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What Harry had not expected once he arrived at the infirmary was a standoff. Rogue was staring dangerously at Xavier and her hands were glowing red with Wanda's Hex Magic.

Dr. McCoy was standing to the side looking very concerned.

Harry stated, "What's going on?"

Before Xavier could answer Rogue quickly summarized, "The Professor wants to wipe Jean's mind of what happened before she wakes up."

Harry immediately Paused just to stop himself from overreacting to that. Perhaps Rogue left something out or misunderstood or perhaps it was as she said. In either case he had let his emotions run wild once today so it was best not to let it happen again. Harry mentally took a few moments to calm himself and unpaused. He looked over to Xavier and asked, "Is this true?"

Xavier hadn't expected Harry to ask that so calmly but that actually worried him more than if he had reacted in anger. It wasn't until tonight that he realized that both Rogue and it seemed even Wanda had somehow developed layered mental defenses. He could still knock them unconscious if he forced it, but both appeared ready to fire those Hex Bolts he knew were disruptive to mutant abilities meaning it was a stalemate. Harry's own presence here further worsened his stance forcing him to negotiate.

Xavier stated, "Jean has obviously been through enough tonight and recalling it will do no good for her powers."

Harry took in a few deep breaths without pausing in an attempt to stop himself from ripping Xavier a new hole.

After centering himself Harry flatly stated, "Xavier, the next time you prioritize a student's powers over that student's mental health, we will have words you are not going to enjoy. Do you understand me?"

Xavier realized that the way he worded that did indeed sound like he was prioritizing Jean's powers. He quickly tried to defend himself, "That's not what I meant. You know I care about all of my students. I would never-"

Harry had a Smoky Quartz crystal in his hand before Xavier finished and was looking at the man with unreadable intentions. The crystal wasn't glowing but the threat of it remained. Harry said, "I know you think you know what is best. I want you to accept that in this situation you are wrong. Jean is not her powers. Her ability to control her powers is not how you should measure her mental health just because she is a telepath. I know you think you have experience in this field, but what may or may not work for you won't necessarily work for others. Unless you can convince me you are secretly a fifteen year old teenager girl, I think the others in this room have more of a say for what will and will not help Jean mentally."

Xavier wasn't unaware that from the position of Rogue and Wanda, he had overstepped his bounds. However he was not able to argue against Harry's dispassionate logic. What was most disconcerting for him however was that Harry was alluding to the fact that he knew Xavier had done things to his own mind and Harry was even indirectly telling him not to assume what he did to himself will work in others. In fact he actually implied that what he did to himself didn't even work for himself. That was what shocked Xavier the most.

Still, he knew that Jean's powers would definitely manifest in a negative fashion if this was left alone which was why he had been set on helping her.

Harry said, "I can guess what you're worried about. I will take full responsibility for helping Jean with her powers should an issue occur. I think my track record in this speaks for itself."

Rogue spoke up, "Not just Harry. Jean's always been sweet to everyone and I'll be there for her if she needs it."

Wanda added, "Count me in. I know what it's like to have powers that are overly affected by past traumas."

Xavier gave it a moment of silent thought before nodding. "Very well. I shall entrust this matter to you three. I do however ask if anything happens you seek my help."

Dr. McCoy let out a breath of relief that everything had been resolved peacefully. He said, "Excellent, now onto the important matters. At the moment Jean is asleep and her vital signs are normal though I can tell she was under a lot of stress until a few moments ago. May I ask what transpired?"

Harry said, "Because I didn't have any of Jean's blood I wasn't able to track her easily so I asked for Rogue and Wanda's help. Using a ritual I made, Wanda strengthened the connection between Rogue and Jean which I was able to track and locate Jean. She was bound to a table and it looked like someone was about to stick a needle into her. She was crying for help but no one in the room seemed to care. They all wore lab coats and had equipment that looked suited towards experimentation. I used a Smokey Quartz to knock them out and get Jean out of there. I had Rogue take her to the infirmary and I cleaned up the ritual area with Wanda and we came back."

Xavier asked, "You made a Portal in Cerebro didn't you? Was that how you accessed her location?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, but that uses Dimension energy which I can only access by absorbing a big Diamond. Those are harder to make synthetically than a big Smoky Quartz which allows teleportation. However Portals have almost no impact on the tech around them so I could use it in Cerebro without damaging the place."

McCoy confirmed, "Well, at least you made it in time. Nothing seems to have been injected into her system so I expect after she wakes she'll be fine."

Harry nodded and said, "If you don't mind, I'd like to stay in the infirmary until she wakes."

Wanda spoke up, "Me too." Rogue added of course, "And me."

McCoy and Xavier smiled. It was early morning so there was no real issue with not going back to bed.

Xavier said, "I'll cancel the classes for today. There is much that the teachers and I need to discuss."

McCoy nodded and looked back at Harry. "Now you mentioned something about blood and tracking her. Is that to say, if you do possess someone's blood, you can find them?"

Harry answered, "Not directly with their blood. My powers don't work that way. There is a way however to turn someone's blood into a gemstone. I can't exactly absorb one, but I can use something similar to magic to use a blood gem to track any person."

McCoy asked, "That is to say, if we kept a stock of blood gems for each student. You would be able to use them to track the students down if they were kidnapped?"

Harry nodded. "That is correct."

McCoy gave Xavier a look that Xavier understood. Xavier was reliant on Cerebro to find people but the number of ways to hide from Cerebro seemed to be growing lately. It was something to consider.

Rogue said, "I'm up for it."

McCoy said, "Can the way to make a blood gem be done here? I'd like a demonstration if you would be so kind."

Harry answered, "No problem. It's just a bit of esoteric chemistry."

Harry explained the process to Dr. McCoy who got to work prepping some of his equipment. If they could make them without Harry, they could store them for emergencies.

While McCoy was setting things up. Harry was going over the knowledge he had stolen from Sinister. Harry actually wanted to make a blood gem for Sinister and use that to kill him, but he understood from what little he had already gone over that Sinister was no longer close enough to human for that particular ritual to have an effect. Unfortunately the knowledge Harry's attack was able to copy from Sinister's mind was random and it would take a while to process it all.

Harry also hoped Forge wouldn't kill him for suggesting blood gems.

The creation of a blood gem was not exactly dark magic itself but many, many, many forms of dark magic could use a blood gem. Having your boss use your blood to make a blood gem basically guaranteed your loyalty as if you betrayed him, there would be nowhere to run or hide. He'd be able to track you down, track your descendants down, and cast powerful curses directly on you through the blood gem.

