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John listend to the girl's answer. He realized at once that he couldn't let his gaurd down around her or her dog. She was neither friend nor foe....at least not yet. Man, Scion, you sure know how to pick 'em.I thought I'd be able to calm down and relax alittle, but it seems I'll have to keep my gaurd up....and I swear that dog is getting on my last nerve!! And I promise if it makes one wrong move around me it'll regret ever attacking you.... She should be gald I wasn't there. She would'nt have had a chance to get that thing back John thought as he looked the thing. "Well," John began, " you seem fine to me, but if you want payin' for than you'll need to talk to the boss. If that's what you want then I'll call him later and let him know you want to talk." John looked up. They'd reached the building. "Alright well now that we're here lets hire the builders." After talking to the people and making payments for about an hour they were finally done. We'll be at the place in an hour, but it'll take us all night to fix your house, by the sounds of it, the man told John. John nodded and said, "I'll see you when you get there"
As they left, he turned to the girl and asked, "So is there anything you'd like to do?

OOC: Upon reading your posts with this newfound and quite alien concept known as "free time" I've been experiencing lately, I've noticed that you did know. Quite well done ^_^.

OOC: It also doesn't hurt that Omega Red is one of my favorite villains. 3nodding

IC: Omega Red looked at Scion with disdain in his eyes. How dare one a insignificant as Scion insult him. Without warning, Scion saw a tentacle wrap around a massive hunk of lumber, then throw it at a rather high velocity at him. When it was about ten feet away, Scion instinctively flashed out his energy blade, and sliced upward, cutting the beam in two. As he watched one of the chunks fall to his right side, he felt another piece of lumber hit his injured arm.

Scion crumbled to the ground, clutching his left shoulder. It was dislocated again, and he couldn't move his arm at all. "Dammit," he muttered as he started to get extremely sick again. If he didn't get away, he knew it was only a matter of time before he'd literally puke his guts out. And the new guy on the scene, he was doing his damndest to help, but Omega Red's attention was squarely fixed on Scion.

While Scion laid on the ground in a daze, he could see a spotlight alone with two flashing colored lights high in the sky. He couldn't tell, but he surmised it was possibly a military chopper. He wouldn't doubt it, considering that the government was actually housing Omega Red in a cryonics lab. Then, he heard a multitude of mechanized vehicles....rather, he felt the ground rumble as they approached.

Omega Red, standing over Scion, stepped hard in the middle of the young mutants chest in an attempt to crush him. Scion couldn't breathe under the tremendous weight and started to cough even more violently than before. Whoever showed up to help Scion was doing what he could to try and help, but his shots were doing nothing. They just glanced off of Omega Red's flesh with ease.

All of a sudden, there was a loud explosion, and Jacen could see fire sloughing off of Omega Red's back. With a smidgen of a chance, he grabbed Omega Red's foot, powered up as much as he could, and pushed the massive foot off of his chest, sending the Russian psycho falling to the ground momentarily. There were some more shots levelled at Omega Red's prone body, while Jacen scrambled as fast as he could to get away from the firing zone.

"HEY!!," he yelled to the other mutant, "We should probably get out of here while we have the chance!!!" Then, there was another firestorm levied at Omega Red by the military vehicles. As he was getting up, he noticed that Elena's unconcious frame was still lying in the snow, very close to the firefight. Without hesitating one bit, he rushed over to her and carefully hoisted her up on his good shoulder. As much as he didn't like humans, he owed this girl a humongous debt.

"Alright....," Jacen said to the other mutant, "Where's the transport so we can get the ******** out of here?"

"It'll be here in a sec," Ares replied, moving a hand to his earpiece. "Mission accomplished. I've located your lieutenant," he says into the communicator. A few seconds of silence followed, then Ares spoke again, this time to Scion. "Evac'll be here in a sec. In the meantime, let me see that arm," he says, motioning to Scion's limp left arm.

