Exodust was starting to think a mistake had been made; this was supposed to be a simple thing, recruit the new Mutant for the cause after he had seen him on the internet, fight of the X-men that would probably appear, and then he would either join him or them.

That was how it had gone in the past, and he assumed that was how it would go into the future even after the catastrophe that had been M-Day had occurred.

But then the albino boy had immediately denied them and then started to fight back, telling the X-Men to essentially fuck off as he then fought his Brotherhood of Mutants.

And he essentially devastated Sabertooth with a simple punch, his entire body shattering; he was alive, but the old Mutant would be out of commission until he finished regenerating.

Then he had taken out Mammoax with a fucking rock, the Mutant, whose primary power was his superhuman durability that was right up there with the likes of Collusus and the Blob in terms of how tough he has.

But he just kicked a rock, and it penetrated his stomach and took him out of the fight as he was busy not bleeding to death.

Which just created a question in Exodus' mind.

What exactly was this kid's power?

He thought that it was some sort of barrier-type ability going by the video and the fact his telepathy wasn't working on the kid.

Which was a first for the Omega-Level mutant, which meant that the kid who had dubbed himself Accelerator was on the High End of Alpha-Level. But then he had punched Sabertooth so hard that it looked like he had just either run over by the Juggernaut or been clapped by the Hulk.

And then there had been the rock that he had kicked, that looked like it had suddenly just been shot out of a Railgun.

Which just further confused Exodus as to what the boy's power was. He called himself Accelerator, which implied movement, which would make sense if he just made things faster like he had done with the rock, but again, that didn't explain the reflective barrier, the act of super strength.

Too wide a powerset, there had to be an underlying thing he was manipulating; he thought it was maybe tactile telekinesis for a second, but he did not sense any psionic energy from the boy, which meant his mutant power wasn't actually psychic in nature like his own or Jean Grey.

The leader of this current iteration of the X-Men team, who was currently looking flabbergasted as the boy played with with his remaining two men.

Black Tom and Avalanche.

"Hahahahahaha!" Accelerator laughed manically as Avalanche's vibrational attacks were reflected back at the Mutant seemingly automatically, meaning he had to counter his own attack. "Mother fucker do you think you are Whitebeard?"

"Who the fuck is Whitebeard?"

"And you are now an uncultured swine in my head."

"Take us seriously!" Black Tom roared as he fired his bio-beams from the tree roots that he manipulated.

But like everything else, they were just reflected back.

"Nah, taking you idiots seriously means that you are a threat to me; you are not; none of you are," Accelerator stated, speaking as if he was above all of them.

Which was hubris of the highest order; in Exodus' opinion, everyone had a weakness, even if it was not a physical one. It could easily be an emotional one.

And while she had hidden the second the fight at started, Exodus had not lost track of the girl that had been with Accelerator, not even for a second.

And so, with simple telekinesis, he pulled her over to him, the girl punching the psionic hand that had caught her and was around her waist as he pulled her over to him. "Accelerator!" Exodus shouted.

Which immediately brought the 'fight' to a halt as all eyes landed on him. "You will come with us and learn from your folly, or else I will have to harm your friend." Which he didn't want to do as there was a high chance that the girl was a Mutant as well, and every Mutant was precious at the moment.

"Exodus, you coward!" Cyclops shouted at him, his hand on his visor threatening to blast him with his optic blasts.

"Try it, X-Man, and she will not recover from the stroke I will give her," Exodus stated. "So Accelerator, are you going to rethink my offer?"

"Laura," Accelerator stated, saying the name of the girl that he was currently holding hostage. "I will protect you, but you have to pull your weight."

What the heck kind of logic was that?

That was Exodus' thought as the girl spoke. "Fine, couldn't keep it hidden forever.

Snick!

Immediate pain flooded Exodus' body, and he looked down at his chest to see that the girl was pulling out what were clearly Vibranium clad claws out of his body. Exodus had messed up; he had made the singular mistake of dismissing the girl as a threat. He had thought of her as a nobody, a weak mutant with no useful power going by how she immediately had tried to hide when the fight had started.

But that wasn't the case, that wasn't the case at all.

She just didn't want people to know who she was related to; that was the conclusion that Exodus came to as blood spurted from his wound and blood started filling his now-collapsed lung.

He dropped the spawn of Wolverine, who gracefully landed right next to the still recovering Sabertooth, who was starting to get back up as his regeneration was powerful.

"Knew that I was smelling something familiar," Sabertooth commented. "So you are one of his brats."

"That a nasty wound you got there, Exodus," Accelerator called out. "Do you wanna keep fighting, or do you want to experience getting thrown the atmosphere at Mach 8?"

"Brotherhood, we are leaving," Exodus said as blood flowed from his mouth, and with a flex of his power, he teleported them all away.

Next time, he would not make the same mistake, and next time, he would know the weakness of Acceerlator's mutant power.

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