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Chapter 2: And Then There was One

Betsy managed to show the group around her mansion, which was considerably large and had more bedrooms than her family actually needed. She guessed it was if far off family was visiting…but who knows. Even though there was that many bedrooms people still had to share these marginally large rooms.

They again were in the room where they originally met Betsy had to propose an idea that was generally mocked. She sat at the place where she had stood previously and said, "We need new names."

"New names?" questioned Lucas, "Why do we need new names?"

"I mean like re-christening yourself as a mutant, like Charles Xavier had done with his X-men, like many mutant groups," she replied, "Or in a simpler term a codename."

Jubilation piped up immediately, "I liked what you called me…Jubilee."

"I guess that would be a good one for you if you don't like the idea of it relating to your powers," said Betsy sounding a little irritated.

"No my name means 'party' I create sort of fire work looking things," said Jubilee, "So it makes sense."

"Well we already know what Xorn is, not that it matters he won't be doing field work," said Betsy, "But I already decided on Psylocke."

"Well sugar there is no way you are calling me Mariholme," spoke up Rogue, "Rogue is what it's going to be."

"Well most of us are decided," said Betsy looking at the room.

"Well that's a stupid idea!" exclaimed Mortimer, "I mean what are you going to call me, Frog-boy? Toad? Warty?"

"It's settled Toad then," said Betsy who was starting to get annoyed with these people, "This was going to be more difficult than she thought."

"Hey oi' don't wanna be called Toad! You twit!" said Mortimer again, "Call me something cool."

"Toad it is," said Lucas laughing lightly, "Settle down, what would be cool for somebody who looks like a frog anyways?"

"Ummm…ummm…I don't know," said Mortimer, "But I guess it will grow on me, but what would we call you wise guy? Convict?"

"I'm telling you I'm not a convict, I was framed," said Lucas whose temper seemed to be rising but he settled down and leaned against the wall, "Besides I like Bishop."

Mortimer looked at the back of his pants noticing something no one else had noticed, "Does an innocent man pack a gun?"

"No, one who likes to be able to defend themselves does," said Lucas, the subject was dropped about the gun quickly afterwards but people seemed uneasy around them.

"Bishop is just your last name…don't you think people would know it's you Lucas?" asked Betsy trying to be somewhat polite even though irritation was apparent.

"No, if she gets to be Jubilee I get to be Bishop," Lucas replied, "That's all."

St. John was the next to have his piece, "Pyro, Latin is good for names, although I could also be Saint."

"You are no Saint you are going to be Pyro," said Betsy, "So shut up."

"I'm a Saint and I can prove it," said St. John, "Just ask me a question."

"When's the last time you watched porn?" asked Betsy smiling evilly, "Answer truthfully I will know if you are lying."

"Never," said St. John, "Porn is for lonely people, who get no love."

"Well your mind says different," Betsy mocked him, "You watched porn before you even came here."

St. John was shot down and stayed quiet about the matter he knew if he kept saying things she would beat him every time, "Fine Pyro."

Amahl said clearly, "Shadow."

Betsy seemed to accept that, "Now just for demon boy over there."

"I am not a demon," Kurt said angrily, "I am in fact a devout Catholic."

"An Angel in Devil's clothing then?" Betsy asked, "Fine what's your name going to be?"

Before he could answer Mortimer yelled out, "You not being a demon is like me not being a frog…not going to happen."

Kurt disappeared in a puff of smoke, and then reappeared in front of Mortimer socking him in the face. Mortimer rubbed his bloody nose with his arm, "Ow…"

"Don't call me a demon," he said unsheathing a knife under his jacket, "Or next time it will be a little more painful."

"Does everyone have weapons around here?" asked Rogue, "Seems like I should get myself an Uzi then."

"Well I do have a katana," said Betsy, "But that's besides the point, think of a name Kurt."

Amahl said, "What about Nightcrawler, the creatures that come out after dark."

