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Nico Minoru It's the fricking weekend! Or close enough to it.

The young adults of Xaviers would hear about a local party off in the preserve. Naturally, it would be later in the evening, but there would be lots of underaged drinking, some making out, and all sorts of people from the high schools, community colleges, and just those university types who have come home for break.

It's about midnight and the party is jumping now. The deep base thuds of hip hop and other danceable music play in the air, probably disturbing more than one set of animals in the preserve, but the young adults don't care. They're having far too much fun.

The party isn't too far off from one of the main roads, and a creek trickles on by where a few more of the students are doing various things like canoodling or getting bull frogs drunk by letting them swim in diluted alcohol.

All in all, it's a bunch of kids being kids.
Julian Keller Julian Keller hasn't been back this way in close to four years, but it was high time he returned to the school. There was things that he needed to learn. Like control. Not just of his powers. So racing high over head he saw the party from above. He heard the rhythmic baseline of the danceable music. It called to him like a sirens song.

So Julian put off his return to the school in lieu of a party. Landing at the outskirts, he makes his way to the most important part of the party. The Keg. Normal dressed to the nines, he's actually dressed down in a track suit with a puffy jacket. It is winter after all but that never stopped kids from partying. Especially when they lit small contained fires to keep warm.

"Sup." Julian says amicably to various people, easily sliding into that Bro mentality. "Let's get fucking wasted, yeah!" He calls out raising his red solo cup of youth filled with warm flat beer and downing it like a champ.
Jonothon Starsmore Jonothon isn't exactly one to sneak off to go drinking anywhere, really. No mouth and all that. But when he catches wind of some of the other students heading out for some late night inter-school community building, he decides to tag along as one of the responsible ones. Which puts him wandering from one small fire to the next, keeping tabs on the doings and happenings. And making sure none of Xavier's students get so drunk that they think showing off is a good idea. Or trying to, at least.
Nico Minoru Girls. Or rather, young women. There are plenty of them about, and more than a few of them seem intrigued by the new comers, especially the one dressed to the nines and the other seemingly wrapped about like some British mummy.

"Hey! I'm Gina and this is Tina." a pair of blondes say, going to the two while twirling their hair with a finger. "Think you can get me a drink?"

Meanwhile, another set of twins, this time two young men, are off in a corner with another group, muttering amongst each other, apparently recounting a really engaging story from the looks of it.
Julian Keller "Gina and Tina!" Julian smiles broadly at that. "Two of my most favorite names. I'm Julian. What are two lovely creatures such as yourself doing out in this place?" He drapes his arms over there shoulder and guides them towards the drinks. Motioning for Jono to follow along. He'll play wing man!

"So, ladies. How old are you? I bet you are at least 22." He flashes a grin at the pair looking towards Jono. "My friend there is kind of shy so if one of you lovely ladies would be so kind as to entertain him? Hmm? You'd do that for me, doll?"
Jonothon Starsmore Actually getting caught up in the party wasn't on Jonothon's plans for the evening, but as he's fairly cornered by a couple of blondes the young Brit does give them a nod, leather jacket shifting against a slim frame in the chill between fires.

He doesn't quite glare at Julian as the other mutant sweeps in to take up the job of talking to the blondes, but there is that flash of recognition at least, recognizing the man from the other night. No grins from Jonothon, with the turtleneck pulled up under his nose and a grey scarf loosely wrapped about his throat, but he does grap a couple of solo cups from the stack shoved into the ice-filled bin with the keg, holding them in one hand as he works the pump and then starts to fill each from the keg.
Nico Minoru e"Seventeen." The teen girls reply with an impish giggle. ABORT ABORT ABORT! They are barely legal! ABORT! Stop thinking thoughts like that, Julian. BAD!

Still, the girls giggle and let themselves be led along by the handsome older man, who ooohs for a few moments. "Oh? I guess we could do that, but we'd rather entertain you..."

Fortunately for Jono, he doesn't get too caught up in the party. Asides from a few people bumping their drinks here and there, sloshing around onto the ground with none spilling on him. So that's good.

As he moves away, he can hear the two male twins, apparently an Ethan and Dylan York, whispering amongst themselves. "So, you have good video? The fuck?" says one of them as they seem to reviewing something on a phone. With that, they start wandering away from the main party and towards the main road.
Julian Keller The moment that Seven is uttered, Julian stops. And lifts his arms letting the blondes WAY to young for him to continue walking. He grabs Jono by the collar as he turns and walks away. "You don't want a taste of that my friend." He hasn't figured out that it's the other from the other night.

