Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own the X-Men, or anything else except Matrix. Such a sad little life I lead!


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Jessy drove with the radio turned all the way up. She was doing well over the speed limit, knowing that there would be no cops in this backwoods little town. She sighed and turned the radio off. There was a strange rattling noise coming from the engine.
She pulled over to the side of the road as smoke started to come out from under the hood of her battered old truck, and she hopped out with her duffel bag.
"I don't fucking need this now." she muttered to herself.


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"So, this kid in the woods was a mutant?" Wolverine asked.
"Yeah." Bobby replied.
"Well, we should go find her." Jean put in.
"That sounds like a good idea." Rogue said.
"One can only wonder what she is feeling," Ororo said," or why she chose to spend her time in the forest around the Xavier mansion."
"Whatever. Has Xavier found out where she is?" St. John asked.
The X-Men (and not a few students) were sitting in the rec. room, not really watching the movie on tv. Everyone was interested in the new mutant, and while Professor Xavier tracked her down using Cerebro, Bobby and St. John answered any questions that they could.
"So she could fly?" Jubilee asked. She and Rogue were the most interested in the new mutant, besides Bobby and Pyro.
"I don't know. That's what it looked like. She just... stopped." Bobby said.
Just then, Jean stopped. Her features froze and she looked blank. Then, just as suddenly, she snapped out of it. "The Professor has located her. She is on her way to New York city taking Madison Road."
"Alright. Let's go." Wolverine said.

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Five minutes later, Rogue, Bobby, Jubilation Lee, and Scott Summers left in a Suburu while Logan took Scott's motorcycle to find the new mutant.

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Meanwhile...

"Shit!"
Jessy slammed the hood down, turned around and vomited. Apparently a very vital little rubber hose had been eaten almost completely through by a rat. How had she known it was a rat? The rat had been right next to the hose, its jaws still clinging to the rubber in death. That was just too much for Jessy, New Yorker or not.
So, she picked up the duffel bag that contained the small cd player and her skating outfit, and she started to walk down the road backwards, her thumb stuck out.
She was still wearing the small skirt, but now wore beaten and worn old boots and a sweater that she had donned after discovering her left-behind high-school football sweater. And it was cold. She cursed the rat that had chosen her nasty old truck to gnaw on.
In the distance, she heard a car, and what was probably a motorcycle. That was a good sign. The more vehicles, the better the chance of getting picked up.
She smoothed down her red hair and tried a seductive smile as she walked backwards. She just might get lucky for a change.

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In the Subaru, Jubilee was leaning so far forward between Bobby and Scott that it would look through the windshield as though one of the boys might have an extra head. She constantly fiddled with the radio, finally settling for a Blink-182-loving dj who played them almost non-stop with a little Everclear mixed in.
"Jubilee, would you shut up!" Bobby yelled. Her constant chatting now that the radio was tuned was giving him a headache.
"Umm... no."
Bobby, Rogue and Scott all sighed. It was going to a be a long ride.

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Logan was in the lead of the little X-Caravan. That's why he saw her first and pulled over.
She was grinning with delight when he walked over.
"Where 'ya headed?" he asked.
"New York. The city, I mean." she replied.
That was when the Subaru pulled up and things started to go bad.

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Bwahahahaha! A little cliff-hanger that forces you to click on the next chapter icon! Hahahaha! r/r!