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Inside of a newly purchased house in the Bayville area, a lone man sat silently in the dark. Stephen looked at the wall, a blank expression on his face. In a manner of speaking, the lights were on, but nobody was home.

Thousands of miles away, a lone figure makes it's way towards Magneto's base. The temperature was cold enough to kill even the strongest man, but to the figure, it was just something to fight against. Snow pelted the man in his black suit and bowler hat, but he kept on. It wasn't too long before the man entered Magneto's complex. Stephen knew that he was expected by Magneto, but he wondered if any of Magneto's pet children would bother him along the way. He wasn't much for talking, as mannequins usually aren't, but he did have a smile on his face. A few hallways later, he made his way into a large open room, where Magneto and his brotherhood were, along with some of Xavier's X-men. Yes, Stephen had studied what he could about them, but there seemed to be a few new recruits, to both sides. No matter, it's nothing I can't handle, Stephen told himself, as he leaned against a nearby wall to watch the action.

Magneto looked side to side for a moment as everything went dark. "Clever," he said to no one in particular, as he always enjoyed seeing an otherwise "weak" mutant put his powers to good use. Sadly, he ruined everything by screaming and betraying his location. Magneto directed a shield in the direction of the scream, and chuckled to himself as he heard the scream turn into a grunt as it made contact.

"Come on!" he shouted to the X-Men, almost taunting them. Is there NO one willing to provide a true challenge??

Jamie swore. He should have known that Magneto would have enough concentration, and power, to keep up several tasks at once. Unfortunately, that trick of Jamie's wouldn't work anymore. He'd have to try something else. He thought through his options.

There was pretty much nothing Jamie could do that would actually harm Magneto, but that wasn't the goal. The goal was to get him to leave Sasha alone. Maybe he could do that. Maybe. Creativity. That was the trick. Damn, Jamie didn't know anything about Magneto, so he couldn't use a tactic similar to when fighting Blair when he was Pharoah.

Jamie looked at Magneto, and let the lights come back on. He was glad to have a brief reprieve, he was still exausted from his 'fight' with Crystal. Him getting his a** kicked more like.

Jamie stared at Magneto, and decided to do his best Multiple Man imitation. Suddenly, three or four light versions of Jamie appeared, and surounded Magneto. Jamie then snuck off, bending the light around him to become invisible. He had the copies of him feign attacks, charging in, then backing out, never actually hitting Magneto.

Then, the real Jamie charged in at Magneto, keeping himself invisible. He was sure not to make a sound this time, and he got about a half step away from Magneto and dove to tackle him, but at the same moment lost control of the light, so the copies disappeared, and Jamie reappeared. He could only hold out hope that he'd be able to get to Magneto before he could react.

Exodus rigidly knelt before Xavier, who was now fully dressed, compliments of the the rest of the Acolytes, each of whom now sat quietly along the rear wall of the room. Through gritted teeth, Exodus tied each of Xavier's shoes, his body acting entirely without his consent.

"You... will... pay for this..." grunted Exodus, each word escaping his mouth painfully as he resisted Xavier's will with every fiber of his being.

"Come now, my dear boy," Xavier said as he calmly adjusted his suit jacket. "The very fact that you've still retained some semblance of free will is a testament to how powerful you really are. Now if you would kindly push my wheelchair for me..."

"It is not possible... you can... not be this strong..."

"You'd be surprised how often I hear that. You didn't honestly think your Master would take such pains to contain me if it wasn't true... and quite frankly, I'm almost insulted that he left such such a paltry security to guard me. That, or he's simply using me to discipline you in some way."

Exodus grunted, stepping painfully behind Xavier, grasping the handles of his wheelchair rigidly as he slowly lead Xavier out of the chamber. Along the way, Xavier noticed Amelia Voight sitting amongst the rest of the incapacitated Acolytes.

"Didn't we date once? Like, for a week, a few years back?" he asked. Amelia remained unresponsive, her mind locked away for the time being.

"Yeah, it didn't leave much of an impact upon me either," Xavier said, dismissively. "Come now Exodus... lets see what Magneto's been up to..."

Theresa had been awake for a few hours and is unsble to remove the boards. SHe begins to float of the ground, in an attempt to roll the board off, but it doesnt help any as she remains locked in place. She floats back to the ground. Eyes full of tears she doesnt know what to do next, so instead she begins to rely on her other attack. She begins to yell the single word, help, at a high sonic volume. It is not able to damage anything, but yet allows her voice to be heard over many miles. THis was the last lesson she had learned before the operation had gone down. It is taking all her strength to keep it at a safe magnitude.

Wow, these guys have some real power She thought. She had never been in a place with so many mutants before. Still, nobody was aiming for a prize. Not that anybody had listened to her. She decided to take matters into her own hands. She knew there were telepaths here. She knew that he had that bucket on to block them out... she wasn't stupid. She listened to everything while she had been here. His peons talked, he talked. They all talked too much.

Time to strike. She just wanted out of this place. Riding on these guys' coattails was perfect. After a strike was made with the black shadowy lightening, she created two five inch orbs of burning light in her hands. Their target was Magneto's head. She had to dislodge that damn helmet of his.

Teagan's eyes flashed back and forth between everything that was going on, her brain not quite capable of even analyzing what exactly was happening. She knew she was scared, she knew something was happening to her and her friends, but she just..

He said something about us being brainwashed...but what..I don't know! Ugh! I wish there was something I could do! she thought to herself, wringing her hands together as she stood next to the shattered glass that had been her tube.

She bit her lip, trying to take it all in. She could see people, her teammates, attacking Magneto, but she just couldn't help but just stand there.