Sorry for the long update but I hope this makes up for it so enjoy!

Chapter 10: Method to madness

Xtreme raced to the first target on the screen as it was located by the midtown train station.

He used the scanner in his mask to track the chemicals used in his explosives as he knew the mad bomber was covered in the stuff and left traces of the stuff behind him.

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Flying around he was picking a trail up of the chemicals as then the sensors were detecting a large quantity a few miles away as he just flew off at super speed to it and then stopped and looked around to see where the trail led to.

Looking down he found where the first bomb was as he followed the trail to Central Park and looked around to find it located on the statue of a war memorial as he saw the device on the back of it and quickly disarmed it using his experience from disarming the madman's bombs.

Taking out the liquid explosive carteridge he had rendered the device useless threw it into space and just moved on to the next one.

The trail was now leading to the local bus station as he followed the chemical mix trail inside the station as the hordes of people were just a bit dumbfounded at why the man in black was even there as he looked around further to find the second bomb and try not to alarm the people.

"Check it out it's Xtreme!" a random person said.

"Heroes in a bus station? Next they'll be doing their laundry like ours!" another random person said.

Xtreme ignoring comments as he passed through the crowds of people as he then got where the bomb was located as he saw the sign on the door as he read it…Women's bathroom.

Oh…now that's just…evil and perverted.

As he opened the door ever so slightly as he called in just to be sure. "Hellooo, anyone in? I need ya out now…hero business!" Xtreme said as then some women left giving him some dirty looks on the way out as he proceeded to the bomb.

Using the sensor the trail led to one of the cubicles as he looked inside the top o the toilet and found the device floating in water as he fished it out and quickly disarmed it.

Walking out of there holding the disarmed bomb he showed the ladies why it was hero business. "It's safe to go in the roaches are exterminated." Xtreme joked as he walked off.

He then threw the device into space as he looked to the next location he flew off.

This is not his usual MO…what is he up to?

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Bobby just opened the door to find a huge crate had been delivered and was trying to push it in as he then just iced the floor and slid it in but needed to put it somewhere as he decided to place it in the huge study room until he could fine something to open it with.

As the young blonde went to find a crowbar or something to open it up he then bumped into Logan and fell down on his butt.

"Drake? Watch where ya going, what's the big rush?" Logan asked as he helped him up.

"Sorry Logan I'm trying to find something to open this huge…hey can I borrow you for a second?" Bobby asked.

"What now? I'm busy icepick!" Logan growled.

"It'll only take a sec I promise just follow me I'll show you!" Bobby said as he ran as Logan gave a snarl and just reluctantly followed him.

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The next bomb was leading him to yet another location and this time it was underneath the George Washington bridge, even though the device could do some damage it wouldn't be enough to destroy the bridge itself but still he just disarmed the bomb easily.

Seroiusly now…it's like he's not even trying…could he…no don't jump to conclusions focus on the last two bombs.

After the thinking he did he jetted off to the next bomb's location.

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"This better be woth my time icepick." Logan said as this was his day off until Bobby interrupted him.

"I just need you to pry this open quickly." Bobby said.

As he growled under his breath Logan unseathed his claws and went towards it but hew stopped as his scent caught something and he carefully opened the crate as they looked inside and saw a huge device linked to some chemicals and a timer which was counting down.

"Bobby…get everyone out now!" Logan shouted as he went to do that.

The next locarion was no surprise as he targeted a hospital and luckily it was in the back entrance so no one could see him and cause a panic as he landed on the ground and was in the disposal area as he tracked the bomb's location using his sensor.

He looked around and the trail led him to an ambulance as he opened the back of it and found it lying there right in front of him on a stetcher as he picked it up and disarmed the bomb and got rid of it.

Time for the last one, then I can end this stupid game.

The last location was only five miles away as he sped off to there.

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The clock was ticking and the final location was the Twinkie factory.

Oh now this is personal, no one takes Twinkies away from me!

He found the bomb located on a door?

What is he up to?

Disarming and disposing of the final bomb was easy as then the locator he was given flickered to display the evil mug of BoneYard.

"Well done son of X'ondir, you've stopped my bombs yet again, so now I want you to find me." BonYard said as the location displayed on the locator.

