue Ace from a locked room. Vincent believe she is unconscious. The creatures Flare (Hideki’s codename) and Quicksilver (Pietro’s codename) encountered were shadow creatures, according to Vincent. He ran into a large one. This might have something to do with Ace. We are going to check things out together, for now. Alright team let’s move.” Scott gave the command.

Jean smiled. She missed being a part of missions with the X-men. It was also refreshing to see Scott in action as team leader and commander. He was such the military man. Jean was not happy about the danger but she knew that all would eventually be resolved so she wasn’t worried. She was simply happy to be home with her husband and family. She then received a telepathic warning. “They’re coming! Many small creatures are approaching us!” Jean warned.

Many little shadowy creatures leapt from the darkness at the group. Logan ejected his claws and launched ahead of the others in attack mode. The creatures seemed afraid of the flash of light that was generated from Logan’s claws once ejected. However Logan’s slashes were not producing fruitful results. They seemed little effected by physical attacks. “What the hell are these little creeps?!” Logan shouted.

Jean telekinetically began to repel a few of the shadows. As they crashed into the walls they dispersed into pieces but soon rejoined themselves and were created a new. Scott used his optic blast and the brightness of the blast eliminated a group of little shadow creatures. Frenzy was in a similar situation as Logan. Kent used shielding abilities to defend Logan and Frenzy. Kent then converted his shield energy into a wall like force energy. The energy was bright and produced an electrical arch energy that made the shadows fritz out upon contact with it. Those touched became static-like and soon faded away. “Well that worked.” Kent said with a pleasant smile.

Logan patted Kent on the shoulder proudly, “Add a boy Anchorman! Once an X-men always an X-men.” He hoped that Kent would formally rejoin the team. It wasn’t often that Logan would openly acknowledge friendship, at least not out loud anyway. Kent blushed a little. He was a humble man that grew shy at praise awarded to him.

Quicksilver acted as a diversion. Moving swiftly and tricking shadow creatures into the line of fire. Hideki shot plasma blasts at the creatures, the brightness of the multicolored blasts destroyed the creatures easily but the energy of the explosive blasts destroyed furniture and other objects in the line of fire upon impact. He gave a pained expression, “Why are my powers so destructive…?!” Hideki groaned.

Scott took quick notice. “It’s light that most harms them! Hideki instead of fireworks, uses flashes of light energy, the brighter the better.” Hideki followed Scott’s instructions and the hall bagan to clear out quickly.

“Phew! I just hope light bright here doesn’t run out of batteries!” Quicksilver jokes. Scott rolled his eyes underneath his visor. He was of the serious sort and often didn’t get onboard with Quicksilver’s smug sense of humor. They group made it to the room where Ace was locked in. They were unsure of what lie on the other side.

Juggernaught and Charles Xavier

Charles could sense that something was amiss. His sleep wasn’t highly restful. He woke from a nightmare. In the nightmare a dark group of entities of various shapes began to swallow up the X-men and those in the mansion, First Juggernaut, then Ace, Charles was devoured next and he could feel each and every last member of the X-mansion being sucked into an eternal and life draining darkness. Charles shot out of his dream, only to hear a terrible cackle in the atmosphere. This demonic laughter echoed only in the shadows of the room. Xavier knew that this must have been related to Ace and Alice. But something was definitely off. He knew that if his dream was a premonition, his brother was in danger.

Charles then heard a scream, “HELP ME!” Annabelle screamed telepathically. He knew she was in trouble as well. He quickly hopped out of bed and grabbed his robe. He was shirtless except for his house robe that remained unfastened at the moment. He was glad to have regained the use of his legs. It was moments like this before where he wished he could quickly race to the aid of others on foot, now he could and he was grateful for the ability. A moment later Annabelle entered Xavier’s room. After finding him she stopped to catch her breath. "Professor, shadows are attacking the pupils and it's coming from someone called The Third Child, I think." She looked around the room. "One's here." She whispered and backed up against the desk, scared.

Charles replied, “Fear not Annabelle. We will get things under control. I sense the other are already alert. Together you and I make a formidable team. You must believe in your skills.” Charles reassured Annabelle.

A large shadowy figure rose from behind the desk. It loomed tall over them with slit eyes glaring. Charles immediately placed his fingertips on his head and concentrated with great focus. “Annabelle focus your psionic energy toward me as best you can.” Charles instructed quickly. He began to glow with a pink aura of psionic energy. “Psychic Maelstrom!!” Charles said aloud. The shadow creature shrieked and contorted in agony. Xavier knew that he wouldn’t be able to sustain this attack for long, even with Annabelle’s help.

Juggernaut sat in his room relaxed and watching TV. He seemed to have decreased slightly in size. He was physically slightly larger than the body of normal highly muscular man. Juggernaut’s magic enhancements allowed his to alter his size to a degree so that he’d fit into buildings without destroying doorways and knocking down walls due to his normally large frame. The TV’s light began to dim down considerably. “Wah? Don’t Xavier got enough cash to fix the TV’s around this dump? Geez I didn’t realize my little brother was a cheap-ass…” Juggernaut chuckled to himself.

The room grew darker than before. The shadowy areas in the room seemed to ripple violently. Juggernaut’s disposition became far more serious. He growled at the presence he felt. It was cold, dark and evil, yet it was familiar. “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! COME ON OUT YOU CREEPY LITTLE TWERP! You’re bullshit doesn’t scare me!” Juggernaut shouted. He then heard a crazed cackle surround him. He knew he was in for a fight but with who or what?

Kyle and Colossus

Kyle and Colossus had finished up helping out the construction workers that were fixing up the X-mansion. The workers had left the mansion grounds and headed home. They were all marveled at the strength Colossus and Kyle both possessed. They wished they could lift heavy metal like that, work would be completed far more faster. There were a few jealous and or fearful looks but they were soon turned around once they interacted with Kyle and Colossus’ charming personalities.

“God almighty I’m hungry!” Kyle exclaimed. He sat down on the grass outside the mansion. He was glad to be done with all the hard work. Colossus agreed.

“I am hungry too my friend. How about I treat you to dinner? You didn’t have to help me help the construction workers with the mansion repairs but you did. I appreciate that a lot. It was very sweet of you.” Colossus said as he shifted from his metal form.

Kyle blushed a little. “Ah… I outta lift more heavy stuff more often, maybe I’ll get asked out more.” Kyle said with a wink.

Colossus blushed fiercely, “Now now there is to be little need for you to be lifting heavy thing from now on. Leave that to me Kyle. I can’t have anyone asking you out, that is to be my pleasure to do the asking.” Colossus flirted shyly in reply. The two began to head off to town to grab something to eat. Then they heard an explosive noise come from inside the mansion, it seemed like their dinner date would have to wait.

Canaan

She really hated people right now, especially these damn mutants, always acting like they cared only using them for their abilities. Canaan was not the least bit happy at Calypso’s words, her lip curled in disgust as she listened to what she said.

“What makes you so sure they won’t accept me, you’re the only one saying that they won’t, I refuse to answer to anyone, I refuse to abide by your decisions or anyone’s decisions for that matter. They are not forcing me to come with them, I Chose to come with them; to the surface I’m tired of hiding from surface dwellers. What I choose to do with my life has nothing to do with you Calypso! You cannot call yourself my family for I have no family outside of a brother. Nothing more, nothing less so do yourself a favor and leave that damn illusion that we were ever part of this cowardly family” Canaan snarled at her caretaker. Canaan set Terra down on the ground, making sure he was comfortable and not in the way.

Then facing the Morlocks she roared, the sound echoed throughout the sewers, some morlocks even paused, contemplating whether or not it was a good idea to mess with Canaan. Tail lashing behind her, Canaan slashed at whoever got close to her and Terra, snarling and biting at whatever hands tried to drag him away.

Shadow (first Gatekeeper in hallway)
The little ones screamed and howled in pain, their tiny voices sounded like nails running along a chalkboard. The bright light Hideki had created had killed most if not all of their brethren that once resided in that hall, but they were no more. One little shadow got away though, by stepping into a shadow before he released all that light. By doing so the little shadow ended up back within Ace’s room, it let out a few short squeaks looking at something that could not be seen nor fathomed.

Suddenly something plucked the little shadow right off the ground, tearing it into pieces with its endless black maw. The sounds of pain stopped, and one single limb came down to rest on the floor, then the rest of the body followed behind. What stood alone in that room was none other than the shadow Jonathan and Vincent had dispersed. It smiled, for it could feel the presence of new threats, one was very much similar to the one that had forced him to leave after regenerating from the first attack.

it is time to kill shaking its head, the shadow began to laugh sending chills and murderous intent through the door. It slowly began to darken Ace’s room, dark shadowy substances began to coat the wall, and some wrapped themselves around Ace’s body which shivered in response. It looked back at its handy work and with a simple nod it stepped into a shadow; it appeared the same way it had come the first time.

As huge black blob fell from the ground almost and onto the ceiling, it crawled towards the group of mutants that very smile from before on its face. you die tonight little children as it crawled closer, its body began to take on its original form as before. It then lowered its body to the ground, one limb at a time. Standing up on two legs the shadow barely fit within the hall, which had grown dark, dangerously dark as that same shadowy substance began to coat the walls, inch by inch, though they wouldn’t notice for another ten minutes or so. That dark substance was different, it was and is the very shadows or links that connect a shadow to Ace’s shadow dimension, one misstep and the X-Men before it would fall through into the waiting mouths of shadows, eager for vengeance of their little brethren.
(OOC: as I said before this shadow is incredibly difficult to get rid of, the shadowy substance won’t go away just like that by Hidekis light, they will only recede slowly backwards but it will eventually go back to their original shadows)

Shadow2 (fifth Gatekeeper in Xavier’s room)

It shrieked in pain, not expecting such an attack on its being. It could feel the pain of its master as she too screamed in pain, her body could feel the pain her shadow was going through but their minds were separate and could not be connected. But then after a few moments it adjust itself, by doing what it did best, it darkened the room, it could feel itself grow in size but not by much and sent forth a wave of smaller shadows to distract Xavier.

