A dark wind blew over the grounds, causing the mansion to have an ominous feeling. Most children where inside,trying not to get caught in the storm. But one person wandered the grounds of the institute, a form that would be intimidating to the smaller children but perhaps slightly comforting to the elder ones.

His name was tattoo.

He was a muscular man with cold black eyes and tattoos covering his vast muscles. He had one suitcase and wore a hat over his green hair and sunglasses over his snake like eyes. He knocked on the door of the institute hoping for repent and forgiveness for the things he had done in he past.

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Ruby was playing her game boy in the garage, trying desperately to get Mario to save princess peach when her ears twitched. She heard knocking at the front door The pups eyes lite up immediately at the thought of her being the the first one to greet someone. She bounded from the worktable onto the floor and bolted around and through the yard toward the front door. However the fox girl stopped in her tracks when she realized who it was.

She let out a terrified whimper and ran back to the garage before he could see her from the bush she had stopped in. She climbed under her work bench trembling madly.

"Ruby," Jamal asked, climbing under the worktable, "Whats wrong red?"

"Tattoo is here!" Ruby whimpered, turning into her fox pup form and darting into a bucket.

"What?! How can he be out of the labs?" Jamal exclaimed gently lifting the trembling Ruby out of the bucket. He began stroking her fur gently, trying his best to make her calm down. It was working and the fox was calming down. Jamal felt a cold wetness on his hand and looked down to see Ruby licking his fingers hungrily.

"Did you have brownies before you came in here?" Ruby asked, turning into her human form.

"Yes...that was why you were licking my fingers?"

"Yep....But anyways Tattoo he isn't normal, he has suitcases and he is smiling," Ruby grimaced, "He only used to smile if one of the children had just did his bidding to a T."

"Maybe he is trying to move in with us." Jamal blurted out before realizing what he said.

"WHAT?! OVER MY DEAD BODY!" Ruby snarled rushing out from under the table and went into a good observing place.

"What are you doing?" Jamal asked creeping behind the bush Ruby was behind.

"IF Ms tipper starts to let him in we get him. We tell her everything he has done." Ruby stated as she watched.
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Tattoo knew that Electric fox had seen him and had most likely gone to run and hide but he really didn't care. He would merely wait for a adult to come and help him, not a mere child to. He was gonna repent if it was the last thing he did. But he might have to toy a little bit with his favorite toy before he totally repented...but it just depended how much these people trusteed him

Tricity pulled open the door and saw an unknown man standing there, most likely a mutant by his stereotypical appearance. However, he was a handsome man. She leaned against the door and studied him, as the wind fiercely whipped into the mansion.

"Excuse me," Tricity said, stepping around the man and cupping her hands over her mouth. "KIDS!! EVERYONE, BACK IN THE HOUSE, PLEASE!!"

She opened the door fully to let the children run inside, a few of them looking the man over with skeptical eyes. Tricity didn't like the way this person made her feel inside and she instinctively touched her stomach, feeling the electricity currents running through the mansion. "Yes, well, the weather is getting pretty bad. Why don't you come inside."

Tricity led the man into the living room and offered him a seat on the couch after cleaning off the legos on the cusions. "I'll be with you in one second." She left the man there, but quickly went over to the security station and told Johnathon to keep a watchful eye on him through the cameras mounted in the room. "John, try and contact as many of the X-Men as possible on their radios and cells. I don't like the vibe this man is giving me."

"Right away, Miss Tipper," the young man replied and immediately picked up the walkie to contact the others. Tricity did a quick sweep of the first floor to see if she could find any of the X-Men before making her way back to the living room.

Tattoo looked at Tricity with his snake like eyes, that where filled with remorse. He was glad he had gotten a female to greet him because they could sometimes be more understanding than males.

"Hello, my name is Tattoo and I was wondering if I could stay here for a while." Tattoo sighed in a distressed tone, "You see I have done things in the past that I am not proud of-"

"You got that right!" Ruby exclaimed, barreling into the room. She growled at Tattoo ears flat on her head.

"Oh hello Ruby, why dont you sit down and we talk about this." Tattoo said in surpisingly calm tone considering he was about to be attacked by a rabid fox girl.

