Attention: Generation X and their villians, as well as any other mutant mentioned in this story, is property of Marvel Comics. The character Richard Cale is named after family relations. Any other reference to anything copywrighted is a chance happening.

Old Threat, Old Face, New Threat, Old Face

Old Face, New Foe

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I. Emma
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Emma looked over at her captor as he just sat and watched her hanging there. She knew she was in a dangerous situation. She knew that the collar he had placed on her was preventing her psyonic abilities, but she had doubts about who he was working for. Originally, she had thought he was working for Emplate, but Emplate wouldn't have his group kill them. She looked at him and ask the question on her mind. "Did my sister tell you to do this?"

She watched as he looked and said, "I doubt it. I doubt that your sister is younger than you." She was almost certain that Adrienne might have something to do with this, but now she wondered who it was. He said she was younger than her, which meant to her that his boss was female. She started to wonder if the new student was the head of this little gang, when her captor looked behind her and said, "Hey boss, she thinks your her sister. Isn't that a laugh?" She then watched as her captor yelled in agony.

Her eyes went wide in fright, mainly because she knew who his boss was. It was the one person she didn't expect it to be, but should have realized it. Her fears were confirmed when she heard a familiar voice say, "Sorry, Ms. Frost, but you're not letting anyone know." She felt a blow hit her head, and she was loosing consciousness, she heard her attacker say, "This is for that cage you put me in."

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II. Freeze Frame
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Freeze Frame slowly got up from the psi-blast his boss gave him. Apparently he had said too much, and the boss was upset. As he got up, he heard her say, "You idiot. Do you want to botch this operation up now? Do you know what will happen if this fails?" He could tell by her tone that it would be something bad, but part of him wanted to know. He shook his head and she said, "I've already promised to hand Richard Cale over to a being called Emplate. He feeds on mutants. He'd love to feed on Richard Cale, but if I can't deliver Richard Cale to him, I'm gonna substitue some one from the group, and guess who's front runner for substitution."

He was scared now. He started to back away from her and said, "Why me, why not Golden or Q.T." Honestly, he wanted to see Q.T. gone more than Golden.

His boss closed in on him and said, "Because, Golden can't speak and he's proven very useful. I've seen Q.T. in action, and have no doubt that she can take out every guy here with her new physique. Besides, she loathes Richard Cale, because he stopped her killing spree a few years back."

He was half surprised by this. He didn't know the past Q.T. had, and didn't realize how expendable he had become. He was almost grasping for his words as he said, "W-what about the plan?"

His boss smiled and said, "You break Golden out and get Yvette Cale here. Be careful how you bind her. I don't want her to wake up and break free. Then prepare to stage an escape with Q.T. That's when everying will go down." He nodded and she left. He knew the extent of his dilemma now. He didn't want to die, and if he failed, he might as well be dead.

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III. Quinn
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Quinn sat in the lounge with the rest of the students at the school, except for one, but she knew why that student wasn't there. Angelo was sitting next to her. Daria and Mondo were sitting on another seat, and Darrett was standing over in a corner with a man she had never seen before. As they all sat there, she leaned over and softly asked Angelo, "I know I'm new here, but why is everyone so worried about Yvette?"

Angelo looked at her in the eyes. She could tell he was entranced by her charm, and maybe her new look had a part in it. "Well, you see, Yvette was a prisoner of the being named Emplate. He feeds off mutants like us. On our first days, Yvette was left here, and Emplate attacked us trying to get her back."

She then heard Mondo say, "She was very scared. It wasn't until Rich came that she started to speak aloud." She hated to hear that. Rich had ruined all her plans a few years ago.

She did wonder how Rich had managed this, because it might explain how her ruinned her plans. "How did Rich do this?" She felt finding the answer to that question would mean getting an answer to Rich's discovery of her tasks back at college.

Quinn was almost startled when she head Sean say, "Rich's ability is to fully mimic a mutants ability. In some cases, he doesn't have to fear about the mutants ability affecting him." That must have been it, the reason she couldn't kill him, or comatose him at the college. She then noticed that Sean was still looking at her as he said, "Quinn, I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your past, like what happened at yur old school."

She was wondering if he suspected that she was the one who put Yvette in a coma. She had to think quick, and it hit her. "Well, Mr. Cassidy, I was a freshman at my college, Elizabethtown College."

She watched as Sean nodded and said, "I know that ye went there, but it appears that Rich had gone there as well."