Then with surprising speed it attacked Xavier, a large black arm slammed the prof. into the wall pinning him down. It paid no attention to Annabelle as it knew she was no threat as so it ignored her, but the moment she did, Annabelle would be dead within moments in its company. ”you trapped my master within that worthless mind. Let her go free little human” unlike the first shadow, its voice was not made of many for it did not feed off the other shadows rather it grew in size by taking them into its body, but did not eat them.

The room slowly began to get darker, the smaller shadows began to go nuts wanting to sink their teeth into solid flesh and chew to their hearts content. It all started with this hunger for flesh, and so it commenced. To rid itself of this hunger a shadow ate its brethren, and suddenly it became a feeding frenzy. The shadow that held Xavier against the wall laughed in sick glee at the sight.
”do you see my children as they eat one another to sustain their hunger. They do not know that their hunger will never pass, but I am sure once they taste flesh they will stop for the moment” for the first time a shadow considered itself an individual with the use of I. It motioned towards Xavier, the remains of the little shadows scattered across the room and in its place stood a new larger shadow but unlike the one that dominated the room, it would not live long enough to ever do anything, for the large shadow ate it.
(OOC: I leave it to you Mas on how you want to deal with this onethough just know that this shadow is Alice’s shadow, they are not connected telepathically but by the body.)

Jean grey, Hideki Matsuzawa, Kent Van-pelt, Logan, Quicksilver, Scott Summers, and Frenzy

Jean’s telepathic senses were running wild. She could sense that the professor and Annabelle were in danger. She also became aware of the impending attack the shadows were about to launch. She couldn’t be in two places at once even with the incredible amount of power she could wield as the phoenix. However, Charles and Annabelle would not be without help for long.

Jean turned to Scott and spoke calmly, “Scott I sense that there is another wave of stronger shadows approaching us. Hideki hasn’t the strength to drown this area with the light needed to get rid of the shadows closing in on us. I might have to use the Phoenix force.” Jean knew Scott would object but she felt she needed to clear it with him first, before acting.

If one could see Scott’s eyes beneath his visor they’d see the sheer shock on his face from having heard such a request from Jean. He was absolutely opposed to the use of the Phoenix. It was just as serious as if Jean had asked for permission to do heroin or something worse. “Absolutely not! You know how dangerous that can be! Don’t worry Jean we’ll manage.” Scott rebutted. He lifted his hand to his visor and fired an optic blast off into the distance. A few dark shrieks resounded in the hall as well as the breaking of the furniture struck by the blast.

Jean rolled her eyes, “Scott you know that won’t work… don’t worry, I can control it now. Moira wouldn’t have sent me home if I hadn’t gotten a handle on things. Trust me Scott.” Jean pleaded with Scott to which he gave in.

“Oh… alright. Just please be careful Jean.” Scot replied hesitantly.

Jean began to glow as a fiery light engulfed her body. She shined so brightly that the whole hall was illuminated with passionate, radiant, light like fire. The large shadow that approached the group would surely feel the burn of the illumination Jean gave off. She flew past the group and toward the shadows. The blob like shadow opened up and swallowed Jean up inside of itself.

Scott and Logan yelled “JEAN!!!!” Logan ripped through the hallway at the creature of darkness in a blind rage. He slashed and ripped away at the darkness only to find himself constricted in shadows. Scott removed his visor and unleashed an optic blast full force at the creature but it was no good. The creature scoffed something of a disgustingly demonic laughter.

Hideki figured that he should do what he could. He knew that his power was most effective against the shadows. He channeled as much light energy as he could into the palms of his hands in preparation for a blinding flash attack. “Everyone close your eyes and turn away!! NOW!” Hideki clapped his hands together in front of himself. A blinding wave of white light went pulsing down the hallway. The blob like shadow creature seemed to recede slightly as if being burned away. However it was not enough light to get rid of the creature. Hideki collapsed to the ground having expended so much energy. He was most tapped out.

The creature slopped its way down the hall in a mad hurry to try to swallow the exhausted Hideki. A few paces away from Hideki the creature of darkness began to open its mouth. Kent extended a shield around Hideki. The Creature chomped down on the shield of electrical arch energy that protected Hideki and sent jolts of electric energy through the beast. The blob of darkness shrieked and wriggled in pain.

Just then Fire and light pierced through the creature and it began to look as if a Sun ws being born from within the creature. It was the light of the Phoenix force. Jean had destroyed the creature from the inside out. While inside the creature she seemed to be in an alternate dimension of shadow. She allowed herself to be swallowed so that she could destroy it where it was least protected. The group opened the door and found Ace still unconscious.


Charles Xavier and Philip Klein
Philip had been working out in the gym after leaving Vincent and taking a nap. He never liked to slack off on his gymnastics training. He had heard noises coming from the halls but he was unsure of what they were. The gymnasium grew darker in an unusual way. He knew something was off. He hopped down from the balance bar and ran in search of Vincent. He just felt that something might have happened to him. He ran across the professor’s room and heard a scream. It was Annabelle. Philip opened the door and saw the professor being swallowed up by shadows.

“What in the…” Philip began to say in shock. The shadow seemed gleefully pleased to have an added person to slaughter. Philip cupped his hands together and began forming a very large energy bomb about the size of a beach ball. He tossed it in the air and spin kicked it at the portions of the creature that held Xavier. The time bomb exploded on impact and the light created was enough to break the Professor free. Philip ran to the professor, “Are you alright Professor? Annabelle?” Philip asked as he helped Charles up and gestured for Annabelle to hurry to his side.

Fuyumi had phased Vincent into the Professor’s room, the others were on their way. Vincent was so glad to see Philip was alright and actually helping his father. Vincent gave Phillip a quick peck on the cheek and smiled. He knew he hadn’t much time so he quickly refocused his attention on the matter at hand. After accessing the situation Vincent came up with a plan. “Philip, I’ll shift to metal form and you create as large a time bomb as you can manage. Let that light reflect off of me. It will intensify a little, at least enough to push the creature back.”

Fuyumi phased the Professor and Annabelle out of the room. Vincent and Phillip’s plan was successful. The creature was not destroyed but at least backed up and partially wounded.

Magneto, Cain, Stinger, Sabertooth, and David North

David took notice of Memory’s combat skill and he was impressed. She seemed to share his skill for getting out of tight spots. A particularly physically strong Morlock grabbed David from behind and slung him into a wall. David’s power allowed him to sustain such damage with no problem or harm, it only fueled his ability to re-channel that energy back at his foe in more than one way. The Morlock stood over David with a menacingly perverse look on his face. He wasn’t the best looking Morlock around either. He seemed to be unlatching his old worn belt while cackling. David looked the mutant up and down and gave a puzzled look. “Is this guy planning to do what I think he’s gonna try to do…?” David thought to himself.

“Wow… I never thought I’d run into a Morlock sex offender. There must really be slim pickings down here friend huh? I’ll cut you a deal, if you get your ugly mug outta my face and walk away, I won’t kill you for even thinking you were gonna violate me.” David warned the burly Morlock with a chuckle.

The Morlock wiped off his belt and proceeded to grab David by his shirt, pulling him up to eye level. He pulled David close and growled, “I’m gonna make you my little Bi-,” However before he could finish his threat David’s fingertips released a corrosive acid substance, an artificially granted ability. The acid burned through the Morlock’s face causing to drop David and scream in agony.

“I warned you. Fuck the rules, this one dies.” David said sharply. David grabbed the Morlock’s head and began to release a blast of kinetic energy, enough to blow the mutant’s head off. Cain caught a quick inkling of David’s intended actions and wasted no time in counteracting David. Cain magnetically manipulated David’s pistol, swiftly drawing from his holster and pointing it at David’s forehead ready to fire.

“I said NOT to kill Agent Zero! Stand DOWN or forfeit your own life…” Cain commanded with a powerful authority in his voice. He meant every word.

David knew to stop immediately. Cain was not to be crossed. David knew never to cross a mutant of such great power. David released the Morlock and backed away. “Sorry Cain won’t happen again.” David apologized in a collected manner.

“Apology accepted my brother.” Cain replied calmly. He then Manipulated David’s gun to quickly turn on the Morlock offender and shot him in the knee. David was surprised to see Cain’s swift act of revenge on the Morlock on the behalf of David. “Oh and North, please don’t think that I wasn’t going to punish this vile being for trying to violate a fellow mutant brother.” Cain said with a smile. He hated for mutants to fight one another but this was unavoidable.

Cain had had enough of all of the fighting. The morlocks were resorting to ruthless measures and Calypso only encouraged them. He was going to utilize a skill that would require a lot of energy. He psionically shut down the consciousness of each Morlock present. They all went into psionic shock and collapsed. Cain began to breathe heavily. This form of psionic assault was not an easy feat to accomplish. “We can now leave…” Cain announced as he caught his breath.

Sabertooth gave Cain a twisted smile. “What the hell did you do to them?”

Cain looked at those that lay on the ground unmoving, passed out. “I psionically overloaded each one their minds enough to shut them down for the time being. They’ll wake up in a few hours. We should head home now. I fear that there is something I must personally see to after we return.” Cain said calmly. He could feel that someone close to his father Magneto was in need of assistance, Cara.

Jean was freed from the clutches of the shadows by April. Scott and Logan could breathe easier with the knowledge that Jean was free. Jean could feel April’s gentle healing abilities restoring her strength. Jean opened her eyes and smiled gently, “Thank you April… I really owe you one.” Jean spoke in a whispery winded voice.