"NO," Ruby barked but then when her eyes met Tattoo's she back off a bit. She looked at the older male with slight fear in her eyes. "Please dont hurt me master Tattoo I didnt do anything wrong." Ruby whimpered, eyes slightly glazed over. It was as if she was reliving something from the past.

Jamal came barreling in soon after, wrapping his arm around the fox girl protectively. "What did you do to her?" Jamal spat, stroking Ruby's hair Gently.

"Absolutely nothing my boy, I didnt even use my powers just the look in my eyes must have scared Electricfox that badly." Tattoo sighed.

"Her name is Ruby."

"Yes I know its just a force of habbit." Tattoo stated, folding his hands calmly on his lap. "She must be reliving one of our 'disinplanary sessions.' something I hope that she will forgive me about in time."

"I doubt that." Jamal growled, as he saw Ruby turn into fox pup form and jump onto his shoulder, crawling under the shoulder part of his shirt and laying thier. "As you can see she is Scared to death of you."

"But My dear lad I have changed, I have drifted away from Fusionist and I can tell you all one of his next plans if you would like, I am here to repent all of the horrible things I have done. I will make sure I will get forgiveness or Die trying." Tattoo said

Millie skipped down the stairs, she had heard some yelling and wanted to see what was going on. When she reached the bottom and saw the man she squealed from surprise. This man looked funny, she had never seen a man like this before, so she darted behind the couch and peeked around the side of it, trying to find out why he had all of those marks. Then, she finally gulped and stood up, being very brave, or stupid.

"Etcute me." She said, keeping her distance. "Why do you look funny?"

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Fade was walking down the stairs when she heard voices, loud voices filled with anger and distrust, then one innocent one. Instinctively, she turned invisible and walked into the room where the others were. She didn't recognize any of them, not one at all. So she kept silent and watched. There was no way she was going to let a little fox and a little girl be unprotected, even though another male was protecting the fox. So, Fade stepped infront of the girl, going unnoticed so that she couldn't be hurt.

Tattoo merely smiled at the little girl and laughed light heartaly. "Oh my I havent heard that one in a while. Well you see that is my power to make all these Tattoo's come alive." Tattoo said in a sweet tone.

Ruby finally crawled out from under Jamal's shirt and turned into her human form next to her protecter. She scented someone else here but ignored it. "yea and scare the wits out of children while aiding in thier experimentation." Ruby muttered so only herself and Jamal could here.

Raphael left the Danger Room and could hear the shouts from down the hall. He had his doubts that it was anything serious, but decided to check it out anyways. He stopped at the entrance to the front hall as Ruby leapt to Jamal's shoulder. He immediately made the assumption that it was no ordinary fox, then directed his gaze over the other occupants in the room, holding his tongue for the moment. The new man standing opposite of Tricity seemed to be the center of the commotion.

"Evenin' Miss Tricity," he said, stepping into the front hall and reassessing the group. Judging from the reaction of the fox and boy guarding said animal, he wondered if the man was alone... and almost snapped his life-aura sight on to check, though immediately chose to not to, giving the man the benefit of the doubt. He however did keep himself tensed and ready to react if something did go down. ""So... uhhh... what's the problem? Lots of shouting, could hear it all the way down the hallway." He drew a small breath, watching the others in the room, gaze lingering a little more on the boy, fox, and man more than Tricity and the little girl.

"That weird, and cool." She said, now closely examening his tattoos. "Toe did your parent not love you?" She asked, it was a completely innocent question since that's the only reason she knew of why someone would come to the sister school, however, it may be taken as rude or mean.

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Fade kept her ground, feeling a bit uncomfortable that he was looking right at her...well, through her, but to Fade it looked like he was staring at her thighs and it was not a good feeling. However, she stayed put to make sure he didn't do anything to the little girl and to read his expressions to decipher what kind of person he was. She knew what bad people looked like, she was a bit of one herself, but he was really bad, much worse than her, and she could see it in his freaky eyes.

It wasn't readily apparent just when he got there, in the confusion. However, Mike soon stood just behind and to the side of Tricity. He said nothing, but his eyes glowed, and those who lived there felt the familiar reassuring presence radiating from him.