She had to really lie now, and hope that he would buy it. "I can't verify if he was there at the same time or not. I tended to stay with a small group, which had included my boyfriend at the time. We were very close until one day when I stepped out of the room for a moment, and when I returned, he was dead." She started to cry, as if it had bothered her. She felt Angelo put his hand on her shoulder. She continued by saying, "My roommate, who never liked me from day one, said I was the murderer and said I was an evil mutie. I had never told her I was a mutant."

She heard Angelo say, "That's terrible."

She then heard Sean say, "Hmmm, well, I was wondering what had happened that you left your old school. Anyhow, Rich is on his way back everyone, and maybe we can get some words out of our silent attacker down there."

As Sean left, she watched as Darrett and the other man left to follow. She then said to Angelo, "Angelo, could you come walk with me to my room. I just feel all worked up after reliving that terrible memory." She watched as Angelo nodded and with that, she lead him off to her room. Soon, another of Generation X would fall.

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IV. Darrett
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Darrett followed Sean and when he felt they were out of earshot of the other room, he said to Sean, "Sean, do you think Quinn is at the bottom of this?" He suspected her, but what Daria had said earlier struck a note.

He heard Sean say, "Lad, I don't know. It is weird, but we don't even know how the attacker got in. That lock's combination is know only by Rich, Yvette, myself and Emma. I doubt Emma had told them."

He watched as Henry, his almost constant compainion said, "You know, Darrett mentioned to me that they think there might be a spy here. He hates to think it's a member of the team." It was true, he had mentioned that to Herny.

He watched as Sean stopped short of the Med-Center. Something in Darrett knew that Sean was thinking about that very scenerio. He watched as Sean shook his head and said, "I don't think it's that. If it was that, we'd have to check Mondo, Daria, Angelo, Monet, and yourself. If there is a spy here, they are hiding themselves well."

Darrett thought about it. None of the others had a reason to do something like this. He wondered what could be happening when he heard a slight crunch. He looked over at Henry who was looking around the corner and said, "Henry, what was that sound?"

He watched as Herny looked down and said, "Apparently glass from the broken window over here at the med center." Darrett saw the look of horror cross Sean's face. He knew what Sean was thinking.

As they turned the corner, he could tell he was right. "They took Yvette." He watched as Sean brought up a security camera trained on the room where they placed the captured attacker, but the screen didn't light up.

Sean shout aloud, "Damn, they got that boy out of there and took Yvette. How did they get by the security." Now things were really getting bad. First Emma was gone, now Yvette was gone. Deep down, Darrett knew that Quinn couldn't have done this. She was with Angelo, unless. No, he didn't want to think that. He didn't want to think that Angelo had betrayed them. He then said, "I'm sure now that Quinn isn't our third attacker. This happened when I was looking for her. She was with you and Angelo, right Darrett."

He nodded and said, "Yea, she was, as well as Daria and Mondo. The only person not there was Monet." He then had another gastly thought.

He saw Sean look at him and say, "I have an idea about what yur thinking, and it can't be. Emma and Monet both made sure Claudette couldn't escape. Maybe Aura is here." He nodded. It had to be that. It couldn't be Claudette. He then saw Sean run off in the direction of the main hall. He followed, and saw that Henry was following as well. He made Henry disappear. He didn't need Henry right now, but he might need something with strength if an attack was starting up again.

When they reached the main hall, he saw Rich running in the front door. He saw how worked up Rich was. He wasn't surprised when Rich asked, "Sean, what happened to Yvette?" He knew how much the two cared for each other, even in his own timeline, they cared for each other.

Sean just said, "We found her unconscious, like she was in a coma. Now she's missing, and the attacker we had captured escaped."

Darrett watched as Rich pulled out a picture and said, "Was she one of the attackers?" He was almost in shock. The face in the picture was Quinn.

He heard a gasp as Monet entered the room. It had been the first time he had seen her since the attack. "That's Quinn. She was entering her room with Angelo." He then watched as Rich went pale and he ran off. Soon, he followed with the others.

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V. Angelo
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Angelo couldn't have believe that Quinn wanted to be with him, but he wasn't going to ignore it. Quinn was cute, but she seemed different then yesterday. As they sat in her room, he said to her, "You went to school at the same college Rich did. What was it like there?"

He watched as she sat closer to him and said, "Well, there were more girls than guys there, but I think I was the cutest there. I think that's why they blamed me for the murders. They were jealous of my looks, and how all the guys liked me."

Angelo was a bit startled by that, and then said, "Didn't that bother your boyfriend at all?" He started to notice something as she was sitting closer to him. Her build was almost similar to Yvette's.

Quinn looked him in the eye and said, "It did, but when I kissed him, he forgot about it. I think I have a kiss no one can forget." She then winked at him. "You know, you do remind me of him. You're as sexy as he was. You're not seeing anyone, are you?"

