Future Shock

David continued to stare at the now vacant area in front of him not even the panicked sounds of the crowd around him drew his eyes away from that one spot. Moments ago he had seen three of his schoolmates, two being good friends and the other the brother of that friend, vanish into some sort of spatial portal opened by a mysterious guy with a hood and the lower half of his face covered up his last words echoeing in his head, "I should kill you, but this will have to do."

"David! David!" cried Scott Summers AKA Cyclops

The elder man managed to fight through the crowd of people and place his hands on David's shoulder bringing him back to the situation at hand, "David, what are you doing here? You have to get inside the school!" informed one of the X-Men

His mind now a fraction of its usual clarity he managed to say, "Ja-Jaqueris, Megan, and Ja'Keyon the-they disappeared."

Cyclops responded with, "Were they lost in the crowd?"

David shook his head almost frantically at the question, "No, some guy in a brown hood with a mask covering the bottom of his face came and took them through a weird portal."

Behind his shades Cyclops eyebrows raised in confusion. The description he had just been given didn't match any of the rogues belonging to the X-Men, but he didn't have time to ponder on it any further. There was a riot happening and people would be needing their assistance against the crazy scheme of one of their own students.

"Okay, David, I need yo to listen to me. There are a lot of people here that can't defend themselves against mutants I need you to help round up as many as you can onto the bus waiting nearby. Can you do that David?" asked Cyclops

The boy closed his eyes and let out a meditative breath before opening them again and saying, "Yeah, I can handle it."

"Good, but be careful some of the other students are protesting as well." Cyclops encouraged before the black teen ran off to carry out his task

Now that he was alone Cyclops had his own agenda to attend to. David wouldn't be able to get everyone to safety by himself so he had to do his part. Checking the area for a safe place to fire he lifted his shades and out came a powerful blast of ruby colored beams. They dug into the ground and kicked up dirt making a small trench in front of a group of pedestrians who stopped to try and identify the origin of the beam.

"Everyone, I need you all to follow me to safety!" he called to them

He wasn't sure if they would listen to him given that it was a mutant who started the Riot in the first place, but this didn't occur to them or maybe they were too afraid to think clearly because they all ran towards the ruby-quartz wearing man. With everyone around him he said, "Now that everyone is together I need you all to stick close, hold hands if you must, but make sure you aren't overwhelmed in the crowd. Alright let's go."

Elsewhere...

Emma was with her ever present protege's known as the Stepford Cuckoos and the furry azure intellectual known simply as Beast. They were all situated behind a bus located outside the main gate having gone there once the riot went underway, "Mr. McCoy the riot is going to become violent soon. Quentin plans to unleash his group upon the humans." informed the Cuckoos

A glass window from the bus over their heads shattered from a rock being thrown through it causing the mutants to cover their heads from the shards, "I think it already has become violent, but I'm worried more about Charles wellbeing. You said he was supposed to meet you this morning, right?"

"Yes. Ms. Frost assumed he was powdering his head." answered the twins

Emma narrowed her eyes at her children and ignored a look of beration from Hank who continued talking to the girls, "I overhead one of the protestors saying that Charles was involved. Luckily Wolverine is going to check on him." Another window shattered spraying the ground with scattered shards once more, "You need to get your girls out of here, Emma!"

At Charles Xavier's Office

Standing outside at the balcony overlooking the riot with a certain level of satisfaction and pride the orchestrator of this entire event, Quentin Quire, smiled devilishly with eyes glazed over from the excess use of the drug Kick. His right eye twitched involuntarily, but he paid it no mind as spoke to his captive who was now tied down to a chair, "This is really beautiful you know, but I'm sure everyone won't see it that way. Terrorists, Fanatics, Mutant Supremacists, that's what we'll be called but that's because they fail to see the exquisiteness of it all."

Even though Charles couldn't see him he knew the boy was not even facing him, too delighted at the chaos he was causing, "What exactly do you plan to accomplish by doing this Quentin?"