The two with the video catches his ears and he calls out to them, "Yo! You got a video?! Is it something smutty? Or we talking a school fight? Man I haven't seen a good school fight in fore ever!" He looks at Jono, "You want to see that right? A good school brawl?"
Jonothon Starsmore Seventeen?! Whoops, Jonothon drops the filled cups into the snow as Julian grabs at his collar, dumping the booze into the slush and ice with a bit of an apologetic shrug to the young twins. Definitely not interested in that kind of trouble.

He does catch the mutterings from the York twins and is hauled along as Julian moves to investigate. Figuring that it's probably something like some kid doing a sick skate trick, or trying to revive Jackass. Should be amusing, at least. So he gives a silent nod to Julian as he continues towards the two, making a "let's see it" gesture with one hand.
Nico Minoru The sounds of the video are all too familiar to the pair. It's because they were both at the event in question. Surely, the boy, once closer is familiar to Julian as he asked why the kid was there initially.

"Oh shit! Is that... did it grow an eyeball?!?!" asks one of the twins before he notices that they're being followed. "Ethan..." and he motions back towards the woods.

"Fuck..." he says, not yet seeing either of the two, and they start to make a run for it, once again, towards the main road.
Julian Keller Eyeball. Julian blinks at that. Recalling the events that had an eyeball. Not that he remembers much he was too busy in orgasmic delight, knocking around another tk (and getting knocked around), and in extreme pain to really remember all of it. Buy there was an eyeball. The moment the pair takes off, Julian let's go the collar of Jono and takes off.

He doesn't propel himself with flight. Instead keeps himself to the ground veering slightly so he can run parallel to the kids until he's able to get in front and pop up in front of them. "Boo!" He says his hands stretching out wide, his eyes glowing green as he gives the kids a grin. "Whhhattcha watchin, kiddos?!?" There was a time when he was likely the kiddo in the woods throwing parties.
Jonothon Starsmore Jonothon, on the other hand, definitely remembers an incident where a storage tube of viscera grew an eyeball, since he was RIGHT THERE when it decided to do so. The lean Brit takes off after the two teens, boots sliding in the slush and mud. He doesn't call out though, figuring that telepathy is not the best showing right now.

He's nowhere near as fast as Julian, and not realy the type for running through the woods in the first place; better suited to that final dash down to catch the last Tube of the night. But he manages to keep pace and catch up as Julian heads the pair off at the pass, coming up behind them and putting his own arms out to his side, an impromptu fence while trying to keep half of an angry look off his features.
Nico Minoru Run run run! The two teens do what they can to get away from their pursuers, not having any clue who they are, or that they happened to record some of their superheroic shenanigans.

Of course, that means, the two boys run into the middle of the barely lit up dark road in the woods. When Julian stops right in front of them on the edge, the twins' chests are heaving for a few moments, with Dylan pausing just behind Ethan.

"I.. uh...nothing." The glowing green eyes is definitely intimidating and so the twins freeze, caught like a deer in headlights.

Unfortunately for Ethan York, that means he's in the road when the car comes. A speeding vehicle going at about 40 MPH crashes into the young man. The young boy is sent careening into a nearby ditch, but at least he isn't like the driver of the car. The car flips onto the road and catches on FIRE. That car is on FIRE.
Julian Keller Well that was unexpected. Julian is going to have a lot to explain later. He just likely killed a kid and caused a car to catch FIRE. But that's a problem for another day. Right now, Julian eye's glow brighter and he reaches out with his mind towards the car that is flip flopping on the road and enveloping it green. It's a strain but he's going to slow that momementum down and set it on its wheels. Can't do anything about the fire though!

"Get the kid!" Julian shouts towards Jono, wherever he is. His voice strained as he works at slowing that car down. He's not angry or agitated, so it'll likely work as he wants. "I'm so going to get a scolding later."
Remy LeBeau      The rumble of a motorcycle starts of as a faded sounds, growing louder as it grows closer. Minding his own business, Remy is out for a ride to clear his head and maybe put some distance from occupants of Xavier's. All of a sudden, there is a crash, explosion, and fire in the road up ahead. The Cajun pulls back on the throttle to increase his speed and see if he can't be of some assistance.
Jonothon Starsmore As the car comes speeding around the curve, Jonothon has enough time to reach out and physically grab Dylan by the collar, yanking the boy backwards into the snow in a far less violent manner than how his brother gets sent into the snow. But he does move towards Ethan as the other boy lays crumpled in the ditch.

