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Correction - part 2
Following rumors circulating the internet concerning the forced removal of students from schools across America, Generation X determines that something is terribly wrong, and prepares to engage the outside world….
Jubilee…Monet…Skin…Husk…Chamber - they are the future of mutant kind - they are Generation X! And right now, decked out in their new costumes, they stand in the ruins of one of the Massachusetts Academy buildings.
Later, inside the Academy’s main building, the five teenage heroes, along with their mentors - Sean “Banshee” Cassidy and Emma “White Queen” Frost are sitting in one of the living rooms, watching a report on the internet. ‘It’s a pattern of abductions’ Paige “Husk” Guthrie tells her friends, explaining that the abducted kids aren’t bad kids, aren’t breaking the law or anything, it is just that society is really paranoid these days. ‘It’s a bad time to be a kid’ she points out. ‘Just because they wear black and listen to supposedly “dangerous” music and video games and movies and stuff, they are considered criminals’.
Turning to Sean and Emma, Paige asks them if they remember those few cases that made it on the news - kids being arrested and held in custody, and declares that it is still going on, but that it is quieter now, the kids aren’t being held in the jails and it is not making the papers. ‘No one seems to know exactly where they have been taken, but I have an idea’ Paige remarks, announcing that a couple of journalists have gotten snippets of information on something called the “House of Corrections”.
Husk declares that the Police aren’t talking and the FBI is issuing denials right and left. ‘Something stinks here, seriously!’ she exclaims, before motioning to the computer and pointing out that another kid has disappeared just this morning. ‘His friend reported it. Sounds just like the other abductions!’ Paige exclaims, before turning to Sean and informing him that she has already talked to Emma and the others, and they voted on it. ‘We wanna look into this’ she tells him. ‘Yeh think this is that important, then?’ Banshee replies.
‘Staying in here and being trained to survive in the outside world isn’t enough anymore. This is something we should be involved in!’ Paige replies with certainty. Angelo “Skin” Espinosa declares that they have all been in places where they’ve seen this kind of stuff happen, and it sucks. ‘We don’t have to sit for it!’. Banshee tells the kids that they are not even close to being ready for this. ‘I say no. Yeh have a responsibility here’ he announces. ‘That’s old thinking, Sean, old attitudes. If we’ve a responsibility, then it’s out there’ Jonathan “Chamber” Starsmore exclaims. ‘Yeah, what he said!’ Jubilation Lee, better known as “Jubilee” exclaims, backing her teammate up. ‘My goodness, Jubilee, was than a hint of an adult decision I detected just now?’ the White Queen asks, before telling her charges that they can have the jet. ‘If you ask Sean nicely I’m sure he would be more than happy to fly it for you’ Emma announces, adding that she can have a chauffeured vehicle awaiting them at any airport they name. Banshee just grumbles.
Meanwhile, in an unspecified desert, a black van speeds across the sandy terrain under the cloak of darkness. Inside the van, Jonathan Somers lies strapped to a table, a large wire clamped to his stomach, with some fluid being dripped into - or out of - him. Eventually, the van pulls up at a large complex surrounded by a high wall. It passes through the gates as one of the large odd-looking men unclamps the cable, before he and his colleague drag Jonathan from the van and into the building. ‘Owww!’ Jonathan mutters. ‘Stop struggling, you little worm’ one of the guards tells him. ‘Where are you -’ Jonathan begins to ask, but is interrupted by the second guard who tells him to shut up.
Jonathan puts his arms to his face when a blinding light is shone upon him, and small lasers begin to scan him. Jonathan is led into another area, where cells line a dirty chamber, in rows of three stacked on top of each other. Arms reach out from behind the bars, while Jonathan tries to comprehend what is happening. Suddenly, one of the bulky grey-skinned sees a strange light in one of the cells. ‘Mutie!’ he shouts at the boy in the cell, using some kind of energy to try and break the lock open. One of the guards radios ‘M Block to central, we have a mutant attempting to escape. Request you deploy immediately’.
Suddenly, a hulking cyborg being drops from a panel in the ceiling - its robotic form resembles that of the mythical centaur creatures, with a humanoid torso - that of a decayed young woman. Numerous arm contraptions don the cyborg, with the name “Emma:0052” etched on the front. ‘No, please! I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…’ the escaping mutant pleads when he sees the hulking cyborg approach his cell, and unlock it from the outside. ‘I’ll be good…I promise!’ the young mutant exclaims. The cyborg extends huge pincer-like arms, and grabs the boy by his head, locking him in the pincers…before clamping down. Jonathan Somers witnesses all of this, his mouth drops in terror, before the guards pull him along.
Elsewhere, ‘Check it out! School-girls!’ shouts Skin as he looks out the window of the red car that he and his teammates are in, driven by a chauffeur. Angelo presses himself against the window, and Jubilee tells him to stay stuck there, as they won’t be long. A forlorn Skin turns to his teammate and asks what she means by “won’t be long”. ‘Don’t you see the schoolgirls? This is my big chance!’ he exclaims. Jubilee replies that she sees them, and tells Skin that he can stay put and watch. ‘You got a nice window-fogging thing going there. You wouldn’t want to spoil it or anything’ Jubilee jokes.
Skin begins to argue with her, but Jubilee - sitting next to him in the back with Chamber and Husk, while Monet sits up front with the chauffeur - tells Skin that he is grey and floppy, and Chamber has no lower jaw. ‘How can I put this? You look like mutants, guys. We don’t. Therefore, we go, you stay!’ Jubes exclaims. ‘Thanks Jubilee’ Chamber mutters. ‘By the way, you suck!’ Skin adds.
Walking across the school grounds, Monet motions to the nearby students and tells Husk and Jubilee that she wonders whether they should ask them some questions, as some of them are the same age as the missing boy, and if they get lucky, one of them might be a classmate. Paige agrees and tells Monet ‘That’s probably a good idea’. Jubilee replies that they can count her out. ‘I don’t have a clue about how to talk to normal kids my age!’ she exclaims. ‘You too?’ Monet asks, surprised. ‘Me too. Jubilation Lee: ex-mall rat valley girl, now the millennium’s poster child for accidental alienation’ Jubilee replies, before walking away from Monet and Husk. ‘Angelo’s right. I do suck’ she mutters.
Soon, the girls arrive at an entrance to the school building, and Jubilee remarks that she feels like a spy, or something. “It’s quiet. A little too quiet if you ask me…” she jokes. Rounding an office, Jubes holds her hands up like a pistol and exclaims “Stand back, babes, let me handle this” before entering the office and shouting ‘FREEZE, suckahs!’. The office is empty though, ‘Probably all in the teacher’s lounge doing shots now that the little monsters are going home’ Jubilee mumbles.
Paige motions to a computer and a filing cabinet and asks Monet to check the paper while she logs on to the computer. ‘Fine’ Monet mutters before walking calmly over to the filing cabinet, and using her super speed to zoom through the files, she instantly finds the right one - ‘Here. Jonathan Somers’ Monet announces causally. ‘No way! That rocked!’ Jubilee exclaims. ‘Yep, this is it’ Paige remarks as she begins to flip through the file. ‘Taken into custody, etc. etc….his files have been duped out to a “correctional facility” server address, private database, no other info. His school record has been closed out. This is it. Smoking gun’ Paige exclaims. ‘Yeah, but what “correctional facility”?’ Jubilee mutters.
Later, back in the car, Paige holds up some sort of computer equipment, and Chamber asks her what she has found. Paige replies that it is a private intranet file, but it is behind a firewall with some serious encryption. ‘English, Paige…’ Skin mumbles. Husk explains that it is a place full of lots and lots of files, and is really well secured. ‘I don’t have the skills for this’ she admits, adding that they need someone like Kitty to break the code. ‘The only things Kitty Pryde breaks are diets and lawn furniture’ Jubilee snaps about her “rival”.
Paige tells her friends that she is attempting something else, and smiles suddenly, declaring that she doesn’t believe it. ‘Sometimes you can fire a basic inquiry at a web server and it’ll spit back the host’s location. It doesn’t recognize the question as anything other than routine’ Paige remarks, before telling her friends that it is a private, internal database. ‘Anyone who is supposed to be looking at it obviously already knows where this “House of Corrections” is. And now, so do we!’ Paige declares.
‘Airport!’ Jubilee shouts, leaning over at the chauffeur. ‘Yes ma’am’ the driver replies, while Jubilee continues to rest her arms on the seats in front, looking at the driver. ‘Your phone number!’ she tells the chauffeur. ‘Yes, ma’am’ the chauffeur replies. ‘Jubilee!’ an annoyed Monet shouts.
Back in the desert, Jonathan Somers sits on a bench in a corridor, with the two bulky men watching over him. He looks at one of them with eyes that plead for help - but the guard just stares back, emotionless. ‘Enter!’ a voice suddenly shouts from the room at the end of the hallway. ‘You heard. Move!’ the voice shouts, as one of the guards opens the door and pushes Jonathan into the room.
Jonathan passes a wall lined with heads of animals, a bird and even a snake - but what shocks him most is a human torso, arms and head stuck up to the wall. ‘That one always attracts attention’ a voice from within the darkened room remarks. ‘1976, it was. He tried to assassinate me. Good shot, too. CIA issue exploding rifle shell. They call them “heartstoppers”’. The man in the shadows adds that he took the shot was a ramped-up British Enfield enforcer turn-bolt rifle. ’Pegged me at just over two miles’ he reveals, before boasting that he doesn’t die easily.
Stepping into some light, he sits down at his desk and introduces himself as Warden Coffin. ’And we are not going to be friends’ he tells Jonathan. ’This is the House of Correction. This House of Correction, Johnny, is America’s dirty secret. I have been custodian of this secret for many, many years. I have run many places like the House of Correction for America’ Coffin reveals to Jonathan. Coffin frowns when he adds that America is tired of being called a “bad mother”.
Jonathan just stares at Coffin, confused and rubbing his arm, while Coffin puts his hand on a human skull which sits on his desk. ‘She does the best she can for her family. Tries so hard to raise her kids right…and then they turn out like you, Johnny!’ Coffin declares, holding the skull up and looking at it, he exclaims that the House of Correction is America’s salvation. ‘And yours’ he tells Johnny. ‘We take over in here, in the shadows, because no one out there wants to deal with the truth…America is afraid of its children!’….


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Correction - part 3
Hot on the trail of disappearing schoolchildren, Generation X have discovered the location of the mysterious House of Correction, the likely destination for the abducted students. Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee, Monet St. Croix, Paige “Husk” Guthrie, Jonothan “Chamber” Starsmore, Angelo “Skin” Espinosa…they are, Generation X!