The Juggernaut and Charles met with the others. Charles was ready with a plan. He telepathically communicated with Annabelle, “You’re doing an excellent job. I need you to continue your psionic assault. I understand now that the only way to stop them is to psionically imprison the third child in Ace’s mind much like the phoenix was imprisoned in Jean. You are our link to reaching the third child. As long as you hold out, we can work to imprison her.”

Charles communicated his plan to the others and began to work. Vincent and Jean, when she recovered thanks to April, joined in. They began to lock away the third child. But they weren’t without opposition. The shadows knew that if they didn’t stop Charles, Jean, and Vincent, they’d be subjugated under Ace’s control again. “The shadows should never have gain their own sentience. This must stop here and now.” Charles said aloud.

The shadows charged down the hallway in an effort to stop the three telepaths. Scott took notice and commanded the X-men to act. “Keep those things away from the professor, Jean and Vincent! They have to be undisturbed!”

Juggernaut stepped forward. With a smirk on his face. “Leave that to me wimps.” He said as he began to glow with a red aura. It was his magical, unstoppable energy projecting from his body. The aura shot out and wrapped around the charging shadows. Each shadow lost all potential for momentum and was locked in place. The third child was helpless to command the shadows to move as she was being locked away herself. After a few more moments the final psionic lock was in place. The shadows disappeared, Ace returned to normal and Annabelle was launched from the astral realm. The shadows were defeated.

Vincent had felt and odd sensation. It was a sudden spike of emotion. Like what he felt when he and Phillip were flirting, kissing or indulging in each other. Vincent didn’t know where this sudden flare of passion came from and it made him nervous. He looked over at Phillip with confusion and worry in his eyes. Philip looked back at Vincent in concern. “Are you alright Vince, something the matter?” Phillip asked.

Vincent shook his head, “No no I’m alright. I suppose all this excitement has gotten me a bit jarred and tired.” Vincent replied. He didn’t want to worry Phillip but he knew this had something to do with Cain. What was happening to Cain that Vincent was emotionally feeling? Vincent figured that if he could feel when Cain indulged in certain emotional activities the Cain must feel it when Vincent and Phillip are together. Vincent wasn’t too pleased about that, because it meant that perhaps Cain had feelings for Phillip like Vincent himself did. What if Vincent became emotionally connected to whoever Cain was connected emotionally to?

Cain, Aidan O’Doherty

After Cara’s impressive display of power the room was clear. They proceeded to leave the facility, however a few armed soldier blocked their path. “Freeze Muties!!” They yelled.

Aidan stepped forward, his hands in the air. The atmosphere grew heavier and the air thick. Aidan had begun to utilize his power. He spoke clearly into the atmosphere. “It’s a tragic shame to lose such talented officers to treachery. You should better trust one another. You’ll be the death of one another you know.”

With that the soldiers began to argue with one another and a physical fight ensued between them. The scuffle was so intense that one soldier pulled out his knife and stabbed another in the chest. Another soldier snapped the second’s neck. With the first two dead, the third soldier stood then freaking out about what had happened.

Aidan readied his power again. “Don’t you feel deathly ashamed and guilty. The only way to preserve your honor is to end your life. You will follow then in death immediately.” Aidan spoke with a smirk on his face. Immediately the soldier pulled out his gun and shot himself in the heart and died. Aidan turned quickly to Cain and Cara, “Shall we get a move on now?”

Cain was shocked by Aidan’s ruthlessness. He nodded in reply and helped Cara along as the made their escape.

Logan

Logan picked up the note that Six had left behind and tried to read the nearly illegible writing. He finally made some sense of it and it was quite dark. He let out a sigh and sat the note down and took a large drink from his beer bottle while he looked back at the silly television commercial that played on one of the many war room televisions before the news broadcast returned re-airing the broadcast Kent had just given regarding the H.M.R.

April entered the War Room and spoke, “Good evening, Logan.” She said as she walked into the room taking a chair for herself beside Logan. “Not heading out tonight?” she asked as she looked up towards the screens.

Logan turned around and smiled. “Evening April. Nope, I feel it’s probably a better idea if I stay put tonight. I just got a feeling that things could go wrong if I go out tonight. Wanna beer?” Logan said as he motioned toward the second case of still cold beers that sat on the table. After a few moments, he handed April Agent Six’s note. “You’re a doctor, what do you make of this note. Agent Six left it and it’s pretty philosophical, which ain’t my cup of tea.” Logan took another drink of beer.

Victor Creed and David North

Victor had been bored around the mansion, but even he had to admit that live in the mansion was beginning to grow on him a little, though he’d never admit it out loud. After doing some weight training he decided to test out the mansion’s Danger Room equipment, he ran into David along the way. David seemed pretty idle and carried a book in his hands. He had previously been reading one of Professor Xavier’s books on the X-gene for research. Victor smiled and walked up to David, placing a hand his shoulder. “David! You’re just in time for me to check out this so called Danger Room, we were in earlier. Wanna come along? You’re one of the only few who can keep up with me, so this ought to be good.” Victor said with a smile that continued to grow larger.

David’s face frowned in a way that still showcased a smile. “I’m flattered that you asked me Victor. Why I’d follow you into the ends of the Earth.” David said sarcastically. He never passed up and opportunity to mess with Victor in a homoerotic sort of way, since Victor was such a manly guy.

They found their way to the Danger Room rather easily, since they had already been there bofore when they had attacked the mansion and kidnapped Vincent. The two went to the Danger Room doors but they were password and eye scan protected. The security settings were indeed tight for the danger room. As former members of the Weapon X program and not being X-men, Victor and David were denied access. David smirked, “I knew this would be the case but no worries. If Victor wants a Danger Room exercise David will see to it that he gets one. I should be able to hack this without too much trouble…” David said as he surveyed the hardware and the door.

Victor stopped him. “No need for you to go and malfunction their precious hardware. Guests should be destructive. Besides I’ve got an easy ticket into there.” Victor said with an almost sinister smile.

David looked curious and surprised. “Wow, I’d never thought I’d hear you say anything in regards to wanting to be a polite guest. The world is really coming to an end huh? And how do you intend to get in politely then?” David asked with a raised eyebrow.

Victor simply replied, “Logan.”

With that the two headed back upstairs in search of their old “buddy” Logan. They exited one of the halls leading out of the basement and came across Canaan who seemed to be standing in front of Agent Six, who was seated on the couch. Canaan was busy waving her hands in front of Agent Six’s unreactive face. Canaan looked quite confused. David, upon seeing the situation smirked and then rolled his eyes.

Victor’s face frowned up. “What the hell’s her issue?” He said as he looked the girl up and down.

“Clearly she doesn’t know about Six’s condition.” David replied rather plainly.

Victor slowly walked up behind the couch and loudly announced, “She either blind as blind can be or really good at not laughing as you make yourself look ridiculous.” Canaan had her attention focused so much on Six that she oddly didn’t notice Victor and David approach.

Magneto

Eric had left his office. He had been working with Pietro on some legal documents. Eric still wasn’t the most computer savvy man around so he enlisted his son’s help. However anytime the two are together a fall out is bound to occur. Pietro being as impatient as he is simply kicked Eric out of his office after minutes of fussing and fighting and began to type at high speed. The documents would be done in no time but even still Pietro refused to work while his father was present in the room. So Eric quietly left, which was exactly what he wanted, Pietro to type the whole thing for him.

Satisfied, Eric walked down the halls searching for something to do. There wasn’t seeming to be too much going on. Charles seemed like he might have been busy. However he did run into a familiar young woman. Eric walked up behind her with a warm smile planted on his face. “Dr. Coleridge! Welcome back!” He said warmly.


Cain

Cain left the War Room looking for Cara. Telepathically he tried to locate Cara and she had switched locations. He soon was able to pinpoint her movements. After finding her outside sitting under a tree smoking and drinking, he slowly approached her.
“Drink with me, Cain?” she asked as he approached her, holding the bottle up towards him.

Cain smiled smoothly and sat down beside her. “Sure. But how about we take this to the bar instead. My treat or at least my father’s treat, it’s his money I’m using. Hahaha” Cain said with a chuckle.

The two eventually went to a local bar and made smell talk. Cain couldn’t help smiling when he was with Cara. She sparked many emotions inside of him. He understood why Magneto was so close with her. “I’m really enjoying my time out with you. I hope you’re feeling better and okay to be out like this?” Cain asked.

As the two sat at the bar, the evening news cast was playing on several of the overhead televisions. The story regarding the mutant registration issue had just been announced and Cain wasn’t happy at all to hear it. However, a person at the bar was very vocal about his approval of the House of Mutant Registration. “That’s RIGHT!! We need this city combed through with a fine tooth comb. Those mutants shouldn’t be allowed to sneak up on us right! We have a right to know who they are and where they are!! Right guys!?!” The burly Caucasian male with dark brown hair said as he cheered and drank more beer. A few others joined in with his cheering. Cain became furious as he listened. He clenched his glass firmly in his hand.

Joanna, Wendy and Fuyumi

Joanna, Wendy and Fuyumi had gone out shopping at the mall. As Wendy’s shopping trips usually went she had a tone of bags. Joanna and Fuyumi only carried a modest load. They were just about done when they came across a slightly disturbing scene.

Wendy lead the group down the hallway of the mall, “Girls you sure you’re done?! I mean you barely bought anything? If you’re broke I can help out. I hate looking like a shopaholic!” Wendy said as she puffed up her lips.

Joanna smiled and giggled. “No Wendy you ARE a shopaholic. No thanks we’re done for the evening. Let’s head back to the car.”

Just then a scream echoed strongly throughout the tall mall hallways. A young woman was being chased by men in SWAT uniforms. She ran screaming for help but no one was bold enough to stop the three SWAT men as they charged after the young woman. Fuyumi quickly whipped around to see what was going on, her hair gently flowing in the air. “Do you all see that? This must be the result of what the news announcement mentioned tonight. Kent warned us didn’t he.” Fuyumi said as she watched the pursuit.

