Author's Note: I'm terrible. The summer bug bit me, and bit me hard but I'm terribly sorry for this chapter taking so long. I hope yall enjoy and review it…

A New Team, A New Age
Chapter 21: So Many Secrets Unlocked

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"Ladies first." Sean said as he held the small window to the basement opened.

Grace laid down on the ground and carefully slid herself through the little window. She landed on the floor of the basement with ease before turning around to look up at Sean, "Alls clear." She said quietly, "Send Dawn down."

"You heard her," Sean said with a reassuring smile as his blue eyes sparkled at Dawn, "Down you go."

Dawn looked up at Seth unsure, but once Seth gave her a reassuring nod, she slowly walked towards the window. She followed what Grace did by laying down on the ground and slowly sliding herself through the window.

Grace gently put her hands on Dawn's sides to guide her through the window, "Don't worry Dawn, I got you." She reassured the younger girl, who fell into Grace's arms, "See? Nothing to it." She chuckled softly as she looked down at the younger girl.

Moment later, Seth slid through the window, followed by Sean. "Alright," Sean started as he looked around the dark room, "let's make this a quick, in-and-out sort of job." He said as he turned on his flashlight along with the others.

"Look for anything that's out of the ordinary," Grace added as she slid on her black leather gloves. "Leave no finger prints." She reminded everyone.

Sean leaned over to Dawn as he handed her a pair of leather gloves. "This is so that the police don't know we were here." He chuckled as he finished sliding his gloves on.

"Right." Dawn said absentmindedly.

Quietly everyone walked around the dark room guided by the beams from their flashlights as they looked around. Each person went off to a different corner of the room to investigate further, except for Dawn. She stood in the middle of the dark room with her flashlight pointed absentmindedly at a cabinet as she watched everyone else work. What am I doing here? I don't know what the hell I'm doing… She thought as her brown eyes looked around at everyone; Seth was busy looking under a few of the shuffled papers on one of the desks, Sean was checking the drawers of another desk, and Grace was looking on the floors under a table.

Sean turned around and looked at Dawn and the puzzled look on her face. He slowly walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder, "The first time is always the scariest." He smiled softly at her. "I remember my first time, I didn't even want to go into the building and I ended up being forced through the window." He chuckled.

Dawn let out a small snicker at how fearful Sean was his first time. "You big scaredy cat." She teased.

"I know, I know," He sighed, "But now look at me." He stood proudly as he puffed out his chest to look stronger.

Alright so even the leader was scared at one point… Dawn reassured herself as she started to walk away from Sean to do some of her own investigation, or at least look like she was.

"Wait." Grace whispered loudly. "Dawn put your flashlight back where you had it. I think you had something…" She demanded as she pointed to the now dark cabinet. Seth and Sean turned around at the same time and looked over at the dark cabinet in silence waiting to see what was found by the combination of the two girls efforts.

"Here?" Dawn asked as she shined her beam of light onto the old tan-colored metal cabinet that was slightly open.

"Yeah. Perfect." Grace said happily even though she didn't look at Dawn.

Grace quietly crouched down to the bottom drawer of the cabinet and carefully untied the police ribbon away from the cabinet. She softly set it on the ground near the cabinet and slowly pulled open the drawer. Inside the drawer there were a couple different rolled up blueprints, which were rubber banded to keep them rolled, "Jackpot." Grace exclaimed softly.

Sean crouched down next to Grace, while Dawn and Seth stood over the two and watched from behind. "Obviously this is where the mutants stole the blueprints from."

"Thanks captain obvious." Seth chuckled.

Sean rolled his eyes and stood up. "Grace I need a bobby pin." He softly asked as Grace pulled one out of her hair and handed it up to Sean, who quickly picked the locks on the other three drawers. "These other drawers are files. The bottom drawer is the only blueprint drawer." He said softly as he handed Grace her bobby pin back.

Grace looked over the now out of shape booby pin with her green eyes and then looked up at Sean, though Sean didn't notice. Oh like I can use this now. She thought sarcastically as she put the bobby pin in her pocket and returned to the blueprints. "They're blueprints of the most important building in the city." Grace said as she unrolled different blueprints and looked them over.

"So, um, how do we know which one was taken?" Dawn asked sheepishly.

Sean pulled out another file in one of the drawers and looked it over, "That's what I'm hoping to find out with looking through the files."

Grace and looked through some of the other files. "Well I think there's an easier way to do that then looking through those files…"

"How?" Seth asked as he crouched down next to Grace.

"Simple." Grace smirked. "Every criminal always leaves a form of evidence at the scene of the crime, or at least when they're sloppy they do."