Kurt scratched his chin and remarked at what he said, "I can live with that."

Betsy glanced over at Piotr, "What about you Peter?"

"Colossus," he said proudly, "After the spectacle written about in Greek Mythology, the statues that stand higher than any had before, gold ones."

"Then we all know who we are," said Betsy, "To sound official no one change their names."

"Oh then I'm stuck with Toad?" asked Mortimer.

"Get over yourself!" Betsy yelled crossing her arms he flew out of his chair and crashed into a wall. Mortimer rubbed his head muttering, "What is it abuse Morty day?"

"If you want it to be mate," said St. John smiled a bit almost from ear to ear, "I haven't delivered a good beating in a while."

Mortimer looked like it was starting to get to him, "I'm out of here!"

He started to leap towards the exit, but Amahl stepped forward, "You have nowhere else to go except that orphanage, I know."

"Damn telepaths, nobody has a private thought in the world with you people around!" St. John said this Mortimer hopped up behind him and said, "Yeah nobody here can have a single thought without someone like you reading it!"

Xorn could tell they were fighting even though he couldn't speak English, he walked over between the two and Amahl then started to say stuff in Chinese.

"Well what did that bloke say?" asked Mortimer directing the question to the telepaths.

"He says, 'Loud voices, and fights don't solve problems,'" said Amahl, "And how very right he is."

"Why am I to believe you?" asked Mortimer, "I don't trust a single one of you in this room."

Xorn looked at him then said something else in Chinese which Amahl translated as he said it, "You don't know whom you are dealing with."

"How did he understand me though?" asked Mortimer with an amazed expression, "I thought he doesn't speak English!"

"No, I do, I speak several different languages due to telepathy, so translating is pretty easy," said Amahl, "It is something I specialized more in."

St. John looked at him, "Fine I believe you but I think we should have a pact that telepaths stay out of your minds unless needed, all in favor?"

Everyone in the room raised their hands even Betsy, the only hands that weren't up were Xorn and Amahl. Xorn mainly because he had no clue what he said, and Amahl didn't seem to have a reason.

Betsy announced, "Then it's settled, with that note I say everyone goes to bed, we need some shut eye."

Rogue got out of her chair, "I concur!"

Jubilee followed her with Betsy close behind to the room they all shared the room. It didn't take long for all parties to fall asleep, but strangely enough almost everyone had nightmares.

The next morning all of them did not look too well, Rogue's hair was frazzled and mangy. But unlike the others she was already in casual clothes or at least what was casual to her, trying to tame her hair with a brush. The only people in the room who didn't look too affected were, Mortimer, Lucas, Amahl, and Xorn.

The reasons being, for Mortimer it's kind of hard to mess up dreadlocks, Lucas was bald, no problem there. Amahl just looked unaffected at all, Xorn, who could tell?

But their clothes of course were what they slept in. Betsy looked like the biggest mess of all as she normally looked like one to present herself well but she was making some coffee. After a cup or two she immediately looked like she could run 10 miles, "Well everyone today is your first days at school, except Amahl, Piotr, and Xorn. Everyone else needed to go to school or were forced. Mortimer, and Jubilee were the hardest to get out of the door as they fought against the idea the most. Kurt was a bit hard but he was easy to push out after some encouragement from Rogue, who was plain frightening to most of the team.

After getting in a limo questions started to arise.

"Do you always go to school in a limo?" asked St. John, "Because seems like it would leave an impression on the students…"

"Don't you, if you are the famous author you claim you are, what did you write anyways?" asked Betsy.

"Well if you must know, I mainly collaborate, so I can't claim they are my brain children, but I am working on a book right now," said St. John with a accomplished smile, "So no worries."

Rogue looked out the window, "How will we know what classes to go to?"

"You will get a schedule Rogue," said Betsy, "No trouble with that."

"Also when are we actually going to start getting to work on refining our powers?" asked Rogue again, "I think we should be doing that instead of school."

