Blink tilted his head to the side, "Uh-huh...well while your here, want something to eat? I'm Blink by the way. He may be 10 but he wasn't stupid, but the poor guy looked a little worse for wear, if he tried anything he'd run and find an older mutant.

"So what are YOUR gifts?" he asked as the microwaved beeped.

He walked over and removed his Easy Mac and sat down at the small island in the middle of the kitchen.

Fox was not quite sure of wat to make of this child or this socail situation. Most people he avoided and the ones he had come in contact with where mostly adults.
"my names Fox"
he said quetly not use to using his name.

When the food was offered he had practicly no choice to turn the offer down esecailly after the cheasy pasta had been brought out and placed on the table steam still coming off it he knew it was a risk.

"the food sounds great Blink" he said with a smile showing under the mostly covered face. He seem more then gratful for just the sight of the simple dish.

Fox knew or at least belived he wasnt a mutant in his mind, after all he hasnt seen proof of it when stable, there had been the odd few events but they where just drug iduced day dreams.. they had to be.

"Oh my gifts ... there hard to discribe.."
he said a split second latter damning himself for the lame exuse.

Blink nodded and shoved the bowl over to the guy, "Here you need this more then I do." he said as he got up and headed to the refrigerator, "What you want to drink? This is a school so there's no booze." he said pushing his glasses up onto his nose.

"Hard to explain gifts hmm? Yea I know how that is." he shook his head.

"Um.. anything please."Fox said gratefully to the drink offer, "thanks for the food." he added starting to eat. He felt bad not admitting he wasn't a mutant but chances like that only came once a blue moon.

He looked up at the 10 year old "So what are your gifts?" he asked curiously.

Blink rummaged through the fridge and grabbed two sodas and brought them back to the table, "Well I can work any electronic device by blinking and I don't need to sleep." he grinned. "Cool huh?"

"Any device?" Fox asked interested... "Say even car locks or alarms" he asked. He wasn't asking out of crime reasons, but more out of odd experiances he could remember with the two."you must have fun with them gifts" he added with a grin

"Yep as long as it's electronic. I think threes a link between my brain waves and electric devices, plus it may have something to do with why I don't have to sleep." he shrugged as he twisted the cap of the bottle of pop and took a drink.

Taking the last bites from the meal , Fox was thinking about something in what Blink had said. He was sure that alarms malfunctioned to everyone but hearing what this child had to say he begun to have doubts... he shrugged it off mentally as his ever faulty grip on reality.

As he went for the bottle of soda he had been offered a chance sphere had accidentally left his body and targeted the table he had been eating off. Fox had seen his hallucination and just hoped it wouldn't lead to a bigger 'trip' again.

Blink set his pop on the table and thought he saw something come out of Fox. Soon the table was rubble at their feet. Blink got off the stool, "Whoa that was COOL! Messy, but WAY cool!" he blinked looking down.

Fox looked at the floor, angry and a mix of sacred of what he just did. The child was a mutant but he couldn't of done this.... and tables didn't fall apart just like that even if they are from IKEA... Fox stepped back "that wasn't me.. that wasn't me.." he had always panicked when his world view was questioned like this..

Blink looked up at the panicked guy, "Hey it's cool! Trust me, your not the first nor the last to destroy this thing. Don't worry, no ones gonna flip." Blink frowned, 'Man he needs help with his powers. Wonder where Ms. Kitty is?' he thought.

"That was not me!" Fox said back quickly almost in defense.
He stepped back and knelt down on a cupboard door getting as away from the table as possible


'Uh-Oh he's spazzin. I better go find someone.' he thought. "You just stay here I'll go get some help." Blink said as he bolted from the room.

Fox just sat thier silently trying to work out why this happened muttering under his breath random probable events whist shaking slightly.

Kitty slowed her fall and landed in a chair, "Wow, I'll never get THAT lucky again." she lauged as she climbed down. It didn't take her long to find the guy, "Hey there." she smiled as she approached him slowly.

He didn't look to good. He looked scared, not mention worse for wear, "Hey can you hear me? Are you ok? I won't hurt you. Your safe here."

Fox contiued to almost silently mutter the most likely events that couk happn maybe this was a result of his mutation , shock or both. As a strange ghost girl seemed to float from the cieling , becoming a solid entity on chair. Fox seemd to look up at her withh his face hiden by his hood.

"I didnt do it"
He stated looking at the table
"I didnt do it it just fell apart"
he stated more trying to establish his own reality then trying to get out of trouble..


