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Erik Lehnsherr, formerly known as Magneto, looked up from the chess board as two young girls, looking exactly alike, approached him. One of the girls sat down across from him and swapped the board sides so that she was black and he was white. "Your move," she said after setting up her side of the board.

"And what makes you think I would want to play against an amateur like you?" he asked. The other girl laughed.

"Sir," she said, "my sister is no amateur. She has come very close to beating grand masters before."

"Lily," the first girl said. "I think I can take care of myself."

"C'mon, Ashley," Lily complained. "I was just having some fun."

"Tell you what," Ashley said, turning back to Erik. "If I win, you tell me what I want to know. If I lose, this never happened."

"Fair enough," Erik said, moving a pawn forward.

"Pawn mover," Ashley commented moving her knight forward. Then spoke to her sister, without turning around. "Don't tell me what his next move is. I already know." Erik moved his pawn forward one to attack the knight that was originally attacking him.

"Your move."

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Ororo Munroe- most commonly known as Storm- led her team, Colossus, Wolverine, Iceman, Shadowcat, and the most recent recruits, Jubilee, and Angel through the Danger Room simulation. It certainly helped relieved some of the tension she'd been feeling lately as the new headmistress. "Logan!" she called to Wolverine. Wolverine turned and saw her nod toward the doors that were the next target for the huge robots. She used the wind to fly over the fallen debris.

Laser fire was flying everywhere. Everyone was dodging and deflecting whenever they could. Storm found Logan and landed next to him behind a large piece of debris. A huge robot was headed towards them and she call on a lightning bolt to short-circuit it. "You want offense or defense?" she asked.

"Offense."

"Kidding," Storm said. "I'm taking offense with Iceman. You can take defense for once." She turned to where Bobby Drake- Iceman- and Kitty-Shadowcat- were hiding. "Bobby!" Iceman rushed over to where Storm was. "Think you can handle an offensive ice attack?" Iceman nodded eagerly. Storm's eyes turned white as she brought on some clouds. She walked out into the open as the mini-blizzard started, and made herslef a target. The fires from the laser fire that the team had been hiding or deflecting from earlier all died, and the robot had two targets to choose from. It aimed at Storm since she was right in front of him and the first one to make herself a target. Storm formed a twister as she flew up into the air, and sent it to the robot. Iceman aimed high and froze the circuits as it stepped towards him unknowingly, and it fell; smashing to bits.

Storm landed as the simulation faded into the Danger room and the computer announced that it was complete. "Nice work, Bobby," Storm said.

"Thanks, Storm."

As they all headed out, Logan joined Storm at the front of the group. "Thanks for not freezing us." Storm smiled amusingly.

"You know as well as I do that ice melts quickly in the heat. I needed to change the weather a little." Storm stopped to look at her watch. "Oh, shoot."

"What?"

"I just remembered that I'm meeting Angel's father in a few minutes. I've been delaying this meeting as much as I could, but he's persistent."

"Why do you need to meet with Angel's father?"

"He just wants to make sure that his child is 'getting the best education' and what not." Storm held her fingers up like quotation marks for emphasis. With that they departed to their separate ways





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