‘Hey, not so fast. I thought we rented you for the day…’ Jubilee exclaims to the handsome chauffeur, while her teammates look on. ‘Jubilee, leave the poor lad alone. He’s done nothing to yeh!’ Sean “Banshee” Cassidy tells the young mutant as he stands in the doorway of a small airplane at a busy airport. ‘But -’ Jubilee begins to protest, until Sean tells her to not say anything and just get into the plane. ‘That goes for the rest of yet, too. Into the plane!’ he orders, asking for a full report. As the young mutant heroes walk towards the plane, the glamorous Monet informs Banshee that everything went almost disturbingly well. ‘No doubt because Jubilee, Paige and I left Angelo and Jonathan in the van’
‘Maybe me and Jono wanted to stay in the van, M. Maybe we liked it there!’ Skin retorts. ‘Maybe ‘cuz you and the amazing no-mouth might’ve gotten us busted as mutants!’ Paige mutters, when suddenly, ‘WHAT’S THAT?’ Sean shouts, as suddenly, two black cars burst through the airport fence, and men dressed in black, with dark sunglasses leap from the cars, armed with guns. Banshee orders Generation X into positions: ‘Cover Jubilee and go!’ he shouts, to which Paige asks why the are covering Jubilee. ‘You really wanna see me use my fireworks around this much jet fuel?’ Jubilee replies as she runs for safety, shouting that she cannot do anything.
‘No worries, Jubilee. I bloody well can!’ Chamber exclaims as he unleashes a blast of raw energy, which sends one of the cars skywards, and knocks three of the men to the ground. Banshee takes to the air, unleashing his powerful sonic scream, when suddenly, one of the agents shoots his gun, and the bullet races towards him, until Monet suddenly appears beside him, and grabs the bullet with her bare hand, tossing it back to the shooter, it strikes him in the chest and knocks him over.
Skin extends his fingers and wraps them around one of the agents, before flicking his weapon away, though Angelo is unaware that another agent sneaks up behind him - and the agent fires his weapon. ‘Oh no…STOP!’ screams Husk as she suddenly sheds her skin, revealing a strange, dark form underneath, she races forward and catches up with the bullet, ‘I’m experiencing super speed!’ Husk gasps. ‘Another new ability. Great. It just keeps getting weirder and weirder…’. Paige mutters as the ground burns underneath her thanks to her speed, before she pushes Skin to the ground. ‘You okay?’ Paige asks him as the bullet passes overhead. ‘Whoa, alien rubber, chica. Looking good, Paige!’ Skin grins. ‘I just saved you from a bullet, and all you can do is check me out? Real nice, Angelo’ Paige mutters, before they look around at all the destruction they have caused. ‘Everyone okay?’ Paige shouts.
Lying on the roof of the van they arrived in, Jubilee mutters ‘Jeez, I’m disgusted. ‘Not one of them even tried to shoot me. What’s up with that?’ she mutters. As her teammates gather around her, Sean tells her to hush, and congratulates the others on some nice work. ‘All baddies taken down, no casualties on either side’. ‘”Yeh didn’t die. Full marks, aye”’ Skin mocks. ‘Rules of engagement, Angelo. If you’re alive, yeh won. Finding anything useful there?’ Sean asks as Skin searches the pockets of one of the agents. ‘Nada. No I.D., no cash. Figures’ Skin mutters.
Husk, still in her weird rubber form, holds up some papers, and exclaims ‘Umm…my fault. I was so bust looking in this file we stole, I didn’t look at the file!’ Paige holds up a locator, stuck to the file, and explains that they tripped it when they took it from the school, and it started transmitting. Paige remarks that there must have been a team in the area for just such an eventuality. ‘I should’ve thought of it’ she mumbles. Sean tells her that, to be honest, she should have, but reminds her that she is still learning and this is not the sort of mistake she is likely to make twice. ‘Now, into the plane and you can tell me who “they” are’.
Meanwhile, in the middle of nowhere, at the House of Corrections, Warden Coffin sits at his desk, and asks the frightening Baxter for a shift report. ‘Has the Somers boy settled in well?’ he asks. ‘After some modification of his attitude, oh, and he seems to be wetting himself’ Baxter replies, adding that there is nothing else of interest to report this shift, other than the Plunkett girl dying. ‘Really’ Coffin replies, holding up a human skull as he asks if it was the dysentery. ‘Doesn’t really matter, does it, Sir?’ Baxter replies. ‘I suppose not’ Coffin mutters, before informing Baxter that they have a small difficulty, and that he needs him to brief the security staff on this straight away, revealing that the file has been pulled from the school where Somers attended.
Coffin tells Baxter that it is lucky their cover and intercept team were still on hand in the area, but unluckily the team were hospitalized by the perpetrators, and currently only one of them is capable of making speech, only he isn’t making much sense. Coffin tells Baxter to expect trouble, and to put the guards on high alert. ‘And have my special children primed. Oversee that task yourself, Baxter’ Coffin orders. Hesitantly, Baxter asks if he has permission, ‘I mean, it’s the Anderson Device. I killed him myself in 1971. And I’m sure he recognizes me…’ Baxter’s voice trails off, when he realizes that Coffin doesn’t care.
The small jet that Generation X is using speeds across the sky, and lounging in the chairs, Generation X keep to themselves, until Jubilee asks Banshee if he is back here wit them, then who is flying the plane. Sean smiles as he tells Jubilee that Angelo thinks he is flying, but that it is actually on autopilot. He asks Jubilee not to tell Angel, as his ego would probably dribble away to nothing. Turning to Husk, Banshee asks her what she has to tell them. Husk replies that from the information in the file and what is on the web, it appears the House of Correction is a penitentiary for kids. ‘It’s everything we thought it was. And probably worse, from the looks of things here. Might as well be a torture chamber’ she exclaims.
Paige declares that they have gotta get in there, as there are over a thousand kids held prisoner there. Sean goes silent in shock, before asking ‘What sort of kids?’. ‘Innocent ones!’ Paige exclaims, declaring that they haven’t done anything wrong but speak their minds about what bothers them. ‘It’s totally unfair!’ she exclaims, before announcing that she thinks they should wait until dark and find some back entrance, like a loading dock, or a service elevator - suddenly Jubilee interrupts: ‘Nah’ she exclaims. ‘Excuse me?’ Paige asks, to which Jubilee points out that the House of Correction probably knows they are coming, ‘So we gotta do what they think we won’t do’.
‘They know we know where they are. We know they know we know that. So since they know we know what they probably know, we know what to do’ Jubilee exclaims. ‘Perfect. This is all we need. Mission briefings by a spastic on a sugar high’ Monet remarks, to which Banshee asks Jubilee if she cares to try that explanation again. Jubilee picks up a marker and walks over to the whiteboard, where she begins drawing a diagram: ‘Look, obviously we’re going to look for a sneaky way in because we know they know we’re coming’ she begins again, declaring that they have to fool them, so what they think the team won’t do.
Jubilee continues to draw a diagram, while pointing out that the House of Correction probably has all their guys spread out, covering every bathroom window and ventilation shaft in the place, just waiting for them. Sucking on a lollipop, Jubilee tells her teammates that one thing the House of Corrections is not expecting is for Generation X to just walk up the front door and knock politely. ‘So that’s what we do. Except maybe instead of knocking, we just kick the door down and rush ‘em!’ Jubilee suggests as she pretends she is kicking a door down. ‘Something Logan said to me once, I think. Or maybe Cyclops’ Jubilee mumbles. ‘One of ‘em. I dunno’.
‘…the front, aye?’ Sean mumbles, before Paige asks him what he just said. Sean turns to her and declares ‘I don’t think I could stop yeh if I tried’ before telling Paige that if she wants any hope of pulling this off, then Jubilee will lead the team, which causes Jubilee to drop her jaw in surprise.
Darkness envelops the jet as Generation X arrive in the middle of the desert, and descend down upon the House of Corrections. ‘Thar she blows, mateys’ Sean remarks, to which Jubilee replies ‘It don’t look so tough!’. Sean asks Generation X what will happen once they have kicked the door down, beaten the baddies and freed a thousand wrongly-released kids. ‘Then, obviously, we make them pay for harming our peers. We expose them to the world put them on trial, see them punished’. Monet declares. ‘So few of us see justice done, so few of us get that sort of closure. We should do something about that’.
Everyone looks at Monet rather nervously, before Banshee agrees, ‘Aye, well put’ he tells her, before Jubilee tells Monet not to sweat it, as that is what they are here to do. ‘Well make sure they get what they deserve’. Husk remarks that once she is on their network, she will dump every bit of information the House of Corrections has onto the web. ‘Everything they’ve done, I can make it all public. They’ll never be able to cover it up again’ she exclaims. ‘And transporting a thousand kids?’ Sean asks. ‘Still working on that, Mister Cassidy’ Paige replies.
Down below, Baxter tells his look-a-like guards to keep this side secure, and that if the kids start making noise, to fire a few rounds into the cages at random until they shut up. ‘With pleasure’ one of the guards replies, when, suddenly, there is a high-pitched sonic scream. The guards cover their ears, while Warden Coffin announces ‘Baxter! Move to high alert!’ over the intercom system. ‘Warden, what was that?’ Baxter asks as he picks up a radio. Coffin replies that he doesn’t know, and that the security cameras are out all around the perimeter. ‘But the guards…’ Baxter begins, when Husk appears, in a metallic form, tossing the guards about with ease. Coffin reports that the guards are not answering their radios, and exclaims that they are under attack. Baxter tells the Warden to stay where he is, and that he is on his way.
Outside one of the high walls, ‘Okay then. Impress me, rich girl!’ Jubilee tells Monet, who replies that, as she has found in the past, it doesn’t take much to impress her. ‘Counting to ten without using my fingers usually suffices’ Monet remarks. ‘Funny girl. Just hit the door already!’ Jubilee replies, before Monet flies to the large thick steel door, and smashes it down with ease. ‘Hey! Attention all you bald freaks and other assorted losers!’ Jubilee calls out, while the steel door flies down the corridor, knocking several of the guards over. Husk, Chamber and Skin join Monet and Jubilee as they stand in the doorway: ‘You wanna come out and play?’ Jubilee asks with a menacing expression on her face, and Generation X stand, ready for battle….


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Correction  - part 4
Generation X have discovered the location of the infamous and terrible House of Correction, which they now know contains imprisoned school children. A rescue attempt is now underway, with Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee leading her friends: Monet St. Croix! Paige “Husk” Guthrie, Jonothan “Chamber” Starsmore and Angelo “Skin” Espinosa.
