Chapter 2 - Locked On

Attention:  Generation X and their villains, as wellas any other mutant mentioned in this story, is property of Marvel Comics. The character Richard Cale is named after family relations.  Any otherreference to anything copyrighted is a chance happening.
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Hunted
Locked On
               Sean waited as Rich got dressed.  As he waited, he decided to askthe question that he didn’t want to ask.  “Rich, were you two evergoing to tell Emma and I about this arrangement?”
              He heard the lad sigh.  In that sigh, Sean could tell that there weretons of thoughts in the lad’s mind.  “No, we didn’t think you wouldapprove, sir.”  Sean could tell my Rich’s formal tone meant that Richwasn’t speaking ot him as a teacher and friend, but as the father figure.
              Sean wanted to comfort the boy.  “Lad, ye know that I trust ye judgement. I know that ye wouldn’t take advantage of Yvette.”  It was the truth. “I just wish ye would tell us about what ye had up yur sleeves.  Remember,we got a shock when we found out about ye journal.”
              He heard another sigh escape the lad’s lips.  “I wish I never startedthat journal at times. I once checked out a college up in this area justto prove that I was making the stuff up.  Instead I got more questions.”
              Sean looked at the lad and said, “How so?”  Sean had to admit, hewas a bit curious.
              Rich looked at him and said, “A book was said to be owned at the college. That was my real reason.  To prove it was a fake.  I only foundout that it was an altered duplicate.  It made me wonder more. Who has the original, and what did they plan to do with it?”
              Sean could see the frustration in the lad’s eyes.  He then said, “Rich,lad, calm down. It’s nothing to worry about right now.  Right now,we need to know what Emplate be up to.”  He pointed to the communicationsdevice lying on Rich’s desk.
              Rich looked at it and said, “Could mean anything.  Right now, I havea feeling it was meant for Yvette, and that worries me.”
              Sean started to get worried too.  “Ye think he’s giving her a choiceto return or else.” He watched as the boy nodded.  “If ye think so,why is Emplate doing it this way?”
              He noticed Rich shruged as he said, “Only one person can answer that, andthat’s Emplate.”  Sean had to agree with the lad, and he could tellthat the whole idea of a message from Emplate was worrying the lad morethan he let on.
              Sean picked up the unit and said, “Then we’ll all take a look at it together. Then, if we have to suspect anything, we’ll all know what to expect fromhim.”  He noticed that Rich seemed more comfortable with that. At that, the two of them left the room.

              Monet realized that she was holding everyone up.  While she was gettingready, her sister had decided to try and take charge.  By the timeshe regained control, her sister had already dictated her wardrobe forthe day.  She had barely time to look more dignified when Emma letlose with a psyonic summons.  She ran as fast as she could to theroom, and when she entered, she definatly got attention she didn’t want. It was Jubilee who first remarked, “Monet, what happened to you? Decided to go slumming.”
              Monet just glared at all who was laughing and said, “I think my sisterwas in a bit of kidding mood.  She wasn’t much on dressing proper.” She couldn’t say her real reasons, that her twin sister sided with Emplateat any chance.
              She noticed as Emma said, “I hope you plan to fix that after the meeting.” She nodded and Emma motioned her to sit down.  When she finally satdown, Emma said, “Now, we seem to have been visited by D.O.A.”  Monetknew that much.  Then Emma said, “And it appears that he came notto attack, but deliver a message.  So far the contents of the messageare unknown.”
              Right then, Monet heard her sister pipe up in her mind.  [Marius mustwant Penny to come back to him, and bring Richard with her.]
              She almost yelled aloud to her sister when she noticed that Richard wasgoing to press a button on the device.  Instantly, an image formedinto that of Emplate.  It appeared to look straight at Yvette as itsaid, “Hello Yvette.  I hope that you receive this message and hearit out, for it is in your best intrests.  I don’t know if you rememberor not, but a while ago, I came to your school with a bunch of my Hellions,amongst them was one Gayle Edgerton.”  She noticed Jono appeared totake notice in the message.  Soon, her brother’s image spoke again. “I still have a small grip on her, but now she has been shot.  Luckily,she isn’t dead, but her attacker was Hunter.”
              Monet heard a slight gasp and soft “Oh no.”  She noticed that Yvettestarted to tense up.  She watched as Rich held her, but she heardher mutter, “It’s coming true.”  It appeared as if Rich wasn’t thereat all.
