AN: Just so they can fit the new Hellfire Club members will be given different ranks then in the comics.

BACK TO SCHOOL

CHAPTER 3: MEETINGS

Outside the mansion and a plain blue car pulled up to it. Out stepped a man in his mid to late forties, he had a small trim beard, slim but not too much with a smoking jacket and slight grey hair just touching his temples. He carried himself with a slight air of authority but it wasn't imposing. His name was Daniel Campbell, and he was the new principle of Bayville High school.

He looked at the large mansion and even though he had been told about it, it was still a sight to see. The man walked up to the front door and knocked on the glass double doors. He didn't have to wait long for a young Native American girl with her dark hair in two braids that came down over her shoulders. She opened the door for him, "Are you here to see Professor Xavier?"

He nodded politely to the young woman, it was odd this was the first mutant he had actually met and she seemed so normal that you'd never would have thought that she was something other then human. Personally he didn't feel strongly for or against mutants. "Yes I am, can you take me to him?"

She smiled and nodded, "Of course, just follow me." He walked through the mansion looking impressed with everything. There were things here that would take a year's worth of pay to afford, at the moment he was a bit envious of all of this and just wondered how Xavier managed to afford all of this? He was led to a room with an open door, looking in he saw Xavier sitting behind a desk. He knew the man from TV appearances in Washington when Mutants were first exposed to the world.

His office was large and looked like that of a headmaster. He noticed that the girl was now gone and he stepped forward and nodded his head politely to Xavier. "Professor Xavier."

"Mr. Campbell, please have a seat," he gestured to a chair that he graciously took. Xavier was trying to figure this man out but was also keeping out of his mind, he didn't like to go in uninvited and even though he wanted to know what kind of man this was like it was best not to destroy any trust me might gain from him.

The new principle took a seat across from Xavier, "Well now I hope you don't mind me getting to the point, I still have to set up the new school year with a few things and I was lucky to fit this meeting in." He said respectfully to Xavier.

Professor X knew that he was a busy man and was thankful for this personal meeting. He had been talking to the school board as well as the governor of the state in order to have his students have the right to be able to go to school since they were guaranteed an education under the law. It had taken a month but he had managed to get his students back on a trial basis at least. "Well then I'm here because I wanted to meet you face to face and to ensure that we both have an understanding of the rules about your students."

"Of course and I appreciate the candour and personally seeing me."

Campbell nodded, "Very well as you know there will be no powers while school is on session inside the school especially anything destructive."

"Well you must know that some of their powers can't be just turned off and some are still learning to control them fully." Xavier linked his hands together as he thought about those students, "There is also that some of them have their emotions linked to their powers."

"I see," And he did he knew how teenagers were and controlling their emotions wasn't exactly high on their priority. "Well I won't tolerate any blatant and dangerous use of powers and if it results in property damage then you can be assured that I will not want them in my school. Anything else…Well we'll see how it is, it could be anything from being sent home, suspension, detention or expulsion in the worst case scenario."

"That is acceptable." Xavier nodded.

"Very well then now I read a few incidents with other students. Now I can read between the lines and know that for the most part your students were hassled so I will not tolerate that. Everyone deserves a decent education. But they are not to use their powers in fights, as I understand it a few could easily send others to the hospital."

"That is correct but I teach my students to try and avoid fights," What he didn't say was he also trained them to fight without powers just in case. Although he hoped it didn't come to that.

They continued on with a few things, about how they were to act at school and he made it clear that even though he wouldn't be as hard on them as Kelly had been he wouldn't play favourites either and would call it down the middle. He would be fair but impartial and he would make it clear to the teachers that they were to be the same as well if they wanted to keep their jobs. He had been all for civil rights movement back in his day and had been part of that million man march as well in his youth.

They hammered out a few last details and they said goodbye to each other. He had to admit Xavier seemed like a very cultured and caring man. He didn't envy him though, it had to be very hard to live in a world that feared and hated mutants not to mention to keep his students safe as well as give them a future.

