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(Professor Xavier)

I just go finished being filled in on the day's events by Kitty when Scott came in leading Danny. "Ah, you must be Danny Phoenix correct." I said with a kind smile. Even though it felt like I was inviting a crocodile into my house from the descriptions of him in combat. There is no way that he is just an ordinary kid with powers. "The others desire to explain everything to you and I will respect their wishes." 'Since they tend to do whatever they want anyways.' I didn't say that last part.

"You don't have to if you don't want to. It really is none of my business and I would rather not get involved." Danny said to my astonishment. It is rare to find a teen that does not go out of his way to acquire others secrets, especially after seeing them teleport.

I looked over at Scott who gave me a look then thought loudly to get my attention 'tell him anyways.'

"That is kind of you… but you already seem to be a part of this since the Brotherhood was willing to take a hostage in order to get to you." I reasoned. His face fell; I didn't need to read his mind to know what that face meant.

"I suppose your right. And to think, I thought I could finally have a normal life." He said miserably.

'Maybe I was too quick to judge him.' I thought before starting to explain. "First things first. This is the Xavier Institute for talented young people. To the outside world that means nothing. But in truth we are an institution for younger people how have powers where they can stay and learn to control and use their powers as well as fit in with the rest of the world." His eyes widened. "Our students believe that you also have powers. If you do then you don't need to be afraid, you are among friends."

He looked down and looked like he was weighing his opinions. He sighed then lifted up his hands palms up. In front of my eyes his hands began to glow a bright green color. I had to stop myself from acting surprised. I had believed that he was a super-serum child, a weapon that was going to be used against us in a preemptive attack. But it seemed that he really was a mutant.

"I have stopped using my powers. I don't want them anymore. I just want to have a normal life." He said sadly. "Is… is that really too much to ask. Did I really do something so horrible that I deserve to be punished forever?" He started to cry.

Scott walked over and put a hand on his shoulder. "Do you want to talk about it?" he asked. "Your past I mean, if you talk about those scars here then no one outside this room will ever have to know. But it isn't healthy to keep it bottled up forever."

Danny looked as if he was thinking about whether or not to tell us. I was tempted to enter his mind but thought better of it after what Jean said happened during gym. "I use to play the part of a hero. Going around town and stopping the bad guys. But then my mom and dad saw me. The found out what I was and they… they…" he couldn't continue for several moments.

"They didn't sale you to scientists did they?" I said fearing the worst. But I didn't know the worst. He looked up at me eyes red with tears.

He shook his head and said. "No… they… they were the scientists." 'O god no. No parent could… it is worse than I could have ever imagined.' My disgust most have showed on my face because he gave a sad smile and lifted his shirt. There were almost a hundred scars of different types and lengths. In the center of his chest was one in the shape of a Y. I had to close my eyes and block out the image of this child on a dissection table calling out for his parents to stop. "They came while I was asleep and did it while I was still conscious without any form of pain killer. They kept saying that freaks like me don't really feel pain." 'O god.' "I was down in the basement for over six hours until my sister found me down there but they threw her out telling her that I wasn't her brother anymore." 'Please make it stop.' But it just kept coming. "My… my sister went and got my friends Tucker, Valeria, and Sam, and my teacher Mr. Lancer. They were everyone in the world that cares about me. But when they came to rescue me… there was an accident." '…' My mind had gone numb from horror. "Everyone… everyone that I care about…" He broke down and couldn't continue. But… the message was clear.

"After that I started running. I didn't care where I was going. I just ran until I fell unconscious. When I wake up I was in the orphanage and Teddy offered to make me an identity and let me stay with them." He finished. Thank god it finished on a slightly happier note.

Holy… how could I have hoped to keep this child away from us out of fear that he would hurt us? He needs our help more than most. I looked at Scott whose tears glowed a slight red underneath his glasses from his powers. I remember how we found him after his family died in a plane crash. I thought that it was a terrible thing to have to deal with when getting your powers. This was a whole other level of terrible. "Would… would you like to stay here at the Xavier Institute. This is a place were having unique powers is the norm. Perhaps you could learn to appreciate them again."

He looked at me again. "I… I…" his head dropped and he looked at his hands that were once again glowing green. "I'll think about it." He finally said.

"So… do you want to show use what you can do? We have a training room down stairs. It is a little dangerous but…" Logan started but Kitty cut him off.

"A little dangerous. Saying that the Danger Room is a little dangerous is like saying that the school cafeteria's food is a little suspicious." Kitty said trying to cheer up the mood in the room. It did have some effect but everyone's eyes were still a little red.

"I… suppose it have been a month since I was in a real battle." Danny said slowly. "A… small workout couldn't hurt. But that is it. I don't want to get back into the habit of fighting with my powers."

"Good enough for me. Come on follow me kid." Logan said guiding him down to the Danger Room before joining us in the observation room. "We'll start him at level 5 and go up of needed." He said. "I'm glad we are going to be able to see what he can do when he lets loss a little. The fight at the park was over to quickly to get a good idea of anything but his ability to roll with the punches."

"Wait, you mean you were there? Why didn't you do anything?" Jean said indigently.