"I would teach you myself but I'm not qualified," said Betsy, "Until I convince the person I've been communicating to teach us control we won't get to."

"Who have you been communicating with?" asked Mortimer.

Before she answered Lucas interrupted, "Stop bombarding her with questions, it would be a good idea to not do that."

Betsy looked at Lucas then to Kurt, "Umm…Lucas you mind leaving your gun in the limo, and Kurt your knife…your appearance might scare them off already so the knife might be a little more imposing."

Lucas just dropped the gun on her command Kurt took a little bit, and said "I am worried about their reaction what if I need protection?"

"We have metal detectors at this school," said Betsy, "I'm sure the school will be on you about your clothing just to annoy you more."

Mortimer frowned, "How come people like us have to stay out of the way of others, we should be able to do what we want…"

"It's not what is right, that's how Magneto thought, him and his Brotherhood," said Betsy this ended the conversation quick.

Finally the silence ended when they arrived at school, it was a good thing Betsy lived in a smaller town in England, so there was probably about only three hundred students at the entire school, bad news about this was news spreads quick.

When she stepped out of the limo she was immediately bombarded by her popular friends and was drug away even though the inhabitants of the limo knew they needed her. Except Bishop of course who just stepped out of the limo he had a presence that both interested the kids and made them back off.

"Whose that guy?" said a random boy.

"I don't know but damn is he buffed up," said another guy.

Well that was true he was well built due to a lot of weight lifting, and other vigorous exercise that he did in his time in prison and out. He just walked by the other kids not giving them any notice, when passing through the metal detector they scanned him several times even after clearing it.

The next teen to brave outside of the car was St. John, he glanced around and smiled as he saw a few girls sigh as they saw him. He glanced at them and they all looked overjoyed, he did love himself as much as he believed everyone else did.

Two girls got in a fight about which of them would get him, as he just kept walking.

Rogue stumbled out of the car falling flat on her face everyone started to laugh at her. Tears welled in her eyes unbeknownst to the viewers but she quickly recovered and got up. A loud preppy girl in front of her yelled, "Ooh, widdle new child fell on her face!"

Before she could say anymore Rogue had knocked her out with a fist, and she was drooling on the pavement. When arriving at the metal detectors she had to remove a few layers before they passed her through it. She hastily put them back on and walked through.

Jubilee and Mortimer got out at the same time. Jubilee probably would have been greeted happily if not for Mortimer's imposing appearance, his Toad like physique may have been funny to the mutants. But, it was actually slightly scary to others, then a tall muscular kid yelled, "Hey Kermit where's Miss Piggy?"

"Shut up Duncan," said a girl who hit him on the arm, "Be nice…"

He just laughed and said, "What's the matter? Waiting to be turned into a Prince? That will never happen."

Mortimer was annoyed and starting to get angry but Jubilee whispered to him, "Just ignore him…if he says anything later we will teach him a lesson."

Mortimer grinned evilly as they continued walking on finally Kurt was shoved out of the limo, as he stepped out people immediately started talking.

"Is that Satan?" asked someone.

"No, no, he's blue, Satan's red," said another kid stupidly in response.

"What's with the clothes, is it to hide some kind of gills?" another kid questioned.

Kurt continued walking hiding in his own form. When he arrived at the metal detector the guard jumped in fear, "Damn…I don't want anything to do with you Lucipher be gone!"

"I am Kurt Wagner one of the new students," he said, "I am not the devil."

He lifted the cross off of his neck and showed him, "See?"

He pulled the bible out of another pocket as proof. But the guard was still suspicious and spent some time making sure he wasn't concealing any weapons.

Then he sent him on through, Kurt muttered some text from the bible that was inaudible to the man. But he ignored it and was happy to get the kid beyond the fence, where the people who talked about him were. Along with the other new students, and the Duncan guy who made fun of Mortimer.

