Utopia, the next day: cerebro room

Emma Frost was doing her routinely check on the mutant population through cerebro. Every time she looks at cerebro's scans it makes her sad do to the fact there is now fewer than 200 mutants left in the world. The only thing that she was glad was that almost all of them were in utopia with just a few scattered all over the world. She continuos looking through the scan until she turn her attention to two dots in California, more specifically San Francisco.

"uhm", she said as she remove the cerebro helmet and walks out of the room. Outside was wolverine, wearing his yellow uniform.

"Slim told me to come and see if you got something", he said

"as a matter of fact I do", she said with confidence, "may I ask where are the children?", she asked him

"probably in their rooms watching tv or something", wolverine responded and Emma place her hands on her head and sends a telepathic message to her students. "my children meet me at the hanger. I have a mission for you all", she said.

Tv room

"aw man", Julian complain, "let's go guys", he said as he turns of the TV off and he, rockslide, anole, elixir, gentle, prodigy, and Indra quickly got up and head for the hanger.

danger room

X-23 was just finishing off a battle bot as she jumped on its head and slice it's head clean off. "I'm done what about you two?", she asked Dust and Cessily who were destroying two other battle bots. Dust was currently in her sand form destroying the robot from the inside causing the wires and causing the metals to rust and finally bringing the robot down. Cessily was crushing the robot with her hands that were molded into hammers and she didn't stop until it didn't move.

"were done", Dust responded and the three left the danger room to the hanger.

pixie's room

Pixie, surge, and loa were listening to a song in pixie's radio when they heard Emma's message

"we'll this day just keeps getting better", pixie said sarcastically as she turns off her radio and the three ran out of pixie's room.

hanger

Emma was waiting patiently near the blackbird with wolverine and cyclops next to her. A few seconds later all of her students showed running. "Good to see you all come this fast. Guess wolverine's little training sessions work we'll", she joked and wolverine growled at her but she ignored him and turns to her students. "You see children since you all been training, so hard I though I might assign you all a mission", she said

"is it delivery run", Julian joked and a few others snicker but the ones who laugh and Julian got a sharp headache

"ow, ow, ow", they screamed as they fell to the ground. It was clear that it was Emma who didn't like to be interrupted. Once they recover, she continues with her explanation

"as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted", she said as she stares at Julian, "through cerebro I was able to locate two mutants that are in San Francisco", she explain

"Uhm wouldn't we have trouble with those HAMMER guys?", anole asked

"you'll be using pixie's teleportation to go there and you'll go in and get out before any of those agents catch you all", Emma assured them and sticks her arm out and sends a telepathic wave to pixie. "Now that I give the location to pixie she'll teleport you all to the location and come back. Any questions?", she asked them and santo raised his hand but Emma gives him a stern look. "We'll let's get a move on then", she said ignoring Santo's question and pixie made a portal in the floor. The circle was big enough for everyone and it slowly went up and swallowed the students and teleported them away. The next thing they all knew, they were in front of the entrance of a tunnel.

"Is this the place?", Indra asked

"yeah this is the place where Emma sent me", said pixie. Everyone stood at the entrance for a while without moving until cessily spoke up

"we'll lets go in and find those two. I mean it can't" be anymore worse than most other times", she explain and everyone looks at each other before they all entered the tunnel to find the two mutants.

somewhere inside the tunnels

Kevin was walking along the edge of the tunnels where the middle was used for the sewage flow. This part of the tunnel was definitely the worse he traveled to. Rats and cockroaches everywhere. Kevin would just step on them just so he could hear the crunch noises. Yet the only thing that he couldn't get use to the smell. It was a good thing he had his gas masked on otherwise he wouldn't have made it this far. He kept walking until he got to the 4 way cross flow of the sewage. He stand in the corner of the edge and felt a presence, as if someone was near him.

"I know your there Selene", he said and he felt someone touch him. He turns around and sees Selene right there, right on cue

"you sound a little harsh beloved", she said

"I'm just getting really annoyed with you sneaking around me", he stated and Selene made a grin

"I though you liked surprises", she said

"I'm not fond of your surprises", Kevin argued as he crossed his arms, "why are you following me. Especially here?", he asked her

"I want to help become my king didn't I already explain that", she responds

"ya is it just by killing people cause I don't feel so kingly", Kevin states in a cold tone. Selene simply continues grinding, closes her eyes, and rubs her chin before checking again.

"I read your little wall of achievements. In fact I can see tomorrows paper. 'Massacre in the tunnels' where a bunch of bums got killed and turn into dust and bones", she stated

"they didn't do anything to me Selene and the people who I killed hurt me in some way. You know that", he tells her and he could see that her grin hadn't left her

"face is the last paper the reason your here?", she asked and Kevin looks at his hand and slowly forms a fist

"ya that's why. I'm so close now", he tells her and she walks up to and removes his mask. Kevin backs off of bit to hide in the dark to hide his face.