"What are you after BoneYard? This isn't your usual game!" I demanded but the madman just laughed and cut transmission.

I guess I'll find out when we meet.

With that he flew off to his location unknown to what may await him.

Attention all staff and students, please evacuate the school out the nearest exit to you in a calm and safe manner!

As the aanouncement was made staff helped students out to the front of the school in an orderly fashion as everyone was confused and concerned for what was actually going on.

Logan gathered the other teachers together to inform them of the situation.

"Okay everyone the real reason for the evacuation is…we have a bomb in the mansion." Logan said.

All the teachers had looks of shock, horror, despair and fear on their faces as once again they were under attack and had no idea why.

"How did this bomb get here?" Hank asked.

"It came in a large delivery crate here, we got no idea how but when we opened it we just saw it and that's that." Logan explained.

"Did you call the bomb squad?" Kitty said hoping he did.

"No answer they said they were busy." Logan growled under his breath.

"Typical, never around when you need em." Danni said.

"How do we stop it?" Emma asked.

"I know a little on bomb disposal but as of this moment Bobby's keeping it on ice, it can't detonate in that kind of tempreture so it'll buy us some time." Logan explained.

"What do we do about the kids?" Rachel asked.

"Keep them in the dark, no need to panic them further, get them away from here and say it's a…small fire and it's being delt with." Scott explained the plan.

"Where do we take zem ya?" Kurt asked.

"Just get them away from here, anywhere safe, I also want the room the bomb is in to be locked down so initiate it." Scott ordered.

As Hank nodded to him and went to do so.

"I'm gonna go check on Bobby and the bomb." Logan said as he went off to do so.

Xtreme arrived at the location and to his surprise it was an abandoned apartment block as he just went to the door and to his surprise yet again it was open.

He saw on the locater he was only a few meteres away from him as he cautiously ascended the stairs and followed it to a door which had a number on it 2B he carefully went to open the door and cautiously opened it and looked around.

An empty studio apartment? Well at least he's trying to throw me off.

"Okay BoneYard I'm here, show yourself!" Xtreme said.

He awaited for him to make an appearance but then he looked to the locator and saw where it was directing him towards as he walked to the centre of the room and saw a table and saw resting on it was a box with it a note next to it as he picked it up, it said…

To the son of X'ondir…

SURPRISE!

He snapped his head behind him and saw nothing, then above nothing and all around him…nothing?

With that all he looked at the box and saw it was unloked as he picked it up and examined it, it was a silver box as he then decided to just open it as it didn't seemed to pose much of a threat.

Opening it he found on the inside some device as it was flashing and all of a sudden the thing just blasted him with a face full of gas!

"Logan! This thing is still counting but it's slowed down a little, can you disarm this thing?" Bobby asked in a panicked state while keeping the bomb on ice.

"I'm trying to but this wiring is all connected to the clock and most of it is all tech." Logan explained trying to understand the mechanics of the bomb.

"Connor!" Bobby said.

"What?" Logan answered.

"He might know how to disarm this thing!" Bobby said.

"Call him, get him here now!" Logan said as Bobby went to do so pulling his cell out.

"Uhhhh" Connor said as he coughed after the gas attack.

He got himself up to his feet and looked around and checked that he was fine as it seemed the gas didn't do anything to him.

As he coughed a little more his cell from within his mask went off as he answered it.

"Hello?" Connor said.

"Connor! You need to get down here, super speed would be preferable!" Bobby panicked.

"Bobby? What's going on?" Connor asked.

"There's a bomb in the mansion, we don't know why but we need you to try and stop it, Logan says it's all tech." Bobby said.

Connor realised now what this plan of BoneYard's was all about, it was all a distraction for him to achieve his real goal…the school.

He just flew right out of there leaving a hole in the roof of the building as he flew as fast as he could there.

That sick bastard! If that bobm goes off and any of the kids or my friends are hurt I'll swear he'll pay!

As the man in black flew on to the institute as then for some strange reason he was feeling a little weak but he shrugged it off and flew on.

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"It's only a fire…we're trying to contain it." Hank said as he explained to all the students.

"Yes please do not be alarmed all is well." Ororo reassured them all.

Most bought the story as they just remained calm but however some knew something was going on.

"I'm telling you something's not right here!" Julian said.

