" Haha! So, Julian, looks like you guys are at the top of the leaderboard this year." Ian stated.
" You know it! The Hellions are on top baby, YEAH!" Julian exclaimed.
Ian laughed at the boy's excitement over his team being the number one squad in the entire school.
" You know, for once I'm gonna let you have this, Julian. We kicked butt." Cessily exclaimed.
" Yeah, we did! Hellions for life baby. Let's goooo!!!!" Santo exclaimed.
" All right. All right! Come on guys, let's get going. Or we're gonna miss the prize giving ceremony." Kevin stated.
" Yeah, come on everybody let's go shine!" Julian exclaimed.
Ian shook his head at Julian, he just couldn't help but be a showoff. That's what Julian did best.
" Oh, boy. What a day." Ian exclaimed.
" But you have to admit, you're having fun." Cessily said to the boy.
Ian smirked and nodded.
" Yeah, I guess I am. Come on, let's not fall behind your righteous leader." Ian joked. He and the others quickly caught up to Julian and walked to the grand stage together. They sat down in front of the stage together and waited for the prize giving ceremony to begin.
Soon enough, Dani came up to the stage and began speaking to the crowd.
" It's been a big year for us. As the students are all aware, we instituted a new field day program that allowed for squads of students to compete against each other. It was a chance to learn strategic thinking and teamwork. And now, I'd like to award this trophy to the squad the performed the best. It should come to no surprise to anyone who followed the standings." Dani explained.
Julian got up with a smile on his face before Dani could even finish.
" Julian, sit down." Cessily told the boy.
" What? Like any of you don't know she's about to call our names." Julian replied smugly.
" Please join me in congratulating the winning squad for their impressive performance in this year's field day events.... THE HELLIONS!" Dani exclaimed.
" YEAAAAAH!" Ian clapped loudly for his friends as they walked up to the stage to accept their award.
Julian, Cessily, Sooraya, Santo, Brian, and Kevin all looked happy as Julian hosted the award up into the air. Meanwhile Ian just sat there clapping for the group, while others scorned them.
" And now for our next awards. To the student who has the highest academic grades of the school year, and also the student who has improved the most!" Dani exclaimed.
David, from the new mutants prepared for his name to be called as he was one of the students with the highest scores on the finals this year, however the name that Dani called wasn't his.
" Please join me in congratulating, IAN SINCLAIR!" Dani yelled.
Ian's head jerked up to the stage. He hadn't expected to win anything this year, let alone two awards back-to-back.
" Yeah! IAN!" Cessily exclaimed.
" Yeah, let's go man!" Brian yelled.
" Ian! Ian! Ian!" Julian chanted.
" Congratulations, Ian." Sooraya exclaimed.
" Dude, you rocked it." Julian stated.
All the Hellions congratulated Ian on his achievements. Their smiles and cheers spurred Ian forward towards the stage.
Ian stepped towards Dani, who held out both awards in her hands and handed them to Ian who looked at her in confusion.
" Congratulations, Ian. It might have been a rocky end of the year, but I'm proud of everything you've achieved. Congratulations." Dani told the boy.
Ian took the awards and while he didn't show it, he was smiling on the inside.
But things at Xavier's always had a way of going wrong just when everything seemed right.
Laurie's mom, who had come to support her daughter, was in the middle of leaving when a man decided to make his presence known.
" Hey, don't leave now lady. The party's just getting started!" Blob exclaimed. He punched through the doors of the Xavier institute smashing them down on Gail's back and hurting her in the process.
" What the?" Dani asked.
" The Blob?!" Amara yelled.
" MOM!" Laurie screamed. Though she and her mother had a falling out recently, Laurie still loved her mom a great deal.
" Everyone get back inside now!" Dani yelled to the students.
" Let's go kids! Inside!" Agent pierce exclaimed.
" But my mother." Laurie replied.
" I'll get her, Laurie. Go inside." Dani said to the young girl.