As he left the mansion he got into his car and left for home. When he was a few blocks from the mansion his car phone went off, he sighed wondering who it could be. He touched the conference mode, he may not like the idea of phones in cars but as least this way he could focus more on the road and keep both hands on the wheel unlike those people with cell phones.

"Hello?" He asked a bit annoyed.

"Mr. Campbell," Said a cultured and smooth voice on the other end of the phone line.

He immediately went tense at the voice he knew who it was at least in part. All he knew was that he was a very powerful and influential person. "Yes, I'm sorry I didn't know it was you sir."

"No offence taken, I take it you just finished your meeting by now."

"Yes I told him that I'm allowing his students there under certain conditions."

"Just remember that I am paying you good money to not only allow mutants in that school of yours but to make sure they stay in there. We have plans for them and we can't have them being banned or anything else for our experiments and tests of Xavier's mutants."

"Yes I understand it might not be easy with the PTA and other groups against this."

"Leave that to me," With that the line went dead and Campbell really didn't want to know how he was going to do that, he really didn't. When he took this job he thought it was just another job but then he was contacted by these people and he learned that there were people in this world with enough power to shake the planet to its core. He never felt so small in his life after that but they made him an offer that he literally couldn't refuse. It wasn't the money, it was the fact they threatened his family that made him do this.

Worst thing was he could tell no one and he only hoped that whatever they wanted with Xavier's people he hoped that it wasn't anything dangerous. At least that's what he told himself at night to sleep.

-Hellion Boarding School-

Their home in Bayville which had been built over the ruins of the old Brotherhood Boarding house was now complete. It had a large brick walls around it and the building itself was three stories and a mansion in its own right. It was in fact much like the X-Men's home except for design of the place. It help a state of the art security around the place as well as lavish rooms and all of it state of the art and very expensive. Each room was more like a hotel room them a dorm room. Below the surface however were training areas of various modes. This place unlike Xavier's was built to weed out the week and make sure that the strong survived.

The Hellions took evolution to its full meaning, that only the strong survive and only the strong made it in this world. At the moment they had just finished a training regiment and were now in a small auditorium that served as a briefing room. Here they watched old training footage to help them increase their skills and also to plan out their objectives.

In the front stood Emma Frost the leader of the Hellion squad. "Well we certainly have improved since last time, but we can still do better I don't know about the rest of you but we will not be as bad against the X-Men as last time."

"They just got lucky," Beef the large powerhouse of the Hellions said crossing his arms.

Emma gave him a cold stare, "Somehow I doubt that. Now I hope you all have been studying the files we have on Xavier's members. Also remember that when we see them in school no outright actions against them. Covert yes, but nothing that will cause problems like being expelled."

Bevatron just snorted, "Why should we care?"

"Because that are your orders," Came a new voice and out in an all black suit was the Black Queen herself Selene. "Now do we have any other people that want to complain about this?" There were none, since none of them were insane enough to say anything to piss off Selene. "Now then I want you to meet a few new people."

In walked in a woman in her thirties with short blond hair, "This is Reeva Payge, the White Knight. She's a mutant with a sonic ability that can destabilize the fluid in your ears, cause hallucinations or even brain damage," She grinned at them.

"So it will be wise for you children not to make me raise my voice as it were," She said coldly to them all.

Then a man in his mid forties walked in with a walking stick. He had on glasses, thick greying hair and a matching moustache. "Hello, I am Benedict Kine and I'll be one of your instructors. I'm also the Black Knight and I can control a person through their nervous system as well as either cause great pleasure…or pain." He stressed the last one out and they knew that he wouldn't be above using that for punishments.

"Well now we could use some more adults around here." Emma sighed with the new help, "But who is the last one?"

"Oh Emma did you have to ask?" Came a smooth voice from the door and Emma's eyes widened at that.

"No…You can't be serious." Emma looked at the door and glared as a tall, handsome man about her age with long dark hair and dark tailored suit walked in.

"Looking as lovely as ever Emma," He grinned at her with a superior look on his face.

She just scowled at him, "Don't 'lovely' me Shaw."

The other Hellions were taken aback by this. "Whoa that's Shaw? I'd thought he would have been older," King Bedlam to the others. They thought that the Black King himself would never show his face in this place.

