Danica jumped all the way to the North Woods on the outskirts of New York, she got there in about five minutes and immediately identified Barricade who was talking to some other mutants who were covered in tattoos. He saw me and smiled.

"Danica!" he said happily.

Danica nodded and shook hands with him.

"How are you get my e-mails?"

"Yeah," Danica replied, "All fifty-one of them."

Barricade laughed and said, "It was important that you came Danica, you are going help us greatly!"

Danica frowned and said, "Who are all these people?"

"Brotherhood," Barricade said simply, "They are the ones who had called us here, we have to take action Danica. No more waiting around for change to happen, we make change happen!"

Danica looked at Barricade and thought that he had gone completely nuts. Tents were pitched up all over and mutants on patrol scattered off into the forest.

"We're going to attack Alcatraz you mean?" Danica commented as she quickly counted the shadows over one thousand mutants.

"Yes," Barricade, "Like I said we make change happen."

Danica was assigned to a tent and then given told to meet in an hour. She watched as people came in and out then she decided that she was going to go for a walk on her own. As Danica left she saw a familiar looking man, he had on dark clothes and a cape draped on his shoulders that cascaded down his back. He bore a serious look on his face and a maroon helm was on his head. Danica looked at him closely and the she looked at his shadow, it suddenly came back to her. Eric. She remembered the man coming to offer protection to the school when Wade and her were caught. He came up to Barricade and they went into a short deep talk then he turned to towards her. His dark eyes looked into hers and Danica turned into her shadow form and then jumped off.

Near the outskirts of the forest Danica saw cars, transports and other vehicles race by, she wondered if any knew that there was a mutant army in the heart of the forest, no doubt they didn't. Danica sighed and then turned back towards the forest when she saw Logan. Danica quickly retreated into one of the shadows and then watched as he slowly made his way towards the camp.

"Jean?"

A sudden whipping noise sounded and it struck flesh. Danica moved out of the shadow and touched Logan's skin. Logan immediately felt liquid-like and he looked down to see himself a wavy shadow.

"Whoa," he muttered.

His attacker, Spike, looked in curiosity and then attacked but Danica held out her hand and his shadow detached itself from it's owner then chased him back to the camp.

"Thanks," Logan said. Danica allowed her flesh to show, "No prob."

"What are you doing here?"

Danica was about to answer when she stopped, what was she doing here? A sudden force push Logan back and he landed against a tree and struck there. Danica raised his hand and was ready to turn him into a shadow when she was knocked off her feet and landed on the ground with a painful groan.

"Traitors!"

Danica turned to see Eric, Barricade and Jean standing before them. Danica shifted to shadow as Barricade sent an energy wave making it go right through her. Barricade was ready to attack when Danica created a dark energy pulse and then trusted it right at him. Barricade was thrown freely into the air and then landed painfully on the ground. Danica was ready to attack Eric when her shadow skin peeled off and she was forced backwards, Danica still stood but there was an immense pressure in her head that made her want to scream. Danica easily detected that it was from Jean and Danica looked at her shadow, trying to shut it down.

The shadow gave off a creepy aura that Danica didn't like. It seemed to know Danica's every move, her intentions and her weak points. Danica managed to pinpoint the shadow's own weak points and then applied mental pressure. The pressure in Danica's mind immediately ceased and then Danica fell to the ground. She turned to see Logan struggle against Eric's power but was instead thrust backwards into the forest where he slammed against a tree and then fell. Danica quickly jumped over to him and turned to see Eric and Jean both gone.

"Logan," Danica said shaking him gently.

Logan moaned, his wounds healed up quickly and then he slowly g o to his feet.

"We have to get back to the school." Danica nodded and then grabbed his shoulder, she turned them both into shadows and then jumped off back towards the tri state area.

Back at the school the halls were practically bare, silence had engulfed most of the school especially after the death of Xavier. Some had left, some had gone to get the cure while others stayed in the school but cascaded themselves in their rooms. Wade, Bradley, Lane, Storm and Hank were all in the living room when Logan and Danica jumped into the school. Logan told them what had happened.

"Going after the cure no doubt," Hank muttered.

"Can we do anything to stop them?" Danica asked.

Hank sighed, "With Eric on their side, then I do not doubt."

"The human government had been monitoring the mutant army," Bradley said showing them the maps, diagrams and the layout the humans were looking at, "They had expected an attack from the mutants all along."

"There are a lot out there too," Logan growled, "I guess over three hundred."

"That many?" Wade whistled, "Cure or no cure the humans are totally screwed."

Everyone nodded and then Storm said, "We have to stop them."

"Who else is here?" Danica asked, "Who stayed?"

"Not many," Wade replied, "About hundred left."

"We can take what is left and plus us, that should at least keep them at bay."

"Yes but for how long?"

"They are going to plan the attack at nine tonight, I suggest we get ready."

Everyone nodded and left except Storm and Logan who were going into a hushed conversation.

Upstairs Danica opened her drawer and then stopped as something caught her eye. She dug further and then took out her old 'mission' clothes that she wore when working for Stryker. Danica swallowed as memories flowed back to her and then placed them back into the drawer. She slowly closed the drawer and then rested her head against the cold wall. This was reminding her too much of her missions, she didn't want to fight but she knew that she would if she didn't want a chaotic war to brew. There was a knock at the door and Danica opened it. In front of her stood Bradley in his old mission clothes and he didn't look to pleased either.

"It was all I had," he muttered.

Danica smiled and then allowed him to come inside, he did and sat on the bed. Danica took hers out then went into the bathroom to change. When she came out she saw Bradley fiddling with some small dormant robots that were compacted into small discs. She crossed over and then put on her dark ankle length coat.

"Ready?" he asked.

Danica sucked in a breath, was she ready? Inside she was panicking but on the outside she was all calm, which she had no clue to why.

"Yeah."