Oh Brave New Mutant World
"Welcome to the wonderful world of new mutants, Blair Sandburg," sighed Lux, as she fell back on the couch, her breath labored, exhaustion darkening her features. "You have barely scratched it's surface."
Adam had remained in his place all the time. He knew Lux enough to be aware that, once in the grips of a vision, she shouldn't be interfered with, and couldn't be helped in anyway. If the vision was too intense, it might harm her severely, even kill her. Only her own instinct of survival protected Lux against some of her trances. "Blair, Lux is gifted with one of the rarest forms of psionic mutation, and one of the cruelest: precognition. In short, she can see the future. Besides that, in one of Breedlove's experiments, she was given the extra Molecular power to heal injuries at a cellular level, thus reconstituting damaged tissue."The anthropologist's head was swimming in information of a sort he had a hard time digesting. He was used to many forms of the occult, a shaman in his own right, but this new mutants issue was hard Science tampering with life as we knew it. He would have to have a serious conversation with Dr. Adam Kane after this crisis was over."What did you see exactly, Lux?" asked Emma."Saint Michael's church on 21st, enveloped in blue fire," answered the precognitive. "The Salamander is traveling fast."A ring sounded, announcing an incoming call over Sanctuary's special phone system. "Yes," Adam answered. "Who's speaking?"A baritone voice sounded over the intercom. "Dr. Kane?"Sanctuary's computer voice ID system immediately kicked in and the picture of a man in a crew cut lit up on the screen. "Detective Ellison!" greeted Adam, as Blair and Donna exclaimed as one, "Jim!""Dr. Kane, something came up I must inform Blair and Donna as Cascade PD, but I think you should know about it, too.""Go ahead, detective. They're here and you're on speakers," Adam urged Jim on."There was a prison break," informed Cascade's sentinel. "Callhorne Penn was invaded, or so we think. It is pretty unbelievable."The collective breath of both mutants and non-mutants in the room was suspended. "Jim, what happened exactly?" asked Blair Sandburg."The maximum security ward was turned into a rainforest!" exclaimed Jim Ellison."Ntobo..." whispered Jax."There are trees growing inside cells, vines and twine wrapped around everything and anything!" the detective sounded amazed, incapable of believing his own words. "It all sprung up in less than five minutes! Bang, we're in the middle of the bushes! All inside a concrete and steel building!""Please, go on, Jim," Adam used Ellison's first name as he nudged the detective to proceed with his report."We have two prison guards dead, hung with vines around their necks from tree limbs," continuted Ellison. "Two guards got tear gassed, but the gas didin't spread.""Panarides..." whispered Lux."Not to mention the many others found passed out from sleeping gas all around the ward," finished the detective."Lareou must feel very confident," saud Jax. "The New Order is spreading itself very thin.""Yes," replied Lux. "Allison here, the Japanese guy in Cascade, St. Michaels back home, and now this prison break back in Cascade...""How many inmates escaped, Jim?" asked Blair."Only one," was the answer.Blair and Donna looked at each other, then locked eyes with Angela and Adam. "Who escaped, Jim?" Donna Gryphon asked. But they knew the answer already."It was Alex Tremayne."A Hurricane Of Bad News
Sanctuary:
"Man, Jim! Don't joke with us like that." Blair said to his partner.