Minna blinked slowly as Harry came up behind them. "Erm...Yeah..." Charlie said, "Can Harry come too Miss Frost?"

John frowned as another person joined them. Harry was his name, he thought. He looked at the siblings and wondered if it was wise to let them come. Siblings only made things worse, he thought. Meanwhile, he, himself, was rather anxious. Although he had been here for a while, he had some understanding of Ms. Frost, that while being strict, was reasonably lenient.

Emma turned to Harry and pondered for a moment, noting his hesitancy to speak up. She wasn't sure if she should let him come. even though Charlie supported him. Already she was dragging seven students into this. Ororo would not forgive her if any of them were injured or God forbid, killed. If she had to choose who she would bring, it would be Minna, Dom, Bella, and John. Dom and Bella were old enough, Minna displayed maturity beyond her age and John, well, he was able to handle it, despite his insolence. The rest, she thought, seemed unprepared. She read Erchirion's silent prayer, her resolve growing stronger.

"This is my decision," she said. "And it is final. You are welcome to take to Ms. Monroe and argue with her if you like. But I've decided that I'm only taking four of you. John, Minna, Dom, and Bella, come with me. The rest of you, please return to your classmates and tell them everything is all right. Then guard the school. Rogue and Bobby will be helping you, but just in case, I want you four to remain here and make sure nothing happens to the student while we're gone. Is this understood?"

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Bella flashed a huge smile at Emma, “Thanks Ms. Frost” Finally she could do something. Bella believed that she had these powers for a purpose; and tempting as it was to believe that she was meant to become the worlds greatest jewel thief picking unbreakable locks; she knew that it wasn’t that. This threat to them gave her a purpose and she was grateful for it. She wasn’t troubled by the idea that she or others might die; death was something she’d come across before and though it had made an impression on her she knew she could deal with it. All these thoughts flashed across her mind in an instant but the most prevailing was; This is gonna be soooo cool!

She gave a friendly smile to John and Minna before giving Dom a conspiratorial wink. She’d heard his whispered threat but that didn’t stop her from being pleased to be going with him. Dom and Bella against the world again. The unbeatable duo.

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Wonderful. Dom thought sarcastically to himself. [/i]Simply equisite.[/i] What had he gotten himself inot? Fighting for his life against deadly, evil bad guys? Not exactly his definition of fun. But, to his right, he could see Bella swell with anticipation. She was probably already daydreaming about strangling bad guys with her hair. "You're gonna pop if you don't calm down." He whispered to her. "Just like "poof" and then there will be bits of Bella splattered on the wall."
While Bella exuded happiness, Emily was the opposite. He could feel her anger like a flood. Before he could stop her, she had an outburst. "But why can't I go? I want to fight too! This is my home too you know."

"Its dangerous Emily." Dom warned, but she ignored him, instead keeping her gaze on Ms. Frost.

Wolverine paced back and forth in front of the large computer console muttering obscenities under his breath. "Where the hell is she?!" he finally said aloud.

"Emma will be back, just be patient Logan" Beast replied, trying to calm his friend.

"A few minutes?" he roared back, "We don't have a few minutes. Screw this" he finished and stomped off in search of Emma. He wasn't searching very long. He stood looking down towards Emma talking to a group of students. His acute hearing picked up everything and he stomped off towards them.

"So this is what you've been up to Frost?" he squinted his eyes and glowered at her.

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"You might want to control yourself, though, Bella," Emma said, although she just told her telepathically. John felt the usual cardiovascular signs of anger and joy: increased heart rate. Emma turned to Emily and said, "You're far too young and Ms. Munroe will not forgive me for bringing someone as young as you along." Just then John winced sharply, the rapid hard heartbeat of someone beating in his eardrums. Emma had only a few seconds to realise who it was before Logan, in one of his furies, stormed up and demanded, "So this is what you've been up to Frost?"

"And I thought you went to go find Peter and Kitty," Emma retorted, her voice ever so cold. "I caught them eavesdropping. I thought the most suitable punishment was allowing some come with us and the rest babysit the students. Wouldn't you agree?" A quick scan showed her that he did not think of anything of the sort.

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Minna seemed quite downcast that her siblings where not coming along with her, but with one look at them, she quickly accepted that they were not coming with her. Erchirion patted her shoulder, "You'll be fine." Charlie quickly hugged her, "Good Luck. I'd say have fun but...oh you know." Minna smiled sadly at them both, "Get on. Both of you." Charlie and Erchirion quickly headed back to see their classmates, but decided otherwise.

They had a plan. They had already decided it a long time ago, if this ever happened, somehow managing to keep this plan away from the teachers. If one of them ever went on an adventure without the other two, then he or she would lead the other two to wherever it was the other was. The only rules required were: keep it away from the teachers, and use your elements as little as possible so the teachers wouldn't notice a thing.