A little after sunrise Jean woke and felt someone was holding her hand. She opened her eyes and saw Harry was at her side and Wanda and Rogue were smiling back at her with the latter saying, "Well good morning sugar."

Jean noticed that for some reason she felt more connected to Wanda and Rogue than she had before and she could feel their concern and care for her. She thought it was just because they had decided to stay with her until she woke up which was a real show of care from them. Jean felt that she should hang out with them more often, they were great friends.

The actual reason for the feeling of closeness was the ritual Harry used to locate Jean. It had a permanent side effect of strengthening Rogue's connection to Jean and it created a connection from Wanda to Jean as well as it was Wanda's power that strengthened that connection.

This connection would last for their entire lives which was why Harry would not have used that method to find her if he had another choice. Both Rogue and Wanda knew enough about magic to understand that as well and both accepted it when they chose to help with the ritual. Harry's connection to her was strengthened as well but Jean already felt so close to him she didn't notice it.

After remembering what she had just been through, Jean started crying. The worst night of her life was over and now she was surrounded by those she could really feel cared for her and she just wanted to let it all out. She cried into Harry's shoulder and Rogue and Wanda put their arms over her to comfort her.

McCoy watched from the side and smiled. He left the infirmary and headed upstairs to meet with the rest of the teachers to discuss what had happened and what steps they would take to prevent it from happening again.

Once Jean had calmed down, she told the trio what had happened from her perspective. A group of mutants had ambushed her, defeated her, and taken her away via teleportation. She shouted with her mind for someone to help but they placed something over her head to cut off her telepathy and telekinesis.

Harry took her hand in both of his and told her how he heard her cry and went to Xavier who heard it too. Cerebro was not able to find her, but with Wanda and Rogue's help, Harry was.

Out of earshot of the security cameras Harry also whispered, "And steps were taken to ensure that place no longer exists."

Jean could hear the fire in Harry's voice and she telepathically thanked him.

Harry walked the girls upstairs and began making breakfast. It was actually Bobby's, Jubilee's and Domino's turn but the latter wasn't there to prevent the former two from destroying the food due to the staff meeting so Harry took over. He knew what everyone would be discussing and wanted a lighter atmosphere so he practically emptied the walk-in fridge and covertly brought a few things out from his inventory.

Once the first couple of students saw Harry at the stove instead of Jubilee, they ran back upstairs to tell the other students. Days Harry cooked were treasured in the Institute and the difference between food cooked by Jubilee and Harry was as great as the difference between black and white.

Jean enjoyed a warm meal sitting between Rogue and Wanda who talked with her about small and silly things to get her mind off her ordeal.

Jean wasn't happy with what the Professor had tried to do and knew he meant well, but she still felt that leaving her to Harry, Rogue, and Wanda was better for everyone.

It didn't take long for Scott Summers to learn what had happened to Jean and race over. Jean assured him she was fine and that Harry rescued her before they could do anything terrible.

Scott walked over to Harry and said, "Thank you man, just, thank you."

Harry smiled back, "She's not just your family Scott. Remember that."

Scott nodded and went to get some of the hunger inducing breakfast plates.

A few hours into the day, Forge came looking for Harry. The fact that he did not appear to be wielding any kind of disintegration cannon was something Harry took as a good sign. The 'we need to talk privately' expression seemingly carved into his face, less so.

After finding a spot not to be overheard, Forge said, "I looked for you in the lab and was almost surprised not to find you there. When I realized you were probably sticking close to Jean to help her through this, I decided to put down my Ion Disintegrator."

Harry tried not to look nervous.

Forge continued, "I'll make sure the staff knows exactly what a person with enough know-how can do with a blood gem. I won't suggest you will do anything, but I will imply that if someone else got their hands on one, what they could do."

Harry nodded, "Reasonable. I brought it up full accepting that the entire suggestion might be rejected. However if someone gets kidnapped or taken, I don't want to feel like its my fault because I could have done more and didn't. I at least want to give you the choice."

Forge sighed. "I figured as much. Can't say I wouldn't do the same if I was in your position."

He walked away and Harry rejoined the group. They asked what happened and Harry answered.

Jean was shocked by what a person could do with a blood gem but Wanda said she knew all of that already and already made one and gave it to Harry for safe keeping. Thanks to that, if anything happens to her, she knows Harry will be able to find her.

Jean looked conflicted at that and decided to wait and see what the teachers said.

The eventual outcome was that the students were told a small amount of blood could be taken from them and used to find them if anything happened, but the giving of blood was voluntary only.

What surprised Harry the most however was when Logan showed up.

He asked, "Just to be clear. You use these blood things to find the person or find their blood?"

Harry answered honestly, "Their blood. It can even be used to find relatives."

Logan said, "Alright then. Make one for me. I got a favor to ask."

The pair went to the infirmary and took some of Logan's blood. Dr. McCoy wasn't around so Harry handled the procedure alone and added a few bits of magic to improve the quality of the gem since it looked like Logan was interested in using it for something.

When finished, Logan took a look at it and said, "A while back I lost all my memories. I know I got experimented on and I know they took my blood. Wade Wilson, Deadpool. His abilities came from my blood. If they got more of my blood. I want it found and destroyed."

Harry nodded and went to his room to get a few things. He returned and made a proper locator that could use the blood. Logan didn't even twitch when Harry assembled it using magic without taking out a gemstone.

Once finished, he started the Locator and cleared his mind.

Thirty seconds later.

*Ping*

[New Quest: Blood Ties

-Destroy every sample of Wolverine's Blood at Site A.

-Rescue X-23 from Site B.

Bonus

-Rescue X-23's mother from Site B.

-Don't get identified.]

Harry sighed. He said, "I got five matches from the tracker. The first is you, obviously. The second was a larger bodied blonde guy with shoulder length hair, larger than normal incisors, and a wild, almost bloodthirsty aura. He seemed to be a direct relation. Likely brother or half brother."

Logan's eyebrow shot up. "Sabertooth? Hmm. That explains a lot."

Harry continued, "Next was... Deadpool. Ok, don't ask me to look for that guy in the future. I could swear when I saw him, he turned around and waved back at me."

Logan grunted and didn't seem surprised by Wade's seemingly impossible actions.

"Last two are what you're looking for. Two large facilities in Canada. One contains lots of your blood, but it's the other which has me curious. There is a little girl there I'd say is twelve or thirteen years old with half your DNA. She's being kept in a locked cement room. I couldn't see more details than that."

Wolverine's claws shot out on instinct at that.

Harry continued, "Obviously we're going to get her. However we need to be smart about it. You also have to decide if you want the help of anyone else or if we should just do this ourselves."