Joanna replied, “I don’t know what’s going on but we’d better help her. I don’t like those men running that poor girl down like that. It’s just uncalled for.”

Fuyumi replied quickly, “I got it don’t worry. Just meet me outside the mall. By those doors over there. I’ll bring the girl there.” She said as she pointed in a specific direction. Then Fuyumi took off running after the dashing group. She phased through several shops and was in the perfect position to intercept the sprinting young woman. As the young lady turned the corner Fuyumi dashed through the glass and phased both herself and the young woman through the floor. They traveled underground until they reached the mall doors where they met up with Joanna and Stinger.

“Wa-What just happened?! Are they still after me?!” The lady panicked.

“Calm down. You’re safe now. Miss Fuyumi here saved you. But would you kindly explain why those SWAT men were chasing you down like that?” Joanna asked calmly. The group began to walk away from the mall crossing trough the parking lot and headed for Joanna’s car.

“Oh thank you so much!” The girl said excitedly. “I was simply shopping when those men walked up to me and asked me to fill out a survey regarding a possible mutant status. I am a mutant and I watched the broadcast tonight so I did what Kent Van-Pelt suggested and didn’t sign it. I figured it wasn’t safe for me to do. Then after they began hounding me I ran away, I was scared. That’s when the chase began. I heard them yell that those that refuse to complete the survey would be taken in for questioning by the House of Mutant Registration for violation of Federal Act M-976. Thank God you showed up!” The lady explained.

“This is serious… ugh the feds don’t know when to quit do they?!” Wendy said as she dropped her bags in anger. “I mean a girl can’t even go shopping these days without a Hassel.”

“You should head home now. And know that is you ever need help, Charles Xavier and the X-men are always here to help.” Joanna said with a smile. She was now very comfortable and proud to be calling herself a member of the X-men.

After the young woman left, the ladies turned to one another. “Looks like we had better inform the professor about this. Just when things were seemingly getting quiet too…” Fuyumi said in a sad tone of voice.

Hideki, Kyle, Peter, Vincent, and Philip

As the night went on and the crowd danced to the music of the famous DJ, the party roared on. Suddenly one of the workers at the club approached the DJ booth and spoke into the DJ’s ear in a worried disposition. Philip noticed and got Vincent’s attention. “What’s going on over there?” Philip asked.

Vincent looked puzzled. “I don’t know but seeing that he’s a mutant I think I’ll eaves drop in on the conversation.” Vincent then telepathically listened in on what was being said. Blocking out several other voices he heard, he honed in on the DJ conversation.

“DJ Flow, man there are these SWAT guys at the door looking for you. They said something about receiving a tip off that you were a mutant and they wanna survey you man.” The club bartender said ina worried fashion. He was young and very hip looking.

The DJ switched to a standard track so he could focus on the conversation and not have to worry about interrupting the party by shutting off his power. “What did you tell them?” he replied nervously.

“I said that if they wanted to talk to you they’d have to wait until after the party ends and the club finished its business hours. This really looks serious man. You wanna make a run for it after your last set?” The bartender suggested. He didn’t want the DJ getting into trouble.

“Yeah sounds good.” The DJ responded.

Vincent stopped listening in and told Philip what was said. “This is not good. It seems those guys are after mutants. This is definitely the H.M.R. We’ve got to help him.”

Vincent, Philip, Hideki, Kyle, and Peter approached the group not long before Xavier informed everyone of the happenings around town. They saw the other congregated about and were relieved to see who was present. It seemed that anything was bound to happen tonight with out on the town and it was simply not safe for mutants. Vincent greeted everyone. “Evening all. I’m glad to see you all are safe and sound here. It’s a mad house out there.”

Ryan bounded over to the group and tackled them, pulling them into a great big hug. "I'm so glad to see you! A lot happened today and I really wanted to be with you guys, and then..." Kyle was glad to see Ryan but he was also vainly concerned about not messing up his model-esque hair style. Hideki was happy that Ryan was his jovial self yet sad that he couldn’t dance with them at the club like he wanted. Peter chuckled in happiness he liked Ryan’s vigor. Peter was a pretty positive guy and enjoyed being around those that were similar.

Ryan said stopping himself and letting them go. He shyly took a step backwards. "I'm sorry about what happened down at the club you were at. They were going to arrest somebody inside just for being a mutant. It made me so angry... I... I just couldn't contain it any longer. I don't think I hurt anybody, but I'm sure I scared the crap out of at least one person." He chuckled sheepishly. "I didn't make too much trouble for you, did I?" he asked, looking to Vincent.

DJ Flow replied, “The one under arrest was me. Thanks for saving me. You really helped me big time. I was freaking out back there.” He was grateful to Ryan for his aide.

After Charles’ explanation regarding the HMR’s activities, Ryan seemed to become quite upset. Vincent felt bad about all of this. He knew how he wished he could deal with the situation, with violence, but that way was the wrong way. He needed to remember to keep his feelings under control. Bad things were happening to mutants but the best way to overcome is to put your best foot forward and show the other side fairness and rightness. Once they open their eyes change will come. Vincent wished it was as simple as knocking a few bullies around and getting them to back off but this was far more complex and volatile a situation than that.

"Sorry about that, I'm under control, it's ok." Ryan said reassuringly. Vincent smiled at Ryan and placed a reassuring hand on Ryan’s shoulder.

Philip looked quite frustrated as well. He let out a rough sigh. “AHHH…. This is just so wrong! It’s things like this that make me wish I had not come to this country. Germany was bad but this is a completely different level.” Philip’s hand began to glow as he held on of his marble sized time bombs. He calmed himself and reabsorbed the energy before it detonated. He didn’t want to harm anyone nearby.

Charles then recommended that everyone try to take it easy in the mansion for the evening and avoid going out until he was able to do a probe of the city’s activities with Cerebro. Eric scanned the group with his eyes trying to get a check on who was there and who wasn’t. Scott, Jean, Logan, Pietro, Victor, David, Jonathan, Memory, Cain, Cara, Fuyumi, Wendy, Joanna, and Kent were all still not around. Charles reassured Eric. “Logan, Victor, David and Pietro are in the Danger Room although I am not the biggest fans of that particular combination of mutants being gathered there of all places. Fuyumi, Joanna, and Wendy are headed back from the mall. They should be back shortly. Scott and Jean just pulled up and are entering the mansion gates.

Just as Scott and Jean got out of the car, they encountered Cain and Cara. Scott turned to acknowledge the duo. “Ah Cain, Cara, It’s good to see you’re alright. You didn’t happen to have a run in with-” Scott was cut off by Cain.

“The Humans? Yes we fought a whole bar full of those monster homo-sapiens.” Cain replied trying to remain calm. He didn’t mean to put Scott and Jean off but tonight’s incident really angered him.

Scot arched an eyebrow, “Actually the term I was going to use was the House of Mutant Registration. However I see you have. We should inform the professor. It seems things are growing out of control about town tonight.”

Cain replied in a kinder manner, “He already knows so no worries. I’m glad that you and Jean are alright as well.” Cain gave a smile. He also once more grabbed hold of Cara’s hand, exchanging a glance with her. “You two should take it easy. Aren’t you still supposed to be on your date night?” Cain smirked.

Scott was quite surprised that he remembered from their earlier conversation. He seemed to notice Cain’s closeness with Cara. It was unusual for Cara to act so… submissive of sorts. Jean commented with a smile, “Indeed we are Mr. Lehnsherr. And it looks like we’re not the only ones.” Jean gave Cain and Cara a playful wink. “We should double date sometime.” Jean added.

Scott looked a bit nervous. He remembered the times when Cara flirted with him in a rather provocative manner. He was pretty sure she wasn’t serious and was trying to get a rise out of him, and she succeeded. Scott pretty vividly remembered the shadow mutant’s seductive touch on his body and how he almost gave into her wiles. Jean wasn’t blind to Scott’s experience and struggle with looking at Cara without being terrorized by that memory. However she was confident that Scott wouldn’t actually cross the line with Cara. They simply weren’t compatible. However if Cara was Emma Frost, Jean would worry some, but that was a different matter altogether. The Four entered the mansion and met with the professor and the others. Fuyumi, Wendy, and Joanna also returned to the mansion.

Meanwhile, in the Danger Room, things got quite heated in the fight between Logan, Sabertooth and David. Logan and Victor slashed at one another viciously, fists pounding each other into submission, bodies ready and raring to take such punishment, and keep going. David was almost untouchable taking pop-shots off of Logan, from the ground, walls, and ceiling, as he dealt with Victor’s brutal full frontal assault. “WHY YOU EGG SUCKING PIECE OF GUTTER TRASH!! You can’t have it out with me without your little boyfriend to hold your blood ridden hand huh? Fine by me bub!!” Logan retorted.

Victor replied in a sarcastic chuckle, “Well playtime is much more fun when you invite friends over Logan. You’d know that if you actually had any real friends.”

At that moment Pietro activated the Danger Room’s highest level of training exercises. The protocol however was altered to attack Sabertooth and David. An energy beam fired and connected with Victors back. Pietro taunted the duo from the control room. “Did I forget to mention that I was on Logan’s team? Oops~! HAHAHAHa…..”

“You little hyperactive traitor! What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” David replied angrily.

Pietro laughed maniacally, “Choosing the better side silly!! And I thought you were smart… I guess love really is blind huh North?”

David responded by pulling out a mini rocket and fired it at the control room window. The impact caused a huge explosion that made a boom that could be heard all over the mansion. The glass was nearly indestructible so fortunately for Pietro, he wasn’t hurt. Scott heard the noise and wiped around. “What the hell was that?” Scott asked.

“It came from the danger room.” Jean replied.

“Gosh can’t Wolverine ever stay out of trouble?” Kyle commented in a snarky manner.

