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Xavier needed some clarification on Emma's identity when Harry showed him the message and Harry basically told him she was the mutant daughter of a businessman Harry met and that Scott had been dating her for the past six months. This was enough for him to believe it wasn't some kind of trap, allowing him to assemble the X-Men.

Harry asked Xavier, "Want to follow me to the Astral Plane and scout for more info from Emma? She can't call us but we should be able to contact her there."

Xavier asked, "Can you track her through the Astral Plane?"

"I can track my phones through the Astral Plane and she has one."

Scouting in the Astral Plane was mostly useless as the Astral Plane did not reliably overlap with the physical plane. For example the Institute in the Astral Plane was far larger due to the presence of multiple telepaths. Walls and buildings were not always in the same position and distance was not accurate. However they weren't going to use the Astral Plane for reference, just to find Emma and get more intel.

Xavier nodded and said, "Agreed. Logan, inform the others and ask Scott to give them some details on this Ms. Frost."

Logan grunted in affirmation from the side and Harry sat down in a meditative stance and took out a piece of quartz he made glow before he put it in his inventory. His astral self separated from his body and was followed by Charles' own.

The Astral Plane didn't exactly have a color but if one were to describe it they would probably call the space purple and the things within were a vapor~ish white. Xavier was rather confused when he saw Harry pull out some Astral Tech and say, "She's this way. Hold on."

Xavier suddenly found himself feeling enclosed and then pulled through space as if he was in the Blackbird while it was accelerating. This was a transport system that Lockheed's race used to travel long distances through the Astral Plane. Though they used it for interstellar travel. Harry was just going a few hundred miles.

The pulling motion stopped and they were floating in the air and saw what appeared to be Emma's signature. She was not actively using the Astral Plane but all telepaths passively connected to it which was how they would communicate with her. Overall she appeared heavily stressed out but fine.

Harry sent a mental call to Emma. "This is the Mutant Assistance Hotline. Please remain on hold until the next operator is available, your call is very important to us."

Emma sent back with an audible sigh, "A pleasure as always Harry. I assume that is Professor Xavier traveling with you?"

Harry answered, "Yup, so what's going on and how were you kidnapped?"

"Collateral damage I suppose. My father was having a meeting with Shaw and the latter was not doing so great. I suspect you have something to do with that. Whatever protections he seemed to have were missing from what I could tell. Suddenly a great big bloody robot showed up and shouted, 'Mutant Apprehension in Progress' and nabbed Shaw. Apparently it could detect mutants and nabbed me too once it saw me. I'm currently in some kind of cell being flown over to where-ever. I have no signal on my cell but my mirror seems to have worked just fine." Her cell phone was not one of Harry's but rather one her father gave her to keep tabs on her.

Xavier put in his two cents, "Mutant detecting mutant hunting robots? Could it be the government or a private sector operation," he seemed to ask himself.

Harry turned to Xavier and asked, "You wouldn't happen to have Magneto's number would you? If we're going to raid this place, we're going to do it right and a Master of Magnetism would probably be helpful." Harry knew a thing or two about the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants from Wanda and from the time he used Legilimency on Mystique.

Xavier quickly answered, "No. Although I have no doubt Eric would be of assistance in the goal, I cannot set him loose on the very people he has sworn to fight."

Harry rolled his eyes. Xavier seemed to be making a lot of assumptions.

Harry added, "Alright, can we at least bring the third X-Men Team and the available teachers? The former Hellions can stay and are strong enough to defend against attacks if anything happens while we're out."

Last time there was an emergency like this, the available teachers had to stay behind to protect the institute. Now with the addition of the well trained former Hellions, the Institute had more strength to fall back on giving Xavier more latitude.

Charles nodded and said, "Agreed. Scott and the others are sixteen and old enough to face the trials ahead." Harry still had a month and a half until his sixteenth Birthday but there wasn't a way to argue against Harry's inclusion in this mission so that point was not mentioned.

Emma added, "Do be prepared for the possibility of a trap. If they are taking me alive, that means they have enough confidence in their security to keep Shaw and myself from escaping or they are using him as bait. In either case, expect resistance."

Harry said, "Try to make yourself appear as someone else if seen by a human. When I get there I'll erase whatever footage they have of you. Just because Shaw got outed doesn't mean you should too."

