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The tall blond man scanned the dark lair for his teammates, each situated in various hiding locations. They, the Nordic Wolves as his team had been named, were currently underground in a previously uninhabited island situated in the middle of the Atlantic where strange energy waves had been detected. The school's founder had seen this as problamatic, seeing that the "school" was in the parameter of the energy waves. They had first been detected when a particularly large blast caused several appliamces to shut down and malfunction. A second blast had caused physical pain to two of the students. They had been hospitalized in the medical wing for weeks and the founder decided it best to investigate and shut down the cause.

Berwald stood against the wall of the underground lair, body adjusting to the textures and materials of the stone until the peach colored flesh was consumed by hard, rugged rock and he could hardly be seen unless searched for by a trained eye.

Mm.

He turned to find Tino spread over several locations, each one turned to the man and gave him a curt nod, gun resting on their shoulders, aiming at the men working just beneath him.

Yeah.

Great. How about you Lukas?

Get on with it already. The man's irritation was clear, even through their telepathic link. Mathias paid it no mind and looked around, but caught no sight of him. His brows creased in worry and agitation.

Where are ya, Nor?

What does it matter? Hurry up, classes are about to start.

Fine. Mathias watched as several men made their way around the large lab-like structure. There weren't too many of them, he'd say roughly eighty; His team had handled worse, which was a cause of slight anxiety for the man. With such large power radiating off the place, he'd expect more people present to keep any intruders out, but they had managed to sneak in. It was almost as if they thought themselves safe, but he couldn't understand why. He shook off his worries and went back to focusing on the mission. Mathias watched closely, waiting for an opening, hunched behind a couple of crates. Each member of his team waited patiently, as they had hundreds of times before, stalking their prey and waiting for his signal. All they needed was a single second of distraction; that was all they ever needed.

Two glass containers were brought into the dimly lit room escorted by more armed guards, diverting the attention of many of the men present, who approached the containers and began examining their contents.

"There, " Mathias whispered to himself, a confident smile spreading on his lips.

Now!

He quickly gave his signal and jumped into action. The men were quickly alerted to the intrusion by the loud rumble as he landed on the ground with an earth shattering thud. An array of bullets rained towards him as he advanced quickly, but only knocked against the impenetrable clear blue orb that encircled him. He heard another harsh 'thud' against the hard ground and smirked as guards began being thown into any and every direction. He looked over and saw several men attempting to subdue Berwald, whose body had taken a scaley metallic appearance as the jagged rock smoothed into reflective adamantine. Mathias returned to his own fight and a couple of feet away a figure was present, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. His eyes began to glow as dark figures began rising from the shadows in the ground.

Luk's! Look out!

Mathias turned at the warning to see a large man charging at Lukas, armed with a crowbar. His eyes returned to their natural pallor with the disruption of his summoning. He turned, panic clear in his eyes as he raised his arms to protect himself from the unexpected attack, but the man quickly dropped before any damage was dealt, a tranquilizing dart lodged in the back of his neck.

Lukas sighed, turning back to his summoning. Dark creatures sprung from the ground and began to run rampant, attacking every guard and man present as Lukas sent energy blasts at all those who neared, or attempted to escape.

Thanks, Tino.

Not a problem, they replied cheerfully.

The men were quickly subdued, with Tino shooting down the last of the guards. He jumped from his various hiding places and reunited into a single person as he made his way towards the others as Lukas' creatures began disappearing. Berwald's brilliant armor returned to it's dull, soft flesh as he approached the others, and Mathias brought down his force field.

All four men gathered at the heart of the cave, inspecting the mess of bodies that lay scattered across the floor.

" Alright, so, what do we have here?"

"It looks like some sort of lab."

"Yeah, it does. Whatever it is, we need to erase every last trace of it, and figure out what was causing those energy two take care of making sure no traces of this place will be found or usable again. Berwald and I will look around for any useful intel." Tino and Lukas nodded as Mathias and Berwald broke away and walked around the room, leaving the other two to plant the bombs. A large portion of the lab was filled with what appeared to be large glass tubes. Each was contained a clear, green gel, but nothing else. Hundreds of these tubes filled the building.

