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Streak was surprised. He certainly didn't think that Shin would volunteer to use the thing. No one had the training and Shin certainly wasn't an exception. he wiped the shocked look off his face and simply stated, "Look, I'm not for it. I think it's a bad idea. But if y'all both think it'll help then go for it." Shin certainly didn't seem like the kind of guy to throw himself at a possibly dangerous situation like using Cerebra without thinking things through.

Mostly Streak wanted to make sure that in the process of finding these guys they didn't count themselves down another X-men. He wasn't opposed to using it...if whoever was using it knew what they were doing. They were shooting in the dark here with the guess that Shin might be able to use it. It'd be almost like standing in a pitch black room and hoping to hit a target with a throwing knife, after spinning in circles until you were dizzy. It could be done but no one had ever tried it before. That was his main concern.

If Streak's silver hadn't been covering him he was pretty sure he might have had thinner eyebrows after he apparently startled her. Thankfully, she had enough control over he powers to not singe his face. Surprise registered on his face as the white fireball came at him. Apparently the fire was the reason she had permission to be in here. He didn't know exactly what she was doing but she said she wasn't training."Why not use this as a time to train. Even if you are just venting frustration or whatever."

Streak smirked as she figured out what he'd done. The silvermancer followed her as she ran. She wasn't really fighting them. The music changed again and he formed a few knives as a couple more metal balls flew around and buzzed his head. He rolled, popped up and threw a knife. It sailed directly into an orb and pinned it to the wall. He figured why she might not be throwing her fire now, so going with an idea he said, "You may want to fight them a little. Don't worry about me. I don't think you're fire will get hot enough to hurt me." He broke left and gave her some distance.

"I hope." He mumbled under his breath.

Lana seemed pretty adamant. He needed to keep the integrity of Sam's secret preserved as much as possible. There didn't seem to be many people coming forward, as far as he knew, saying things about being attacked and almost killed.

"We certainly need to get a master list then. There's no way to identify any patterns until we know the full scope of what's been going on."

"There's only one way you're going to get to talk to Sam... You'll have to go to him. He's not coming here." Streak made a mental note to see if anyone at the mansion had reported anything about attacks.

He pipped up again, "We want to keep him safe but we also want to keep the kids safe as well. We're hoping that by keeping Sam hidden it'll make his attackers restless and possibly we can identify them before they strike again. We also don't want to put the kids in any unnecessary danger by bringing his attackers to the mansion, if we can help it." He thought she would understand his position. Lana seemed reasonable enough to his position. Besides a trip to the mansion wouldn't be too out of the way from anything else.

Now that Streak thought about it, he'd had an instance of seemingly random human-mutant violence. The silvermancer seemed to think it best to bring that up. "Now that I think back...I was involved in a confrontation with a mob of humans and a couple of mutants. I don't know if it has any relation to Sam's attackers but it does seem pretty random now that I think about it. I wasn't a target, per say, but I happened to show up during it. It seemed like both humans and mutants were responsible for the outburst. So, it wasn't like it was a targeted mutant hate thing, or vice versa."

Maybe if there were other accounts of odd things going on from mutants, or others getting attacked like Sam, then they can start to draw a pattern out of it. For Streak at least, there was no way to know if his thing was even remotely connected with Sam's attackers. Streak waited for Lana's opinion on what he'd told her.

"Sometimes when we're trying to profile a perp, profiling their victims helps. We end up seeing patterns between the two that help us predict the behaviour and sometimes even what they'll end up doing next. So you're saying mutants. Plural. Was there more than one mutant involved or were there more than one attacks?"
"It sounds then, as you said there was a lot of research that went into this. Now, how could an attacker obtain that information? Did they seem to have a psychic based mutation? Were they spying?

Streak listened to Lana talk. She certainly knew what she was talking about. "There were definitely more than one mutant that attacked Sam. Although, I think there have been more mutants attacked also. But I can't be certain about it. As far as I can tell they haven't created a list of people attacked." Streak explained to her. Her second set of questions proved to be a little harder to answer without getting into the major details of the schools system.

