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[The console turns on to the sight of Teddy's anxious face and in the background the viewer can just make out the shape of a giant egg laying in a pile of blankets on the floor.]

I'm calling all turtle egg parents here. I'm a new...,uh parent I guess. Man that is really strange to say. This is my first time taking care of the egg by myself. I guess I was just wondering what are some of the ways you other egg parents take care of your egg. Like, do you ever leave your apartment? Because I have to admit the idea of walking around out there with the egg is kind of intimidating.

So...yeah. Help? Please?

[Teddy scoots in closer.]

I have another question for you guys, and this one probably applies to a wider group of people here. I know that a lot of people here have powers or special abilities that are unique to them. That's probably old news to everyone, right? What I'm interested in knowing is what kind of powers or abilities does everyone have? Think of it as a kind of survey. It might become useful in the future to know that we have twelve magic users and only two telepaths or whatever. [If not it will certainly satisfy Teddy's geeky need to categorize as many new heroes and their abilities as possible in his head. He's definitely missing Wikipedia right about now.]

You don't have to give your name if that makes you uncomfortable. Feel free to reply with an anonymous text if you want. To start things off, I'll go first. My main talent is shape-shifting. But I also have some other handy abilities like super-strength and a healing factor. [The anonymous text idea is really for people who want to keep their established secret identity a secret. Teddy feels more comfortable being open about his identity here where he's surrounded by other people with powers, but he knows there are probably others who don't feel the same.]

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If he's still around, I'll see about introducing you.

[Vic takes a breath.] Well...a lot better than I thought it would. I was doing pretty well holding them all off long enough for Santo to show up but then Mr. Negative showed up and mind-controlled Santo to try to kill me and that was another round of trouble. I managed to turn things around and got them to run for it though.

Especially in the case of actual demonically-related powers.

Ah, the old 'mind-whammy a teammate and make them try to kill you' trick. I wonder if they ever get tired of using the same old tricks time after time. Maybe it's time to revise the super villain handbook.

I made him rethink it. Santo may be much stronger than me and able to regenerate himself but I'm faster. I just kept moving so that every time he tried to have Santo smash me, his guys got hit instead. He ended up running for it after that.

Awesome! [He grins.] That's some pretty good strategic maneuvering there.

[Victor can't help but grin too, puffing his chest out a bit. Just a little fanboy reaction he'll be a bit embarrassed about later.] Thanks. I'm just glad it worked and Santo was freed from that guy. I looked him up the next day online and he was bad news.

You research the guys you fight too? [He sounds a little surprised by this. Teddy thought only he and Billy did that kind of thing.]

[Vic nods.] Definitely. It just makes sense. I'm the only one in my class that read all the old mission files from the X-men and all the information they had on all the villains out there.

You got to read their files? That must have been amazing. I can't even imagine how much data and information they must have.

I did. They encouraged us to read them for homework and stuff but I'm the only one that actually did it. There was a ton of data and information, videos and stuff too. Some of the files even came with Danger Room sim files attached we could run to like...watch old missions or go through them ourselves.

Man, they don't know what they're missing! Isn't part of the whole point of going to Xavier's is to benefit from learning from the X-Men? [It really disturbs him that all the other kids apparently didn't care about this stuff. What is wrong with them?]

The excuses I heard for not doing it was that it wasn't exciting like getting in the Danger Room with one of the X-men or that we got enough homework as it was and they didn't want extra. [Victor was disturbed by it too.]

Man, I would be all over it if my homework included viewing Danger Room sims and stuff. It sure beats Algebra.

It would have been nice to have some company while I was doing all that research. [And he wanted someone to fanboy with.]

Yeah, I bet. [He would have loved to be that company.] What I wouldn't give to have access to that sort of thing.

The Avengers wouldn't let you guys look at any of their stuff?

Not really? I mean it's a miracle they even allow us to do what we do. They don't exactly approve...

Oh, I know how that feels too. Wolverine's got us all demoted to students again.

Why did he do that? [Teddy doesn't really have the most glowing regard towards Wolverine.]

Well, Cyclops was pretty much using us as cannon fodder. Disposable little soldiers. [He rolls his eyes.] And while I do agree with Wolverine that the lot of us need time to just be teenagers and shouldn't be forced into life or death situations every other day...he's treating us like little kids. Like we can't handle any fighting or conflict, even hero work. He doesn't even want us defending ourselves anymore...keeps insisting we run into the panic rooms if a moth so much as lands on the front lawn. Not to mention their bad attempts at lying to us when the school gets attacked and trying to make it seem like it's nothing. [Vic isn't Logan's biggest fan either.]

[Vic's story isn't doing much for his opinion of Cyclops either.] That sucks. The Avengers treat us like that sometimes. Not as much as they used to maybe, but still. It's like they don't trust us to make our own choices. I know Cap and the others mean well, but it's frustrating to deal with.

They might mean well but they don't take us into consideration when it comes to their meaning well. Sometimes it feels like we're not even people to them just...I don't know...chess pieces or something.

Or children. [His voice is deadpan.]

Yeah...[Victor trails off, rubbing the back of his neck. He looks away, quiet for a moment and eventually sighs.] Sorry, I'll stop being depressing now.

No, you're not. I get it. It sucks. Maybe one day we won't have to keep proving ourselves to them.

Or they'll realize we're going to keep doing it whether or not they approve.

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