From their crowded cages, the imprisoned children watch as events unfold: ‘Kill them!’ the guard called Baxter orders his men, who all aim their weapons at the five teenage mutant heroes before them. ‘Since I’m such a sweetie, I figure I’ll give you goons a choice. Fork over the keys and go stand in the corner while we get everyone out of here…or mess with us even a little bit and we stomp all over you. Then we move everyone out!’ Jubilee exclaims, still sucking on a lollipop. ‘Choose the latter, please. Give us an excuse!’ Chamber jibes the guards.
‘It’s just kids! Kill them!’ Baxter shouts as his agents raise their weapons once more. ‘They’re all yours, Jono!’ Jubilee tells her friend, who tells Generation X to stand clear, ‘BURN!’ he shouts as his powers manifest in a huge flame, overpowering the guards. ‘Eww, nasty!’ Jubilee exclaims, before telling Monet to go. The glamorous Monet St. Croix takes to the air, ‘You wretched, pathetic wastes of space. You have no idea how I have been looking forward to this!’ she exclaims as she grabs some metal rods and holds one of the guards up in the air. ‘At long last…for you, Everett’ Monet whispers, before spinning around and around, bashing many of the guards heads in with the metal rod. ‘I am sick…and tired…of people like you!’ Monet screams. ‘Trying to tell people like us how to live!’ she adds as she smacks yet another of the bulky guards over.
A guard behind her raises his weapon and fires it, but Monet knows he is there, and folds the metal rods behind her to block the bullets. ‘Trust me, you would be best served by just leaving us be!’ Monet suggests to the guards. Her friends have been watching her all this while. ‘Look at her, man. Unreal!’ A gape-jawed Skin exclaims. Jubilee suggests to Husk that they get the cells open so that have a head-start on the evacuation while Monet does her thing. Paige agrees, and in a metallic form, she proceeds to rip open one of the cells, telling the imprisoned kids not to worry, that she is cool, and going to get them out of here.
Monet tosses another of the guards into a pile of motionless thugs, and asks ‘How many of you are there, anyway?’, while up on a platform, one of the guards calls out ‘The tall one…the girl’ motioning to Monet. ‘I got her!’ another guard replies, raising his weapon and pointing it at Monet. Chamber sees this though and tells Jubilee to get down, before he unleashes a massive burst of energy at the platform, engulfing the guards and destroying the platform. ‘WHOA! A little warning next time, alright, Jono?’ Jubilee exclaims.
Suddenly, a voice booms over an intercom system: ‘That is enough! This is Warden Coffin. I am afraid I cannot allow this to continue one second longer!’. he exclaims, before ordering his guards to release his special children and to stand down. The remaining guards all look at each other nervously. ‘You heard him! Fall back!’ Baxter tells the others. ‘”Special children”. Just the sound of that creeps me out!’ Husk remarks, and Jubilee agrees, telling everyone to keep alert and to make sure the kids are out of the way. Jubilee remarks that she wants Husk and Monet up front, when suddenly, three robotic beings drop from the ceiling, each with a decayed child attached to them and representing a different animal - a horse, a spider and a snake.
‘Okay…this is probably the last thing I was expecting!’ Jubilee exclaims, while Warden Coffin announces over the intercom that this is not the first House of Correction, that he opened the first at the request of the US government in 1968. ‘Circumstances forced its closure in ‘73. But I couldn’t bear to leave some of my children behind!’ he exclaims. Looking at the decayed skulls of the “children”, metallic attachments in their mouths, Paige exclaims that this is horrible. Warden Coffin reveals that the kids are still alive, mostly, and that was the fun of it, turning the anti-establishment kids into the ultimate authority figures.
The “special children” ready their myriad weapons, while Husk tells Skin that she needs him to find the guy at the other end of the speaker. ‘No way is he getting away with this!’ she exclaims. ‘What? Why me?’ Angelo asks. ‘Because somehow I don’t see you slapping a twelve-foot-tall cyborg to pieces with your stretchy fingers!’ Jubilee tells him. ‘Everyone! GO!’ Jubilee exclaims as she unleashes her plasma energy bursts to distract the cyborg called Emma: 0052. Paige rushes past one of the cyborgs who blasts her with its weapons, telling everyone to kill the machines, not the kids. ‘Something tells me they don’t want this to happen any more than we do!’ she exclaims as she rips off one of the cyborgs’ legs.
The still-imprisoned children bang on their cages, while Skin apprehends one of the guards, telling him he would like to see the Warden as he wraps his extended fingers tightly around the guards arm. The guard screams in pain, and Skin warns him to take him now, or else the other arm will go. ‘No. Please…I don’t wanna…’ one of the “special children” utters, as he releases a spear from his cyborg form. ‘Monet grabs the spear with her bare hands before it slices into Chamber. ‘I know you don’t want to kill them - but they’re killing us!’ Chamber exclaims.
‘Is this it?’ skin asks his hostage guard as they stand outside a door, elsewhere in the facility. The guard mumbles something from behind Skin’s fingers which have been wrapped around his mouth, to which Skin bashes him against the wall, head-first, ‘You’ve been most helpful. Take a nap!’ he exclaims. Skin kicks the door to Warden Coffin’s office down, and finds Coffin sitting at his desk. ‘Hello, little boy’ Coffin greets him. ‘You’re finished, you fossil. Let’s go!’ Angelo tells Coffin, who smirks and replies ‘How charming. A Mexican mutant. I didn’t know they had those’, before asking ‘Why exactly am I coming with you?’
‘Because you’re the bad guy, and as far as you’re concerned, I’m a charming Mexican mutant five-o’ Skin replies. Coffin proceeds to hover above his desk, ‘You misunderstand. I am empowered by the United States Government. I am a legitimate prison warden!’ he exclaims. ‘I am the establishment. I am the authority. I am, as you say, The Man!’ Coffin exclaims, declaring that he is hired to “fix” these children for Uncle Sam. ‘The sad thing is, they just keep dying on me…’
Back downstairs, the cyborg Emma: 0052 simultaneously knocks down Jubilee and Chamber to the ground, while rusty tears fall from her one eye. ‘This just isn’t working!’ Jubilee exclaims.
Back upstairs, a strange red mist hovers around Coffin, who exclaims ‘You have fouled my house, you little insect. This displeases me’. Coffin boasts that a lot of important people, himself included, have gone to great lengths to set this place up. ‘I don’t need it destroyed by a bunch of spoiled brats!’ he exclaims. Unimpressed, Skin remarks ‘So you can float. I got a rubber duckie at home that does the same thing’. Angelo asks Coffin if he has finished his little speech so he can beat him down. ‘I want to hurt you. Because of you, I will have to gather my children back into their cages and break their spirits all over again!’ Coffin exclaims as his power knocks Skin to the floor. ‘You’re a mutant, too?’ Angelo asks. ‘I am HATE!’ Coffin retorts.
Husk and Jubilee stand in front of one of the “special children”, and Husk exclaims ‘It’s not the machinery, Jubilee. It’s them. Look in their eyes - they don’t want to do it, but they have to. It’s like they’ve been rebuilt to be this way!’. Husk jumps up onto the cyborg as she remarks that fighting the bodies isn’t working, and suggests they need to fight the child. ‘Please, do it…’ the cyborg utters, crying. ‘…I’m so sorry’ Paige whispers, before smacking the cyborg child so hard in the face that its neck reels backwards. Chamber stands before Emma: 0052 and remarks ‘I thought I was ugly’ before engulfing the cyborg in flame.
Upstairs, Coffin throws Skin about, ‘First you die. Then your mutant friends!’ he exclaims, before deciding that he might possibly keep the girls, when, suddenly, the outer wall is ripped apart, and Banshee makes a sudden appearance. ‘What the -?’ Skin asks as Sean Cassidy stands before him. ‘Don’t make me explain to ye again about moving things with hard sound pulses, lad’ Sean tells Angelo, before turning to Warden Coffin and telling him that he has been checking him out. ‘No one’s quite sure what yeh are, but I can tell yeh this. I’m no child nor a SHIELD Agent with a gun’. Warden looks terrified, and moments later, his body is blasted through the wall.
Outside, Monet looks up as Warden Coffin’s body is blasted through the wall, while she leads the children to safety. ‘So we got ‘em out. What now?’ Jubilee asks. ‘Just watch!’ Paige smiles, and suddenly, a myriad of cars drive toward the House of Correction, and helicopters line the darkened sky. Paige reveals that she went through the House’s records and pulled all the contact info for the families of the children. Husk explains that she set up her hand-held to send the same message to every parent it could reach, to the Net and to the press. ‘I gave them all the address and said: come and get your children’. And that’s just what they did, as Jonathan Somers and his parents embrace.


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Come On Die Young - part 1
London, six months ago, inside the flat of Adrienne Frost. The glamorous brunette is half-dressed, and turns to the man in her bed, telling him not to take this the wrong way. ‘You’re a sweetie, but I have to do this’. Adrienne adds that to be frank, she has been getting quite bored. Adrienne grins as she puts a vial of something inside her bag and remarks that London has been fun. ‘Playing “White Queen” has had its moments’ she adds. ‘You were lots of fun’ she tells the man in her bed, grinning wickedly. ‘I think you know that’ she tells him as she adjusts her skirt and puts on her white coat. Looking in a mirror, Adrienne exclaims that she feels it is time she went back to the States, as she has a bit of unfinished business there, concerning her sister, Emma.
‘You know about my sister, right? I think I told you about her’ Adrienne remarks that she came pretty close to killing Emma’s little brood of mutant rugrats the last time she saw her. ‘And well, once I start a task I like to see it through’. Adrienne reclines on the bed, exclaiming that she cannot wait to see the look on Emma’s face when she sees her again. ‘Absolutely priceless, I’m sure!’ she grins, before telling her lover that he is being awfully quiet. ‘Aww, why the long face?’ she asks him. ‘Are you going to miss me, sweetie?’ Adrienne asks him, grinning as she tells him that he is perfectly adorable.
‘But you didn’t possibly think anything serious would come of this, did you?’ Adrienne asks, before getting up and putting some lipstick on, when her cell phone rings. ‘Yes? Yes, thank you, I’ll be right down’ she tells the caller, before turning to her still-silent lover, ‘Well, this is it, then. My car is here’ she announces, before kissing her lover, telling him that he has been great. ‘Bye-bye, sweetie!’ Adrienne grins as she leaves the flat, and leaves her lover in a vegetative state, eyes rolled back, drool spilling from his mouth.
