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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Kelly High School, Los Angeles::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Jubilee walks by the front of her high school. She stops momentarily and leans against a near by tree. She sighs to herself. She hated going to school. Ever since it got out that she was a mutant, going to school was a living hell. Most times, people just left her alone, but she could still hear the whispers and snickers as she walked by. Her former friends had abandoned her long ago. Sometimes the slow death of teen exile was worse than anything that Magneto, Mystique, or anti-mutant groups could do to her.
Even the teachers shunned her. They tolerated her at best, and the only reason that they did was because they were legally obligated to do so.
Jubilee straightens herself, and begins the long walk to her first class. The walk through the halls of her high school seemed to take an eternity. The looks, some of fear, some of disgust, and some of pure hatred. She walks up the steps that lead to the entrance of the main building when she was stopped by a group of football players led by the team captain, Rodney Hicks.
"Hold it right there you Mutie Freak!" The team captain exclaims.
"Leave me alone Rodney. I just want to get to my class." Jubilee snaps.
"We don't want your kind around here anymore!" Says another player.
"And what exactly is my kind?!?!?!" Jubilee says angrily
"Mutants you stupid Bitch!" Rodney says as he knocks the books out of Jubilee's hands, and pushes her down the steps.
Jubilee goes barreling down the step to the school, hitting her head on the concrete. She looks up groggily, blood streaming from her forehead, to find that she is being picked up by two of the football players.
A crowd begins to form. Rodney walks up to Jubilee as two of the football players hold her up. With a grin on his face, he slaps Jubilee across the face, then punches her in the stomach causing her to lynch forward, coughing.
"Let's teach this Mutant Bitch not to stink up out school with her mutant stench!" Rodney says as the growing mob cheers him on.
"How can they do this?" Jubilee thinks to herself as she surveys the crowd. "Is everyone here just going to let this happen?" Jubilee hangs her head and begins to cry, fearful that she was about to be executed much to the delight and entertainment of the crowd.
Out of the crowd, the principal pushes his way through the crowd of cheering teens.
"What is going on here?!?" The principal interrupts, as several groans are heard from the crowd. Rodney backs off, and the football players drop Jubilee.
Jubilee breaths a sigh of relief. It was the first time that she actually was glad to see the principal.
The principal directs his attention to Rodney. "What have I told you about causing trouble! I could have you suspended for this!" the principal threatens.
"What?!?! For that little Bitch!" Rodney reacts, "We play for the district championship this weekend!"
"Well, you should have thought of that before you started this." Says the principal
"She's a filthy Mutant! This is Horseshit!" Says Rodney trying to defend his actions.
"That's it, you're suspended Mr.!" The principal points to Rodney and the other players with him. "All of you in the gym now. Help her up, and take her with you. The rest of you get to class!"
Rodney storms off towards the gym. Two of the football players pick up Jubilee, and carry her to the gym as directed.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::Bayville High School::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Kurt Teleports into the Gym, and then teleports out. He teleports into the Library where Kitty is sitting at a desk studying. He startles her, and she falls back out of her chair as Kurt Teleports out. Kurt then appears in the Football stadium and calls out Amanda's name.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Limbo Dimension::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
With a bright flash, Amanda appears in a Limbo Dimension. The terrain is rocky with rivers of molten Lava around her. She calls out for Kurt to no avail. She sees a Demon walk out from behind a boulder, followed by another. Soon, there are several demons circling the area.
"Well, at least they can't get across the Lava."
Two of the demons jump across the river of lava and begin stalking Amanda.
"Looks like I spoke too soon. Kurt! Where are you!"
Kurt teleports near Amanda's locker, frantically trying to find her and then teleports out again.
Amanda gets more frightened as the demons stalk closer to her. She then sees a specter of Kurt float by calling her name. Amanda jumps and tries to grab onto Kurt. She goes right through Kurt, and lands on the edge of the little island that she is on. She begins to lose her balance, and falls grabbing onto the edge. She tries to get a foothold. Her foot slips knocking a few rocks lose. She looks down and watches as the rocks fall into the lava below, burning up on contact. She looks up to see the demons looking down on her. They are about to attack her when they suddenly run away. A large dark figure in a black and purple robe jumps across the river of lava. With one hand, he reaches down, and lifts Amanda up by her arm. He holds her before him, and with a resounding voice says,
"HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?!?!"
"Amanda answers, I don't know, I was at school one minute, and the next thing I know I was here." She tries to loosen his grip.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::On the sidewalk in front of the school:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Jaden is walking by the front of Kelly High School. His hands are in his pockets, and is not really paying any attention to what is going on around him. He lets out a yawn when he hears something from on campus. He walks up to the chain link fence which separates the campus grounds from the street.