Harry could get a general sense of the area and a more detailed sense of the exact location which were enough to make portals, but he couldn't see the rest of either facility.

Logan retracted his claws and began to think. He knew what Harry was really asking. Do you want to go in with or without killing them all? If they took the X-Men, they wouldn't take any lives. If they went alone, well, Logan already knew Harry didn't have issues with permanently dealing with some people.

Logan decided to ask, "Got any suggestions?"

Harry nodded. "If it is just the two of us, I can get us in and out easily enough. If you want to go in loud that is fine. However we can also go in quiet. Besides, in addition to your blood, the first place might have other things that need dealing with. The second place could also have others there beside your supposed daughter. Give me a day to scout the locations and do some prep work and we can figure out the best way to do this."

Logan flatly said, "You sound like Gambit."

Harry smiled. Gambit was another member of the Original X-Men team but unlike the others he was not a teacher at the institute. Instead he was Charles' eyes and ears in many places and go-to fixer for many situations.

Harry added, "Now if we're going to do this, we may need to use a different skill set and use disguises. Besides your claws, can you use anything else to fight? Preferably something distinct."

"I'm good with a Katana."

Harry smiled, "That works."

Harry spent the next two days in two places at once.

He went to sleep at midnight and woke up at 4am. Via Portal he went to his Workshop and used the Time Turner to go back five hours. He then spent the next ten hours working on various projects and at 9am he would use the Time Turner to go back to 7am and start his classes. At 2pm he would leave the Institute and go back in time five hours and then spend the next ten hours on outside projects which currently included scouting and prepping Sites A and B. Harry would then Time Turner back five hours to 2pm and return to his classes. When classes were over around 5pm, he'd head over to the study group and help Jean and the others until about 8pm. He then spent four hours in Battle Meditation and went to sleep at midnight.

In this way he added eighteen extra hours to his schedule which opened a lot of possibilities.

The following Saturday morning Harry brought out several maps of both sites. Much of it he'd explored using astral projection and some viewing spells. Logan of course directly asked why not get in and out with portals, but Harry said that it was better to leave a false trail.

First, Harry made a portal to an unmonitored area near Site A. Harry wasn't wearing a mask and had taken a Polyjuice potion to look like someone whose blood he'd taken in the seventh century so Harry felt it unlikely even the most advanced facial recognition software would recognize him. Logan was harder to conceal. He was shorter than average yet had broad shoulders and weighed several times what a normal person did. Harry gave him an Invisibility Potion and an invisible Katana he'd made. He also cast a Featherlight charm on Logan which, although did not make him as light as a feather, did reduce his weight.

Harry himself would be using psionics and spells which looked like Psionics to make people think he was a telepath.

Harry checked his watch on arrival and the pair waited another five minutes for Harry's prep to start working. At 11am exactly, the enormous ward Harry had painstakingly set up around the location activated.

Harry and Logan ran for the gate at the signal. Harry's Psionic skill was enough to make weak people sleep on command which was how he dispatched the guards. Harry also got close to each one and cast a powerful Obliviate that would permanently erase any knowledge the guards had about this place other than the fact that they worked there.

The main entrance to what looked like a bunker was locked with a keypad so Logan slashed through the lock with his sword. It wasn't adamantium but with all the spells on it the thing could cut just as well as his claws.

Guards opened fire the moment the door fell so Harry hid behind the entrance until the shooting stopped. Logan swiftly entered and disabled the guards with the back of his blade and they were all unconscious before they noticed the invisible samurai. Harry used Obliviate on them as well. He was making himself appear to be a nuisance of a telepath as wiping memories was one of the most troublesome things a telepath could do. And since he was removing them with magic, another telepath wouldn't even be able to recover them.

The pair encountered more guards and dealt with them all. A number of them were strong minded enough not to be put to sleep by Harry's psionics so Logan had to deal with each of them.

Their goal was to take out and erase the minds of as many of the employees as possible. Harry's targets for Obliviate were not the guards. In fact he even cast an overly weak Obliviate on a number of guards so they would remember Harry's uncovered face and give details of what happened. No, the true targets were the researchers. When Harry encountered one of them, he didn't just erase their knowledge of the facility, he erased their education. Everything they learned working there and all the education required to get there would vanish from their minds.

The main reason Harry had decided on such a ruthless outcome was because of how he felt about X-23 and what he discovered during his scouting. He decided there was no reason for this place to continue existing and this was the best way to thoroughly destroy the essence of the place without killing anyone.

The ward around the site had a number of effects. First, it would completely cut off communications. Next, it would prevent those outside from coming inside using a basic muggle repelling field. And last, it was set to saturate the entire place with magic through a magical implosion when Harry was done with it.

Harry and Logan made their way to the main control station and Harry plugged in every sort of hacking tool after he incapacitated and removed the knowledge of everyone inside. He would make it look like this place was his goal and everything else was secondary.

Once the servers were downloaded, they made their way to the place where all biological samples were stored. Harry removed a backpack he had brought with him and set it inside before closing and locking the door. By this point all of the faculty were either hiding or incapacitated so the pair left returned to the entrance and made their way out.

No alarms, even through hard-line communications, could get through the wards. A few of the trucks on their way to the site suddenly remembered they had forgotten something and turned around without entering. Once the pair were out, Harry released a signal which caused a massive surge of magic he spent the last few days charging the ward stones with to implode in on itself. The backpack in the room holding the blood was set off and the explosion shook the whole of the base. Every computer and camera was fired. As the offsite security feeds were cut by the ward which meant no digital recording of the pair entering the location existed.

Harry got out the Time Turner and placed it over his own and Logan's neck. It was time for part two.

Logan was more than a little surprised that Harry's plan involved time travel to hit both sites at the same time but decided he'd seen stranger things. Harry already told him that it couldn't be used to change the past, it only let you be in two places at one. Such a thing was only useful to someone who didn't age so he didn't mind Logan knowing about it.

The point of much of the plan was to throw suspicion off themselves and onto something else with false clues and breadcrumbs. X-23 would likely be attending Charles' school so they would know it was Logan who took her no matter what they did. Because of that Logan wouldn't be using the sword or an invisibility potion at Site B and would go in claws blazing. The point was to make whatever group was behind them to think Logan was working with a large, skilled organization and make them target that group before trying anything to Logan. Maybe they'd figure it out one day, but by then Harry would be even stronger.

Harry had another portal take them outside the grounds for Site B. Surprisingly, Harry was not able to find any other mutants at the location meaning X-23 was the only one they needed to rescue while taking the place down.