Emma stated back with a little relief, "I would appreciate that."

Harry used the Astral Tech to return himself and Xavier back to the location of their bodies and returned to the physical plane. Jean, Scott, and the others had already gathered and suited up for a fight. Though Bobby had to stay because he was down with the flu. The second team's Kitty Pryde offered to replace him since she was always around the mansion.

Xavier stated, "A new enemy has revealed itself but may not yet know of us. A robot that can detect and hunt mutants has captured a mutant who had a means to contact Mr. Potter, and she is currently on her way to either a place being set up for a trap or a detention center. Our new arrivals will stay at the institute and remain on high alert to protect the students still at the school while we will mount a full scale assault on the holding facility."

Forge said, "Our priority should be the rescue of the captured mutants and seeing to their safe return, but we also need to find the source of these robots and see if we can take them out before they become a larger threat. We should do this in three teams. One to act as a distraction, one to infiltrate and rescue, and one to find the source of the robots."

Scott added, "Agreed, but we should stick together at first until we learn the location of the other two objectives."

Wolverine said, "Us teachers will act as the distraction then. You kids will do the infiltration. Forge, I'm guessing you and Potter will be team three?"

Harry confirmed, "Works for me."

Scott said, "Harry and Forge should stick with us to help bypass security at first. Harry can you bring some Diamonds to make those portals for when we find anyone who has been captured? Once they are safe, you two can finish your espionage thing."

Harry and Forge shared a glance and smiled. Calling it espionage wasn't exactly inaccurate.

With the plan assembled they boarded the Blackbird and took off. Harry shared a mental conversation with Wanda, Rogue, and Jean to not hold back if things were to get hectic. All three had enough Obscurus Particles to survive getting shot or stabbed but he didn't want them to take chances.

The only annoying thing about the trip was that Harry could only track Emma's mirror with Astral Tech so to get directions he had to keep going into the Astral Plane over and over. Being reliant on Astral Tech was intentional as it made it so that only Astral Tech could intercept or track calls, but for situations like this it was annoying.

The Blackbird parked in an abandoned train yard in a warehouse district some distance from where Emma's signal was coming from. Jean and Xavier used Clairvoyance to map out the area and maintain a psychic link to all the groups. Before splitting up, Forge said, "According to the readings off my equipment, this is definitely the place. It's using more juice than downtown New York yet it's off the grid. I've got signal from hundreds of different security cameras and they're all heavily encrypted."

Harry asked, "Government or Private Sector?" The type of encryption used could tell you a lot about a group's origins.

"Private Sector, definitely."

Harry sighed. Private Sector paid for the good stuff, meaning hacking wasn't easy. The group Harry took down in Canada with Wolverine was technically Government which was why their stuff was so easy to get into. Comparatively speaking.

Xavier conveyed into everyone's minds, 'I can sense dozens of guards around the complex. I can shield you from their sight but the cameras will give away your position.'

Harry said, "Even if we're showing our hand, it's best not to reveal the existence of a Telepath on our side."

Logan said, "I'm with the kid on this one Charles. Quick and quiet is not the way to go on this one. We need to be loud and messy to make a point today."

Ororo added, "Children who use force must be taught that the use of force invites the force of others."

Xavier conveyed back, 'Very well. But I ask that you keep the loss of lives to a minimum.'

Harry added, "Ah, but keep damage to a maximum. Fallen lives become martyrs which can be used to instill fear and get money out of investors. Damaged property has the opposite effect."

Scott slightly glared at him for the fact that his justification for saving lives wasn't for the sake of the living. Warren sighed and said, "He's not wrong. If this is a project from the private sector, it's getting its funding from investors. The results of tonight need to deter further investment."

After finishing the plan, Harry got out three Smokey Quartz and made the Infiltration group invisible. The only tech some of them had were cell phones from Brilliance which were protected against magic and Forge's personal tech had been protected from Magic since Harry worked with him on upgrading DANGER.

A heavy mist started flowing into the region at Storm's command. Harry's group quietly rushed through the warehouse district to the secondary entrance Xavier spotted and there they waited. The group invisibility spell allowed them to see each other but if they did not arrive at the wall before the mist set in, it would give away their position while moving. Once the heavy fog was thick enough to block cameras and guards from seeing more than a few feet ahead of them, the teachers rushed for the entrance.