He seemed to be thinking of something for Kurt, but before he could get a chance he arrived with the rest of the group. Now that Betsy was gone Lucas seemed to have taken over leadership temporarily, "Alright everyone, we need to go to the Headmaster's office and get our schedules, ignore everyone else."

Bishop was pretty tall for his age he must have been six foot and still growing. He was also very muscular he could have probably rivaled Peter in the muscle department. As he led the group when turning a corner a younger teen scream and ran for cover he simply chuckled at this as an acknowledgment that yes he did scare the crap right out of the kid.

This was probably the oddest group of people to ever set their feet into the high school, and probably the most mutants that ever passed through at one time. Lucas swiftly led them to the headmaster's office they noticed nobody talked about them when Lucas was around. Mortimer was thankful for this and was beginning to like the guy.

He knocked on the door of the Headmaster's office. A voice from inside said, "Come in…"

When they walked in he was surprised, the head master was William Stryker. Of all the people to be the headmaster of this school it had to be Stryker, he used to be part of the Friends of Humanity an anti-mutant militia that was prominent before the X-men first were created. They quickly stamped the group out with haste.

Stryker looked both pleased, and surprised about the group. It was amazing that Betsy survived here this long, "Greetings, Betsy already told me about you…"

He handed each of them a schedule, and when he gave Mortimer, and Kurt theirs they noticed he gave them the meanest glares either had ever received.

"Well, I trust you all can find your way around the school," said Stryker, "My name is William Stryker, call me Headmaster Stryker if you will."

He shoved them out of the door. Lucas said, "So this was where this cretin went after his downfall…he didn't even have to do time that bastard."

"Who is that anyways?" asked Rogue, "I don't remember the guy…"

"Surely you remember those anti-mutant crusades and the sentinels?" asked Lucas, "All of us were lucky to live through that."

"Ja…I was outed as a mutant, when they first were formed," said Kurt, "I was kicked out of my own village, by these people, he led the march."

"I am sorry Kurt, I too was hunted down by Sentinels," said Bishop, "I threw them off pretty fast, they didn't expect my power."

"What is your power anyways?" asked Mortimer inquisitively.

"It's a bit complicated I'll explain it to you another time when I think of an easy way to explain it," said Lucas he looked down at his schedule and examined the others schedules, "I guess because it's a small town all we get is basics, also assuming the school has three hundred students total each class will probably be small and have every student in the grade…"

He left the other students behind him. Mortimer and Rogue headed to their class together, everyone else were different ages and were on their own.

When Lucas stepped through the door of his classroom he noticed Betsy and gave her a friendly smiled then waved. She seemed to be ignoring him, but no matter he was going to go sit down in the front row. Unlike many people's pretension about Lucas he loved to learn, there was nothing better in the world he could do for himself.

When the teacher arrived at the chalkboard she said, "I believe we have a new student today, Lucas Bishop?"

He looked up at her and waved a bit. She was shocked at his appearance immediately and said, "Why do you have that horrendous tattoo?"

"It has an inner meaning," said Lucas who glanced up at her he could tell this teacher wasn't going to be a fan of him.

He glanced at the schedule, English, of course. It seemed teachers hated him in English for some reason maybe it was the stereotype that all African American teens talked in slang, were 'gangster,' but the biggest one was probably his size and appearance.

"Would you mind telling me?" the teacher asked she was still horrified about it though.

"Yes actually I would mind," said Lucas he could tell this was going to be a long class.

"Well I am Ms. Hornbee," she said, "You can call me Ms. H."

The teenager sitting next to Lucas whispered to him just as she turned to the chalkboard, "Or the Horny Bee…the name's Slap Jack…all the kids call me that."

"You heard my name," said Lucas, he proceeded to shake his hand.

The teacher proclaimed, "No talking in class!"

But when she turned around Slap Jack finished with, "You and me will probably be good friends."

He lay back in the chair tipping his hat over his eyes he mumbled what sounded like, "Because she hates me too."