<~~The kid ain't goin' anywhere but the hospital!~~> the telepath calls out to the telekinetic, tone clearly annoyed at how pear-shaped it's all gone.

He crouches down next to the kid that was just hit by the car, giving him the once over to try and gauge what level of panic he should be looking at. It's not like he can dial 999 or anything.
Nico Minoru Even as the car flippity flops through the air, it's slowed down by the quick thinking of the telekine. However, when it lands, there's still a burst of fire from inside the car. How did it ignite, even if there was a soft landing?

The answer would be in the form of the kid who got hit. Completely engulfed in flames (but not flames), the young man starts to get up from the ditch and blinks, as it seems like he's on fire. "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!" he screams, clearly in a panic. "I... I'm on fire, I'm on fire! I'm on fire!"

Anyone close to him would notice a few things: 1) The young man is on 'fire'. 2) The fire isn't not hot. Instead, it's a warm, soothing feeling of anyone that goes around him, as if their own lifeforce that is slowly drained from a day's worth of activities is slowly being replenished by the hearth that is the young man. and 3) He's on fire.
Remy LeBeau      Gunning it, Remy gets ever closer to the glowing orange that signals the flaming car. As he approaches he tries to assess the situation, from burning cars to burning people...and a couple of familiar faces. "Merde," he mutters as he brakes, tossing the kickstand down and hopping off the bike in one fluid motion. "Whose hurt?!"
Julian Keller Julian Keller is moving towards the car, when suddenly the kid pops up on fire but not on fire. "What thhheeeee." he says caught between looking at the kid and the firey car. When he looks back there is Remy, "Son of aa biiiiaaattchh." It is unclear if he's shouting that or Remy or I the burning car as he moves towards it. His eyes continue with glowing green and focused solely upon the car the back half of it suddenly is surrounded by that green glow of his.

The sound of metal crunching. Being squeezed and buckling is heard and with a grunt the back half is torn apart and thrown into the ditch. "Help me," He calls to Gambit as he grabs at the crispy man in the drivers seat. "Should have gone to Cabo." He mutters under his breath.
Jonothon Starsmore Jonothon was definitely not expecting to find the kid on fire as he slid into the ditch, years of well honed "fire bad" instincts bringing him to a skidding stop even before he has time to process what he's seeing. But as he takes that moment to take better stock of the situation, he pushes himself up out of the snow and mush and holds his hands out cautiously towards the kid. He has enough experience with flames that aren't flames to recognize them for the something more than they are.

<~~Jus' stay calm kid...~~> Jonothon says to the Boy on Fire, moderating his mental tones into something aiming for calm. <~~...You've experienced a traumatic event...~~> Hey, at least your face didn't blow off.

He glances towards Remy as the other man leaps off the motorcycle and makes a similar gesture towards Julian, to send him off to help with the car that's really on fire.
Remy LeBeau      Remy doesn't miss a beat, and rushes over towards Julian and the burning car, trying to see past the flames for anyone inside. "W'at happen'." the Cajun asks he reaches into the flaming car to try and help get the body out, hoping his coat and gloves at least offer some protection from the heat, but his 5 o'clock shadow is certainly getting singed. With Julian's help he tries to extract the person in the car, "Un, deux, trois...go!"
Nico Minoru What's happening? Ethan York is most definitely confused as his body is warm, and he closes his eyes, realizing that he isn't exactly on fire. His eyes widen, as he looks towards Julian working on the car. Someone is in there! He's still alive! You can save him, I know it! he calls out, his voice sounding like it has plenty of reverb on it.

Still, there's the car that's on FIRE. Inside, as the car gets torn apart with that strong green telekinetic energy, they can see a young man, probably around Jono or Julian's age. His entire body /was/ engulfed in flame, but there's not a scratch on him. Well, unless you consider that all his clothes and body hair burned off; but he's fine otherwise, and completely unconscious.

