(At a house in Westchester: Crystal's POV)

I was reading one of my favorite books when I heard Randy's thoughts. They seemed odd to me since I thought he and his family were going to have a family-outting, but I ignored it and headed downstairs to open the door. My eyes popped wide out of their sockets when I noticed that Randy's daughter, Erika, was looking like she lost something important to her. "Erika!" I said, the little girl turned to me and gave me her cute little grin that I've always loved. "Sis!" She exclaimed, running up to me and hugged my legs. Oh, and you must be wondering why Erika called me her sister and what the hell I'm doing in a human house. Well there's a simple explanation: After my dad died from skin cancer last year and I got my x-gene when I turned fourteen, my mom threw a pink gym bag full of my stuff out of my bedroom window and threatened to call the M.R.D on me if I didn't leave. When I kept roaming the streets, I kept hearing everyone's thoughts. I couldn't get them out of my head. It hurted so much for me. Luckily, I ran into my dad's old college roomate, Randy, he knew about my dad's powers and felt sorry for me when I told him what happened to me. Which is why I'm here now. As for my powers, they're fine. I've managed to keep them in check. Though, I need to make sure that my emotions don't get the best of me, or else whoever I'm near will give me a major headache. "So, mind telling me what happened?" I asked. "You wouldn't believe me! It just happened so fast!" The little girl exclaimed. "Hello there, Crystal," I heard Jillian's voice and turned to see her. "Hi, there, Jill." I smiled at her, she smiled back. "Well? What happened?" I asked. "Well, we got caught in a train-crash that ended up with Erika having minor injuries." She replied, "What!? Are you ok!?" I exclaimed, my older-sister look was showing. "Don't worry, I'm fine. Sis." Erika smiled at me. "What do you mean? Why didn't you call me so I could help!?" I asked. Jillian smiled sheepishly, "We were going to, but-"
"But, a mutant saved my life!" Erika beamed. "A mutant? But shouldn't the M.R.D have arrested them all?" I wondered. "They didn't arrest you, Knock-Out," Erika grinned. I rolled my eyes. Ever since I saved her life, Erika was the first to get to know what my powers were like since a man tried to rob us when I was taking her home from elementary school. And without thinking I used my telepathy on him, and it turns out that the man was actually a mutant who had to steal for a living. I felt bad for him so I only did little harm to his mind and quickly managed to get Erika home. And since then, she's called me "Knock-Out" ever since.
"Is he ok?" I asked, turning to Jillian. "He's alright, he's resting right now in Erika's room." She replied, Randy walked in. I could tell that he was angry at Carl for turning Erika's savior in to M.R.D custody. I knew that Carl was just another slave to Senator Kelly and his dumb "Mutant Regestration Act" when he found out about my mutant powers. "Carl turned him in, didn't he?" I asked. He just nodded.
"C'mon, Erika, you must be hungry after what happened." I said, she nodded and together we went into the kitchen.

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(At the Xavier Mansion: ? POV)

Chuck moaned and held his head into the palm of his hand. "Charles," Ororo said, "Charles!" I exclaimed, running to him. I saw him turn to see Jean having the same reaction he did while Summers was holding her. "Jean, what's wrong?" He asked in worry. I ran Charles as fast as I could until
~BOOOOM!~
Everything was in ruins. I looked around to see that the mansion was blown to pieces,
"JEAN!" Scott screamed.
"What happened!?" Drake exclaimed. I turned to see Ororo on her knees, I quickly ran to help her up, but I was shocked to see that in the pit was only Charles' wheelchair...

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(At Erika's room: Crystal's POV)