Harry used yet another Polyjuice potion to shift into yet another face from the seventh century. He'd run out of it eventually but until then it was a waste not to use it. This time he was going to use telekinesis and magic to move things and make shields. Harry's psionic shields were too weak to stand up to bullets but he knew how to make a Dimensional energy shield that kinda looked like a psionic shield which was good enough for him to take a more active role in the combat.

Site B was more than double the size of Site A and Harry had to spend a few hours on top of a leyline to recharge himself while charging the ward stones required to cut this place off. The reason this place was larger was simply because it needed to be. If site A was where the safe tests were done, Site B was where the dangerous tests were done. There was also a large number of enhanced guards using advanced weaponry within and even if they didn't have backup it wouldn't be easy to take them down. Well, not as easy.

This site was two time zones over from site A and they waited until 1pm for the wards to kick in and charged forward.

A dozen or so fully armed guards started firing at the pair but Harry used an overpowered banishing charm to throw them back. The few out of range of his charm continued firing but a shield appeared over him which blocked the shots. Thankfully they used energy weapons which were far easier for his shields to block over material weapons as the former was closer to magic.

A few of the guards that had hidden behind cover before Harry sent the others away popped out once the pair got close but Wolverine slashed through their weapons and backhanded their faces hard enough to knock them out.

Once the guards were fully taken care of Logan used his claws again to slash the door but this time it seemed too thick to penetrate with his claws. Harry destroyed the cameras with Telekinesis and then conjured the Kestrel Key of Kraken which fired at the door and caused it to open. Logan actually took a moment to give him a look that implied even he thought, 'what the hell?'

Harry shrugged. The key was weird, he wasn't going to deny it. He was just glad he could still use it after his wizard and sorcerer magics merged. It was very useful magic.

When the doors opened Harry had his arms raised to make it look like he was opening the doors with telekinesis. He made a shield to block the barrage of gunfire that greeted the pair and Wolverine charged forward directly into the mob. Those who targeted him Harry threw back with either a banishment charm or with telekinesis. To shake things up he'd occasionally use a summoning charm on the armor of the armor plated guards to drag them into the line of fire.

Turrets would occasionally drop down from the ceiling or rise up from the floor but Harry would break them either with telekinesis or magic. Some of the heavier duty turrets were not as easy to break so Harry just threw an invisible surge of magic at them to fry them. It was his own version of Wanda's Hex Bolts.

The location had about fifty guard total and seven minutes into the intrusion they had taken care of half of them. Earlier that morning Harry had snuck into the place with a portal and placed a tracking and monitor spell on X-23 and the woman he was pretty sure was her mother.

Both mother and child were in the same room at the moment with a man who brought two guards with him. Harry had chosen this time for the extraction because this was the only time of day the pair were in the same room.

Thankfully the guards seemed to be pointing their weapons at the door rather than at the mother and child pair.

Eventually they reached a hall where Logan went left and Harry went right. X-23 was in Logan's direction, the main computer terminal of the base was in Harry's. According to the backstory Harry cooked up. A group had found Logan and told him they intended on breaking into this site and stealing all the data before erasing it. They invited Logan to come after telling him about X-23. Logan didn't know anything else about the group and didn't care.

Of course Harry had monitoring charms on Logan as well so if anything happened, he'd be able to get over there fast enough to help.

Much of the remaining security was in fact on Harry's route including several guards in what appeared to be over-sized mechanical outfits. Harry couldn't break or even move them with telekinesis, so he pretended to use an overpowered TK Throw while sending another surge or magic at the suits. Unsurprisingly, the suits stopped working and Harry moved on.

Every once in a while Harry would encounter someone who demanded to know who he was as if he was obligated to respond. Even when he made it to the computer terminal and pulled out his hacking tools, the people standing to the side he hadn't bothered with because they hadn't drawn their weapons were giving impassioned speeches about how Harry would never get away with this. A few of the creative ones described the manners in which Harry would be dissected. A few of the ones who thought they were clever tried to stab or cut him. Not to kill him, but to make him bleed so they could get some of his blood. Harry was tempted to give some to get their hopes up, but decided against. He'd save that prank for another day.

From his observation of Logan, the old man slashed his claws together.

That meant he needed help. X-23 was also looking very mad and her mother appeared terrified. The important looking man in the room seemed to have something in his hand which had everyone worried.

Harry cast a sleeping spell on those in the main room so they wouldn't unplug his hacking tool and he teleported into the room behind the man and grabbed what he was holding.

Logan had been expecting this and used the moment they were caught off guard to take out the guards and punch the man's face in.

Harry, still holding the metal thing asked, "What's this?"

The woman next to X-23 said, "That's Laura's trigger scent. If she smells it, she won't be able to stop herself from killing everyone in the room." The woman looked down and said in a quiet tone, "Including me."

The man Logan had knocked down wasn't out cold and glared at Harry. Logan had told the man the fake backstory and the man said, "I don't know who you are but we will find you. And nothing you do will change the fact that she is a weapon. Even if you take her, we will have her back."

Harry smirked and said, "Nothing I can do? Is that a challenge?" He turned to the woman and asked, "Are there many of these trigger scents?"

She frowned but nodded.

Harry walked over to X-23, Laura, and pointed a finger at her and cast a silent Obliviate. Laura frowned and felt something, but she didn't know what it was. It didn't seem like anything changed.

Harry then opened the can in his hand and tossed it to her.

Laura's eyes widened in shock and the woman almost screamed.

And nothing happened.

Harry turned back to the man and said, "You were saying? If she is a weapon, why isn't she doing anything?"

The man said, "That's, that's impossible. What did you do?!"

Harry smiled and said, "That would be telling." He then cast a Stupefy at the man and knocked him out. Once out cold he cast a light Obliviate to remove the last few moments of memories and then cast the False Memory spell to make him remember opening the scent container himself and nothing happening before being knocked out by Logan.

Laura picked up the can and said, "I don't recognize this scent."

Harry nodded. "Sorry, but I had to remove your memory of all scents. Whatever conditioning they did to you is still there. But now you won't remember which scents were conditioned to which reactions meaning your brain won't recognize them as triggers. You'll have to relearn your scents but it's a small price to pay, don't you think?"

Laura's mother froze in shock at the implication. Laura was trained to be completely incapable of resisting her trigger scents, but now they were all ineffective. That meant Laura wouldn't lose control and could live a normal life.

Harry said, "Escort the pair to the entrance, I'll meet you there," and teleported back.

Harry actually woke the sleeping staff members and used a Confundus charm to prevent them from noticing they were asleep meaning they went right back to rambling on as to the consequences of his actions there.

