The Hellions.
They are our archenemies.
We have fought them several times before but never like this.
They've attacked a private cademy for mutants in Maine, kinda like Xavier's.
Not that Xaiver's isn't a private school as well but the thing is that as far as the x-men go, only Xavier and my team know that it exists and before this mission we didn't even know it existed. Professor Xaiver has been financing this school for awhile now but why he chooses to keep it a secret is beyond me.
"Our mission is this," I say standing to my feet in the jet, "We go in, search the area for wounded and all survivors we bring back to the mansion."
"What about the hellions?" Magik asked but before I can answer there is turbulance on the jet and I am thrown forward and land in Gambit's lap.
The moment is aquard as my lips nearly touch his.
I feel my face turn red and I suddenly become hot.
He only smiles at me and I can't help but think that I really wanna kiss him.
My thoughts are interupted but Remy's voice.
"Next time be alittle more careful chere, no?"
I smile as I pull myself back to my feet and try to compose myself.
"Sorry 'bout that amigos." Sunspot calls from the helm.
I walk over to him and whisper in his hear, "Robertom you do that again and I'll made sure that your foot becomes perminatly aquainted with your mouth!"
"Chica, I said I was sorry."
"Maybe but you can't be sorry for something you meant to do, Sunspot!"
I glance over at Cannonball for a moment and see a hug smile on his face.
"What's so funny Sam?"
"Oh nothing." he says still with the huge smile and a slight laugh.
"Cannonball, you tell me now before I read your mind and find out all sorts of secrets about what you did when you were a kid."
His smile fades as he glances at me.
"You'd do that?"
"Whose to say I haven't all ready?"
I haven't and he knows I'm only teasing but the point it he is about to tell me what he finds so funny.
"Well its just that you and frenchie back there need to hook up all ready. I mean come on, with that tumble that you took, and where you landed you'd have to be blind not to see your face light up like a red christmas light."
I say nothing.
I realize they actually did make me tumble on purpose and Cannonball had turned around to watch the action they had caused.
These two knew me too well.
No matter how hard I tried to hide my feelings for Remy, Sunspot and Cannonball could always see them.
But maybe they were right.
Maybe Remy and I do need to get together but that will have to wait.
I see Roberto go in for a high five with Sam but I stop him
"Both hands on the stick, Sunspot! I swear sometimes a dead dog could fly this damn jet better that you can. Oh and Sam, his name's Remy, not Frenchie!" I say finally as I turn back to the rest of the team, Wolfsbane, Magik and Gambit,"Magik what was your question again?"
"What about the Hellions?"
"What about 'em?" Gambit asked, "We fight 'em right?"
"Yeah but I think what Magik is asking is how are we going to fight them?" Wolfsbane said to Remy and asking me a question at the same time.
"Its been the Hellions's history to use Mercury, Dust and/orSpecter to get into whatever their doing as stealthly as possable. Then we are left with Hellion, Rockslide, Tag and Wither. But I have a feeling that this time around is going to be different."
"What do you mean?" Wolfsbane asked.
"Well for starters the Hellions have never attacked a mutant school like this before. Typically, they commit petty theift crimes or something like that. This is different. So be prepared for anything."
"Are we taking our usual people?" Cannonball asked from the co-piolt's seat.
We have assigned hellions for each of us.
Cannonball takes on Tag, who placesa psionic broadcast on a person that repels or compels those around him toward or away from the signal, but seeing as how Cannonball can't hear anything when he is shooting through the air as fast as he does, he's a perfect match to take out Tag.
Sunspot and Gambit take on Rockslide. With their powers combined they can usually beat the big granite mutant back. Plus they end up not giving him his projectile hands and fingers back and just run him into a wall, knocking him out.
Wolfsbane and Magik work together to take on Hellion and Mercury. Hellion, the leader of the Hellions, is a telekinetic and Mercury is a solid humaniod mercury form and can turn into and move around aas liquid mercury.
And as for myself, I take on Specter. He can hide with in his own shadow but can't do so for too long otherwise he will surcum to his own darkness powers.
Wither and Dust have to be defeated by all of us. Dust, is just that, dust. she changes into dust and as for Wither, he deteriorates organic matter with his body upin direct contract.
"As of right now Cannonball, yes. We take our typical stance on this." I say and as soon as I finish, Sunspot began to land the jet, and because he sucks at landings, I was sent flying forward once more. This time I would have hit the back of the jet but before I could even attempt to cathc myself telekinetically, Gambit caught me.
"Ya know Chere, you really should learn to sit down."
"Well I wouldn't have to if someone would learn how to land the damn jet!"
"Sorry." Sunspot said unbluckling and opening the rear of the jet and then passing by me and Gambit made a kissy face and quickly get off.
He knew I'd be right behind him.
"Dani, look at it this way," Magik said,"At least he is getting better."
"Aint that the truth." I say following Magik out of the jet and stand before the mansion.
Quickly I do a mind scan and find someone trying to block me. They don't succed. They are only a low grade telepath.
I find that she's a new member of the Hellions codenamed Blaze.
They are waiting for us.
They are still here. I tell my team.
I know the girl who tried to block me can see us.
I just can't see her.
So to even the playing feild I chant a spell to myself and make us invisable as I talk to my team telepathically.
Wolfsbane, Magik take point. Cannonball, Sunspot search the grounds. Remy with me. Keep your eyes peeled, they know we're here.
Everyone knows their jobs for this mission and as soon as everyone had split up, I drop the invisable spell.
I didn't want the Hellions to see us standing around "talking" and then splitting up. That wouldn't be fun for them and staying invisable certainly wouldn't be any fun for us.