Meanwhile, Snow Valley, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Academy, where several young mutants attend school with a large number of human students. One of those gifted youngsters, Everett Thomas a.k.a. Synch, waits outside the bathroom, ready to have a shower, when suddenly, Monet St. Croix opens the bathroom door and bumps into him. ‘Oh! I’m sorry!’ she exclaims as Everett drops his toothbrush and other things. They both drop to the floor to pick the items up, as Synch tells Monet, hair wrapped up in a towel, that it is his fault. ‘Shouldn’t have been standing so close to the door anyway’ Synch remarks, but Monet tells him ‘That’s okay’. Synch smiles as he thanks Monet for helping him with his stuff. ‘Not at all, Everett. It’s my pleasure’ Monet replies as she hands Everett his razor.
Monet and Everett move together, when suddenly they are interrupted, ‘Move it! Gotta pee!’ shouts Jubilation Lee - better known simply as “Jubilee” - as she thunders down the hallway. Realizing she has interrupted something, Jubilee asks Monet and Synch what’s going on. Synch gets to his feet and replies ‘Oh, nothing. Um, I better get going…’. Monet greets Jubilee and asks her how she is. ‘Oh, whatever, M. What’s wrong with Ev?’ Jubilee replies. Monet strides down the hall, calling back ‘Why, now that you mention it, absolutely nothing at all’.
Later, in the Academy cafeteria, Jubilee is sitting with the rest of her Generation X teammates - Paige “Husk” Guthrie, Jonothan “Chamber” Starsmore and Angelo “Skin” Espinosa, while the various human students mill about in the cafeteria line, or sitting at other tables. ‘I can’t even tell if it’s animal or vegetable!’ Jubilee complains, looking at her lunch. Husk tells Jono that it is times like this that she envies him, to which the telepathic Chamber replies that the food smells horrible, and almost makes him miss not eating. Looking closely at the lumpy brown mash in front of her, Jubilee exclaims that she heard it was chicken, but that she wouldn’t bet on it. ‘What’s up with this school? It would be nice to at least have an idea of what we are eating here!’ she exclaims, turning to Angelo and asking him if he is with her on this.
‘Whassat?’ Skin asks, shovelling more of the dodgy food into his mouth. ‘Oh, ewww! Get it away from me!’ Jubilee exclaims, knocking her tray over as Chamber tries to feed her some of the food. Suddenly, Paige grabs everyone’s attention: ‘Hey guys, look!’ she exclaims, motioning over to another table, where three bullies are harassing a student with an odd haircut and lots of ear-piercing. ‘Hey man. What’s up?’ one of them asks him, but he gets no response. ‘Hey, freak, he’s talking to you. Gonna answer him or what?’ another of the bullies exclaims. ‘Dude, I think he’s ignoring you’ the second bully tells the first.
‘Are we bothering you, freak? You haven’t touched your food’ the first bullet exclaims, taking a handful of the brown slop, he offers to help him. The second bully grabs the odd student in a headlock, ‘Hey, let go!’ the student cries out. ‘You need to bulk up, man. You look like a scarecrow!’ the first bully exclaims as he brings the so-called food towards him, until, suddenly, ‘Lay off, man!’ Skin exclaims, grabbing the first bully’s arm, holding him back. ‘What do you care, hombre? Are you his boyfriend or something?’ the first bully asks, causing the others to snigger.
Skin lets the bully go, causing the bully to drop the food to the ground. ‘Look, he didn’t do anything to you. Just leave him alone, okay?’ Skin asks, before beginning to walk away. ‘Hey, don’t walk away from us! We wanna know why you’re standing up for freak boy here!’ the second bully exclaims, while the first asks ‘And what’s with your skin? You’re like, gray, man. Between you and freak boy and your other loser boyfriend with the thing over his face, it’s like a carnival around here!’ he exclaims. ‘Look, I’m not gonna fight you guys -’ Skin begins, until the first bully shoves him, and accidentally pulls back some of Angelo’s skin. The bully goes wide-eyed, and tells his friends that they need to go. ‘Next time, man’ the second bully warns Angelo as he walks past him.
Paige and Jubilee rush over to Angelo, asking him if he is okay, to which he replies he is, while the odd student approaches and thanks Skin. ‘Those guys are just insecure meatheads. Don’t let ‘em get to ya’ Skin tells him. ‘Yeah. Easier said than done though’ the student replies, before taking his leave. Paige asks Angelo what is wrong, to which Skin replies that he thinks he should talk to Emma and Sean.
The next day, in the office of Emma “White Queen” Frost, co-headmistress of the Academy. Emma sits at her desk, while Sean “Banshee” Cassidy, the co-headmaster stands alongside her, and Husk, Jubilee, Skin and Chamber gather before them. Emma announces that she has just been talking on the phone to the parents of the boy that pushed Angelo, and that apparently, he called home yesterday, babbling about “freaks” and “mutants” running loose in the school. ‘His mother was livid’ Emma remarks, before explaining that she was able to pass of Angelo’s skin condition as a rare medical problem, but she suspects the mother didn’t fully accept that.
‘But -’ Skin begins to say, before Sean interrupts, telling Angelo that they appreciate and note the fact that he came to them straight away and explained what happened, but that he clearly should not have put himself in a position where that even could have occurred. ‘In other words, lad…ye botched up!’ Banshee declares. Husk comes to Angelo’s defense, explaining that she was there, and thinks they are being too harsh on Skin. ‘He was just trying to help’. Emma tells Paige to stop for a minute and consider the position that she and Sean are in. ‘One of the students, accidentally or not, discovered Angelo is a mutant. I run a school populated by hundreds of sons and daughters of very wealthy and influential people. I cannot even explain to you how bad it would be for all of us if this got out’.
‘Geez, you act like I am some sort of subhuman freak, or something’ Skin snaps. ‘Could easily be me they go after next, mate’ Jono remarks, before Emma declares ‘Angelo, darling, you are a mutant. In the minds of the public, you are a freak. You all have to be a lot more careful around the other students’ she declares. This causes Jubilee to angrily sit up and shout ‘You two are horrible! Angelo was just being a good guy, and here you are blaming it all on him. Those jocks are the ones you should be punishing!’ she tells them.
‘Jubilee, for the love of God, now isn’t the time for another of your outbursts’ Banshee tells her. ‘But you’re both wrong! Why can’t you see that? You’re treating us like babies!’ Jubilee exclaims, to which the White Queen suggests that maybe Jubilee shouldn’t act like a baby. ‘It’s times like this I wonder why you can’t be more like Everett’ she exclaims, shocking Jubilee. ‘Oh, wow…’ Paige whispers.
Soon, Jubilee marches from Emma’s office over to her dorm room, the door labeled with her name cut out of magazines, and No pretty boys. No pests. You still here?stuck on the door. ‘Hey, Jubilee’ Synch calls out as he stands outside Jubilee’s door. Jubilee ignores him as she unlocks her door, while Everett exclaims that he was hoping they could talk, as he wants to ask her something important. ‘Um, do you have a minute?’ he asks. Jubilee still ignores him and enters her room. Synch grabs the door and holds it open as Jubilee stands half in the door way.
‘Jubilee, it’s really important, especially after what happened yesterday morning in the hall’ Synch tells her. ‘With Monet. Please, Jubilee’ Everett exclaims, but Jubilee tells him to let go of the door. He doesn’t, so she shouts ‘Are you deaf, Everett? You are the last person in the world I want to see right now! Leave me alone!’ she shouts, before slamming the door in his face. Everett stands outside Jubilee’s room for a moment, dejected, before walking away.
Later, Monet and Everett walk hand-in-hand across the Academy grounds, wearing warm coats, they trudge through the snow, silent, until Monet asks Everett if he missed her while she was away. ‘Yeah, of course, M, but -’ Everett replies, to which Monet interrupts, telling Synch that the entire flight back from the horrible school in Switzerland, she kept thinking about one thing over and over again. ‘I missed the Academy, and Sean and Emma, and every one else, but I couldn’t stop thinking about how I just wanted to see you again’ Monet reveals. ‘It’s not easy for me to talk about this, you know’ Monet points out, before Synch puts his hand to her face, and moves her towards him, then they embrace, and kiss.
‘Mutants in love’ Adrienne grins as she watches Monet and Everett through binoculars from a car, sitting nearby. ‘How perfectly adorable’ Adrienne remarks, before asking her driver what his men say. The driver, who has an earpiece to communicate with his men, replies that security is tight, but nothing they couldn’t bypass. ‘Assuming this mission is a go’ he points out. Adrienne smiles, ‘Emma, dear sister, I will make sure you curse the day you ever tried messing with me!’ she exclaims, before telling her driver, Mister Ravenwood, that he may commence the operation. Adrienne gazes into a lit-up room, presumably where Emma is, while mister Ravenwood replies ‘Yes, Miss Frost, it will be done’. He adds that when people are already scared, manipulating them further is a simple matter. ‘I’m counting on it’ Adrienne replies as they drive away….


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Come On Die Young - part 2
The Massachusetts Academy, home to the young mutant heroes known as Generation X, as well as several hundred human students, some of whom are growing rather suspicious as to the possibility of mutants among them. One such mutant, Everett “Synch” Thomas, is getting ready for another day at the Academy, adjusting his tie, he looks at a photograph of his friends and teammates on his desk, in particular, Monet St. Croix. Grinning, Everett is about to leave his dorm room, when suddenly, the door is pushed open, and in step three bullies, one of whom shoves Everett to the ground.
‘Whoa! What gives, guys?’ Everett asks. ‘What’s your name?’ one of the bullies asks him. ‘Uh, Everett’ Everett replies, confused. ‘Well, Everett, we wanna have a word with you’ the second bully announces as he and the third grab him. ‘What do you want?!’ Everett demands. The first bully closes the door, ‘You’re friends with the gray kid and the other one who wears the thing across his face, right?’ the first bully asks. ‘You know who we mean. The freaks!’ the second bully exclaims. ‘No! I mean, yeah, I hand out with them…sometimes. Enough to know they aren’t freaks!’ Everett replies.
The second bully declares that Everett is lying, and boasts that he has seen them together all the time. ‘With that Chinese girl too, and Monet St. Croix. He knows what they are!’ the second bully exclaims. ‘Oh yeah? You wanna try that again, Everett?’ the first bully asks, to which Everett asks ‘What do you want with them, anyway?’ The first bully reveals that word going around the school is that they are all mutants. ‘Anything you wanna tell us about that?’ he asks. ‘Mutants? C’mon, guys -’ Everett begins, before the first bully slams his hand against the wall, close to where Everett is backed up against, declaring that if they are mutants, and if Everett is lying to him, ‘I swear to God I will -’ he begins to say, until he is interrupted by a knock at the door.
