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Chapter one.

It was amazing, Charles Xavier thought as he passed through the hospital entrance with Ororo Munro at his side, how much could change within a year. Scott and Jean had finished with their sophomore year at college; Scott was at the Institute helping to train the newer students while Jean spent her summer with her family. Rogue and Kurt would be starting their senior years at Bayville High School in the fall; Kitty, Bobby, Sam, Ray, Roberto and Tabitha their Junior years. Jaime and Amara would both be beginning their freshman year as well.

And their were the new ones at the Institute. Since the defeat of Apocalypse, both Remmy LeBeau and Peter Rasputin, aka Gambit and Colossus, had joined the Institute and were full fledged X-men. Warren Worthington the Angel had joined too, although he wasn't staying at the Institute full time.

There had been for those most part peace in Bayville during that year, although anti-mutant sentiment still seethed just below the surface. Luckily Robert Kelly had lost his bid for Mayor of Bayville by a narrow margin, and there had been no outbreak of mutant terrorist activity.

He had not seen or heard from Magneto since the battle with Apocolypse. When last he'd heard, S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken in what remained of the Brotherhood to be a sort of mutant task force-but after a few months only Magneto's daughter Wanda had remained. Nick Fury said she was be part of a new group that S..L.D. was forming, but no more than that. Blob and Toad had gone south to Mexico were they became a pair of tag team masked wrestlers. Lance Alvers was working at as an automechanic and keeping a low profile. Although their romance was long over the young man still sent e-mail to Kitty, keeping up a long-distance firendship.

That left Pyro and Magneto's son Pietro, also known as Quicksilver. That worried Xavier, especially the latter. Had they rejoined with Magneto, and were plotting who knows what? Xavier had no idea, and the thought was troubling.

And there were the new arivals to consider. Scott's brother Alex Summers/Masters recently had an upsurge with his powers and having trouble controlling them; he and his foster parents gladly accepted Xavier's offer to come to the institute. And they also received a message from Rahne Sinclair's guardian Moira MacTaggert, saying that Rahne wanted to come back to the Institute, and Moira had consented. Both were set to arrive within the week.

And now it seemed that they might gain another student. The bald professor appraoched the hospital lobby desk. "Escuse me. I'm Professor Charles Xavier. I believe this hospital called me about a patient of yours that happens to be a mutant?"

"Oh yes," said the nurse, who picked up a file. "Guido Carosella, I think his name is."

"Yes," Xavier replied. "Can you take me and Ms. Munro to him?"

The nurse nodded and led the two mutants through the long hospital hallways. "In truth it's most forunate that he is mutant." The three stopped in front of a door the nurse opened. "You see he was hit a a school bus; had he been a normal person he would have been killed instantly."

"Most mutants would have died in such an accident too," Xavier replied. In truth, the only mutants he was certain of that could survive such an accident were Blob, Collossus, Juggernaut, and Wolverine, and Wolverine would have been laid up for at least two days while his body healed.

Wheeling tinto the hospital room, Charles saw what looked like the head of a fifteen year old boy on top of a massivly muscled torso and set of arms, and a rather skinny pair of legs below the waist. He wore his blond hair close cut with a long forlock over his nose and a pair of coke-bottle glasses over his eyes.

Xavier brought his chair to the young man's bedside. "Hello, Guido."

"Who're you?" the boy asked.

"I'm Professor Charles Xavier," the bald mutant replied.

"Hey, I've heard of you," the boy said wearily. "You're the guy who runs that mutant school."

"Yes, I am," said Xavier. "This is my associate, Ororo Munro," he indicated the white-haired African-American woman. "I understand you've had an accident."

"Nah. I'm just lay in hospital beds for kicks, heh heh heh," Guido chortled then winced.

"You are a most fortunate young man."

"Yeah," sighed Guido. "instead of being dead, I just wish I was." Guido winced again; Charles could tell he was seriously in pain and was using humor to mask it.

"Can you tell me how this happened?" Xavier asked.

"School had just been let out," the young man said. "I was walking to the buses, when one of the jocks tripped me over, scattering my schoolbooks everywhere. Guido winced again, then continued. "That blork and his friends, they were laughing at me. All of them. I was just so mad that charged at them. Stupid me. Those jocks all pinned me to the ground and began puinching and punching me-and all of a sudden my right arm grew."

The nurse handed a photograph to Xavier. "Here's what he looked like before." Xavier looked at the picture, which showed a young man with a face like Guido's but on a rather skinny body-very much the epitome of what many young people called a geek or nerd.

