"So, anything we know about this new mutant friend of ours?" Kala asked as he walked out of the portal with Kitty and Piotr walking behind him, the Russian mutant already in his living metal form.
"Other than the fact that they are probably being hated by ordinary people, nothing." Kitty said with a sigh as she looked around in order to see if there was anything that might be a clue about the new mutant. "Except that Emma claimed that there was something... unstable about the signals. Not that I have any idea what that might mean."
"Doesn't it mean that they are near death?" Kala asked with a tilt of his head and Kitty could not help but be unnerved about how nonchalant he seemed about such a thing.
"No, there have been times where Cerebro detected mutants in such situations and that didn't make the signals unstable. Instead they were 'urgent', or at least that's how professor had described it to me." Piotr said with a frown as he crossed his arms over his chest. "I think it's their mutations. These are the first mutants since M-Day and therefore there might be something making their powers unstable or erratic."
"Then we have to find them fast." Kitty said with a frown before turning to Kala. "Can't you feel their minds? A new mutant should be having thoughts quite a bit different than the rest of the people around them."
"I can't distinguish between this many people, most of my training till now was focused more on telekinetic part of the mind arts." Kala said with a frown as he gripped his chin. "Though the mind of someone in danger or distress should be giving off a far more noticeable signal compared to others, yet there is nothing like that." He said as he walked without much care for the stares the people around were giving him before turning around.
"Are you guys even sure that this is the right coordinate?" He asked with a raised eyebrow but before Kitty or Piotr could reassure him about the coordinates, something unexpected happened.
And by something unexpected, she meant that a brunette boy with huge muscles suddenly jumping from the crowd at Kala with a roar and then both of them falling downhill.
"...what the hell?" Kitty asked herself as her mind took a moment before properly processing what happened before their eyes before she and Piotr broke into a sprint and ran after Kala and the mysterious attacker that they were pretty sure to be the new mutant they had been looking for.
"Do you think we will ever have a mission without some complications like this?" Piotr asked as they kept running.
"I would say 'when pigs fly' but I'm starting to think that a mission with no complications is actually more impossible than that." Kitty gritted out before her phone started ringing. "Kind of busy at the moment Scott."
"Kitty, I need you guys to keep the mutant busy and away from the populace till we get there!"
"Not sure if that's possible."
"You have to! The reason the signals were unstable is because their powers are out of control!" The leader of the X-Men exclaimed and Kitty ignored Piotr's expression that practically screamed 'called it'.
"Hope can get their powers back under control. So you need to keep the mutant busy till we get there." He kept talking but Kitty was not really listening anymore, she was far more focused on the sight before her.
"Scott."
"Yes?"
"I don't think we will need to wait." Kitty said as she kept looking at Kala who was holding a hand in front of the formerly berserk mutant, who was now sitting on his ass with a slightly confused but calm expression on his face.
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"What do you mean you stabilized him?" Scott asked as a migraine like no other before made itself known to him while Kala simply shrugged.
"Not really sure. I first tried to stop him telepathically but his mind was far too much like that of an animal so I couldn't do it. Then I tried to use the Old Power but he just calmed down before I could." The gray skinned mutant said as he patted the new mutant's head, while said mutant simply leaned into the touch with a content expression on his face. "His name is Teon by the way. Teon Macik, and someone should probably contact his parents."
"...sure, we'll do that." Scott said with a sigh, finally admitting his defeat and letting the alien mutant walk away since he obviously had no idea how he did what he did.
This... this was not normal. It definitely wasn't. How the fuck was Kala able to stabilize a mutant's power?! It made sense with Hope since her power was connecting with the powers of other mutants but Kala was a telekinesis and telepath combo, even if there was a very real possibility of him being a reality warper as well.
Was that how he did it? Just warp the reality so that Teon's powers were no longer out of control, even if the difference wasn't that much since Teon apparently had the powers of Sabretooth with an even more animal-like mind. If that was the case, then Scott prayed that the lessons with Strange were going well cause he so wasn't prepared to deal with a reality warping mutant going out of control today; or any day!
"So, where to next?" Though it seemed like he wouldn't have to worry about that just today. Though, why did it look like Hope was glaring at Kala's back?
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