" Ian, take Laurie and the others and go inside." Dani told the boy.
" Dani are you crazy? I need to be out here." Ian told the woman.
" No, you don't. Leave this to the adults. We can handle this." Dani told the boy.
Ian looked over at Amara, aka Magma, fighting Blob and then back at Dani.
" Damn it, fine. I'll get the kids inside then I'm coming back." Ian exclaimed. He picked up Laurie and started running with her and the others back to the institute, while Pierce, Dani and Magma tried to fight off blob.
Ian was the last one inside to make sure everyone else was safe. Onc ehe was there he placed Laurie down who looked out the window in fear for her mother's life.
" Man, they're getting creamed out there." Julian exclaimed.
" Then we need to do something." Josh stated.
" Let the Hellions take care of this, Josh. We got the firepower for this." Julian told the boy.
" This isn't about squads, Julian. We all have to do something." David exclaimed.
" We can't go out there. We'll get killed. Or at least give him more targets that Miss Moonstar and her friend have to worry about!" Dryad exclaimed.
" She's right. But we would also be giving him more targets." Ian stated.
"Exactly!" David replied.
" All right then. You guys are the brain men. What do we do?" Julian asked.
" Well, Blob is super-strong and immovable when his feet are planted. He's also immune to harm of almost every kind." David explained.
" I think, The Paragons, Alpha Squadron, and The Corsairs should all stay inside to protect the younger students." Ian spoke.
" While The Hellions and my Squad, the New Mutants, should go out." David explained.
" The cuckoos as well. Can you girls help us coordinate our attack?" Ian asked the girls. " If you're willing?"
" We're with you, Ian." The three stepford cuckoos replied.
" Good, let's go." David replied.
Meanwhile back outside Dani and the others were having the fight of their life trying to stop the blob.
" What I wouldn't give for my old quantum powers or even my psychic bow and arrow right now." Dani exclaimed. " Amara can hold him off, but I don't know if she can put him down."
" How far away are the X-men?" Pierce asked the woman.
" Too far." Dani exclaimed.
" Heh! They said I was useless. Well, look at me now! Yer just slowin me down. You can't stop me! An I'm gonna brin the whole school tumbling down!" The Blob exclaimed as he walked through Amara's magma.
" The school has come down before. It will come back. It always does!' Amara exclaimed as she continued to push against the Blob.
" How bout I do ya one worse? Mebbe put the beatdown on your kids?" Blob asked the woman.
" I got a better idea. How about the students put a beatdown on you?" Julian exclaimed.
The New Mutants, and the Hellions all rushed the Blob together and attacked the man.
Julian hit him with a wave of his telekinetic energy but barely fazed him.
" Whoa, what was that? The wind? I barely felt it." Blob joked.
" That wasn't the wind. This." Sofia told the brute. She joined Julian in hitting the big man. But even with both of their powers working together the Blob barely moved.
" When I get my hands on you two, I'm gonna..." Blob exclaimed. He was beginning to get closer to Sofia, pushing through her wind with ease.
' Jay, get Sofia out of there.' David told the boy telepathically.
" I got her. Keep blasting him, Sofia." Jay told the girl as he picked her up in his arms.
" But David, what about Julian?" Sofia asked.
' We got a plan for that.' Ian told the girl.
" You ain't gonna do a thing fatso!" Brian exclaimed, he ran up behind Julian and placed his hand on his shoulder. " Tag! You're it, Julian!" Brian exclaimed.
" That I am, Brian. I'm definitely it!" Julian exclaimed.
Because of Brian's powers, Blob was forced to run away from Julian until he was out of range of the effect.
" Blob's only gonna run till he's out of range of Brian's tag effect." Kevin explained. " I need to get in there, Cess."
" No, Kevin. If you go after him only two things can happen. Either your power doesn't work, and he kills you, or it does work, and you kill him." Cessily told the boy. " Either way, I won't let that happen."
