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A/N- sorry, I know it's been a long time, sort of forgot :(

Chapter 11

Xavier wheeled himself to one side of the table with Jubilee and Everett flanking him as the entire Guthrie sat on the other side looking at the three occupants with strange looks. Well the children were, Jane was positively glaring at Xavier.

"Paige, dear? Can you in here for a moment?"

Jane's voice was flat, giving away no emotions what so ever, her eyes not leaving Xavier for a minute. Jubilee had talked to Sam about his home life on few occasions, what she learned was something bad had happened when Xavier came to give the Guthrie his offer.

Seconds later a shy young girl around the age of 14 walked into the room, as everyone's eyes turned towards her. The girl named Paige had long flowing brown hair down her back sparkling innocent eyes, all the while she kept itching her arms.

"Paige. This Professor Xavier, he runs a… special school in Bayville for people like you."

"Really?" muttered Paige in response, not looking as if she believed it.

"Yes Paige, at my school you learn to control your powers. May I ask what your powers are?"

A few of the other kids at the table started to whisper between one another as Paige looked down ashamed.

"You won't like it. No one does."

"We won't judge you," came the response of Jubilee, earning a grateful look from Xavier.

Paige nodded in return and set her arm on the table, grabbing the skin from her elbow and literally pulling the skin off. Several of the kids screamed and looked away as one of them threw up on the floor, the three mutants turned pale at the sight, not really expecting that. The girl in front of them didn't even scream once as she tore every part of the skin from her elbow to fingers off. As soon as the skin was gone it became clear what power the girl had.

"Is… is that metal?"

"Yeah, I can make any substance I want. I just have to wait for my skin to grow back."

Throughout all of this Jane had been glaring at Xavier, almost as if saying this was entirely his fault.

"Well Charles? Are you going to drag my daughter off to that school of yours?"

Before anyone else could even reply a large explosion rocked the entire house, seconds later the roof was literally teared off revealing the x-mens worst nightmare, a sentinel. Before any could react the machine raised its hand to the group and a tentacle shot out from the palm and wrapped itself around Paige, then pulled the scared girl into the awaiting hand.

"You are nothing but bad luck!" screeched Jane. "Luckily for you, we are prepared."

The Guthrie family all drew weapons of all sorts from their hiding places dotted around the room, the three mutants were still speechless as they watched one of the little girls take out a bazooka. Obviously the girl had training with the weapon as she fired and the rocket impacted the sentinels chest, making it stumble backwards.

"Everett, move it," ordered Jubilee as she ran towards the door, leaving a stunned Xavier looking at the carnage.

Stepping out of the door, the situation was even worse. The entire town was running around with heavy duty weapons from mini guns to rocket launchers, the entire town was packing. Four sentinels moved around the town shooting green blobs, obviously having been ordered not to use force against the human population. The fifth sentinel, the one carrying Paige was making its way to the centre of the town.

Around the townsfolk and the sentinels two groups of people were fighting it out on the ground and in the air. One group, SHIELD wore black uniforms who also were helping the townsfolk, the other being Hydra, dressed in green outfits. Over the town, a few dozen choppers fought over dominance of the sky, all in all it looked like a war was going on.

"HELP ME!"

The screams of Paige echoed across the town as the mutants and the Guthrie family gave chase.

"NOOOOO!"

Xavier had wheeled himself out just in time to see one of the sentinels launch a missile at the X-jet blowing it sky high. Meanwhile Paige had got her arms free from the tentacle and began to remove the skin from her other arm. Raising her arms she brought her fists, now metal down onto the sentinels hand, effectively shattering it into millions of pieces. Landing on the floor she found herself staring at two people encased in green blobs, the first dressed in a heavy black cloak with a face that it belonged in the circus, the second wearing nothing but a loincloth and was basically blue.

"What the…?"

The sentinel that had been holding her fell backwards with a giant hole in its chest from the combined power of Jubilee and several RPGs. Regaining her composure, Paige ripped the rest of her exposed skin off revealing the same metal as he arms.

