Bryce, River, Markus and the Senior Raina Martin were all gathered round one of the planter boxes in the dining room. The four of them looked rather irked about what they were seeing because it seemed like every plant inside of the box was completely smashed beyond revival.
River and Markus had both witnessed a junior high student screwing around. Before either of them could even say something the kid ended up falling into the box, destroying everything growing inside it.
"I know that what happened was an accident but I'm getting really sick of seeing things like this happen and people just brushing it off…" Markus told them all huffing before he looked over and spotted the look on River's face. River had been the most upset of the group and hadn't really said much since Raina and Bryce had joined the scene. Markus laid a hand on River's shoulder and squeezed it once, giving a sad smile to his friend.
"We need to talk to the Professor about this" Bryce said shaking his head bitterly, "The first thing I ever planted was in this damn box and I was really proud of it… this isn't fair!" He added looking over at the others who nodded in agreement before they all took off toward their headmaster's office.
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While Bryce and his plant loving friends were off discussing the planter incident with the Professor, Blake and Layla were in their room trying to work on a book report. Layla was being her usual hardworking student self, Blake however was extremely distracted and it was starting to get on Layla's nerves. Finally as Blake began to stare off in to space for the millionth time that day Layla decided she was done. She lifted a few droplets of water from the glass next to her discreetly and flung them at her ex-girlfriend making Blake shake her head and blink a couple of times.
"If working with me is going to be this much of a problem for you then we can ask Amelia to switch partners or something!" The blonde told her sighing heavily.
"Layla I'm sorry but it doesn't have anything to do with you…" Blake told her looking down at the ground for a moment.
"Then what's going on B?" Layla asked her rolling her eyes.
"I'm just really worried about Jamie… the way he attacked Kurt like that… it just wasn't like him at all and ever since then he's been completely trapped inside his own head…" She answered looking over at the blonde with concern.
"Oh… I think I know what's going on in his head but it's like every time I try to help I get pushed away by somebody…" Layla told her pulling her arms around herself in self-consciousness defense.
Blake nodded to her before they both heard a phone begin to ring. Layla looked over at her night stand with a raised eyebrow when she saw her caller ID.
"Um hey… what's up?" Layla asked the person on the other line who quickly informed her of their reason for calling, "Oh I don't know about Wolverine but Blake's phone is dead, do you want to talk to her?" She asked mouthing the words 'It's Darius' at her confused looking roommate and after a moment she handed the phone over to the dark haired girl.
"Hey Dari… … Um yeah I'll get dad and we'll come let you guy's in the gate… Kay I'll see you in a sec!" Blake spoke with her brother for a moment before returning the phone to its owner.
"Apparently the Agents of P.R.I.M.E. are training here today…" Blake told Layla as she stood and moved to exit the room.
"What does Prime stand for again?" Layla asked her looking confused by the acronym.
"Something something Initiative of Mutant Evolution" Blake responded before she shook her head, "I honestly can't remember what Darius said the other two are…" She told Layla receiving a chuckle.
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Darius and team had arrived at the institute several minutes ago, walking in through the foyer where they saw students line the stairs watching their entrance.
"Why are all these twerps staring at us?" Envy asked glaring at a few grade eight girls who coward in fear. She smirked and continued to follow her Ex and their teammate Korey.
"Who are we meeting and where?" Korey asked smirking as fond memories of the school flooded his mind.
"Beast, Wolverine and the Professor" Darius told him getting a nod in response.
"In the Prof's office?" The elder asked again mapping out the whole school in his mind.
"Yep" Darius answered leading them down the hall to the left and walking toward the library where he happened to see his sister as well as most of her friends. This however didn't include Kurt which made his eyebrow quirk up before he spoke again.
"Sis, where is Kurt?" He asked the younger girl who turned toward the couch at her side.
"Hey Kurt your boyfriend is here!" She yelled over to the teleporter, gaining dirty looks from many students whom she had interrupted.
"Dude quit yelling!" Mari began making Layla giggle, "You're in a library!" She added seeing the ebony haired girl look at her with wide eyes just as the teleport had joined the group.
"Dude!" She began making Mari quirk a brow, "I don't care!" She added causing a couple people including a few P.R.I.M.E. agents to laugh.
Darius smiled when he saw Kurt and motioned for him to come over to him. Kurt rolled his eyes and closed the gap between them so that the elder could pull him close. Kurt snuggled into his neck for a moment before peaking up and seeing Envy giving him a dirty look.
Something in Kurt made him feel a touch of anger and what seemed almost like jealousy to him when he saw her. He slowly snaked his arms around the older boys waist and squeezed softly before pulling back and turning them slightly. He connected their lips a bit forcefully, peaking one eye open at Envy and smirking.
"Wow... what's gotten into you!" Darius asked him with a laugh as they separated, "Not that I'm complaining of course!" He added as Kurt took his hand for a moment and shrugged his shoulders.
"Alright honey, I need to go talk to Wolverine and The Professor about something but I'll see you in a little while" Darius told him smiling before he motioned for his team to follow him once more. As they past Envy stopped momentarily and turned to look back at Kurt and run a finger across her throat glaring at him. He lipped 'Try it, I dare you!' at her making several of his friends go wide eyed.