"Well I can't get into details about our system. It would prove to problematic for the people involved. However, I can assure you that there was no break into our security. We have the most state of the art systems and they are constantly monitored. There are, however, different groups that had some information on Sam..." Streak was thinking of the T.A.T. that had recaptured Sam recently. They'd only just gotten him back, but there was no telling what happened to all those files when they were recovering Sam and the others.

The silvermancer continued, "There's no way I could speak on if they had a psychic mutation about them. It's possible. It's also very possible that they were spying. Sam isn't exactly a low profile person. He's a very out there in-your-face kinda guy. He goes on lots of missions and works with the NYPD also. I wouldn't having him come in for an interview; however, that is a little tricky. The mutants that attacked him let him for dead. That being said; they don't know that he's alive and we've been trying to keep that idea going so that they don't try to attack him again and make the mansion targets."

Did they crack into some computer at a school or place of work? It all sounds very organized..."

Streak nodded. It did sound a little more organized than just a couple of mutants going after someone because they had a vendetta. It was more like they had a purpose for trying to take him out.

It'd been quite some time since Streak had been in the Danger Room. He couldn't quite place why he hadn't visited the room for a while. He'd always enjoyed being in the Danger Room. Not because of its name but because of its seemingly endless possibilities. No matter how many times he'd been in there, there didn't seem to be anything that it couldn't do. No program that it couldn't run. No scenario that it couldn't project and bring into reality.

As it was this is what ran through his mind as he appeared in the control room. Seemingly out of nowhere. He'd always enjoyed the little hideout that him and Sam made, so many years ago. There was already someone in the room. A fire manipulator as it turned out. She was pretty good at aiming and things seemed to a speed up whenever she hit something with one of her fireballs. The music that played was enticing to Streak and he didn't realize that it was also controlling the speed of the program.

He was going to leave until he watched the program more. The program she was running looked pretty fun. "Let's make it just a little more interesting for a fire mutant." Streak mumbled to himself. He punched a few buttons and the simulation changed a little. He decided he should go help her with the newest part of the simulation. She may be good when she's standing still... but how good is she when she has to move too. Streak took the short set of stairs that led the way down into the Danger Room and walked out onto the ground of the training room. Before the program started over Streak said, "Mind if I join you? I'm Streak by the way."

The silvermancer covered himself in his silver and prepared for the attacks to soon follow. Even he didn't know what the program would do but that's what he liked about the Danger Room. If you could think about it the Danger Room could do it, even if you couldn't think it the Danger room could surprise you. "You may want to move around a little." Streak said hinting at the changes he made.

Lana was right down to business. Streak took a seat as soon as he was in her cramped little area. He wasn't even sure he could call it an office. He listened as Lana explained her purpose and her hopes for the reason she was brought in. The only thing he know about profiling was that it was often used for finding people like serial killers and other people that the police deemed very dangerous and hoped to find before they could wreak havoc else where.

"Anyway, you were sent here to me today because several of the victims identified as belonging to your other place of employment- the Mansion for mutants?...and because you allegedly know one of the victims...a Sam?"

"I guess we should start at the beginning. Assume I know nothing, and tell me what you know about what happened to your friend Sam."

"Well, these cops aren't really 'my guys' I'm here as more of a subject matter expert on mutant actions towards other mutants. I have invaluable experience dealing with aggressive mutants that tend to cause harm to other mutants or humans. I help the cops out if they have any sticky situations that they don't seem equipped to handle." Streak stated. Streak nodded and leaned back in his seat and started to explain things.

"Sam is a good friend of mine. We've worked together for quite a while now and we have been through more stuff than I can tell you about. He's an ice manipulator and can create some pretty cool ice creatures to help defend him. He was attacked after leaving a bar a couple of nights ago by two mutants in plain view of people. These mutants seemed to know him and know all about his powers. They'd done their research. We haven't had any luck tracking those two down yet but there has to be a reason that they tried to kill him. They left him for dead and if another one of our friends hadn't received the signal for help he probably would be dead right now."{/color]

Even going over it with Lana there didn't seem to be any real reason for someone to randomly attack Sam like that. Especially since he claimed that he'd never seen them before. Streak waited to see her reaction and if she had any thoughts on their situation and what this new information might tell her.

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