chapter two • 2
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"secret code names,"

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Charles and Erik went out on a mission to find mutants who are willing to join our team to fight against Shaw. They found a couple;

Angel, she was an exotic dancer at a club.

Darwin, he was a taxi driver.

Alex, a teen who voluntarily imprisoned himself in solitary confinement.

Sean, a teen who tries a little too hard on getting girls.

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As they all sat around on couches in a room, Hank, Raven and Natalie joined them.

"We should have code names," Raven spoke. "We're Government Agents now, we should have secret code names," Raven smiled. "I wanna be called Mystique,"

"Damn, I wanna be called Mystique," Sean groaned. They all chuckled.

"Well tough, I called it," Raven shape shifted into Sean and they all woah'd and chuckled. "And I'm way more mysterious than you,"

They all clapped.

"Alright, Darwin what about you?" Natalie asked as Raven returned to her blonde self.

"Well Darwin is already a nickname, and it sorta fits, adapt to survive and all," He nodded his head. "Check this out," Darwin stood up and walked over to the fish tank and he smiled and placed his head in the water and his face and neck grew gills, and he smiled and his gills started breathing. They clapped.

"Thank you, thank you," He sat back down on the couch. "What about you?" He pointed to Sean.

"I'm going to be," Sean paused as he put his hands together, "Banshee,"

"Why do you wanna be named after a wailing spirit?" Hank asked.

"You might wanna cover your ears," Sean stood up and they all followed the instructions, he crouched and took in a deep breath and let it out, shattering the glass instead of the row of glass cups.

"Oh, awesome!" Natalie laughed.

"And you?" Sean sat back down and pointed to Angel.

"Well, my stage name is Angel, and ah, sorta fits," She removed her jacket and the tattooed wings on her back grew out of her skin and she started to fly.

"You can fly?" Raven gasped.

"Uh huh," Angel turned to face the shattered glass. "And uh..." She leaned forward and spat out a fireball and set the statue's head outside on fire.

They all chuckled and clapped.

"What's your name?" Alex asked Natalie.

Natalie smiled. "Well, Hank always calls me Ivy, and I always like it, so uh yeah," She bit her lip.

"Show us what you can do," Raven smiled.

Natalie clapped her hands on her thighs and stood up.

"Come outside," Natalie waved her hand in a 'come here' motion and stepped over the glass. Everyone did as well and stood in a small group. Natalie stood in front.

"I can do quite a lot, um," Natalie chuckled. Natalie flicked her hands and her hair started to almost sway with the now strong wind, her eyes glowed green and vines started to grow through the ground and wrap itself around the statue and flowers and leaves grew. She flicked her hands and her hair turned sky blue and water started to slowly trickle down the statue, then once more, she flicked her hands, and her hair went fiery red and she set the head of the statue on fire, again.

"That's only a few things," Natalie chuckled. The group applauded and laughed.

"That's amazing, Nat," Darwin smiled.

She bowed her head.

"What other things can you do?" Alex smiled.

"Well, let's just say, I was born in 1899," Sean choked on his drink.

"What, like for real?" He asked. Natalie nodded.

"That's uh," Alex stumbled on words.

Natalie laughed. "I know, weird aye," She scratched the back of her head.

"What about you Hank?" Darwin asked shaking his head with a smile.

"What about Big Foot?" Alex joked. They started to walk back inside.

"Well, you know what they say about guys with big feet. And uh, your's are kinda small," Raven looked down at his feet.

"Okay, now," Alex shook his head.

"Alex, what is your gift? What can you do?" Darwin asked.

He scratched the back of his head. "Probably should have stayed outside." He stood up. "I um, can't do it in here."

"Can you do it out there?" Natalie asked.

He shook his head.

"C'mon!" Darwin whined.

"Alex! Alex! Alex!" They chanted.

Alex stood up reluctantly and made his way outside. "Get down when I tell you,"

They all got up and stood by the window. "Get back," Alex told them. They all went back inside but then looked out again. "Get back!" They didn't move. "Whatever,"

Alex moved his body around and red energy hoops formed around him. He began to throw his body to side to side, throwing the hoops flying towards the statue, and cut Natalie's vines and the statue in half. "Aw, c'mon," Natalie laughed.