‘Everett? Are you in there? It’s Monet…’ the glamorous and powerful young woman announces. ‘Quiet!’ whispers the first bully, while the second bully puts his hand over Everett’s mouth so he cannot speak. In an instant though, Monet shoves the door open, ‘Hey! What do you think you’re doing?’ she demands. ‘We’re doing nothing. C’mon, guys, lets’ jet’ the second bully declares, leading the way out of Everett’s dorm room. ‘See ya soon, Everett. You too, beautiful’ the third bully declares, grinning as he walks past Monet. ‘Pig’ Monet snaps back, giving him a side-ways look. When the bullies have gone, Monet asks Everett if he is okay, to which Everett asks ‘Monet, what’s going on around here?’
Elsewhere inside the Academy, Sean “Banshee” Cassidy, co-headmaster of the school, marches down a corridor towards the office of his co-headmistress, Emma “White Queen” Frost. ‘Emma, there ye are! We need to talk!’ Sean exclaims as he finds Emma, behind her desk. Sean reveals that he has just spoken to Everett. ‘And the poor lad…’ he begins, until Emma interrupts, ‘Sean, before you say anything further…we have company’, motioning to a chair across the other side of the room. Sean is shocked, while the company stands up - ‘Sean! So nice to see you again! You look great!’ exclaims Adrienne Frost.
‘YOU!’ Sean shouts, marching over to her and suggesting that unless she is looking to be throttled, she backs off right now. ‘Sean…’ Emma begins, while the glamorous Adrienne tells him that he is hardly being polite. ‘Polite? Ye want to talk about polite? The last time ye graced us with yehr presence, ye very nearly murdered the children. Tell me this, then: how would ye have me act?’. ‘Oh. That’ Adrienne replies casually as she walks over to a window and gazes out. ‘Call that a dry run’ she exclaims, smirking.
Sean pauses, before turning to Emma and asking her what Adrienne is doing here. ‘It appears my dear sister is looking for a place to hide out’ Emma explains. ‘What? Why?’ Sean asks, surprised. Adrienne announces that she has been in a bit of trouble with the London chapter of the Hellfire Club, and that she thought it best she leave the country. ‘She ripped them off for millions’ Emma tells Sean. ‘Well, that’s hardly surprising now, is it?’ Sean remarks, folding his arms across his heaving chest, before narrowing his eyes and explaining that there is one thing he doesn’t understand: ‘Why in God’s name would we let ye stay here?’ he asks Adrienne, before pointing at her and asking why are they even talking to her. ‘What’s stopping me from taking ye out right now?’ he asks.
‘Shall I or would you like to tell him?’ Adrienne smirks. Emma just sighs, before revealing to Sean that Adrienne has apparently prepared documentation and evidence regarding the existence of mutants at this school, and that the school is, in fact, a training ground for mutant children. ‘She has people sitting on the information now, but if anything were to happen to her, it would be released to the press’ Emma reveals. Adrienne grins at Sean, who goes wide-eyed, and replies ‘Ah, I see. Well, there we are, then. All very impressive, Adrienne, in a spy movie sort of way, but I’m not sure I buy it’.
Emma asks Banshee if that risk is acceptable. ‘I’m not sure the children’s safety is worth it’ she tells him, whispering in his ear that she hasn’t forgotten what happened last time Adrienne was here either, but the pleasure she would get in seeing her sister dead is not worth sacrificing the school or the children. Sean stares out the window, then replies ‘Aye, I’m afraid I have to agree’. Adrienne grins, and exclaims that she knew they would see it her way. ‘Is my old suite still available?’ she asks.
Outside in the snow, Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee trudges along, ‘Four chapters by tomorrow. What, we’re not allowed to have a life at age sixteen?’ she complains, when suddenly, someone shouts ‘MUTANT!’. Jubilee spins around, only to have a snowball thrown in her face, knocking her to the ground. ‘What the…?’ Jubilee asks, rubbing her head and looking over at three students who frown at her from where one of them threw the snowball. ‘Who said that?’ Jubilee calls out, looking around as more students gather around. She quickly picks up her school bag and rushes away.
The White Queen gazes out of her office window, witnessing what just happened, she goes over to her desk, puts her cup of coffee down and enters the security pin on a locked box, before taking out a gun. ‘Visiting with old friends, I see’ Banshee remarks as he enters her office, before telling Emma that the children are all waiting. ‘Fine. Let’s go’ Emma replies, before Sean asks her if he can have a world with her about the gun. ‘No’ Emma replies as she puts it down the back of her skirt.
Soon, in Banshee’s office, Synch, Monet and Jubilee are present along with their Generation X teammates Jono “Chamber” Starsmore, Paige “Husk” Guthrie, and Angelo “Skin” Espinosa. Also present are the Academy’s wards, Artie Maddicks, the Morlock known as Leech, and the mysterious Penance. ‘Right then’ Sean begins, telling everyone that they have all heard about the incident in the lunchroom the other day, and about what has happened to Everett this morning. Monet frowns, while Jubilee looks at Everett, who has his head slumped in his hands, and Penance plays with a button on Artie’s cap.
‘Let us not forget Jubes getting nailed in the head with an ice ball!’ Skin exclaims. ‘Shut up! This is really serious!’ Jubilee tells Skin. Sean declares that Jubilee is right. ‘Even a hint of a rumor can get out of control. That’s why ye all must listen to me right now, very carefully’. Sean announces that the situation here is becoming extremely volatile. ‘Three incidents of anti-mutant aggression in as many days. Something is terribly wrong’. Turning to Emma, Sean declares that the two of them think they need to limit the exposure of Generation X to the rest of the student population until they can sort this out. ‘So starting tomorrow, ye aren’t to attend classes. In fact, I think it’s best that ye just stay put in your rooms’ Sean remarks.
Jubilee throws her arms in the air: ‘WHAT?!’ she shouts. ‘I mean, I like the “no classes” part, but -’ she begins, until Skin interrupts: ‘You’re grounding us? Bullies are giving us a hard time, so you’re grounding us?’ he asks. While Penance chases an insect, Paige asks Banshee if this is necessary. ‘I mean, we’ve handled bigger threats before, no problem!’ she points out. Sean agrees that they have, and assures them that this is not a comment on their talents, or a punishment of any kind. ‘It goes far deeper than that’. Emma then announces that Adrienne is back, much to the horror of the students. Emma reveals that she thinks Adrienne is responsible for what has been happening to everyone.
Soon, Jubilee, Husk, Chamber and Skin make their way down a corridor, with Jubilee exclaiming that this is so freaky, having Adrienne staying with us. ‘It’s spooky knowing she’s sleeping right upstairs. I hope I don’t run into her or anything in the middle of the night!’ Jubilee exclaims. Chamber tells Jubilee to try not to think about it too much, and assure her that Sean and Emma know what they are doing. Skin remarks that he wonders how much money Adrienne ripped off, and where she has stashed it.
Rounding a corner, Paige asks the others if they smell something. ‘I think it’s smoke!’ Skin exclaims. The quartet run in the direction of the smoke, and Skin exclaims that something is definitely burning. Rounding another corner, they come to the fire: ‘NO!’ screams Jubilee, as fire pours out of her room, and the corridor wall has things like Freak, Die Mutie and Mutant Scum spray-painted on it. Jubilee begins to cry and races towards her flaming room. ‘Jubilee, no! Get back!’ Chamber calls out as he grabs her. ‘My room!’ screams Jubilee as she watches it go up in flames….


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Come On Die Young - part 3
The Massachusetts Academy, Snow Valley, late one night. A crow soars across the moonlight and rests on a leaf-less tree outside a window that looks into a corridor, where, inside, standing outside one of the doors, a somewhat nervous young man stands with a bouquet of flowers. He stares at a note, which reads:Be here at 10pm, sexy. Rm. 304.- A
The young man looks at the note hesitantly, before knocking on the door. It opens, and Adrienne Frost is standing there in a pink nightgown, not done up completely, revealing lacy underwear. ‘WHOA!’ the dude exclaims, wide-eyed, before handing Adrienne the flowers. ‘Hi. I, uh, got you these’ he exclaims. ‘Sweet, and not without a certain charm. But hardly necessary, in this case’ Adrienne replies, before pulling the young man into her room, and slamming the door behind him.
Meanwhile, in the room of the glamorous Monet St. Croix, who sits at a small table with her teammate Paige “Husk” Guthrie, while the mysterious Penance sits on Monet’s bed, ripping up some paper. Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee stands at the door with their headmaster and mentor, Sean “Banshee” Cassidy, who is explaining the alarm system to her. ‘Whenever ye enter or leave, ye just punch the code into the pad, like so, Sean explains. ‘Whoa, you lost me there, Mister Cassidy. Can you show me again?’ Jubilee asks, smirking. Sean rolls his eyes, and tells Jubilee to pay attention. ‘Ye just punch in -’ he begins to say, before frowning, then banging his head softly against the wall. ‘Aye, nice one, that’ he remarks, while all four girls stare at him, smiling at Jubilee’s little joke.
Sean explains that the alarm is biometric in design, so if anyone other than any of them approaches, the alarm will be tripped, and he will come straight away. The scantily-clad Monet gets to her feet and runs her hands through her long hair, ‘Oh, I guess we’d better call and warn the male dancers we hired’ she remarks. ‘Very funny, Monet’ Sean replies, before telling the girls that he will be on his way unless they care to mock him a little more. Husk assures Sean that they do appreciate this, explaining that she thinks they are all just nervous about what has been happening. Sean smiles and tells Paige that he understands. ‘Just don’t let things get to ye too much’ he tells her, assuring everyone that he and Emma will have all this sorted out soon enough. ‘In the meantime, sleep well’ he tells them as he leaves.
Husk sets the alarm, and the girls go silent, only broken by, as usual, Jubilee, who exclaims ‘This sucks!’. ‘Tell me about it. I just acquired three new roommates!’ Monet exclaims. Jubilee begins to cry, ‘At least you still have a room, M. Mine’s just a blackened hole in the wall!’ Jubilee reminds everyone. Jubilee declares that all her stuff is gone - everything she owned. ‘All my clothes, my CDs…I, uh…my old pictures were in there you know. My parents -’, Jubilee cuts herself off, and the room goes silent again.
