Wolverine sniffed the air and paused mid step. He was doing patrol around the grounds, too paranoid about another attack to sleep. Not to mention Professor Xavier had requested that the Canadian do what he could to keep the children safe. And that was what he was prepared to do, especially as a strangely familiar scent filtered through the air.

"Some people don't learn." He growled.

He heard the snap of twigs and the crunching of leaves and carefully made his way toward the intruder. He realized quite quickly that his foe was invisible somehow and now aware of his presence. That didn't matter, Wolverine was more of an accomplished warrior than most of the mutant's he had fought. He popped his claws out and prepared to take on the intruder with all the skill he possessed, anything to protect his charges.

"Easy wolf-man, I come in peace." A voice spoke from the shadows a few feet to Logan's right side.

Wolverine growled and turned to face the intruder's voice. "You're that shadow wielding punk."

"Yeah, and I believe some of my teammates are in your care." Kyran replied. "And I need to speak with Professor Xavier about rescuing our captured teammates."

"You're welcome to join your teammates, bub, but we ain't doin' anything 'til tomorrow." Logan replied.

Logan watched as Kyran suddenly appeared, frowning at him through the early morning darkness. "No Mr. Logan, we can't wait until tomorrow, or later today in this case."

"And why not?"

"Because by then there'll be three times as many guards and they'll all be walking around." Kyran explained. "Right now there's a handful of guards on grave shift and most of them are lazily relaxing in the watch rooms."

Logan sighed. "We'll take this up with the Professor, see what he says."

Inside the mansion many of the students couldn't sleep. Thoughts of what was to take place kept them up with worry Roman5?[?]nts in the whole mansion slept without a worry and that was Kurt and Brody. Brody was wrapped in Kurt's arms with the lanky mutant curled around him. They breathed in unison as they dreamed peaceful things. Both were unaware of the meeting that was going on several floors above them.

"How do you know so much about what goes on there? Weren't you locked up?" Logan demanded.

Kyran grinned. "Please, as if a door could keep Shadow caged up. What he knows, I know." His grin faded and was replaced with a deep frown. "Besides, I was dragged through those halls often enough to know everything about how that place's security is run."

"Then, you believe it would be best for us to act now and not wait for daytime?" Xavier asked.

"If we wait until the afternoon or early evening there'll be at least three times as many guards as there is now." Kyran said. "By then they'll be doing fights, punishments, and all sorts of things. The halls will be full and there'll be no way we could sneak in there."

Xavier thought about that with an unsure frown on his face. "I will not send my students in without some kind of plan."

"Listen, I know that place like the back of my hand. I know how it runs, I know schedules, and I know its weaknesses." Kyran said. "You want in there, I can get you in there and I can get all the mutants out. I'm your best shot at succeeding."

"I have no doubt of that." Xavier replied. He rubbed his fingers against his temples. "Logan, wake the students and the Brotherhood members. Have them gather in the living room. Kyran if you would please head down there we can discuss a plan of action."

Within a few minutes all of the X-men, New Mutants, and the Brotherhood were gathered in the living room with the exceptions of Kurt, Brody, and Jamie who was too young to go on any missions. Xavier was surprised to find most of his students fully awake with only a few looking bleary eyed. Kyran was greeted happily by his three friends, but they all calmed down rather quickly.

"Alright Kyran, you seem to have a plan." Xavier said.

Kyran stood up and moved to stand so he was facing the rather large and impressive group. "The Facility is heavily guarded, even at this time of the morning. There are no less that a hundred guards on duty, as well as automatic defenses, attack dogs guarding the perimeter, and only a few entrances due to the fact it's half underground."

"Then how are we supposed to get in there?" Bobby asked.

"Simple. Most of the defenses require electricity from a nearby mini power generator. The generator is also heavily guarded, but quite easily taken out. Since the main building and all its defenses require a huge amount of electricity it will take them a good thirty minutes to get the back up generator running." Kyran explained.

"What do we do once the power is out? Won't the guards have some kind of back up plan?" Scott pointed out.

"They have two equipment rooms, one on each level. However, due to the security measures they take to insure the mutants don't get into the equipment rooms and arm themselves it'll take the guards five minutes to get in and get the night vision goggles." Kyran said.

"That's not much time to play with." Scott commented. "That's hardly enough time to get inside."

Kyran shook his head. "You don't seem to understand. With the power knocked out the imprisoned mutants will see their chance for escape. There'll be an uprising at the same time we're breaking in."

"He'sss right. That'll get the attention of many of the guardsss. There will be much confusssion and that will give usss the cover we need to get in and ressscue our teammatesss." Cody spoke up.

"More than that." Kyran said. "We're going to blow that place once and for all so they can't recapture mutants like they did last time."

"Blow it? No way, what about all the people that might be hurt." Scott argued. His sentiments were echoed by many of the others.

Kyran growled and turned his fierce black eyes to Scott. "You're a fool Summers. If we don't blow the place to hell they'll just recapture all the mutants that escape. They'll come after us all. But if they don't have a place to lock us up they can't exactly do that."

"I am afraid this is one case when I must agree with this kind of course of action." Xavier agreed. "However, we will give everyone the proper warning and time to get out."

"Wait!" Kitty called out. "You said the place is mostly underground, right?"

"Right." Kyran and Cody replied.

"Then we could just have Lance level the place. That way we can warn everyone inside to get out and give them enough time without giving them the time to disarm a bomb." Kitty suggested.

Kyran looked thoughtful at that. He glanced to Cody, who was actually a lot smarter than most people would have taken the snake boy for. Cody nodded his agreement with the plan. Kyran then looked toward Xavier and nodded.

"That should work. As long as that hellhole doesn't survive I don't care how it's destroyed." The shadow-wielding mutant said. "No more mutants should be put through that."

"Bear in mind that Lance may not be up to the tasssk." Cody commented. "There isss no telling what isss happening to Fred and him both."

"Blowing the place should be a back up plan then." Pietro spoke up for the first time. "No matter what it has to be destroyed."

"What is it with men and blowing things up, have we figured that out yet?" Kitty asked Jean.

"Nope." The older girl replied.

Xavier rubbed his temples and sighed. "Kyran, I leave it to you and Professor Logan to form a plan. Those students you do not plan on taking are to return to their beds."

For the following hour Logan and Kyran worked out a plan with Scott helping and some of the other mutants chiming in with ideas and suggestions. By the time the sun was just starting to light the sky the mutant's were on the move with a perfectly worked out plan. The students were separated into teams. Cannonball, Bezerker, Magma, and Spyke were to take out the power plant by any means necessary. Cyclops, Jean, Shadowcat, and Wolverine would help mutants get out and to the safety of an abandoned house Kyran said was not far from the Facility. Quicksilver, Toad, Shadow Knight, Venom, and Iceman were to find the captured Brotherhood members and make sure they got out safely.

Unknown to anyone else Kyran and Cody had secondary plans. They planned to make sure their friends got out and nothing was going to stop them this time. Nothing.