"I'll see what I can do" Oracle replied, "all these favors are going to get me fat you know"

Nick turned to the new arrival, speaking brief and with urgency, "Celeste has been taken and we don't have a trail to follow. All hands on deck."

"Thank you. <3 Hmmm... How about when all this is over, I bring the kids to Gotham and we can watch silly movies and play with cute adorable babies?"

Pallas slammed her hands down on the table, looking over the map, "Why didn't you say so?! I would have been here sooner. I'll need a helicopter. If I get close enough to her, I may be able to sense her..." She rubbed her blue gem. "That also explains why this things been itchy. Ceres was always better at sensing our presences."

"Deal" Oracle replied, "BRUCE HE'S ON LEVEL SIX! Gotta go Ciara." she hung up.

"Copter's coming in now" Nick replied, "Everyone needs to be in teams-leave no mutant on their own."

As Pallas finished working out the route for the helicopter, her grenade launcher on her back, morphed into a grey cat. A pallas cat to be exact. It went over to Coco and wrapped a paw around him. This was hard on them all but not as hard as CoCo. He was a part of Ceres. And to be apart from her was ripping at his insides. CoCo was a lot smaller than he usual was which was due to the fact he was so far away from her.

"Steph, Coco. Let's go." Pallas called. Step the grey cat took CoCo by the neck and hopped onto the copter.

When Max came around he found himself in a glass prison with a gene-suppressing collar around his neck. There was a row of small glass rooms lined up against the wall of a larger room where before their eyes stood a massive device. It looked like something out of star wars, a death star engine or something.
His head was pounding and at first he thought this was all some very weird dream but it was beginning to feel far too real for that.

"Are you ok, Mister?" came a soft little voice from the cell beside his. A little girl in a red frilly lolita dress sat on the other side of the glass wall, her hands on the wall looking out at him. Her long straight white hair trailed down to the middle of her back.

"What?" Max turned sharply, just as he was getting up and ended up tumbling over again because he was still dizzy, "who are you?"

"Susan..." She also had a collar around her neck, "I felt wozzy for awhile too." A few men walked past the cells and Susan looked down and silent when they were gone she looked back up, "What's your name? Have you come to rescue us?" She asked hopeful.

"... I'm max" he replied, sitting against the wall to wait for his head to stop spinning, "and I'm sorry to say, that I don't even know where this is..."

"Oh." She sat back on her bottom. "Me either... I miss my mommy and Daddy."

He looked her over, "How long have you been in here susan?" he asked, changing his tone to a kinder one.

She tried to put a brave face on, she had to be about 7 or 8. "I don't know. There's no windows here. But I think at least a couple of weeks."

"Do you know-" he cut off suddenly, looking over as there was a commotion down the line. They were pulling out one of the other mutants.

"No way man-NO!" the teenager struggled against the guards who were dragging him out, "hey-HEY LEAVE ME ALONE! LET GO!" he was struggling like his life depended on it.

"What do we got here?" a male scientist walked over and took a prick of the teenager's thumb into a device, "Lets see... Hey George, are we set up for a class two?" he called over his shoulder.

"Ready to go!" George called back.

"Good" the first replied before gesturing to the guards, "get him in place."

The guards dragged the screaming teen over to what looked like a pod attached to the large central device, though it felt more like a coffin to be placed in and strapped down.
"Deactivating collar and initiating gene activation in three... two... one..." With the flip of a switch the machine jerked into action and right before their very eyes it happened.
That poor teenager was enveloped in electricity though it almost seemed to be coming out of him and as it was being sucked out of his so was his life. His screams were trapped beyond the sound proof glass cover of the pod but it was clear as day the agony on his rapidly aging face. Max couldn't turn his eyes away, even as the mutant's skin shriveled and his body turned to a mummified state. It wasn't until ten full minutes later when the life finally faded from his eyes that the device shut down.

"Awww, we only got three and half barrels out of that one" George complained, "the last class two gave us at least four."

"Doesn't matter, we only need to send three to Saskatchewan. Their energy needs aren't as high as BC" the other replied.

Susan quickly moved to the back of her cell when she saw them strap the poor boy in. She covered her ears with her hands and curled in a ball and sung to herself in a trembling voice.

"Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming to take us home,
Swing low, sweet chariot,
A band of angels by your side,
Tell all your friends, I'm coming there too,
Coming to carry me home..."

Max crawled over and wrapped his arms around Susan, cradling her gently, "It's alright" he spoke softly to her, "it's over now..."

*

"Hey everybody!" Proclaimed Pietro as he and the brotherhood showed up just before they were all about to depart. He stopped and blinked, ".... where's everybody going?"

"Perfect!" Ciara ran over and kissed his cheek, "We can cover more ground this way. Your Dad and Celeste have been taken" She quickly explained, "...Who's looking after the kids?"

"uuhhhh, your dad" Pietro replied, blinking as he processed the new information, "wait, my dad's been kidnapped? Geeze, I feel sorry for whoever took him."

"Uh oh yo" Toad hopped over, "what can we do to help yo?"

"v.v the pie I baked is gonna get cold" Freddy sighed

"Pietro and I will cover this area. The rest of you can cover this area." She pointed at an area on the map, then turned with a hand on her hip, "You didn't answer my question... Where are our little bundles of joy?"

"Your dad has them" Pietro stated, offering his hand to Ciara, "I was just going to stop by for a little while but I'll give him a call to let him know I'll be longer"

She kissed his cheek, "Pietro, I have two dads but I'm glad you didn't leave them with Mystique again. I don't need my babies who can barely stand to be learning about fire arms... Though mine you, one of them does have the mind set- Hey, get going." She said to the rest of the brotherhood.

"I left them with both, they're a handful together-and Hey, mystique practically raised me through high school" Pietro shrugged as the others took off. Pietro made a quick call to Beast and phil and then picked Ciara up to go speeding around in search of their missing pair.

They did a full sweep of the area. Did a couple actually just to make sure. No sign. "Moving on to the next grid area." Ciara called in.

"You know this isn't exactly the surprise trip I was hoping it would be" Pietro commented, "some peace and quiet in ye old Canada. I mean seriously, what happens in Canada? Abductions apparently"

"And Pot." Ciara added in.

"I thought that was Amsterdam" Pietro looked at her, then suddenly keeled over as a dart went into his shoulder.