Erika and I walked into the room to see that a man was sleeping in her bed. By the way he looked I was surprised that he didn't crush my sister's bed yet. The girl walked over to him. "I'll set the glass here in case he's-" I read his thoughts to see he was having a nightmare. "Erika, look out!" I whisper yelled, quickly pushing her away when the man was about to hurt her. I could see his mutation, and damn, it looked way cooler than my pathetic telepathy. The man had three metal claws in between his knuckles. I blushed when I noticed that he had a nice-looking abs, and steel-blue eyes with jet-black hair styled to make him almost look like an actual wolf. He saw us and unsheathed his claws. "Its alright, your safe." Erika soothed him. "Sorry," He said, he looked around my sister's room. "Where am I?" The man asked. "Our house, well... Erika's room to be more specific." I replied, "Here, we brought you something." Erika handed him the glass of water and a piece of my homemade apple pie that my mom taught me how to make before Randy adopted me. He took a bite out of the pie and then drank some of the water. "Your getting better really fast," The little girl smiled at him. "Daddy says that's good because you wouldn't want to go to the hospital." She joked. I rolled my eyes but managed to stiffle a laugh.
"Your dad's a smart man." He said, "We'd better go, our parents don't want us to disturb you." Erika said, "Go ahead without me, sis. I'll be right there." I said. She smiled at me and managed to get away from Jillian while she was busy on the phone.
"You need to leave," I said to him. "Hey, I said I was sorry." He defended himself. "Not that, I understand that perfectly." I said. "Then why do I have to leave?" He asked, he grabbed ahold of my arm and spun me to look at him straight in the eyes. I quickly made an excuse so my emotions wouldn't falter on me. "I'll explain later, right now you need to leave before-" But then I turned when I noticed lights. "Mardies?" He smirked at me. "Unfortunatly," I replied, grabbing his wrist, but he managed to let go.
"What the hell are you doing!?" I exclaimed. "You might wanna turn around." The man grunted, taking off his t-shirt first. "I see your point," I said, leaving him alone so he could change.

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(Outside of Randy's house: Logan's POV)

After I was done suiting up, I walked out of the room only to see the girl wasn't outside the door anymore. It was easy for me to track down her strawberry scent, so I followed it just in time to see that an M.R.D helecopter was taking away her family. "ERIKA!" The girl screamed. I snarled and let out my claws so I could try to stop them. But I missed and fell to the ground. The girl helped me up. "Are you ok?" She asked me. "Yeah, just fine." I replied. "We have to get them back." The girl said seriously. "And we will," I reassured her. "But we'll need some help first." I used my nose to find where my bike was. The girl followed after me. I opened the garage door and got my helemet from where it was at. "Got an extra?" The girl asked.
I threw my helemet at her, she caught it. "Someone likes the dangerous life." I heard her mutter. "I'll be fine, darlin', now are you comming or what?" I smirked. "What do you think?" The girl glared at me. I hopped onto the bike. The girl got behind me and wrapped her arms around my torso. I started the engine and we were off. During the way, I could sense that she was troubled.
"Hey, everything will be alright, kid, we'll get your family back." I reasured her.
"How would you know? Huh?" She snapped at me.
"Woah, take it easy! I'm not tryna start anything." I said.
"Sorry, its just... Never mind..." She said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Where are we going?" She asked me. I sighed, guessing that this conversation is getting nowhere.
"To meet an old friend." I replied,
"How long is the ride?" She said.
"Not that long, we're almost there." I answered, she hummed in reply. But after that was just silence.

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(At Xavier's School For The Gifted)