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Blake and friends were in the consul room above the Danger Room with permission from Wolverine to watch the fight between a few adult X-Men and the P.R.I.M.E. Agents. Darius, Envy, Colton, Paige, Korey and Lorna were standing in a line squared off against Dante, Amelia, Judah, Scott, Logan and Marie.
Darius turned to face his team mates and began giving silent hand gestures of everything he knew about the people in the room. His information was limited but if he knew anything he knew not to keep valuable insight from his team.
They were sizing each other up when a set of voices came over the loud speaker.
"Professor Xavier has informed us that this room can simulate any environment that you could possibly have to fight in, it can take any kind of damage you can think of so-" Maria Hill began before Pom Pom interrupted her.
"Then why the fuck couldn't I bring my new toy?" Pom Pom asked before hearing her whole team groan and seeing several X-Men look confused.
"Paige!" Darius sighed loudly resting his face in the palm of his hand.
"No explosives!" They all chanted in unison with Colton holding up a hand when she tried to protest. They all turned when they heard a voice on the speaker from above.
"Agent Creed do I need to remind you that I can and will reprimand you for using another Agent's first name?" Agent Coulson asked Darius giving him a smug but dirty look.
Without missing a beat or even turning around Paige called back to Coulson.
"We got this covered... you can go sit in the back and think about the captain and just how swell he is now... Kay Phil?" She yelled up making several X-Men and students look from her to Agent Coulson and back.
"Just start the fight already..." Agent Coulson told them over the speaker.
Paige peaked over at Darius looking for a signal, when he nodded she saluted him like usual, yelling 'Right-o Sarge' before she disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke. Darius turned nails filed and jumped as people went darting across the room, he landed behind Dante swinging and nearly knocking him to the ground.
Scott nodded to Judah who made eye contact with his fiance after nodding back at their team leader. Judah and Dante smirked before both closed their eyes and their forms quickly changed. Judah was covered head to toe in a skin like layer of ice, similarly to what Bobby Drake frequently did.
Dante held up his gloved hands and smirked as two flaming streams wrapped their way around each of his arms in a double helix shape, covering his whole body before he clenched his fists hard and his whole body became a giant fireball. Colton who had a metal tank on his back smirked and motioned for the flaming mutant to come at him. Dante charged forward and Colton leaped up into the air making eye contact with Paige who had been teleporting back and forth in the area near the ceiling out of sight.
She ported down grabbing Judah by the shoulders and pulling him out of sight. Colton pulled the water from his tank and wrapped his arms in an aquatic tentacle shooting off a large stream and soaking the flaming man.
Paige dropped Judah in front of Colton making him blow a cold breeze in the direction of the aqua mutant. Colton raised a brow before Paige ported over just in time and pulled him away sending Judah's arctic stream right at Dante freezing him to the floor.
Dante who was only able to move his eyes glared at the two teens causing both to laugh before Paige disappeared once more. When she reappeared she grabbed Scott and swung him in a circle, sending him flying toward Envy who caught him and laid her finger tips gently on his face. He went momentarily rigid as she lifted her hand to her temple.
"Blast her!" She told him to which he turned in a zombie like state and shot a large optic blast at Rogue, sending her flying into the wall and dropping to the ground unconscious. Paige dropped in grabbing Envy, replacing her in front of Amelia who coated herself in a diamond and sapphire skin just before Envy could make contact.
Korey who had been wandering the wall occasionally tripping people jumped forward grabbing Amelia from behind.
Scott meanwhile had saw Envy go after Amelia and went to blast her. Envy who was barely still in his head was one step ahead of him, rolling just before the blast made impact. He did however make a direct hit at Amelia who went flying back knocking her and Korey both back into the wall sending them into a state of unconscious while reflecting the beam back at Cyclops sending him flying into a similar state.
Lorna manipulated her arm bands to fly and wrap around Judah's ankles dropping him immobile to the ground.
Across the room Darius and Logan were making good slashes and stabs at one another but ultimately getting no good or bad results for either.
Lorna looked over, spotting Logan's claws and observed that he was the only X-Man left standing. She nodded softly and raised her hand lifting a surprised Wolverine into the air and sending him pinned to the ceiling.
All observing stared in shocked surprise at the ease she had with her actions.
Logan struggled against her hold before announcing that his team concedes and that P.R.I.M.E. were victorious. Lorna gently lowered him to the floor before most of her team mates began to file toward the elevator.
"Is there somewhere we can take them?" Paige asked pointing at each of the passed out people in the room. Kurt poofed down into the room and ported her to the hospital and back giving her a vantage point before they both began porting people to the hospital.
Blake was about to go congratulate her brother when she realized that something was off about the scene around her. She looked around from face to face before realizing that Jamie was no where to be found.
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Ok so I'm going to go ahead and let all of you know that when our next chapter, Chapter 7 which will be titled 'Paper Doll' comes out there is going to be a thing at the very beginning which you are going to want to read, it is an important warning and I don't want to either HURT anyone or get into trouble with the website because people ignored it.
-LB