Mettaliar had walked in after walking around outside. He saw Iris sit up and immediatly rushed into the room. He blushed a bit thinking he might have embarrassed himself but quickly knelt nearby her and grinned slightly.

"Iris, are you ok?" he asked. Kind of stupid, but he didn't care.

"Alright guys, let's not all rush the poor girl" Nicki tried to remain calm and make sure that Iris didn't get over excited. "I don't think she knows half of us" Nicki smiled down to Iris, keeping her distance.

"Umm alot of stuff hit you but you'll have to ask the others for spacifics, my name is Tristan. How are you feeling?"

"Like I just played chicken with a train." She didn't recognize the guy's voice, and whatever the DocProf had given her still had her thinking she was dreaming. Her answers were drowsy, and a bit grumpy. She didn't look up at first either, as her head was still pounding.

But she couldn't help it when someone's arms suddenly wrapped around her. Something tickled her nose, something furry. Reflexive she sneezed, turning her head to avoid spraying whoever it was. She blinked, trying to figure out what the white furry stuff near her face was.

"I'm so glad you're ok. I was so worried about you. I'm soo soo sorry Iris."

Iris frowned slightly. "Nika?" So that's what the fur was about. "Sorry for what?" She couldn't, for the life of her, figure out what Nika was talking about. But when Nika started crying, she returned the hug, a bit awkwardly.

"I take it you know each other." Iris looked up, finally seeing the new guy, though it was obvious she was still out of it.

"Uh huh," she replied to his comment absently.

"Uh i.. I'm new here, hell of a first day."

"Hi. That's nice."

"What happened up there?"

Iris blinked, completely confused. She glanced toward the ceiling, nearly toppling herself backwards in the process. "I dunno, but someone needs to repaint soon."

"Iris, are you ok?"

Someone else entered the room, and came over. She looked at him. "Not really," she replied rather dumbly. He looked awfully familiar. She rubbed her eyes, which required her to bend over, since Nika still had a deathgrip on her. Which resulted in another sneeze, and another pain in her head. She grimaced. "Ugh, I'm sick of headaches...." she muttered under her breath. It seemed like everytime Syn or Kaz showed up, she ended up with a headache, or worse. She sneezed again. Great. Now Nika was going to start thinking she was allergic... to her....

<"Wait... Nika??">

Iris's eyes shot open again as realization dawned on her. She looked down at the catgirl, her eyes as wide as jar lids. She looked up at the two boys. If possible her eyes grew wider as she finally recognized the one. She looked around the room, her gaze eventually settling on the girl nearby. Her emotions, obvious in her eyes to them all, went from disbelief to hope to fear and back to disbelief again. She looked back at Mett, and swallowed, her throat suddenly dry.

"Please tell me I awake..." Her voice had gone hoarse again.

Mettaliar stood there as Iris replied lowly to others around her. He stood back a bit as Iris began sneezing and was bombarded with questions. Suddenly Iris gazed around the room. He could tell her mind was racing not because of any mutation but more just human instinct of just waking up. Suddenly Iris's look fell upon him, and he raised an eyebrow, waiting for her to speak.

"Please tell me I awake..." was her sentence. Mettaliar smiled and nodded his head.

"Yes, welcome to reality." he answered.

Tristan watched everyone start to gather around the girl in the bed that everyone called Iris. "I..I got to go sorry." He mummbled to noone inparticular. He reached in his pocket and felt his keys, making sure that he did't drop them during the havoc. He looked around again, noone seemed to notice so he took his chance and walked out the door and headed towards the garage where he parked his car.

Hearing Iris speak more like normal and less like a dream made Nika sit up and look at her face to face. She wiped the tears from her eyes and smiled big while nodding. "Yes hun you're awake and we're all really here." The cat girl gently stroked Iris' hair to reassure her as well as trying to help take Iris' mind off the pain.

With a slight sniffle Nika tried to compose herself. "I'm sorry that you feel like you got ran over by a train." The girl still wasn't sure if she should tell the truth about why Iris was hurting so badly or not. "I'm just glad you're ok."

Sapphire ported into the infirmary through one of her various dark holes’ she had left around the mansion. What it would look like from another person’s perspective was a big black puddle suddenly forming and there rose Sapphire in all her evil looking glory. She Held Emerald close to her, the wolf girl bleeding quite badly, and had already bled through the wounds she herself had bandaged up.

“Doc Proff, fix her.” Sapphire said in her usual, ‘I will kill you if you don’t tone.’

Doc looked From Emerald to Sapphire as the Dingo woman put her on the stretcher next to Iris. He obviously didn’t know what to make of Em’s older sister.

Emerald groaned shifting irritably. “I am gonna kill that chick that shot me with that weird dart that made me go nutso.” She growled, letting out a small bark when she felt some of her wounds open back up.

Sapphire rolled her eyes at her younger sibling. “Well considering you don’t remember anything except the fact that she shot you, you nearly killed a set of girls, piercing noises and a creepy beast thing who killed a man, causing you to go into berserker mode and knock him out right after he stabbed you I think you cant Kill anyone for a while.”

