Warren stared at horror at the large sign that was just put up on the remainder of his building. And he wasn't the only one, every singe TV camera was focused on it, every single person on the street and all the x-men. Warren was at a loss of words as he looked up, this must be something from Alkali Lake, he thought. He glanced nervously over to Scott who was supporting Jean and when Scott returned the glance warren couldn't see his eyes but he could tell they were full of sympathy something else that Warren could not describe. He sighed heavily and took a step forward to the building.

Mutants shouldn't be running our businesses!

Did people realize what this meant? Warren wondered, did they get it. And who did it? No human could do this, it had to be a mutant, but why? Suddenly a bolt a lightening came toward Warren, he managed to dodge it at the last minute but when he looked up there were two flying mutants in the sky above them. As they stared at the two renegade mutants the x-men noticed that they were young, not even twenty yet.

"Well look who finally showed up." The one who just shot the blast said. "About time, wondering what was keeping you. And look at this the business man himself." Before he could say anymore Scott shot an optic blast at them both.

"What the hell are you doing?" He yelled up at them.

"Just preaching his good word." The other one said she seemed to be the one making the other one fly.

"Who's good word!" Jean yelled.

"I don't really care to be honest." Logan growled and ejected his claws.

"Now, now none of that." She said smirking slightly. "We just want to do this without anybody getting hurt."

"A little late for that!" Warren yelled still a little upset about them killing half his staff.

"And the man himself speaks!" Said the one who fired the lightening. "Didn't think you ever would." Warren glared at him, but the boy continued to speak. "Well enough of this chit chat, what do you say we finish this?" And with that the fired several more blasts that nearly hit them. Logan and Scott were able to jump out of the way with Jean, Kurt teleported out of the way, Warren and Ororo flew up in the air.

Warren flew up to their level and shot at them full speed, the one was able to get out of the way but he caught the other by surprise and knocked him down. This was the one who couldn't fly and so he fired a blast at Warren's chest as he fell down, he quickly dived and avoided but unfortunately he wasn't quite high enough to nose dive. At the very last second when he was only a couple feet away from the ground he pulled up and avoided a nasty crash.

"You're clever." He yelled as he hovered just a few feet above the ground. Warren thought that maybe they were wrong this one would be able to fly to but then he noticed the girl above him using one hand to make him fly and the other to try and ward off Scotts optic blasts. He dropped to the ground and straightened his shirt and began to walk over to Warren. "Settle this like men, no powers?"

Warren didn't trust this boy, something wasn't right in his eyes. He didn't look evil, almost plain like he was under a trance but unfortunately Warren wasn't able to address this any further as the boy swung at Warren. Warren ducked out of the way and threw a punch back hitting the boy square in the jaw. "Who are you?" Warren asked as the boy threw several more punches.

"No one." The boy said and just like Warren thought he didn't keep his word and then blue electricity formed around his hands. Warren took flight so that it would be easier to dodge and when a blast was fired at Warren just like he thought he was able to get out of the way easily.

Warren flew in the air with the boy chasing after him, one of the blasts that were fired was aimed right toward a group of people trapped in the area and to scared to move away. Warren cursed under his breath and with al his might flew to the group of terrified people, he managed to get their just a second before the blast and he pushed them out of the way. The shot hit the wall where the people were huddled and created a large fire. Warren wasn't able to fly up after pushing the people out of the way, his wing was giving him a few troubles, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to be flying this soon, but what choice did he have? He turned his head and saw Logan, Kurt and Beast taking care of the boy and he breathed a sigh of relief and when he turned his head to the flying girl, Storm, Scott and Jean were working on her.

He swallowed the large bump that formed in his throat and looked back to the people he had just saved and once again cursed under his breath. The five people he had just pushed out of the way were five members of his staff, there was no way he could remain a secret anymore.

"Mr. Worthington…" One of the men chocked out. "You're one of them…" He said and his gaze averted to the large white wings coming out of his back.

"Yeah." Warren said with a forced cheerfulness. "Surprised?"

"H – how… did this happen…" A woman asked. "W – when…?"

"Well if you must know about nine…. Maybe ten years ago, yeah that sounds about right. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go defend the city and all that stuff." Warren said and got up he extended his wings ready to fly up but paused. "Oh and if any of you come back to work for me if I even have anything after this, you will get raises." And with that warren flapped his wings and flew up in the air.

As he flew over to the boy on the ground he suddenly noticed something flash in his eyes it was almost like fear. Warren stopped short and hovered staring at him for a moment the after that the boy stopped firing and looked around now obviously terrified. Hank seemed to realize this just as warren did and grabbed Logan's arm as he lunged forward to slice him.

"What are ya doin'?" Logan yelled furiously.

"Look at him Logan." Hank said and Logan looked at the boy who was now crouched on the ground with heavy breaths and looked on the verge of crying.

Warren flew around the boy and used his enhanced sight to see the back of his neck, sure enough there was a small red circle. He recognized this imidiatly and flew over to hank and Logan. "The back of is neck…." He said. "He was being controlled."

"It's a trick!" Logan said still ready to kill. "After him!"

