-Lucy's POV-
We ended up landing near a town, no one was outside but it was clear people were in buildings.
"Where is he…" Raven wondered out loud.
Suddenly from the corner of my eye I saw a red puff.
"Get close!" I yelled and made a giant forcefield.
The mutant Raven had described was standing right outside the forcefield, holding a knife up in the air.
An explosion happened from afar, the source was another mutant.
"Jean, Scott, come with me to take care of that one. Kurt you stay with Hank, you know your target. Ororo make distractions and cover us. Peter and Lucy, start evacuating people." Raven said quickly.
Azazel had left, where we didn't know but cautiously I lowered the protection. Ororo went to the skies, Peter picked me up and ran off into a nearby building.
"Split up and search?" I offered.
"No, that's basically what happens in every movie and nothing turns out right." Peter said.
"Never watched many movies, wouldn't know." I kept looking around.
"How about we search together and I'll get as many people out while you protect everyone else inside." Peter said.
A man stepped out, holding a gun.
"Get away." He cautioned.
"We aren't here to hurt anyone. We are going to get the person who has been terrorizing this area out." I explained, gathering some sound waves just in case.
"Never trusted your type." His finger twitched slightly, the risk of him shooting was far too great so I acted.
In one movement I made the gun fly out of his hand and onto the floor. Peter ran to catch him and took him somewhere else.
"Should I keep a force field up?" I asked as we continued searching.
"No, that's going to waste too much of your energy. I should be able to stop things."
In one of the rooms we found forty people huddled together, scared.
We split them into groups and I tried to gather information as Peter zipped in and out.
"How long has he been here?" I asked a lady.
"At first there were just sightings, then I saw him. My husband thought I was crazy." She seemed like she was about to cry, "Then he saw him and then he, the mutant, started robbing us. It's nearly gone on for a month."
"Don't worry, now the other mutant, what do you know about them?" I asked.
Jean had sent a telepathic message that they needed information before attacking. Outside the ground shook as Ororo sent another lightning bolt.
"I've never seen them. But my sister said that she saw a figuring making a purple ball of energy and throwing it. Then it hit the ground and exploded." Peter came back, this was his final trip.
"Thank you. Where are other people hiding?" I asked.
"The school, the church, go by the hospital too. And the building across the street. We've set up a code, just incase. Say 'Jewel' if you've come to help and 'Gem' to tell everyone to come out." She explained.
Peter then carried her away.
While he was doing that I sent Jean another message.
"The mutant creates the explosions, they explode on contact." I told her.
"So it's not like they can just point at things and make them explode?" She asked.
"No. How's everyone doing?"
"Everyone is still thinking. Kurt seems tired, I know what Raven said but go over if you can."
Next we went to the building that the lady told us about, only a few people were in there. Then the hospital, no one was in there, the church held another forty, but the school was full.
I helped them pack medical supplies incase, they told us to get the kids out first.
"Why are you here?" One of them asked.
"To make the bad person leave." I responded.
"Aren't you like him? Momma said you had powers."
"Kind of. Except I don't like hurting people." I said, "And my powers are different. You see my friend, he can run really fast, I can make force fields, those protect people." I made a small one to show him, "See, you can't stick your finger through it."
He laughed and kept poking it.
Suddenly an explosion cut the conversation off short.
"Everyone hide in the bathroom!" I shouted. Peter had been gone for too long. Only ten people were still here, where was Peter.
I scanned his thoughts and could tell he was much more tired than he let on.
"The mutant is coming closer. Get more energy before you get here. No arguing just rest before rushing in."
He didn't respond, I took that as a good thing.
I hid behind a tipped over table as Azazel appeared in the room.
"Kurt, he's at the school. Peter had to stop, he's not here. Hurry."
My force fields take up too much of my energy. I can either protect myself or the people hiding. I wasn't ready to face him head on, but maybe I could lure him away.
I scanned one more time if anyone was coming.
Ororo was busy helping Jean and Scott, Raven had joined Kurt and Hank, Hank was telling Kurt not to overexert himself so they were coming over in short bursts.
Azazel was walking around, clearly he could tell someone was in here. He looked like he was about to teleport again, I couldn't risk everyone that was in hiding.
I spotted a crate from the opposite side and made it levitate and threw it towards him. It hit him on the side of the head, causing him to teleport where it used to be.
He started teleporting all over the place, at one point he was right in front of the door where everyone was hiding. I was running out of options and no one was here to help.
"Jean, I'm about to do something really dumb, I'm sorry." I told her.
And with that, I stood.