Pete didn't know what to do. He was on a jet with two people who were mutants. Were they meteor mutants? He was afraid to trust them. All of the mutants he had met so far were insane. These two seemed better but he didn't want to chance it.

He heard the engines change as they started to descend he knew now how the jet was in the middle of some trees. He felt the jet land and Scott and Ororo got out of their seats. They moved to the back of the jet as a door opened.

"Pete you don't have to be afraid you are safe." Ororo said. "I want you to meet someone please come with me." She said as she held out a hand.

Pete stood and followed Ororo and Scott off the jet. He saw an older bald man dressed in a nice suit sitting in a wheel chair.

"Good morning Pete." The man said as he smiled a friendly smile. "I'm Professor Xavier and you are at my school for gifted youngsters." Then he turned to Scott. "Kal-El will be here any minute."

"How? We flew at near top speed." Scott said shocked.

"It seems there is a lot about Kal-El that we must learn. Or should I say Clark?" He said as he looked at Pete. Pete felt completely shocked. He didn't know why because he had already mentioned Clark's name. "Don't worry Pete his secret is in safe hands." He turned back to Scott again. "I had checked on him and he was moving at an incredible speed. Nearly keeping up with the jet."

"How do you know this?" Pete asked confused.

Xavier looked at Pete as if he were trying to decided if he should say something. Then he spoke, "You must be hungry," and he turned to Ororo. "Would you take him to his room and find him something to eat."

Pete wanted to ask Xavier how he knew again but took the hint and followed Ororo. She took him down a gray lit up hallway. After they turned down a few halls they stopped at a small room. Pete walked inside. There were no windows and a small bed.

Ororo walked up to a wall and pushed a button that Pete hadn't even seen. A panel opened and revealed a TV screen. She pushed another button and another shelf popped out to reveal a game system. "I will go get you some food. You can watch TV or play some video games. Is there anything you would like to eat?" Pete didn't say anything. He felt kind of like a prisoner but he knew he should stay put. He wasn't hungry either. "I'll just bring you whatever is in the fridge then." And she walked out of the room.

Pete sat in the room for a while just staring at the screen. Then he decided to turn on the TV. There was a stupid TV show and he flipped through the channels. "...And back to our top story Lex Luthor is still missing." Pete changed the channel then stopped. Had they said Lex? He changed the channel back. "Lex Luthor was recently married when on his flight to start his honeymoon his private jet went missing. At this time we have little information. We do know that the jet did not reach it's destination and was reported missing this morning. We will update you on this story as more information reaches us." Pete turned off the TV. Now Lex was missing. He hated him but to go missing on your honeymoon was just wrong.

* * * * *

Professor Xavier could tell that he shouldn't tell Pete at this time how he knew of Clark. He had told Ororo privately in her mind to take him to one of their "guestrooms." It was more used for students who shouldn't be around the other students until they are able to cope with them.

He remembered one of the first students to be in the room, his name was Jason Stryker. Xavier shuddered when he thought of Jason. Jason had put a hallucination in Xavier's mind. He had nearly killed all the mutants then all the humans. Jason was dead now. He had died at Alkali Lake.

Scott had been looking at him now for a minute. "Professor are you okay?"

"Yes. Kal-El had deceived you. His name is Clark Kent. The information I got from Pete is that Clark is an alien from a planet called Krypton."

"Wait, an alien?" Scott said disbelievingly.

"Yes an alien. He is the last of his kind. The meteor rock you destroyed is green kryptonite and it drains Clark of his energy. Clark is going bad because of a ring that has red kryptonite in it. The red kryptonite takes away his inhibitions."

"What? So your saying that had Storm and I stayed out of this Kal-el, I mean Clark would now be. . ."

"Sane?" Xavier said filling in the word. "From what I understand. Clark is the kindest person Pete has ever met."

"Now what do we do?"

"We'll have to try to see if we can get the ring off of him. I think you should go to the town he is from, Smallville, Kansas. There you should get some of the green kryptonite and get back here as fast as you can."

"I should stay here and help."

"Scott you won't be able to do much to help. He is virtually invulnerable. The best thing you can do is to grab the kryptonite."

Scott ran back inside the jet and started up the engine. Xavier moved back and watched the jet take off once more.

* * * * *

Bobby watched as the Jet took off again. He was wondering why Scott was leaving so soon again. He assumed it was Scott since he was the one to usually go on missions since Alkali Lake. "What do you think is going on?" He asked the girl next to him. He looked over. Every time he looked at her she took his breath away. She was so beautiful. He wished so much that he could touch her. He started to reach his hand up getting closer to her face.

"I don't know let's go see if anyone knows." Rogue said as she turned and looked at him. She paused as she saw his hand close to her face.

Bobby grabbed her glove-covered hand and they walked out of the room. They saw Peter walking down the hall. With a pile of books under one arm. Peter was a very large boy his other name was Colossus. His gift was his ability to cover himself with body armor basically turning him into steel. "Peter, do you know what is going on?"

"No, Kitty is sneaking down right now. I am going to put our books away and she is going to meet some of us in the Game Hall." Peter said with a slight Russian accent then kept walking quickly to his room.

Bobby and Rouge moved quickly to the Hall. Kitty was able to go places none of them were allowed to go given she could walk through anything. They wanted to know just as much as anyone what was going on. When they got to the room there were about ten people in there.

They ranged in age from about ten to seventeen. Bobby and Rogue moved over to the couch and sat down. The rest of the kids were on other furniture or playing games.

* * * * *

Clark finally got to the area he thought might be where the jet had landed. He could only see trees around him. Then he heard and engine very close by. He turned to his right and ran to the noise. He saw the black jet rising above a mansion. Then it took off into the distance. He fallowed the fence and found a gate.

A sign was embossed into some brass mounted on an entrance post. "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."

"So a school full of mutants." Clark smiled. "I will take care of them." He put his hand up and hit the gate. The lock busted and the gates flew open. Clark heard alarms start to blare in the mansion. "Knock knock her I come."

*****

Kitty Pryde walked through the lower level halls slowly. She knew that if she were caught sneaking around the lower levels she would be in trouble. She and Peter had been sitting in class when they saw the jet come in. As soon as class was over she handed him her books. She knew he knew she was going to see what was going on. That was how the students knew about a lot of the things that happened because she snuck around a lot.

She had been caught a few times before but she knew she would never be in serious trouble if she made sure she stayed away from Cerebro and more importantly the Danger Room. She was told that is where the X-Men did their training and if she walked into the room, it would take high security measures to get rid of her possibly killing her.

She made sure she stayed clear of that part of the lower levels. She walked through a room that held the outfits the X-Men wore when they were on a mission. She stopped at one that was probably Storm's. She couldn't wait to become one of the X-Men herself but she knew that was years down the road.

She continued through the next wall and kept walking. Then she heard a faint noise on the other side of a wall. She stopped and thought of poking her head inside. She knew she shouldn't but she wanted to know what was going on. And it was sort of her mission to find out. A lot of people were counting on her info.

She slowly walked up to the wall she knew there was a risk that whoever was in there might be pointed at her. She also knew that they could possibly not. She poked her head through the wall slowly and saw a plain room. A boy sat on a bed. She had came in beside him. She was getting ready to pull her head back out when he turned then yelled. She pulled her head out quickly and ran as fast as she could to get back up to the upper levels.

She knew she was in trouble. Then an alarm went off. "I didn't do that." She said to her self.