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Erchirion and Charlie Quickly headed back to where all the other students where to make their announcment.

Erchirion gave a sigh as he waited patiently for the students to quiet down. As soon as they did, he made his annoucement, "Everything's fine. You have nothing to worry about." As he suspected, chaos broke out as the students demanded to know what was going on. He and his brother took off almost immediately to avoid the mob coming after them.

Logan growled at Emma, "Don't change the subject blondie" he moved closer to her, eyeing her suspiciously. "Who gave you authority to okay these kids to go on this mission? There not even fully trained yet."

He glanced back over at the group of kids behind them and turned back to Emma. "So" he paused raising an eyebrow "You think you're gonna create the new Hellions? Take untrained kids into action" he looked back over at the kids and back at Emma, "Fine!" he spat the word out, "You wanna bring 'em. On your head be it Frost. Any one o' those kids get hurt or worse. You're gone, you understand?"

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"For your information, Logan," she said. "These children are trained. I personally oversaw their training. See, unlike you, I don't have the leisure of running off whenever I feel like it and coming back when it's convenient. I do have a job here" John's eyes flitted from Logan to Ms. Frost like he was watching a tennis match. When Logan mentioned the Hellions, Ms. Frost's heart began to race for the first time. She however quickly dismissed it, "Let's not open old closets. And don't worry, these children are in far better care in my hands. Much better than yours, you will find."

John thought "Ms, Frost. If it is really this much trouble, you don't have to..." Her thought came almost immediately. "It isn't. Logan's just making more trouble than necessary." However, she did wonder if she was making the right choice here.

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Logan stood there, his entire body hunched and tense. Glaring at every word Emma uttered. He didn't trust her, he had never trusted her despite Professor Xavier's insistence that she wanted the same thing he did. He respected Xavier, he had helped him more than he ever should have and for that Logan gave him his loyalty and Emma the benefit of the doubt.

"You'll keep" he snarled at her, pointing his unlit cigar at her chest. He turned his back on her and walked down the corridor, "Don't let the Jet leave without me" he called back, putting his cigar to his lips and chewing on the end.

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Abigail was still wandering around aimlessly. Trying to get someone, anyone to listen to her. It was almost as if she was invisible. There was some sort of commotion going on and Abby headed towards it. Without warning two male students running towards her and without warning they collided.

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Erchirion and Charlie somehow managed to keep from bumping to Abby. "Oh." Charlie managed, "you must be Abby. Sorry." As the mob prepared to charge them, Charlie grabbed them both, let the ground swallow them up and then popped up outside the Academy. The siblings brushed themselves off, blushing, "Sorry Abby." Erchirion looked quite worried, "Any signs yet Charlie?" "Nope!" his brother replied, taking worried glances towards Abby.

"Fine fine, i'm calm...although that would be awsome." She did acctually manage and came over and squeezed his arm. "It will be ok" she whispered reasureingly.
Don't worry Miss Frost; you've taught me well enough not to loose it. She replied silently to Emma.
Bella's eyes narrowed as Logan entered and began to abuse Emma. How dare he? He was never here, he had no idea how much hard work she put into training them. She would do anything for Emma. She wasn't called Medusa for nothing; her hair formed into razor spikes and waved threateningly behind Logan's back as she wandered vaughly who the Hellion's were.
Logan left and Bella's hair subsided. "What do we do now Miss Frost?"

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Emma's eyes followed Logan out before they went back to the students. She sighed and paused to recollect her thoughts, so rudely shattered by the retreating animal. She knew he didn't trust her and she knew he didn't have any reason to trust her. But she couldn't dwell on that. Right now, she had to work around with the students.

"Okay, so this is what's going on," she said. "One of our allies are under attack by a team of trained mutant assassins. Think special forces. Anyway, I don't know what Ororo has planned but this is what we have for you. You four will guard the plane. I know it's not exciting but believe me. You guys are lucky to come in the first place. Besides, it's equally important as these guys will probably go for the plane. John, do you know how to repair blood vessels?"

John made a small face as he tried to consider his control over his powers. He finally said, "Yeah, I think I can." Emma knew he couldn't. All he could do was regenerate blood. At least, from his last session.

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Abby felt herself get swept up and away and found herself outside the Institute. She looked at both siblings a look of frustration crossing her face, "What's going on? What was with the alarms going off?"

The tall blonde began to pace back and forth. Blatantly agitated at her current situation. The boys seemed sympathetic enough, both of them even blushing ever so slightly. She let out a frustrated sigh and slumped against a wall overlooking a large well cared for garden. Her eyes looking up at a huge memorial statue.
Professor Charles Xavier the inscription on the stone read.

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