Meanwhile, in Chamber’s room, Angelo “Skin” Espinosa and Everett “Synch” Thomas are playing on a game console. ‘Aw, man!’ Skin exclaims. ‘Ha!’ Synch laughs as they battle each other in a fighting-type game. ‘I told ya. No one beats me at this!’ Synch boasts, exclaiming that he has the “drunken monkey combo”. ‘Watch this!’ he shouts. ‘What? Ah, no!’ Skin complains, throwing the controller to the floor.
Lying on his bed, Jonothan “Chamber” Starsmore asks Skin if he hates those guys who were giving him trouble the other day. ‘Do I hate them?’ Angelo replies, exclaiming that he doesn’t know. ‘Not the guys who started with me…but maybe the losers that torched Jubes’ room’ he admits. Chamber remarks that he gets sick of always having to hide, always living in fear of being “discovered”. ‘And then realize I wouldn’t feel that way if all these “normals” weren’t about’ Chamber remarks.
Everett admits that the guys from the lunchroom were jerks, but that you cannot blame all the students for that. ‘I can imagine the idea of mutants is scary to the other students. I mean, we do have all these powers’ Everett points out, telling his friends that they should try to understand how the other students might fear them. ‘Besides, they can’t all be bad people’ he adds. Chambers replies that he knows that is true, but that sometimes it just doesn’t feel that way.
In the office of Emma “White Queen” Frost, Emma and Sean sit across from each other, the office lit only by a dim lamp. Emma remarks ‘She’s behind this, Sean. I know it’, and tells him that the phone is ringing off the hook from parents convinced that she is “harboring mutants” here at the Academy. ‘Added to the other incidents, and the fact that this all started just before she arrived…it doesn’t take a genius, Sean’ Emma points out. Looking at his drink, Sean tells Emma that he tends to agree, and asks ‘But why would she do that? If she is using the fact that the kids are here as blackmail against us, why would she just go on and leak the info anyway?’
Emma replies that is a good question, and tells Sean that she suspects her sister may not be here to hide from the Hellfire Club after all. Emma reveals that she tried poking around the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club to see if she could verify Adrienne’s story, but came up with nothing. ‘I have to consider the possibility that she might be here to finish what she started the last time’ Emma tells Sean, who asks if they should call in help, like the X-Men. Emma pours herself another drink and replies that she doesn’t think that is a good idea, reminding Sean that her sister is unstable enough as it is. ‘I wouldn’t want to provoke her’ she adds. ‘She wants me to hurt, Sean. And we already know she isn’t against killing the kids to accomplish that’ Emma declares, a worried expression on her usually expressionless face.
Elsewhere, Monet and Paige walk towards each other, down a long corridor. ‘Paige’ Monet remarks. ‘How did it go?’ Paige asks, before dropping to the floor to tie up one of her shoelaces. ‘Unsettling. All people are thinking and talking about it who is, or may be, a mutant’ Monet replies, wearing a stylish long red coat. Monet remarks that based purely on appearances, of course, it seems that anyone who does not look like they belong on Dawson’s Creek is automatically a “mutant freak”. Monet asks Paige if she found anything out, to which Husk replies ‘Pretty much the same thing. I did hear Angelo’s name mentioned a few times though’.
Suddenly, a chair is thrown out into the corridor, narrowly missing slamming into the girls. Monet and Husk peer into the room the chair was thrown from - the cafeteria. ‘Oh, good Lord!’ Monet exclaims, while Paige declares that she is getting Sean, as they see a couple of bullies beating up the student from the situation the other day. He receives a punch in the face, before being thrown into some trays of food on a table. One of the bullies is about to punch the student in the face, only to be stopped in his tracks when he finds he cannot move his arm forward - Monet has grabbed him!
Monet, incredibly strong anyway, tosses the bully across the cafeteria with ease, while dozens of other students look on. ‘What’s wrong with you people?’ Monet asks the bully, before holding him up against a wall. ‘Is there something written somewhere that says you are better than everyone else?’ Monet asks him, before telling him that, from where she is standing, he is one of the worst people she knows. ‘What is this constant need to ridicule and hurt people who don’t fit into your idea of “normal”?’ Monet asks as blood trickles down the bully’s head. ‘Well? Answer me!’ Monet shouts when he doesn’t respond.
Suddenly, Husk returns with Banshee, who tells Monet to let the lad down, while more students look on. ‘Monet, what were you thinking?’ Paige asks Monet, who replies that she doesn’t know. ‘I just snapped’ she claims.
Later, in the library, Synch is studying at a table, when suddenly, ‘Hey, handsome!’ Monet calls out. Having changed her outfit, Monet tells Synch that she just got his note. Everett tells Monet that he is glad she could make it, and that she looks really good. ‘So do you’ Monet replies, before leaning over the table and kissing Synch on the lips. They kiss for some time, until they realize someone is watching them, and open their eyes, to find the elderly librarian standing with her arms folded across her chest, and looking rather unimpressed. ‘I close up in five minutes’ she tells them. Monet smiles and turns to Everett, asking him if he wants to go find somewhere they can be alone.
Jubilee sits alone in Monet’s room, starring out at the darkened Academy grounds.
Go home mutant freaks is spray painted on a wall somewhere inside the Academy.
Outside, more ravens gather on the tree outside the corridor to room 304, which, suddenly opens, and the young man sneaks out of room 304, getting dressed in the corridor as he skulks away.
In her office, Emma tells Sean that the doctors are not sure if the boy will make it through the night, as he received massive internal bleeding as well as several broken ribs. Worried, Emma asks Sean how this could have happened. ‘What are we doing wrong? How did it get to this point?’ she asks, admitting that the whole situation feels totally beyond her control. Banshee tells Emma that he worries that they are not training the children properly. ‘The world is a dangerous place, Emma, and can be just as much a threat as Emplate or Mondo or what-have-ye’.
Sean suggests to the White Queen that perhaps it is time the re-evaluated their methods. ‘Perhaps’ Emma replies as she gazes out a large window, and informs Sean that she got a phone call from Ambassador St. Croix earlier, who told her that Artie, Leech and Penance arrived safely in Morocco. ‘He agrees it’s a good idea to get them out of harm’s way for a while’ Emma tells Banshee, who replies ‘Good’, before he too notices something outside, and joins Emma at the window. ‘What the -?’ he begins.
Outside, the crows suddenly scatter from their tree, while several cars pull up in the oval driveway at the front of the Academy. ‘Hate’ Emma whispers. ‘What did ye say?’ Sean asks, to which Emma replies that is what she senses from the people outside. ‘Hate and fear!’


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Come On Die Young - part 4
‘It’s the parents, Emma. What could they want?’ Sean “Banshee” Cassidy asks Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen, his co-headmaster at the Massachusetts Academy as they stare out her office window and look at the barrage of cars that have just pulled up outside. ‘Their children, Sean. They’ve come for their children’ Emma replies as the worried parents rush up to the Academy entrance, looking very, very angry. ‘Oh good Lord, they’re going to riot!’ Emma gasps, telling Sean that the parents are afraid and angry and going to riot. ‘People will be hurt. I can feel it happening already!’ she tells him as they rush out of her office.
En route to the entrance, Sean sees Emma’s sister, Adrienne Frost, smiling at him. Sean call out to her and pointing a finger at her warns her that if she had anything to do with this, he will take her out himself. ‘I wasn’t here to stop to last time, but I won’t make the same mistake again, I promise ye!’ Sean declares. Adrienne watches as Banshee rushes to catch up with Emma, ‘Silly man. It’s already far too late’ she grins.
Furniture is knocked aside as the parents swarm the main foyer, rushing past Emma and Sean without even wanting to talk to them. Emma is knocked over, Sean helps her up as Adrienne marches down the stairs and sits down near them. ‘Delicious, isn’t it? Your precious Academy being torn apart, all these people frantic with fear for their children’s safety!’ Adrienne grins. They watch as parents begin calling out for their children: ‘My God, it’s perfect, isn’t it?’ Adrienne smiles. ‘WHAT?’ Emma shouts, pushing her sister up against a door. ‘What are you talking about? Did you start this?’ Emma asks.
Adrienne asks her sister to relax and pace herself. ‘The bombs haven’t even started going off yet!’ Adrienne exclaims. ‘The what?’ Emma gasps. ‘I’m on it, Emma!’ a harried Sean exclaims as he flies down the corridor. ‘Bombs. God help us!’ he exclaims, while Emma shoves her arm into Adrienne’s neck, ‘You are behind this, aren’t you?’ Emma asks. ‘The bullies, the explosives, these panicked parents…what did you tell them?’ Emma demands to know, before Adrienne kicks her in the face, knocking Emma back and freeing herself. ‘Why, the truth, of course’ Adrienne replies, standing over Emma.
Adrienne tells her sister that she is getting soft. ‘I was hoping for a bit of a challenge out of you, but sadly, no’ Adrienne declares, before kicking Emma hard in the stomach. Tears fall from Emma’s eyes, while Adrienne exclaims ‘You just stood by and let me waltz right in and take control. ‘It was so easy!’ Adrienne boasts. ‘Now look at you!’ she exclaims. ‘Such a good sister. You sleep. I have some children to murder’ Adrienne tells the apparently unconscious Emma, before taking off down the hall, shouting: ‘Yoo-hoo! Children! Monet! Jubilee! Funny-looking gray one! Auntie Adrienne’s calling!’. Emma slowly opens her eyes….
Elsewhere, students are being snatched by their parents and dragged from the building, while Banshee pushes past them in the other direction, searching for Generation X and the explosives, he rounds a corner and finds Everett “Synch” Thomas and Monet St. Croix, hand-in-hand. Synch asks Sean ‘What’s going on?’, to which Banshee replies ‘Adrienne, she planted explosives…’. ‘Oh my God!’ Monet gasps, before Sean reveals that he has found some of them already. Sean asks Everett to give him a hand with the explosives and tells Monet to go find the others, then move all these people away from the buildings. ‘Okay!’ Synch replies. ‘Right!’ Monet exclaims, before Sean asks her to see how Emma is doing. ‘Be careful, M…’ Everett tells her.
Nearby, a smug Adrienne is slinking through one of the hallways, ‘Come out, come out wherever you are!’ she sings, when suddenly, Emma runs up behind her, and furiously smacks her sister in the back of the head, before kicking her to the ground. ‘Not such a “good little sister” after all, huh?’ Emma asks Adrienne, who replies that Sean will never find all the explosives in time. Emma asks Adrienne why she is doing this, ‘What on Earth have I done to make you be like this?’ Emma asks her. ‘All you life, all you have ever done is take. You steal from people, you reach into their minds and just rip out whatever you want. You stole to make yourself rich and successful!’ Adrienne reminds her sister.
