Sleep. It's the one thing that hasn't eluded me tonight. For some reason, I feel safe here. Sure, it might be the fact that I'm in a bed that's well and beyond the level of comfort I'm used to, or maybe it's the fact that I'm around people who know how to fight and how to defeat a sentinel if one does try to show up. Honestly, I think it's something deeper than that. Something more primal. The instinctive need to be around others like yourself, at least, partially. You know, herd mentality. I'm comforted and sleeping, but for some reason I still seem to wake up some time just before dawn. I can see the tendrils of pink and orange starting across the sky as the sun begins to rise.

I roll over in the bed and try to find a comfortable position to pass out again when I feel it. That gut instinct that you're being watched. That you're not alone. I shift to sit up and slowly scan the room. There, in the corner by the window, sitting just off into the shadows is the woman from before. Her features are stern but she seems oddly pleased with me. Or maybe just herself. I open my mouth to say something but she cuts me off, "We can't speak for long. They'll be here any minute," Her tone is hushed and she's speaking quickly, "There's another option. The revolution is happening and we need all mutants to be with us, a united front. I can get you to him, but we won't kidnap you. If you want to come to us, use this locator somewhere away from the school." She tosses me a little device, something metal and cool to the touch. It's round and has a red X splashed across it. I look up to say something, to ask a question, anything really but she's gone. Vanished again, but the other girl wasn't around. At least I don't think she was.

It was just a dream, or at least that's what I try to convince myself. I fall back into the pillows and set the device on the nightstand right as Kitty slips in through the door again. She's dressed strangely, a black and yellow outfit, looking more like a jumpsuit than anything else, but I can't quite put into words what it is. I quickly look at her face, a scowl is clearly present across her lips. Something's wrong, something bad. Her gaze settles on me, and there's no use in pretending I'm asleep because our eyes lock for a moment. Her expression softens a bit but doesn't seem as if she's going to let whatever is bothering her slip by.

"Ty. I need to ask you a few questions, do you mind getting dressed and coming with me to go talk for a bit?" She speaks quietly, but her tone suggests I don't really have much of an option. I give a weak nod and she smiles a bit, just before she slips out of my room through the floor. I furrow my brows for a moment, realizing she hasn't even told me where I should be going to meet with her. I suppose it doesn't really matter. I slowly push myself out of bed and wander into the bathroom. State of the art is probably an understatement. I can't even tell what half the things do on the wall, but at least the shower seems pretty standard. I strip off my clothes, finding that I had gotten a bit of blood on them from that fight I got into. I turn to the mirror and find that I'm pretty bruised and beaten, a couple more cuts are on my body but I don't seem to feel the pain from them. I must look like a mess to the people I've seen around. Pixie, Logan, Kitty, those other women, the woman that keeps appearing, but if they're concerned about them they don't show it. Just how often do they see people in my condition anyway. If their lack of reaction is any indication, far too often is the answer.

The shower was fine, but when I emerge and go into the closet for whatever passes for clothes I'm a bit surprised. Yellow and black, just like what Kitty and Pixie were wearing. I suppose it's better than nothing. I slip it on and it's a pretty good fit surprisingly, but the huge yellow gauntlets and boots that are sitting with the uniform are a bit strange. I throw fashion to the wind and slip them on, securing everything with a belt, a similar X resting in the middle of the buckle. I'm sure it looks weird. I mean, I feel weird for wearing it, but I guess it doesn't matter, not at this school.

I wander about the room for a few moments and pick up the device that woman gave me. It feels heavier than I remember as I toss it in the air a few times and catch it again. Do I leave the room and see if Kitty's outside, or do I just wait in here to be called? The longer I pace the more frustrated I get just sitting there and waiting. Finally I wrench open the door and come face to chest with a gigantic wall of blue fur. For a moment I wonder who put a rug in my path but when I slowly look up I see the face and shrink back, but whoever, or whatever the thing is just smiles as he crouches through the doorway and enters the room, right behind him is Kitty, Logan and some Asian girl with pink glasses on her head and a long yellow coat. Weird.

"My stars and garters, it's early. Well, no time to waste, let's get going." The giant blue...thing speaks first, wandering over to the wall and opening a panel I didn't even know was there. He presses a few buttons and the door slides closed and the windows were shut. Or at least that's what I thought until I could feel the room moving. The others stood silently, Kitty wandering around the room and drumming her fingers on her side, Logan leaned up against the door frame with his hands crossed over his chest and his gaze down and the Asian girl just stared at me in a peculiar way. I just averted my gaze and looked over to the big blue creature, trying to be as nonchalant as possible. When I felt a small lurch the others shifted and all moved to the door, which opened up into a strange room. A holographic globe bathed the room in a pale green glow, and chairs were gathered around the table that the globe hovered over and the people that had gathered moved to take a few. As I stepped into the room I heard the door to the room close and the churning of gears as it departed wherever we were, I assumed. I took a seat as close to Kitty as I dared, leaving a chair between us. The lights slowly gained in intensity as the giant blue man punched in a few buttons.

"Uh, I'm sorry but...can I..." I spoke up but quickly swallowed my voice as all the eyes in the room shifted over towards me. Most of them I didn't mind, but Logan and the girl with the pink glasses unnerved me the most. Between them I seemed to feel like prey more than anything else.

"Ah, you're probably wondering why we asked you down here! It's nothing you've done, I assure you. You are most certainly not in trouble." The blue creature laughed good-naturedly and oddly enough it put me a bit more at ease.

"Right, we're gathered because we got an alert. We need to know what Emma has been talking to you about." Logan growled, and with a strange noise claws popped out of his hands. I'm sure that if I could have, I would've toppled back out of the chair and put as much space between us.

Kitty sighed and put her hand to her forehead, "Logan, you're frightening him. He's not going to talk like that. I bet he doesn't even know the first thing about Emma, or Magik." She sounded a little more than exasperated.

"Screw that! I want to know what he's doing with my powers." The Asian girl spoke. Immediately her age betrays her. She's probably the same age as me, but the Californian accent is unmistakable. I don't know what to respond though. Her powers? Is that even how it works?

"We will figure that out Jubilee, that's what Hank's doing here." Kitty cut off the rest of them before they could speak. From the way the blue creature is nodding, I can tell that he's Hank. Jubilee though? What kind of name is that?

"Well great." Jubilee huffed and blew a lock of hair up out of her face and slumped down onto the table with her head in her hands. I watch her for a moment and then let my gaze wander around the others. Something unspoken seems to be in the air but I feel left out of the loop. It almost seems silly, or maybe it's fate, or something else forcing my circumstances beyond my control but as I open my mouth to even bother asking an alarm goes off and the lights in the room go from a dim grey to a sanguine red.

"The school's under attack..." Logan shouted above the alarm.

"Again?" Kitty huffed.