              The image then continued, “I see you remember him, as you most likely rememberhis threat.  I know he’s going to visit you next.  I figure thatright about now you fear for your life, so I extend to you the offer ofreturning to me.  He is not as confident yet to challenge me, buthe will not attack you if you are with me, and also know that I am doingthis out of kindness, for I offer the same protection to Richard. I will allow you full choice on what happens to him.  I will giveyou one hour after you see this recording, upon which, Elane will cometo hear your response.  She has been ordered not to attack. In one hour..” and the image ended.  Monet noticed that Yvette wasmore scared than ever.
              She then noticed Yvette was crying.  She was first to ask the onequestion that was on everyone’s mind, “Who is Hunter?”
              She noticed as Yvette said between sobs, “He’s just what he calls himself. He’s a hunter.  He hunts down Emplate’s enthralled, feasts on them,kills them.  He used to be one like them, but he broke free. He doesn’t believe that if you break free, you’re free.  He believesdeath is the only escape.  He won’t be happy until he has killed allthe Emplate’s and he includes me in that.”  She started to cry again,and Monet watched as Rich held her.
              Monet watched as Rich looked around an with a realization in his eyes. “She said she had a nightmare last night.  This must have been it.”
              In her mind, Monet heard Claudette say, [Aww, poor baby.  Maybe Ishould tell our brother that she wants to come back.]  Again Monetwanted to snap back at Claudette, but she knew an outburst would causetoo many questions.
              Soon enough, she heard Jono ask, "I don’t like the sound of this. I mean, how does this guy even know where to look for you.  And howdid he know where to find Gayle?"
              In between sobs, Monet listened as Yvette said, “He’s still linked to Emplate. He knows what Emplate knows.  Emplate however vaguely know what heknows.  Emplate won’t attack him, not unless he attacks him first.”
              Monet noticed as Rich looked at Yvette intently and said, “Like some ofthe stories about Lycanthropes?”  She noticed as Yvette nodded towhat Rich said.
              Sean then asked the question that she was pondering.  “Lad, why didye just liken Emplate to a Werewolf?  He’s more like a vampire.”
              Rich turned to look at them all and said, “In some stories, werewolvesand such are pack creatures, with one Alpha wolf and the rest are Beta. An Alpha cannot attack a Beta, unless the Beta attacks it first. If an Alpha harms a Beta, it harms itself, and breaks the control link.However, a Beta can attack a Beta.”  Monet noticed as Rich turnedto face Yvette again and looked at her.  “You had been a Beta Emplate.”
              Yvette nodded, and Monet heard a gasp from everyone.  “I had justbeen abducted from my home.  He had killed my parents.  I wastaken to his hideaway, and he told me that if I didn’t want to be his meal,I had to submit to him.  I had been strong willed, so it would takea while to make me fully into an Emplate.  I was one of his Enthralled,but not completely Entralled.  I was still linked to him, but he wasdetermine to keep me, either as a food source, or a slave.  I hadbecome a reluctant enforcer.  I had to protect him, and keep othersinline.  I had been attacked many times by some of the others, andthis made Emplate want me more as a food source.”
              Monet noticed that Jubilee asked the next question, “What happened thatforced you into that?”
              Yvette just said, “I caught Hunter trying to leave.  I had been orderedto prevent that, but he left.  I couldn’t bring myself to kill him. I was put in the restraints that day, and Emplate started to feast on me,everyday stripping away a little bit of my free will.  Until Gatewayappeared and rescued me, I was almost convinced my only purpose was tofeed Emplate until he killed me, and that it was my punishment.” She started sobbing and collapsed into Rich’s arms.
              Monet heard Claudette finally say, [It will be worse when you return tohim.  I’ll tell him to make it worse.]  Her sister was reallystarting to get bother some.  She tried to mentally surpress her sister’smind, but Claudette started to fight back.
              As she mentally struggled to surpress Claudette, she heard Darrett say,“You mean you willing wanted to be an Emplate.  I should have know.”
              Sean then said, “I don’t think it’s so farfetched, lad.  I think youdid as an Emplate suggested just to save yur own life, and millions others.” She saw the dumb struck look on Darrett’s face.
              “That was different.  I didn’t have an option.  I was caughtby the most powerful Emplates.”
              Rich looked at him this time, and Monet heard him exclaim.  “Tellme, Darrett.  If you had a chance to preserve your life, would youjump at it, especially if you were scared to death, scared to death ofdying.”  Monet saw Darrett clam up.  The boy had been afraidof dying.  He had seen his own mother die.  This thought distractedher from Claudette’s assault for control. As Claudette pulled her in totheir mind.  She literally was fighting to stay in control of hermind, and now was losing.

