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DO NOT OWN any of the X-MEN™ or MARVEL™ characters.

"Maybe not," Cam shook his head.

"Damn," John tried to grow another flame but only ended up burning his hand with the lighter. "Ow!" He shook it surprised. He'd never been burned by fire before. This was probably a very bad sign. "Our powers are fading, completely."

"Or, they know we're here."

"What do you mean?"

"I heard that they have a mutant in here that can take away any other mutant's powers," Cameron finally got up off the floor and to his feet with a hand from John.

"I know someone like that, she takes people's life force and can basically borrow powers from anyone. You might die, but she can do it just by touching you." John got up to watch as Cameron searched the room. It was almost exactly like the room he had first found him in, a small, concrete holding cell of some sort.

"That's not like these guys. These guys will literally take your powers. If you're even in the same vicinity as them, they don't even have to touch you and you'll be powerless. They can then take it and use it against you if they want."

"Damn," he looked down at his hand again, shaking his head and wondering if someone else was using it right now. It was so strange to think about. "I wonder if the Professor knows about this?" He thought out loud.

"Who?"

John looked up to see that Cam was staring at him intently. He rubbed his forehead trying to snuff out some pain behind his eyes. "Professor Xavier. He runs a school for mutants south of here."

"A school?"

"Yeah, it's where they followed her to, where they found all of us." As he said it, he wondered what the rest of the team was doing right at that moment to try to find them. Would the Professor be able to locate a place which was always moving and in the same place at the same time? As far as he knew, it was just the two of them. He was going to have to make it work.

"A school for mutants huh? What do you do there, take classes on how to use your powers?" Cam huffed sarcastically.

"Along with regular classes, yeah. It's a place where mutants can be safe from people like these humans who want to claim or crush us." He snarled as he looked around the room at the dank, dark walls and almost kicked himself for having such an attitude while he was there. Now, he may never see that place again, and the thought actually made him nervous.

"You were lucky then, our entire campsite was attacked because of my sister and I, and two other mutants there. The N.O. just came in and burned everything. They killed one other and took my sister and our site neighbour. Humans and mutants alike died, and they had no remorse or mercy for anyone who was a mutant or who harboured a mutant." Cameron looked around the room with pure hatred and disdain. "They stole my family from me, she's all I have left."

John thought just then, about what Mya had said had happened to her because of him. Her best friend betraying her location to them for money, them burning her house down and her having to watch her own family burn inside while she could do nothing. It was almost more than he could comprehend. Especially if it had happened to her, and he had to watch... The thought sent chills down his spine.

"We have to find them," John shook his head of the defeatist thoughts and looked back at Cam.

"Well then, you ready?" Cam turned to John, holding out his hand. John shook his head and shrugged.

"As I'm gonna be," he slapped his hand against Cam's and they were in a long hallway, which looked like every one before it except, this one was especially long. John shook his head clear as Cam started running in the opposite direction, down the hall which looked almost as if it had been flooded once. Taking a good look, it hit him.

"Mya! Mya was here look!" He pointed to the small puddles on the ground.

"What?" Cam finally stopped running and turned, "What are you talking about? We have to keep moving!"

"No! Look around, look at the ground, it's soaked. Mya's power is water, she can shift and shoot water, she was here!" He looked up and down the hallway for any other sign. There was nothing where he stood, so he made his way back to where they'd come from. Nothing. "Anything there?" He called back down to Cameron who was about a third of the way down.

"There are some footprints, two sets together, and then another further back."

John ran down to take a look for himself. "It looks like someone grabbed her and then someone else followed. But the set of two prints appear and disappear down this way. Let's go!" He grabbed Cam's arm but stopped when he didn't follow.

"Nah man, you're going to get yourself killed. You just don't get it about this place. Everything is a game, everything is planned before we know it. You can't just take the most direct route! You have to..." Cam was cut off by John banging on the door at the end of the hallway

"Mya! Mya, are you in there?" He banged loudly as Cam ran towards him at full speed. "Mya!" He shouted just before he felt Cam's hand and they were in complete darkness.