"you don't have to worry about your looks. Since I already know how you look like anyway", she said

"that was uncalled for", Kevin complain

"even if it means of telling you that your more closer to your goal than you though", she said. This gets Kevin's attention as she might know something that he doesn't know. He slowly walks up to her without having his face be revealed, "we have special company", she and she forms an evil smile, "your friends have arrived", she finished. If he allowed Selene to his face, she would have seen a grin. Kevin also felt his claws emerging from his gloves. They ripped right threw. Guess the news was too good for him. She then walks up closer to him and whispers to his ear, "you'll finally get your revenge at them and then you'll fully become my king", she said before she kisses Kevin. The kiss felt so sweet. Kevin couldn't wait to find his friends and make them suffer for what they did to him. He wrapped his arms around Selene's waist as they kiss but soon he felt a bit nauseas. He felt so lightheaded he broke up the kiss and slowly backs away from Selene. He rubbed his eyes but it seem useless as his vision got so blurry he could see anything and it continued fading until he blacks out.

near the entrance of the tunnels

The students walked in the middle of the tunnel as the sides were being occupied by at least 20 homeless people. All of who are either just lying on the ground, walking around, or staring at the them.

"man how are going to find those two?", complain surge

"I got an idea let's ask one of them", loa suggested and they stop at the nearest 2 homeless men. The one with a thick beard looks at them with an emotionless face

"oh great there's more coming", he complain

"do we bother you?", x-23 asked him in a harsh tone.

"no sorry for my attitude. Names Lou and this is Mark", said Lou as he holds out his hand and Elixir shock it. "Why are you all here?", Lou asked them

"we were told that there was two mutants here and we came to find them", surge explain. Lou and Mark look at each other. They knew who they were talking about but there was a bit of confusion in their looks.

"we'll we one that's here but we didn't see two", Mark stated

"you sure?", Santo asked

"yeah, hey mark you know where he is?", Lou asked

"yep it's this way", he said and he got up and started taking the children to where they want to go. They walked deep in the tunnels until he stoped at a corner and pointed at the left tunnel. "You'll find the guy over there", he said

"aren't you coming with us", Gentle asked

"no I just stay away from that guy", Mark said as he walked away but cessily stops him

"wait do you know anything about the person were trying to find?", she asked

"ya his name is Kevin. The guys is creepy. He wouldn't even let us see his face", he responded before he left them. The name hit her hard. Could he be talking about the Kevin that she knew. She turn to her friends and their faces are as confused as she is, so they started walking down the tunnel. They walk down until they find a backpack.

"hey look at that", Julian pointed as he pick up the backpack and notices the pieces of newspapers on the wall, "hey guys look at this?", he said as he pointed and everyone looked at the newspapers. They read how there was a murder of police and a priest. They also find images of their ruin school as well as a picture of when they formed utopia only that they clearly see that their image were clawed out.

"wow however did that sure hates us", said Indra. X-23 looks at the bloody necklace. She put two and two together and she comes to believe that who ever was here. Must of have killed the priest. She then started sniffing the air and she caught a scent.

"I got something", she said as she starts running towards the source and everyone followed her. They ran until she stopped. They look at someone laying on his stomach. He had a long trench coat and a hood on so they couldn't see his face. Elixir walks closer to and began to touch his head. Whoever was down wasn't moving.

"hey one of you guys help me with this guy", he asked and Santo came up he lifted his legs while elixir grabs the persons arms.

"let's move him here", said anole to the light coming out of a drain. They flipped him over and place him at the light. He had a gas mask on, he also had polyester gloves. When they removed his hood. He had flat brown hair. Everyone stood their without moving until pixie spoke

"should we move his mask?", she asked and elixir slowly tries to detach the mask until the man grabs him.

"Argh", screamed elixir as his hand was grab and the man gots up and looks around him. He was panicking as he was surrounded by the young mutants

"who are you. Where am I?", he asked

"wow easy man just relax", said anole as he tries to calm him down. The man did calm down and he slowly looks at everyone. He took his time, he stayed silent. He pause after looking at elixir.

"oh now I remember. I remember you all", he said in a menacing tone, "and I especially remember you golden boy!", he said as he points at elixir. In elixir's mind, the voice of that man was familiar and it finally hit him

"Kevin?", elixir asked and the man lifted his hand up so that elixir could see his nails grow out of his gloves

"how sweet of you to remember me", said Kevin in as he chuckled

"Kevin what happen to you?", said Julian and Kevin turns around and started to remove his mask. Everyone was horrified at his appearance: his face was pale, their were two bite marks on his neck that are surrounded in black vain, his smile reveal his sharp teeth and fangs, his eyes were just black with as if he has no soul, and his checks clearly showed black veins popping out. Kevin just stood and grin as he lets his 'friends' see what he is now and turns to elixir who is equally as shock as everyone else. "Now if you'll excuse I just let you all watch as I kill golden boy", he stated as he lunges at elixir

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