Slap Jack was a British, child with red hair, green eyes, and ruddy clothing. He looked poor, probably the reason why this teacher was disrespectful towards him. Lucas was starting to consider why Betsy was ignoring him but he turned to the back, she was sitting in the back row with her preppy friends chatting away. Then it hit him, she was popular, what model wouldn't be?

All of a sudden a thought went through his mind but it wasn't his, the voice sounded like Amahl, 'Trouble in Louisiana, come back to the mansion when you can…'

Lucas turned back to Betsy looked like she had heard the thought as well, then raised her hand, "Umm…Ms. Hornbee, I am afraid that I have something I need to attend to."

"No problem Ms. Braddock," she smiled politely, obviously Betsy was her favorite student.

Lucas had a feeling he was below Slap Jack in her list. But then Betsy said, "Lucas needs to come with me too!"

"That boy?" asked the teacher, "Fine, fine take him with you if you need to."

Now he wasn't even going to be referred by his name when he was in the same room…nice.

They left immediately, when they entered the hallway Betsy looked over at Lucas, "We should only take a few of them with us…"

She scanned the nearby minds, "It looks like Kurt has left his room because the kids were picking on him, and Jubilee skipped. Let's go get them!"

Lucas grinned, "Tell me where Kurt is…"

She told them and they both split off. Several minutes later the four had arrived at the front of the school. Betsy sent a message to Amahl, not long after Peter, and Amahl appeared out of thin air in a black portal.

"A strange experience if I have ever had one!" said Peter whipping some strange matter off his arms that dissolved in the air, "This Astral Plane is a scary place."

Betsy looked at him, "When Amahl's with us we should be fine…"

Kurt looked at her, "What is even in there that we should be afraid of?"

"Astral shadows…" said Amahl, "No more questions we need to get to New Orleans!"

The group stepped into the portal and the world was changed, Amahl glanced at the group in there as he turned to the world around them. It was a dark purplish color, although sometimes an object would float by that looked out of place or a bright color. Also there were some strange demon creatures running around, Amahl said, "We will be traveling fast on the Vessel I have created but we will still have to deal with them…"

A platform rose from the ground with intricate designs in red lining on the platform itself. The whole group stepped onto it and Amahl turned again, "We are all on this? You do not want to get separated from me…this may be a telepathic realm but Betsy is nowhere near powerful enough to carry people through it."

It started to move at a seemingly fast pace but in reality it was moving at a speed that would get them across an ocean in a minute. The creatures started to jump on the platform and Shadow looked at them. This seemed to be where he was strong, his eyes glowed blue and blue fire shot from his eyes incinerating one. Nightcrawler tried unsheathing his knife but it wasn't there, he remembered leaving it in the limo, the same realization came upon Bishop as he reached for his gun.

Jubilee was shooting sparks from her fingertips, which launched a creature off the Vessel and into the unknown. Then one came up behind her and Colossus was obliged to pull the beast off tossing it aside. Jubilee said, "Thanks!"

"No problem," said Colossus as another came up behind him and his skin turned metal. He kicked it and watched it fly away towards the shining clouds.

Bishop was watching a creature in front of him it was about to try to shoot some kind of laser at him, but Psylocke slashed through it with a mental blade. Nightcrawler appeared in a purple cloud in front of a creature punching it across the face, and then kicking it off.

The world they were in dissolved and Shadow looked back at the group, "We are here…"

There were bustling crowds of people they approached a crowd of people. A man was performing tricks before them. He lifted his collar to his shirt as a pigeon flew out and became a bouquet of flowers. This man was amazing at what he did when he caught the bouquet he threw it into the crowd. A woman caught it sighing, Shadow looked back at the group, "It happened somewhere nearby here, Xorn told me that a man who calls himself Mastermind tricked a teenager named Remy Le'Beau to steal for him. He should be stealing from a jewel store soon."

"Remy denied my invitation," said Psylocke she frowned a bit, "In fact his response was a bit unsavory."