"Yeah, but boy what a very handsome man," Roulette grinned at him measuring him up. The others rolled their eyes as she tried to view her next 'conquest'. There was a rumour that she had a list of all the guys she either dated or slept with and ranked them. That or that she had notches on her headboard either way no one would be surprised if it was true.

Emma picked up a few stray thoughts and decided to lay it down. "He's not Sebastian Shaw, this is Shinobi Shaw, his son." She said his name like it was poison.

"Man what is with you Frost," Beef sat back they had never seen her act this way. "You two dated or something?"

"As a matter of fact yes," Shinobi grinned, "I am the Black Prince heir to the Black King title. And I'm also here because of the reports my father felt that you needed a bit more help. So I'm here to co-lead the Hellions with Emma here."

Looking at her he could tell she was pissed at this. He gave her a knowing wink and he swore that he saw her reddened for a second in anger. He was glad to be part of this, he had read the profiles and there were a few interesting candidates that could be very useful. "Anyways I'm here to ensure that our mission here in this town works."

"What is our mission?" Catseye asked her tail twitching a bit. They all had been kept in the dark about that and she hoped along with the rest of them that they would finally know why they were here.

Shaw nodded, "Very well after all Emma will put in mental blocks so your thoughts about everything here will not leak out even with the psychic dampeners you will be given. But our main purpose is to test you all against the X-Men and the other there. You are to also get as mush information about them and push them and yourselves to your limits."

"You will also see if there is anyway any of them can be turned against Xavier and if we can then maybe bring them over to our side."

Empath tuned the rest of it out, at least now they knew what and he grinned as he could have fun messing with their emotions but there was something else. He opened his folder and saw a picture and file of Amara or Magma. When he had made her like kissing him he had to admit there was a thrill to it. He was the only one glad about going to Bayville High because now he could slowly work on her making her feel certain things. Making her to slowly like him and then when she was vulnerable he mess with her so much she would do anything he wanted.

He grinned as the thought of meeting that girl again and the things he would do to make her 'fall' for him too. It wouldn't hurt that if he could make one of them jump ship to help boost his standings in the Hellions and maybe even noticed by the Hellfire Club.

-Amanda and Blink's Room-

In a flash Wendy and Carmen found themselves in Amanda's new room. They looked around at the large room. "Jeez girl is this normal for this place?" Carmen asked looking around.

Amanda nodded a bit, "Pretty much yeah."

Wendy smiled and pointed to the bed with all the blue on it, "Let me guess that's your side of the room?" Amanda blushed a bit, even after all that she had been through she was still a bit shy at times. True with all the danger and training it made her feel like a much stronger person but some things were a bit harder to chance.

Carmen was looking around when the door opened up as Blink walked in going to change in some work clothing for some gardening work. She was also in her natural form and when she saw two strangers she suddenly gave a shocked outcry of surprise. Of course the other girls did the same more from shock at a lavender skinned girl just suddenly walk in while Amanda cringed. She knew that Blink still had a complex about her looks like Kurt did and this wouldn't help her out with that.

"Guys this is Clarice that I told you about," Amanda gave her roommate and friend an apologetic look. She had tried to prepare them for this but you just had to see it first hand. She had kind of freaked out for a bit with Kurt but she got over that.

"Oh sorry about that it's just kind of surprising," Wendy shuffled a bit looking at the floor. She felt a bit bad about freaking out like that after what Amanda told her.

"I-it's okay," Blink was a bit shy around new people and didn't know what to say next thankfully Carmen looked at her closely. Making Blink a little nervous with how close she was and with how she was looking at her.

"Man are those real?" Carmen asked pointing at the marking on her face.

"Y-yes."

"Damn they are cool, I think next time I go to a rave I'll use that! And love the hair I've been begging my mom to let my dye my hair pink for months."

"You really like it?" She asked her shyly.

"Hell yeah, and I love the length." Amanda just had to smile as Carmen got along with Blink. Wendy was still a bit nervous and Amanda hoped they didn't freak out especially Wendy when they saw Kurt and Mr. McCoy.

"So what's up Blink?" Amanda asked her.