This made the boy turn around and smile maniacally at his former Professor, "What's the matter can't you read my mind? I sincerely hope not because then that helmet wouldn't really serve it's purpose if you could now would it? You know I got the directions from off the Internet they were adapted from blueprints provided by Magneto, turns out he had even more great ideas then I could imagine."

Charles turned his mouth into a tight frown at this, even in death his old adversary managed to inspire anarchism with his ludicrous ideals, "Yes, and he was a very accomplished dancer as well. On top of that he was a Machiavellian schemer who set a horrible example for you children to follow."

Quentin turned back outside and yelled loudly putting his hands in the air, "But he was right! Don't you see? Everything he preached about, everything he warned us about is true! Humans are bad and Mutants are good, why can't understand that?"

Charles lowered his head at how low his student had fallen, the Hypercortisone D had clouded his mind in a thick haze of zealousy, "Quentin..." he began softly

"Even if he was so horrible at least he did something when the going got tough! When humans pushed against him he pushed back, but where were you when all this happened? Watching the opera?" entered Tattoo wanting to slap the man silly

Hovering over his shoulder Redneck added, "Humans were the ones that bombed our cities yet you still want to integrate with them! Talk about a death wish."

"Magneto had the right idea. Kill them before they kill us." said Radian

Xavier had had enough forsaking his characterisitc calmness he screamed, "And look where it got him! He's dead now! For all his talk of advancing the mutant race all it got us was giant mutant killing robots assembled and 16 million of our kind wiped out!"

His outburst served to silence the three children and Tatto even back away a little a look of shock on her face, but standing at the balcony with megaphone in hand Quentin was undeterred and continued beaming at the things below. Walking up behind him Glob said, "They're gonna be sending the X-Men soon. In a few minutes we'll be a nasty paste in the floor."

Quentin leaned forward on the railing of the balcony still carrying that crazy smile he said, "Good let them come. Every generation needs a martyr. The Omega Gang, a Team of Believers, that's what they'll call us."

Glob gave him a worried look which Quentin didn't need his telepathy to notice causing his smile to dampen a bit, "But if you're worried about the curtain falling on us too soon don't be. Because you're about to deliver an act that no one will soon forget."

Back on the Institue Grounds...

Emma and her girls were running away from the far side of the bus that seemed to have been attracting to many rocks for their tastes. They stopped beside a tree to catch their breath. As they did so Emma took in the catastrophe happening around her: People ran in every which direction knocking down anyone that stood in their way and she even spotted some student throwing another from the steps of the school. It was as if everyone had lost all semblance of rational thought, all because of one boy with a bad hair day.

"I suppose you five are expecting some sort of congratulatory response for the fact that you guessed right what Mr. Quire's intentions were." said Emma to the girls

The twins stood up, finally catching their second wind, "Not at all Ms. Frost." said four of the five

"But, I would like to remind you that...we told you so." added the one known as Sopie, the spit fire of the group

Emma noticed the insertion of "I" instead of "we", but put it out of her mind and said, "Indeed you did girls, but I'm sure this is just another petulant cry for help."

Just then the window of Charles' office exploded into many pieces and out came a flaming mass of pink substance which contained a human skeleton and floating eyeballs. He landed on the lawn knocking two people away from him and yelled into the air, "Lookout cause here comes the Inhuman Torch!"

He then grabbed a chunk of his own waxy body and began flinging it at random targets. Some hit a few people, some flew harmlessly into the air or landed on the ground, but everything it hit was either burned or set on fire. Seeing the flames rise Emma retracted her previous statement and said, "Okay, perhaps the cry is more of a guttoral wail."

Activating her secondary mutation Emma's skin shifted into a hard shining shell of diamonds changing her eyes into a red well. Such a sight would be considered beautiful under any other circumstance, "Watching all this I really do miss my Hellions. They had conviction and actual reason behind their escapades, but now it's only broken windows and vague demands."

Speaking separate from her other sisters the one known as Esme asked snidely, "But weren't they all killed."

