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CHAPTER TWO- THE EXPLANATION

"Hey," I replied, "So anyways, why did you guys get me to come all the way over here, and who knew about me?" I asked, done with the sweet talking and just wanting to get this over with, so I can be on my way.

"Well, this may be difficult to wrap your head around but we'll give it a shot. My name is Adam Tipson and I am the leader of Mutant X," Adam said, as I stared blankly at him. After a while he continued. "Peyton, you're a mutant."

I must have stood there for at least five minutes, before I did anything. You're probably asking what I did exactly; well I laughed. I mean wouldn't you? Somebody just tells you that you're a mutant (which isn't exactly a good thing) and what are you supposed to do? So I laughed and I rolled my eyes. Nathan and Haley looked at me confused, with questioning looks on their faces.

"Why are you looking at me like that," I said in between giggles, "okay, okay," I said as I tried to regain my composure, "where are the cameras? Haha, guys, James you can come out now, good one!" Adam's smirk on his face only seemed to turn into a big smile.

"Peyton, this isn't a joke. You are special." He said calmly.

"There isn't anything special about me, actually, I am pretty special at a lot of things," I grinned as I winked at Nathan. He blushed and turned away shyly. "But I am definitely not anything special. Maybe you got the wrong girl. Thanks for the trip guys." I shrugged as I began to walk to the door.

"How can you say that you're not special, when you can send a pulse through your body big enough to throw more then one man across a room, not to mention, you can turn invisible too?" Haley replied, as I stopped in my tracks. I turned around quickly and walked straight towards Haley.

"I don't know what the hell you are talking about!" I said angrily as I stepped right in Haley's face; actually I kind of had to look down, because she was about 5 inches shorter than me. Ha, take that Haley, you biatch!

"Okay, sure, you can play the dumb game all you want but I know it's true. When Nathan and I got there, there was already a guy that weighed 200 pounds easy unconscious against the wall. And to add to that, I can sense it!" Haley replied as she looked to her brother and snorted. Nathan smirked and made a laughing sound, but when I glared at him, he stopped immediately. "What the hell does she mean by being able to sense what I can do?" I had no idea so I figured I'd ask her.

"What the hell do you mean you can sense me?" I asked taking a couple of steps back from her, figuring that if I wanted answers, I should stop getting in her face.

"That's what she does" Adam replied calmly, before smiling, when he realized I figured out what him and Haley were talking about.

"You mean, you guys are all special, in some way?" I asked, suddenly intrigued by the whole thing.

"You can say that. Please come sit down, and we will explain everything to you." Adam politely asked as him and the others moved toward the lounge area.

"Uhh, what have I got myself into?" I thought as I walked with them to the couches. Once we were all seated, Adam began.

"Okay, Peyton, you're a mutant, as I told you; and well, so are we. You have special abilities. You can send a pulse though your body that is extremely strong and you can turn invisible. But of course you already knew that." He stated as I nodded. He then continued. "Well, you're not the only person who has special abilities, or powers, if you will. Haley" he pointed to Haley, "also has two powers. She can touch another mutant and inhale their power and use it against them for a short amount of time. I think the longest she kept the power for was about two minutes, am I right?" he asked looking at Haley.

"Actually, it was 3 minutes, and 24 seconds, thank you" she said proudly. Nathan was quick to mimic her, and received a punch in the arm for that. Adam smiled, and then began again.

"Unfortunately, she can not completely take the power away from the other mutant, but she has more of the power then they would. Her other power is sensing other mutants, and their skill level with their powers. That's how we found you. She can sense where the mutants are, if they're in trouble and how strong they are. When she sensed you, we knew we had to help you." Adam stood up quickly and grabbed a bottle of water out of the refrigerator before sitting back down, and finishing.

"Okay, now onto Nathan," he said as he nodded his head towards Nathan. "Nathan has only one power. Nathan can produce electricity in his body, --" Adam said, before I cut in.

"Wow, he must come in handy during a blackout" I retorted before smiling and giggling at myself. Surprisingly enough, everybody else, except Haley, laughed at my joke. Then Adam stopped and continued.

"That's not really what I meant, but that was good. What I mean is that Nathan can shoot electricity at other people or mutants, and theoretically, he should be able to engulf himself in electricity; although there hasn't been a need to test this theory." I looked at Nathan, surprised at this, and smiled.

"Dude, that's awesome!" I said as we connected eyes momentarily.

"Thanks" he replied before looking away. "Oh, yeah, he is definitely a cutie!" I thought to myself.

"Then there's Jake. Jake has the power of influence and great precision. He can make a person think that they are falling off a cliff, sleeping, in the circus, or whatever he can think of. And we actually found him using his precision power, pick pocketing people. He can snag something out of your pocket, without you feeling it or even touching your jacket. With this, he also has great aim. He can hit the bulls eye when the target is 200 feet away. Oh, and don't ever let him challenge you to a game of darts!" he replied.

"Hey Nate, remember when we were playing pool, and you couldn't understand why I kept hitting two balls in a pocket at once, when they were on opposite sides of the table. That was high-larious!" Jake said as him and Nathan began laughing.

"That's because I didn't know that there was two parts to you power!" Nathan replied.

"So Adam, what's your power?" I asked interested in the obvious leader.

"Well, I don't like to discuss this with anyone, but I can cook better than Emeril Lagasse." He said while smiling.

"Adam doesn't have any powers. He's a doctor that has worked with mutants ever since the first one was taken into a hospital, because their parents thought that something was wrong with them. When he found out what the kid was, he discovered that there was more. Then a guy in the hospital found out as well, and decided that he wanted to experiment with the mutants. He wanted to add DNA from different animals, and do incredibly cruel experiments, to see if he can make them 'better then they were'. Adam of course couldn't have that happen, so he created an underground safe house, that's more like a city of mutants in and of its own, and helped to keep them safe. He's been doing it ever since." Haley stated before smiling at Adam.

"Wow," I said, "that's pretty incredible." I began taking in all that was said. "So, wait, where do I come in?" I asked after a minute, still a little confused as to why I was there.

"Well, from our conversation, you can obviously tell the there are more mutants like us, and unfortunately some of them are on the bad side. And you also tell that we are different from the other mutants that are in hiding. We are a group of mutants called Mutant X. We find mutants and help them start over if they have been exposed, or we fight mutants that are evil. We have managed to do a pretty decent job in the past doing so, with just the four of us. However, we need another member to become a part of Mutant X. And that's where you come in." Adam replied.

"Wait, why don't you just get a mutant from the underground city or something? It sounds like there would be a lot of them." I asked.

"See, we need another advanced mutant on the team, when it comes to tactical abilities. The most consistent tactical mutant on the team is Nathan. Haley doesn't have an ability that can be used on regular humans, although her powers are definitely useful when it comes to fighting or finding mutants. And Jake is more of a technical guy. He has told us on many occasions that he would like another person on the team so he could work more on tracking, since his more advanced power is extreme precision. But we still know that his influence power, no matter how new it is, has saved our butts many times." Adam said while turning to look at Jake.

"Yeah, yeah I know! I just love computers!" Jake said grinning.

"So we need a person that can use their powers for tactical work and to help us with getting into buildings and other places that can't be otherwise opened." Adam said.

"Okay. So you need me to use my invisibility to break into places?" Peyton asked sarcastically.

"Yep, that's pretty much it." Jake answered, "So what do you say?"

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What will she say? I don't know! But I guess you'll find out! Again with the 5 review rule. But since I love writing this story so much, I'll probably end up updating it with just like two reviews!

Hopefully, there will be some Pathan action in the next chapter! WOOHOO!

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