"Sorry," He smiled. They cheered him on.

We all stood back inside and Angel turned the stereo on and spread her wings and began to fly around the room, swaying to the music. Hank took his shoes off and jumped up and started to hang upside down from the light beam. Raven started dancing on the couch, while Alex and Sean picked up a chair each and started testing Darwin's ability. Natalie created a vine on the wall and roof so Hank could hang from that and Natalie used the air to lift her up and she started dancing to the music.

"Hank! Use this!" Natalie pointed to the vine she created. Hank jumped down and walked over to her and jumped up and he wrapped his hands around the vine and smiled at her , then flipped himself upside down, hanging from her vine.

"What are you doing?" Moira yelled out. All of the kids stopped what they were doing and looked at Moira, Charles and Erik. "Who destroyed the statue?"

"It was Alex," Hank immediately replied.

"And Natalie," Angel spoke.

"No, Havoc, and Ivy. We have to call them Havoc and Ivy, that's their names now." Raven told everyone. "We were thinking, you should be Professor X," She pointed at Charles, "And you be Magneto," Raven pointed at Erik.

"Exceptional," Erik spoke sarcastically. Moira and Erik walked off.

"I expected more from you," Charles shook his head, speaking to Raven as he walked off.

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They had all calmed down and Erik and Charles came to tell them to have everything cleaned up by the time they get back from Russia, to find Shaw.

Hank and Natalie managed to clean everything up within an hour. Darwin and Alex were now playing an arcade game. The rest of the kids were sitting on the couch having a drink.

"Oh, I didn't know the circus was in town," One of the workers sounded from behind the glass.

"Hey, come on, honey. Give us a little..." he flapped his hands like he had wings. "No? Come on, let's see the foot," he looked at Hank. Natalie stood up and smiled jokingly at them and pressed the button and the curtains closed.

"They're just guys being stupid," Raven told Angel.

"Guys being stupid, I can handle. Okay? I've handled that my whole life," Angel looked at them. "But I'd rather a bunch of guys stare at me with my clothes off than the way these ones stare at me."

"At us," Raven nodded.

The room began to shake and a noise sounded from outside the glass.

"What was that?" Darwin asked.

The noise sounded out again and they all looked outside the glass but nothing was there. "I don't know. Something doesn't feel right," Darwin and Alex began to walk up to the rest of the kids.

The sound of a drum continued to bang and shake the room. They all looked out the window and something teleported into the sky. He dropped a guy and he began to fall towards the ground and landed in front of them.

All of them screamed as they backed away from the glass. Bodies continued to fall from the sky. They were killing everyone in the building besides the kids.

Several guys came up to the glass with guns pointing at the sky. "Get back! Do not leave that room. We're under attack!" He warned them. Natalie held onto Hank's arm tightly. Azazel, the red devil, teleported to the spot where the statue was. "He's there!" All of the kids yelled.

"Shoot! Shoot!" They all began to shoot at Azazel when he teleported again. All of the kids ran to the couch and hid behind it. Azazel used one of the guard's guns to shoot the glass.

A noise from behind alerted them and we turned towards the other window where a massive tornado went across the lawn and then sucked up the transmitter, completely ripping it to shreds.

"Oh my god," Natalie mumbled.

They turned back around to the other glass and Azazel sliced everyone up with these knife swords. "Stay here, my ass! Let's go!" Darwin told them.

All of the kids ran through the doors and down the corridor, Darwin leading the way. "We can help! We can help!" Darwin told the guards as they told them to stay away. An explosion came towards us from down the corridor, so they all turned around and ran back into the room. Hank's grip on Natalie's hand was never leaving.

The tornado began to make its way towards the kids and Azazel was finishing off the last of the guards.

A guy flew into the room through the other glass and landed dead on the floor. Natalie turned her head to the side to see a guy with long black hair and a suit walk in, Riptide. Azazel walked in as well.

"You want the mutants? They're right through that door. Just let us normal people go. We're no threat..."a guy said through the other side of the door. They heard a crack and then something falling to the floor.

Shaw walked through the door with a helmet on. They all began to close in on the kids.

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