One of the soldiers dressed in green turned the corner and came face to face with Paige and immediately opened fire, the bullets thumped into the metal and dropped harmlessly to the floor. She smiled to herself as she punched the soldier into the air as another sentinel came round the corner. Two powerful streams of light soared past her head and smacked into the sentinel forcing it back.

Jubilee and Everett appeared by her side as a load of soldiers came round the corner, a mixture of green and black fighting it out.

"Who do we help?" asked Paige, having never seen any of these soldiers before.

"The ones in black, Shield are the good guys here."

The three mutants ran passed the downed sentinel to help the soldiers, the sentinel began to rise once more until a large grey fist smashed into it's back. The grey fist shrunk back into a normal sized fist as Angelo stepped out of the shadows and went to help.

Across the town one of the sentinels had lost it's leg and was hobbling down the street looking for its target only to hit by an invisible force blowing the insides all over the town. A woman in white stepped out from the shadows and smirked at the downed machine.

"Annoying machine… hello?"

From a destroyed house emerged Paige Guthrie, without any warning the woman in white put the girl to sleep with her powers.

"Furball, pull up the car, we're out of here."

Sure enough a sleek black car pulled up by her as a man stepped out and shot a huge wave of energy at a sentinel, effectively destroying it. Paige was thrown into the back as the car shot out of the destroyed town leaving the townsfolk to destroy the last sentinel.

Sure enough the last sentinel was brought down as a Hydra chopper crashed into it, the Hydra soldiers running for their lives seeing as how they had lost the battle.

"Jubilee."

Xavier wheeled himself to the mutants who had smug looks on their faces, surrounded by a lot of downed Hydra soldiers, Paige's skin already growing back.

"Die mutants!"

One of the Hydra soldiers had pulled several pins out of the grenades he was holding, unfortunately the man was right beside the group.

"Oh shi…."

THONK

In a flash of white light the group had vanished from the partly destroyed town and reappeared in a basement.

"What the…?"

A new mutant was in the group looking at the others with a concerned look, everyone else was just staring at her.

"Illyana?"

The Russian nodded and looked around the basement with a curious look.

"My magic alerted me to your trouble. I transported us to what my magic says is your base?"

The three LA mutants looked around at the familiar basement they had called home. Several sofas lined the wall with bookshelves nailed to the walls, a large TV stood at the front alongside what looked like a police radio. A large kitchen stood at the back of the room, the only way out being a heavy metal door with a hand print scanner on the wall. On the far wall was a very large red X with loads of photos of the teens accompanying it. Along with the TV and hand scanner, an advanced warning system was in place, several more TVs showed camera footage of a garage with several motorbikes and half finished vehicles parked. Another camera showed the local news and the city itself.

"Where did you get resources for this?" asked Xavier, completely stunned.

"There's a complete computer whiz, he used to live in Bayville. Calls himself Arcade."

Xavier put his head in hands remembering how Arcade had once got his team almost killed, not that he knew it was true. If the three teens could trust Arcade then he could to, deciding to change the subject, he looked at the red X with curiosity.

"What's with the red X?"

"I felt miserable leaving the X-men," replied Jubilee, "I kinda figured we could be a new generation of X-men."

"Like Generation X or something?" asked Paige.

The three LA mutants looked at one another with impressed looks, all of them nodding and patted her on the back.

"That's brilliant, don't know why I didn't think of that before."

"Can I join professor?"

Paige stared at the professor with big pleading eyes, it wasn't like they really needed her at the institute. From what he had seen Paige could handle herself and control her powers pretty well.

"Very well. Jubilee, if you need anything, do not hesitate to ask."

"I shall stay as well," said Illyana, "But first I shall take you home."

In another flash of white light Xavier was gone and the alarms began to go off.

"I guess generation X has its first mission."

The group smiled at one another, this was going to be fun.

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