Chapter III
It only took an hour for the x-jet to get to Salt Lake, but only because of the Shi'ar tech. It had been the longest hour that Emma had ever had to endure. Not just the fact that this was one of the first mutants to appear in months but just knowing that any of the x-men's enemies could also know. The Main threat being the Purifiers.
"God I hope they haven't found out" Emma thought to herself. Then the Cuckoos interrupted her thought,
"Miss Frost we have found another mutant, he is in New Orleans. His name is Caleb Davies, he is a physical mutant."
"Thank you girl, but you will need to tell Cyclops, he is Little Rock still." Emma sent back.
"We already have." the Cuckoos replied. Emma thought about it but didn't know if she should tell her group of students or not, the new one was a physical and they did tend to be moody. He may not even want to come to the school. Of course she could just make him since he was only 17; all she had to do was go through the state. That thought made her cringe, meaning having to deal with Valerie Cooper.
"You have reached your destination" said the x-jet's g.p.s.
"Alright people, we don't know what kind of situation we will be walking into, so be on guard" Emma told the remaining team members.
"Miss Frost we're going to need to wear civilian clothes, this state isn't known for its love of mutants, or superheroes for that matter" Cessily proclaimed.
"Yes. That is true, Rockslide, Dust, and X-23 will stay with the jet, Anole, you, Mercury, and Pixie will come with me to retrieve this mutant" Emma instructed her students.
"Oh and children don't worry about the uniforms, I will place a psychic field around you so that everybody will see normal teenagers, and another thing. When we are in the field you will either go by you code name or you use fake names, got it" Emma commanded.
"Yes White Queen" replied the team.
As they walked down the ramp of the x-jet Emma got a sudden chill from the 60' degree weather and quietly cursed herself for not bringing a jacket. "Girls this is where you earn your keep, I need you to close in on a small radius of his current location, I already know that you can't get an exact reading, being that he is a level five" Emma thought to the Cuckoos.
"Actually Miss Frost we know the exact block that he is located, and we might even know what building" the Cuckoos sent back.
"Uh… well good then you have been practicing, what is his location" Emma questioned.
"We are sending you the information now, in map form, and before you ask, yes that is a gentlemen's club" the Cuckoos sent.
"Guys we are going to be walking for a little while, so let's get going" Emma told her students.
"Why would we ever do that Miss Frost" Megan questioned holding open the door to a taxi van.
"And what makes you think I brought any money, Pixie" Emma asked coolly.
Cessily turned to her from the cab and replied "Miss Frost we all know that that bra of yours, isn't filled with just cleavage, knowing you, you probably have the school credit card, or your own money so fork it over". Emma gave Mercury a very evil old school white queen stare. The stare seemed like it lasted for hours to Cessily, then Emma finally spoke.
"Young Lady I will have you know that if this was ten years ago, I would have killed you for even looking in my direction, so if you don't want me to revert back to the old villainess that I used to be I would suggest that you start treating me with respect". Cessily climb in to the van and sat in silence, Emma got in up front, much to the dingy old drivers delight.
They rode the whole way to the building in silence, the driver constantly looking over at Emma and staring in the rear view mirror at Cessily. They finally arrived at the correct location, the girls hastily climbed out of the van Anole followed suit. Emma stayed in the van a couple of minutes supposedly paying the driver "You will not remember any of us, you drove down this block to get a burger for you wife, and are now going home" Emma thought to the man. She got out of the van with a very disgusted look, Almost jogging away from the van. Cessily stopped her.
"Miss Frost I don't like the way he was looking at me, but not only that I found this in the seat". She handed a picture of a little girl half naked to Emma. Emma looked at the picture and whipped her head towards the van at the burger shop across the street
"Give me a minute I have to take out the garbage." Emma walked over to a cop car that was parked beside the taxi. "Excuse me officer, I just got out of that taxi with my friends, when one of the girls found this under the driver's seat" Emma handed the photo over to the officer, waiting for a response.
"All right ma'am, thank you for bringing this to my attention I will go have a word with him" the policeman told Emma in a very calm tone. Emma waited around for about ten minutes before the cop came back outside.
"Well" Emma asked.
"Sorry ma'am he denies ever seeing it, and there isn't much we can do, but I will try to look into this, thank you for the concern" the cop turned and got into his car and started to drink his coffee as if nothing had happened. BEEEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEP, Emma's phone started to chime. "Hello" Emma.
"Hey Em it's Scott, we caught a flight with Rogue and her team, they are going to drop us off in Boston" Scott.
"Ok, but don't go after that mutant until I get there, and how did it go with the New Orleans mutant" Emma.