The weird continues apparently.
Julian Keller Aided by the green glow of surrounding the seat and with the aid of Remy, Julian yanks the seat out with the crispy naked man about his age. "We're in so much trouble," he grouses, sliding the seat away from the car so he can lay him down at on the ground to work on moving him to lay flat. "Jono?!? How's the boy, is he dead?" Julian calls out glancing over that way and stopping seeing everything fine in that direction.

"I should not be shocked by this shit any more." He looks down at the naked man and starts to check for a pulse. Check to see if he's breathing or if he's infact a dead man. And in turn, likely Julian as well. "Remy, call 911. We're going to need an ambulance." And a really good ass story.
Remy LeBeau      Looking from Julian over to Jono then back, then to the naked guy on the ground the eldest mutant there grouses with another "Merde, merde, merde.." mutters through clenched teeth. He fishes into the pockets of his coat looking for that burner phone he uses on occasion, hoping it is still there. "Jus' what t'e hell happen here, mon ami?" he asks Julian even as he squats down to check on the naked guy himself. "Aside from t'e obvious, t'at is."
Jonothon Starsmore <~~No. He definitely ain't dead...~~> Jonothon's voice carries easily over to include both Remy and Julian as they deal with the crumpled car

His attention remains fixed on the Boy on Fire, both hands still held up in caution towards the new mutant.

<~~Hey. Hey. It's alright. They've got `im.~~> he says, trying to draw the boy's attention over to him. <~~We just need to stay calm. Calm.~~> he says, shuffling his boots in the muck and snow to stay in front of the Boy on Fire.

<~~What's yer name kid?~~>
Nico Minoru What did happen?

Ethan York is still on fire, or at least, he looks like a Human Torch knockoff without the heat. His clothes weren't burnt off, if that's any indication to what he's actually doing.

He wander on over the car, and winces for a few moments as he looks towards Jono, hearing the advice to calm down. "I'm on fire.." he repeats, as if stating the obvious, "But it doesn't hurt." Now that's confusing, at least from his perspective.

He rushes to his brother who is still trying to process everything. "You okay?" he asks, worried before glancing in the direction of the downed driver.

Meanwhile, the other York Twin just stares at his brother and whispers softly, "I... I dreamt of this happening, after you came back with the video. Just. Exactly. Like. This." That latter part is punctuated to put emphasis that this is precisely what he saw as a premonition.

Are there more metahuman/mutant/genactives manifesting?

And then there's the driver. He appears to be of Arabic descent with that dark swarthy skin. He's completely naked considering everything burned off of him, and he looks peaceful. Not quite dead, but not quite in a coma either.
Julian Keller "Car hits kid. Kid goes flying. Car goes flippity flop. What the hell does it look like Remy?" Julian says with clenched teeth. "Aliens come down and the hockey pokey?" He shakes his head in anger as he sits back. Looking at Gambit and staring angerly at him. Not so much anger that things start to pop and explode. Yet.

Julian's gaze turns to the boy has he comes towards them, "Oh boy, kid. Your life is never going to be the same." He blinks looking at the other, "And neither will yours." He studies the pair before looking to Jono, "Make any sense of this, kid?"
Remy LeBeau      Remy eyes Julian for that response, but doesn't waste time on it as he fishes the phone out of his coat and dials 911 to get the ambulance on its way.

    "Yeah, looks like t'ere has been a car accident on t'e road of t'e state park. Need at least one ambulance." He doesn't wait for any response from the dispatcher on the other end, just closing the phone and tossing it off to the side on the ground. Burners are burners for a reason.

     He looks back to Julian, "I meant how did it happen. Cars don' just hit kids for no godamn reason. Don' need to be an connard, connard."
Jonothon Starsmore We'll just leave out the bits where one of the kids has a video showing, at the least, what looks like Captain Marvel and Julian busting up a smuggling ring. Jonothon's contribution to the situation being far less cinematic. And now there's two new powered kids on the playground. Leaving Julian to explain the situation to Remy, he moves back towards the twin teenagers.

<~~It's not real fire. Not like you'd think.~~> Jonothon says, his hands lowering slightly down to his sides for a moment

Then he lifts one hand up to the tall collar of his turtle neck. He tucks a finger in a pulls it down, revealing a glimpse at the biokinetic furnace burning behind the dark fabric. The glow from the contained energies lighting up what's left of the Brit's face before he pulls it back into place.