In her diamond form the White Queen lacked emotions, but she still gave her daughter a cold stare before turning back to the riot and saying, "Don't dwell in the past, darling. And get inside the school!"

Leaving the sisters alone one of them turned to the others and said, "Is she trying to inspire us?"

Charles struggled to free himself from the bindings of the chair with that telepathy proof helmet still covering his head he said, "Quentin I can understand the allure of violent change. It's fast and comes easy, but you must know that anything gained with such speed will be lost just as easily."

Before he could continue Quentin cut him off with, "Easy? We've lost sixteen million of our people and we've suffered for what seems like an eterenity. I'd say we've payed our dues."

Xavier opens his mouth to retort but is halted once more by Tatto slapping a piece of duct tape over his mouth, "Just accept it old man! Your time of finding ways of doing nothing is over, it's time for a period of Proaction."

"Indeed." concurred Quentin as he walked toward the door with the others following him

Outside in the hallway the Omega Gang strutted about like they owned the place and in truth they kinda did. Walking up beside her lover Tattoo said, "How far are going to go with this?"

Quentin chuckled and put his hands in his pockets, "How far? I don't see a finish line in sight?"

The next thing the group heard was an audible Snikt!. Then up the stairwell came two claw bearing mutants known as Wolverine and X-23, "Then we must not be in the same race cause as far as I can see you've already crossed the line a long time ago."

The group froze in their tracks with Quentin narrowing his eyes at the obstacle that now presented itself. He saw the girl beside Wolverine wrinkle her nose and say, "They are...afraid."

"More like confused and trying to cover it up by acting like they're head and shoulders over everybody else."

The leader of the group was now tired of the short hairy man and his female companion, "Is that what you see?" he asked his fist shaking

Wolverine stepped forward one step making some of his gang take one step back save for Quire who stood his ground. This earned him a little respect from the X-Man, most of the students would have turned tail and run at spotting both him and Laura, but not this kid.

"I gotta admit you have stones, kid, but here's my advice. Stop this little expression of youth rebellion before someone gets seriously hurt because you found an inhaler to be a good makeout partner."

His anger at it's peak the pale face of Quentin was now red with rage, but to the surprise of everyone he began to laugh...hysterically so. Logan half turned to Laura and said, "Get ready to take the two on the left, but remember no fatalities."

Laura crouched slightly and readied her claws, "You do not have to tell me twice."

"Hahahahaha...hehehe." Quentin wiped a tear from his eye as he stopped laughing, "Sorry, but its just so funny when a neanthedral thinks he can give me advice, but I'll tell you what because you aren't as close minded as the Professor, as your thoughts betray, I'm only going to make this painful enough to incapicitate you."

Logan got ready to charge but found his muscles unresponsive, it spread from his legs to his arms and soon his eyes rolled to the back of his head as he collapsed backwards from the pain in his head. "Logan?" called Laura and in an instant she was on Quire

Her movement proved to be to fast for him to process immediately, but he managed to dodge having his head decapitated though she managed to nick him on the cheek. Before she could follow up he hit her with the same attack he had used on Wolverine. She too felt the paralysising effect of Quentin's mental powers as her vision blurred heavily. She stood frozen like a statue in place after he had finished his counterattack.

Tattoo came beside him and examined the cut on his face, "Are you okay?"

Wiping the blood away from his cheek he said, "Fine."

Tattoo's reaction said otherwise however as she continued to stare at his laceration like it was infected, "What are you looking at?"

"Your cut it looks weird."

Drawing his eyebrow up in confusion Quentin walked over to a mirror on the wall. And then he saw what she was referring to, blood ran down the side of his face originating from a cut that wasn't red as it was supposed to be, but glowing green with an inner light. Stepping back in disbelief he continued to stare to ensure he wasn't hallucinating.