Doc looked at Em’s wounds, Two holes, one in each shoulder, Her upper mouth being torn up, A bruise on her chin, busted lip, swollen cheek, her lower back being torn up and bruised, her foot had been stabbed clean through and finally her left rib cage was pretty broken.

“Looks like you had a full day didn’t you Emerald.” Doc joked, “Where is everyone else?”

“Still at Kp, I wasn’t exactly in my right mind at the time I knocked the freaky monster guy out something in my head made me get away from the battle, I don’t know why though.” Emerald responded with a groan as the doc redressed her wounds, cleaning them. “Daria is going to be mad at Me.”

“Well it’s a good thing you did, when you turn into your third form you can’t exactly control yourself, anything that breathes is a target.” Sapphire responded

“I guess I have you to thank for that.” Emerald growled.

”Not funny Little sister, Fusionist’s fault not mine.” Sapphire growled back.

“I know Saph….” Emerald said, doubt in her voice.

“Well with all these wounds if you stayed any longer you would have bled to death.” The doc added.

Sapphire sighed noticing everyone else there. “What the Hell happened here?” She asked rather bluntly.

Reality? After the past few days... was it longer? It seemed like an eternity. Either way, it was a bit much to hope for. Still...

Iris looked around again. There was a tray on the table next to the bed, and on it were several... needles.... She grimaced, but reached out and touched one that looked empty. Or rather, she stabbed herself with it. The resulting pain caused her to jump and gasp. That sure felt real! And that meant....

It was like someone turned on a faucet. Tears began flowing down her face, and she started to shake. She wasn't one to wail or sob loudly, but there was no doubt she was crying her heart out. She hugged Nika as hard as possible, just to reassure herself that the catgirl wasn't going to disappear in a flurry of sparks, like her hologram training program had a habit of doing, but fully expecting, at any moment, to wake up and realize she was still trapped in that cell.

She didn't even notice the disappearance of the new guy, nor was she aware of the appearance of another pair, until one of them groaned.

“I am gonna kill that chick that shot me with that weird dart that made me go nutso.”

“Well considering you don’t remember anything except the fact that she shot you, you nearly killed a set of girls, piercing noises and a creepy beast thing who killed a man, causing you to go into berserker mode and knock him out right after he stabbed you I think you cant Kill anyone for a while.”

<"'Berserker mode'??">

Iris looked up, wiping her eyes so she could see clearly who was talking. She didn't recognize either of the girls, which wasn't surprising. The one was beaten up pretty badly.

“Where is everyone else?”

“Still at Kp, I wasn’t exactly in my right mind at the time I knocked the freaky monster guy out something in my head made me get away from the battle, I don’t know why though.”

Iris had never found out where they were being held, so that didn't register. However, at the mention of being in 'right mind' and of the 'monster guy', her face paled noticeably. Her gaze went to Mett again, and for a brief moment, she froze.

Then, abruptly, she swung her legs over the edge of the bed. She tried, gently, to pull out of Nika's grasp. "I've got to get out of here! I've got to find Tricity!" Her voice held an edge of hysteria; she was near panicking again, though at least this time her mutation was under control. She made her way toward the door and threw it open, ignoring the irate demand for information from one of the new girls. She moved shakily out into the hall and toward the stairs.

Once there, she again froze in her tracks. Her eyes took in the destruction around her. She felt a breeze... a breeze, from the outside... blowing inside...

"What did this?" She didn't realize she'd spoken aloud.

Mettaliar witnessed as the two new girls came in and chatted. One of them was beaten pretty badly. They talked about KP and everything, with Mettaliar listening in every once in a while. Then Iris started to become paranoid about her surroundings and began searching the room and crying. He wanted to reach out and lend a shoulder, yet he felt Nika was doing the job quite nicely. He leaned against the wall and watched as Iris's mind began to run. Her face had turn pale and, again, she laid her gaze upon Mettaliar. He tilted his head slightly.

When Iris had rushed out of bed screaming for Tricity, Mettliar tried to stop her. He called for her, yet she ran outside to see the destruction she had caused.

"What did this?" she spoke, with Mettaliar right behind her stopping. He quickly placed a hand on Iris's shoulder and sighed.

"Technically, Haywire caused this." he answered. He too looked out among the carnage and sighed again.

Shawn was wide awake now with everything that was suddenly going on in the infirmary. He sat up and felt his wounds. They had pretty much already healed themselves with the help of DocProf. He got out of his bed and said "Thanks doc. I'll come back if my wounds get worse or open up or anything."

Shawn paused over the very injured girls bed. H noticed all of the wounds that she had and knelt down beside her. "Who'd y'all fight?" Shawn asked looking for more information on everything. The memory of Mettalair explaining things about Haywire and tests all coming back to him now. "I'm Shawn but the call me Silver Streak or Silver for short. It doesn't matter any three names will do." Shawn said to the girl that was the least uninjured.

He felt that since he was the only one still here from the mansion fighters he should explain, and with Iris out of here it would be okay for now.

