Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, except for those I invent.
D.C. is a character I invented. For details, see "D.C. and the CN Tower." chapters one through five.
Intelligence made about thirty phone calls, then DC was free to use the phone. He explored the world wide phone system until he found the mansion in Canada. It was busy, so DC had to wait about forty minutes until the line was clear. When whoever it was hung up, DC quickly dialed.
"Hello?"
A rather irritated voice of a boy answered.
"Is Professor Xavier there?"
"Yes."
"May I speak to him?"
"How do I know you can be trusted?"
DC thought the voice sounded familiar, so he decided to take a chance.
"Do the words Vrangelya, Okhotsk, Asuncion, El Oueda, Oaxaca mean anything to you?"
He heard a gasp and a loud thud. The boy had dropped the phone. Then he heard it being hastily picked up.
"I'll get him right away."
DC heard running feet, indistinct voices, and then the Professor's voice.
"Yes? Who is this?"
"It's DC."
"DC! Where have you been? I was about to send the team out in the Blackbird to go and find you!"
"Later. I just called to tell you that I'm trying to find the locations of the prison complexes now. I'll call you as soon as the results are in. Bye."
"Wait!"
click
"Aquarius, could you come over here please? All the blues are here, and we have to start a meeting."
"I'm coming."
The phone was in an old fashioned phone booth built into the wall with a sliding door. DC slid the door open and walked out into the lounge. It was full of people, ages ranging from twelve to thirty. The lounge had a big table set up in the middle, where all one hundred of the blues of Manhattan sat. A green was here as well, a boy, as stenographer. He sat with a brand new laptop on the card table in front of him, tucked into a corner.
"Aquarius, if you would."
DC raised a hologram of the planet in the middle of the round table. It showed all the countries of the world, their capitols, and their major cities. Intelligence was going to be the main speaker at this meeting.
"I called this meeting because Aquarius, one of our most important blue has returned. He has learned a new skill which will be most useful in this meeting.
"As you all know, the United States has made the Mutant Registration Act law. We are all on enemy ground as we speak. The blues in Washington DC, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, LA and San Diego have called for help. San Diego is being combed by the cops and military to make sure mutants don't try to get to Mexico, so the members there are in the most danger.
"The members in other countries around the world are also wondering what they can do for the evacuation. Jovian, Kitrinae, and Friar have determined Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Iceland and Switzerland to be the safest countries for members to go. Members in Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Reykjavik, Bern, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kyoto, and Yokohama are prepared to receive as many as 1000 members per city, which is more then enough. But they are also wondering which city will be the new capitol, since we cannot use New York anymore."
As Intelligence named the countries and cities, they were highlighted on the globe hologram. Each was labeled, and then the rest of the world disappeared and only the highlighted countries remained. Information about the members in each country appeared next to the floating countries.
The blues negotiated, planned, suggested new capitols, and finally voted. It turned out to be a tie between Tokyo, Sydney, and Bern. A tie breaker was held, and surprisingly Bern, Switzerland was going to be the new capitol of the OMA.
"OK, call Bern and tell them to prepare their headquarters. Half of the blues will go there to plan the evacuation. The blues that remain here will supervise. We still have to figure out what to do about the members in the other cities in the US, and now that we have decided about this matter, we will turn our attention to that."
A couple of hours later, it was all settled. It would be a risky operation but everyone was sure it would work out. It involved a number of stopping points with hundreds of mutant supporters. Abandoned meeting halls in cities deemed to dangerous for members would be reopened briefly for the evacuation. It could be compared to the Underground Railroad, with members posing as slaves escaping to freedom. Except nobody was trying to get to Canada. Everybody was headed for Oklahoma City.
"Hello."
"May I speak to Professor X please?"
"Right away."
"DC?"
"Yes?"
"Where are you?"
"Relax. I'm in New York. Listen, I got to tell you something I've kept from you for a long time. It's about something called the Outcast Mutant Alliance..."
