Meanwhile, about 5 miles from the school, a secret meeting was being held in an abandoned building. An old, bearded man and 3 younger men were making a plan of their next big heist; they were local criminals who had been hunted down by the authorities ever since the older man broke out of prison 20 years ago. "You're saying we should break into this museum?" the older man said. "Right" said one of the other men "The place isn't heavily guarded, so it shouldn't be a problem." "Any museum that isn't guarded obviously means they have nothing worth stealing, now keep searching!" But soon enough, they were interrupted by the door opening and the sound of footsteps, the men froze, worrying that the police had found them, but instead, out of the darkness, approached a burgundy suited stranger, it was Mr. Xavier.
"Peter Duncan." He said to the older man "It's been a while, hasn't it?" "How do you know me? Who are you?" Peter said. "Well, let's just say you helped saved my life 30 years ago, and now I'm here to return the favor." "Hey, are you lost or something?" said the first man. "This here's a private art theft meeting; now get out before we throw you out." "Art theft?" said Mr. Xavier "Is that that all you humans are capable of doing? I have bigger accomplishments in mind, and I'm looking for someone to help enact my plan." "Well, whoever you are, you've come to the wrong place. Our allegiance is with Mr. Duncan." The first man said again "Very well then, I guess I'll have to take you by force." "Alright, you want a fight?" Peter said gesturing to the first man plus the two others on his side "Thomas, Alain, Jean-Claude, finish him of and throw his body into The Seine." "It'll be my pleas-ahh" The first man, Thomas, said as Mr. Xavier grabbed his arm and bent it backwards, he then threw him against the wall. Alain and Jean-Claude ran up to him, but he pinned Alain to the ground and started landing several blows to his face until he passed out, he then went up to Jean-Claude, grabbed him and threw him on top of the other two men. Peter Duncan could only watch helplessly as this stranger had easily dispatched all three of his henchmen. Mr. Xavier then grabbed a pocket knife from Jean-Claude and ran up to Peter Duncan. He grabbed his neck with his free hand and held up the knife to his neck. "Please, don't hurt me." He pled. "I'm not going to hurt you, foolish human." Mr. Xavier said as his eyes changes into a four pronged, eye-like symbol. "I'm going to do what you threatened to do to me: finish you and throw you into The Seine." He said as he jabbed the knife into both sides of his neck and his chest. He threw him over to the side where he laid motionless in a pool of his own blood. Peter Duncan was dead.
XANA walked over to the other three men. They just backed up and shook in fear as the man who had killed their former leader was approaching them. "Now let's try this again, shall we?" XANA said as a cloud of red smoke shot from his hand and went inside each of the three men, when all the smoke cleared, each man was a bit different than before, they looked a lot stronger, a lot angrier, and all their eyes were a blank white. "Our allegiance is with you, Lord XANA." The XANA-fied Thomas said. "Excellent." He said. As he walked out along with his new minions, he took the body of Peter Duncan with him and burned down the entire building, having no later use for it. His plan was already one step closer to completion.