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 * Issue 10 - 'Frisco Blues' **




 * Plot**

Two weeks later, Samantha is leaving her afternoon telepathy class to check on the results of a second DNA test of Dagan (to confirm the results that she is Meghan and David's daughter). On the way through the school grounds, she passes students at the pool, in the house playing video games, making out, and so on. She is approached by Rafé, who flirts with her. He also tells her that someone is there to see Dane, but the headmaster is nowhere to be found. Samantha meets with the man and he turns out to be Matthew Stone, the school’s new security officer. He drove to the school on a motorcycle. There are instant sparks between the two. When Sam goes downstairs to find Dane, Jessica tells her that Dane looked over some lab results and stormed off, saying he was going away for the weekend. Later, the teachers are trying out the new Danger Room (by putting Cameron through it) when they hear about a bank robbery in San Francisco by super-powered beings. They know that there used to be a group called The Pride that kept super-powered crime under control, but they’re now gone because they were killed by their children. Since there aren’t any other superheroes around, the group needs to help. Dagan and Cameron want to go, and are allowed to tag along in the Blackbird along as they stay in the jet during the fight. The group hurries to the scene. At the bank a group of private school kids are about to escape with the loot. Instead of surrendering to the group, the private school students put up a fight to test their powers. The group later realizes that the students have taken Mutant Growth Hormone (MGH) and have the powers of dead mutants (Bedlam [disable EMP-powered equipment, scan/perceive energy fields, scramble the brain’s chemistry], Blink [teleportation, put people “out of phase” by touch], Copycat [shape-shifting, power mimicry], Darkstar [darkforce use, flight, teleportation, concussive blasts, create solid constructs made of darkforce energy], Jean Grey [telekinesis, telepathy], Pyro [fire manipulation], Synch [duplicate super powers, metabolize bio-energy signatures, sense/track super-powered beings], and Thunderbird [superhuman senses, strength, speed, and stamina]). The students are all wearing blue school uniforms (“the blues”) and claim they are members of Academy M (a mysterious new school). The Academy X staff manages to defeat the private school students, but the kids are able to teleport away. The media cover the spectacle and dub the Academy X group “the eXalts.”

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