"A bunch of us were in a fight against a mutant that was way out of control on her powers. We wound up destroying part of the mansion, however. But on the good side we did manage to save her. She was the one that ran out of here just now; not that I blame her for what she did, 'cause she wasn't quite herself. Ya know. Most of us got away with just some scrapes and bruises; however, some of us," He indicated his bandages on his side and arms, "weren't so lucky when it came to that. We did the best that we could with the resources that were available ,and that wasn't much. We pulled together as a team and were able to calm her down." He finished his story and left out the parts of all the confusion and disorder that was at the beginning.

Ruby had activated most of her repair bots which one that looked like a hovering tin can with arm's handed Iris a bottle of Water before scurrying about its buisness, trying to get back to work. Ruby had put some human like qualities to the robot's so they would no how to attmept to ease a stressed out person.

Water always seemed to ease Emerald so Ruby had programed that as one of the calming options in the robot's.

Ruby in the meantime hauled off past Iris, sliding to her older siblings side. "Emmy What happened?! Your'e hurt, you told me you would be careful this time!" Ruby exclaimed

After hearing Em's vague recolection of the events Ruby sighed. "You get into way to much trouble....Hey why did you put on dad's jacket over your wounds?"

Emerald Rolled her eyes at Ruby. "Well Since Doc redressed my wounds with the curtains closed, Ruby think about it. My entire torso is covered, what do you think I am wearing under this?"

"Bandages and ....OH! Ohh....good thing you had dad's jacket over your bandages." Ruby replied, ears flattening.

Sapphire in the meantime smiled a bit at her siblings before dissapearing. But both of the younger Lupin sisters knew that she would be back, she always was.

Ruby then remembered she tottaly hauled off past the girl that people called Iris. She knew that she had been captured by Kp due to Emerald's constant update on what the x men were doing after the mission meetings.

Ruby scuttled back over to Iris. "I am so Sorry about that! Do you need any help? I didnt mean to run past you I was just sorta worried about my sister. Maybe you should go back to your bed, you dont look like you are feeling one hundred percent. If you want I can get one of my Robots to take you to bed." Ruby paused noticing the boy behind Iris.

"Oh Hiya, I'm Ruby, the girl that is laying in the bed with the wolf tail is my big sister Emerald, she is a X woman, oh and the girl that just dissapeared was Sapphire, my oldest sister, she is sorta evil sometimes but she still cares about family."

Emerald groaned a bit, feeling the Doc trying to stich up her shoulder wounds, putting an IV In her arm. "Owww..." She growled, tail thumping on the bed.

She noticed Shawn and heard him from earlier. "We were fighting against a bunch of wierd mutants. I knocked out 3 though, not that I was in my right mind when I did I was all haywirey. I almost got knocked out by crazy bone chick...but damn she was a good fighter! I wanna fight her again sometime I havent had a fight like that in a while."

Michael had followed Ruby in, pausing just long enough to give Iris a reassuring smile. He hung back while Ruby talked to Emerald and raised an eyebrow in amazement as Sapphire did her disappearing act.

When Ruby went back out Michael stepped forward. “Hi,” he said to Emerald, “I’m Michael, one of the guys who helped deal with the situation at the mansion. I was just chatting to your sister Ruby when she dashed off.”

“So are you gonna ba alright?” he asked with genuine concern, “cos no offence but you don’t look so good right now.” He smiled to show his last comment wasn’t meant seriously.

Despite her battered condition Michael still thought that she looked amazing. In fact, he didn’t think he’d seen anyone quite as beautiful as Emerald. He gave a silent thank you to that robot dog that bit him and, in a roundabout fashion, had lead him to Emerald.

Emerald blushed a bit, thanking her father wereever he was that he gave her the jacket. Because if not he would be looking at a topless werewolf right now. She smiled at him , her grin a normal confident one.

"I will be fine, I have had worst. Though, I cant think of any at the moment." Emerald joked.

Michael smiled saying, “I’m not sure whether that’s a good think or not. So does this happen a lot to members of the X-men? Because if it does I’ll be doubly glad of my mutation.”

“I’m invincible,” he explained, “Well, nearly invincible. The only thing that has ever hurt me was your little sister. She gave me a little shock, and I learned that electricity can hurt me.”

“However, during the fight here I got knocked through a couple of walls, ceilings, bookcases and I’m sure a few other things and I don’t have a scratch to show for it.” He paused and looked down at his tattered clothes, “Though I wish I could say the same about my outfit.”

Emerald shrugged letting out a slight growl of pain. She wagged her tail a bit at the glancing up at michael. She didnt mind him being there, so far he seemed to care more about her than most people. She tried to sit up a bit and succeded.

"I suppose my Little sister told you about me Micahel but it pretty much takes something pretty big to bring me down." Emerald smirked a bit. "So it looks like you and I are similar in that retrospect, except your power is invincibility and I am just a stubborn Lycanthrope."

Em looked at his tattered clothes and then back up at him. "Wait a second, my little sister actually hurt you? Her powers dont usually hurt people that much unless they are out of control."