"Mutants you stupid Bitch!" Jaden hears from the street as he sees a jock in a letterman jacket push an Asian girl wearing a yellow coat down the campus steps. Jaden gasps as she hits the ground hard. A crowd is beginning to form around them, blocking his view.
"There's too many people around to do anything." Jaden says to himself, "I need to find a better vantage point."
He looks around for somewhere to better observe what is happening. He sees a tree near the main building overlooking the crowd. Jaden walks up to a shadow casted on the sidewalk by a near by mailbox. He looks around to make sure that no one is there to see him. When he is sure that no one is around, Jaden sinks into the shadow. Moments later, he walks out of a shadow on one of the branches of the tree he spotted earlier.
He crouches down on the branch, and watches what is happening below. He is relived to see what he assumes is the principal come to break things up. Jaden watches as one of the football players' storms off, and two of the other jocks pick up the girl. They all head to an adjoining building followed by the principal. Jaden gets a bad feeling about this, and decides to follow them. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Limbo Dimension::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"Let me go!" Amanda says as she struggles to get free.
"HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?!?! I AM BELASCO, THE LORD AND MASTER OF THIS ACCURSED DIMENSION. YOU WILL TELL ME HOW YOU GOT HERE!!!!!" As Amanda struggles, Belasco sees that Amanda is wearing a Golden Sword Pendant around her neck. Belasco begins to reach for the pendant.
"I told you, I don't know!" Amanda Yells.
Amanda manages to free herself from his grip, and falls towards the river of lava. Belasco reaches for the pendant, but it is out of his grasp. A glowing disk appears below Amanda. Recognizing it, she thinks of being with Kurt, and with a flash of light, she is gone.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Xavier Institute::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Kurt teleports into Professor Xavier's office where he and Storm are talking. He frantically begins to tell them that Amanda has disappeared when a bright light flashes in to the office temporarily blinding them. The next instant Amanda in unconscious on the floor of the professor's office. Kurt crouches over her and tries to wake her. Amanda regains consciousness. She sees Kurt, and begins crying uncontrollably. Kurt hugs her tightly, as Storm goes for help.
The professor asks Amanda, "What happened my dear?"
He tries to scan her mind for clues as to what happened, but she is too frantic. All that he gets are jumbled images of a Limbo Dimension, and a silhouette of an ominous figure.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Kelly High School Gym::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The doors to the gymnasium burst open as an angry Rodney marches into the gym followed by four other football players, two of whom are carrying a limp Jubilee. Rodney takes a seat on the bottom row of the bleachers. The other players join him, and the two players carrying Jubilee unceremoniously drop her on the ground.
A short time later, the principal walks into the gym. He closes the double doors behind him, and locks them.
Meanwhile, outside, Jaden is trying to open the doors to get in, but they are all locked. He looks around and sees a tree near a window. He finds a shadow, and shadow ports into the tree.
He looks into the window, but decides that he needs to hear what is going on. He sees the score keeper's box on the second floor of the gym overlooking the court. He jumps down from the tree, and disappears into a shadow at the base of the tree. A split second later, Jaden lands in the score keeper's box. He looks down on the court at the events before him.
"Mr.....you can't sus....." Rodney tries to plead his case, but is cut off.
"Don't worry about it Rodney, you'll still be able to play this weekend, but I still have to suspend you for a day because of what the other students saw." The Principal says. "I don't like this Mutant filth in my school any more that you do." He says as he looks down on Jubilee. "So I'll tell you what, you boys take care of her, and I'll make sure that this incident is overlooked on your records."
The five football players look at each other, then get big smiles on their faces. Rodney is the first to take advantage of the principal's offer, and kicks Jubilee in the stomach.
Jaden, not willing to let things escalate any further shadow ports down to the court. Jaden raises out of the principal's shadow behind him. He jumps up, and delivers a kick to the back of his head sending him falling to the ground hard.
The football players see him, and charge at him. Jaden dives into a nearby shadow, then jumps out of another one behind one of the football players. He quickly knocks him out then disappears into the shadows again.
Rodney and the remaining football players are looking around trying to figure out where Jaden it.
"Come out and fight you Mutie Freak!" Rodney shouts. He hears a grunting nose from behind him. He turns around and finds the other three players on the ground unconscious.
Rodney begins to panic, "Come out you....."
Jaden jumps out of a shadow cast upon the court by the score board hanging overhead. He tackles Rodney, pinning him against the bleachers with his knee. With a flick of the wrist, Jaden pulls out his Butterfly knife, and rests its point against Rodney's throat.
Jaden gets up from on top of Rodney. He flicks his wrist, and returns the knife to his back pocket. "As much as you deserve it, this blade is not meant for you."