              Yvette just sat there, with everyone.  She had buried her head inRich’s chest as she cried.  She knew Rich was holding her.  Hewas worried about her, but she was more worried about everyone here. Hunter would see all who was with her as her victims, maybe slaves. He’d kill them all.  She sobbed a bit more as she thought about whathe might do to Rich.  No, she couldn’t let any of that happen, notto her friends and family.  She knew what she had to do.  Shehad to turn herself over to Emplate.  She looked up and saw a sternlook in her lover’s eyes. Before she could say anything, he said, “I won’tlet you do that Yvette.”
              She gasp.  Before she could ask her question on how he knew, she heardMondo say, “Won’t let her do what?”
              He looked at her and said, “I won’t let her turn herself over to Emplate. She was just thinking about it.”  She heard everyone gasp, exceptfor Monet.  She noticed the Monet had a blank stare on her face, anotherAutistic episode.
              She heard her adopted father say, “Yvette, he’s joking, right.  Yewouldn’t do that, would ye?”
              She sighed and said, “I don’t want you all to get killed because of me.” It was true. She didn’t want them all to get killed because of her. “Hunter won’t think your free of Emplate’s power.  He’ll kill youfirst.  I don’t know how, but he will.”
              Everett just looked at her and said, “Yvette, what’s his ability? If we know that, we can stop him.  You don’t have to turn yourselfover to Emplate.”
              Yvette shook her head and said, “I don’t know.  All the time I hadencountered him, I never found out what his abilities.  All I knewis that he lived up to the name Hunter.”  It scared her to think aboutHunter.  In fact, until now, she never thought about the risk to herlife.  Rich arrived into her and she was happy since then.  Now,it was going to end.
              She saw Jubilee looking at the clock and said, “Well, we have about 30minutes now until Aura arrives.  We gotta make sure she doesn’t takePenny, and Rich, with her.”
              Yvette looked in shock.  Why were they doing this?  She startedto object when Rich said, “If Monet’s out of her trance, she can tell Auraoff.  The rest of us can come up with a game plan to stop this ‘Hunter’.”
              Yvette looked at him and started to say, “But love, I don’t want to seeyou hurt.  I...”
              Rich put a finger up to her mouth and she stopped talking.  He thensaid, “Not to long ago, I was in the same situation.  I didn’t fleethen.  Are you going to now?”
              She then realized what he meant.  Back when Soundwave attacked, hewas about to leave the school, but he didn’t.  Now he wanted her tostay, because they would protect her, like they did with him.  Sheslowly came to terms that what she was going to do would have been thebiggest mistake in her life.  She smiled at him and said, “Alright,I’ll stay.”  She held him close to her and prayed that she wasn’tbeing foolish.

              It had been almost 50 minutes after the message stopped.  Soon Elanewould be at the school.  This unnerved Rich a lot.  He honestlydidn’t think that she would obey Emplate about not hurting them. Rich was still holding Yvette as she had been holding him.  This ‘Hunter’character might be more than they can handle, but they still had to try. The one person most important to him was in terrible danger.  Soon,he noticed Monet was blinking her eyes.  She was finally coming outof her episode.  It was times like these that they didn’t need forthis to happen. He finally said aloud, “She’s coming out of it.”
              He heard Jubilee say, “It’s about time.  She picks the worse timesfor these spells.”  He had to admit that they sometimes appeared whenthey least needed them to appear.
              He sat quietly with Yvette as Sean said, “Monet, we need ye to handle thetalk with Aura.  Be careful, cause she might have a few tricks upher sleeve.”
              Rich nodded and said, “I don’t trust her, but I don’t want to give herthe opportunity to hurt either Yvette or myself.  She’s got a fewloose screws, and out of all of us, you might be able to handle her best.”
              He noticed something in the way Monet responded.  “Don’t worry. If she tries anything, I won’t let her succeed.”  It wasn’t her usualtone.  It sounded different, but with a familiar type of tone to it. He watched as she left the room.  He then noticed something at howshe acted in her walk.
              Before he could put his finger on it, he heard Sean say.  “AlrightRich, Yvette, I want ye both to go down into the underground area, justin case anything may happen.  Mondo, Daria, Everett and I will gowith ye.  I want ye to start thinking of possible plans of defense. Something that won’t cost us a life.”  He nodded and started downthe path to the underground portion of the school.  The place whereEmma had set up a mutant training facility many years before.