“Look who’s talking Marvel…” Eric replied with a raised eyebrow. Kyle wasn’t the best for keeping out of trouble himself and everyone knew it.

The group raced to the danger room. Scott had everyone grab hold of each other as he placed a hand on Fuyumi’s shoulder. She proceeded to phase everyone through the locked Danger Room doorway. “It’s a war zone in here! Logan what the hell were you thinking?!” Scott yelled.

Emily & Agent Six

Eric chuckled a bit. “That’s Ace. I don’t know why she insists on wearing that clay mask about. Even Charles has trouble figuring her out.” Magneto joked. To most in the mansion, it was nice to see Magneto smiling and at ease. “It’s always very much a pleasure to her you play my dear. As for what to play… anything you like would be suitable. However if I had to choose, I’d say my personal favorite Sonata, Op. 72.” Eric smiled brightly

Emily smiled at him and nodded. Saying her thanks and goodbye Emily went to her room to drop off a couple of things. Once that was done she went to the music room unaware of the large boom that resounded throughout the halls of the mansion.

However one person did, that person being Agent Six who woke up from her sleep. She slid out of bed and began to wander the hallways again. Taking out her mirror she located the sound with her specters and decided not to bother going to the danger room.

Emily began to set up her instrument, although it was late Ace and Eric suggested that she play something. At least this way she was able to help about, whenever the mood was foul about the mansion someone usually requested that she play to help enlighten the mood with her abilities.

Taking out her bow Emily began to tune her cello giggling at the sight of colors that sprang as if alive from the strings that made her music possible. Taking a deep breathe, Emily rested the cello against her shoulder one hand at the top while the other slowly began to pull at the strings with her bow. A deep resounding note escaped from the cello, echoing throughout the halls of the mansion. It sounded rather haunting really but as the song slowly progressed it turned into something else.

Agent Six heard the sounds of the cello and was drawn to its source as most people were when they heard it. The effect was calming and made people aware of what they were doing and hopefully gave them a warm feeling in their chest. However Agent Six felt none of those only the tugging feeling that she needed to be somewhere.

So she walked down the hall following the music until she came to a room. With the help of her specters she found a woman sitting in the center of the room playing a cello. Agent Six watched her for a moment and it didn’t seem Emily noticed her either as she was that engrossed in her music. She noticed a piano stood to the side and walked over to it. Pulling out the chair Agent Six sat down sliding her fingers across the keys and then randomly began to push down keys.

Although it did ruin the sound of the cello, Agent Six let her specter disappear so she was once more in the dark. She began to push down certain keys that sounded nice with the cello. Then with both hands Agent Six began to play along with the cello. Emily then noticed Agent Six’s presence by the sudden colors that erupted besides her. The colors swirled and danced with the ones produced by her cello and she smiled. Taking a deep breathe Emily continued to play allowing both sounds to mix and become one unity that filled the entire mansion.

Kent Van-Pelt

Kent had finished the evenings broadcast and exited the set of the news room. He noticed the faces of some of his co-workers. They seemed quite nervous for him after having stood up to the HMR on national television. Kent packed his things and went home to his condo however it was broken into and vandalized horribly. On the large glass window that had a view of the city was spray painted “MUTANT LOVER GO TO HELL!!” Kent knew that it was no longer safe for him to be there. He packed up a few things and drove to the X-mansion where he knew there was always a place for him.

[At the X-mansion]

Logan replied in a snarky manner, “What does it look like ruby red, I’m letting out a little frustration on thing one and thing two over here. Now BUT OUT!”

Professor Charles cut in, “I want this brawl to stop now! Logan you know better than this. I do not permit stand offs against other students you know that.”

Logan let out a heavy sigh. Victor chuckled under his breath. However Charles not only reprimanded Logan but Victor and David as well. “Victor and David, I expect better from you both as well. Victor you especially could learn to control your rages.”

Victor’s laughing came to s quick halt. “Look wimp, I ain’t one of your puny little students! So you can take your cheap psychiatric advice and chuck it.” Victor snarled.

Logan shouted, “You’re outta line Bub!” He pointed his claws at Victor in warning.

Kyle crossed his arms and took a couple of steps forward, smirking. He was in line next to the professor now. “I could take a little steam out of old tiger eyes, just to cool him off a bit if you want professor.”

Victor smiled devilishly, “Oh your pretty little dead carcass would need some cooling time in the morgue once I’m done with you.”

Hideki stepped forward beside Kyle, “BACK OFF!! I’m warning you…” Hideki said as bright flashes and flares crackled and popped around his hands.

David stepped forward, “Ah ah ah… you’d better play nice.” He threatened as he pointed a pistol at Hideki.

Scott immediately took action. He would never allow such a blatant threat on a student’s life to pass. He shot an optic blast at the gun however David ducked and dodged out of the way rather effortlessly, hand still steady and now aimed at Scott. David took two steps closer and fired a shot at Scott. The bullet was stopped by Jean telekinetically.

Eric frowned strongly. He levitated the weapon out of North’s hand and crumpled it into a little ball of metal. “Charles said enough! If you cannot obey then you shall be forced into submission!!” Eric said angrily. He dropped the crumpled mass of metal to the ground and it made a loud clunk.

Cain levitated the metal ball and shaped it into a sharp spearhead. He made it shoot past David’s head and it launched into a wall behind him. “We mutants should not be fighting each other. It’s bad enough that the humans are out for our blood but you’re acting no better.”

David simply rolled his eyes and headed for the door of the danger room. He placed a hand on Hideki’s shoulder, “Sorry Matsuzaka. I guess I lost my cool there.” David turned to the Professor and Eric, “My apologies, I’ve been a rude guest. You should have a problem out of me any further.”

Scott frowned, “Aren’t you forgetting somebody?” He said in an annoyed manner.

“Oh yeah, my bad Cyclops.” David said with a smirk and a wink.

Joanna was quite annoyed. “Really North? Ugh… this is ridiculous. You four (Logan, Pietro, Victor, and David.) should really grow up.” She said as she rolled her eyes and opened the danger room door. She heard the sweet music rushing into the danger room and was captivated. “What in the world…?” she said in confusion.

Fuyumi turned around as well, “That music… where is it coming from? It’s so beautiful.” She said with a smile on her face.

Eric smiled as well. That would be Emily’s doing.”, he replied.

Everyone followed the sound of the music towards Dr. Coleridge. The negative energy simply melted away and everyone felt pretty harmonious. Cain smiled peacefully. “If only this could be played for the world to hear. They would all lay down their hatred and reason with one another peacefully.” He said calmly.

Vincent replied. “As lovely as that sounds, it could be taken as mind control once someone realizes the true nature behind the music.”

Philip stepped closely toward Vincent and said quietly, “Speaking of love and peace… let’s go to bed and make a little love~ Xavier…” Philip smirked devilishly.

Vincent blushed redly. “Well, everyone with that I’m off to bed now. Night all! And Lovely solo Dr. Coleridge!” Vincent said as he pulled Philip by the hand and out of the room.

Kent had arrived at the mansion with his suitcase. He easily found Charles as he simply followed the music. Once he found Charles and the others he told them what happened. “I hope I can take shelter here once more.”

Charles hugged Kent. “Of course you can! You will always have a home here. You know that Kent.” He said.

“Thank you Professor.” Kent replied with a relieved smile.

Logan pated Kent on the back reassuringly, “Good to have you home buddy.” He smiled. Logan always had a fondness for Kent. Logan never warmed up to anyone easily but it took him absolutely no time with Kent. Perhaps it was Kent’s easy going nature. Kent never pushed things too hard or was overbearing in any way. Logan liked that about him. Honestly there was a time Logan pushed for Charles to make Kent the X-men Team Leader instead of Scott. However Kent declined and Charles had firmly decided that Scott was the ideal candidate, much to Logan’s dismay.

Most everyone began to retreat to their quarters. David headed down the hall Victor at his side. They were headed to nearly the same place as their rooms were right next to one another. David saw Memory, Ryan and Jonathan. He smiled at the sight of her. He approached her from behind and placed a peck on her cheek. “Hi there beautiful.” He said with a cute smile.

Victor sighed and shook his head tiredly. He didn’t stop but kept walking. “Why don’t you flirt with chicks remotely closer to your age range North?”

“Don’t wait up for me Victory honey.” David replied to Victor sarcastically. David glanced at Ryan and Jonathan with a smile. “Hi ho fellas.” David didn’t mean to put anyone off, he had done his share of that tonight. He genuinely wanted to be friendly to the three, especially Memory.

Down the hallway a bit further walked Logan and Hideki. Their conversation could be heard a bit off from where they were. Hideki pulled at Logan’s arm beggingly. “Logan…com’on!! I’m creeped out by the HMR!! They know this place if full of mutants! Who knows whether or not they would raid this place. Please… let me crash with you tonight!!” Hideki begged.

Logan frowned in annoyance. He knew that Hideki was being overly clingy for the reason that he usually was, because Hideki had a crush on him. “How old are you again Matsuzaka?”

Hideki replied, “Please Logan! If anyone would sense a soldier sneaking up on him, it would be you. Rooming with the Professor is out of the question, Vincent is getting a leg over with Phillip so that’s a no go. I don’t really know Cain all that well and it would be… more than awkward. I’m not so sure about Annabelle’s telepathic skills yet and we don’t really know one another. Jean’s with Scott and three’s a crowd anyway. There’s nobody left but you!”

Logan chuckled, “You forgot Victor over there. His sense of smell is just as keen as mine. Go ask him if he doesn’t mind you snuggling up to him tonight for safety.” Logan couldn’t contain the laughter.

“Are you Nuts!!?? That’s not funny Logan… You’re like one on my best friends…” Hedeki pouted.

Kyle passed the two up, “Logan please do it so Hideki will shut the hell up…” Kyle said in a tired way.