Angelo looked at her and said, "No, but I'd like to be dating you." He was almost surprised when she pulled him down so that they were lying on the bed, and she kissed his cheek. He looked at her and said, "You like to go fast, but what if someone comes in here?"

She smiled devilishly and said, "They can't. I locked the door." He started to realize that she had this planned. She then started to kiss him on the lips. As she kissed him, he though he heard a knocking on the door. The knocking got louder, like someone was trying to get in. He then saw her eyes. There was an evil look in them. He realized that she didn't like him. She was doing something to him. Then it hit him. Quinn was the one who made Yvette go unconscious, and she was doing the same to him. He noticed that his skin was oozing off him, like he was loosing his concentration, and he was.

Soon, he felt drifted into unconsciousness.

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VI. Rich
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As Rich ran through the halls, he heard Sean say, "Rich, you mean our new student is the third attacker, but how did ye know." He couldn't believe that she was a new student. Something more was happening. She had to have been planted there. She had help, but who would help her.

As they made there way to the girls dorm, he said, "Quinn Taylor was at my college when a bunch of murders happened. No one knew how all the victims were being murdered. Then I sort of stumbled across the murderer. It was Quinn. I was suppose to be her next victim. She usually butters some guy up before she saps their energy with her kiss."

He heard Monet say, "You mean she plans to kill Angelo with her kiss?"

He shook his head. "No, Quinn can only make a mutant unconscious. Also, she can steal looks from women if she kisses them."

He heard Darrett say, "Which would explain why Yvette won't wake up." When they reached the door to the room Quinn had, he started to ram it. He heard Darrett say, "I knew that girl was no good."

Rich then said, "My question is, how did she get into the apartment, unless she had help. I know Yvette, and she would lock the door at night." He started to wonder if Apocaylpse had some how gotten onto the campus. Just as the thoughts entered his head, he said, "No, he can't be here."

He heard another person ramming the door, and saw Sean putting his all into it. He heard his teacher and father-in-law say, "Who can't be here, Emplate?" He shook his head and he saw the look on Sean's face. "Ye mean Apocalypse, don't ye?" He nodded, and Sean said, "I definately doubt that, but ye must have a reason to worry?"

As they continued to ram at the door, he said, "He got into the company, set up a project to connect to the age where he ruled. Something came through, but I terminated the project. He said he did it for gathering information."

As they continued to hammer on the door, he heard Monet say, "Do you know why he was there?"

Rich just continued pounding on the door, "He said he was looking into his advesary. It scares me, and I wonder if he's behind the attacks." Soon the door gave way, and he saw Quinn openning a window. He also saw Angelo unconscious on the bed. He looked at her and said, "You bitch."

She smiled and said, "You ruined my fun. Now I'm gonna ruin you." He watched as she jumped out the window. He ran over and saw another man a few paces away. She said to him, "Come on, Freeze Frame, has Golden got our guest to the hideout." He saw the guy nod and they ran off.

He went to jump out the window when Sean grabbed his arm. "Skitz, ye can't go charging after them. Not alone at least."

Rich nodded and said, "You're right, Banshee. And the others should search for Emma and Yvette. I don't think they are heading to where the others are being kept."

He heard M say, "I'll go with you Rich. You might need some telepathic help." He nodded and she said, "We all have to be careful. Look at what happen to Skin."

He cringed when he saw Angelo lying there. At least Angelo wasn't dead. He heard Banshee say, "Alright, you two start out, I'll get the rest, and we'll get Skin to the med center." When that was said, he and M jumped out the window.

As they followed the trail, he softly said to M, "M, do you have any idea who might be helping them. I don't know who's the mastermind of all this." He then noticed that M was staying about 5 feet behind him. He thought that she was going to allow him to use their ability against them. He then heard voices up ahead.

He stopped short and listened careful as he heard Quinn say, "Now, all we have to do is wait for the boss, and I hope she shows up soon." He saw her and noticed that her figure was changing. He wondered if that meant Yvette was going to be awake soon.

Sure enough, in his head, he heard her say, "Rich, can you hear me?"

He heard the worry in her voice and said, "Yes, my love, I hear you. I've found the attackers. Where are you?" He was worried about her.

He then heard her voice, a bit panicked, say, "I'm with Emma. Be careful, there leader is..." He didn't hear the name, because at that time, he felt a punch from behind.

He hit the ground hard, and looked back to see his attacker. He realized who Yvette was trying to warn him about. The true leader of the band was right there looking at him. As he looked at them, it took the last of his strength to say their name. "Claudette."