              He still had Yvette by his side, when she said in their mental link {Mylove.  Were you scanning my mind earlier?}
              He knew what she was talking about, but his answer would surprise her. {No, my love, I wasn’t.}
              He glanced to see the look of shock on her face as she said, {How did youknow then?}
              He smiled and said {Billy Joel said it best.  There are no words tosay it.  I could just tell.  I wasn’t watching your thoughts. I wasn’t listening to them.  I just knew.  Love does that toyou.}  He tightened his hand around her’s and smiled.  {You don’thave to scan a mind to know what they are thinking.}
              She smiled and squeezed his hand in return.  {I just didn’t want tosee anyone get hurt, even if it meant me going back to Emplate.  Iwouldn’t want you to join me in that fate.  I can’t let you join mein that.}
              He looked at her, puzzled by that.  She knew he wouldn’t let her dothat alone, even if she ran away to do so, she knew he would not let herdo that alone.  {Yvette, you know that if you went, I would go toprotect you, as best I could.}
              He watched as just said, {No.  I can’t let you do that.  I can’tsay why right now, but I can’t let you do that.}
              This shocked him.  He looked at her and said, {Are you hiding somethingfrom me?}
              He didn’t have time for a responce as Sean said, “Alright, here we are,now let’s start planning.”  He descided that he could wait to findout her reasons.  Normally, Yvette never kept a secret from him, butnow she was.  It didn’t make sense, but there was no time to debateit now.

              Elane Bonstein stood right inside the main hall of the school.  Shewas getting impatient.  She swore to obey her lovers orders not tohurt either Yvette or Rich, and she hated that idea.  She hoped thatthey would show up, just so she could taunt them and maybe startle them. Besides, if she attacked them, and they attacked her, she could say itwas self defense.  Her thought was cut short when she heard someonesay, “I have a message to give you.”  She turned to see Emplate’ssister, Monet walking out of one of the doors.  However, the attirelooked nothing like how Emplate described as his sister’s style.
              She looked at this definately different Monet and said, “Alright, whereis Richard and Yvette?”  She watched as the figure just moved closerand closer to her.  The girl wasn’t scared of her, nor was she threateningher.  However, there was a different aura about the girl.
              Monet just responded, “They are staying, however, I’d like to make youan offer.”
              Elane took a step back, mainly in shock.  She shook her head and said,“What makes you think Emplate would accept an offer from you?”  Therewas a blur of movement, and she was on her back.
              The figure looked down at her and said, “Tell my brother, that we willmanage to set up Hunter in a place where he can finish him off.  Ifyou need proof of this, tell him that Claudette said so.”
              Elane blinked and then said, “Claudette, as in his favorite sibling.” The girl nodded and she started to understand.  She ran out of thebuilding, and hurried back to the lighthouse.  She need to tell herlover this.  It might be a good thing that she didn’t attack.

              Darrett sat patiently as he waited.  He was with the others as theywaited for Monet to return.  He had watched as the two members ofGeneration X that he knew in his timeline would be his parents left toprotect Yvette.  Deep down, he hoped that something would happen andthe two would start to date.  He felt threatened that they didn’tdate.  He felt that he wouldn’t exist, but he remembered from thetime he spent with the X-Men, that Bishop was displaced out of time. It was as if the time changes didn’t affect him.  Would that be thesame for him?  He was in the middle of this thought when Emma saidto him, “Darrett, you don’t talk much about your timeline.  Is thereanything you can tell us?”
              He looked at her, puzzled that she would ask such a question.  Hefinally said, “I don’t think you would want to hear it.”  It was true. He looked at each member, realizing that he could tell them, in some terms,how each died.  It’s not a topic one would want to hear.
              Emma looked straight at him and said, “Maybe, but I do wonder what happenedin your timeline.  All we know is that Richard and Yvette were Emplatesin your timeline.  One’s that did what many mutant villians dreamof in our timeline.”
              He then heard Jubilee say, “Yea.  I mean, how could any of the X-Groupsallow that to happen, and how come we couldn’t stop them.”
              He didn’t want to tell them.  He felt like he couldn’t, not knowinghow everyone would react.  He then heard Paige say, “I mean, if theywent up against us, they couldn’t have defeated us.”
              He sighed.  They weren’t going to let him stay quiet.  He thensaid, “I didn’t want to say anything, but you’ve made me.  They werecrafty.  They singled every member out.  Divided the group, orlet it be divided.  The first one fell after they became Emplates. Enraged at the situation, they killed all of Emplate’s followers, and theyattacked the one they felt betrayed them.”