' Don't worry, we're bringing in the hammer.' Ian told the two.
" Sooraya, drop me!" Ian told the girl.
" Right." Sooraya released Ian from her sand, and the man fell from up high straight down like a comet on top of the blob.
Ian landed on top of the Blob smashing him down into the ground, and while the force was enough to stun him, the Blob was still trying to push forward.
" Damn? Immune to most harm you said?" Ian asked. Ian still weighted quite a bit. His body was dense and falling at terminal velocity from a couple hundred feet up, meant he was falling like a cannonball. And yet, somehow the Blob was still moving forward, although a little slower than before.
" Laurie, use your pheromones on him. Put him to sleep." Josh told the girl.
" Forget my pheromones. My mom is hurt!" Laurie exclaimed. " Josh can you... Please?" Laurie asked the boy. " I can't. My powers don't mean anything." Laurie explained.
Josh ran over to Laurie's mom, who was being helped by Dani, and placed his hand on the back of her head.
" You kids were supposed to stay inside!" Dani exclaimed.
" You know me, Dani. I never do what I'm told." Josh told the woman; he began healing Lauire's mom. " Your Mom'll be fine, Laurie. Now, go! Do your thing." Josh told the woman.
' Cuckoo's your up too! Brian's powers effected the Blob too. Which means your telepathy should be able to put the boy to sleep.' Ian told the girls.
" Hey, big guy Go to sleep" Laurie told the Blob. She began using her pheromones to try and put Blob to sleep. But the big man was fighting through the feeling.
" Not... gonna go down... Been in control of my body... My whole life." Blob exclaimed.
" She said... Sleep!" The stepfords exclaimed. They all used their telepathy along with Laurie's powers to put the blob down, and with one final hit to the back of the head, courtesy of Sofia's wind, the Blob was finally taken down.
With the Blob finally defeated, Shield was called in to bring the big guy in.
" Jeez, how much does this guy weight?" One of the agents asked.
" Allow me, officers." Julian told the agents. He used his telekinesis to pick the blob up and carried him with the agents.
" You kids did well...You should have stayed inside... But i am proud of you." Dani told the kids.
" Shield has Blob now, so he's out of my jurisdiction. But trust me, I'll try to stay on top of this." Agent pierce stated.
" It felt good, to defend the school... It was good to see the students do the same." Amara told Dani.
" Good enough to come back next semester?" Dani asked.
" I think that would be an excellent idea." Amara replied.
" Hey, we did our thing man! That was so epic!" Julian exclaimed.
" Yeah, we made a great team." Brian stated.
" We did, didn't we." Ian stated.
" Dude, when you came out of the sky like that and smashed into Blob, dude, that was so cool. I might even be a little bit jealous man." Julian told Ian.
" Trust me, don't be. It hurt like hell." Ian told the boy.
" Really? I would have thought you'd be immune to pain by now." Santo asked.
" No, I'm not. I have a higher pain threshold, yes and I don't really take that much damage. But I definitely do still feel it. And let me tell you, falling out of the sky... Not my favorite thing to do. So, don't expect me to do it often." Ian joked.
" Well, I say this calls for a celebration. Ian, you're still welcome to come stay at my place with the rest of us for summer vacation." Julian stated.
" Come on, man. Let's go!" Santo shouted.
" Dude, you gotta come with us." Brian stated.
" Yeah, man. You're one of us." Kevin told the man.
" Please, Ian?" Cessily asked.
Ian looked at all the Hellions, before sighing.
" All right. I guess, I got nothing better to do. So, it sounds like a plan." Ian replied.
" All right! Let's party!" Julian exclaimed.
The Hellions all marched back into the institute to prepare themselves for the summer of their life, not knowing that just around the corner would be the day that all mutants would remember for the rest of their lives as Decimation Day!
" Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Mama's gonna kill for you the whole damn world."