Wolfsbane formed into her wolf form and took point, with Magik, leading me and Gambit into the mansion.
The four of us could see the scars on the walls that were the result of a battle.
Smoke still floated in the hall and the smell of fire was fresh. Wolfsbane and Magik headed up the stairs to search while Gambit and I looked around the main hall.
It was then that I realized that the hall that I was standing in was the hall that Scott was standing in, in my vision. As Remy and I scouted out the rooms, we came across a room with hold blown through the walls and the window shattered. The bed was unkept and the dresser was turned over. I was about to leave the room when I saw a picture frame turned upside down behind the over turned dresser.
I walked over to it, picked it up and couldn't believe what I saw: Mom in a stunning wedding gown.
Now it wouldn't have been weird had the man standing next to her had been dad but he wasn't.
The man standing next to mom was Summers.
Now, I was beginning to worry what all this meant. My mind began to spin as I remembered a time when I saw Summers at the mansion. The only time I eversaw him at the mansion.
"That's how I know him!" I exclaimed forgetting that Remy was in the room with me.
"Chere?"
Before I can reply to Remy, we hear fighting coming from the back of the building.
I take the picture out of the frame and place it in my corset and head out of the room to where we head the fighting coming from.
We get into the back hall and outside, Gambit and I see Hellion, Tag and a blonde girl that I've never seen before. I assume that she is Blaze, the newest member. I look at the girl and realize that she and Annabell look like Emma Frost. Only Blaze's eyes aren't brown like Annabells. They are an icy blue.
The three Hellions are fighting Cannonball and Sunspot.
X-men to the rear of the building. I say sending a telepathic message to my team.
Kind a bus at the moment. Magik replys.
"Remy, go help Cannonball and Sunspot."
"What about you, chere?"
"I've got to go check on Magik and Wolfsbane." I say as I fly through the school and up the stairs. It takes me a moment but I finally find Magik and Wolfsbane with about ten students. Some of which have cuts and brusies but nothing a bandaid or two wouldn't fix.
"Mystic," Magik says, "We ran into Rockslide."
Wolfsbane transforms into a half woman, half wolf creater so she can speak with Magik and myself and says, "Means Specter ins't too far behind."
These two Hellions always worked together. Rockslide would get whoever they were after and luer them to where ever Specter was hidding/waiting in his shadow. Once Specter had them in his sight, he's jump them from behind. See I can't track Specter telepathically like I can Mercury or even Dust. I think somehow he manages to block it by being in his own shadow. When ever Specter is around me, at least, I get a feeling that someone is around. Its not telepathy but merely a sixth sence of a presence in the room.
"We managed to loose Rockslide for the moment. Wolfsbane helped me gather everyone we could find. We should get out of here."
"All right." I say as I walk up to the girl who I know is Annabell.
"Annabell?"
"How do you know...?"
"Its along story but for right now I need you and the others to follow Magik. Wolfsbane and I will be right behind you. We'll take you..."
Suddenly ten granite fingers came flying towards us.
Magik, Wolfsbane and I all react at the same time.
Magik pulls out her soulsword out and blocks three of the ten fingers.
Wolfsbane changes into full wolf form and uses her long tail to catch two of the fingers.
Leaving me to place a shield around myself and the students where the remaining fingers smake against the sheild and fall to the floor.
"No ones goin' no where girly!" Rockslide said coming from the direction I had come.
Kids, get down. I say telepathically and look at Magik and Wolfsbane.
We know exactly how to handle Rockslide.
For a split second I think about using my knife that I holstered to the back of my corset, in easy reach, but a knife would do no good against a man made of granite. So I chant a spell that allows me to shoot ice balls at Rockslide while Wolfsbane attacked him from the left and Magik used her power to travel a few seconds into the future, where she reapperes behind Rockslide.
I've all ready got a telekinetic grip on the granite mutant and and Wolfsbane, who is a half wolf half human creature, is fighting with him.
Magik then uses her soulsword to finish Rockslide off and with in a few seconds he is knocked out and is sent flying over the banester and lands on the first floor.
"Everyone all right?" Magik asks and the student nod their heads, "Lets go." She says as Wolfsbane leads the students down the stairs but before I can move with them, I look down the hall.
I sence someone down there.
"Mystic." Magik says but I can't break my gaze.
"Dani!"
"What?"
"Ya coming?"
"No, go ahead. I'm gonna check something out."
"Just be careful."
"Always am."
I say as I make my way down the hall and open a closed door. Its the bathroom and I pull the shower curtian back to find him lying in the tub.
He's injured.
Not just his body but his mind too.
A telepath got to him.
But none of the Hellions are telepaths.
Wait, but Frost is and Annabell and that other girl look like her.
What is she is the real leader of the Hellions and she simply left before we got here to keep us believeing that Hellion was in charge?
I'll have to find out later.
Right now, I've got to get Scott back home.
Mom can mend him mind while Beast tend to his body.
His visor is gone.
He is not awake at all.
Remy, I call telepathically, How are you faring?
We've beatin' 'em Chere. Hellion and Tag were teleported by a blond petite named Blaze. Where are ya?
In the mansion. I found him.
Who chere?
Scott Summers.
Dat man from da danger room?
Yeah, and he's in pretty...
My mind trails off as I sece a presence in the room with me.
Chere?
Hold on. I say as I leave the bath room and walk into the hall to the stairs.
"I know your here Specter!" I say to the walls.
I can't locate him telepathically but I know he's here.
Suddenly, two arms grab me, one around my waist and one around my neck, chocking me.
"Guess, next time I should be more careful, eh, Mystic?"
I can't breath and his words are the last thing before I black out.
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