Once finished Harry unplugged the hard drive he'd downloaded everything onto and left, ignoring the rambling staff. A few tried to shoot him but Harry threw them back to the wall with telekinesis the moment they grabbed a weapon which put a stop to that. All of them saw Harry's 'face' but none heard him speak as he had not responded to any of their provocation.

Harry met Logan, Laura, and her mother on the way back and made their way to the entrance. They met a few stragglers on the way but were taken care of without issue. Harry made sure a few of the guards spotted them running from the entrance into the woods before he set the wards to implode and fry everything. This site mainly focused on weapons and tech. Removing the memories of the researchers wouldn't have as much of an effect since tech was tech. As long as all the computers at the site were fried and the data was lost, it was good enough for him.

Once they were clear of witnesses, Harry opened a portal to the Institute's infirmary.

*Ping*

[Quest Completed: Blood Ties

Reward +4 Warrior Path Rank.]

Dr. McCoy was quite surprised and asked what had happened and who the girl and woman were.

Harry casually answered, "New student and her mother. They both need a check up though." And with that he left the infirmary.

Harry spent the following Sunday Paused for what could have been months or years. After getting Laura out he finally decided to take the time to check out his gains from Sinister's Mind, Sinister's hard drives, and what he stole from the compounds he and Logan raided.

Sinister was unsurprisingly, a real piece of work that reminded Harry a bit of Voldemort in his single mindedness. There was nothing in the data he acquired that showed what Mister Sinister was afraid of but it was obvious from what Harry did get from his mind that the man feared something and he was trying to create a mutant powerful enough to fight against whatever it was he feared.

Harry felt this was similar to Voldemort who feared death and tried to become the strongest magical to avoid it. Voldemort however was blind to using other means to achieve his goals and Mister Sinister seemed to only focus on making himself or another mutant strong enough to fight whatever he was scared of, but he didn't look much into other means of fighting it.

His data showed decades and in some cases centuries of research and testing on mutants and their powers and looking over some of the memories Harry was able to copy, he figured out what the man wanted from Jean.

Mister Sinister apparently had sponsored several orphanages and when Scott's parents died, the young Summers had lived in one. Sinister's tests seemed to show that a child between Scott and Jean would be stronger than any mutant he was capable of creating.

Harry could easily see the man was right, but he doubted if Sinister knew why. After a number of tests, Harry found that the type of energy Scott was capable of connecting to and emitting was basically Bird Seed for the Phoenix Force. It could literally nourish the Psionic entity and psychics in general would gravitate towards Scott. Though they would look at Scott like a plate of delicious food, not as boyfriend material. If they couldn't tell the difference between hunger and love, they might convince themselves they had feelings for him.

Sinister apparently met Scott in disguise years ago and imprinted into the boy[s mind a need to be with Jean that would go into effect once he saw her. He seemed to plant something similar into Jean but that quickly faded and there didn't seem to be a point to putting it back. Sinister had means of monitoring Salem and seemed to know that Jean and Scott were growing further apart. Jean's kidnapping was to implant a need to be with Scott. Sinister was going to arrange it so that Scott would find and rescue her at a place of the man's choosing.

He didn't count on Harry of course. No matter what means he used to gain information, he would only get the lies Harry told everyone else and nothing else.

Then there was the stuff he got from Canada. The Weapons Project, Weapon X. Founded and funded by a man named John Sublime, it was a way to use Mutants to fight and kill mutants. The project shared similarities to Sinister's work in that both were ways to strengthen mutants, but they had different end goals and different means to achieve them. Sinister wanted mutants to give birth to stronger mutants. Sublime just wanted to use mutants to kill mutants.

The files he read almost made him regret not killing everyone in both facilities. They had allowed their fear to justify actions that would have made Death Eaters squeamish. He wouldn't go back even if he knew though. The sites appeared to be partially funded by a few governments but were not completely under government oversight and John Sublime was a civilian.

If Harry had killed anyone, they would be declared threats by those not a part of the Program and the response to the raids would be completely different. However, if a weapons program was defeated by two sets of two people, three of which were unknown and they got in and out without killing anyone, that would look terrible on paper for whoever was in charge.

None of the researchers Harry wiped would be able to continue their work meaning the Program would have to hire more which would cost money. Would a program that got whooped so easily be allocated additional funds though? Most would think it was a waste of money and not even care who took it out since the perpetrators didn't kill anyone.

Even if they did restart it, Harry would see if he could get the Goblins to track where the money was coming from and mess with them appropriately.

Probably the most interesting part of comparing the data from Sinister and the data from the Weapons Program was that the holes in one appeared to be filled in the other. Thanks to this, Harry now understood a lot more about mutants that he had before.

From what he could tell, the X-Gene was a somewhat of a blank space in a human's DNA. It was a gene that did absolutely nothing because it contained no information that could be used. In times of great stress or under specific circumstances though, the X-Gene could change from something that gave no information to something that did include information.

A mutant was someone whose X-Gene filled in on its own, however there were means of manually writing information onto the X-Gene.

Harry had discovered several programs known as Super Soldier Programs and sometimes they worked on a person, sometimes they would not. Harry now understood that the people it worked on had an inactive X-Gene and the process that turned them into an Enhanced had manually over-written their X-Gene to grant them those abilities. That also meant that no one without an unawakened X-Gene could successfully become an Enhanced.

Though difficult, it was somewhat possible to Enhance a mutant and sometimes an enhanced would become a mutant as well, though the end result was impossible to guess.

Using what Harry already knew combined with everything he learned, Harry figured he could probably create a Gene therapy that would grant anyone without an X-Gene an X-Gene. He could even think of a few survivable ways to permanently remove an X-Gene, even an awakened one. Once he had that information, he promptly locked it away into the deepest, darkest depths of his mind. That was not information the world was ready for and Harry doubted if it would ever be ready for it. The only problem was that if someone else got access to Sinister's data and Project Weapon's data and was clever enough, they could figure it out too. Hell, Harry wouldn't be surprised if someone figured it out without their data.

Although Harry wouldn't use it for the same purposes as Sinister and the Canadians, he could use it to help Dr. McCoy with his own research.

Over the course of the following week, most of the staff and students decided to give Harry some blood to make Blood gems. Harry had not told anyone he used them to find Logan's 'daughter,' but a number of the staff and even some students guessed it.

Eleven year old, Laura Kinney herself was easily accepted into the Institute and Xavier and Warren took care of all the paperwork. Dr. Sarah Kinney was actually offered a position as Dr. McCoy's research assistant which paid well and gave the woman a chance to stay with her daughter and work in her field which happened to be genetics, same as Dr. McCoy.