Jaden picks up Jubilee's unconscious body, then backs into a shadow never taking his eyes off of a terrified Rodney.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Kelly High School, Los Angeles::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Jubilee walks by the front of her high school. She stops momentarily and leans against a near by tree. She sighs to herself. She hated going to school. Ever since it got out that she was a mutant, going to school was a living hell. Most times, people just left her alone, but she could still hear the whispers and snickers as she walked by. Her former friends had abandoned her long ago. Sometimes the slow death of teen exile was worse than anything that Magneto, Mystique, or anti-mutant groups could do to her.
Even the teachers shunned her. They tolerated her at best, and the only reason that they did was because they were legally obligated to do so.
Jubilee straightens herself, and begins the long walk to her first class. The walk through the halls of her high school seemed to take an eternity. The looks, some of fear, some of disgust, and some of pure hatred. She walks up the steps that lead to the entrance of the main building when she was stopped by a group of football players led by the team captain, Rodney Hicks.
"Hold it right there you Mutie Freak!" The team captain exclaims.
"Leave me alone Rodney. I just want to get to my class." Jubilee snaps.
"We don't want your kind around here anymore!" Says another player.
"And what exactly is my kind?!?!?!" Jubilee says angrily
"Mutants you stupid Bitch!" Rodney says as he knocks the books out of Jubilee's hands, and pushes her down the steps.
Jubilee goes barreling down the step to the school, hitting her head on the concrete. She looks up groggily, blood streaming from her forehead, to find that she is being picked up by two of the football players.
A crowd begins to form. Rodney walks up to Jubilee as two of the football players hold her up. With a grin on his face, he slaps Jubilee across the face, then punches her in the stomach causing her to lynch forward, coughing.
"Let's teach this Mutant Bitch not to stink up out school with her mutant stench!" Rodney says as the growing mob cheers him on.
"How can they do this?" Jubilee thinks to herself as she surveys the crowd. "Is everyone here just going to let this happen?" Jubilee hangs her head and begins to cry, fearful that she was about to be executed much to the delight and entertainment of the crowd.
Out of the crowd, the principal pushes his way through the crowd of cheering teens.
"What is going on here?!?" The principal interrupts, as several groans are heard from the crowd. Rodney backs off, and the football players drop Jubilee.
Jubilee breaths a sigh of relief. It was the first time that she actually was glad to see the principal.
The principal directs his attention to Rodney. "What have I told you about causing trouble! I could have you suspended for this!" the principal threatens.
"What?!?! For that little Bitch!" Rodney reacts, "We play for the district championship this weekend!"
"Well, you should have thought of that before you started this." Says the principal
"She's a filthy Mutant! This is Horseshit!" Says Rodney trying to defend his actions.
"That's it, you're suspended Mr.!" The principal points to Rodney and the other players with him. "All of you in the gym now. Help her up, and take her with you. The rest of you get to class!"
Rodney storms off towards the gym. Two of the football players pick up Jubilee, and carry her to the gym as directed.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::Bayville High School::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Kurt Teleports into the Gym, and then teleports out. He teleports into the Library where Kitty is sitting at a desk studying. He startles her, and she falls back out of her chair as Kurt Teleports out. Kurt then appears in the Football stadium and calls out Amanda's name.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Limbo Dimension::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
With a bright flash, Amanda appears in a Limbo Dimension. The terrain is rocky with rivers of molten Lava around her. She calls out for Kurt to no avail. She sees a Demon walk out from behind a boulder, followed by another. Soon, there are several demons circling the area.
"Well, at least they can't get across the Lava."
Two of the demons jump across the river of lava and begin stalking Amanda.
"Looks like I spoke too soon. Kurt! Where are you!"
Kurt teleports near Amanda's locker, frantically trying to find her and then teleports out again.
Amanda gets more frightened as the demons stalk closer to her. She then sees a specter of Kurt float by calling her name. Amanda jumps and tries to grab onto Kurt. She goes right through Kurt, and lands on the edge of the little island that she is on. She begins to lose her balance, and falls grabbing onto the edge. She tries to get a foothold. Her foot slips knocking a few rocks lose. She looks down and watches as the rocks fall into the lava below, burning up on contact. She looks up to see the demons looking down on her. They are about to attack her when they suddenly run away. A large dark figure in a black and purple robe jumps across the river of lava. With one hand, he reaches down, and lifts Amanda up by her arm. He holds her before him, and with a resounding voice says,
"HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?!?!"
"Amanda answers, I don't know, I was at school one minute, and the next thing I know I was here." She tries to loosen his grip.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::On the sidewalk in front of the school:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Jaden is walking by the front of Kelly High School. His hands are in his pockets, and is not really paying any attention to what is going on around him. He lets out a yawn when he hears something from on campus. He walks up to the chain link fence which separates the campus grounds from the street.
