Visions and Burns

Lux looked around the small room where they all sat. Jax looked at her and grinned.

Kind of Rag-tag, aren't they?

Lux giggled behind her hand.

We aren't exactly a well disciplined machine either.

Lux took a quick inventory of their people. Revolution laid on a couch with her head in Jesse's lap, popping her gum and humming a rock song while Jesse read a book. Brennan and Cat were talking quietly as were Angela, Shalimar and the latest arrival Donna Gryphon. Emma and Adam were pouring over some of the intel that Lux had given them with Donna's fiancé Blair.

"Adam?" she asked "Are you ready?"

Mutant X's leader nodded. Lux walked over to the large screen that Brennan and Jesse had set up.

"Max?" she asked as she turned it on.

"Gimme a second, Boss," said a heavy Boston accented voice.

The screen crackled and a handsome dark haired boy emerged.

"Maximilian!" yelled Revolution.

"Hey! Revolution!" yelled Max Monroe grinning broadly "So your an Mx'er now?"

She lifted her hand and pointed to the band of silver.

"Full Fledged."

"Excellent," he replied.

"Max!" yelled Jax "focus!"

"Sorry," he replied a sheepish grin settling over his boyish face.

"Please Max," said Lux "The footage from Detroit?"

He pushed his thick glasses up over his head and his eyes went black. The screen crackled once again and Max's face was replaced by the carnage that was once Detroit's financial district.

"Who could have done this?" asked Angela.

"Bree Williams," replied Lux.

"She's Nicky's girl," said Jax.

"Who's Nicky?" asked Blair.

"Max? pull up picture of Nickolas Lareou," said Jax.

Emma's disgust was easily viewed when the picture of Nickolas came up. Lux linked her hand with Emma's and squeezed it.

"Nickolas Lareou, 34. Has a rap sheet longer than Static's and Mine put together," said Jax "A Sonic Elemental, he began putting The New Order together soon after his release from prison."

Jax saw it first, the way Lux's hands started to shake.

"Boss?" asked Jax.

"A vision," she whispered and closed her eyes, a pale hand clutched her chest and her breathing slowed to an almost deadly quiet.

"Isn't someone going to help her?" asked Donna.

Blair and Angela both started to rise to their feet, Jax stood in the way, her eyes flashing.

"Sorry Hawkgirl," she whispered "But I can't let ya interfere."

The heat was intense as screams ripped into Lux's skull like a knife. Then she saw it, a church, large and gothic looking.

"St. Micheals on 21'st street," she whispered "Send them out."

"Max!" yelled Jax "Patch me to Oliver."

Nickolas's picture faded and a large man took his place.

"Oliver, Saint Mike's." she said "Go now!"

The man nodded and the screen went black. Jax and Emma helped Lux back up and Cat gasped at the burns that went up and down Lux's arms.

"What the hell?" she asked.

Lux smiled and her eyes faded white. She placed her right hand on her arm and the burns faded away.

"Who the hell are you people?" asked Blair.