Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men Evolution. I do however own the characters Nick Seer, Rachel Baron, Monica Doe, Victor Regal, Brad Stevens, and Jill Ricardo.

A/N: well I am taking a break from my Humorous writing, to bring you a bit of action and interesting plot twists. Also in the last few disclaimers (and maybe somewhere along the story) I may have referred to Brad as Brad Rach, rather then the first name I gave him, Brad Stevens. This is because Brad Rach is my name, and often I insert myself into stories. Anyway he will be know by Brad Stevens in the story, but any time you see Rach... you'll know who I'm talking about.







"What are you doing Alvers?" Victor asked walking out of the tent and over to Lance, who was feeding a squirrel.

"Nothing."

"Why are you feeding the animal."

"Because he was hungry." Lance rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. Get suited up." Lance quickly got into his battle suit, and Victor led him on a hike. It lasted for a few hours without word, but Victor finally brought him to a small cliff. "Alright Alvers, your job is to make a path straight to the bottom.

"Can do." Lance put jabbed the spikes from his suit into the ground and it began to rumble. Dirt and rock poured from the side of the canyon, making a large mound of dirt. Lance continued to cause the dirt to fall down, and a path coming down from the mountain started to form, but it was still to low.

"Alvers..."

"I'm working on it." Lance groaned and a huge amount of rock and dirt poured from the canyon, but Lance screamed and fell to the ground exhausted.



"We are not training you to be pushovers, but soldiers!" Brad instructed strictly as the seven members of the team stood before him, several of them started to snicker. "Yeah I know, Victor was supposed to give this speech." Brad groaned.

"And?"

"Well anyway, follow the law of the U.S.A. work hard, and go home, its been a long day." Brad sighed.

"Ok gang." Jill said. "Its time for your first simulation training." She led the seven of them to a hall that was abandoned. "This room is triggered with an alarm. The object is to get to the other side without triggering the alarms. Now the object is teamwork, this may not involve all you skills, but still some may be useful." Jill flipped a switch and tons of red light lines shone across the room.

"This won't be easy." Todd sighed.

"First lets take out the camera." Fred pointed out a security camera at one side of the hall.

"That's my job." Monica slowly crept along the wall, using her powers to blend in, bending and stretching over the red lines. She made her way to the camera, and turned it around so it was facing the wall.

"Now its Remy's turn." Remy quickly flipped and jumped over the lines, making it through most, and passing Monica. However he stopped when he reached a wall of the lasers. "Some help?" A white light flashed over where the five remaining members where, and Rachel held up two mirrors.

"I'll be right there, yo." Todd took the two objects and slowly made his way through the lines. He reached where Remy was and carefully took the two mirrors and lined them up just right, so that the lights were flashing back at themselves perfectly, not triggering the alarm, and making it wide enough for Remy to get through. The Cajan dived through the beams and crept through the rest, finally ending up on the other side.

"Perfect." Jill clapped. Todd wiped some sweat off his brow and dropped one of the mirrors, it landed right on one of the beams and an alarm started blaring.

"Oops."



"You ok kid?" Lance heard Victor's voice as he came back to consciousness.

"Yeah... I'm alright..." Lance responded standing up. "I'll give it another shot." Lance looked down at his pile of dirt that was slowly forming correctly. Lance jabbed the spikes into the ground again, and the earth began falling from their side. Lance was taking it slow and calm when suddenly a second earthquake hit, and the dust was thrown back at them, creating a small storm.

"Alvers!" Victor screamed, shielding his eyes.

"It wasn't me!" Lance fell back to the ground and soon the dust storm had stopped.

"What was that?"

"I don't know." Lance caused a small tremor and waited, about a minute later he was answered with another tremor.

"Do that again." Victor ordered. Lance nodded and repeated a tremor, only to get another one back at him. Lance did this a few more times and looked back at Victor in confusion. "Its like an... after shock."

"Yeah... but this has never happened before..."



Todd, Fred, and Pietro walked down the long hall towards the elevator in the office, they had just come off a training session.

"Hold on a minute yo, I forgot my keys back in Jill's office, when she was lecturing me this morning." Todd hopped back and over to a door and looked in it. "Guys get over here!" Pietro and Fred ran over at Todd's panic filled call. Inside the office was Jill, laying on the ground, with a bullet hole through he shoulder!





A/N: Oooh suspense ^_^ the fic starts to get interesting. Is Jill dead? What is with the Earthquakes Lance and Victor are feeling, did Todd remember his keys? Find out next time.