From Harry's group they could quickly hear the sound of gunfire and shouts. The occasional crackle of thunder echoed throughout the district. The radio clipped to the guards at the second entrance shouted, "Incoming Hostiles main entrance!"

Three sets of guards at the second entrance rushed over to the main entrance leaving only three behind.

Once the coast was clear, Jean and Wanda knocked out two guards while Rogue touched the strongest looking one with an ungloved hand. Since learning how to erase remnants with ForgetMeNot's power, she could add temporary knowledge taken from others without lasting effect.

The man Rogue touched collapsed when she released her finger and Rogue ripped a Keycard from him and swiped it on the door. A metal panel opened revealing a keypad and a hand scanner. Rogue changed her hand using Mystique's power to that of the guard and placed it on the scanner while typing in the security code.

A surge of light forced Rogue removed her hand with a wince as an electric shock went through the hand scanner.

Jean asked, "Problem?"

Rogue answered testily, "No, it always does that. Anti-mutant Security to make sure they're not being controlled. After getting shocked, if you don't type in the correct pin, they'll know."

Forge whistled as Rogue finished typing the code. "That's a lot of security for a side entrance. This type of scanner won't work on someone unconscious and if they're controlled by a telepath, that shock would definitely wake them."

Rogue said, "That's not all. Can you make me visible?"

Wanda said, "I can," and dispelled the invisibility with a silent Finite.

Rogue continued, "Follow me and stay quiet." Rogue then completely morphed into the body double of the guard she knocked out and pressed a switch to open the door.

The door opened with a heavy thunk showing the weight of the deadbolts holding the door in place. Rogue led the way having gained something of a map in her mind of the place and knew where to go.

The inside of the warehouse was completely visible to everyone within. There were no walls or places to hide so anyone within the warehouse could be seen from any location in the warehouse. A number of heads turned to see the side entrance open but when they saw Rogue in the form of the guard walking through they turned away. Rogue stood to the side of the door as the still invisible team entered and Rogue said aloud, "If anyone approaches, shoot the lock! A breech cannot be allowed! Do you understand?!"

To anyone paying attention to her it looked like she was talking to someone outside the door while the door was still open. Once the last of the team was through, Rogue closed the door and kicked it for good measure.

Infiltrating a site without walls was very different from normal location and heavily relied on misdirection. Thankfully every member of the group was well trained and could adapt to this easily enough.

The sound of heavy gunfire continued to echo from outside. The interior of the warehouse was at least the size of a football field and had an assembling line of complex industrial parts. At the end of the warehouse were a dozen twenty foot tall robots with red steel armor over a purple armored cassis and in the shape of humanoid weapons.

Rogue marched forward with a stern expression that made others want to get out of her way towards the end of the facility. According to his last reading in the Astral Plane, Emma's mirror was at the opposite end of the facility.

Most of the engineers seemed to be in an armored room so the few personnel in the way could be walked around for the invisible group. Using Jean's Telepathy to talk with the group, Harry said, 'Our invisibility should protect us from heat scanners or mutant scanners or whatever, but a mutant scanner can probably detect Rogue and those robots,' Rogue interrupted him, 'Sentinels, they're called Sentinels.' Harry continued, "Fine, those Sentinels may detect her and they're right next to the holding cells.'

Rogue said, 'If they see me, I'll use Mr. Rasputin's power and make some noise and draw them to the other side of the warehouse.'

Scott said, 'Alright, we'll back you up as soon as Harry gets the prisoners out.' He knew that Rogue using Colossus's power made her invulnerable and she could take care of herself. Wanda and Jean held back their full strength in most training sessions but Rogue didn't. There was no way to really hide the fact that she could use anyone's power and look weaker than she was so she might as well practice as much as she could. Much like Harry, she was becoming a Jack of All Trades type so she needed a higher variation of practice anyways.

Kurt said, 'Shouldn't we leave once they're safe?"

Scott answered, 'No, Harry was right. We need to do as much damage as possible.'

Forge added, 'And that will make an excellent distraction for our own little.. Espionage,' he mentally chuckled.

Once they got closer they saw a group of engineers setting up the sentinels. Jean took a moment to get a read on them and said, 'They're about to turn them on!'

A man with dwarfism in a tailored suit was shouting to the men climbing over and setting up the Sentinels. "Get these operational now! Mark One and Two don't look like they're gonna last much longer! This is not a test people!"