"Whatd'ya think was in here?"

"Dunno, maybe nothin'," Berwald leaned forward and peered into the gel.

"Berwald! Mathias! " A frantic cry echoed throughout the cave. The two glanced towards one another, eyes full of panic before both men broke into a sprint towards the sound of the voice. As they got closer they found the two men kneeled on the ground beside the two large gel-filled tubes that had previously served as their distraction.

"T'no! What's wr'ng?" He drew closer to Tino, who turned, panic and confusion set in his eyes. He opened and closed his mouth unable to speak, his eyes watered and his body shook, and instead of speaking he pointed with a quaking hand.

Berwald followed the direction of his hand and was left stunned by the sight.
"A-alfr'd? " The young boy floated naked in the gel. His hair hung longer, and if anything wavier, but shared the facial features and build of their adopted son. Beside them another familiar boy was trapped in the same condition.

"Feliciano! " Mathias roared, panic dripping in his voice. He threw a fist through the thick glass container, shattering the glass and causing its contents to come flooding out. Berwald did the same, pulling the boy out and laying him on the ground. Tino gently pushed Berwald out of the way and checked the pulse of both boys.

"Their pulse is slower than usual. We need to get them back to the academy. Now."

"Right." Mathias and Berwald picked the boys out of the mess of glass and fluid and began sprinting towards the nearest exit. They boarded the academy aircraft and the two larger men handed over the unconscious bodies to their respective partners and quickly lifted the plane off the ground. As soon as they were just over a hundred feet from the ground, countless explosions could be heard.

"Romulus get Yao to prepare two rooms in the infirmary."

Static came through followed by an almost indecipherable voice.
"Why... something... happen?... team... okay?" Mathias let out a tired sigh. Their communicator had been busted for the longest time, but no one had bothered to fix it, seeing as Lukas' telepathy was usually their means of communication. Unfortunately, they were out of reach from the academy.

"My team is fine, but we discovered your grandson and Alfred Jones in the mission site and they appear to be injured, or unconscious, or both. I don't know, but we need to get them looked over." Mathias' serious tone made every person aboard the ship, excluding those unconscious, uneasy. There was a long pause before an incredulous voice came through.

"... impossible! ...in...class!"

"Whatd'ya mean they're in class! They're on our plane now and they need medical attention!"

Tino and Lukas held the unconscious boys closer at the statement. They looked down at the them. They were almost completely certain of who they were. Alfred was Tino's own son! He'd had him since he was 5, which made it nearly 12 years now, and Feliciano was known and loved by all. The sweet, cheerful boy was Romulus' own grandson, although no one knew how many 'great's' were needed before the grandson part was actually reached.

" ...bring...in. ... look... over...paramedics...meet you... " With that final statement, the static of the transmission ended.

"Ber... If Al and Feli are in class... then who are these boys? What were they doing in those labs?"
Berwald sighed, unsure of the entire situation himself. He and the Dane had not managed to gather any information before their attention was focused on the two mysterious boys.

"Dunno."

As the aircraft drew closer to the ground, paramedics could be seen running out of the building to meet them, two stretchers between the six of them, followed by the school's founder himself. He wore a troubled expression as the door to the craft opened and the ramp folded out to reveal his four best men carrying exactly who they had claimed to have.

Romulus turned to the men taking the boys onto the stretchers.
"Bring them to the infirmary and take DNA samples of each. I'll pull Feliciano and Alfred out of their classes. They need to see this. " He then focused his tired eyes to the four men standing before him.
"Berwald, Tino, you need to come with me, I will cancel your combat classes. Lukas, the psychics' class started 10 minutes ago, Alaric has been covering for you. Go. As for you, Mathias, I expect a full report of your mission on my desk tomorrow morning, you may choose to cancel your class or not."

All four of the man gave a curt nod and dispersed. Tino and Berwald walked beside their 'son's' stretcher, watching him with a worried expression.

After several turns through the multiple winding halls of the academy, they finally arrived in the large, white infirmary. The bodies were dressed in hospital gowns and hoisted off of the stretchers and onto the soft, clean beds where they were hooked to IVs and heart monitors. Swabs were pressed into their mouths and the DNA was carried away to the adjoining lab.