"Come on Julian you can't jump to that conclusion each time something like this happens." Paige said.

"Uh Paige no offence but I don't blame him, nothing is normal around here." Jubilee said.

"I don't like any of this…I agree with Julian." Noriko said.

"Okay everyone! We're calling a half day, you cannot enter the mansion until everything's been cleared so…class dismissed." Rachelsaid announcing to everyone.

They all loved that and just decided to leaver the area and off to different locations as with one problem out of the way another was still looming.

He was almost there…and he was falling?

WHAT THE HELL!

He fell from the sky as he rie to maintain flight and was barely in the air as he used whatever was left to break his fall as he managed to stop himself from doing that and fell into an alleyway while hitting a few garbage cans on his landing.

What's going on with me? I've nerver lost flight like that?

Oh well superspeed could do.

He looked around and changed back into Connor Masters and supersped to the mansion as but then only meters away he just slowed down for no reason as he stopped behind the outer walls of the mansion now really panicked from what was happeneing to him.

Now I'm freaked out! Did that gas do something to me?…I feel a little sick.

Rubbing his eyes he then walked towards the mansion gates, punched in his code and entered as her saw the staff outside as they saw him approaching.

"Connor?" Scott said as he approached them all.

"I got here as soon as I could, is everyone ok?" he asked as they saw he was sweating and looked a little pale.

"Yeah we gave the kids half day, their away from here, hopefully they won't cause trouble." Kitty explained.

As then Logan came out and grabbed Connor and took him to one side. " We need your help on the bomb." Logan said.

"I thought you were the expert?" Connor asked.

"Well it's more tech than I'm used to so I'm gonna need you to come help me." Logan asked.

He nodded his head as he followed him in. "Connor!" he turned around. "Be careful." Rachel said as he smiled and nodded and went off to the bomb.

They quickly made their way in and into the study room where Boby made sure the bomb was on ice as then both men approached the device cautiously.

Connor observed the bomb and the chemicals looked familiar as he then knew what he was going to need.

"Okay I'm going to need wire some clippers." Connor asked as he rolled his sleeves up.

He then knelt down and looked closely at the circuitry and noticed the clock was wired to the vials and each was set to go off if they tried to disarm the thing.

"Ok you want the good news or the bad news?" Connor asked to Bobby.

"Uh I'll bad for fifty points.?"Bobby joked.

"Bad news is, if I try to disarm this thing and trip the wrong wire this thing goes critical and those chems will mix making the combustable formula…enough to level the place." Connor explained wiping some sweat away from his forehead.

The blonde mutant's face went pale like Connor's as he was hoping for something good in his next answer.

"Okay what about the good news?" Bobby asked hoping it was.

"Good news is, that not all hope is lost, I can stop this bomb, it's similar to my last encounter with BoneYard." Connor said.

"BoneYard? Who's BoneYard?" Bobby asked.

"He's the nut job who planted this bomb, it's all part of his sick little game…dammit! This is all my fault, he came after me and he's doing this just to get to me." Connor said in frustration.

Logan came in and had the wire cutters as he saw he walked in on something as Connor bashed his fist against the wall hard as then he cracked it but winced in pain as he saw he cut himself?

"Kid, it's not your fault, this guy's a whack job and he wants

"You're bleeding? How I mean aren't you supposed to be immune to pain?" Bobby asked as he and Logan saw his hand was red with blood slowly coming out.

"I think this was also part of his plan, weaken me and make sure that I couldn't stop him and then he'd use it again and kill me." Connor said as he held his hand trying to stop the throbbing pain as he took out a handkerchief and wrapped it around his hand.

"You'd better get to work now kid, that thing's gonna go off in ten minutes." Logan said as the timer flashed 10.00.00.

Connor took the clippers and went to work on the bomb's wiring as he just kept all focus on the CPU and the timer as he tried to separate the two.

The wiring was incredibly tricky as he managed to take one chemical vile out of play as he turned to Logan.

"Bobby I need you to take the first vile on the left, ice the thing up and get it away from the mansion, I'm gonna get the other two and you'll need to do the same for those." Connor said as he did that.

Bobby froze the first vile and carefully carried it off out of the mansion as he passed the others. "Gangway people, coming through!" he yelled as he went to put it down and leave it outside as it was now frozen and completely useless and ran back inside.