"What's the matter Quentin?" asked Radian

Looking down into his palm at the blood on his fingers Quentin clinched his fist tightly, "Nothing. Nothing's the matter." he then walked down the steps with as much confidence as when he started but underneath it all there was a new fear of the unknown

Outside in the Courtyard...

An explosion threw rocks and shrapnel into the air as it destroyed a wall in the front of the school. When the smoke cleared Barnell AKA Beak was revealed holding the now empty suit of his classmate Dummy, the gas inside his suit now dissipated due to being ripped in half.

Cyclops, now wearing his optical device, saw the boy and walked up beside him, "What happened here?"

"Dummy...he-he's gone." said the boy looking like he was on the verge of crying

The sound of footsteps drew Cyclops attention behind him as Beast and Xorn arrived to assist him. Looking down Xorn's expression could not be seen due to his mask, but the X-Men leader knew he it wasn't one of happiness at seeing his student's current state.

"This is horrible." said Beast looking at the mob of student waiting in front of the school, jeering frantically dressed in that now familiar red and black striped sweater vest.

"They seem to be waiting for something." said Cyclops

Just when he relayed his assumption the doors of the institue swung open and the crowd exploded with cheers of approval. Anticipated danger Scott turned to the chicken boy and said, "I need you to get out of here. Things are about to get...unpleasant."

The boy looked like he didn't want to leave his friends remains but he obeyed the field leader and ran off, but stopped before he was out of view and said, "Mr. Xorn?" his teacher turned to face him, "Kick his ass." Beak then vanished

The crowd had dispersed to the side to make way for the guest of honor: Quentin Quire. The three teachers looked at the band of misfits and the their new followers, "You all need to stop this now! Unless you want this to turn into an impromtu martial arts session!"

Redneck stepped out of the crowd and said defiantly, "Maybe you should turn your attention to those humans you helped escape! They're the ones who pushed us to this." he turned his back to the teachers and continued, "They kill our artists and then expect no retribution to be carried out!"

The crowd let out a supportive "Yeah!"

"Are we gonna sit her and let them walk all over us like they've always done?" he spurred on

"No!" they answered in unison

"Right! We're gonna..." he turned to point at Cyclops and all he saw before being knocked unconscious was a flash of red hitting him square in the face and breaking his nose. The beam was strong enough to make him do a backflip in the air and land harshly on his stomach.

The crowd grew silenced at this new development as Tattoo went over and checked on Redneck who was out cold with a bloody nose, "That's assault!" she screamed at Cyclops

The leader looked at her and calmly said, "And the next thing is battery, so anyone else that decides that murder is acceptable gets a broken leg."

Tattoo stood up and glared daggers at the handsome man, "What about Jumbo Carnation? He was killed in the streets like an animal and no one is lifting a finger to do anything about it. You're the X-Men you're supposed to protect mutants yet you haven't even come close to finding the killer!" she raved

A fake cough drew everyone's attention away from the verbally warring mutants to the blue fuzzball, "Actually you are quite mistaken. Jumbo Carnation wasn't killed by humans."

"What?" questioned Tattoo's brother Radian

"Young lady you say we have done nothing to find the killer, but how can we when there is no actual killer at least not a human one." revealed Beast

"What are you talking about?" she demanded

"With help from local police we were able to determine that Jumbo Carnation was killed by a self-administered dose of Hypercortisone D or as you kids like to call it 'Kick'."

Murmurs began to spread around the crowd as doubt set in at the truth surrounding Jumbo's mysterious demise. Hearing this Radian reacted angrily with, "Lies, Dr. McCoy is lying to cover up for the humans!"

The angry youth then stepped up and fired a beam of energy at his instructors. Beast dove to the side while Xorn did the same in the opposite direction while Cyclops fell to the ground and fired his own beam of energy at the boy. It connected with the front of his leg and a sickening Crack! could be heard as his leg broke and he fell forward gravelling in pain.

"Ah my leg!" he groaned

Rising from the ground Cyclops said, "I told you. I wasn't joking when I said the next one would get a broken leg."