"Like interfere during a hostage situation and make everything worse. I had no cover to get close enough to rescue the girl before she was hurt and from what I could tell the boy wasn't getting hurt. The Brotherhood would have realized it too, if they weren't just a bunch of street punks." Logan said brushing off the accusations like he didn't care.

Logan set the difficulty level and the Danger Room came to life with lasers and tentacles and moving walls. "Isn't level 5 a little high for a beginner?" Rouge asked.

The lasers shoot at Danny who didn't dodge. Instead he raised his hands that were glowing green and sheets of what looked like green glass appear reflecting the beams back were they came from there by destroying the lasers. Then he grabbed the sheets and threw them like Frisbees at the tentacles cutting them off of the panels that housed them. Walls came out of the ground on either side of him and were about to squish him. Danny ran at one of the walls and to our surprise went straight through it and out the other side. He then turned a fired a shot of green energy out of his eyes destroying the walls.

"Or maybe it isn't nearly hard enough." Rouge corrected herself.

"You got that right girl. From what we had known about him before this demonstration he good deal of combat experience, physical strength and reflexes are the kind you would expect from Captain America not some teenage kid, but now he shows that he has powers. Highly skilled energy control and the ability to phase through solid objects. It is as if you took Captain America and gave him One-eye and Half-pint's powers. Maybe even Red's." Logan said rubbing his chin. "We don't have a level high enough for this." Logan turned up the difficulty to level nine.

"He can deflect particle attacks, move through physical attack, and fight of mental attacks. He truly is formidable." I couldn't help but to say. "Even Juggernaut was not like this. He could at least be slowed down and was vulnerable to mental attacks without his helmet on. Not to mention the difference in reaction speed. Not even Rouge's powers effect him in the slightest."

"You're still talking about him like he is an enemy." Scott said with his disapproval in his voice.

"I am willing to admit that I was wrong about him being here to hunt us down. But you would have to be blind not to see the boy's strength." I said back. Danny had been fighting ten robotic soldiers. He had not been using his powers, as if to make a sport out of it. After a few minutes of dodging and weaving and making the robots take each other out, there was only one left. Danny slide under it grabbing onto its feet and before our eyes ice appeared and froze the robot's legs to the ground. The robot couldn't move its upper body more than a few degrees so it was unable to reach him from behind. He then reached inside of the robot and pulled out the battery for it. The robot stopped functioning. "How did Cerberus miss this?" I asked myself.

"Cerberus uses your powers Professor. If he resists them then he can hide from it." Logan said with a shrug. Danny came up and joined us. "Was that everything you got?" Logan said sarcastically.

"No, I still have producing electrical currents, a weak telekinesis, invisibility, and flight. There is also my duplication power but I am not very good at that. I use to have weather control but that was just a phase. Luckily it didn't last very long. It was really hard to control." Danny said rubbing his chin. Logan for the first time since I had met him looked a little unnerved.

"At least he can't teleport." Kurt said in awe.

"Not yet, never got that trick down." Danny responded. "So what can you guys do?"

Everyone looked slightly embarrassed. "I have telepathy and telekinesis." Jean finally said. "My name is Jean by the way."

"I can produce spikes out of my body and shot them like projectiles." Evan said with a small smile. "My aunt can control the weather."

"I far a laser cannon out of my eyes, but I can't turn it off. That is way I always have to wear these glasses that are designed not to be fried by them." Scott said with a sad smile.

"I can walk throw walls." Kitty said. This made Danny raise one eyebrow.

"Ah absorb people powers, skills and memories by touching them." Rouge said crossing her arms over her chest.

"So that is what Scott meant by a skin condition." Danny said then thought back. "So you absorbed my powers back at the theater?" he asked. It didn't sound like he was scared or angry about it.

"No it seems you're immune to my powers. Otherwise it would have drained you life force and left you weakened." Rouge admitted. She seemed to be blushing slightly.

"Can… can you turn them off?" Danny asked sounding of worried. Rouge just shook her head. "That's… that's so sad. And I hated my powers. At least I'm in control now." He then shook his head and looked up. "I… I should go." And just like that he disappeared from our sight and was gone.

"Anyone else get the feeling that the Brotherhood just stopped being a problem?" Evan said with a grin. Turning to leave himself.

"I know what you mean. Danny isn't just strong. He is like unbelievable." Kitty said following him. "You like sure you're not going to go after that Rouge."

"Please just do me a favor and shut up Kitty." Rouge said leaving. Soon it was only me a Logan.

"He ain't a mutant." Logan said looking at me. "I have been a long time since I have seen one, but that kid is a ghost. A real ghost. Probably died of those injuries."

I was a little shaken by this. "Ghosts are real? Fascinating, that explains why Cerberus didn't track him. He doesn't have the X gene." I closed my eyes for a second to think. "Now the question is. What do we do about it? Regardless what he is, he is still just a shaken child." I said placing my chin in my hands.

"Nothing we can do but try not to piss him off. The only ghost I fought before was a cocky moron that didn't know two things about fighting and didn't use its powers effectively. But it was still a challenge to take it down." Logan said shaking his head. "I don't know if anything can stop this kid. It is a good thing he seems to just want to be left alone." And with that Logan left as well. Leaving me alone with my thoughts.