Dizziness, therefore a headache, hunger pains, and just generally feeling terrible. As she neared the kitchen door, she knew if she didn’t eat soon she would definitely pass out. All the while, she was thinking about the others still on the Olympia; still dealing with danger at every turn.

She was mostly worried about the two girls who she had left to deal with the last of the injured on the Conference Room level, hoping they were all okay, hoping they, too, had come home once the job was done. Both of them had been pretty keen to see some action, but whatever was going down didn’t need anyone else coming smack dab into the middle of it, especially if a confrontation was in full force.

The sight that greeted her as she walked through the kitchen door made her eyes widen, and her mouth gape a little. What in the world had happened to the table, and who was Kitty talking to?

“Whoa! Okay, is everyone all right? What happened?” she hadn’t heard anything that Fox had said only moments before she got there, her pace quickening til she was kneeling down beside him.

Kitty looked up from the guy, "Hey girl. Uh yea I think so. Jeremy sent me down here, this guy here, um..." she glanced back at the pile of rubble that was in the middle of the kitchen.

"He's in denile and none of the other teachers are here that I know of." she shrugged. "I'm still trying to get him to talk to me."

Jeremy shrugged and then nodded, leading Ben down the stairs and into the kitchen. Mana was there too. He didn't know her real well, but knew enough.

"Well this is the kitchen. Fridge is over there." he pointed. "Um, of course you know Ms. Kitty. And uh thats Fox there." he nodded his head at the guy Kitty was trying to talk too.
Benjamin surveyed the scene quickly, nodding to Mana as Jeremy pointed her out, "Pleased to meet you," Benjamin said.

"Kitty, is there anything I can do help?" Benjamin asked, his original reason for coming down here temporarily forgotten, as he looked at the man Jeremy had identified as Fox, who was saying "I didn't do it" or "It wasn't me" over and over again.





As Betsy approached the kitchen, she heard others' voices. ~Good... Perhaps I'll get to meet some of the others...~ she thought as she made her entrance.

"'Ello," Betsy said, addressing the whole room. "I'm Elisabeth Braddock - or Betsy - I just arrived here a little while ago..." she explained, introducing herself.

After that, Betsy noticed a guy in the room who appeared to be loosing his mind or something... She wondered if walking in here had been a good idea or not.


Mana could never remember if there had ever been a time she had been in denial about her powers. In fact, she was pretty sure had always welcomed them, even though mutants were not the most loved of people out there.

Gently touching Fox’s arm, she said, “Hey, don’t worry about it, I am sure the Professor has plenty of money to replace the table,” she studied the look in his eyes, the features of his face, deducing he was pretty messed up on more levels than one, “You okay? I mean, you didn’t hurt yourself or anything?”

Jeremy’s entrance, with yet another newcomer; Mana realising they came out of the woodworks near every day in this place; brought a quick glance around, the pyrokinetic healer acknowledging the nod given towards her, before she turned her attention back to Fox.

“I want to help, let me help. Can I do anything?” she asked, the empathy seeping into every part of her core.

Someone else… Mana looked around again, her words quick and precise, “Heya, Betsy, I’m Ramana, or Mana, and we’re just dealing with a little power surge problem here, nothing to worry about,” she instinctively tried to assure the woman.

Fox was feeling a bit worse for where, and a tad confused by everything that had been happening around him. But he had managed to focus enough to work out the woman trying to help him was nicknamed Mana. His drugged face turned to her after the last hep offer.
"..Please"

he said feeling pitiful for this but still feeling e needed the help. His brain contiued to process the most statistacal possiblties that could happen and this combined with all the other events was giveing him a headache. More then anything he wanted it to stop as it was just feeding to the flame of his confused state.

Kitty noticed that Fox seemed to respond to Mana, "Hey he doesn't look so good. Think we can get him to the infirmary?" she asked her.

"I personally don't think I could lift him, and if I try to phase he may spaz on me again. Betsy you think you can? Mana?"

As the three women talked, Benjamin felt a familiar, burning sensation throughout his body and the now customary headache that always accompanied it. He looked up and quickly found the back door.

"Excuse me," Benjamin said as he started towards the door, hoping to get outside as soon as possible. He got to the door and plowed through it. He ran out about fifteen feet before dropping to his knees and raising his hands in the air.

He looked up and expelled the built-up concussive energy within him in a fiery, orange-white blast straight up in the air. As soon as the energy was expelled, he promptly passed out on the back lawn.

