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Chapter 2:
"You can stay in my old assistant's room." Hiroshi was giving Mort a tour of the apartment, although the mutant trailing behind him was still in a slight daze from the speed at which he had been pulled into the new home. "You don't have any things with you do you?" Mort shook his head. "Well you'll have to go out and do that tomorrow, but for tonight I have a few things." Mort followed him into a room where the little man started rifling through a cabinet. "Through my years of martial arts training, my students have left a good amount of clothing in my dojo. Most of them are pretty small, but then you aren't too big yourself..." Sitting on the bed, he blushed a bit. He was pretty self-conscious about his hight. A pair of karate training sweats and a T-shirt were thrown at the unsuspecting newcomer over Hiroshi's back.
The whole situation had made Mort extremely uncomfortable. WHY ISN'T ANYONE HERE WEIRDED OUT BY THE GREEN MAN! "Umm... Hiroshi? Why isn't anyone...?"
"Afraid of you? Boy, the Japanese section of China Town has been a safe-haven for mutants since there were mutants. The majority of Japanese are mutated, you know. They say it has something to do with living closer to a nuclear ground zero than any other population. This neighborhood is the headquarters of the mutant underground railroad."
A pair of yellow eyes went wide. "Are you...? And Jin...?"
"Do you think any other eighty year old man could lift a full grown man over a bridge?" He gave the small chuckle that he used so often. "Let me show you something." He walked over to the light switch, and turned off the hanging lamp that lit the room.
At first there was total darkness, then a hand-shaped light glowed from the other side of the room. Next, there was a blinding light as Hiroshi's entire body lit up with a steady glow. Mort grinned. "Cool..." The light went back on, and Hiroshi returned to normal.
"Jin has super-sonic hearing. She can probably hear us," he dropped his voice into a whisper, "right now." He sat on the bed now. "So why was a nice guy like you trying to leap off a bridge? Depressed 'cause nobody accepts your mutant abilities?"
"Naw. I just 'ad no place ta go. The last place I was with go' dissolved, and I was upset. Tha's all."
"Really? What organization? I know most of them."
"Umm... well you see, i' wasn' an entirely legal group."
"Most aren't."
Mort gave the man a long look. He had a wise, trusting look in his eyes. "The Brotherhood of Mutants."
"Well I suppose I don't have to ask how it dissolved," he laughted. Hiroshi stood and left Mort in the room to dress.
That chapter was just to get questions out of the way. REVIEW ANYWAYS!