Something interesting was that Harry was unable to make blood gems for three of the residents of Xavier's Institute. Kurt's blood seemed to be mostly human but it was outside of the range required for the blood magic to work meaning his blood could not be used. Something similar happened with Warren's blood. Harry said he appeared to have an atavism which caused his blood to have similar effects to a distant, less than human ancestor. Something Harry didn't share was that Warren's blood actually burned Kurt's. It made him wonder about the Angel and Demon pair.

The third failure was the most surprising. Harry could not use any blood magic with Scott's blood. Kurt and Warren had blood that would be perhaps what a child of a Homo sapien and a Homo neanderthalensis would appear. The descendant of a human and an offshoot of humans. Scott though had at least a grandparent who wasn't born on the planet earth. This probably explained why Sinister felt his genes were so special. Though his DNA appeared completely human, Harry's magic could tell it was not and why it was not in ways even the great Nathaniel Essex never could.

Harry discussed his findings with Dr. McCoy and Dr. Kinney and they found the absence of certain markers which showed Harry was correct. After some debating, the three decided to inform Scott of his interesting heritage, though no one else. Harry also used the chance to Obliviate Scott of the memories he had of Jean before he met her. That wouldn't affect his existing memories, but it would remove the influence Sinister implanted in him. Harry wondered if he should feel bad about that and decided to set him up on a date at some point.

Scott took it relatively well though he did ask what it meant. Harry just told him that whatever species was in him was highly compatible with humans which manifested in the power of his awakened X-Gene and that his children would have an easy time awakening their X-Gene as well.

Things returned mostly to normal after that though with the help of his Time Turner Harry appeared to have more free time than normal which caused some people to try to take advantage of him. Several students would claim that they were sick at the times when it was their turn to make food and ask Harry to take their shift because he was regarded as the best cook in the Institute. On the third time this happened, Harry decided to take steps.

Evan had not only shameless begged Harry to step in when it was his turn to make breakfast, he also asked him not to tell his aunt. Harry smiled and agreed. Harry made stacks and stacks of pancakes which were something with a low enough level of difficulty that Evan could take credit for without suspicion and Evan accepted everyone's thanks with a warm heart. That was until everyone started shooting flames out of their asses.

Harry had added a special potion, something he got from Fred and George Weasley's Joke shop to the batter mix. The flames were bright blue and cold to the touch. They did not burn and would safely go through the pants of the victim without harming the fabric.

For a whole day, every student and most of the faculty would randomly fart blue flames at various times. Logan's Phys Ed class that day was track and field which many students would recall as the most memorable class of the year. So many many butt flames.

Safe to say, the truth came out and Harry was not asked to take over another shift again. Kurt did however ask to be taken on as an apprentice.

It was a few weeks later near Thanksgiving that two things came up. In the morning when Harry was in his workshop, Goose came in and was followed by a small purple dragon. This was Lockheed, the alien dragon Kitty made friends with during their space adventures.

Harry asked, "What's up Goose?" Harry always took at least an hour or so to spend time with Goose. Sometimes Goose would also visit the study group's table and Harry would just pet her while he tutored the others. Harry had seen Goose and Lockheed hang out a few times but didn't ask about it.

Goose conveyed, 'He needs assistance with something, I recommended you.'

Harry turned down to the blue dragon and asked, "Alright, how can I help?"

Lockheed seemed to be hissing in various tones while moving his jaw so Harry asked Goose, "Does he have problems speaking english? Should I use telepathy?"

Goose conveyed back, 'No. His race speaks with each other telepathically though a hive mind connection, but they refuse to communicate the same way to other lifeforms. He can speak english, it just feels uncomfortable.'

Harry asked, "They don't like telepathy with members of other races?"

Goose continued, 'Not exactly. Their telepathy is empathy based. He just doesn't want to talk through his emotions with a guy.'

Harry burst out laughing at that. It explained how Lockheed was speaking with Goose since Goose was female. He wondered if Lockheed spoke with Kitty.

Harry considered a few things and asked using Parseltongue, "Can you understand this language?"

Lockheed seemed taken aback at that and answered in fluent Parseltongue, "I did not expect to hear this language from a human. Goose's description of you did not do you Justice."

Harry asked, "Have you met Goose before? Come to think of it, is Goose her real name?"

Lockheed answered, "I've run into the Flerken a number of times over the last century or so, though I did not expect to see her on Earth. Her name cannot be constructed using sounds you are familiar with, so Goose is acceptable. The same goes for my own name. My parents certainly did not call me Lockheed, but I will not be sharing my true name with you this day."

Harry did not hide his surprise at any part of that statement. It proved that Goose was not from earth and also showed that Lockheed was likely Dragonkin for lesser dragons did not have true names. Dragonkin however were not weak so his appearance which was only a size larger than Goose's did not fit a standard dragonkin.

Harry decided to directly ask, "Are you dragonkin?"

Lockheed nodded, "Yes, though very different from most. My species is renowned for its spirit and mind, not our bodies. For example, though you have hidden it well, I can feel a Dragon's aura on you. Another would not notice it but I can."

That answered most of his questions so he continued, "So how can I help you then?"

Lockheed jumped up on the workbench and said, "Goose tells me you are an excellent crafter and can learn foreign technology without great difficulty. There is something I'd like you to build for me. I do not have the materials nor skill to build it myself though I do know how it works and in exchange for teaching you my people's technology, I ask you to fulfil my request."

*Ping*

[New Quest: Phone Home

Lockheed ran away from his Flock and wishes to contact them again to inform those he cares for that he is well.

+Bonus: Create untraceable connection.]

Harry said, "I will not build anything that could end up causing great harm to this planet of people I care about. Other than that, there should not be a problem."

Lockheed nodded and seemed to respect that. He said, "I was considered something of a hero among my own people in the Brood wars. I was given many honors but those honors took away my freedom. I was made into a status symbol and was going to be forced into marriage with another... celebrity I suppose you could say.. I was not interested in her, but she wanted to possess me and I was practically sold to her. Had the X-Men not barged into the war, I would have been married off the following day. So I ran."

Harry listened without judgement to Lockheed's story. Not all heroes had a happy ending and Harry was at least happy Lockheed was able to escape the fate of a trophy husband.

Lockheed continued, "I left without warning or message to others. Many perhaps think I have died but there are those I care for who I wish to inform I am doing well. I wish to ask you to build a communicator that I can use to contact my parents."

"Umm. Why me? I mean I know I'm good, but Forge could probably build a communicator using spare parts from the ship."