"Mutants you stupid Bitch!" Jaden hears from the street as he sees a jock in a letterman jacket push an Asian girl wearing a yellow coat down the campus steps. Jaden gasps as she hits the ground hard. A crowd is beginning to form around them, blocking his view.
"There's too many people around to do anything." Jaden says to himself, "I need to find a better vantage point."
He looks around for somewhere to better observe what is happening. He sees a tree near the main building overlooking the crowd. Jaden walks up to a shadow casted on the sidewalk by a near by mailbox. He looks around to make sure that no one is there to see him. When he is sure that no one is around, Jaden sinks into the shadow. Moments later, he walks out of a shadow on one of the branches of the tree he spotted earlier.
He crouches down on the branch, and watches what is happening below. He is relived to see what he assumes is the principal come to break things up. Jaden watches as one of the football players' storms off, and two of the other jocks pick up the girl. They all head to an adjoining building followed by the principal. Jaden gets a bad feeling about this, and decides to follow them. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Limbo Dimension::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"Let me go!" Amanda says as she struggles to get free.
"HOW DID YOU GET HERE!?!?! I AM BELASCO, THE LORD AND MASTER OF THIS ACCURSED DIMENSION. YOU WILL TELL ME HOW YOU GOT HERE!!!!!" As Amanda struggles, Belasco sees that Amanda is wearing a Golden Sword Pendant around her neck. Belasco begins to reach for the pendant.
"I told you, I don't know!" Amanda Yells.
Amanda manages to free herself from his grip, and falls towards the river of lava. Belasco reaches for the pendant, but it is out of his grasp. A glowing disk appears below Amanda. Recognizing it, she thinks of being with Kurt, and with a flash of light, she is gone.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Xavier Institute::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Kurt teleports into Professor Xavier's office where he and Storm are talking. He frantically begins to tell them that Amanda has disappeared when a bright light flashes in to the office temporarily blinding them. The next instant Amanda in unconscious on the floor of the professor's office. Kurt crouches over her and tries to wake her. Amanda regains consciousness. She sees Kurt, and begins crying uncontrollably. Kurt hugs her tightly, as Storm goes for help.
The professor asks Amanda, "What happened my dear?"
He tries to scan her mind for clues as to what happened, but she is too frantic. All that he gets are jumbled images of a Limbo Dimension, and a silhouette of an ominous figure.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Kelly High School Gym::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
The doors to the gymnasium burst open as an angry Rodney marches into the gym followed by four other football players, two of whom are carrying a limp Jubilee. Rodney takes a seat on the bottom row of the bleachers. The other players join him, and the two players carrying Jubilee unceremoniously drop her on the ground.
A short time later, the principal walks into the gym. He closes the double doors behind him, and locks them.
Meanwhile, outside, Jaden is trying to open the doors to get in, but they are all locked. He looks around and sees a tree near a window. He finds a shadow, and shadow ports into the tree.
He looks into the window, but decides that he needs to hear what is going on. He sees the score keeper's box on the second floor of the gym overlooking the court. He jumps down from the tree, and disappears into a shadow at the base of the tree. A split second later, Jaden lands in the score keeper's box. He looks down on the court at the events before him.
"Mr.....you can't sus....." Rodney tries to plead his case, but is cut off.
"Don't worry about it Rodney, you'll still be able to play this weekend, but I still have to suspend you for a day because of what the other students saw." The Principal says. "I don't like this Mutant filth in my school any more that you do." He says as he looks down on Jubilee. "So I'll tell you what, you boys take care of her, and I'll make sure that this incident is overlooked on your records."
The five football players look at each other, then get big smiles on their faces. Rodney is the first to take advantage of the principal's offer, and kicks Jubilee in the stomach.
Jaden, not willing to let things escalate any further shadow ports down to the court. Jaden raises out of the principal's shadow behind him. He jumps up, and delivers a kick to the back of his head sending him falling to the ground hard.
The football players see him, and charge at him. Jaden dives into a nearby shadow, then jumps out of another one behind one of the football players. He quickly knocks him out then disappears into the shadows again.
Rodney and the remaining football players are looking around trying to figure out where Jaden it.
"Come out and fight you Mutie Freak!" Rodney shouts. He hears a grunting nose from behind him. He turns around and finds the other three players on the ground unconscious.
Rodney begins to panic, "Come out you....."
Jaden jumps out of a shadow cast upon the court by the score board hanging overhead. He tackles Rodney, pinning him against the bleachers with his knee. With a flick of the wrist, Jaden pulls out his Butterfly knife, and rests its point against Rodney's throat.
Jaden gets up from on top of Rodney. He flicks his wrist, and returns the knife to his back pocket. "As much as you deserve it, this blade is not meant for you."
Jaden picks up Jubilee's unconscious body, then backs into a shadow never taking his eyes off of a terrified Rodney.