He watched Tattoo carefully, and subtly stepped forward, next to Tricity and closer to Nightlight.

Tricity put her arms out in attempt to stop everyone. "ALRIGHT, that's enough! We don't need a critical audience before we understand what's going on, so please...Millie, can you go into the playroom with the other children please? This is adult time right now, ok, sweetie?"

She sat down on the couch across from Tattoo, as Ruby was calling him, and was quite intrigued to hear the relationship she and he had...as well as what he had to say about Fusionist.

"Ok, Tattoo. We're listening. Who are you and what do you know about Fusionist?"

Tattoo once again smiled at Tricity, a large smile creeping across his face.

"My name is Tattoo, I have no other name besides that. As for what I know about Fusionist, I know that he is not to happy about the defeat of his ally and has decided to increase the experimentation on mutants. He is taking more people off the streets than usual and imprisioning them in the labratories himself and Whitmore shared. He will be kidnapping at random and will try to break thier wills at any means nessary in order for him to gain control." Tattoo stated before his eyes wandered to Ruby.

"Much like what he did to your elder sister Sapphire. He broke her will and now she will do whatever he says without hesitation. Even if it means killing you or your sister. "

Ruby's eyes widened for a moment before shaking her head. "No Sapphire would not hurt Emerald and I, not matter how much he hurts her Sapphire is our sister. We are family she would never hurt us we're family."

Tattoo sighed defeatdedly, "That is Where you are wrong my dear, any mutant under Fusionist influence will be completely loyal to him after a few mere months of servitutde and experimentation."

"But what about Emmy, she always rebelled against Fusionist she never listened to him which is why she has all the scars on her back." Ruby countered, ears perking up.

"Your sister could resit because she wouldnt admit the fact that she was a mutant pawn in Fusionist's game, much like i was." Tattoo replied.

"Oh..."

"She also acted exactly like your mother so that didnt help matters to much." Tattoo grimaced, "So much like your mother that Fusionist felt the need for harsher punishments on her."

"Oh...that explains alot." Ruby muttered.

"Indeed, anyways Fusionist wants the mutant community to suffer for the loss of his ally so all of your students should be careful wandering around the cities because today will be his first roundup." Tattoo said

Raphael watched the exchanges, wandering, almost aimlessly, further into front hall and over towards the couches that Tatoo and Tricity occupied. The same ones he and she occupied quite sometime ago. He had come to the mansion to leave a violent past behind him, and this tatooed fellow seemed to be here to do that, and play the hero by warning everyone else about this 'Fusionist' character.

What did not settle right with Raphael though was the way everyone seemed at edge with him. Something about how they acted, as though they knew something he did not, it bothered him. Tickled his senses, and for the time being he settled into trying to read the man, figure it out. He had seen heavily tatooed people before, and suspected the other adults in the room had as well, so he figured that likely was not the reason for their agitation.

"What caused you to see the light?" He blurted out, really without even realizing he had done so, and half wished he had not. It sounded almost rude, though thinking more on it, it seemed almost a necessary question.

Millie sighed in disappointment before she looked up at Tricity and replied "Yes, ma'am." She then walked out of the room, but she stopped around the corner to eavesdrop.

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Fade, seeing as there was no one behind her now, walked over to Raphael, debating if she should turn visible or not. But then she decided not to turn visible, because if something was to happen, she didn't want the stranger to know that there was someone else in the room. However, these Fusionist kidnappings were all very new to her and she had no idea of what was going on.

Mike glanced at Tricity from his vantage point at the doorway. Then, looking at Tattoo, he let his mind sink into his, looking for any signs of deception or mind control.

ooc-umm i know i'm not spossed to be in more then one place but i signed up to be kidnapped...

Skoliro had been watching from above, a lot was happening down there. Maybe he could get some excitement in this boring old school. He flew down and landed in the middle of it all, next to Tricity.

Well hello all. Whats happing?

His British accent shined through. He hated that damn thing, why couldn't he have been taught in America?

((ooc: How are you landing in the middle of a room? They moved inside, you need to rethink your entrance))