I stopped the bike here. The girl took off her helemet. "Umm... Is this a graveyard?" She turned to me. "Its a school, well... Was one," I replied. "What happened?" She asked. "Its a long story, but a friend of mine and I are still staying here. The other guy is downstairs." I said. I walked toward the entrance with the girl following. I opened it,
"We have to jump down there?" She questioned. I made her squeal in surprise when I picked her up bridal-style. She glared at me. "What? It was either this or I carried you on my shoulder," I said, she rolled her eyes, but I could see the blush forming on her cheeks. I unsheathed my right claws since I needed the left to carry the girl down. But while we made it down into the sub levels. I couldn't wipe out the thought about the girl I was holding seemed familair. I know Chuck told me something about an old friend of his from before he had that wheelchair. I just couldn't think of it now.
As soon as I unsheathed my claws, the girl let go of me quickly. She turned to me and pointed to Hank. I smirked to myself and put my index finger to my lips to shush her. The girl rolled her eyes but listened. I managed to take Hank's notepad away from him so I could see what he was doing, it looked the same as always though. "Whatcha workin' on Hank?" I asked. He hollered in surprise. "Logan! Must you always make an entrance?" He glared at me. "Yeah, but you gotta learn to relax, Hank, try getting out a little more." I smirked. Hank sighed. "With Charles and Jean, you know, unacounted for, I just can't think of anything else." I sighed also. "Me neither, believe me I've tried. Learn anything new?" I replied. "I have confirmed that the explosion was indeed centered on Charles' position. So he was the likely target." Hank answered. "But what was the cause?" I said. "It defies classification. No evidence of combustion, chemical reaction, radiation, or electro magnetism." Hank said. "That pretty much rules out the MRD," I said. "Probably Magneto too." I added. Hank turned his attention away from me, I turned around to see what he was looking at. "Logan, who is this lovely lady?" Hank asked me with a knowing smirk.
"I'm not his girlfriend, I'm just the daughter of the family who he saved." The girl replied.
"Right, almost forgot. Kid, this is Hank. Hank... This is... Uhh..." I tried to introduce.
"Crystal." She said,
"So, about this family?" Hank questioned.
"The MRD arrested my family," Crystal explained. "We've gotta stop them, Hank." She added.
"Wait, your saying that you wanna help us?" I laughed. "The MRD ain't no laughing matter, kid, don't forget that." I smirked at her. "I can help!" Crystal exclaimed, but then went calm.
"Hank, please, we need your help." She begged him. "Well, its not everyday that a beautiful woman like yourself requests help." Hank smiled at us. "I'll be right back," He added, walking off to go wear his X-Men uniform. "So, what size do you wear?" Crystal asked, I turned to her. "You really think I'm gonna let you come with us mutants?" I smirked. "Hey, whether you like it or not. I'm coming with you." Crystal said. "Fine, but you better not get in our way." I said, ok. She might've seemed hot when I first met her. But now she's starting to be a bitch.

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(Inside of an MRD vehicle: Crystal's POV)

I could tell without using telepathy that Logan didn't like me. So I just tried not to make him angry. At least Hank was nice, and maybe kind of cute. "How you making out Hank?" Logan asked him, since it wasn't really easy to be in an MRD desguise because of Hank's mutation, he had to sit in the back while Logan and I sat in the front with the MRD uniforms that we "borrowed" from their owners. "It smells back here." He complained, "Why don't you put your shackles back on?" Logan smirked, yup, I officially hate him right now. Luckily we made it to the MRD base, Logan rolled down the window while Hank acted like a monster in the back.
"What kind of mutant you got in there?" The MRD trooper asked.
"One big ugly beast." Logan replied. I handed him the ID card and almost thought that I touched his hand also.
"Now can we hurry this up? You do not want this thing busting out right here." Logan demanded. Hank made snarl's that almost made me think that the Hulk was behind us.
"Uh. g-go. Go." The trooper said in fright when he gave Logan the ID card. The gate opened for us.
"Nice job, Hank, you made me think that you were the Hulk." I whispered. "Wait 'til she sees what I can do with these claws," I heard Logan mutter. "What was that?" I asked him, "Nothin'." He replied angrily, the doors opened and when the MRD troopers opened them.
"Freeze!" One of them yelled.
Hank exclaimed nervously. "See here, gentlemen. Lets take a deep breath. Shall we? I'm a pacifist by nature. So those weapons are not uh-" But before he could finish. Logan kicked them unconsicus. "Let me guess. Shackles were chaffing. Right?" Logan turned to him unimpressed. "No..." He said, but then replied with guilt. "Well, yes... But only during my performance... I was about to put them back on! Really!" He grinned sheepishly, "Lets go Chewy." I said, a playful smirk forming. "You find out where they keep the prisoners. I'll lock up these guards." Logan said. "Alright, lets go. Hank," I said.
"Nice try, but your coming with me." Logan smirked. "Logan, don't try anything." Hank warned. "I won't, now are you coming or not?" Logan turned to me. "If it means to save Erika, then I'll do it." I said.

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(Randy's POV)

"STOP! Where are you taking him?" Jillian yelled. But the man ignored my wife and dragged me somewhere. He threw me into some kind of chair. "So what now? You gonna torture me?" I demanded. "Think of it as an incentive. Tell me the truth about Wolverine." The man said,
"I'll tell you the truth, he's a hero!" I yelled. The man didn't like my answer so he pounded my head against the chair with his hand. After that I felt pain coarsing threw my body as if someone was spanking me with their belt hard. "This is a sensartory assault helmet." I heard him say. "The cutting edge of gathering information. Last chance," The man said. I was struggling in the chair I was in at the moment, trying to break free.
"You're the ones people should watch out for, not the mutants!" I said, but the pain came again and I yelled in frustration for help.

