The abandoned San Fransico apartment that was once occupied by the woman known as Lorna Dane lay still and quiet. That being said, Lorna still owns it...just hasn't been in it for months. No one has set foot in it...until now.
All of a suddenly the lounge room lights up and the next minute a group of people are standing in the middle.
"Finally!" exhales one of the group, a female known as Risque.
"Back home...Earth" Neal says with a smile.
"You said it 'Ferno!" Forearm says while a huge smile, putting up all his hands for Neal to give "High Fives" to.
Lorna walks offer to the light switch and flicks it on. But no light. Confused, she flicks it again, but to no avail. She flicks it again and again but still no response.
Turning around she looks at Locus confused.
"Didn't we pay the electricity bill before we left?" she asks, slightly stunned.
"Yeah!" Locus replies walking towards her, "We payed for the next two months. Just how long have we been gone for?"
"Four months" Forearm replies from the front door. Holding a bundle of envelopes that were under the door, he looks at the group repeating what he had said.
"Oh no..." Fixx whispered with her hand over her mouth "Imagine what the Horsemen have done in that time!"
"Dammit!" Bishop yelled, slamming his hand down on the bench betwwen the kitchen and the lounge room, smashing it. "I swear, if I ever see those Shiar again!"
Lorna, otherwise known as Polaris, raised her hand.
"Now is not the time for threats Bishop. We need to see what we have missed. We need to find out where to start."
The group nodded in agreement. Fixx and Bishop were the leaders of the group but everyone knew that Polaris could do the job just as well, maybe even better.
"We need alliesssss" Tether pointed out, electrically charging her reptilian tail and lighting up the room, "Fellow warriorsssss to help defeat thessssse horsssssemen"
"Agreed." Bishop said with a nod. "That was what we were planning to do before getting stuck with the Shiar. We need more firepower. And someone magical. Take us to where you were going to four months ago Locus"
"No probs" Locus replied, and with just a thought, the group teleported away to a mansion in Westchester County. Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.
A couple of metres away, a few students are sitting down together enjoying themselves and the afternoon sun. Suddenly, a bright light flashes out of nowhere, scaring the young children half to death.
"We're being attacked!" one of them screams, and starts running towards the main building with a few others following.
Three remained. One, a blonde boy put his hand on the shoulder of another, a young red head girl and said "I'll go get the teachers" and ran off.
As there light started to clear and the people satrted to form the remaining two, an african american girl with the power of a Slayer named Rona and another teenage girl named Rahne stood ready for battle. Rahnes body started to morph into the shape of a wolf.
"Ready to kick some invading ass Rahne?" Rona said standing ready to punch on.
The wolf howled and started to growl at the figures.
The light surrounding the figures had finally disappeared and they opened their eyes to see the young woman and the wolf standing there waiting, with a few people running out of the building behind them.
Suddenly, both girl and animal lunge at the group. Rona flies through the air and lands a kick right on Murmurs face, knocking her to the ground. She quickly lands and starts to tussle with Fixx. Meanwhile, Rahne, also known as Wolfsbane, jumps onto Risque, knocking her to the ground. Using her powers of gravity control, Risque easily flings the animal off her,who quickly recovers to find Tether standing, waiting to fight. Wolfsbane pouncing at Tether, and they are on for young and old.
"This is madness!" Polaris yelled and tried to move but found herself. She looked at the rest of the team to see they too were struggling to move.
She then turned to see three people running towards her. She only recognised one of them. She only knew her as Xian or Shan as it was pronunced. The other two were a large muscular man, whose skins was morphing into some sort of silver armour and the other was a pale red haired girl who has her hands out in front of her, directed at the ground.
"Its either the asian or the red head" Bishop says nodding at them. The next thing he knows, he getting sucker punched by the armored man, Coloussus. Being knocked to the ground, Bishop tried to get back up to find he was still being held down. "Stay" Xian muttered as she stared at him.
The other girl stood next to Xian with her hand still to the ground. It was her,using her power of telekinesis/psychokinesis to hold them down. Her name is Bethany.
Meanwhile, Rona was still tussling with Fixx, and Wolfsbane with Tether. Rona and Fixx were trading blow for blow. Fixx kept on trying to get her sprites into Ronas mind, but having the accelerated healing of a Slayer, her body rejected them. And for what Rona couldn't make up for in skill, she made up in speed.
The battle betweem Wolfsbane and Tether on the other hand was more brutal. There was slashing and biting and electrocuting but both females refused to give up. But Tether had finally gotten the upper hand and had pinned Wolfsbane down, and was ready for the kill when she heard a male screamfrom behind her "NOOOOOOOO!"
"Sam?" Rona, Bethany and Xian all asked and turned away from the group. Coloussus had just punched Forearm away a couple of metres so he turned to see what was going on.
"Everyone stop! They aren't attacking!" Samuel Guthrie yelled.
"What?" Bethany asked, confused.
"I know some of them. Let them go" Sam replied, a stern look on his face. Danielle Moonstar and Johan Steiner ran up behind him.
Bethany and Xian both did as they were told the let the people go.
"Thank you" Polaris calmly stated and nodded to Sam, Johan and Dani "Its been a while!"
"Sure has!" Sam replied with a smile. He glanced over at Rona and Fixx who at stopped sparring but were eyeing each other suspiciously. Tether had moved to Boosts side, leaving Rahne, now in her human form, laying down, catching back her breath on the ground, with Xian kneeling next to her.
Forearm, recovered from his pounding, walked up to his ground, scratching his head and said to Locus, "I can believe the mind controller didn't remember us" while Coloussus looked on confused, offering his hand to Bishop to help him up. Bishop accepted, getting to his feet and looking at Sam.
"Are you the leader of this place?" Bishop asked.
Sam and Dani started laughing. "Far from it" Sam said with a smile "This is a school. Would you like to meet one of them?"
"We don't have any time! We need your help!" Fixx exclaimed.
Dani and Sam looked at each other concerned.
"Okay. Follow us."