"Good," Jacen said as he lurched forward awkwardly when there was a massive explosion. Looks like the military was having a time dealing with Omega Red. "Let's hope it gets here soon. I do not want to deal with that idiot again."

For a second, Jacen stood there, and let his arm fall to his side. Then, slowly and painfully, he extended it so it was parallel to his shoulder. The one sent to retrieve him carefully grabbed Scion's wrist and gave it a hard yank. There was a loud popping noise followed by a howl of pain. He'd be fine now, it'd just take a bit longer to heal now.

When he stopped stomping around, cursing and swearing, Jacen noticed that Elena had finally woken up.

"What happened?," she asked as she sat up in the snow.

"That guy that was after me the other day came back. Your father and brother....I'm sorry. They were crushed under the house...."

She had a look of shock on her face, then there was a few tears that fell. Jacen felt a bit of remorse, not much though. He was busy 'feeding' off of her sadness. All of a sudden, it spiked to anger, and Jacen felt a pair of fist punching him in the chest and stomach.

"He shouldn't have helped you!! If he didn't they'd still be here!!," she yelled, "This is all because of..." Then she was silent. Scion grabbed her hard by her jaw and lifted her up a couple of inches from the ground.

"Because of me?," Scion said finishing her sentence, "Typical human speak. You know, I AM extremely grateful for your help in my convalescence, but, if you must know, I despise humans." Scion brought her in close and looked her dead in the eye. "I hate the way you feel like your superior because your not 'freaks' like the rest of us. The world's looking for a scapegoat and who's the first one picked out of the group? Mutants."

He threw her down gently into a snowbank and turn his back to her. "Get lost. The only reason you're still alive is because you helped me." He looked back at her as she backed away a few feet. "The longer you stay here, the more tempted I am to go back on my word."

With that, he hung his head. He was mad that he had to do that. He was actually starting to form a bit of a friendship with the lass. But, of course, with her outburst.....

"I tire of this place. I wish to leave," Scion said to no one in particular as he pulled his hood over his face, looking rather annoyed.

Jamie stood up and shook his head. "Alright, thanks Penny." He started to leave the room and stumbled a bit. He shook his head again, and turned abruptly, grabbing the pot of coffee that was sitting on the counter. He poured a quick cup, and loaded it with cream and sugar, before following Penny out to her car.

Regina looked around at the posters as she and Kurt headed down the posters. "I bet I could beat Pietro... I've got great ideas for this school. Maybe I could even help on the mutant issue."

"Don't get carried away there Reg..." Kurt warned. "I'm all for you as a president, but don't bring up that issue. Trust me, bad vibes."

"Blah. True enough." Regina sighed and looked at the posters. "Come on, let's go list myself as a running mate for student body president. And then enlist Penny as my aid." She grinned, it wasn't going to be serious to her, but she'd have some fun at least.

{I think it's high time that Ares joined the Brotherhood, don't you?}

"Well, it would seem that the ExoSuit is to your liking," the deep voice said.

"That is an understatement."

"Good.

As you have no doubt noticed, the flatscans, the so-called "normal" people, look upon us as freaks of nature. Abnormalities in the gene pool. They hate us, they try to destroy us, but why? What is it that drives them to perform these futile gestures?" the man asked

"I'm listening," Ares replied.

"It is because they fear us. And yet, we are the one forced to live in fear, to hide ourselves from them. Does it make sense to you?"

"....." Ares was silent as his mind conjured up images of that fateful night, when his whole world came crashing down in a hail of gunfire.

"Which is why I have an offer for you. Join my cause. I will provide protection from those that would attempt to destroy us."

Ares was silent for a moment as he considered Magneto's offer. "..... So, when's my next assignment?" he asked.

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The silvery sphere touched down in front of the Brotherhood house, and the side of the sphere slid open. Jamie stepped out of the sphere, and looked around. He had two cases with him, one of which was a small steel one which held the ExoSuit, and the other one was a plain leather suitcase which held his uniform.