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(Logan's POV)

Crystal and I made it to see a couple of MRD lackey's tied up in a chair asleep at the moment. We turned to Hank.
He grinned, "What? It was they're choice." Crystal giggled in reply. "We didn't say a word,"
"I didn't say a word." I glared at her. Doesn't that bitch have a life? "Gah!" Crystal exclaimed.
"Erika! I thought I told you not to yell!" She groaned, touching her forehead. I turned to Hank, he shrugged. "Wait, what? Are you sure? Ok, ok, don't worry. I'll be there as soon as I can." She said. She opened her eyes again. "What? Even you guys are judgeing me?" She asked. "Uh, we better free all these prisoners." Hank said suddenly. She rolled her eyes at us. Ok. I think I've made a huge mistake with helping this girl and her family.
"Yeah, lets go." Crystal said, following after Hank. I went behind her because I still didn't trust her.

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(Crystal's POV)

I saw a man throwing Randy back into his cell. "You animals! We told you, we don't know anything!" Jillian yelled at them. "Perhaps not, but she might." The man grinned. I used my telepathy to make him punch himself in the stomache. Hank and Logan looked at him in confusion. "Easy or hard way?" I asked him, he turned to us. "We meet again, Crystal," He smirked at me, I kicked him in the face.
He woke up later on to see my face again. "Morning," I smirked at him. He glared at me angrily. "Now, I want you to leave me and my family alone, got it?" I demanded. Holding up the device to work the thing he was sitting on in my hands. "Here's a little incentive in case you forget." I added. Pressing the button. Making the MRD scream in pain. "KNOCK-OUT!" He yelled.
I made it just in time to see an MRD helecopter flying near me. Logan and Hank were on the controls. "Knock-out!" Erika exclaimed happily. I jumped into the copter as we were about to fly away. "Hey, nice to see you too. Little sis." I smiled, happy that I got my sister back. A man and a girl who both had blonde hair made some fireballs that attacked the base. But jets were coming also. "Anyone here know how to deal with jets?" I asked. A woman walked up and turned into dust. Which helped us get the hell out of that shit hole in time.

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(Logan's POV)

I went down the hole again but I couldn't find Hank anywhere. "Hey." I heard a woman voice say. I turned to see Crystal again. I looked at her in confusion. "Hey, aren't you supposed to-" She forced my lips on her's before I could even finish what I was gonna say. She let go of me. "Well, uh, I-" I couldn't find any words at all, but for some reason. There was fur in my mouth. "Hey, why is there fur on my mouth?" I asked, taking it out. "Maybe because I'm not Crystal." She said, then I saw Hank standing in front of me. My eyes widened in surprise. "Hank, say something when you sneak up on a guy." I said. "I'll try to remember that. Oh, and haven't you ever heard of mouthwash?" Hank replied. Making me realize that I kissed him.
"Aww, fuck! How the hell did you make yourself look like Crystal anyway?!" I demanded.
"Maybe because he got some help from a certian someone." I heard Crystal say. I groaned. "Telepath?" I asked. "Telepath." She smirked. "But you gotta admit, it was funny! Plus I took a pic of the whole thing." She added, holding out her iPhone for us to see. I was about to take it out of her hands and delete it, but she kicked my leg. She slapped my face when I tried to. "There is no way in hell your taking this out of my hands, teammate," She grinned. "Wait, she's not gonna join the X-Men. Is she?" I asked, turning to Hank. "Why not? She would be a good asset to the team." He replied. I sighed. "Fine, but your only temporary, until we find Charles. So that doesn't mean we'll be friends." I glared at her. "Ok, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna try to become friends with you!" She said. "Where are the others?" I asked, trying to keep my cool. "Gone their seperate ways. But those cells we emptied. They'll be full again tomorrow, and the next day." Crystal replied. "Yeah, but we all know what's going on. There's a war coming. And it ain't gonna be pretty." I stated. "So what's next?" Hank asked.
"We bring back the X-Men," I answered.