"Amira? What is it? What's wrong?" Lina asked as Amira dragged her through the base by her arm. "Is there a reason why you're trying to pull my arm out of my socket?"

"Yes." Amira said. She looked around furtively before determining the coast was clear.

"Why are you breaking into Vlad's room?" Lina asked.

"I'm getting you out of here." Amira said as they went in.

"What? Do you mean you're letting my leave?" Lina asked excitedly. After over a month of being torn away from her friends and family, the prospect of being able to leave was almost too good to be true. "Why?"

"Because something's gone wrong." Amira answered. "And I think that you better not be here when things get worse."

"What are you going to do?" Lina asked softly as Amira opened a door to a room Lina hadn't been in before.

"Get your teleportation watch back. Vladimir had it deactivated and I know Vlad. He never throws anything away."

"So why are we in…this is Vladimir's room isn't it?" Lina asked as they snuck in.

"Yep."

"I might've guessed." Lina sighed. "Where should we start looking?" She looked at what Amira was doing and groaned. "That doesn't involve sorting through Vladimir's underwear drawer?"

Amira idly stuffed a pair of Vlad's boxers in her pockets. "Oh you're no fun. Who knew he wore plaid?"

"You did, the last time you snuck in when he was dressing." Lina answered. "Honestly, your as bad as Althea!"

Amira sniffed. "I have better taste." She reminded Lina, waving a pair of Vlad's underpants in her direction for emphasis.

"Look, can we just find the teleportation watch and go? In any case I don't think you're going to find it buried with his under…wear?" Lina asked as Amira held up her teleportation watch. "Good thing you knew it was there!" Lina gaped as she put it on.

"Er yeah, good thing." Amira nodded as she stuffed another pair of underwear in her pockets.

"Who hides a device of this power and importance in their underwear drawer?" Lina wondered as she fiddled with it.

"Apparently, Vladimir does." Amira said. "Come on. Let's get Naomi and go. I want her someplace safe."

"You're that worried." Lina stated. She knew Amira hated leaving Naomi out of her sight.

"Yeah." Amira agreed. "I am. Come on."

"You should come with us then." Lina urged. "I don't know enough of everything that's happened, the others will have to listen to you if you want Vlad and the others to be safe."

"Me? Go on a US Army base? One I've been attacking for the last four months?" Amira asked with equal amounts of incredulity and fear.

"They wont hurt you, I promise." Lina assured her. "I'll make sure of it. It's the only way to help Vladimir. Please. Trust me."

Amira sighed. "I must be crazy to agree with this. Let's just get Naomi and go."

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"So what do we do now?" Scott asked as the Professor and Althea explained what they had discussed to the Misfits and X-Men back at the Institute.

"That is a very good question Scott." The Professor said. "I wish I had an answer."

"Well does anyone want to go head to head against an really powerful mutant with a persona of pure rage?" Rogue asked rhetorically.

"Sure, just as soon as I arm wrestle with the Hulk." Wanda answered.

"We can't let Vlad—I mean, Red Nova—run around out of control." Althea protested.

"We also can't have a repeat of the Proteus fiasco either." Scott pointed out.

"What happens if he goes berserk again?" Daria asked, looking at the still shaken looking Brittany. "He's a menace!"

"This from the resident experts on menacing." Ray noted.

"And Lina's still stuck with the Hellions with that creep!" Angelica realized with a groan.

"Poor Lina." Rahne sighed. Fred's lip twisted.

"She's been a prisoner for, what, a month?" Dead Girl asked. Fred bit down on his lip.

"Over." Wanda corrected.

Fred bawled as he burst into tears. "I miss Lina!" He wailed as he pulled out a handkerchief the size of a pillow cushion and loudly blew his nose. "I want Lina back!"

"Well wishing for her isn't going to make her appear!" Bobby snapped. Then, as if timed just to prove Bobby wrong, Lina, Amira, and Naomi teleported into the living room with the X-Men and Misfits.

"Um, hi everyone." Lina said shyly.

"Lina!" Everyone exclaimed.

"LINA!" Fred said joyously as he leaped off the couched and bounded over.

"Fredd---ieee!" Lina shrieked as Fred swept her off her feat and swung her around before crushing her to his chest.

"I missed you so much!" Fred said as he hugged her. "How'd you escape?"

"Ugh….Freddy, I need to breathe!" Lina gasped as she started to turn blue.

"Sorry." Fred said as he put her down.

"Don't stop on my account." Amira said wryly as Lina blushed. It was then that everyone seemed to notice Amira.

"Hey, what's that Hellion doing here?" Althea demanded as everyone dropped into a fighting stance.

"Althea, it's okay." Lina assured her. "Amira's a friend."

"She's a Hellion!" Lance exclaimed.

"Been there, done that." Logan rolled his eyes as he looked at Rahne.

"Is this another sort of Rahne-Catseye 'friendship under fire' thing?" Shane asked.

"Sort of." Lina admitted. "Let's just say it was an odd capture I had and leave it at that. Amira's the one who gave me my teleportation watch back."

"Really." Althea asked warily. "Why?" Amira bit her lip.

"Because something's wrong with Vladimir." She said. "He's not acting like himself and I'm…worried about him."

" 'Not acting like himself.' " Althea repeated. "That's certainly an understatement."

"You have no idea." A new voice said from the door. Everyone turned around to see two visitors standing in the door of the Institute.

They were Sharon "Catseye" Smith and Yvonne "Celandine" Bloom Frost.

The daughters of Emma Frost.