The four mutants froze.
"I'll go check it out." Hank told them. "You guys stay here and fight anyone that tries to get in." He ran over to the room the scream had come from. "Okay?"
They nodded in agreement.
"Okay. I'll be back." He kicked down the door and went in.
He found three more people waiting for him. Two women and one man. He charged right through the glass and into the prisoner's area. He started climbing up the metal rod holding a foot. He looked up to see who the prisoner was. It was Mystique.
An idea occurred to him. He slipped down the rod and yanked it out of the floor, making it detach from her foot. He did the same for the other one. He jumped against the wall and off of it as he hit it, flying towards the chains above her. He almost missed, but grabbed with his foot.
He used his hands to break the chains on her and she dropped to the floor.
"Get out of here, Raven!" Hank shouted at her.
"What about you?" She asked.
"I'll catch up, don't worry." He reassured her.
She started climbing the ladder towards the control room. Hank was about to drop down from the chains when he felt electricity start flowing through them. Oh no…
Suddenly, it was electrocuting him. He screamed in pain and forced himself to let go of the chains. He fell to the ground and landed on his stomach.
"Hank!" He heard Raven scream before he got whacked in the head with something.
Beast blacked out…again.
He opened his eyes a few hours later. He was back at the mansion, in the room next to his lab. He sat up with a groan. He felt something in his head and then leave. Charles. Probably letting someone know he's awake.
He felt for the wound in his shoulder and found stitches over it. Who went to medical school?
He got to his feet. He saw the door handle turning and took a step away from it so he wouldn't get hit. The door opened.
It was Raven. "How are you, Hank?" She asked as she walked up and hugged him.
"Could be better." He told her.
"Why does the lightning affect you so bad?" She seemed curious.
"I don't know." Beast admitted. "Probably something in my blood that is part of my transformation."
"Anything you can do about it?"
"Nope." He said. "Come on."
He left the room, followed by Mystique. They went into his lab, where he injected the temporary antidote for his transformation.
"Wow." She said.
"It's only temporary." He explained. "But it's better than nothing. So, did you guys free anyone else?"
"Actually we did." Raven told him.
"Who?"
"Erik." She said.
"Is he here now?" He questioned her.
"No. He didn't come back to the mansion." She explained.
"Not surprising." Beast mused. "Probably still guilty about shooting Charles."
"Well, that part's true." She admitted.
"He told you?" Hank guessed.
"Yes. Now that I think of it, I should be going now." She frowned.
Together they made their way towards the door.
"Well, glad you stopped by." Hank told her. "We're going to miss you, you know that."
She nodded sadly. "Yes." She opened the door and went through it. "Goodbye, Hank." She said, before closing it behind her.
"Goodbye." He responded, right after the door shut.
With a grumble he made his way towards Charles' office. All three of the other mutants were in there.
"Hello." He said as he opened and closed the door behind him.
"Glad to see you're finally up." Alex said.
"Doesn't make it hurt less." Hank rubbed his shoulder. "I hate knives."
"Don't we all?" Banshee asked rhetorically.
"Yep." Charles answered anyway. "Except the kind we eat with."
"So, weren't you planning some kind of school for other mutants?" Alex asked the telepathy.
"Yes and I still am." He said, honestly. "First we need to get other young mutants."
"Like, how young exactly?" Sean asked.
"I don't know." Charles thought. "Maybe between five and twenty?"
"Okay." Beast said. "Want the three of us to start looking now?"
"Sure." Charles agreed. "But first we need to borrow something, if it's still in one piece."
Six hours later, they were at the CIA mutant facility. They went up into Cerebro and put it on Charles. Hank, who had transformed back into Beast, was hitting buttons to activate it.
The machine turned on and by Charles' reaction, Beast could tell it was working.
Within seconds, the telepathy said, "There's a nine year old boy five miles from here. His power is…let's see…he can duplicate himself so that there are more of him."
"What does he look like?" Alex asked.
"Black hair, tall, skinny, and looks like he is around four feet tall."
"Alright." Beast said. Then to Alex and Sean he said, "Let's go."
Both boys nodded.
"We'll be back." Sean told Charles.
"Alright." The telepathy answered.
A few days later, they had ten different mutants to start with. Beast even put a sign at the door that said:
Charles Xavier's school for gifted children.
The four mutants from the battle were the teachers. Beast taught mutant sciences, Alex taught history, Charles taught them how to control their powers, and Sean taught them how to fly with wing suits.
It was midnight and Beast was looking at the list of mutants:
John: camouflage
Arnold: duplicates himself
Brandon: wall crawling
Grady: controls water
Daniel: adaption to survive
Will: enhanced senses and reflexes
Cameron: invisibility
Brenda: fear inducement
Sonya: telekinesis
James: portal creation and time traveler
They were bright kids. Eight boys and two girls. His favorite so far was Grady because of his kindness and respect towards others. Cameron was his least favorite because he kept pranking others with his invisibility.
There were two things Beast knew for sure.
One) He cannot permanently get rid of his transformation.
Two) This was going to be a great school.
He went to sleep, excited for the next day.