At that moment two boys burst into the room, followed closely by Romulus and a stoic man with long blond hair.

Tino's eyes lit up and he ran to embrace his son. "You're okay!" He pressed his son's head to his chest, despite the fact that the other was taller than him.

"Ow! Mom! You're hurting me! " He pulled away.

"I may have super strength, but your hugs can kill," he muttered, rubbing his aching neck. He suddenly stopped, realizing what his parent had said. Looking up, he found his father watching him with an equally relieved expression.

"Why wouldn't I be ok?" He looked between the two, then turned to Feliciano, who shared his look of confusion.

"Ve, what's going on, nonno? " Feliciano looked to Romulus with wide, worried eyes. Romulus said nothing, only waved his hand to urge them towards the hospital beds. The two shared a look and slowly advanced, gasping at the sight.

"Who are they?" Alfred's voice turned demanding as he aimed an intense stare towards Romulus.

"We don't know."

" Then why did you bring them here!? They could be spies! Or shapeshifters! Or-"

"Or mutants in need of a home and a place to belong," Alaric continued, stepping forward. "We do not abandon people like us, Alfred. You should know that by now."

"Well yeah, b-but-" Alfred was cut off as screams resounded across the large room. All six men turned to find that the men that had been attending the boy resembling Feliciano caught fire, as well as anything that touched the boy and even he himself was surrounded by a roaring flame. The flesh colored cover melted off and exposed the metalic frames of the androids as they dropped to the ground, useless.

The boy was currently awake and sitting up on the bed. His eyes appeared to glow a warm hazel as they frantically darted around the room. His eyes stopped on Feliciano and he regarded him with an intense gaze. He pushed himself off of the bed, standing on shakey legs before he was able to stand straight and advance towards the boy, arm outretched and eyes full of confusion and panic.

The two boys were quickly shoved behind the four adults, who took a defensive stance as the boy drew nearer.

"Alaric, get into his mind and try to talk to him, or at least stop him." The large blond man nodded and his eyes hardened; however, he quickly crumpled to the ground. The boy also appeared to be affected, he winced and held his head in his hands, but quickly recovered and the confusion in his eyes was replaced by rage as the fire roared and grew to an exponential height.

"I c-can't penetrate his mind. It feels as if my head were set on fire."

"Shit! Can you call Francis? "

"Yes, I can try." The man appeared to go rigid for a moment, but quickly recovered. "He's on his way."

The boy stepped forward, but stopped when he heard a pained moan just behind him. The rage was once again replaced by panic and the fire died down as he turned to find the other boy flickering in and out of sight. He wore a pained expression and his breathing had become erratic. In his fazing in and out of existence, he lost his heart monitor, making it unclear how fast his heart drummed against his chest. Just as he approached him, however, he collapsed. The flame that engulfed him vanished and he lay panting on the ground. He began to panic as every ounce of his power was drained from him and looked up to find the other boy in the same condition. He dragged himself forward, only to find that his strength was being drained as well. His vision became blurry before it was completely overtaken by darkness.

"Thank you, Francis."

"Yes, I'm afraid we had trouble subduing his ability. Although subduing the other may have been unnecessay..."

"Wh't do we do 'bout 'em?"

"For now let's put them in a containment unit to neutralize their powers. Once they wake up again we can interrogate them. Feliciano, Alfred, you have the day off, return to your dorms." Alfred sent Tino a worried look, to which he responded with a reassuring smile and a brief hug.
Feliciano appeared to be on the brink of tears as Alfred escorted him out with him. The door banged closed as the two boys retreated.

"What if the boys can't be controlled Romulus?" Tino inquired with wide, worried eyes.

"Then they'll have to be contained or their memories will be cleared so that they can start over."

So how did you guys like it? :D This is my first fanfic, like, ever and I really love superheroes and superhero AUs but there are, like, not enough out there ya know? So my friend got annoyed of my constant complaining about it and told me to write one myself, so I did! Although, I'm a little nervous about it... Anyway! I would love to see what you guys think!