Logan looked at Hideki with squinted eyes and let out a heavy sigh. “Alright then. Grab your stuff. But you try something and I’ll punch you in the gut. You know I mean it Kiddo.” Logan said with a smile. He thought about it a bit more and he figured he could use the company. After the bout that he had with Sabertooth and North it made him think a lot about his past and his own rages. It put him in a foul mindset that wasn’t a good place for Logan to be while alone.

“Yosh!!!” Hideki replied in excitement.

Kyle commented in a snarky manner, “Looks like Hideki can die happily tonight. His dreams are partially coming true.”

Hideki frowned up in embarrassment. He quickly fired a blast toward Kyle. “SHUT-UP!! Or else I won’t miss next time!!”

Logan simply shook his head and sighed. ‘Maybe this was a mistake…’ he thought as he proceeded toward his room.

Oliver Cassidy

Oliver was having a good morning. He had gotten up and gussied himself to the nines for a nice midday date that he was to have. It wasn’t often that he had a date that didn’t take place at night which meant that this was a good change of pace for him. He finished the last touches to his hair and smiled confidently. “I’m all set then. No tricks this time.” He said to himself while staring at his reflection. “Well, no tricks if he’s as nice as he seemed online, if not then… I’ll make him pay me for my trouble.” He snickered. He hurried out of the door and to the busy downtown area.

The handsome businessman stood waiting outside a fancy Italian restaurant that the two were to have brunch at. Oliver and the man met and eat over the lovely meal as all seemed to go pretty well. Oliver was surprised at how agreeable and pleasant this guy was. Oliver had no desire to use his pheromone ability to control him at all. ‘For once a normal and nice date.’ Oliver thought. After the meal’s conclusion the two exited the restaurant and Oliver prepared to part ways. “So, Donovan, I guess you’ve got to get back to work huh?” Oliver asked with a shy smile. He knew all about how to smile innocently.

“Well I should but I won’t be going back so soon. I’d rather give you a tour of my condo. That is, if you’re without plans…” Donovan said with a dashing smile.

Oliver didn’t quite expect this guy to be the type to hook up on the first date. Oliver was all for it. “I am without plans a I have the day off of work today. Are you sure it’s okay for you to play hooky from work to get a leg over on me?” Oliver replied.

“Oh… they’ll be fine. I’m supposed to be in a business meeting after all. You can imagine how long and drawn out those can become.” Donny said with a slick smile.

The two went back to Donny’s condo which was located in the heart of downtown. It was a very nice loft style condo. Donny didn’t waste much time once they got inside which was highly unusual for Oliver seeing as he was usually the one doing the seducing. As things heated up Oliver realized that they were not alone. Several men in swat type uniforms appeared from the other rooms of the condo and surrounded the bed that Donovan and Oliver lay on. Oliver quickly scanned his surroundings and grasped for an answer to what was happening. He knew he had to protect himself and Donny.

Just then Oliver’s swift thought processes were interrupted when Donny kissed Oliver casually and said, “Oliver Cassidy, You are under arrest for the open display and use of your mutant power in the State of New York. You are charged along with the other Students of Emma Frost’s School for Elite Students for the open use of dangerous mutant abilities. You have to come with us now.”

Oliver stared into Donovan’s eye was a look of pure shock. “You tricked me… you screwed me and now you’re fucking arresting me?!” Oliver was truly done in. He couldn’t believe he had fell into such an elaborate trap. What was worse was that the other members of Emma Frost’s school were now also targets of similar traps and he had no way of warning them.

Donny leaned in and whispered into Oliver’s ear. “You know, for a mutant, it was pretty spectacular while it lasted.” The man gave a smug smile as he pulled back and got dressed. The swat men pulled Oliver out of bed and ordered him to get dressed. The whole condo was a set up. Oliver was so silently angry, he could think of nothing but vengeance. He was going to break free and get even squared, but not until the timing was perfect for maximum effect.

Oliver was escorted to the HMR branch office and brought through the lobby with several swat men surrounding him with guns and batons. If Oliver so much as breath the wrong way, they were ready to act viciously. Oliver noticed a pretty young woman in the distance standing at a registrar’s desk. He could tell that she was special. It looked as if as she spoke to the man behind the desk, he was forcing himself to type on the computer. His movements looked a bit unnatural and forced. Was she a mutant Oliver thought as he was being taken to an interview room.

The interview room was basically a more fortified version of a police interrogation room. It had one long metal table, and two wooden chairs. Oliver looked at the wooden chair and smiled calmly. He was told to sit and he complied. Donny stood in the corner of the room watching as another, older, man in a nice suit sat down across the table from Oliver and began to ask questions. The questions were about Emma Frost’s school, his past, and nature of his powers. Oliver diverted all questions to Donny who seemed to now be showing a small bit of a conscience for what he had done to the young man. After about five minutes Oliver decided to cooperate. “You want to know about my powers? You actually see them every day, all the time. You’re in fact sitting on the representation of my power right now.” Oliver said calmly with a friendly smile.

The older man looked down at the wooden chair as it began to flower and branches grew from it. The branches quickly constricted the older suited man to the chair and continued to grow and spread. The man yelled in terror of what was happening to him. “Please!! Don’t hurt me!!” He begged as he struggled in the wooden branches that wrapped tightly around his torso. Donny backed up against the wall in terror at the sight of what was happening.

Oliver walked around the table and knelt down to look the older man in the eyes. He then lifted the man’s white bangs from covering his forehead and kissed him on the forehead. “Don’t you worry yourself golden boy. The score I have to settle isn’t really with you, it’s with that prick over there. So you just sit tight and take a load off.” Oliver smiled gently at the man then dropped it quickly as he looked at Donovan. “Oh Donny… I haven’t given you a reason to be afraid yet.” Oliver said as he backed Donny against the wall. Soon the potted plants in the hall began to grow uncontrollably. The roots grew to gigantic proportions, bursting through walls and the ceiling of the building. Vines wrapped around Donny’s neck and pulled him off the ground hanging him.

Just at the last moment the vines dropped Donny and he sat on the ground choking viciously. After a moment Oliver knelt down and held Donny’s face in his hands. “You’re too cute to kill, you know. But I want you to want me so bad it hurts.” Oliver said as he then kissed Donovan on the lips. This was no ordinary kiss, it was filled with powerful plant toxins and an extra powerful dose of animal pheromones. This kiss would put Donny in heavy heat, driven mad with the desire to mate. Oliver then constricted Donny with vines so he was unable to move or fulfill his now toxin induced desire to “relieve himself”.

Now satisfied with himself and his revenge, Oliver winked at the older man and walked out of the destroyed room. The building shook with the activity of plant life ripping through the structure of the building. Guards were too busy trying to free themselves from the attacking foliage to focus on the cause of it all. The man constricted to the chair of the interrogation room yelled for the gaurds to stop Oliver as he was the cause of this madness. Oliver neared the lobby and saw the young woman from earlier. Guards hurried after him and carried weapons. “Shoot to kill!” The commanding officer yelled.

Oliver ran over to Erika quickly, “Hey, if your power is what I think it is… Help me out please. We could both be shot.” Oliver knew what it often looked like when Emma Frost used mind control on another and what Erika had displayed earlier was definitely the same thing. “Look if you can get us surrounded by a bunch of human shields, they won’t easily shoot us. Please… you help me, I’ll help you okay?” Oliver asked anxiously.


Joanna Cargill (Frenzy) and Wendy Sherman (Stinger)

On the bright morning streets walked Wendy and Joanna. The two ate breakfast at a small and comfy dinner and Wendy dragged Joanna along for some window shopping. “Wendy you’re not done yet?! We’ve been to five stores already… you know once you’ve seen three the rest all start to look the same, even the clothes seem no different than the last place’s clothes.” Joanna complained.

“Look Jo, you’re the one who dragged me to that dingy little diner for breakfast in order to escape the bickering in the kitchen. I made you fully aware of the conditions of me going with you as a safety partner since old baldy wants us to travel in twos if we head out. My conditions, that you come with me as I go shopping and that’s what you agreed to. So shut it with all the complaining why don’t ya? You’d have more fun if you bought stuff too.” Wendy fussed back. She never stopped examining the clothing article in her hands the whole time.

“Wendy Old Baldy’s name is Professor Charles Xavier, and it’s horribly rude to poke fun at the man that allows you to live with him and gives you protection. Also, I’m not buying anything today because I did enough shopping last night when you, Fuyumi and me went to the mall remember? You can’t possibly wear all the stuff you buy… how do you even find space to store it all?” Joanna retorted with folded arms.

As the two exited the store shortly afterwards, Wendy witnessed a purse snatcher darting down the street as a lady screamed about being robbed. Wendy saw the man running toward them, with the very expensive purse in his hands. Wendy knew designer handbags like she knew her own face. The bag was indeed expensive and it made her angry that a man would take such a precious thing from a lady. Wendy aimed her hands forward, after dropping her shopping bags, and sent an electric bolt toward the thief. The man stopped dead in his tracks and convulsed with electric shock. Joanna then charged to the man and knocked him out with a light blow to the head. With Joanna’s strength, a light blow was all that was needed lest she wanted to kill the man.

The two ladies returned the handbag to its owner, who thanked them with joy. Joanna turned to Wendy with a surprised smile, “Wow Wendy that was very noble of you to help that lady out like that. I didn’t think you’d do such a thing without getting paid for it. I’m impressed!”

Wendy shrugged causally, “Normally no, I wouldn’t have wasted my time. But that jack hole had the nerve to steal a lady’s designer handbag. Gosh I mean, how could I not knock the life out of such an inconsiderate guy?!”

Joanna sighed heavily, “I knew it was too good to be true.” She shook her head and then noticed a man with a hotdog and a map staring oddly at them. Sure there were many people who watched due to them having displayed supernatural powers but this guy looked at them differently. Joanna stared back with a curious look and asked the man politely, “Um, excuse me sir, but may I help you at all?” Joanna was really hoping that the guy wouldn’t report them.