              He heard Jono say "Who was that?"  It was a valid question.He just wasn’t sure how to answer it.
              He was thankful when he saw Monet enter the room.  She always seemdignified, but today you would never have been able to tell that. However, he did find her outfit appealing.  She just said, “Well,Elane has left, and she didn’t look to thrilled.  I think she wouldhave preferred hurting both Rich and Yvette.”  From what he had seenfrom the museum, that was an understatement.
              He watched as Emma stood as she said, “Alright, let’s all head down towhere the others are.  Monet, I would like you to get into somethingmore appropriate.”  He noticed as Monet seemed to frown.  Maybeshe was upset that she was getting blamed for what her sister made herwear.  He followed the others as they headed in the direction of wherethe others went, but he noticed that Monet went off in the direction ofthe dorms.  As he watched, he saw her turn and look at him. He was shocked as she winked at him.  Did she like him?  He continueddown the hall, trying to sort it all out.  What he knew about herhere, and the very little he had been told by his mother.

              Claudette reveled at the fact that she was in control of the joint body. After winking at Darrett, she listened in delight as she heard Monet scream[What are you doing?  You made a deal a with Aura.  What areyou up to?]
              Claudette continued walking to the room and said, “You know, that Darrettboy is quite handsome.  I don’t think you’d mind if I spent some timewith him.”  She let a small smile cross her face.
              Almost instantanoiusly, Monet shouted at her. [No, you don’t Claudette. I won’t let you do that.  I know you only care about helping Marius.] Her sister didn’t know her too well, even though they were twins.
              “Are you kidding?  Marius is just part of the equation.  Withhis studies of the black arts, having him as part of us would make us thatsupreme magical entity again.  If father and his two friends hadn’tsplit us up, we would have still been.”  She laughed at the thoughtof the meaning of her success.
              She then heard Monet say the one thing she knew might be a problem. [Marius would never let you try that again.]  She was right aboutthat.  Claudette had never worked that part out, but now all she hadto do was help Marius.  Maybe somehow, she could trick him again. Maybe her little plan would work in that way.
              As they approached the room they occupied, she openned the door and said,“Alright now sis, what is it you like to wear.  Something boring,right.”  She felt her sister try to regain control of the joint body,and she surpressed her.  “Now, now, Monet.  I’m not through yet.You’ll just have to stay contained for just a while longer.”  Shelaughed aloud as she put together a typical Monet outfit.  So far,no one was the wiser to her little trick.

              Jubilee listened to all the idea’s that everyone was pitching.  Theywere trying to come up with the best idea on stopping this Hunter character. The thing that hurt most of their ideas was the fact that they didn’t knowword one about Hunter.  Not even Darrett, a boy from a world almostruled by Emplates, had no clue about it.  Finally, she heard Paigesay, “Why don’t we have Ev and Rich try and use his abilities against him?”
              Jubilee looked at Ev and then at Rich and said, “I think that might work.” She truely didn’t like the idea of Ev going to fight with someone dangerous,but his ability would allow them to find out a little about Hunter.
              She then heard Rich say something that struck her.  “Good plan, buthow likely do you think I’m going to be to leave Yvette’s side right now?” He was right.  Deep down, Jubilee knew that he wouldn’t leave Penny’sside.  Rich would stay to defend her, if it even meant his death.
              She then heard Everett said, “I think it’s a good plan.  We can findout his abilities, and maybe some of the rest of us can hold him back.”
              Rich then said, “Only if you don’t get close to him Ev.  If I rememberright, you, for a short time, were an Emplate.  That puts you on Hunter’shoot list.”  Jubilee felt her heart sink.  Rich was right. That was right before Onslaught.  Then Rich said, “And if I have Iwild guess, Hunter might think Yvette might have seduced me.  I don’tknow, but it would be a good guess.”
              She heard Sean sigh and say, “The lad’s right.  He might try to killall of us just for trying to protect Yvette, but I think that gives usall the more reason to stop him.”
              Jubilee was about to say something when Monet came in and said, “Maybewe can stop his assult before he get’s too close, but I think the onlyway to find out his power is to make him think he’s got close.”
              Jubilee almost started to fume at that.  She had a feeling what Monetwas suggesting. “Are you saying that we use Penny as bait?  No way.” She heard everyone agreeing with her.
              Jubilee was surprised when Monet just glared at her and said, “No, we projectan image of her onto something.  I doubt this Hunter has my brother’sgift of knowledge on sight.  Maybe we can fool him just long enoughto get an upper hand.”
