Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters except Ember.

I have had a couple of comments about Ember's powers. Fire: sort of like Pyro's except not as powerful. She can shoot small fire balls and control small fires but not big ones. Telepathy: she can fly and move small objects but not huge ones and she can't read or control minds. Touch: She can't observe other people's powers for long times... it takes putting the people on their death beds before she can hold the power for longer than a 1/2 of hour.

Sorry I had to jump around a little bit.


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(May)


Over the past months from December to May, Ember and Alex had grown very close. It was now obvious that the two were a couple in the mansion. Ember had even started overcoming her mutation. She could now hold her power off for a half an hour without draining a persons life energy. Rogue too had begun this and was excited because of being able to touch too.


Alex, Ember, Jubes, and Bobby had been training with the X-Men and all made huge additions to the team. Although the run-in with Wanda was a tough blow to their self-esteem, non of them had a major fight yet. That was going to change though...


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"X-Men please report to the dressing area than the War Room please," came a telepathic message to the X-Men students. The X-Men left what they were doing and hurriedly went to the dressing room.


Jubilee and Ember put on their new uniforms. Jubilee's had an outfit that looked somewhat like Kitty's. She wanted yellow where the blue was but Professor Xavier made her keep a dark color because yellow would stand out more if they went into hiding. She had her shoulder length black hair pulled half way back.

Ember's was similar to Rogue's but where Rogue's had green Ember had grey. Her long auburn hair was pulled back into a pony tail reaching just below her mid-back with her bangs hanging down.


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The X-Men met in the War Room to find out what was going on. Professor Xavier informed them.


"It seems not only has Magneto and his group arrived downtown but Juggernaut is also there as well." Professor told them showing the X-Men a layout of Bayville's downtown district. Professor had the news on and it showed from a helicopter where Juggernaut was positioned on 4th Street.


"Once you arrive at the sight I want you guys to go after Juggernaut. First that way we will handle him. At least when we go after Magneto we won't have to worry about him. Everyone head out."


The group went to the X-Jet. Ember sat in-between Rogue and Alex.

"How powerful is this Juggernaut anyway?" questioned Ember.


"Ah don't know," replied Rogue. "He was tuff the last time we 'ad to face him."

All of a sudden Kitty popped up above the seat in front of the three. "Where do you like think Wolverine is like at?"


"Ah don't know," Ember replied. "He's been missin for two weeks now."


"Maybe he went back ta Canada. He does that sometimes." Rogue told them.


The X-Jet started to jolt a little as it went to land. Kitty quickly turned around in her seat and sat down.


"You be careful when we go into battle," Havoc (Alex) told Ember and took her gloved hand in his.


"Same for ya," was her reply.

Rogue just rolled her eyes.


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I'm not sure if I will be able to post the next chapter tomorrow because I have a swim meet but I'll try. If anything it might be later at night though.


I just wanted to say a quick thanks to those of you who reviewed. Thanks Rogue and evilbon32.