Alberta, Canada

Bunnie Rabbot, now going under the nickname of Storm shifted awkwardly in the X Men jet's seat, trying to get comfortable. Beside her in the pilot's seat, the red echidna called Knuckles, now going under the nickname of Cyclops dozed lightly, his visor strapped firmly to his face. The last two hours had dragged inexorably past the infinite white snow around them falling hard, covering everything. On the tracking monitor, their subject, Sabretooth, was still a half mile away, stopped. Waiting. They had no idea for what, but he was clearly waiting. And so were they.

Sabretooth, aka Mephilius was a mutant whose abilities had manifested themselves as animal strength, speed, stamina, sight and smell. From what she had learned in their permission briefing, Sabretooth had been helping Magneto. Why the professor had wanted them to track Sabretooth out here into the middle of nowhere in the Canadian wilderness is anyone's guess, and he hadn't bothered to tell them, even if he knew.

But Bunnie didn't know a lot about the relationship between the professor and Magneto. All she had gleaned was that they seemed to be old friends, fighting in different ways for the same cause, and the newest fully-fledged member of the X men, Rouge had overheard something that the two of them had worked together on in Cuba.

She and Cyclops had just been told to trail Sabretooth until something happened. They would know when it did, the professor had said. She certainly hoped so. Storm glanced around at the raging blizzard falling around the jet. She could see the nearby outline of a highway and the snow-covered trees and rocks. She could stop the blizzard around them if she wanted, but at the moment she didn't mind at all. It was soothing, almost relaxing. She had a feeling about weather, could touch it, and almost any type of weather was good as far as she was concerned. This snowstorm was certainly a far cry from the arid heatwave of her native Kenya, and the first time she had seen snow there was the day she had caused it, the day the other kids of her village had tortured her, the day she come into her powers.

After a brief period where she was a pickpocket with her uncle in Cairo, Professor Miles Tail Xavier had found her, and at that time she certainly had next to no idea to do with herself at that point. No mutant did, when first coming into his or her powers, there was no way any of them could. It was something completely unexpected, and in this world that feared mutants, certainly none of them had been trained to cope. Until now.

She had been lucky. The professor had found herm and had offered her the training and education that she had needed. She knew that there were thousands of others out there who weren't getting the breaks that she had received and she was determined to help them, at least as much as she could.

The sound of a hard crash echoed though the trees, waking Cyclops from his light sleep. He glanced at her, his powerful energy gaze contained and controlled by the visor covering his eyes.

"What was that?"

"Darned if I know"

They both studied the scope. Three other blips were now stopped where their subject was located, just down the highway. "Seems Sabretooth found a way to stop traffic."

Cyclops laughed "What traffic? We had not seen a car in hours"

"Let's go" Storm said.

As they climbed out of the jet, she created a warm breeze around them that held most of the snow back. Better they face whatever was going on fresh and dry and ready to fight.

Within a few seconds they were headed at a fast walk up the road, her breeze and their form fitting X men uniforms keeping them warm and comfortable, despite the sub-zero temperatures of the Canadian forest.

It wasn't ling until they saw exactly what was happening. As they moved around a slight curve in the road, they could see where a camper had hit a downed tree, smashing the camper and scattering the contents of a trailer that it had been pulling. The camper was on fire, with two people trapped in the passenger seats. One was unconscious, the other was in shock.

Sabretooth was fighting with another man, and as Storm watched, Sabretooth picked up the man like a rag doll and smashed him through the windshield and judging by the force of the throw it was a miracle that the man was alive.

But it was clear that the two kids in the camper was still alive and the girl was struggling to get out, clearly trapped, and now she had a dead weight on top of her.

Side by side, Storm and Cyclops moved up and stood 20 paces behind Sabretooth. The hulking mutant started towards the camper; then he must have sensed them.

He turned, then growled with a low, mean rumble, like an angry animal. He even looked like one, with the skins and the black and grey quills.

"Seems we aren't welcome company" Cyclops said.

Sabretooth charged at them, moving quickly on the snow covered road.

Storm stepped aside as Cyclops fired a hot red beam from his eyes. The beam hit Sabretooth square in the chest.

Hard.

Sabretooth roared as the beam picked him up and flipped him through the air as if fired from a cannon, end over end, smashing though the high branches of the trees and disappearing in a snapping of limbs and brush.

Storm nodded, their foe wasn't going to be coming back any time soon. The only sound now was the crackiling of the fire in the camper. Storm ran over to the passenger side seeing instantly that the inferno was close to the camper's propane tank. She kicked up a swirling wind filled with snow and rain to douse the fire, but it wasn't going to work quickly enough. The flames were just too close to the tank and too hot to be put out easily, seeing that saving the camper is pointless, she threw open the door, and pulled out the unconscious blue hedgehog, then turned her attention to the black and red hedgehog in the windshield.

Cyclops had also run to the other side of the camper and was trying to pull the girl out.

"Don't touch me!" The girl shouted "You will blow up like ah firework! Just help me get this seat loose! I can't move my legs!"

Cyclops focused carefully and used his optic beam to dislodge the seat behind the trapped girl. The seat snapped and came loose. The girl quickly climbed out and over the hood of the camper, dropping to the ground. At the same time, Storm pulled the unconscious hedgehog free, and it was when the fire finally reacted with the propane tank.

"Thanks." The girl said facing Cyclops, then she collapsed.