"No Logan! Can't you see something is obviously wrong here!" Warren said just then there was a high pitched scream above their heads and they saw the girl screaming and falling to the ground. Warren flew up and caught her just before she hit the ground and placed her next to the boy.

"Wh – wha- what happened." She said with her layered, shoulder length brown hair in her chocolate eyes.

"What do you remember?" Hank asked kneeling down next to her. She didn't seem the least bit fazed by the way he looked she sighed and responded in a shaky breath.

"I – I remember attacking the building… We didn't mean to, really, it was like we didn't have any control over what we were doing. You have to believe us." She pleaded.

"We do." Scott said. "You're not the only one here whose had that happen to them."

She smiled slightly but then looked over to the boy who had the same suddenly scared look on. "The others." He said running a hand through his shoulder length blond hair that was partially pulled back in a short pony tail exposing bright icy bluish gray eyes. "They're still there."

"Whos' still where?" Ororo asked. "Tell us what happened, from the very beginning."

"We were trapped in this place, I have no idea where it is…" The boy started. "We all knew each other before, we lived together in an abandoned building, there was six of us…. We were all abandoned by our family's…. Then one day something happened, I remember trying to get out and fighting but then everything went black…. And I woke up in a cell with the rest of them. After a while we met this guy… I don't know what he looked like…" He glanced over at the girl who shrugged saying that she didn't know either. "And then it was like I couldn't control what I was doing… I was with Ash here and we were just walking down the street and suddenly we attacked the building..."

"Sounds about right." Warren said turning to Scott.

"No, but he's dead it's not him." Scott argued.

"It could be just some imitator." Kurt said. "A copy cat."

"Wait what are we talking about?" Logan said entirely confused.

"Stryker, this sounds exactly like what we all went though. All three of us were under his control remember? And that sounds like what we went through." Scott explained.

"Kurt's right," Jean said. "It has to be a copy cat."

"We'll worry about that later." Ororo said. "Right now we should get these kids back to the mansion, get them cleaned up. And by the way, what are your names?"

"I'm Ashley Harper and this is Trace Daniels." Ashley said.

"Alright come on Ashley, Trace into the jet you go." Hank said and helped them up.

"Where are we going?" Trace asked looking at them.

"A place where you'll be safe, now come on before all the news crews recover and start to attack." Warren said.

They all nodded and quickly started to board the jet. Scott had to help Jean up the ramp the (somewhat pointless) battle had worn her out even more then she already was. When they were boarded Scott helped Jean into her seat and then took the controls with Warren next to him, Ororo went in the back with the two teens to try and get some information. Still a little edgy about the two Logan sat down in the back prepared to take his claws out, on the other hand Kurt went to his seat completely trusting them seeing as he knew what it was like. Hank was alert but kept on his usual calm demeanor.

"So, I'm Storm, but you can call me Ororo." She said. "Tell me what are your friends names? Age and powers maybe?"

"Well there's James Carley, he has enhanced senses and he's fifteen." Trace said. "And um… Mark Stevens, he's fifteen as well and has x-ray vision… Rachel Tyler, she's well she's like your friend over there." He pointed to Warren. "She has wings, and enhanced vision and hearing…. Um… and her scream sounds a lot like a hawks, oh and she's seventeen. And there's Danny O'Riley, he's invulnerable to physical attacks and he's fifteen, oh no he's sixteen now."

"His birthday wasfour days ago… What a way to celebrate it huh?" Ashley said.

Ororo looked down and then back up at them. "Do you remember anything about where you were held? A big building? Any landmarks?"

"I know we were underground…. James said so, he said that he smelled a lot of damp dirt and stuff." Ashley said. "And Mark was scanning the walls for a while until they figured out his power and then put lead up. He said he saw a lot of boxes and a metal stair case…. He said it reminded him of a storage building."

"A storage building… Okay…." She said thinking about where they could be.

"it was dark last night when we left…. But I know we left around a lot of I think warehouses, everything's kinda hazy now though… but I know I remember warehouses." Trace said.

"We're back." Scott said as he landed the jet. The passengers got off the jet and walked directly to the Professor's office. He was waiting patently for them at his desk when they walked in. "Hello." He said. "We should probably get on with this, I really do not want to waist much time." Ororo nodded and walked forward with Trace, they told him what would happen while they walked up there and he volunteered since he was the older one of the two. "Now I want to you just relax." The Professor said and Trace nodded, he closed his eyes and the professor put his hands to his head.

Trace saw flashes go over his eyes, one of all four of his friends still trapped in the place, another, the next was Ashley walking by in a trance leaving the building. And finally the last was a view of warehouses as they walked into the more populated part of the city. He let out a short gasp and pulled his head back slightly as the professor finished.

"Alright, I think I know where they are." Xavier said.

AN: It ended abruptly and sorry but I have a tad of a writers block right now, hence the late update. But yeah next one should be up within a week…. Hopefully. Thanks Wen1 and don't worry I have a special Jean/Scott scene forming in my head for the next chapter. Now thanks to all me readers and I hope ya'll forgive me for the lateness!