The fighting had started all across America. According to Bastion, a significant number of the X-men were involved in the combat in New York.

Which meant that the children here were left all alone. There would be no one to save them this time.

He gave the first unit the signal to advance.

Sooraya was fighting a losing battle against jet-lag.  The multi-stop, twenty-one hour flight back from Mecca had been neither comfortable nor enjoyable.  There had been too many layovers (she now felt like she knew the interior of Frankfurt International Airport rather intimately), only an adequate amount of leg room on both planes and in terminal ( Read more... )

Sofia opened the door to the study hall. She had been given a cursory walk through of her new school and had almost gotten lost several times. She hoped she wasn't late for her placement test. When she opened the door she saw another student in the room. He looked just as nervous as she was, if not more.

"Hello, my name is Sofia. Are you new here

Laurie was trying to decide on a solid opinion about Youth-With-Powers Registration, or whatever it was being called by this point. She was poised at a table in the library, shoved into the quiet and solitude of the back of the vast room, with a slowly-filling notebook and a number of articles spread out before her ( Read more... )

Sam walks into his Super Human Studies classroom without saying anything. He puts his bag down on the desk, turns around and picks up a piece of chalk and writes in very large letters on the black board.

H.R. 4219
The Underage Hero ActHe then turns around, looking at his class trying to gage their reaction. He sort of half turns himself from ( Read more... )

Northstar slouched in the passenger seat of the school's van, trying to will himself awake. He didn't remember why he'd agreed to come along on this outing. Oh, yes. Because if he didn't get away from the school, he was going to lose his mind ( Read more... )