"Oh fine. We found him tearing through the French quarter, so we knocked him out, and he is currently restrained in the back of the jet. Rogue is going to take him on back to the mansion" Scott.
"Good, we are about to collect Wental, it shouldn't take more than an hour though" Emma.
"Ok gotta go, love you "Scott.
"Me too" Emma, she then ended the call and started back over to the club.
"Uh… Miss Frost what happened" Cessily questioned.
"Don't worry about it" was Emma's only reply. Emma walked into the front door but was stopped by the bouncer.
"No women allowed in, queens only" the bouncer said.
Anole walked up the man and gave him a very hard look and said "then get out of the way". The bouncer moved and allowed Anole in the club.
Emma walked back to the curb, away from the club to get out of the way of the other patrons. While not paying attention, she bumped into someone. He was average height, lean bodied, and in an all white suite. The only change in color was the gold tie that he wore. He couldn't have been more than 17 years old. His hair was golden blonde, his eyes were gold and almost glowing, the same with his skin, he had a gold tint, with a certain shine. The shine was of confidence, omniscience.
"Watch were you are going, cow" the boy said as he bumped past Emma.
"Miss Frost, I didn't know you had a son too" Cessily said.
"I Don't" Emma replied. Emma turned back to the door, and saw that the boy had walked right past the bouncer, along with a raven haired woman; she was probably of Russian decent.
"What the hell" Emma said under her breath.
"Miss Frost why didn't you just cloud his mind and make him think that we were boys" Megan asked.
"Pixie, I can't just use my powers on anyone who doesn't agree, or let me have my way. Not that I don't wish that I could" Emma said. "Besides this will be a good chance to see how well Anole is at negotiations, as he will get his own team back you know" Emma told the girls.
"Uh… Miss Frost I hope you are listening, you might want to get into defensive positions" Anole thought, hoping that Emma was listening. Fortunately he was in luck.
"What are you talking about" Emma thought back. She then got her answer as stone mortar went flying from the east wall of the building.
"LEAVE ME THE $&#* ALONE" Alex Wental yelled, his hand outstretched, and glowing with blue energy. The substitute wrecking ball was lying on the ground in a heap, barley breathing.
Scott and his team walked into a coffee shop in Boston, mainly to wait for Emma, but also to get out of the cold.
"So Mr. Summers why did you have me come with you guys instead of going back to the institute with the other kid" Amy asked.
"Because, I may need your powers to help get this next mutant, if things go south" Scott replied.
"What do you mean" asked Nori.
"According to the Cuckoos, he is a psionic mutant, and what hurts a psychic more than a sonic mutant" Scott said.
"But I don't know how to use my powers" Amy said, worried.
"You don't have to, if we need you then all you have to do is scream" Scott told her. They sat in silence for a little while drinking their coffee, Elixir dodging glances from everyone, and Surge giving the same people dirty looks.
"Hey Summers, why do we have to wait on Frost, we could take this mutant by ourselves, besides we have our own psyches" Surge.
"Because we can't be sure of what all he can do, the three in one only know so much, and they can't even get into his head" Scott shot back.
"Well if we are there then we can distract him and the Cuckoos can get an opening, also just like you said, we have a sonic if something goes wrong" Surge countered.
"Fine since this is your team, you make the decisions, I'm just here to oversee" Scott said calmly. They walked out of the coffee shop after paying; Scott then pulled out his cell phone and dialed 411. He requested the nearest car rental place still open at seven p.m. They walked two blocks to the rental place, where Scott rented a small s.u.v. They drove for about 40 minutes till they pulled into Salem. "Girls, if you don't mind, would you please give me a little more info on the Boston mutant" Scott thought to the Cuckoos.
"But Mr. Summers didn't Mother tell you to wait" Celeste Cuckoo thought to Scott.
"Yes but we are already here so give me the location. Phoebe, remember that I am still connected to you girls. So I can hear what you are thinking to your sisters about your mother, and she probably can as well" Scott thought back.
"Fine here he is at an old run down hotel, the address is 1428 Elm" So there, the Cuckoos thoughts to Scott.
"Thank you" Scott thought back. They drove for another five minutes until they came to the gated driveway, the initials SS were welded into the wrought iron bars. Scott got out of the car when he noticed that the gate had a chain and pad lock on it. Surge followed suit.
"Hey Summers where you are going" she asked.
"Well I was going to blast this lock, since Gambit or Storm isn't here, and I can't pick locks" Scott replied.
"Uh… I can pick them, and I don't ever leave home without my kit" Surge said smiling devilishly.
