On the way to their next class, Kitty and Rogue spotted a flyer leftover form last year, it was a flyer for the student body president elections, the two names on it, Emma Frost and Graydon Creed didn't catch the girls attention, but the insignia next to one of the names did. Kitty stopped and looked more closely at it, it was a double headed eagle design with the letters P.O.H below it, she finally realised where she'd seen it before.
"Hey Rogue, look at this" she said, Rogue leaned in to look at the flyer more closely.
"Yeah, it's a leftover flyer from the student body elections, so what?" she replied, still in a bad mood from the football team tryouts.
"Look at that picture, I've seen it before near the drinking fountain on the other side of school" she said, Rogue still didn't get her point and the bad mood she was in wasn't doing Kitty any favours.
"Big deal, it's just a picture, maybe the symbol of some club whoever drew it's in, what's the problem?" she said, growing more and more irritated, she didn't want to be late to her lesson, saving the world wasn't going to help her get out of detention if she was late on her first day back at school.
"Those guys who caused the trouble at the mall had it on their clothes" Kitty replied
"Which time?" Rogue asked
"Both times" Kitty told her, Rogues bad mood lessened for a second, then got worse
"This isn't good is it, which one of them won the election?" she said, scanning the nearby flyers for an answer, because of the business with Apocalypse none of the X-men had been at school for the final few weeks of the school year, hen the student body president elections were held. Kitty found it before her.
"It was Graydon Creed, the one with the symbol next to his name" Kitty said gravely
"This is bad isn't it?" Rogue asked
"Yes, it is" Kitty replied, Rogue turned around and started for the door at the far end of the hallway, leading to the exit to the school
"Where're you going" Kitty asked
"We've gotta tell the Professor about this, if this guy'll pick fights with us outside of school who knows what he'll do while we're here" she said sternly, Kitty shook her head
"No, it can wait until we go back to the Institute after school, besides, if we skip class, Principal Kelly will just expel us" Kitty told her
"What about the others? Shouldn't we warn them or something?" Rogue asked Kitty
"Sarin, Bryce, Kendra, Micheal and Jubilee are in our chemistry class next so we should tell them as soon as we can, as for the others, they'll probably figure out these guys're bad news without us warning them" Kitty replied as the two girls quickly headed to their class, anxious to get there before the bell rang.
After her class had ended Amara was walking back to her locker, as soon as she got there she saw what had been done to it, her eyes widened in shock and a few seconds later she clenched her fists in rage. Someone had spray painted MUTANT on her locker in bright yellow spraypaint. She heard a fist slamming into metal and looked to her left and saw that Berskers locker had suffered the same treatment.
"Ray, calm down" she said, in as calm a voice as she could manage
"We saved the world from Apocalypse. We saved all of their ungrateful lives Amara, and this is the thanks we get, how is that fair?" he said, slamming his fist into the locker again. Amara touched her spray painted locker and some of the paint came away, staining her hand yellow.
"It's still wet, whoever did this is probably still around here somewhere" she said as Ray slammed his fist onto the metal of his locker once more.
"Looks like the mutants can't take a joke" a sneering voice said from behind the to X-men, they turned around to see a large crowd had surrounded them, the person the voice belonged to calmly stepped forwards, casually tossing a spraycan up in the air. Beserker recognized him as the boy who'd crushed Tais watch. A chorus of laughs greeted his words, coming form the crowd around him, some of them were wearing the same doubled headed eagle insignia he was, but most were just normal students, some of them he'd even considered to be his friends before the X-men had been discovered to be mutants.
"And you're some kind of comedian?" Beserker said, a dangerous tone in his voice.
"Hardly, I'm Graydon Creed, the new student body president, and the one who's gonna give this school back to the humans, your days of terrorizing us are over mutant scum" Creed replied, his voice full of malice and content as if he considered the people he as speaking to to be worth lees than the empty soda can on top of Amaras locker
"Is that so?" Beserker said, stepping forwards, charging up his powers, part of him knew this would probably get him expelled but he was mostly just too mad to care.
"Ray don't" Amara said, holding his arm, trying to hold him back.
"Yea, if you're gonna pick a fight with these punks let us back you up" a voice said from behind him. Bryce, Sarin, Joey and Jake stepped forward from the crowd, shoving Creeds gang out of the way, to stand next to Beserker and Amara
"Keep outta this Keller, you too Collins" Creed said, a dangerous tone in his voice
"You mess with our teammates, you mess with us, got that, mister president?" Jake asked him, saying the last two words like they were a foul insult.
"Teammates? Well I guess the football team could use some new novelty mascots" Creed said, triggering another response from the crowd.
As he said this something snapped inside Beserker, he slipped out of Ammaras grasp and swung at Creed, intending to knock that smirk clean off his face. Creed didn't even try to duck out of the way, wanting to give the principal a reason to expel Beserker. The blow would have connected, and probably broken Creeds nose if someone hadn't shot forward and caught his arm.
"Do not do it, he is not worth getting expelled" Dana said, surprisingly calmly given the circumstances.
"Yea, you're right" Beserker said, lowering his arm
"See, it wasn't enough for them to trash the school dozens of times last year, now they're going on the offensive, we need to stop them and soon, otherwise they'll take control and we're all gonna end up second class citizens in our own country" Creed cried to the crowd, who murmured in agreement.
"But don't worry, the Patriots Of Humanity are here and we'll stop them, you can count on that" he called out
"The pateriots Of Humanity? That's what these losers are called?" Sarin asked Jake, who nodded
"Yea, they're some group who sprung up here at the end of the last school year and in the summer, they're getting more and more popular all the time, you should really watch your backs when they're around" Jake replied, before Sarin could say anything else he spotted someone approaching who could end the confrontation.
"What's going on here?" principal Kelly said sternly, appearing at the edge of the crowd, unable to see the confrontation taking place at its centre. By the time the crowd had dispersed, so had the X-men, aside from Amara and Beserker.
"Someone's spray painted our lockers principal Kelly" Amara said, the principal looked the lockers, not seeming very concerned
"Youthful highjinks, nothing more" he said before quickly carrying on, apparently unconcerned. After he'd left Beserker punched his locker again in sheer frustration.
"Don't worry, there's only another lesson before schools over for the day, when we get back to the Institute we'll tell the Professor all about this, he'll make sure they don't get away with it again" Amara told him, resting a hand on his arm, Beserker smiled sadly.
"Somehow, I doubt it'll be that easy" he replied and from the look in her eyes, he could tell she believed him.
In the next chapter – Tai's friendship with Anna Creed's not a good thing, considering who her brother is, and he definitely doesn't approve of his sister being friends with a mutant
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