Goose interrupted, apparently having followed the whole conversation in parseltongue, 'His race communicates, interacts with one another, and even travels through the Astral Plane. He needs someone who can build within the astral plane.'

Lockheed, apparently having heard Goose, said, "She is correct. I need someone capable of crafting AstralTech."

Harry smiled, "I'm game."

Harry feels the space cave in behind him and turns to find, not Kurt, but Harry Potter. The doppelganger Harry says, "Jean is going to go critical in seven minutes. Use Protocol Supreme and take Rogue and Wanda. Clearance Code, Wolverine Heart Storm. I'll take over with Goose and Lockheed."

The original Harry sighs and apparates to Wanda and Rogue's closet and knocks on the door. Harry has been keeping several monitoring charms in Jean's room so that when Jean has a nightmare capable of disturbing the house, the charm creates a timestamp and informs Harry. When Harry goes back in time, he makes sure to be in her room during the period the time stamp goes off so he can contain the effect.

This time however it seemed that he alone would not be enough.

Wanda opened the closet door and Harry said, "Jean's about to go critical, let's go."

Rogue was dressed by then as well and Harry made a portal to Jean's room and waited until the room started shaking. Harry cast a barrier around the room and Wanda and Rogue used chaos magic to strengthen it and to sooth Jean's bad dreams. The psionic energy coming off the girl this time however nearly cracked Harry's shields and pushed Rogue and Wanda back. They increased the strength of their spell and eventually the psionic storm calmed down.

Jean shot up and turned to see Harry, Rogue and Wanda. Her face turned painful and she started crying. Wanda went to her left and Rogue to her right and they started comforting her.

Jean said through sobs, "I'm sorry. I keep dreaming about that night. Maybe I should have let the professor take my memories."

Rogue shook her head and said, "No. You would still feel the fear but you wouldn't know where it was coming from." Rogue had read over a lot of psychology books in Harry's head and was practically a certified shrink at this point. She knew more about people's heads than even Charles did.

Jean tried to hold back her weeping breaths and said, "My powers are getting worse. It's like before you got here Harry. Please. Tell me what's happening to me."

Harry nodded and put his arms around all three girls. He then sent something of a psychic invitation into his mind and Jean followed in. She was surprised to find that Rogue and Wanda came in as well.

Harry took out a book of his memories. Jean had already gotten to Kamar-Taj and had just finished Harry's encounter with the Doctor.

"This scene is a few months after where you left off so I suspect you would have found it in a week or so." Harry threw the book at a wall and it turned into a projection of the images. Harry fast forwarded to his meeting with Chthon and hit play, allowing Jean to watch everything from start to finish.

When the Phoenix showed up to save Harry, Jean felt she could not be more grateful, even though she already knew Harry survived. She also realized that the image Harry sent to her when they first met was this very Phoenix.

Then came the conversation and the Phoenix's request. Jean was shocked over the fact that the Phoenix was the one who saved her life when she nearly died following the soul of her best friend that horrible day, so many years ago. She didn't like what Harry was being asked to do, but was mollified that Harry took the time to confirm that the Phoenix's avatar would not be controlled, only given power and the knowledge of where to use it, before he agreed to it.

Rather than ending, the scene fast forwarded once more to the point where Harry learned that Xavier had blocked Forge's memories of Danger and Harry had scanned Xavier's mind to find out what was wrong with him

Harry ended the picture there and said, "Xavier sealed some of the weaker, more human parts of his mind so he could make himself into a symbol others could get behind. He is obviously not aware of the humanity he lost when he did so which was why he could justify what he did to Forge and what he did to you. I suspect he felt he was doing it to protect you from yourself."

Jean sat down on the couch in Harry's mind and started thinking. She knew Harry was trying to get her to do something with her own mind, but she didn't think it was unlocking the sealed connection to the entity of life and passion, the source of all Psionics in the universe. She couldn't hate Harry for it either. Harry hadn't been straightforward about it but he didn't exactly go to any great lengths to hide it from her and she always knew he'd tell her once she asked.

Jean asked aloud, "So the reason my head is messed up is because of that seal?"

Harry nodded and asked, "Knowing what you know now, can you guess why the seal is messing with you?"

Jean considered it and answered, "Because the seal isn't just sealing the connection, it is also sealing what the Phoenix connected to. My passion, my heart, and other parts of my mind."

Harry nodded and said, "Not all of it but enough of it to make it unstable. I figure Xavier sealed his own mind after it had matured so he didn't experience the same problem, but he still thinks if it worked for him it will work for you."

Jean now understood what the Phoenix meant when it said her mind could be crippled if not the seal was not removed. She figured she had a year at most before any damage became permanent which was why Harry had not told her everything on day one, and just allowed her to work it herself.

Jean said, "I want to break that seal. Now."

Harry nodded but said, "If we're going to do it, we're going to do it right. It's time for you to meet my Mystic Teacher, the Ancient One. Wanda and Rogue are coming too by the way."

The group left Harry's mind and Harry made a portal to Kamar-Taj after Jean changed from her pajamas to something casual. The sun had yet to set and Harry was able to get a meeting with the Sorcerer Supreme and informed her that a future version of himself had said to use Protocol Supreme. That was a plan Harry and the Ancient One had come up with to assist Jean in breaking the seal instead of letting her finish it herself to prevent as much damage as possible. They figured that enacting Protocol Supreme likely meant that something bad would happen if Jean broke the seal herself so they would do it together and help her to prevent any damage.

Harry arranged the ritual room and informed Wanda and Rogue of their plans and how they could help.

Once ready, all four of them entered Jean's head and found the spot Jean suspected Xavier had hidden the seal.

The Ancient One said, "Now, Harry and I will reveal the seal but it would be best if you opened it yourself. Opening it yourself versus another opening it is the difference between opening a door with a key or opening it with a crowbar."

Jean nodded and Harry and the Ancient One touched upon the flow of psionic and mental energies within Jean's mind and slowly the space within her psyche which appeared to contain nothing unfolded itself to reveal a wall containing a door held shut but many chains.

Jean noticed the effort that Harry and the Ancient One seemed to be putting into keeping the door visible so Jean focused on it using what Harry had taught her and one by one, the chains fell down. Harry and the Ancient One seemed to be struggling which made Jean nervous but she set those feelings aside and focused more, felling chain after chain. She put everything she had into the last heavy lock which clicked open and Harry and the Ancient One seemed to relax.

Rogue walked up and asked, "Was Xavier's locks really that hard to open?"