After two and a half hours, DC hung up the phone and got out of the phone booth. He was about to tell Intelligence what the Professor had said when the girl from the check in came bursting into the room.
"A strange man just wandered into the common room! We have captured him, but we don't know what to do with him!"
DC ran outside, up the stairs and into the common room, followed by Intelligence, Carpathia, Kitrinae, and the green. They were greeted by chaos.
"He disappeared! He disappeared! He disappeared! He disappeared!"
Several people were screaming that over and over. Others were trying to find him, swarming into doors that led from the abandoned subway stations. Suddenly a yell was heard from the generator room.
"He's in here! What the- What are you doing?!?"
Everybody had rushed over to the generator room, where blue smoke came billowing out. DC sensed an energy mass coming out of the room and headed for the exit that led to the subway tunnel.
"Oh no you don't!"
DC forced the energy mass toward the floor. It struggled against his will, but it couldn't win against supreme ruler of energy and motion. It stopped struggling, and a young man with blue skin, a tail, and yellow eyes suddenly on the floor, staggering slightly.
There was an outcry, and everybody in the room rushed towards him except the blues and greens.
"STOP!!!"
DC's voice, amplified by his powers, caused dust to fall from the ceiling. Everybody stopped so suddenly they all pitched forward on their faces. They tried to cover their ears and break their fall at the same time, but most of them failed.
DC walked slowly toward the strange looking man. He eyed him suspiciously, and looked toward the exit.
"You cannot escape. I've created an energy field around this area. Nobody can leave without being seen. Who are you? What do you want with us?"
"My name's Nightcrawler. I came here because I was being chased by the police. I ran down into the subway tunnels, and I came this way because I heard voices."
"Are the police following you?"
"I don't know. They're probably combing the subway systems now."
"Then you have brought trouble on all of us."
DC turned away from the man named Nightcrawler. He spoke to Intelligence.
"Have the police already searched the subway systems?"
"No. That has us worried."
"Well, now they will for certain. They'll think that a mutant in the subway is an H-bomb in the subway. This is unfortunate. We will have to speed the evacuation in the whole country."
"Why the whole country?"
"Because if they discover mutants underground here, they'll look underground everywhere. We have to leave. Everybody. Now."
Intelligence nodded.
"Carpathia, call the blues in the other cities. Tell them to expect DC within an hour. Tell Oklahoma City that they can expect fifteen thousand people in that same time frame. Oh, and tell them that in exactly one hour, the OMA's capitol will officially be Bern. Tell them to pass that own to the foreign blues. Kitrinae, work on who goes where. DC, you can start moving people to Oklahoma City as soon as you like. I'll go tell the blues here what's happening. Agreed?"
"Would it be OK if I start moving them as soon as Carpathia calls Oklahoma City?"
"I said as soon as you like."
"Carpathia, let's go do that right now."
"Right. But what about Nightcrawler?"
"Oh please let me go with you! I have nowhere else to go!"
"I was planning on allowing you to go with us. But for forcing this evacuation, you will be the last one in the USA to go."
Carpathia was a fourteen year old girl. She had rescued seventeen blacks, two yellows, and a green from a mob when she was twelve, and so had become the youngest blue in OMA history. She was smart and very capable of her class, and rarely showed any strain from her job. She had red hair and blue eyes, and at the moment was wearing a white T-shirt with a blue dragon on the back and blue jeans.
"Hello Oklahoma? Slight change of plan. We had an intruder who's being chased by the police, and our location is jeopardized. I need you to prepare to receive about fifteen thousand members of every class within the next hour. Also, in exactly one hour the OMA's capitol will be officially moved to Bern, Switzerland. Call the other cities, US and foreign, and pass that info on. OK? OK. The first members will be coming through immediately."
As soon as DC heard Carpathia tell them about the evacuation, he ran back up to the common room where all of the members were hastily packing bags, calling to each other and finding friends.
"Whoever is ready to go please step over the check in."
As people trooped over DC sent them on their merry way through the power system. The biggest evacuation in the 20 year history of OMA had begun.