Jubilee looked around, "This is my kind of town!"

She ran off into a crowd, Psylocke yelled some choice words and said, "Damn it! I knew that little brat would do something like this we need some people to go locate her. Why don't Shadow, and Bishop go locate her…we need a telepath at all times so I will stay here, any questions?"

As Bishop and Shadow ran off to find her Bishop looked over to Shadow, "Do you suppose she doesn't like to deal with her?"

"Yes, I barely can stand dealing with her," said Shadow with a look of disgust on his face, "You can understand, she's a bit unreliable…she is most likely to turn against us at some point."

"Yeah I suppose you are right," said Bishop as he trailed off, "Look Jubilee's in trouble!"

Jubilee was on the ground as teenager stood over her, he had long brown hair, his irises were red, the rest black, he had a brown trench coat, with a white tank top underneath, then he wore olive pants with many zippers and pockets, he held three playing cards in his hands he was saying, "I hate you dad! I hate you so much…"

He was about to try to slit Jubilee's throat with them, Bishop said, "That guy's insane!"

"No…it is Remy, he is under an illusion," said Shadow.

He disappeared into a black portal and appeared behind Jubilee dragging disappearing with her. When Remy noticed that she was gone he turned to Bishop, "Dad!"

He three the cards, each exploded upon Bishop's chest but he seemed unaffected. The energy flowed into him and he felt stronger growing slightly bigger, "I can use what you have against you Remy, you don't want to mess with me!"

He fired a bolt of energy right back at Remy. Knocking him into a wall, but not long after Remy was up again and pulling a small metal rod from a pouch in his coat, "It's time that I end this!"

He pressed a button on it, which made the rod telescope out into a staff, which he started to swing at Bishop each swing was a miss although large he was quick on his feet. Now it was a question as to whether the team would ever come and help him. Then Remy swung the staff down at him from above which he sidestepped but he wasn't expecting a kick from the side to his gut. Remy had surprises too, for a small guy he was strong.

Then he heard a loud but strangely muffled sound and he smelled brimstone. Remy was in a headlock delivered by Nightcrawler Jubilee's finger was then pointed at his face it was glowing bright yellow, "You better knock it off frog!"

He smiled and kicked out, "The name's Gambit dad, they don't call me nothing else now!"

Nightcrawler was knocked into a wall and Jubilee into Bishop, Bishop looked at her, "Where is everyone else?"

"They are looking for the guy controlling him…he won't stop fighting until he stops having these illusions," said Jubilee who started firing light orbs at Gambit each one he had dismissed with a thrown card.

Bishop noticed her power had a lot to do with energy, "Shoot me with your sparks Jubes!"

She stared at him, "Won't that hurt?"

Nightcrawler was sparring with Gambit he was about as quick as he was so it was a pretty even fight so to speak. He would kick Gambit would hit his leg with an arm which would alter the fight to his favor until Nightcrawler would find a way to hinder him. Bishop said, "Do it Jubilee!"

She started firing all of her power into Bishop until he was glowing and said he could take no more. Now he was extremely fast, and strong, he ran at Gambit starting to punch him repeatedly. The speed he was now fighting at was keeping Gambit unable to get into a single jab or a swing of the staff. But he had another trick up his sleeve, he grabbed the wall and it charged with a pink aura. Exploding and knocking them both back, but the explosion had over charged Bishop.

He was in pain writhing on the ground Jubilee turned over to Gambit and charged at him forgetting about her powers. He hit her on the temple as she crumpled to the floor. Nightcrawler was the only one left as he ran on all fours and leaped. The area was silent for a moment as Gambit searched the area then all of a sudden he asked, "Where am I?"

Nightcrawler was sticking to the wall above him as he flipped off and kicked him on the back knocking Gambit to the floor. Then he held his arm behind his back, "Stay there!"

"What are you doing?" asked Gambit, "Where am I?"