The Ancient One caught her breath and said, "It was not the power of Xavier that made the locks strong. He used Jean's own mind and forged parts of it into those locks. Jean's mind, gifted with a connection to the source, is very powerful and we could not afford to harm the locks and chains as they too are parts of Jean's mind.

Jean felt what the Ancient One was referring too and changed the locks and chains back into the emotions and mental aspects of herself that had been missing from her mind for so long.

The moment she did so however, she collapsed and seemed to be in great pain.

"Bring her to me," came an ethereal woman's voice from the other side of the door.

Harry picked up Jean and ran inside and down the winding staircase to where a large flame was burning.

The flame shifted into a woman and said, "You have done well, we are not too late. An avatar of mine lives off love and passion. However her heart was forged into a chain and used to bind me, preventing her from truly feeling love. Had this not been corrected in time, then even if I was freed later she would always have had a hole in her heart leaving her feeling empty and she would have used my powers to fill that hole. Nothing good would have come from that."

Rogue asked, "How can we help?"

The Phoenix answered, "Before the wound in her heart becomes a hole, you must heal it with love. I can feel the love you three bare for my avatar and the connection you have forged. You must use that connection to show Jean your love for her."

Harry and the girls nodded and connected their empathy directly to Jean. They knew that Jean had feelings for Harry but it was light and fragile so Harry and the girls used Occlumency to hide the depths of their own feelings for Jean to prevent her from feeling awkward around them for loving her more than she loved them. Now however they hid nothing and turned up the love to eleven.

Harry remembered seeing her for the first time, speaking with her at the mansion, showing her his mind and every interaction that followed. He remembered her kindness, her generosity, her care for others and remembered how all of that made him fall in love with her. He put his feelings for Jean on full display and allowed Jean to feel it completely. Rogue did the same and Wanda did as well.

Jean's pain filled face seemed to relax. Harry bent over and cupped her face in his hand just as she was opening her eyes and he leaned forward. Jean instinctively leaned up and their lips met. She felt Harry's love for her and even Rogue's and Wanda's love. Tears were streaming down her cheeks at the feeling of being so overwhelmingly loved but so many amazing people. She could feel her own heart burn with love for them and the pain she felt earlier faded and turned to warmth.

Jean closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around Harry and kissed him deeply. She opened her mouth and Harry's tongue pressed and danced against her own making her head swim.

Rogue and Wanda smirked from the back as they knew Harry had decades of practice making out after all.

The flame behind them turned into a spiral and flew into Jean, but she didn't seem to notice. Her body began to glow and embers burned over her form, but did nothing to harm Harry.

Rogue walked up to the pair and separated them saying, "Alright, time to breath people."

Jean realized what she had done and blushed awkwardly. Rogue smiled, took Jean into her arms and said, "My turn sugar," and planted another steaming kiss onto Jean's lips. Rogue's tongue was just as skilled as Harry's and soon Jean was swimming again and deeply enjoying Rogue's frenching skills.

The sight of the two kissing made Harry really reconsider his wait until they moved out policy. Thankfully he would not have to wait too long. Although he was fifteen, he found a few means that would let him own a house when he turned sixteen so he'd already planned to move out next summer and his heart had already settled an making sure nothing got in the way of taking his girls with him.

Rogue broke the kiss and looked satisfied at Jean's zoned out expression before she turned to Wanda and asked, "You want a turn sugar?"

Wanda blushed and said, "Maybe later..."

The Ancient One gave a small cough and said, "Perhaps now would be a good time to return to our bodies."

Jean regained her composure at that and said, "Um, right."

The group left Jean's mind and had returned to the ritual chamber. Harry then asked, "Do you girls want to go through the Multiplayer conversion now?"

Wanda asked, "You've gained enough levels for that?"

Harry nodded and said, "I've found enough time in the last two months to do so."

Jean asked, "Me too?"

Harry smiled, and said, "I meant all of you of course."

Rogue shouted, "Yeah! Let's do it!"

"You do know this is going to be horribly painful right? I won't be able to stop the process once it starts."

Jean said, "It will help me get stronger right? I'm not turning this down!"

Wanda and Rogue had known about the pain and didn't change their minds of course.

Harry opened up his menus and selected Multiplayer. The Multiplayer system scanned his surroundings for those who trusted him and found four matches. The Ancient One hadn't left yet and seemed to want to observe and she was on the list. However next to each name was how many levels it would cost to convert them.

Relatively speaking, an adult's level was ten plus how many years they spent working in a skilled profession. A desk jockey adult even at the age of fifty wasn't likely to be above level fifteen but someone who spent a decade doing something they required training and skill to do was likely over level 20 with higher skilled professions giving more levels on average per year. Soldiers had higher levels than teachers but teachers had higher levels than cab drivers.

The Ancient One was likely over level three hundred and Harry would lose more levels than he had to convert her as the ratio was not one to one. Higher levels required higher conversion cost than lower levels. Jean, Rogue, and Wanda were actually all decent levels about about twenty to twenty five a piece. Their power came not from their level but their Skill and both would grow over time. Since Harry was well over level two hundred, it would cost him less than twenty levels to convert all three girls and with effort he'd have that back by January.

Harry selected his girls on the menu and after a round of confirmation screens and a message that he would be reduced to 195, Harry clicked agree and the process started. Three small streams of black particles slowly floated off from Harry's arms and connected to each girl. It was uncomfortable, but not too bad.

Then came the bad part. Harry felt pain similar to dying but closer to burning. Kinda like having your skin being peeled off while you were on fire.

The grunts and hisses from the girls confirmed they weren't any better and Harry could feel their pain. They seemed to be feeling like a corrosive wind was blowing under their skin and through their organs.

The entire process lasted about ten minutes and when it completed, everyone collapsed.

*Ping*

[New Players Added

New Player: Anna Marie. Level 24 Age 15

New Player: Wanda Maximoff. Level 21 Age 15

New Player: Jean Grey. Level 25 Age 16]

Harry recovered the quickest from the pain and looked over the girl's stats. Not surprisingly, Wanda and Jean had high Wisdom and Intellect. Wanda also had surprisingly low luck. Anne Maire, Rogue, had more well rounded stats and was more physically fit than either of the others. All and all not surprising. Harry couldn't see their Path Ranks but he'd ask them about that later.

None of the girls seemed inclined on getting up so Harry said his goodbyes to the Ancient One and wrapped all of them up in a Time Turner and went back five hours. He took them to his apartment in London and conjured some extra beds and placed his girls under the blankets and tucked them in. If they weren't awake before classes started he'd tell Xavier enough to get them excused. They had a tough night but pulled through in the end and the future was waiting for them.