Cyclops felt a hand grab his shoulder and a feeling that made his skin crawl as he felt skinny and long enter the back of his head, "So you're a man of your word. I'll be sure they put it on your tombstone." Cyclops could see her fingers appear out the front of his face

"Phasing! How could I let her sneak up on me like that?"

"You know if I solidify now while my hands are inside your head, you'll die a death I'm sure won't be plesant." she informed him smugly

In her arrogance she failed to notice a diamond hand slip inside the back of her own head, "Congrats, you've managed to sneak up on one of the X-Men like that has never happened before."

Tattoo couldn't see the lady but she ground her teeth and glared nonetheless at being beat at her own game. "Now gently and slowly remove your hand from Scott's head."

This made the girl smirk again, " 'Scott' does Mrs. Summers know you and her husband are on a first name basis now? In school it was always 'Mr. Summers'."

Emma wanted to smack the girl if she were solid and Cyclops was wondering if he should just let the girl kill him right then and there to avoid future problems

Outside the Main Gate...

David's hands were on his knees as he tried to catch his breath. He had helped as many people as he could onto the they used to arrive but the ordeal had exhausted him. An elderly lady put her foot up to the first step but stopped short to turn to David, "Young man I'd like to thank you for helping us. You really are brave."

Through haggard breathing he managed a weak smile and say, "Thank you."

Hard plodding drew his and the ladies eyes to the distance to spot the frightening sight of a flaming Glob Herman headed their way shouting threats of "death to humans". Taking action David turned to the lady and said, "Get on the bus hurry!" he tried to assist her ascent but her feeble body wasn't helping in the slightest

Miraculously he managed to get her on the bus and find a seat and then turned to driver and said urgently, "Drive!"

The man listened and didn't even waste time closing the door and zoomed off. Just as the bus left David felt a rush of warm air as Glob rushed past him with homicidal glee at chasing the bus, "I'm a suicidal bomber without the suicide and I'm gonna kill all the humans!"

Beast noticed Glob's pursuit of the vehicle full of innocents and turned to Cyclops and Emma who were standing over the unconscious body of Tattoo who had a large knot forming on her shaven head, "Scott, if we hope to salvage at least a portion of Xavier's reputation then I feel we must put this entire disaster off as an exercise to show how well we the teachers can handle a crisis."

Hearing Glob spout off more of his intentions for the humans once he caught up to the bus he said, "You make it sound easy."

Inside Cerebro/Cerebra Chamber

Stepping inside the chamber the leader of the Cuckoos, Sophie, stands before the helmet of the machine and said, "I've heard that the Professor's invention can amplify a telepath's powers tenfold. That should be enough to end Quentin's little tantrum."

Turning back to her sisters Esme said, "Are you sure? Despite his many flaws he is still an Omega Level Mutant and can make people do anything he wants."

Another said, "And we know what he wants to do with you Sophie."

The girls all shared disgusted looks as they imagined the degrading and perverted things his drug-clogged brain might come up with.

"Ms. Frost spoke of how her students took action at the right times, but look where it got them. We don't have to be as stupid." continued Esme

Her sister Mindee said, "What about that Malcolm boy? I sensed a great deal of potential in him."

Sophie countered with, "Exactly. Potential which as of the moment he hasn't realized. He wouldn't last one second against Quentin. Besides we're the Five-in-One and" she picked up the helmet of Cerebro and finished with, "no one knows where he is."

Location: Unknown

Jaqueris sat up quickly as he regained consciousness. The pain in his stomach had disappeared but his confusion was even greater as he observed the room around him with haste. It was made completely metal with the mattress, sheets, and pillow being the only non-ferrous material present. Stepping out the bed he ran to the door but found it had no knob to turn. Holding out his hand he tried to rip it open with his powers but found he couldn't manipulate it.

Leaning forward and placing his head on the door he sighed, "Okay, some weird guy kidnapped me and now I'm trapped and my powers aren't working."

