[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/V5Qvvm1c/giphy.gif[/img][/center][hr][hr][center][@Nallore][@FantasyChic][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@KazAlkemi][@Framing A Moose][/center][hr][center][h3][color=f7941d][b]Washington D.C.: September 10th, 2020 - 10:00 AM[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/WpKJC0mt/image.png[/img][/center][hr][color=f7941d][b]The Amtrak Station...[/b][/color]

	Sophie snickered slightly at Anastasia's not-so-subtle putdown of Jinx. Phoebe and Esme had to agree with her as well - they couldn't imagine anyone ever wanting to reproduce with him, especially given the little stunt they had witnessed. In their opinion, Emma had put him in his place - and that place was as the laughingstock of the Hellfire Club. [color=3D5DC3]"Of course,"[/color] Sophie told Anastasia. [color=3D5DC3]"I wouldn't dream of ruining your debut mission as the [i]White Queen[/i]. We wouldn't want Emma to think you're not up to the task..."[/color] And while Sophie was focusing on driving the car, that left Esme and Phoebe free to pick apart at Jinx's argument. They had a lot of aggression to take out after their mother passed them over after all. 

	[color=3D5DC3]"Do you really believe you had anything to do with it?"[/color] Esme taunted. 

	[color=3D5DC3]"One of your petty little jinxes wouldn't have taken down Shaw,"[/color] Phoebe agreed. [color=3D5DC3]"If they were really so powerful, Magneto never would have let you leave the Brotherhood of Mutants."[/color]

	Esme nodded, smiling a bit cruelly. [color=3D5DC3]"No, Shaw's downfall needed a [i]woman's[/i] touch - whatever contributions you made were minor compared to our telepathy... and Anastasia's morality reversal,"[/color] she then finished, mentioning what Anastasia had done as more of an afterthought. It wasn't too long before Sophie pulled the car into the parking lot of an Amtrak station. 

	[color=3D5DC3]"The train's late,"[/color] Sophie said, her eyes bright blue and then a moment, so were Esme and Phoebe's as they telepathically searched the area. [color=3D5DC3]"One of the workers nearby believes the train will come by here in ten minutes. We'll have the conductor stop the train, you two will just need to retrieve the mutants we came here for,"[/color] the Three-in-One said in unison. [color=3D5DC3]"David and Valentine Haller,"[/color] they added. [hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/5yqyXQGW/image.png[/img][/center][hr][color=f7941d][b]JFK Memorial Hospital - Gift Shop...[/b][/color]

	On the surface, it would be hard to distinguish a hospital gift shop from a children's souvenir store. Stuffed animals are on just about each and every shelf. Balloons are tied to the displays. Board games are stacked up to the ceiling and there are numerous greeting cards. However upon closer inspection, the cards are all geared towards sympathy and improving health. There are flowers sold in vases. Some sections of the shop are labeled with the age range and demographic they are geared for. Notices on what types of gifts are inappropriate for patients with given conditions are littered around the shop (such as a reminder that patients cannot eat 24 hours before surgery...)

	Colossus picked up a white teddy bear with pink ribbons on it and he looked at it. [color=B0B4B0]"Do you think Illyana would like it?"[/color] he asked Moonwalker and Feedback seriously. He hadn't really seen his sister in years - was she too old for a teddy bear? He saw her as a little girl in his heart, but his mind knew logically that wasn't the case. She was grown now. Colossus then glanced at the clock. [color=B0B4B0]"It is time.... Feedback, once you begin, we will start distraction, da?"[/color] he said, more or less asking Feedback to start doing her part of this mission.

[color=f7941d][b]JFK Memorial Hospital - First Floor...[/b][/color]

	While they hadn't been able to identify where to get the medicine clearly from the plans, Casper had been hospitalized before for near overdoses. He thought for a moment, actually using his natural intelligence, and he realized that they tended to sort patients into wards. The medicine for treating drug addiction couldn't be kept too far from there, right? It didn't make sense to him for the nurses to be constantly running back and forth from the pharmacy, when they could have some sort of storage room on the ward. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"I got this,"[/color] Casper told the others in his group, before he went up to the receptionist with a worried expression. [color=DBA1DE]"Hiii... We're here to visit our friend, but we can't figure out where his ward is,"[/color] he told the receptionist. 

	"...What's his name?" the nurse asked, looking a bit skeptical. 