Kitty watched the newcommer head outside, "Wonder what that was ab..." she started and then heard what she thought was an explosion.

"Oh my god!" she jumped to her feet and ran/phased through things and walls to see Ben on the ground.

Approaching carefully she realized he was out cold, "Ho boy! This is too much!"

*Mana!!!* she whined as she tried to move Ben. "Anyone!?" she called out.

Jubilee was looking out the window when she both saw and heard Ben explode. Running out of her room, she slid down the stairs and ran down to the kitchen. Exiting out the door, she joined the crowd around Ben's unconsious form.

Kitty looked up, "Hey Jubes, what happened? Any idea? I heard some loud noise and now this! Think you can help me get him to the infirmary?"

"Ugh where's Dr. McCoy when you need him?" she groaned as she tried to lift him.

Jubilee threw his arm over her shoulder.

"I-Uh- think he owes us Pizza for -urgh- this!"

They drug him into the house.

"I don't really know what happened.. I was -geez- looking out the window."

She didn't want to go into why she wasn't with Ben and Jeremy to begin with yet....

Those eyes… urgh, Mana knew what that look well; knew what it meant when someone had eyes so bloodshot it looked like they were deeply sick, about to pass out.

This guy was high, so high it seemed that he had no idea where he was or what was happening, or what to do next for that matter.

Glancing at Betsy, Mana said, “Hey, you couldn’t do me a favour… make me a tuna sandwich or something, while I take this guy down to the Medlab? I’m so hungry I could pass out, but really want to get him somewhere safe not only for him but everyone else too,” she smiled, already moving to slip her right arm under Jackpot’s shoulder, slowly lifting him up.


Since she was already starting to lift him, Mana nodded, eyes falling on the phaser, “Don’t worry about it, I can manage him,” she informed her, before noticing the newcomer to the kitchen suddenly rush out of the room.

Moments later, the pyrokinetic healer heard an explosion, Kitty hightailing it out of the kitchen to investigate,


With an arm still around Jackpot, Mana paused for both of them just outside the door, eyeing her good friend and Jubilee dragging Benjamin back into the mansion.

“Geesh, okay, looks like we are all going down to the infirmary,” Mana announced, motioning to the lift nearby. “Wanna grab that for us, Jubilee?” she asked, recognising the young teenager from student photos on the walls of the Girls Dorms.

"I'll uh try!"

Jubliee pushed the elevator button with her sneaker, almost dropping Ben. It slid open.


Fox felt himself bieng led deeper into the house. He couldnt shake off the feeling of slight paranioa on the issue of this , but figured it be best if he kept silent.
"thanks.."
he murmed to the Mana lass who seemed to be assisting him. He just hoped this school would not call the police or the ambulence, that was the last thing he needed.

Tanya wandered into the kitchen, searching for more caffine, preferably a Pepsi, however she wasn't particular, just as long as she could get something for her midnight run as she called it. It was a tradition which had started when Tanya was still learning how to program, the midnight run was done in complete darkness, save for the light of the computer screen in which Tanya basked. Then, she would take a look at programs, be they legal or illegal and try to code a copy of it on her own. It wasn't the easiest thing to do, but it made Tanya think.

Tanya shot a gaze at the other two in the kitchen. If looks could set up a barrier, this one would have made the Berlin wall look rather shaby. Heck, the Great Wall of China would have had competition from this look. Tanya just wanted to be left alone for her work, if her power hadn't gone wack, she wouldn't even be here.

Tanya's mind shot back to when she had frozen the young man by accident. She hadn't even been intending to stall time when it happened. She just moved her fingers and he was stuck in a pocket of time from which he could not temporarily escape. Tanya was still getting the hang of the idea she could "freeze" the time of other people without altering her own. It wasn't a pleasant idea.

Tanya's eyes browsed the selection of sodas in the fridge. She couldn't choose one off the bat as she had just drank the last of the Pepsi. Tanya made a mental note to buy more of the stuff when she returned to college. Tanya eventually decided on a root beer. She bent down and grabbed a can, only to pause. Something didn't feel right. Tanya rushed out of the room and back to the laptop, she hit a few select keys and Tanya's eyes widened in horror.

Tanya, in all of her hacking prowess, had forgot one thing, to pay her subscription to a website. There was a string of creative curses which echoed loudly in the ground floor of the institute. Tanya was at work now, the soda forgotten as fingers flew and and lines of data shifted. She was Sanctity, for a moment.