2013-08-11 - Cutscene: Hope all is well!

10:30 PM, received on Jean's cellphone while Scott is still off campus. 'Jean, I need you to go to Metropolis, to this address. The Professor says there is a Alpha level mutant that's having difficulty controlling his powers, and is afraid. He wants to send you, first. His name is Aaron. This needs to be done immediately. I'll keep in touch. Scott.'

11:00 PM, Scott receives a telephone call. Jean's on the other end of the line. "I'm going to be late in. Don't wait up for me. I've found someone who might very well need our help. He's skittish, so I'm going to talk to him alone. I'll see you soon." "You too, goodbye."

The phone hangs up. And, the man on the other end of the receiver smiles, benignly at the man at the driver's seat from his position in the back. "Drive," he instructs. The car, with fully tinted windows, pulls out of the space it was occupying and heads out of New York City, towards The Xavier Institute.

2:00 AM, Jean Grey is walking quietly through the halls of the Xavier Institute, stops on her way upstairs to the dorms, telling Noriko and Cessily who are in the recreation room, "You should both go to bed. It's late."

2:15 AM, Hope Summers' door is knocked upon, lightly. Jean Grey enters, closes the door behind her. She exhales, finding Hope still up, studying. She approaches the girl. And then, she pulls a dart gun out from behind her jacket, and fires it into Hope's neck before Hope can do anything. She waits for the drug to take effect, and then peeks out of the door, making sure that no students or faculty are aimlessly wandering the halls. She scoops up Hope effortlessly, and walks her out of the mansion grounds as if everything were natural.

2:45 AM A fair distance away from the gates to Xavier's, Jean Grey arrives and sets her unconscious passenger in the back seat, using zip ties on wrists, and ankles. Then, Mister Sinister shakes off the appearance of Jean Grey, and looks to Jamie Maddox. "Let's get the poor girl home, shall we? So much to do."

And, the car drives off, into the night ...