Guido went on with his story. "I struck back at them and crashed to of them into the school building. Then, seeing what happened to my arm, I ran-right in front of a moving school bus."

Xavier could draw his own conclusions about what happened. He'd need to analyze the boy's powers further at the Institute. But first he'd to make his case. "Guido, I belive I can help you. At my home in Bayville, we have equipment designed to analize mutant powers and help mutants deal with anything problematic about their mutations. With luck we may be able to help you return to your natural body."

"Go back to that wimpy body?" Guido laughed. "Not a chance, I like being big and strong." He winced again. "You can help me with the pain though, I'm all for it."

"I will do what I can," said Xavier. "I'll have to see your parents to make the arrangements for you to come to the instsitute."

"No can do, Professor," said Guido. "They're dead."

"I'm-sorry."

"Yeah. Happened two years ago." Guido chuckled. "They had a sattellite fall on them. Sued the owner for a bundle, and added it to their trust fund for me. But those $%^#^#$^#^^^ accountants ripped me off."

"I'm sorry," Xavier repeated. "We will have to wait until the hospital releases you, and I should be able to arrange for you to come to the Institute."

"Yeah, sure. Be glad to come," said Guido.

As Ororo drove Xavier back home to Bayville, Xavier mused, "I think I will have to form a new team, Ororo."

"Professor?"

"Already you have your hands full, what with Logan supervising the New Mutants and you with the X-Men. Jamie spends most of his time assiting Hank in the laboratory these days. Young Alex is coming to the Institute soon and Rahne's returning. I'm thinking about having them and this young boy Guido to form the basis for a new team under Hank's supervision."

Before he could say any more, the professor's cell phone rang. "Hello," he replied.

"Professor X," said Scott's voice, "we've got a mojor problem on our hands."

"What is it Scott?"

"Our least favorite speedster is here. And he has two girls with him," Scott growled. "They're waiting in your study; he says he's got something important to tell you, and he'll only talk to you."

"I'll be there as soon as possible, Scott." Xavier closed his phone. "Go as fast as legally possible," he told Ororo. "Pietro's at the mansion, and if he's still the same, he's as impatient as ever."

They arrived at the Institute within two hours, and quickly as possible, got Xavier and his wheelchair out of the car and wheeled into the mansion. Forunatly due o his disability Charles Xavier kept his study and most of his personal rooms on the ground floor.

He and Ororo arrived out the door of the study, where Logan and Scott were waiting. "Speedy Boy's inside," Logan growled. "Strangely enough, he's actually trying to be patient, and you know that aint easy for him."

Opening the door, Xavier wheeled inside with Logan and Ororo behind him. Pacing back and forth at a pace that was wearing into the floor was Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver, Magneto's son, and the fastest person any of them had never met. Sitting on the guest couch was young girl of about thirteen, with brown hair and green eyes, holding a little blond toddler.

Pietro stopped pacing and looked at Xavier. "Took you long enough to get here," he snapped.

"Yes." Xavier looked at the young speedster who he hadn't seen in more than a year. Pietro still wore his silver hair in that swept back style of his with two tufts standing out like wings or lightning bolts. He was taller, about six feet, and his face was more sharply defined. He's becoming a man, Xavier realized. In fact he looks almost like Eric when I first met him.

"Pietro," Xavier began, "could you tell me who these two girls are? I assume they're why you're here."

Pietro went over to the brunette, who handed him the little girl. When Pietro took her in his arms, a rather different looke came over his face-a strangely relaxed expression that none of them had ever seen on the usually agitated and impatient speedster. "The brunette's Lorna Dane, my sister." He met their stare and shrugged. "My half sister."

"Oh yes," replied Xavier. "Back when I met your father, I remember he was something of a ladies man."

"What about her,"Logan said, indicating the toddler in Pietro's arms. "She another of old Bucket Head's spawn."

"Luna?" Pietro said. "No, Luna's my daughter."

End of chapter one.

Okay, for some of my would be critics-yes, I know Lorna's hair is actually green. And it still is in this fic, only right now she dyes it for reasons I hope you can easily guess.

As for Luna, no I'm not bringing in Crystal and the Inhumans-for this story her mother is simply one of Pietro's many ex-girlfriends. He doesn't even know which one it is-and that will be explained in the next chapter. Pietro's a jerk, but he has grown up to some extent. You'll also learn about these new allies Magneto has, and Alex meets Lorna for the first time.