Chapter One

Late 1983

A few months had passed since the team had defeated Apocalypse. The X-Men had been working hard as a team so that they could deal with future situations and with the help of Charles, Raven and Hank things were really looking good for them as for the others in the school... Even though things were still tense between humans and mutants. In the recent weeks, several new students had enrolled, which of course made Charles happy. He was glad that he could young mutants control their powers so that they could be used for good as well as having them receive an education in a place where no one would judge them for their gifts.

He was also glad to see that the X-Men were doing great. In the few missions that they had already been sent to nothing too bad had happen, only a few minor injuries but that was it.

In their most recent mission, nothing had gone wrong. Everyone was following the plan to the letter but it really wasn't a complicated mission. All they had to do was investigate what a was going on at a certain building which belonged to the Essex Corporation.

As it was usual Scott was leading the team and they were on their way out of the building when an alarm starting ringing, extremely loud. The boys all looked at each other wondering what could have possible caused it go off. Deciding it would be best to ask questions at a later time, Scott, Peter and Kurt rushed to their meeting point where Jean and Ororo were already waiting for them.

"What happened?" Jean asked curiously. Both Ororo and herself had been waiting for the boys for a couple of minutes where the alarm began.

Scott shook his head. "I don't know," he said as the team finally got out of the building. "But I somehow have a feeling that this wasn't us..."

Almost as soon as those words left his mouth, a big explosion occurred in one of the upper floors.

Jean made sure that none of the falling debris hurt anyone as Peter looked up to the building. "That definitely wasn't us," he said, stating the obvious.

"We need to leave," Scott said, motioning for the team to start making heir way back to their ride. "Before they figure out that we were here as well."

"We'll be long gone before they do," Peter smiled, looking up at the building. "Whatever is happening there might keep them busy for a while," he added as the window from a few floors above from where the explosion had just happened, shattered. "Yes. That's definitely going to take them some time..." he said as they all stop for a moment to look at all the chaos.

As they all started at the commotion before them, Kurt noticed some movement on the now windowless floor just before someone jumped out, of maybe fell out, of the window. He couldn't really be sure. Without giving it much thought, he disappeared so he could save this person from falling over fifteen stories to the ground. By the time the rest of the team had noticed Kurt was gone, the blue boy was already in the middle of all the commotion holding someone in his arms looking around for a moment before he disappeared again. After a moment he appeared once again next to the team, this time holding an unconscious girl in his arms.

The girl was around their age, her long strawberry blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail and her clothes consisted of what looked to be a black uniform, a little big on her.

"What were you thinking?" Scott asked, looking at Kurt then the girl and back, not knowing what to make of the situation.

"She needs help," Kurt said, motioning to the bruises visible on her skin. "She's hurt."

"How do we know she's not working with them," Scott answered, running a hand through his hair, just trying to be logical. "Maybe this happen during the explosion."

"Doubt it," Peter quickly said holding one of the girl's arms out. "Unless they handcuff their own workers," he added, showing the rest of the team the red marks on her wrist. "She's probably the reason why the alarm was triggered in the first place..."

"She was trying to escape," Jean said, not having to be a telepath to know what was going through Peter's mind. Not that Peter's mind could be read, it simply moved too fast.

"So we help her," Kurt said not waiting for a reply from the others before he started walking back to the X-Jet. The rest of the team soon followed him, wanting to be as far away from the building before someone had they had been doing there in the first place. As they walked Scott sighed, wondering what the professor would think of how what was supposed to be a simple mission turned out to be.

Noticing Kurt was falling behind, Peter waited for the boy before speaking. "Need some help?" he asked, motioning to the girl. After taking a second to think about it, Kurt nodded and before he could even blink, the girl was on Peter's arms. "Let's go then.

"Right," Kurt nodded as they both caught up with the rest of the team, who were already waiting for them by the X-Jet. "What are we going to tell the professor?" he asked, looking at his teammates, especially Scott since he was the leader.

"He already knows," Jean answer before walking inside the jet where Charles and Hank were waiting for them and the rest soon followed.

As they came to face the professor, who was looking at the girl in Peter's arms the moment they came into view, Scott quick explained. "Things didn't go as expected..."

"Yes. I can see that," Charles said after a moment. "We best be on own way and tend to our guest."

"Buckle in," Hank called, ready to get the jet in the air.

"Peter is would be ideal that you keep an eye on her in the mean time," Charles requested die to his abilities. "I'll have Hank treat her once we arrive," he added before going to his place.

As soon as everyone was ready, the jet was in the air and on it's way back to the school. All the way back, Charles couldn't help but wonder what I'm the world had been going on inside that facility. He was not expecting the team to come back with an extra passenger but maybe she could help them figure out what was going on there.

The moment as they arrived back to the school, Hank and Charles took the still unconscious girl to the infirmary while the rest of the team went to get some rest, having been told by Charles that they would be discussing in the morning what they had found that night.

Hello everyone!

This is my first story and I would really love some feedback from you guys.

This story is obviously AU so some characters from Marvel (besides the X-Men) are going to show up. Anyways, thanks for reading and don't forget to review.

Ps. Any notes or answers to comments will always be after the chapters.