Xavier School- Wednesday morning
Kitty
Kitty woke up on the front lawn. She felt tired, like she'd just been through a fight, and when she pulled herself up she realized she was in her X-Man uniform, which she'd last been wearing the day they first went to Avengers Tower. So... that had to mean things were normal, right?
Then she heard a scream, and without even thinking about it she got up and ran towards the mansion, where students were rushing down the stairs, panicked, some of them crying. One girl, Sophia, was lying on the floor at the foot of the stairs, and Kitty immediately went to make sure she was okay; she seemed to have just fainted.
"What happened?" Kitty asked.
That was answered by someone at the top of the stairs crying, "I lost my powers!"
And suddenly Kitty had no idea what to do.
Clint
When Clint woke up, he thought it was the ambient noise in the mansion that had gotten him up. He'd definitely been asleep, but he didn't feel very rested after having some awful dreams--
"I lost my powers!"
Clint didn't need good hearing to process the anguish in that statement, and he shot up out of bed, looking around. It hadn't been a dream, but this wasn't things back to normal either. Clint got out of bed and scrambled to get dressed, heading down the stairs until he saw Kitty. "Okay, you're here, that's good. What's going on?"
Kitty
At the moment, Kitty had an unconscious girl's head in her lap and kept seeing more and more of the students coming out of their rooms and she was trying really hard to stay calm and not cry and figure out how to deal with this.
"She did it," Kitty said, looking up at Clint. "Wanda actually did it."
Clint
"She did what?" Clint said, looking around as he crouched down by Kitty. "I don't understand, we were at the party, and she showed up and yelled at Magneto and then... what did she do?"
Kitty
"'No more mutants,'" Kitty said, trying not to grit her teeth. She was pretty sure right now that if she could go back in time and change her vote on what to do with Wanda, she'd be leading the charge to take her out.
Clint
"Oh god," Clint said quietly, suddenly seeing the distressed kids in a whole new light. "Are you all right?"
Kitty
Kitty hadn't even thought about it, because she felt fine, and she was more worried about the students. But she tried and phased her hand easily through the floor, and felt no small amount of relief. "I'm fine."
Kurt
The room was getting louder as people freaked out, and the chaos wasn't helped by Emma storming in a moment later with Scott, Peter and Kurt behind her, all in uniform, some looking a little worse for wear.
"What's going on?" Kurt asked. "How are we here when we were just there?"
Peter
"Where were you?" Peter asked. He had no memory of any of this.
Honestly, as he'd gotten his absolute perfect life of everyone leaving him alone over the last few days, it was probably good he didn't remember.
Scott
"Long story. I still have my powers," Scott said, surveying the room and who was there. "Maybe we- Oh, no. Logan."
Clint
"He's got to be okay." He was Logan, there was no other option that made any sense. And speaking of things that didn't make sense, Clint looked to Peter. "Where were you? Are you okay?"
Kurt
"If Logan lost his abilities, the adamantium in his skeleton will kill him," Kurt explained, and looked at Scott. "I'm gone."
And then he bamfed away in a puff of smoke to find Logan, leaving the smell of sulfur behind.
Peter
While Peter was suddenly worried about Logan, he had plenty of other things to be worried about, too, and one of them had to do with Clint's question. "The last I remember, we were going to meet the Avengers," he said. "Then I am here, and everyone else was... elsewhere?"
Scott
Speaking of elsewhere, that was when Emma turned and took off out of the room. Scott called after her, and figuring she'd just gotten overwhelmed with all the thoughts and voices, he looked at the others and said, "I'll be back," before following her.
Clint
Clint watched Scott leave and sighed. "These past few days have been kind of a clusterfuck. As long as you still have your powers, you're probably better off being in the dark." Looking to Kitty, he asked, "Do we--should we figure out where Wanda went?"
Kitty
"If I see her I really might kill her so I am not the person to ask," Kitty said seriously, carefully getting up. "Right now we're all about the kids, trying to help them."
Kurt
Kurt bamfed back, announcing, "I found Logan. He's all right. What is going on?"
Peter
"What are we supposed to remember?" Peter asked again.
Waking up into chaos with what looked like most of the students missing their powers and no one telling him anything? Kinda freaky.
Clint
"Things got... messed up for a bit. We thought we were living lives we weren't really living and... it's kind of a long story," Clint said. "We tried to get things back to normal, but I feel like we made it all worse."
Peter
"That doesn't help," Peter pointed out.
Kitty
"We'll get to it," Kitty said, noticing Emma returning with Scott. "Guys, it's like half the school."
Emma
It's worse than that, Emma sent telepathically so that only the adults would hear it. And if she hadn't been in a great place when she left the room, her visit to Cerebro had only made it worse, and when students started asking if it was a test or if they could call their mom or what was happening, she psychically snapped, Everyone just stop!
And everyone shut up.
"I just need to think," she said. "I need to figure out exactly what happened here. Did she... Did she just delete the mutant gene from everyone she could reach, or did she repress the mutation?"
Clint
"A week ago, I would have said that no one could do the first thing, but now I'm not so sure." Clint looked around, feeling a knot in his stomach at the thought of mutants losing their gene - and he wasn't even part of their group. He couldn't even imagine how the rest were feeling right now.
Kitty
"Did you check Cerebro?" Kitty asked, looking between Emma and Scott and getting a sinking feeling in her stomach. "How many of us are left?"
Emma
Since she didn't want the students hearing this until they figured out how the hell to make a calm announcement about it, Emma sent to the adults, Maybe a couple hundred, scattered around the globe.
That was probably an overestimation. She could count individually later.
Scott
"They're not dead," Scott added quietly. "Just not mutants anymore."
Clint
Clint took Kitty's hand and gave it a squeeze. This was unbelievably awful, and he didn't even know where to start to make things better.
Kitty
If Kitty didn't squeeze his hand back, it was because she was trying to process how a million mutants became maybe a couple hundred in the time it took to say three words. There wasn't even a way to process how to deal with that yet.
At least not without screaming and crying, which she wasn't going to do in front of the freaked-out kids.
Scott
"Come on, you guys," said Scott, who understood what everyone else was feeling but was better at compartmentalizing. "Let's get the students settled. They're our priority."
[And that's it. NFB, NFI, OOC okay. Taken from House of M #8, and preplayed with so_hawkward who is just the best.]