"Your point?" Dawn asked in confusion.

"This." Grace smiled as she picked something up off the bottom of the drawer and help up something into the light of Dawn's flashlight: a diamond.

"That's a diamond." Dawn said in even more confusion. "But how – why is a diamond in a blueprints drawer?"

"Chaos." Seth said absentmindedly as he looked at it.

"What?" Sean asked.

"Chaos. They have a member named Diamond on their team." He said as he came out of his trance on the diamond. "Grace can I see that bobby pin that Sean used?"

"Sure." Grace said as she reached in her pocket and handed it over to Seth.

He carefully stuck the bobby pin in the keyhole of the blueprints drawer and slid it out and as he did, little shards of diamonds fell into his awaiting hand. "She used it to pick the lock…"

Tonya walked down the hallway in her jeans, t-shirt and combat boots with her black dreadlocks pulled back into a thick ponytail. Her boots made a lightly clunky sound as she walked across the tiled floors towards the living room in search of Gabe. Where the hell did he disappear to? She sighed in frustration as she rounded the last hallway to get to the living room.

She made her way down the hallway and her expression lightened up when she her the southern accent of Gabe's voice. Found ya. She thought gingerly as she turned to the doorway into the living to find Gabe sitting on the couch… With Jazmine.

Great… Tonya thought in annoyance. No way I'm going to sit here and watch that twit drool over Gabe. She thought in her British accent as she turned on her heel and began to walk away, but as soon as she had turned around, she was quickly halted as she ran into a small figure.

Tonya stumbled backwards a couple steps with a soft 'umph' before looking up and seeing the older girl named Aurora (Satine) on the ground. Aurora's soft red curls laid across the white tile of the mansion floors and after a few moments she opened her green eyes to look up at Tonya. "Sorry, I didn't see you there." She said softly in her Irish accent.

As soon as Jazmine and Gabe heard the soft commotion out in the hallway, they both quit talking and looked over the back of the couch at Tonya and Aurora. Tonya stood towering over the frail Aurora, who was still on the floor. Gabe looked over at Jazmine with his ice blue eyes before looking back at Aurora and Tonya. Here we go… He thought in his southern accent.

"Whatever." Tonya rolled her green eyes in annoyance before storming off in the opposite direction from which Aurora had come from.

Gabe softly shook his head Tonya and her reaction as Jazmine rolled her eyes in annoyance, before they both looked back at Aurora, who was slowly getting off the floor. The frail redhead shyly looked over at Gabe and when her green eyes met his ice blue eyes a soft tint of blush spread over her pale cheeks, before she looked down at the ground as she walked out of his view.

"Well that was interesting." Jazmine chuckled sarcastically before turning back around to face forward in the couch.

"To say the least." Gabe sighed as he turned around on the couch also.

"GOD could she drool anymore over him!" Tonya said loudly in her British accent as she slammed her dorm room door shut behind her. She roughly turned the key in the door and sighed in relief when she heard the lock of the door lock. She sat down on the edge of her bed with a loud, annoyed sigh.

She leaned her elbows against her knees and held her head in her hands as she tried to calm the adrenaline that was pulsating throughout her body. She took a deep breath in and then as she released it she raised her head up to look at the TV that was in the corner of her room collecting dust. However, when she raised her head that wasn't what caught her green eyes attention. The video tape that had fallen out of Lyndsey's bag earlier was sitting on top of the television.

Suddenly, a calm feeling washed over Tonya's body as she stared at the blank video tape on top of the television in a trance. Why does she have a video tape? And why is she trying to hide it? She thought quiet as she stood up off of her bed and walked over to the television.

She picked up the blank tape in her hand and turned it around a couple times to see if there was any writing on it, but had no such luck. "Hmm… I'll just say it accidentally fell into my VCR and I had no idea about it until after I watched it." She justified to herself as she slipped the blank tape into the VCR below the television, picked up the VCR and television remotes, and walked back over to the edge of her bed.

Tonya quietly sat down on the edge of her bed with both remotes in her hands. She pressed the 'On' button for the television and watched the silent static appear on the muted television before pressing the 'On' button on the VCR. She pressed the 'Play' button on the VCR remote next and then set the VCR remote on the bed next to her before un-muting the television.

Soon the static of the television disappeared and a black and white picture with no sound appeared on the screen. Tonya's green eyes focused on the screen in slight confusion and in interesting before she felt her heart sink and her hand raise up to her mouth. Her green eyes went wide in horror and a soft gasp escaped her lips.

"Oh my GOD…"