Frowning, Adrienne tells Emma that the sick thing is she doesn’t deserve it. ‘I should be the one on top, the one coasting through life, not you!’ she snaps, shouting ‘You have caused me enough pain over the years…it’s time for you to start hurting!’, and Adrienne lunges at Emma with her high-heeled shoes once more, until Emma grabs Adrienne’s foot before she can kick her, and tosses her sister across the hall. Monet arrives on scene, and calls out to Emma, who telepathically tells Monet not to worry about her, to go and make sure the others are okay. ‘But -’ Monet begins to telepathically protest, until Emma assures her that she can take care of her sister. ‘This is personal, go!’ she orders. A somewhat shocked Monet rushes on.
Banshee and Synch have found another one of the bombs, ‘Sean…’ Everett whispers, motioning to the time - they have nine minutes and two seconds remaining. With pliers in hand, Banshee tells Everett not to rush him and that he is nearly there, while parents and students run around in a panic behind him. Everett tells Sean that having him here with him is pointless, ‘It’s better if we split up. We can defuse twice as many bombs that way’ he points out. Banshee snips the red wire, ‘Done!’ he exclaims, before telling Everett that splitting up is out of the question. ‘But, Sean…’ Synch begins to protest. Banshee tells him that he is not sending him out there into all that mess on his own. ‘Ye wouldn’t have anyone to synch up with if ye needed to. It’s just not safe’ Sean tells him, adding that this is the end of the discussion, and telling Synch to come along, as they make their way through the crowds of students and parents.
Soon, Banshee finds Monet, who has rounded up the rest of her teammates. ‘Children!’ he calls out to them, asking if they are all right, while panicking parents and students push past the, Jubilation Lee a.k.a. Jubilee assures Sean that they are fine, before asking him where Synch is. ‘Eh?’ Sean asks, before looking around and seeing that Everett is missing. ‘Damn him! I told him to stay close!’ Sean exclaims. Monet pushes past people so that she can gain flight, and awkwardly flies above everyone in the corridor, telling Banshee that Everett is out there by himself. ‘If he doesn’t find all the explosives…’ her voice trails off as she announces she is going after him. Monet informs Sean that Emma is in the foyer with Adrienne as she leaves.
Paige “Husk” Guthrie suggests that they follow Monet, and exclaims that this whole place has gone crazy. Angelo “Skin” Espinosa asks Husk what she is talking about. ‘It’s Monet, man. Nothing’s gonna happen to her. She’ll be fine!’ he exclaims. ‘But what about Ev? He needs us!’ Jubilee exclaims. Skin reminds Jubilee that Monet is indestructible, and is the best one to protect Everett. ‘You know that…’ he tells her. Jubilee hangs her head in silence. Banshee agrees with Skin, and remarks that Monet can take care of Everett, while they need to find Emma and make sure all of the people are out of harm’s way. ‘Right! Let’s go! Stay with me now!’ he exclaims as Husk, Jubilee, Skin and Jono “Chamber” Starsmore follow him.
Elsewhere, Synch has detected another of the bombs, and enters a room, only to be confronted by the three bullies, who grab him. ‘Gotcha, you freak! You mutant freak! What are you doing to the school?’ one of them asks, angrily. A shocked Synch asks him to let him go, ‘You don’t understand!’ he tells them as he sees the bomb, with only twelve seconds remaining! ‘Monet…I need you!’ Synch calls out as he begins to synch up with her powers, tossing the bullies from him. Monet realizes they Everett is trying to synch up with her, and tells him that she is too far away for him to synch up properly, so he won’t be strong enough.
Synch replies that he is sorry, that he doesn’t know how else to stop this. ‘People will die if I don’t…’ he exclaims, looking at the bomb, which has three seconds remaining. Everett tosses the bullies from the room, and a horrified expression falls over Monet, while Synch reaches for the bomb, ‘It’s my only option!’ he exclaims as the bomb reaches zero, with a note taped to it - Love, A. Suddenly, the room explodes.
‘Oh, no…’ Emma gasps, while Jubilee screams out for Everett. Banshee and the kids run in the direction of the explosion, while Adrienne gets up off the floor, ‘Ha, I did it!’ she exclaims. ‘See that, dear sister? You can hurt, after all!’ Adrienne remarks. Emma reaches behind her back and puts her hand under her jacket. ‘You sick, cruel, twisted…right. That’s it. I’m finished with you!’ Emma announces, narrowing her eyes.
Banshee and the other kids reach the site of the explosion, where the bullies are skulking away. Monet is in the demolished room, kneeling beside Everett, she exclaims ‘Oh, God, I knew it…I knew it wouldn’t be enough…I told him! But he did it anyway, he saved those people, but then he…he just disconnected from me…’ her voice trails off. ‘Ev!’ Jubilee gasps, tears in her eyes, while Sean asks her to give Monet a moment, and various expressions of shock and horror adorn the faces of Husk, Chamber and Skin. ’Oh, God, Ev…come back…please, don’t die on me…PLEASE!’ a teary-eyed Monet, kneeling in the rubble, calls out, holding Synch’s lifeless body in her arms….
Later, ‘…and that’s why what happened will never happen again. Your identities are still secure since no one was able to prove anything’ Emma tells Monet, Jubilee, Husk, Skin and Chamber as they sit around outside the Massachusetts Academy. The kids are all solemn as Emma reveals that the files Adrienne had on them are destroyed. ‘Adrienne is…gone’ she remarks, and explains that all physical evidence has been disposed of, adding that the student’s parents remember nothing. ‘Oh, aye, ye saw to that last one personally, didn’t ye?’ Sean remarks, standing at Emma’s side.
The White Queen informs the kids that she and Sean have decided to make some changes, revealing that they don’t feel it is helping them anymore keeping them cooped up inside the Academy all the time. ‘What do you mean?’ Husk asks, to which Banshee replies that from now on, things will be very different around here. Sean declares that he cannot speak for Emma, but he personally feels that he wasn’t training them properly. ‘Sometimes I think that if I had been a wee bit more diligent…’ his voice trails off, before mentioning anything about Synch.
‘This is your Academy. This is your home. You are in a unique position to really make a difference in the world. If that’s what ye choose’ Sean tells the kids, who listen to him intently. ‘It’s your life, children, your time. So what do ye want to do with it?’….


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Four Days - part 1
Jonothon Starsmore a.k.a. Chamber is asleep on a sofa in his room at the Massachusetts Academy in Snow Valley. His room is a mess - magazines and vinyl records lay scattered everywhere. He wakes, and goes into his bathroom, where he looks in his mirror and adjusts his mask, psionic energies glowing out the side of it. He strides back into his room proper and rips his vest and mask off, exposing his slowly expanding bio-nuclear psionic furnace that is his unfortunate mutant power. Jono cannot eat or smile - much less kiss a girl. So, what does a mutated, reclusive, self-conscious teenage British goth do when he meets the girl of his dreams…?
There is a knock at his door, it’s his friend and teammate, Angelo “Skin” Espinosa, asking him if he is up. Chamber replies ‘Yeah’ and tells Angelo to come in. Both young men are wearing their new team costumes - dark red tops with a bright yellow “x” in the centre, with cargo pants. Skin asks Chamber what he is up to, and informs him that Sean and Emma are taking off soon. ‘They’re really off for the day, then?’ Jono asks, before remarking that Generation X must be doing something right for their headmasters to trust them on their own like this. Chamber reveals that he was thinking of heading into New York to pick up some vinyl. ‘Yeah, I see you’re running low’ Skin jokes, motioning to the boxes full of records, not to mention the records strewn across the floor.
‘Heh. Nice one, mate’ Chamber laughs, before asking Skin what his plans are. Angelo extends his fingers around a pipe overhead numerous times, and swings from it as he replies that he is going to the gym and then into Boston with Sean, who is meeting some guys to pick up some security equipment. ‘Right. Learning the old tricks of the trade, eh?’ Chamber asks. Skin replies that Sean is a smart guy, and that he really thinks he could learn a lot from him, as they leave Chamber’s room.
Arriving in the kitchen, Skin and Chamber greet Monet St. Croix and Jubilation Lee, better known simply as “Jubilee”. The glamorous Monet bids good morning to Angelo and Jono, clad in her new costume - a similar colored top, but with pink stripes down the side, while she wears a purple one-piece spandex outfit underneath, accompanied with a white half-open skirt, similar to her previous one, but less bulky. Jubilee leans back on a chair and asks the boys what they think of their costumes, hers being a similar top to Monet’s, with red shorts over a blue spandex one-piece that comes down to her knees. ‘Pretty cool. Can hardly feel it on me, actually’ Skin replies, while Chamber, adjusting his, replies that it feels safe and comforting.
Monet hovers a few inches off the floor while sipping bottled water and telling her teammates that Sean says it is a sort of smart material, which helps regulate their body temperature and offers passive resistance to impact and the various elements. ‘Really’ Chamber replies, while Jubilee declares that whatever it is made of, she doesn’t care, as it is so comfy. ‘Dunno about the color though’ Jubilee adds, to which Monet remarks ‘Sorry, Jubilee, but I highly doubt they come in shopping mall yellow’. ‘Well, didn’t anyone ask if they did?’ Jubilee retorts, when, suddenly, Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen enters the kitchen and announces that the new costumes cost her a bomb. ‘I don’t want to hear a word about how they “suck” like the previous ones!’
Monet bids Emma good morning before asking her if she has big plans for the day. ‘Business’ Emma replies, before asking if the four of them are all taken care of. Jubilee grins as she reveals that they are going to Manhattan for the day. ‘It’s been so long since we’ve been out. I can’t wait!’ ‘Yes, I’m sure you can’t’ Emma replies dryly, before telling the teenage heroes that while they are off having the time of their lives not to forget their Auntie Emma, working hard today to make their little holiday possible. ‘Okay, Mom’ Jubilee jokes, before the White Queen tells everyone that they best make sure to take their cellphones with them, and that she expects them to answer promptly if and when she phones. ‘What, we get cellphones too?’ Skin asks, eyes wide.
Shortly, Monet, Jubilee and Chamber are in the back seat of a car, with some regular clothing added to their outfits, Jubilee plays a hand-held electronic game while asking Jono what he is doing in the city. ‘Record shopping, most likely. You?’ Jono replies. Jubilee replies that she will probably shop for clothes and get some real authentic Chinese food. ‘That is, if M can handle it’ she adds, to which Monet replies ‘Jubilee. You have been to Hong Kong how many times? Once, maybe? I’ve been eleven times. If anything, I will be showing you what authentic Chinese food is’. Monet smiles as she adds ‘Besides, there’s a new Prada opening in Soho. I think it’s high time I showed Jubilee here that there’s more to fashion than just Hello Kitty t-shirts and pink lip gloss’. Jubilee narrows her eyes and growls at Monet, as the car speeds towards New York City.