Connor was feeling the pressure as time ticked away, he tried to disconnect the next vile but his condition from the gas was making it harder to concentrate as he put all his strength into disarming this bomb.

Just need to disconnect the purple from the greenie black and…

"Got it!" Connor said as he disconnected the second vile.

Conner carefully removed the vile from the middle and Logan then carefully took it off his hands as Bobby re-entered the room he took the vile froze it and thus rendering it completely useless and taking it away from the mansion.

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He saw the time and knew this was it now the last one and it was a bit tricky as he started the wire cutting but as he was in the middle of it his vision began to blur as he stepped away from the bomb clutching his head as Logan checked on him.

"You okay kid?" Logan asked.

"Yeah…the gas really must've done a number on me…I'm good back to it." Connor said as he reassured him.

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He rushed back as he picked up where he left off.

"Hope everything's going ok in there." Kitty said.

"Connor didn't look so good." Rachel said.

"What do you mean?" Danni asked.

"He looked really pale, like he was sick or something." Rachel said as she noticed his condition.

"Well he's with Logan and Bobby they'll keep an eye on him." Kitty reassured her friend.

Kitty did notice Rachel's obvious worry for Connor and they have been growing close a lot as of late…was there more than just friendship between them?

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The sounds of gunshots echoed throughout the area as the staff turned to see a man dressed in a what looked like bone armour and brandishing a gun and a device in his hand.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…so this is the school for the gifted that the Son of X'ondir cares for."

"Who are you?" Scott demanded.

"I am…BoneYard…and you all must die!" BoneYard said as he showed the device in his hands.

As the X-Men knew this guy was the bomber and he was nuts, they didn't want to agitate him if he had what they think he had on him and hoped Connor had deactivated the device.

But he went for the button as they all went to stop him but it was too late and he already pushed it as a maniacal laugh came from the madman.

"WHAT? NO BOOM?" BoneYard shouted in anger.

As then Logan, Bobby and Connor emerged and the last vial was disabled and the bomb was useless and they stopped the madman.

"So you stopped my bomb.. But it doesn't mean I won't kill you humans!" BoneYard said as he pointed his gun at them.

But then Scott took his shades off and fired an optic blast hitting his gun out of his hand and then Bobby freezing his legs as he was stuck on the spot as Scott hit another blast knocking him back as he fell rolling back and on his face as he was knocked out.

"Well that was easy." Bobby said.

"Nice one." Connor said as he was impressed they took him down that easily.

Connor, Logan and Bobby went to meet up with the others as they were all in relief that no one got hurt.

And even so Connor felt like his powers were returning as then his hearing picked up the faint sound of a gun's safety being taken off and looked to see BoneYard back up and was holding a handgun aimed at Scott.

"Scott watch out!" Connor said as he grabbed him and threw him out of the way.

BANG!

Connor looked down to himself and saw…he had been shot? The blood began to form around his right part of his abdomen as he fell on his knees and to the ground.

"CONNOR!"

Hank jumped on over to him as he quickly went to help him as did Kurt, Connor was bleeding bad and needed medical attention quickly.

BoneYard laughed as he took pleasure in doing that but upon seeing that Rachel lost it and just used her telekinesis as she threw his gun away, then lifted him off the ground and threw him around the mansion grounds in rage as she looked back to Connor now possibly on the verge of death.

"YOU ANIMAL…I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THIS!" she shouted at him as she continued to throw him around and breaking bits of his armour off.

She then tore his helmet off revealing the horrifically scarred face of the madman and used her telepathy to mind wipe him.

"Rachel…that's enough he's not worth it!" Scott said as he convinced his daughter to stop.

She knew he was right and decided to just knock him out.

"Connor needs medical attention, Kurt teleport us down to the medical bay." Hank said as Kurt nodded and they teleported down there.

Everyone else followed down as Logan and Scott grabbed the madman and placed him in a secure place until they could do something with him.

"Kurt hand me the surgical tools! Connor hang on you're going to be ok!" Hank said tried to calm him as it looked like this could be the end for the half Zargonian.

Say it isn't so! Will Connor survive? What else will happen now Xtreme is out of commission?

What you think? Reviews please!