              Jubilee looked at Monet in shock, partially from the glare she had received. Something was definately different with Monet.  This wasn’t the usual,I know what I have planned glare. This was a ‘Don’t mess with me’ glare. She had seen Wolvie use it a few times.  This wasn’t the same Monetthey dealt with daily.  Something was very different.  She thensaid, “Ok, that makes sense, but what do we do when we find out.”
              Monet smiled and said, “We’ll have to plan on our feet then, but we can’tlet this Hunter person get the upper hand.  If he succeeds, we mightlose two teammates, maybe more. He might just try to eliminate the wholeschool.”
              Jubilee had to agree with that reasoning, but something really botheredher about Monet.  It was the small things.  Something one wouldn’tnormally notice, unless a fake was standing there.  She started wonderingif it was Monet or Claudette in control.  Then, she remembered thatMonet said that Claudette was a symbiotic mutant.  She needed Monetto survive.  It couldn’t be that.  She was musing on this whenEmma said, “That sounds like the best idea we’ve had so far.  We justhave to set up a target to catch his attention.  One I can mask inhis mind.”
              Sean then said, “Maybe we can use one of the practice droids.  Wemight be able to even set it up to look like Yvette.”  Jubilee thennoticed that for the first time since they entered the room, her surrogate‘sister’ had a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
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              He walked through the streets of the small town, careful not to let anyonesee his hands. Although he wore gloves, he always felt that people couldstill see his curse.  He cursed the day he had met with Emplate. He cursed even accepting the offer of power.  Although many searchedfor the same power that Emplate seeked, he was only concerned with stoppingthe mutant factor. The natural mutant vampire that Emplate was, and whatEmplate had turned him into.  Now he was looking for the reluctantenforcer.  Something told him Yvette was in this small town. He came to a small cafe and entered it.  He noticed that most of thepeople were focusing on a TV in the corner.  He heard a waitress say,“Just sit down, and someone will be with you in a moment.”
              He didn’t feel like sitting.  He wanted to get his task done, so hecould finally be at peace.  He was focused on the thought when heheard a voice on the TV say, “For 15 nights, the eyes of America watched,as common everyday people tried to win the biggest prize in the historyin television.  Many tried, few failed, but more reached a highergoal.”  A picture of a man with red beard appeared as the TV said,“You’ve just won $125,000”  The man was in exstacy.  If it wherehim, he would not be happy.  Then the image changed back to the NewYork Skyline, “And then, came a lone boy from Pennsylvania.  As thecountry watched, the most antisipated moment in Television history approached.”
              The image changed, and he saw the image of a boy in his early 20’s on thescreen.  The boy just said, “B for my final answer.”  He noticedthat the boy seemed to look ill.  He wondered if he, too, was a victimof Emplates.
              He heard one of the boys in the place say, “Hey, Dorian, isn’t that thatRichard Cale dude from the school?”  This sounded interesting.
              The other said, “Yea, I think he said that girl he’s dating was in theaudience that night, you remember, the redhead closer to our age. Can’t believe the father allows it?”  This caught his attention evenmore.
              The TV then said, “at the final question, the magical moment turned totragedy as Richard Cale fell ill right on stage.”  He quickly glancedback at the TV and saw three people help get Richard out of the studio. He could tell just from a periferal glance who he was looking at. It was Yvette Gyorgi, the next name on his list.
              He turned and said to the two boys talking, “Excuse me, you know that boythat was on there?”
              The one looked at him, puzzled, and said, “Ran into him a few times atthe comic shop. Helped me out when I couldn’t pay for mine.  He’sa nice guy, if not a little weird.  He reads some strange stuff.”
              “And the girl, what’s her name?”
              The other boy just responded, “I think she said it was Yvette Cassidy,but I’m not sure. She said her father was the head of the school.” He now had an idea of what was happening.  She must have realizedthat the boy on the show was a mutant, and was hiding what she was fromthis boy, or maybe she had seduced him.  If it was the later, theboy had to die, but that was secondary.  He had to kill her, so hecould bring himself closer to peace.
              He looked again at the two boys and asked his last question of them. “Which direction is this school from here?”  The one boy pointed ina direction.  That was all he needed.  He didn’t even wait fordirections.  He just ran out the door of the cafe and headed in thedirection the boy pointed out.  With luck, he would catch her by surprice. His own mutant gifts would be all he needed to stop her long enough tokill her.
 

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