After school got out for the summer, Kurt didn't really have much to do. Only a few of the other mutants stayed at the Institute. Even Rogue was out on a camping trip with Logan. Kurt had been offered to go with but he turned them down due to it clashing with his training. Kurt kept a training schedule for himself to follow so that he can always defend himself. Even though he declined the trip to keep up on his schedule, he was procrastinating and doing nothing but reading and playing video games he had already completed a ton of times.
Kurt finally got up off his ass when the Professor sent him to investigate why all contact was unnoticeably lost with a small village on Canada and New Hampshire's border. Kurt packed a bag in case he had to stay for the night and took one of the Jeeps that were provided for X-Men when on missions. He kept looking down to his hands to make sure his image inducer was working. Kurt had a little incident one of the last days in school when a girl saw his true face due to a malfunction.
He stepped out of the vehicle once in the town. House doors were open and things were dropped, clothing, food, medicine, and etc. All these items were scattered across the snow as if everybody left in a hurry. His boot covered feet crunch the powdery snow as he walks down a row of shops combined with homes. Kurt walked up to a toy shop, deciding to start his investigation there.
He walked into the shop and looked around a bit. He turned his head to see a bloody teddy bear across the room. Kurt shouldn't have done what he did. He approached the doll, but stopped at the stench of flesh. He shouldn't have turned his head. Kurt wished to unsee what lie on the floor behind the counter. The bloodstains and ripped open corpse gave him nausea. He quickly ran out of the shop, getting sick near a rubbish bin to the side of the same shop. He looked up from the bin to see another body. This only caused his stomach to reject the rest of his breakfast. He turned back to the row of homes and shops. He now noticed all the damage and blood that could be seen. Anyone wouldn't have noticed if they were just walking through due to the bodies having a thin sheet of snow over them. He teleported as far away from the town as he could. somehow making it 6 miles, exhausting him completely so that he passed out in the thick snow. Kurt's previous record of teleporting was within 2 miles and a rough idea of where he would be.