	[i]"Give me a minute,"[/i] Ben said, walking over behind the nurse's desk and looking at the list of recent admits she had. A moment later, Ben glanced up at Casper. [i]"Danny Philips was admitted last night, heroin,"[/i] he explained. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"Danny Philips,"[/color] Casper replied. [color=DBA1DE]"We're awfully worried about him, we'd been trying to get him clean but... You know how it is, he just loves heroin..."[/color]

	Ben flashed Casper a thumbs up. The nurse then typed something into her keyboard. "He's on the fifth floor - narcotics ward," she explained. "You can take the elevator over there straight on up. Room 4." 

	[color=DBA1DE]"Thank you so so much..."[/color]

[color=f7941d][b]The Cherry Bomb - Barroom...[/b][/color]

	Glimpse's bartender shrugged slightly. "Yeah, but what bar doesn't?" he asked her, chuckling a little bit as he started to clean some glasses. He frowned slightly though, his eyes darting over towards the door where Leighton, Max, and the other bartender had gone. It had been more than ten minutes since they went down there. "Damn it..." he muttered. There was no way his boss was going to like that - they weren't really supposed to go down there and if his co-worker was going to have a threesome there, he doubted that would end well. 

	There weren't any cameras behind the bar, but Glimpse would spot a bunch of polaroid photos pinned up of various drunk customers holding microphones. It was a karaoke bar, after all. Now, that wasn't to say she wouldn't see any cameras in the bar - she would be able to notice one above the front entrance that was aimed directly at the door that lead to the basement stairs. Havok had gotten up from the table he, Sunshine, and Spark Plug were at, before sliding into a seat next to Glimpse. [color=FAFD95]"What do you know about the guy with Jack?"[/color] he asked her quietly. He didn't trust her, but he was going to see what information she had for him anyways. 

	With the food at her table finished and Havok having gone on over to Glimpse, Sunshine paused for a moment. She knew that she shouldn't just sit by herself - people were more likely to notice the underage teenager that way. Going up to the bar where Glimpse and Havok were wasn't an option, that would put her in direct line of sight with the bartender, and she didn't see the other four anywhere. Besides that... a part of her was curious about the man Jack was talking to - why had he been at her trial?

	Getting up from her seat, she went and sat down next to Jack, looking at him and Essex. [color=#DAF7A6]"Sup losers?"[/color] she greeted. 

	In the bathroom, Veil chuckled slightly at Spark Plug's suggestion and she smiled. [color=935DB8]"Sure, if you find a locked door, you can blast it,"[/color] she told her friend. She then concentrated and she made both herself and Spark Plug invisible. Spark Plug would be able to vaguely see Veil, just enough so that way they wouldn't trip into each other, but no one else would be able to see them. [color=935DB8]"Come on,"[/color] Veil said quietly, leaving the restroom and doing her very best to hardly open the door. She doubted anyone was just watching the bathroom, but she couldn't be too careful. 

	She then walked over to the door marked as the basement stairs and she gently pulled on the handle, the door creaking open slightly but it wasn't too loud. Slipping inside, she hoped that Spark Plug was right behind her. She was keeping the both of them invisible, so unless there were some sort of thermal cameras no one should be able to see them at the moment. One thing instantly struck Veil about the staircase though - there was no light. She could barely make out the glint of the door handle from the door at the bottom of the flight of stairs. [color=935DB8]"...Mind making a light?"[/color] she whispered. [color=935DB8]"Once the door closes behind us."[/color]

[color=f7941d][b]The Cherry Bomb - Basement...[/b][/color]

	The lights in the basement suddenly burst - [i]POP, POP, POP![/i] If there was anything for Leighton and Max to look for, it was obscured under a cover of darkness now. The door behind them, at the foot of the staircase, slammed shut. And then, like a scene out of a horror movie, the two new mutants would be able to see a pair of yellow eyes staring at them. [i]"Du solltest nicht hier sein,"[/i] the creature warned. The yellow eyes then vanished and Leighton would feel a strong pair of hands grab her, before a moment later she was no longer on the ground - she would get the sense that her entire body had been rapidly teleported somewhere else. 

	It would be easy for her to figure out where as a moment later she dropped suddenly, hitting one of the armchairs she and Max had been admiring moments ago. Her hip was going to be bruised from the fall, but otherwise she wasn't really injured. Max would feel a gust of wind near his head and then hear a crash as something collided into the wall near him - had this monster thrown something at him and narrowly missed?

	Without finding a way to bring some light into the basement, they were going to be hard pressed to beat the creature with the yellow eyes...