"I'm Jacen King. Nice work yourself."

Gripping the mans hand in a shake Sam said, “Can call me Steel if you would like.” Sam said trying to sound polite as possible. Letting go of Jacen’s hand he noted the smile and returned one as well. ‘just glad he isn’t the mutant hating type’ thought Sam as he took a step backwards towards the ice wall.

"That ice wall saved lives."

Sam grinned to Jacen and said, “Hopefully it will keep saving them…” turning his back to Jacen Sam waved his hand towards the ice wall but nothing seemed to happen. He waved it again towards the ice wall trying to get the wall of ice to do something, “what the hell?” muttered Sam as he tried to will the ice to his demands.

Just then Sam heard a clunk as a piece of ice that was covering his arm dropped to the ground. The ice was now covered in blood as dripped to the ground. Sam stumbled for a second feeling suddenly light headed. Sam toppled over and fainted due to the sudden loss in blood pressure. For the bullet hole in his arm began to squirt out blood.

Jacen watched, somewhat amused as the mutant turned to apparently do something to his ice wall but something was wrong. For several moments Steel stood there until he finally muttered a curse under his breath.

"Doesn't quite have control of his powers yet... lucky he didn't get himself killed." The man thought to himself somewhat dryly before he suddenly realized that things were getting even worse. The ice that Steel had been using to cover his wounds suddenly fell off and the mutant collapsed to the ground, unsconsious.

"Shit!" Jacen swore immediately as he moved forward and crouched beside the man. Blood was pumping from his arm rather steadily and without a though he pressed his hands tightly against the wound, holding it compressed as best he could. Right then the front door opened and about half a dozen of his fellow S.W.A.T. members walked in with their weapons at the ready. Right behind them were two teams of paramedics.

"We've got a security guard down over there and we've got a man down over here!" Jacen barked out as soon as he saw the paramedics, "The guard has one to two gun shots to the chest and the man here has a gunshot to his arm that's pumping blood fast!"

The teams split up and in a few moments both the security guard and Steel were on gurneys heading for the door. Jacen was silent as he watched them going but then broke into a jog after them. He exited the bank and arrived at the ambulance just as they were loading Steel inside. "He's a mutant... saved quite a few lives back there. You might want to give that mutant school a call."

The paramedics nodded quickly and then finished loading Steel into the ambulance. Seconds later, with the sirens blaring, they were racing for the hospital.

"Jacen... uh... we're gonna have to get your statement." One of the officers said as he walked towards the S.W.A.T. officer.

"Fine... fine." Jacen muttered with a slight sigh, "It's not like I had anything better to do today."