<~~Seems like th'two of you are mutants.~~>

There. He said it. The M word.
Nico Minoru >>OH SHIT<< That's said by the twin on fire as he hears an explanation of what he and his twin could be. That's when the more reasonable one blinks and looks confused.

"Wait, we're TWINS. If we're mutants, should I be on fire too?" Dylan asks, looking rather puzzled, before he just stares at the driver, who is on the ground, completely naked, and still alive on some level. Pointing in that direction, he takes off his jacket and heads on over, "Shouldn't we at least cover his twig and berries? If I were unconscious and naked, I'd want someone to do that for me." Yes, he's shaming the more experienced heroes, before he looks to his brother.

That's when things get even weirder. A loud disembodied voice can be heard amongst the conscious quintet, "ETHAN YORK. DYLAN YORK. JULIAN KELLER. JONOTHAN STARSMORE. REMY LEBEAU. YOU. WILL. BE. JUDGED." And it disappears, with a slight reverb in the end.
Julian Keller "Not how that works. Your genes did one thing, his did another." Julian says with patience as he sits back on his ass his knee coming up so he can drape an arm on it. He snorts when the kid brings the jacket to cover the junk of the unconcious body. He just rolls his eyes and sits there thinking. "So, maybe we say it...."

His voice tails off as the disembodied voice is heard. "Judged? I'll hire the best damn lawyers and you'll be the one judged!" Julian says popping up and turning around looking wildly for that voice. "Bring it on. I'm ready to see what sort of judge you are! Come out and show yourself! Green eyes start to glow suddenly on one of those turns. "Sure threaten the walk away! You coward!" The head lights of the car pop. Seething as he is though, nothing more happens. That outburst was enough to calm him enough to get things back under control.
Remy LeBeau      "T'e fuck?" Remy's attention if diverted from Julian and everything going on by that voice, and he looks a bit freaked out...like he is expecting a 30 foot machine to come up and over the treeline with glowing yellow eyes. Somewhere along the way his hand must have reached in and grabbed some cards, because there three of them glowing in purple fire between his fingers as he looks around franticly.

     "Get t'e kids. Get t'em out of 'ere. Now! Take them home..."

     The guy in the coma is somewhat forgotten about, even as Remy moves over him to try and protect him if need be. "Go! Now!"
Jonothon Starsmore Rolling his eyes and gesturing towards Remy and then the unconscious Arabian, Jonothon interjects a <~~Hey. Cover coma guy over there.~~> Because he's certainly not going to pull his jacket off. Besides, it's not long enough.

Or not.

Jonothon's head is turning back towards the twins as the disembodied voice calls out all their names and declaring judgement. Lifting a skeptical brow even as Julian starts to lose his shit, he tilts his head towards the cloudy sky, glancing around.

<~~At least it ain' a Sentinel wotever it is.~~> he points out even as he steps towards the twins. Not rushing to get them home, wherever home is, but keeping close. <~~They'd just fly in blastin' away.~~>
Nico Minoru Almost immediately after the disembodied voice can be heard, the twins lose consciousness, their eyes rolling back as they go kerthunk on the ground as well.
Julian Keller "What the.." Julian says in shock as he watches as both the kids suddenly flop to the ground. "Just great. Just f. u. c. k.-ing great." He throws his hands up in the air. "I come back to the area and this is what's happening? Kids flopping to the ground. Gross eyeballs. Some crazy shit with that Help! app." Julian rubs at his face looking so tired and much older then his 22 years of age.

"We need to get the kids at least to the Mansion. I'll call Emma on the way to see if she can help." He rubs at his face shaking his head. "I'll fucking wait for the ambulance for this guy."
Remy LeBeau      Remy is about to protest before remembering why he is in the area in the first place. He's a wanted man. "Oui, t'at is what I meant by getting t'em 'ome." The cards in his hand loose their charge, the purple fire fading. He looks at the kids, then back to his bike, then to the kids, trying to figure out a way to get the two unconscious kids back to Xavier's.
Jonothon Starsmore Jonothon simply grabs the closest of the twins, not caring which one it may be, and hauls him over his shoulder in a fireman carry. <~~Grab th'other one. You can probably fit `im onto yer bike. If yer not a speed demon.~~> he says to Remy as the hauls the teen out of the snow and slush. And then he starts hiking back into the forest and off towards the mansion grounds.