"You were just fighting us…don't you remember?" said Nightcrawler.

"Not at all, I thought it was my dad again…but he's dead," said Gambit, "How could that be?"

At this note the rest of the X-men appeared before them, Psylocke got Nightcrawler off of Gambit and lifted him up, "You were under control, by the street performer over there…he was actually a mutant, but he escaped us."

Gambit dusted himself off and examined the bag of diamonds he was holding. He saw a jewelry store where he tossed them in, "You are that model who wanted me to join the X-men…"

"Yes I am," said Psylocke, "Listen we need to go try to catch that guy who was controlling you, also it's best that you come with us. Due to him you are considered a crook…"

Gambit said, "I would have came with you anyways, nobody plays me!"

Shadow turned to Psylocke, "It was difficult but I have located him…"

The whole group disappeared in another portal the trips to locations in the city were pretty easy to do. When they appeared again they had arrived at a bayou where a small shack was located in an island in the middle. It seemed like there was no way to get over there, but luckily for them they could find ways. Nightcrawler teleported Gambit, and Jubilee across the water, as Psylocke telekinetically lifted Bishop across. As this was happening Shadow was already there with Colossus next to him, Psylocke motioned the whole group over to her, "Don't believe the things you see in there, only Shadow and I will be immune to it all together…"

"Colossus you do the honors," said Psylocke motioning at the door, he turned his flesh to metal and obliged.

The door was like ripping a blade of grass in half from him, it almost looked as though it disintegrated under his might. He ran inside but looked around, it was a blank room, with an empty chair in the middle, and said "There is nothing in here Psylocke…"

"Yes there is!" said Psylocke a psychic dagger formed at her fist as she ran at the chair.

Then Colossus yelled, "Why are you trying to hurt my little Illyana? She is just a small girl!"

He ran at Psylocke and punched her in the gut. It launched her through the wall, Colossus had seen the chair with Illyana sitting in it, but truly a man with a dark jacket, and a top hat was sitting there. His hair graying and his eyes blue, he just smiled as he saw his enemies plans fall apart by using this massive man as his minion, much better than a scrawny Cajun who can do card tricks…

Nightcrawler ran into the room, "Why did you punch Betsy?"

The Mastermind smiled, he knew this one would be easy. Nightcrawler ran from the room yelling and screaming, he envisioned a mob led by William Stryker chasing him out of the house, on the way he knocked out Gambit who was the William Stryker in the illusion, he believed teleporting across the water would save him as he stood on the other side of the lake.

Shadow saw this happen and said, "Coward."

He walked inside and saw Mastermind, "You!"

He started to walk towards him and Mastermind nodded, "Your friend will take care of you so sorry…"

Colossus picked him up and tossed him through the roof of the house. Jubilee, and Bishop ran in at the same time, this was problematic for Mastermind for some reason an illusion against Jubilee wouldn't work, and so he picked Bishop. Making him think that there was nothing there, the same with Colossus. Both looked around dazed and confused by the fact that previously there were a bunch of things around them.

He tried to remove a gun under his jacket but when he lifted it up and tried to pull the trigger a beam of pink light shot it from his hand. Jubilee ran up to him and socked him in the face, the old man fell unconscious, and she said, "Well not the best way but I like it"

Psylocke stumbled into the room, she was bleeding a bit and had a cracked rib cage, "Those mental blocks I put on you worked like a charm, and if he won't let me fight you head on I have no option but to use the most unlikely one."

Shadow appeared from a portal, Colossus and Bishop appeared normal as well. Then Nightcrawler appeared inside. Jubilee smiled as she walked over to Gambit and woke him up, "He was knocked unconscious…"

Kurt laughed sheepishly, now that Mastermind was unconscious what the illusions really were had returned to them.

Colossus said to Psylocke, "I am very sorry if I hurt you!"

"It's alright," said Psylocke as she smiled, "After we return him to the authorities and prove did it then we can head home, and call it a day."