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Daniel Duvett raised an eyebrow as he watched Cyclops enter the room, carrying Jean Grey in his arms. He watched as they entered with Rochelle behind them, holding a gun to Cyclops's head. "What a surprise," Duvett grinned.

"I wouldn't trust the witch," Rochelle said as she glanced at Storm. "She is no longer under your control."

Storm groaned as Harthrow grabbed her before she had the chance to fight back. They chained her next to Wolverine as she fought to be released. Scott yelled as Daishiro took Jean from his arms and Harthrow forced him to the wall to be chained next to Storm.

"What about the girl?" Daishiro asked.

"Leave her on the ground over there, she can't do anything," Duvett replied seeing Jean's condition. Daishiro nodded and set Jean down.

As he walked away from her, she looked up at Scott who stared at her. She then glanced up at Logan who shook his head. She could read his mind saying, "don't do it Red."

She took a deep breath and telekinetically began to rip one of the chains that trapped Logan's arms to the wall.

Duvett turned and glared at her upon discovering what she was doing. He looked at Harthrow and scowled, "stop her!"

Harthrow ran and grabbed her, holding her tight whilst trying to distract her but nothing was breaking her concentration. Harthrow shook her and still there was no response from her, he turned to his boss, "what do I do?"

"I don't care if you run a damn pole through her chest," Duvett shot angrily, "just stop her."

Scott yelled, fearful that they would kill her. He quickly became both horrified and relieved at the same time for although Harthrow hit her hard enough to knock her out cold, it wasn't enough to kill her. He stared at her without cutting his eye contact just as Storm hadn't. She only then looked away from Jean when she heard Logan take a deep breath and yell as he yanked his arm forward as the chain ripped out from the wall.

He grinned, although Jean hadn't fully released him it had been enough to weaken the strength of the chains and make them loose enough for him to escape from.

Before Duvett had a chance to react Logan cut Storm and Scott free from the chains so that it wasn't one on four, not that he had any doubt he could take them all.

Storm took on Rochelle as Wolverine enjoyed the two on one battle he had fighting against Harthrow and Daishiro whilst Scott raced Duvett to Jean.

Scott shot Duvett backwards with a bolt of red from his eyes and watched as Duvett flew backwards. Immediately after he rushed over to Jean and dropped down next to her, scooping her into his arms. He stood up holding her body in his arms with her head resting against his shoulder.

Logan grinned as he stabbed his claws into Daishiro and watched his drop to the ground with a thump. He then turned and punched Harthrow backwards. He glanced at Storm who tried her hardest to fight back Rochelle who was giving it all she got. She swung a first at Storm but luckily his team mate dodged it and hit her backwards.

He turned to face the man he was fighting as Harthrow got up and charged him. Wolverine dodged his punch and grabbed Harthrow's shirt, flipping him over onto his back. Wolverine quickly got on top of him and shoved his claws through the man's chest, making sure he was dead before moving on to help Storm, but stopped realizing and didn't need it.

He grinned observing Rochelle on the ground unconscious. He looked at Storm and rushed over to Cyclops after.

"How is she?" Logan asked.

"Hurt, but I think she'll be okay, we just have to take her to the Professor," Scott said, "what about you two?"

"We're fine," Storm said heaving.

"He'd better looked at you too," Logan said as he observed the cut on her forehead and arm. He frowned as he noticed Daniel Duvett groaning on the ground, "why isn't he dead?"

"Leave him," Scott replied, "it isn't worth it. We need to get Storm and Jean back to Professor Xavier. Duvett's learned his lesson."

Logan nodded as they left, leaving Rochelle and Duvett alone.

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"How are you doing?" Scott asked as approached Jean who was seated upright in their bed, resting.

"I'm okay," she sighed and nodded deciding to answer him honestly, "my head hurts, and I'm exhausted… exhausted to the point I want to cry."

"Well that's normal after what happened. You just need rest," he smiled and kissed her forehead.

She grinned and nodded, "how's Storm?"

"She's okay, she needed stitches on her arm but otherwise she's fine," Scott smiled.

"I missed what happened after I tried to free Logan."

"Pretty much you loosened it enough to for Logan to get out, he freed Storm and I, we fought them and came back."

"And Duvett."

"Harthrow and Daishiro are dead, but Duvett's not. He shouldn't be a threat, we took them out pretty fast," Scott laughed as he headed for the door, "get some rest, I'll check on you later."

Jean nodded as he left, finally it was over.

Little did she know though that Daniel Duvett had in fact learnt his lesson. He wasn't stupid; he knew how to learn from his mistakes. This time, he wouldn't make the same mistakes as he just did, he would get it right and know what not to do and what to do.

He would destroy the X-Men, and this time… he knew how.

To be continued in the sequel "Young Collateral".

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