His eyes widened when he fell forward due to the door suddenly developing a hole wide enough for him to fall through outside. As soon as it appeared the hole closed again back into it's original door form. Jaqueris saw that he was now in a hallway, also made of metal, with lightbulbls along the ceiling. He could only go left or right so he picked left...

As soon as he headed into that direction a wall of metal appeared and cut of his route, "Okay, I guess I'm going right."

Ja'Keyon awakened abruptly summoning a knife in his hand for defense against any would be attackers. Seeing none he cautiously got out his bed and crouched slightly. The room was small so if someone attacked him he would have much space to maneuvar meaning he couldn't stay here too long. Opening the door he moved outside into a two way hallway and looked left then right. Deciding to go right he was surprised when he turned that way and found a metal wall now blocking his path.

Touching it to make sure it was indeed real and even punching it once he realized it was he went right. There were no other doors in the hallway and when he came to a corner he hugged the wall and peeked around before proceeding. This slow meticulous movement was ingrained into his mind during his training so that he could use it whenever in a foreign environment.

Jaqueris was getting annoyed everytime he picked a direction to travel in the metallic parts of the building would morph and shift into a barrier he couldn't pass forcing him to choose a new path. This had occurred a total of six times and seemed poised to continue. Repeated attempt at utilizing any of his powers proved to only frustrate him further because he still could not access them.

Rounding a corner slowly he stopped in his tracks when he heard a joyful, "Jaqueris!"

Expecting the pink haired girl he smiled and answered, "Pix!" as they embraced one another

Putting her on he ground he asked, "What happened? Did you find my brother? Do you know where we are?"

She put a finger to his lips to shush him and said, "In that order; I don't know, No, and No. I woke up just a few minutes ago and found you."

Disappointed in her answer he put her hand in his own and led her in the direction he was going in, "I can't use my powers and everytime I try to go somewhere." he turned left at a corner, but as expected the walls closed together seamlessly and blocked him, "This happens."

He kicked the wall out of frustration and continued forward, "Jaqueris, do you know who that guy was? The one who brought us here?"

Jaqueris thought back to the hood and mask wearing man with brown eyes and grimaced, "No, you mean he isn't one of the X-Men's enemies?"

Megan shook her head from side to side and said, "Not that I know of. The only person I think could do this to us is Magneto and he's...well you know."

"Dead?" finished a familiar voice

They both turned to the side startled by his appearance before they realized who it was speaking, "Keyon, you scared us." said Megan flying over to him

The boy was unapologetic as he said, "You should be aware of your environment. Now where are we?"

"Do I look like a map?" answered his brother

Ja'Keyon looked him up and down and said, "You look like something."

"Hahaha, let's just keep moving before something crazy happens like a hole...Ahahahhaha!"

The two brothers screamed as a whole in the floor beneath opened up causing them to descended to the lower levels. Megan gasped at their mishap and flew down the hole after them. As they fell Ja'Keyon turned to Jaqueris and commanded, "Use your powers!"

"I can't!"

The two continued to plummet for what seemed like hours before a light shone at the bottom. Soon enough they fell through the hole and landed against the hard metal floor. The man at the desk stopped writing and the metal spheres floating near his head fell onto the desk.

Jaqueris and Ja'Keyon groaned in pain as they stood up from the floor. Megan arrived at this time and flew behind them, "Are you guys okay?"

"Yeah, falling several feet onto a metal floor always does my internal organs and bones good." replied Ja'Keyon sarcastically

"I forgot how much of a smart ass you were even back then." said an unknown voice

The three turned their attention to the man sitting at a desk. He had a low haircut with brown skin and matching eyes. A scar ran across his cheek but didn't distract viewers from his high cheekbones and clean ebony mustache complete with a goatee. In short the man was handsome and was...was

"Why does that guy look exactly like you?" asked Megan referring to Jaqueris

I'm happy. I finally get to start my interquel which I had in my head for a long time. I'll reveal more about why the trio were brought to this place and hopefully more characters will be revealed. Stay tuned for more chaps.