Sara and Jasper, Mutants

"Look, we didn't show up here SPECIFICALLY for you..."

Sara wilts at this. Jasper looks even more disgusted than he did a minute ago, if that's even possible. Jean Grey sighs.

"Uh...okay, I didn't mean it quite like that," says Psylocke. "I'm...well, we had some business in the area, and I sort of picked up yours and..Jasper, right?...Jasper's thoughts.

"In fact...we picked up your emotions about five hundred miles away. Which is pretty unusual. Damned unusual."

"What's even more unusual is that, far as we can tell, pretty much everyone else in this zip code ALSO felt your emotions," says Cyclops. "Including thousands of people who aren't psychic in the least. Nonmutants. Right now, the hospitals in the entire eastern half of New York and Western Pennsylvania are full of people who apparently tried to off themselves about an hour ago."

"And we did that?" says Sara in a small voice.

"Great. Look, go somewhere else and peddle your bullshit, okay?" snarls Jasper. "I'm sick and fucking tired of this place, I'm tired of the freakshow that is my life, and most of all, I'm tired of YOU. Take your spandex and go play elsewhere. Especially you," he snaps, looking right at Wolverine.

Logan cocks his head and stares at him coldly, and Jasper glaares back.

Jean's voice is strained. "They're...wow. I've never seen projective telepaths this strong. Scott? I'm having a very, very hard time maintaining containment." She wobbles slightly, her face going pale. "Y-You're going to have to get this wrapped up and fast, because we have to get them into a nullifier field. Now."

"We were out here because we had indications of mutant activity of some sort," Scott says ruefully. "And...it looks like we found them. We can talk about this at length if you want, but we're going to have to get you to a place where you're safe...and where other people can be safe as well. As it stands, right now, you're a grave danger to yourselves as well as to other people. Including us. And maybe we can help you do something about that." He pauses. "Look...if we found you so easily, then I can guarantee you that there will be others looking for you right now. We need to get you two back, and fast."

They look at the rather colorful group arrayed around them, all of them wary and tense, and looking as if they expected trouble at any second--from them. Sara gulps. "So...we're prisoners?" Jasper says.

"Not...precisely," says Storm hesitantly.

"But you ain't free to go, neither" says Wolverine flatly, two sets of wrist-claws snikking out.

1. Naturally, this WOULD be when a squadron of Sentinels attacks...
2. An anti-mutant group outfitted in powered armor and carrying lots of heavy weapons attacks them, leading to Sara and Jasper's emotional projective powers manifesting more-or-less consciously for the first time...big time.
3. They manage to get back to the Mansion without incident. Thus begins the training to gain conscious control of their powers.
4. The X-Men's heads explode, "Scanners" style. Jasper fashions Logan's skull-fragments into a crude hand-puppet.
5. Same as 3, but Josh and Scott were actually found a few hours ago. They're going to be attending classes at the Academy too, as masters of chaos and reality-bending..

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