The Kitchen

The recent events had been explained to Storm and now she knew why Victor Creed stood in the X-mansion along with the other new faces. Ryan entered the room again and Storm gave him a big hug. “Ryan! How’s my favorite sweet heart!?” She said warmly. Ryan was usually a joy to be around. She missed him.

After a few moments Vincent approached Ryan and Storm. “Storm mind if I borrow Ryan for a moment?” He asked with a smile.

Storm nodded and gave Ryan a kiss on the cheek before allowing Vincent he spot next to Ryan. Vincent gently asked Ryan to follow him out of the kitchen to a quieter place in the hall so they could talk. “Sorry for asking you over here, buddy. I was really concerned about you earlier, everyone was. That transformation was like none I’ve seen from you before. I just wanted to make sure you’re alright.” He said as he placed a hand gently on Ryan’s shoulder.

As the hot dog vendor handed him the hotdog, he and Robert began to divulge in the typical casual chit chat, though Robert found it more difficult than the vendor, due to eating away as his newly purchased piece of protein.
"That'll be five dollars pal. Say, you don't sound like your from here, or look the part, your a tourist right? Where you from, England?", the vendor asked conversationally, seeming to have had little to talk about all day.
"Got it one mate, on holidays over the states to take a look at your great city, plus needed a holiday from home, things aren't exactly great for me. Times are hard.", the British mutant replied, deciding to engage in conversation nonetheless, at least until he figured where he could find a mutant or two.
"I hear ya pal, jobs ain't exactly easy to find. I used to be a cabbie, til the company went down the toilet. Any sights you got your eye on? Statue of Liberty's obvious, but the lady's worth a peek.", the vendor chatted in turn, leaning against his stand in obvious boredom.

Before the pair of them could continue with their highly ordinary conversation, the pair of them had their attention snatched by, well, a purse snatcher, who was hastily sprinting along the sidewalk, a pair of fairly young woman began pursuing the man in equal haste, one with short hair and a short skirt seeming extremely infuriated with the man, her equally short haired friend, her's in a bob style apposed to the others more punkish look, chasing up behind them. As they both merely stood watching, they were met with the surprise, much like many onlookers, when the short skirted woman zapped the thief with a bolt of electricity, while her friend tackled the man to the ground, seeming to knock him out with a slight strike to the head, oddly enough. As an elderly citizen thanked the pair for their help, reclaiming he handbag, Robert switched his surprised and dumbfounded look to that of one happy to have a wonderful opportunity, which before he even seized it with his own words, was asked by the bob hair-styled woman is she could help him in any way.
"You certainly can love! I's great to see a fellow mutants knocking about this place! Say, don't suppose either of you could point me int the direction of Charles Xavier's institution for Higher Learning? I was hoping I could have a chat with the fella.", Robert replied cheerfully, showing obvious zeal in meeting a pair of mutants like himself abroad, eagerly awaiting her reply, or perhaps words from the woman that fired electricity from her hands.

Vincent Xavier, Philip Klein

Vincent stood awaiting Ryan’s answer however before Ryan replied his mind spoke leagues before his mouth did. Vincent had not intended to read Ryan’s mind but it was as if Ryan’s extreme emotions yelled to be heard without Ryan’s approval or knowledge.

Instead of feeling relieved, Ryan stiffened. Vincent hadn't sounded caring to Ryan, he had sounded condescending and uninterested. Ryan felt such anger with Vincent. His turbulent thoughts raced back to the situation in the kitchen. Where was this concern when Terra and Canaan walked through the door?! Ryan thought furiously. His mind was screaming at him and at Vincent. Ryan felt so betrayed. Vincent didn't want to be on Ryan's side when everyone else was around, but now, now that it was convenient, after someone else had probably pestered him, now Vincent was reaching out to him? Ryan felt disgusted, not only with Vincent, but with himself. Vincent was his brother. Vincent loved him. He had since he'd met Ryan nearly eleven years ago when Ryan had first moved into the Mansion when Ryan was six years old. The two had grown up together. Why would Ryan ever feel like he couldn't trust Vincent? What was some piddly little argument between brothers such as they? Why couldn't Ryan forgive him? It's not like it really mattered to Vincent anyway. The last time Ryan had brought these worries to him, Vincent had shrugged them off. The last time they spoke privately, though the larger concern was Ryan's ability to transform, they'd gotten completely sidetracked by the idea of Ryan possessing a human form. Though Ryan was grateful for that, it hadn't been what he'd wanted to discuss in the first place. Even more frustrating, they had been interrupted by Ace's Shadows before Ryan had a chance to talk to Vincent about his more pressing concerns, namely, the Leviathan.


Vincent was suddenly hit with a rush of emotions coming from Ryan. He felt a sudden pang in his heart. ‘Whoa… what’s all of this rage and anger?’ Vincent thought to himself. However, before Vincent could address the sudden rush of emotion that shot through him like a bullet through the heart, Ryan would soon give his reply.

Ryan sighed, looking up into his brother's eyes, his golden pupils glinting in the low light. Did Vincent even want to know? If so, why should Ryan tell him? "I'm fine Vince." Ryan lied effortlessly, a toothy grin on his face. "I was just a bit... surprised. I mean, come on, the last time I saw Terra we tried to kill each other. You trying to tell me Logan and Sabertooth, who hate each other, don't have minor scuffles from time to time?" Ryan's logic was sound, his facial expression was completely calm, even relaxed. So, where was this coming from? This calm, collected, effortless lying? Ryan never lied, let alone to Vincent, and yet, he couldn't stop. "I'm fine now. Terra lives here now. Just like me, this is his home. Who am I to refute that? Besides, just because we've fought in the past doesn't mean we have to be enemies forever. That's not conducive to anything productive at all. I just didn't know he'd come here on invitation. You should tell me stuff like that!" Ryan joked. Smiling, he even managed to laugh lightheartedly. Playfully, he punched Vincent on the shoulder. "I appreciate your concern Vince, really, my brother, I do. That being said, I'm fine. See?" Ryan finished his question with a smile, he even did a little twirl so as to facilitate a quick once over on Vincent's part. That smile of his, was his famous smile, toothy and white. It was a smile that refuted all argumentation. It was a smile that closed the subject, if only for a little while.

Vincent’s gentle smile increasingly became sorrowful. Vincent couldn’t believe that Ryan felt so hurt and upset with him. Ryan was now lying something that was quite foreign to him. Ryan no longer trusted Vincent, which hurt Vincent more than he could express. Ryan was battling with something big and Vincent was being barred from helping him. It seems that Vincent completely misconstrued Vincent’s concerns when they had previously talked during the shadow crisis. Vince tried very hard to keep from looking as destroyed emotionally as he felt.

Ryan turned on his heel and walked back to the kitchen, waving to Vincent as he left. "Thanks Vince," Ryan said jovially as he left. "I'm just fine. I promise."

Vincent watched Ryan depart and he simply stared in silence, trying to wrap his head around all that was going on with Ryan. Philip left the Kitchen in search of Vincent and he eventually found him standing alone in the hallway. Philip had passed Ryan along the way and simply gave Ryan a jovial smile and a casual wave as he passed him. Philip had tried not to make too much of what had happened with Ryan in the kitchen. He wasn’t a fan of being overbearingly worried. He knew things had to run their course, but he also desired for Ryan to know that he was there for him in whatever capacity he needed.

Vincent seemed highly saddened. Philip approached him and placed his hand on Vincent’s arm. “Hey Vince, what’s the matter? You look like you’ve lost a child or something.” Philip said jokingly. Humor was his way of lightening a dark mood.

Vincent looked up with weepy eyes. “Ryan… he’s so hurt and angry right now. I don’t know how to help him. It hurts so much to see him that way. I was concerned when he was so enraged in the kitchen, it wasn’t like him to be so vicious, so I asked if he was alright. However I got a huge hunk of his mind right before he responded… and it was so angry, all the thoughts he had of me. He doesn’t trust me, or much of anyone else right now. He’s struggling with something he calls the Leviathan yet he wouldn’t tell me about it.” Vincent said with a depressed voice.

Philip pulled Vincent close and replied ”He still loves and needs his big brother. Maybe there was a lot more happening in the kitchen than we realized.” Vincent shed a few tears quietly and just as quickly attempted to pull himself together. He stepped back from Philip.

“Thanks Philip. I needed to hear that. You’re my hero you know.” Vincent replied as he wiped away the tears that had previously fallen. A smile began to return to Vincent’s face.

“Ryan simply needs time to remember the love that never left him. He will in the right timing. He might push us away now but it doesn’t mean we leave him. We simply give a little space and an open doorway to the home he has in our hearts. So this Leviathan… is it like the Phoenix?” Philip asked.

Vince pondered for a moment. “No I don’t think it’s quite the same. Jean’s power took on an alternate persona thus creating the Phoenix. This is different. I think this is more physiological in nature, but Ryan’s mind seems to be personifying some physical phenomenon. I won’t know for sure until I can speak with Ryan regarding what’s going on.”


Philip replied with a smile. ”Ryan is strong and a good kid. He’ll pull through this. We’re all here to help him. No worries Vince. Come on let’s go check on my father in law. He’s been missing all morning.” Philip gave a silly grin. It was true, the professor had been missing all that morning which was unusual.

“Yet another very good point.” Vincent replied. “He’s probably locked himself away with Cerebro again.” Vincent replied. He was feeling a little better but Ryan still worried him.



Frenzy and Stinger

You certainly can love! I's great to see a fellow mutants knocking about this place! Say, don't suppose either of you could point me in the direction of Charles Xavier's institution for Higher Learning? I was hoping I could have a chat with the fella.", Robert replied cheerfully .

