A/N: And we're off! Hopefully this chapter is starting to get interesting for you guys.

I woke up in a bed. After an initial moment of fuzziness, memories came to me.

I was recruited by Emma Frost to the Massachussetts Academy after she came to my parents and explained to them that I was a mutant and that my wings were nothing to worry about. I was now with a group she calls the Hellions who train to use their powers to their full potential. We all go by codenames here, but I haven't chosen one yet and nobody has any good ideas. I'm friends with Beef, Bevatron, Catseye, Empath, Jetstream, Roulette, Tarot, and Thunderbird. We've been training for a week so far. I can finally pop off and regrow my feathers at will, but I'm still working on the air-sight. My flying is improving. Emma is a strict, but ok teacher. I love being on the team.

I saw Emma come over.

"So you're finally awake, Paula. Get ready and meet in the Training Room with the others, all right?" she said.

"Yes, Miss Frost." I replied dizzily.

"Are you feeling all right?" asked Emma, tilting her head to one side.

"Just tired. Don't worry. And shouldn't you know anyways? You ARE a telepath after all."

"Just checking. Honesty is the best policy, especially around a telepath."

"Wouldn't dream of lying to you, Miss Frost."

"No you wouldn't. All right then, come on."

"All right, all right."

I got up and got ready. For a second, my clothes looked unfamiliar, but the next second they seemed fine.

Whatever.

I made it to training, but the others looked for a second like I was new. Whatever.

I flew up and flicked on my air-sight, finally managing to get it going.

Then my mind felt like it was being ripped apart and everything came back to me.

I nearly fell out of the air, but managed to hover in time and land clumsily.

I realized that I had a week's worth of false memories, which were now fuzzy at best, and remembered all of the past couple days' events.

The last thing I really remember is the blonde telepath, Emma Frost, telling me that I was hers in my head, feeling a piercing pain in my mind, and blacking out. I must have been kidnapped and mind-wiped!

Just as I realized this, Emma came bursting in. I felt a large ram of mental energy bounce off of my mind with no effect. I still had my air-sight on. I suppose as a side effect of the false memories is that I have psychically enhanced skills to complete the illusion.

An angry look crossed Emma's face, and suddenly Bevatron zapped me.

I blacked out again.

When I came to, I was tied up to a wall in a dungeon surrounded by the Hellions and Emma.

"Now what to do with you..." murmured Emma. "Your air-sight is instincual in a way, and I can't stop it, as I've tried. I can't give you back to the X-Men, or they'll find out where we are again. And I can't control you. And there's no hope of you trusting me anytime soon."

"Why don't you just suck it up and give me back to Xavier?" I snarled, my wings turning red and warming up in anger.

Suddenly, my feathers caught fire!

I instantly panicked, making the fire go out and making my wings phase.

It took me a minute to realize that the fire didn't hurt me, and then I relaxed, solidifying my wings again.

Then I went back to being pissed off at all of this being kidnapped and tied up thing, and my wings caught fire again.

After Emma recovered from the new power display, she said, "Well, I was thinking of killing you, but now I'm sure that you can't be allowed to leave."

At this, for some reason I got more pissed off. Something started welling up inside my chest and came out as a screech that sounded like a human scream mixed with every single bird of prey's cry as well, mostly bird.

"KYAAAAARRR!"

Instantly Catseye winced and Emma and Empath screamed, clutching their heads.

I was surprised. It wasn't a particularly loud screech, just high pitched.

I snarled.

"Empath, calm her down!" Emma yelled.

Suddenly, a wave of something bounced off my mind.

"I can't!" said Empath.

"Damn it!" grunted Emma. "Damn anti-telepathy. At least I can still read her mind, though that doesn't do much. She doesn't know anything we want to know!"

"Any reason you're not telling them all this telepathically?" I asked.

"Because it still hurts after you so kindly screeched it off." she replied.

Nice. Anti-telepathy screech.

I smirked.

A look of Uh-oh crossed the afflicted people's faces.

Let's see. Angry screech equals power screech. So...

A few minutes passed of me and the Hellions and Emma arguing about what to do and threats from me about screeching and other people pointing out that it didn't affect them and stuff.

Then we all heard the sound of a jet.

My hopes rose and were fulfilled as the whole mansion team flooded in seconds later after Scott blasted a hole in the wall.

A short scuffle later, Emma and the Hellions were defeated and I was released.

"How did you guys find me?" I asked on the jet.

The Prof answered. "There was telepathic interference until a few minutes ago when I could get a lock on you with Cerebro, my telepathy-enhancing device."

"Cool."

I then got to learn all the codenames of the mansion team. I think Marvel Girl sounds funny. That's Jean. They're all called the X-Men.

I told them all that happened.

Beast said, "Hmm... It seems like those glands under your feathers likely produce some sort of flammable substance while your feathers with enough anger spark and set the fire going. And you have a screech which temporarily disables telepathy. And a mental shield when your air-sight is on."

"Wow." was all I could say.

Some discussion later, we landed.

A/N: Review please! And I know some of this might make not much sense, but I ran out of ideas trying to reveal these abilities. The abilities are to make her somewhat useful in fights.

I would also appreciate tips on how to make better plots and fight scenes.