Soon, Chamber makes his way through the crowds of people in downtown New York City, consciously aware of people staring at him - most likely because of the mask he wears to cover up his mouth. Some, however, seem to stare with interest in him. Shortly, Jono comes to a shop called Reddington’s Rare Records, and walks down the steps to enter the store - where, inside, he finds a various array of people dressed in punk and goth styles, and a huge section dedicated to U.K. punk records - with a “sale” sign above them. ‘Oh…absolutely brilliant!’ he thinks to himself, smiling with his eyes.
Rummaging through the boxes of records, Jono notices a young punk woman out of the corner of his eye. Dressed in a bizarre skirt, with a low-cut top donned with a feather boa, strange gloves, multiple piercing in her ears, and hair shaven along the sides. The young woman smiles at Chamber, before turning away from him. Chamber rushes over to her, and “speaks” to her - ‘Um, hello. I was curious if -’ he begins, but of course that frightens the girl, as Jono can’t speak with a mouth - he speaks telepathically, into her mind.
The punk girl goes wide-eyed with shock, while Chamber tells her that he didn’t mean to startle her, but it’s no use, as she runs from the record store. ‘HEY! Hey, wait!’ Jono calls out after her, but it’s no use, as the frightened young woman rushes onto the busy road - where a car speeds towards her. ‘Oh, no…’ Chamber “whispers”, before lowering his mask and releasing a small burst of energy, aimed at the front wheel of the speeding car, causing It to blow the wheel, and come to a screeching halt, just as Chamber pushes the girl to safety.
‘You alright?’ Jono asks the girl, who looks at him blankly, before she touches her ear, then her mouth. ‘Oh, I see. Sorry, no. I don’t understand sign language’ Jono replies, before explaining to her that this is how he talks. ‘You aren’t actually hearing me, really. I am just able to place my voice inside your head’, before asking her if she is deaf. Chamber tells her that it is okay, and that he is sorry for scaring her, as he had no idea, before explaining to her that it is very simple, all she has to do is think what she wants to say, as he can then hear it in his head.
‘Go on. It’s not as hard as it sounds’ Jono tells the girl as they get up off the pavement. ‘…hello?’ the girl replies. ‘Hello’ Jono exclaims, before the girl introduces herself as Rana. ‘Mine’s Jono. Nice to meet you’ Chamber replies, before noticing the man who was driving the car that he blew the tire off to stop from crashing into Rana talking to two Police Officers. ‘Perhaps we should go somewhere else?’ Jono suggests, to which Rana replies that she knows a cool place, and tells him to come on.
Soon, sitting at a table in a coffee house, Rana looks embarrassed and tells Jono that she is so dumb, that she should have realized. Unable to drink, Jono replies that it is fine, and tells Rana that it smells wonderful though, which is good enough for him. Rana t drink or talk to people, to which Chamber replies ‘A little, although I imagine you probably have an idea of what some of that’s like’. ‘Yeah’ Rana replies, before Jono asks her not to take this the wrong way, but he has been wondering why she was in the record shop. ‘You mean, why would a deaf person by shopping for music?’ Rana asks, smiling. ‘…er, well I didn’t mean…’ Jono begins, to which Rana tells him that if they are going to get along, they cannot be constantly tiptoeing around the obvious.
‘I suppose we can’t’ Jono replies, to which Rana tells him to feel free to ask her anything. Rana tells Jono that, in answer to his question, she loves music, and explains that she can hear the beat - or, rather, she can feel it. ‘It’s sort of hard to explain’ she remarks, before explaining that she was picking up some stuff for her little sister today, as it is her Birthday tomorrow. ‘Well, I suppose that explains why you had a Britney Spears record in your hands when I saw you’ Jono replies. ‘Had me worried there’ he jokes. ‘HA! I’ll bet!’ Rana exclaims, grinning.
Later, Jono and Rana walk side-by-side through Central Park, where Rana asks Jono if they can talk about him now. ‘What do you mean?’ Jono asks, pulling away from Rana, who reminds him that, for the past few hours, they have just been talking about her and her family, so now she wants to know more about him. Jono replies that there isn’t much to say, and tells her that he was born in England, moved to America a few years ago, and lives a few hours North of here. ‘Just a regular bloke’ Jono adds, to which Rana tells him that, just be looking at him, she can see that he isn’t a “regular bloke”.
The return to walking side-by-side, and Rana tells Jono to stop with his sad face, as she didn’t mean that in a bad way. ‘You and me, we’re sorta the same, y’know?’ Rana adds, telling Jono that they both have these things that prevent them from communicating with people. ‘It’s like we aren’t part of the rest of the world or something. Like we don’t belong…’. ‘Like everyone is looking at us strangely’ Jono adds. ‘…or with pity. I hate all that!’ Rana adds, before telling Jono that, with the two of them, it is equal, that they can talk to each other about anything. ‘I’m not gonna judge you. And I assume you aren’t gonna judge me’ she tells him, putting a hand to his face.
They sit down on a park bench, with Jono slightly turned away from Rana, ‘Of course not’ he tells her, to which Rana asks what the problem is. Jono replies that when most people meet him, they are scared of him, or want to hurt him, just because of what he is, or what they think he is. ‘It’s happened to me a lot’. Jono tells Rana that it makes it hard to go out and meet people, to have a regular life. ‘Yeah’ Rana agrees. Jono gets to his feet and declares that he shouldn’t even be talking about this, to which Rana assures him that she will not hurt him just because he wears that mask over his face, or judge him because of it.
‘Yes, well, you don’t really know what I’m talking about. There is more to it than just this…thing I’m wearing’ Jono replies. Rana gets up and takes Jono by the arm, telling him that she knows exactly what he means. ‘You think I don’t pay attention to what’s going on in the world? I read the papers, I go online. I have eyes, I can see’ she tells him. Rana adds that she knows about people like him, and tells Jono that she never thought she would meet someone like him in her life. ‘But now that I have…’. Rana tells Jono that he is just a guy to her, a “regular bloke” who has to wear something over his face because he had an accident, that’s all.
Rana tells Jono that he isn’t a threat or a menace or a freak, and that she isn’t going to catch what he has or anything. ‘I know that!’ she exclaims, telling Jono to knock it off and to stop treating her like the enemy. ‘I’m your friend’ she tells him, adding that if he can get all that through his thick head, then he can be her friend too, while placing her hand on his mask. ‘I want to…’ Jono begins, ‘But…’ he adds. ‘”But”?’ Rana asks. ‘But what?’ she demands, putting her hands on her hips. Jono explains that he has lived a good chunk of his life hiding from people, so it is not the kind of thing one just reverses in one day. Rana replies by telling Jono that she isn’t asking him to change all in one day, to which Jono rubs his head and replies ‘I dunno…sometimes I feel I can’t change, like perhaps the effort isn’t worth the risk’.
Rana tugs at Jono’s jacket while asking him what he means “can’t change”, and tells him that is silly, while asking what the risk is, as she has already told him that she will not hurt him. Jono tells Rana that things have a way of getting out of control despite anyone’s best intentions. He remarks that he has seen it happen many times, and reveals that he has lost a friend recently, just because he too, was different. ‘Jono…’ Rana begins, but Jono turns his back on her and starts to walk away, telling Rana that he is sorry, but that this is the way it is for him.
Jono tells Rana that he is constantly weighing risk against reward, and that over the years, he has learned to play it safe. ‘I want to trust you, Rana. You’re the first person I’ve met in ages that actually wants to make me try. But it’s too much for me right now. Please understand my reasons. It’s not you…’ his voice trails off, while Rana replies ‘Yeah, whatever. Not the first time I’ve heard that speech’.
Later, Jono and Rana walks side-by-side, with Jono’s hand around Rana’s waist, through the city, carrying an array of shopping bags, they come to a subway entrance, which has been surrounded by police tape, and several Police Officers mill about the entrance. Jono asks a young man what is going on, to which the other guy replies that he doesn’t know, but that the Police keep talking about “terrorists” and “flying girls”. ‘Whatever it is. No one’s getting on this train anytime soon’. Jono thanks him, before he and Rana step away from the commotion.
Jono asks Rana if she is going to get home all right, to which Rana replies that she should take a cab, as her mom worries if she stays out too long. ‘What about you? You have to meet your friends soon. Want to share a cab?’ Rana adds, before Jono tells her that he still has time, and will walk. Rana holds up a small piece of paper and asks Jono if she gives him her address, whether he will write to her. ‘Please don’t let me down, okay? You know what it’s like to have someone let you down’ Rana tells him, adding that she likes him and wants to see him again. Rana places a kiss on Jono’s cheek, and then on his mask, where his mouth should be. Rana takes off, grinning, while a solemn Chamber watches her go.
Later, night has fallen as the three Gen X kids are driven back to Snow Valley. While Monet reads a magazine, shopping bags at her feet, Jubilee sleeps, leaning into Chamber, who stares out the window, before telling Monet that she should have called him, as he was right there, and could have helped. Monet replies that there wasn’t time, as it all happened so fast. ‘We ended up being fine, just the two of us, but thanks just the same’ she adds. There is silence, while Monet looks at Chamber, then smiles, telling him that she wouldn’t have wanted to pull him away from his date. ‘You know I don’t like you reading my thoughts like that, M. Please stop’ Jono replies, looking at Monet.
Monet apologizes and tells Jonothan that she didn’t mean to pry, before pointing out that he doesn’t seem to be very happy about it. ‘Didn’t it go well?’ Monet asks, while Jono holds the paper with Rana’s address on it out the window of the car. Chamber replies that he reckons it went well enough, and that she is a nice sort of girl. ‘The sort I have always dreamed about meeting, actually. She seemed to like me, too’ Jono tells Monet. Monet looks at Jono and asks him what the problem is, pointing out again that he doesn’t seem very happy.
‘C’mon, Monet. We’re bloody mutants. You know how it goes: “living in a world that hates and fears us”. That’s not much of a life, for anyone. It’s more like a battle!’. Jono rubs the piece of paper with his thumb, before letting it go out the window, remarking that pain and death seem to follow them wherever they go, so why would he want to drag Rana into that? Chamber declares that Rana deserves better, really, and that it is only a matter of time before she realizes that for herself….