[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][hr][img]https://i.postimg.cc/fy2k0zzR/source.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 - 11:10 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]

	The mission had been too easy - the Hellfire Club relied on meticulous planning, usually anticipating more resistance than would ever be present. It was why Emma had sent the Three-in-One, the White Queen, and Jinx to handle this matter. The extra strength was in case the siblings needed to be subdued, but as the mutants left the train car and came out to find the Three-in-One waiting with the vehicle ready to go, black vans screeched as they came around the corner into view. 

	The legendary Avenger, Hawkeye, emerged first. He had something that looked like earpieces in his ears - psionic blockers, designed to keep telepaths out. A silver haired agent came out as well, followed by another agent who looked [i]identical[/i] to the Three-in-One. [color=7851A9]"Only chance to surrender,"[/color] Hawkeye called out. 

	[color=add3ff]"Or not. I could use the chance to stretch my powers,"[/color] Agent Novikova chimed in. She wore ruby red shades - identical to the ones that Cyclops used. 

	The Three-in-One had come out of their car as well, cracking their knuckles but they looked at the blonde agent with interest. If the agent had straightened her hair rather than curled it, there would have been no noticeable difference between them beyond clothing. [color=3D5DC3]"What do you say, White Queen? It's been a while since we got to beat S.H.I.E.L.D."[/color][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/5yqyXQGW/image.png[/img][/center][hr][color=f7941d][b]JFK Memorial Hospital - Lobby...[/b][/color]

	Colossus nodded, about to bend down and pick up Vulcan but Sapphire already had it handled - and not at all in the way he would have expected. While Feedback hadn't managed to send the signal she wanted, to onslaught of music was sufficient to slow down and distract the cops as they tried to figure out what was going on and what their orders were going to be. He gingerly stepped around the ice slide that Sapphire had made, with Casper doing his best to do a slight run, slight hop as he tried to get on outside without falling on his face.

	In the car, Magik was still burning up with a high fever and she was shaking from feelings of cold, but thankfully she wasn't conscious for the pain. Casper got into the back with her, with Vulcan unconscious in the trunk. Colossus then shifted back into his flesh form in order to be a bit smaller and he got into the shotgun seat, letting Sapphire take the wheel if she chose. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"Okay I know this isn't the time but... After we save this dickhead, then what?"[/color] Casper asked.

	[i]"You could call the X-Men and have them put him wherever they send their villains."[/i]

	[color=DBA1DE]"Ugh, no, we are not calling them Ben!"[/color]

[color=f7941d][b]Sinister's Lair - Sabretooth's Hallway...[/b][/color]

	[color=935DB8]"Great, this is why we can't have nice things,"[/color] Veil muttered as Spark Plug ran up, explaining that the rooms were rigged. There was still no sign of Sunshine, but with Sabretooth keeping them occupied they didn't have a moment to go look for the kid. Her initial attack had hardly phased Sabretooth - and according to Glimpse, Emma Frost was here as well. [i]Fantastic[/i]. Luck was on Glimpse's side for the moment and she managed to bind Sabretooth, but it wouldn't last very long. He was straining against her and already almost breaking free. 

	[color=935DB8]"Come on, Palpatine him,"[/color] Veil encouraged Spark Plug. She started throwing more and more force field frisbees at Sabretooth, leaving gashes all over his body yet they had already started to heal. There had to be a better way to do this. Veil wished she had a time machine so that way she could have gone back to when she was one of Xavier's students and ask him how to fight someone like Wolverine - Magneto fought Wolverine and won all of the time, how did he manage it? How did anyone else manage it for that matter?

[color=f7941d][b]Sinister's Lair - the Music Room...[/b][/color]

	Mister Sinister smirked at Jack and with his native telekinesis, he sent the flexible mutant back into the music room and forced Jack down onto the bench at the piano. Sinister then moved forward and with a flick of his wrist, he shut the door behind them - all the while, the piano continued to play its melody without even the slightest pause. [color=8E6BB3]"I see that my reputation precedes me,"[/color] Sinister commented. [color=8E6BB3]"Tell me, Jacques, you're a private investigator - what mystery has brought you to my humble abode? And what other mystery is it that keeps you here?"[/color] He then laughed slightly. [color=8E6BB3]"There's no sense in lying to me - I can sense your fear, the way your pulse has quickened. And while I could just [i]read your mind[/i], I admit I do enjoy interrogations that are more... traditional in approach."[/color]

[color=f7941d][b]Sinister's Lair - the Wardrobe Suite...[/b][/color]

	Emma was patient, allowing Leighton to process her thoughts and to speak candidly. There was so much of her own history that her dear niece did not know. [color=E0F6FD][i]"I only learned you were a mutant a few days prior, when a certain police report was brought to my attention revolving an incident in a Target... The X-gene is passed through the father and I'm afraid to say, your father is as boringly human as they come. I didn't imagine that he would have a recessive copy of the gene to pass on to you - but so he did."[/i][/color] Emma paused, allowing that bit of information to sink in. She didn't expect most mutants to understand how mutant genetics worked - most assumed that if you had one mutant parent, that was enough to propagate the X-gene. Emma's daughters, the Three in One, were a special case as they were clones and had no father. Emma's own X-gene had had to be extracted and inserted for the triplets. 

	[color=E0F6FD][i]"My intention is to give you a home, darling. I sense that you wish to shape the world for the better - to bring mutants out of the shadows and into the light. I share that desire. Come with me, dear - your friends can come as well, my home has room for all - and I can show you what I have been working on... A place for mutants to live freely without fear. A place of our own in this world."[/i][/color]

[color=f7941d][b]Sinister's Lair - Outside the Wardrobe Suite...[/b][/color]

	Havok raised an eyebrow at Max. [color=FAFD95]"I know as much about those guys' family as I do yours, kid,"[/color] he explained. He had just met Casper and Jack after the Mutant Massacre - he had actually known Max slightly longer as he thought about it for a moment. Sure, maybe Jack and Casper's family had a lot of X-genes but he couldn't know that for sure. Some mutant siblings had no mutant parents - some did. He didn't really understand the genetics behind it and he never bothered to ask about it. 

	[color=FAFD95]"Darn, I was really wanting to hit you,"[/color] he quipped, not caring for Max too much. Havok then let off a blast and it did more than break the lock on the door - it knocked the door [i]over[/i] and hit Leighton, giving her a nasty bump on the head. [color=FAFD95]"Oh Emma - long time no see,"[/color] Havok greeted sarcastically. [color=FAFD95]"Figured I'd smelled your stench down here."[/color]