"Huh? Oh! Yeah I was just going to change I'm going to do some garden work with mom." Blink had only just started to refer to Ororo as 'mom' lately. At first she hadn't been sure but she had slowly started to get used to the idea. She remembered when she had first called Ororo that. It kind of just slipped out and she saw Ororo freeze up and she thought that maybe she had said the wrong thing. She tried to say that it was an accident but Ororo just smiled at her and then to her surprised hugged her. Blink just hugged her back as Ororo just said 'thank you my daughter' to her. Blink never felt so loved at that moment and actually had tears in her face. She loved that moment of her life.

"Nice, well I was just going to show them around," Amanda told her.

"Oh that's nice, especially with all the new stuff we just got but you're not taking them to…the lower levels right?" Blink asked.

"Yeah and have Logan give me five hours of extra Danger Room practice? I don't think so," They all knew that Logan threatened them with that after Ray had snuck in Pam to the lower levels and found them making out in the X-Jet simulator. Ray of course was grounded after that thing and a rule set up for no unauthorized people in the lower levels from then on.

"So how much stuff is there to see in this place?" Wendy asked them both not sure but after all Amanda did tell them about the lower levels and she wasn't looking forward to that actually. There were just some things that she didn't want to see and a room full of dangers and traps wasn't on the top of her list.

"Well lets see who else we can find and introduce you guys too." Amanda smiled at them as the friends looked at each other and shrugged.

"Sure why not." Wendy shrugged.

As they left Carmen looked at Blink one last time, "Oh and nice meeting ya, hope to see you at school later on."

"O-okay." Blink smiled it would be nice to have some new friends at school, that was one thing she wasn't looking forward to. She kept on worrying that her image inducer would go on the fritz and other horrible things. She was actually thinking of staying with Wanda and Sarah and being home schooled but being here had given her a bit more personal strength and she knew that she had to face the world.

She wasn't alone anymore and maybe it was time to start being afraid of the world so much. She sighed to herself as she started to change she just hoped that things would work out. She just hoped that it wouldn't be as bad as she thought it would be.

-Spears Industries-

Guy Spears was in his office talking on the phone to another client, he was selling them the idea of this new sports line of power snack bar. He was in the sports business after all for the main part but there was a new 'product' he was working on for a new customer. After he finished his sale he got another call and this was one he had been expecting. He picked up the phone smiling knowing the money he would make off of this deal, "Well hello there Mr. Creed."

"Spears, I was checking on your work with that Toxin 8 of yours." Graydon Creed one of the major players in the Friends of Humanity. They had hired Spears to develop his Power8 drink into a toxin to be used against mutants and not just a poison that they had to drink. Over the last few months they had been working it into something that required touch and inhaling the fumes that were to be undetectable.

"Well I have some progress for you Mr. Creed," Spears leaned back in his executive chair. He was only in this for the money personally he didn't feel one way or the other about mutants or humans. He had a cousin that was an arms dealers and he had a motto. War is good for business because both sides need ways to kill the other. Ever since he got the offer from the FOH he finally saw what his cousin saw in war. But then way go with guns when biological weapons were even better. He already had an antidote just in case he could sell it off to certain mutant groups as well.

"We've managed to finally make it possible to blend the toxin in with water. It does delude its effect sadly but the effects over prolonged and repetitive exposure. Mixed with water the more the subject drinks and washes with it the more sick they'll get. Eventually the toxin will build up in their system slowly overtime." Spears had to admit his people in Research and Development out did themselves.

"Although the fumes that they give off when mixed with water is very mild, in enclosed areas like the sewers where the toxin will be dumped into will accumulate in the air especially with poor ventilation."

"Excellent," Creed was pleased with that sure it wasn't fatal in contact but they could always improve in time. "That will definitely take care of those rats in the sewers as well with a contaminated water supply Bayville will be cleaned up in no time."

Spears was pleased with that, if this worked out then he could keep selling the FOH the chemicals since he kept it nice and hidden. "Even as we speak the first shipment is already on its way to Bayville. The results should be seen very soon."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 4: FRIENDSHIPS AND LOVE PUT TO THE TEST