"So that's how you broke into my office last week, and since you where those gauntlets you don't leave fingerprints" Scott said to no one particularly. While Scott was thinking out loud, Surge had already picked the lock and opened the gate, with just as much speed as Ororo and Remy, and was walking back to the car.
"Summers if you are done thinking of new passwords and what new locks to have Beast make, then I think we should go in" Surge said from the car. Scott walked back to the car, solemnly, still thinking of ways to "NORI" proof his office. He got in the car and drove up to the hotel. They got out and stood in front of the building looking it over, mainly for any ways to break in without evidence, but also for strange shapes, and so on.
"Mr. Summers are we really going in there" Amy asked.
"Yes, and so are you "Scott said back.
"Hey Frost, that dude is s gonna be on my team, I call dibbs on him" Anole yelled out, while taking down three bouncers at once.
"That is what you think, darling, you can have Rockslide, or Pixie" Emma yelled back. Emma was currently in diamond form and holding up a wall, making sure it didn't crush Alex and his victim. "Boy if you do not leave him, I swear I will let this wall crush you both" Emma yelled at Alex, the wall wasn't holding all that well.
"Mercury get over here and help this guy before he gets the s*$t beat out of him" Anole Shouted,
"On my way" Mercury yelled back, unwrapping herself from a man's face letting him fall unconscious. Mercury rushed over to Alex and the human punching bag, grabbing them and pulling them out of the way of the falling wall.
"Let me go, he isn't dead yet" Alex yelled at Cessily.
"Not unless YOU want to die" Cessily said calmly. Emma pulled herself out of the ruble and turned back to her human form.
"Everyone in a 500 sq. foot radius, I am releasing an excess of dopamine into your brains, you now feel depressed, but calm" Emma thought to everyone in the direct vicinity. "Now, Alex you will go over to Pixie, as will the rest of my team" Emma thought to the certain few. Emma walked over to Megan to stand behind her. "Pixie when I say so, you teleport us out of here, quickly" Emma said to Pixie. "You all will now return to normal, and forget about this boy, Pixie now" Emma said as she released her hold over the crowd.
Pixie started her chant" …Sihal Novarum Chinoth…." Pink smoke started to cloud around the team, then pink light exploded and the team was at the jet, running up the ramp.
"Great job Pixie, now Sooraya, let's go, head for Boston" Emma said. Sooraya started the lift off and headed for Boston, if Emma only knew that Sooraya had learned to fly from Afghani insurgents. They made it to Boston in 25 minutes. Everyone had their fingernails dug deep into their arm rests, holding on for dear life.
Scott drove the car up the long drive way. The road was in horrible disrepair, littered with pot holes, and covered by a thick blanket of snow. The head lights were on bright, there was no moon, it was covered by the clouds, and the road ahead of the light beams was the color of pitch. They finally pulled up to the house which was of course shrouded in darkness. Scott cut the engine and got out with the others. They walked up cracked stone steps. On each side was a stone banister, with a stone gargoyle at the end. The door was standing partially open, dried leaves covered the floor inside. The furniture that was left was all but dust. There were a few pieces however still covered by dingy yellowed bed sheets.
Nori could see were a fire had been recently started in the hearth. Though it was mostly cinders now there where sticks beside the hearth. Someone was definitely here. Nori made electricity arc between her gloved fingers, casting out a white blue light. Everyone was quiet, listening for breathing or any sounds of movement. All they heard was the wind howling outside.
"Not to sound all Scooby Doo and everything but I think we may need to split up" Nori said looking around. The fire place was the center of the room. On each side of it were two doors. Then there was a flight of stairs beside each of the doors, both curving upward.
"Miss Frost what do we do now" Sooraya said as she landed the jet in a pasture right outside the city. She was surprised to see everyone looking like they had just seen the face of God. "Was I going to fast" Dust asked. Emma had been in complete diamond form.
"Sooraya, darling, I think when we get back to the school; I will have you properly trained in the art of aviation. First, I am going to call Scott and find out where they are, then we will pick them up" Emma told Sooraya. Emma's phone then began to ring. "Hello" Emma.
"Hey Em, we got the new kid, and we are ready for pick up" Scott.
"Excuse me. You went without me" Emma.
"Honey its okay, we did have minor injuries but the new girl helped out, and now we are waiting" Scott. Scott didn't get a reply; Emma had hung up the phone.
"PIXIE, GET TO SALEM AND TELEPORT SCOTT AND HIS TEAM HERE NOW" Emma yelled. Pixie quickly chanted and ported to Scott.
Yeah he had an eventful past two years, he sure didn't expect to meet his girlfriend by being blown threw a wall by her sonic scream. He surly hadn't ever thought that his best friend would turn out to be a green scaly gay mutant. His new life was just beginning.