Revelations

Revolution watched Cat enter the kitchen together with Angela. "That bitch of a sister of yours hurt you again, didn't she? If I ever catch that Silver..." she whispered.

Angela looked directly into Cat's eyes and placed a hand on the feral's shoulder. "Listen to me, everybody has a past. Most of us aren't really proud of it. If you worked for Eckhart, Adam worked at Genomex FOR 20 YEARS! How about that? And Brennan was a full fledged crook. Come to think of it, he should be in jail!" said Angela.

Cat laughed at the look on Brennan's face.

"Hey...Don't leave me out." said Revolution as she sat on Jesse's lap "If he's a crook then so am I!"

Cat laughed at the almost offended look on her best friend's face.

"I was institutionalized," exclaimed Shalimar.

"I conned women into buying things they didn't need," offered Emma.

"I once phased through the stage during a play," Jesse said.

Everyone looked at him. Revolution squeezed his hand, he had told her this story. About how he had been so glad that he had gotten a part in the play but had been so nervous he had phased through the stage during an important part of the play. A group of boys had beaten him up later for screwing up the play.

"I was lucky," he whispered.

"The point is," Adam began, "nobody came into the world for a walk in the park. We all carry baggage, we all have things we're not proud of. But we carry on. We try to correct what we did wrong, there's nothing else we can do. Now, deal with the past and go on to the future. We have a job to do. Riley? Emma? What did you find out?"

Revolution stood up. "Em, you bring those papers in?" she asked.

"I'll get them," Emma replied.

"Its cool, I got 'em," said Revolution as a folder full of papers floated in.

Cat laughed. "Sometimes I forget how handy you kinetics are," she laughed.

Revolution smiled at her then joined Emma at her place at the head of the table.

"So? What did you find?" asked Adam.

Revolution slid onto the counter and gestured Emma to begin.

"Well..."Emma exclaimed leaning against the counter "While Rev was working I stumbled across an article about the death of three Japanese business men. At first it looked pretty innocent, while as innocent as an arson case can look but then I read the fire chief description of the fire"

Adam nodded and gestured her to continue.

"It was nearly identical to the fire at Allison's loft," she exclaimed.

"Only in this case it was three businessmen that died in the same fire?" asked Adam.

"There has never been a case of SHC with more than a single victim" Angela said.

"It wasn't one fire." Emma said "Three men, three offices, three fires, three nearly identical times of death."

"Same building, three offices, three victims?" asked Adam.

The two psionics nodded.

"And all this with little to no structural damage," said Revolution passing out the crime scene photos she 'borrowed' from the Tokyo police.

"Any other cases?" asked Angela.

"The leader of an Palestinian terrorist faction, The Pro Peace Pakistani ambassador. A doctor in England, a child prodigy in Florida and an Australian physicist." said Revolution.

"There are cases popping up all over the globe?" asked Adam.

Revolution nodded "Enough to be worried, not enough to cause global panic."

"Enough to suggest that they're done by the same person?"

Revolution nodded.

"Anything else?" asked Angela.

"When I was running through the CIA's database. I saw the name AirCorp but it didn't quite click on who it was until Em mentioned it. The CIA was looking into AirCorp after receiving intelligence that suggested that they had been selling highly explosive materials to a group that calls themselves "The New Order."" said Revolution.

"Wait...What's the New Order?" asked Cat.

""Well...I wasn't sure at first, but then I called Lux." Replied Emma "New Order is a highly connected New Mutant terrorist faction."

"They attacked Lux's Ring and kidnapped her daughter, Alex. We have to be sure they're involved" Said Adam.

"As if Lux would have it any other way," said Jesse.

Shalimar nodded.

"Does Lux know what happened?" she asked.

"Yes, I told her. She sends her love to the Family of New Mutants and The Ring will light a candle for Allison.  Her portrait will be placed in the Hall of Sorrows," replied Emma.

"Riley, if there were cases of SHC popping up all over the world and the New Order might be involved, I need to talk to a friend of mine. You, Emma, Jesse and Angela, meet me in the main computer room." said Adam "Brennan, you, Cat and Shalimar, check the security measures on the Underground. I don't want surprises"

Revolution nodded.

"How is Lux?" asked Jesse as they walked.

"Worried," replied Emma "And if someone can make a woman like Lux worried...I'm more than a little nervous."

"Lux doesn't scare easily. If the New Order has something to do with Allison's murder, we'll need all the help we can get." Said Adam "Lets go"



Rabbi, Shalom

Adam entered the computer room where Jesse, Emma, Revolution and Angela were waiting for him carrying a strange object in his hand. It looked like a large black cloth disc. "What is that?" asked Emma.

"A kippah," answered Angela, while Adam clipped the piece of cloth to the top of his head.

"A what?" asked Rev.

"The traditional Jewish head cover."

Emma couldn't help herself. "Are you Jewish?"

"You know the answer to that question," Adam smiled.

"None of my damn business, I know." Emma smiled back.

"The man I'll talk to is Jewish, though, an ultra-orthodox Jew," he explained. "I can't even talk to him with my head uncovered, he'd be offended. His name is Menachem Meir ben Shlomo. His business is to know what happens in the world. Specially what others want to keep secret. Ladies, please, out of sight."

Typing a command in the digital keyboard, the holographic image of an elderly gentleman, his head covered by a large black hat, with curls dropping from either temple and a long beard came into view. "Rabbi Meir, shalom," started Adam, and the two men engaged in a conversation in a fast paced and strange sounding language.

"What gibberish is that?" Jesse asked no-one in particular.

"Hebrew," mouthed Angela. "This man must be Mossad."

The conversation took a long time and the only thing the four younger mutants could see was that Adam asked the questions and the old gentleman answered them. And that Adam's face darkened as the conversation proceeded. After a while, Adam respectfully thanked the old man and turned the hologram off. "Huston, we have a problem," he said, unclipping the kippah and rubbing his eyes.