Frenzy and Stinger looked at one another in surprise. Frenzy turned to the man and replied, “You’re in luck sir. We happen to reside there at the moment.” She turned her head to look at Stinger briefly, “In fact, we’re going home right now.” This was the perfect chance for her to put a stop to Stinger’s shopping spree. Turning her head back to the man she smiled pleasantly. “If you don’t mind coming with us, we can show you the way. I’m Joanna Cargill, by the way. This is Wendy Sherman. I go by the codename Frenzy.”

Wendy cut in adding, “I go by the name Stinger, due to my electrifying skill set. So what might your name be mister tourist?” She asked. Wendy was very curious about this guy’s powers. After obtaining the man’s name Wendy asked, “So what is it that you do, power wise that is?”

Joanna hailed a cab and the three were off to the X-mansion. They arrived and entered the front door. Joanna said to Robert. “If you don’t mind with Stinger while I find the professor, it shouldn’t take long.” Joanna then turned to Stinger, “Please behave Wendy.” She said knowing how Stinger had the tendency to cause trouble.

“What am I gonna do?! I mean really Jo…!” Wendy replied as she folded her arms and rolled her eyes. After Joanna headed down the hallway, Wendy turned to Robert and spoke with an upbeat tone. “So, let’s go meet the X-men shall we? They’re a really tacky bunch but interesting nonetheless.” She liked to poke fun at the X-men.

They entered the kitchen where most people were gathered. David looked up and immediately poked fun at Wendy. “Well if it isn’t Static Cling. I see you’ve picked up a sugar daddy.”

Wendy immediately frowned in sheer annoyance of David. “Shouldn’t you be off getting plowed by Sabertooth or chasing after girls leagues younger than yourself?” She rebutted with a rather satisfied smile on her face.

David gave a sarcastic smile and looked over apologetically to Memory. Sabertooth, however, interjected. “Now now Wendy. Let’s not be a jealous and bitter old biddy. Besides I’ve heard more than my share of bickering today.”

Stinger was about to respond when Scott stepped forward toward Robert. “He there. Sorry about those two. I’m Scott Summers of the X-men. What brings you here.” Scott introduced himself in a friendly manner.


Niles Cranston

Keith chuckled into a fit of laughter as he stood up and hooted for his good luck. He turned around grinning the way a kid grins before playing a new video game. "Sounds fun. I don't mind joining you on this escapade if you like. No in fact I'd be kind of bummed out if you didn't. When it comes to destroying things like buildings and such, I'm sort of a demolition guru. Though I can't say people won’t get hurt. Hehehe. So what's the plan boss? Are we just going to walk into the place and let loose? Or are we going to fall from the sky like wrecking balls?"

Niles looked over at Keith and smiled lightheartedly. He was inspired by Keith’s energy. “Boss huh? Okay then, I guess there’s no stopping you from helping me. I do like the element of surprise. I’m sure they have guns or something to stop us with. But I’ve got my defenses. Sounds like you’ve got your offense covered. So you know, I can create explosive diamonds and control them at will. It seems that between you and me we’ve got a lot of firepower so we should be good. Let’s fall from the sky like wrecking balls. I like the sound of that.”

Niles created a platform of crystal and the two stood on top of it. He levitated the platform high into the sky above the building. Looking down at the roof of the building Niles spoke. “I can blast an opening for us an lower us down, or do you have another plan?”


Oliver Cassidy and Erika

Erika face twisted into anger, but then smoothed just as quick. A gun firing was all the push she needed. Erika drew in breath and let her power lace her voice with poison, the words corrupting the minds of those around her into doing her bidding.
"Please," she called looking to the side, her voice distorting into something sinister, but soothing, "won't anyone help us? Won't you save us?" Four terrified people around her suddenly stiffened and lifted their head to the ceiling as if given an electric shock, then ran forwards in front of the two of them shouting to the guards to not hurt those "innocent people".

Just as a gun was fired, an overweight and balding man in a suit ran in front of Erika, then dropped. Blood seeped from the bullet hole in his chest. She looked down at his body, hands shaking. This was the first time her power had ever been used to kill someone. She pulled her eyes away reluctantly to the office workers making a wall between the two mutants and the guards aiming their way.

Oliver was impressed with Erika’s power. However he did not foresee the particular mechanics of it limiting its effects. When the hypnotized man took the bullet and died it did indeed shock Oliver. He felt somewhat sorry for the guy but he’d rather it be that man than himself.

"Have any kind of plan?" She asked Oliver over the calling of the people she had manipulated. "This was your fault after all," she finished with obvious venom.

“Don’t you worry Ms. Seems we’re lucky to have run into each other. I can allow you to control this whole room. Give me a second.” Oliver said with a wink. Oliver looked up to the ceiling and concentrated. Thick vines broke through the ceiling and formed a sort of patrician between them and the security men. The vines quickly sprouted flowers of a strange sort. They opened and the air filled with spores. These spores were littered with pheromones. “Try your power now. Anyone weak willed and nearby should be all yours to control. Hell, we’d probably be able to simply walk out of here.” Oliver said with a confident smile. “I’m Oliver Cassidy. Thanks for helping me. I really didn’t mean for any of this to happen but I don’t handle being tricked very well.”

The building suffered massively from the plants exponential growth. More of the spore emanating flowers grew outside the building and more citizens were inhaling the pheromone spores. They began to head into the HMR building as Erika called to them.


Kyle Jean-Claude

Kyle looked around and noticed that Jonathan had suddenly left the kitchen. He was curious as to what had come up. He stepped toward the door to find Jonathan however Hideki grabbed Kyle’s arm and spun him around to face him. “I can’t believe you Kyle! Both Colossus and Jonathan?! You’re a total slut you know.” Hideki fussed.

Kyle rolled his eyes at the fussy Japanese boy. “I am no slut. I am simply flirting with Jonathan. Besides Piotr and I are in an open relationship. I haven’t cheated on anyone nor am I going to. You’re just annoyed because you’ve bot not shot with Logan. Too bad you’re not a cute Japanese girl instead of a cute Japanese boy.” Kyle taunted his friend.

“Hey! I’ll show you cute!!” Hideki huffed and created a bright flash of light that stunned Kyle’s vision.

Kyle flinched and rubbed his eyes wildly. ”AAHH! I HATE when you do that!! Ah…”

Hideki huffed, “Serves you right.” He noticed Ryan had returned. Hideki was very concerned about his friend. He walked away from Kyle who was still struggling to see, and approached Ryan. “Hey Ryan, are you okay? I was a bit worried about you earlier. If you ever want to talk about anything I’m here for you. I’m not all knowing like Professor X but I think a friend with a good listening ear can help just as much. If the two new guys to the mansion are trouble, I’ll take your word for it and be watchful. Honestly I didn’t know Cain had invited them here either.”


Piotr Rasputin

Piotr watched all that happened in the kitchen. He liked how eventful the X-mansion was. There was so much life there. However he did miss Russia, his original home. He looked over to Cara who was also from Russia, giving a smile he decided to chat with her a bit. He walked over to her and smiled “Morning Conrad Black.” He said with a chuckle. He knew she would appreciate the joke. Being around her made him feel slightly closer to home. “You’re very noble for speaking your heart without reservation. I admire that about you Cara.” He said in a more thought filled and pondering tone.

Robert grinned cheerfully at the pair of mutant women cheerfully, his smile having grown form their introductions. Things were going as smoothly as he hoped! To be frank he though he might be turned away due to being a complete stranger, a tourist, and an aging man which no-one recognized trying to enter a school.
"Well that's fantastic! Sure i'll come along! Been wanting to visit that mansion place since I came over here! Lovely to meet the pair of ya! I'm Robert, Robert Ashdown, but you can call me Rob. I'm afraid I ain't got a fancy nickname like the pair of you do, never had a reason too!" , the British tourist babbled excitedly, giving a quick chuckled as they headed to catch a cab, before adding; "As for my powers, I make blades, as in, make a pair of them pop up from my arms, a bit like that wolverine bloke of the news. Not really all that impressive as him though, so don't expect me to do back flips and slicing through walls!"

As they arrived at the mansion, Joanna announced that she was going to go locate the professor him, and told Rob to stick with Wendy for the time being. He nodded and raised a friendly hand calling after "Alright then, you do that mate,
See you and the professor in a bit then!" , seeming a bit puzzled about her comment to Stinger to stay out of trouble.
He then almost had a mini heart attack when Wendy decided they should go meet the X-men himself, gaping in amazement before babbling; "Really? The X-men? Wow now that's just fantastic! Brilliant! Ha, bet my sister wouldn't believe me if I told her I chatted with the X-men! yes, let's go see them!"

As he wondered into the kitchen, grinning from ear to ear, he heard a suited man poke fun at the pair of them by calling Rob a 'sugar daddy', to which he looked on in confusion, and startlement, which lessened as he realized that the stranger was merely poking fun at Wendy since she retorted back, causing the suited man to look over apologetically to a young long haired brunette woman. He then was caused even more surprise as he saw that the criminal mutant, Sabertooth was also among them, having appeared in the news with the other brotherhood of mutants numerous times, though Rob guessed the somewhat disbandment of the group led him to join the x-men, perhaps?

Before he could find out however, he was suddenly greeted by a man wearing sunglasses, apologizing for the behavior between the group, and greeting Rob friendly, to which he offered a hand out to shake Scott's before replying; "The names Robert Ashdown, nice to meet ya Scott, and it's no problem, all folks argue after a bit. After all i'm British, we enjoy taking the mickey out of each-other. Anyways, i'm here to meet with the professor, Charles Xavier. I'm just nosy tourist is all,and proud mutant like the rest of you bunch! Just hoping to just, well, talk about how to get through everyday life round stranger that hate you."
He looked into the distance for a few moments before snapping out of it and asking; "So which X-man are you, eh? Let me guess, the fella with the lazer eyes?"