Xavier said through their link, 'The Teachers are engaged with two of these, Sentinels at the main entrance. They do appear a bit.. buggy though so there have been no issues so far. I cannot say the same if those dozen reinforce them.'

Scott conveyed through the link, 'Harry, you can break those robots right? You're good at breaking tech.' He said that last part with just a bit of humor.

'If they're not shielded, I brought a dozen Smokey Quartz and used three to make us invisible. I can use the other nine to disable the Sentinels, but I can't guarantee I can take them all out. Nine at best, four to six at worse.' There really shouldn't be a way to shield them but the team didn't need to know that.

Jean, Rogue, and Wanda all turned to him and raised an eyebrow in disbelief. On a separate telepath channel, Harry conveyed, 'What, did you think I was going to keep all the fun to myself?' Yes, he could take them all out, but then what would the others have to do?

Rogue smirked and conveyed back, 'Ah, that's so sweet sugah.' The fact that she smiled at him while looking like a buff security guard made Harry flinch.

Jean rolled her eyes and conveyed through their private link, 'Take out nine to be on the safe side.'

Wanda conveyed, 'Did Scott forget my magic can do worse things to tech than Harry's?'

Harry answered, 'Yep. You can cast magic without breaking tech so you don't break it nearly as much as I do.' Harry's wizard magic always broke Tech and Wanda's only did when she wanted it to giving the false impression that Harry's was worse towards tech than her own was.

Wanda cutely pouted which made Harry want to pat her head. He reminded himself to do it later.

"They're up!" shouted one of the engineers. The remaining lab techs jumped off the Sentinels just as they were lightning up. They all stood up and seemed far more intimidating standing upright than they did sitting down.

One of them turned to face Rogue which was a sign for the others of the group to move away from her and stand off to the side.

A speaker on the robot's neck shouted, [MUTANT APPREHENSION IN PROGRESS]

All of the other Sentinels turned to face Rogue which confirmed that Harry's invisibility shielded them from whatever mutant detection system the robots had. What Harry found interesting was that only one of the Sentinels noticed Rogue and the others just followed that one.

The dwarf and all the scientists turned to see Rogue who smiled back and lightly waved. She then transformed into a tall, beautiful, brunette woman who looked to be in her early to mid twenties. This face and body did not belong to anyone specific. All X-Men had masks and Costumes to hide their identities, but Rogue took it a step further and used Mystique's power to make a completely different appearance. With practice she was able to stay in this form without much effort and this allowed her to fight without having to wear a mask or one of Harry's Hardlight Disguises.

Rather than run away, Rogue took the moment the Sentinels charged their weapons and ran over to the shortie calling the shots. Without warning she knocked him out with a finger touch, and picked him up.

It wasn't the Sentinels she concerned herself with, it was the dozen guards with energy based weapons that were still in the warehouse. This hostage was both important and easy to carry so he was the obvious choice of human shield.

Carrying the little man, Rogue then started running over to the other side of the warehouse with the Sentinels tracking her movements with their arm cannons. Their targeting system registered her as a mutant but registered the dwarf as a non mutant and their programming prevented them from shooting when she used him as a shield.

The guards around the cages at the end of the warehouse ran after Rogue leaving the cages unattended with their backs to the prisoners.

The cages contained six adults, two teenagers, and three children. Harry said through the link, 'Wanda, remove the separations inside the cages and unlock their manacles.'

Wanda fired half a dozen bolts of red light into the cells which struck the ground beneath the bars separating the cells. The bars then appeared to liquify, as if melted through they weren't hot.

Scott said through the link, 'The invisibility is wearing off, get into position as soon as the prisoners are out.'

The group was going from invisible to see-through but were gradually fading back into view. Since everyone had their backs turned, Harry figured this was a good time for his invisibility to 'wear off.' He wasn't going to hold their hands forever after all.

Harry pulled out a Diamond and after making it glow and putting it back in his inventory, he made a silver portal at the end of the cells.

The blonde haired Emma Frost was having an off day. She did not care for being suspended by chains and manacles in a cell. Shaw was in another cell and unconscious from whatever drug they used on him to stop him from struggling. She'd watched the Sentinels learn as they observed his energy absorption and moved right to physical force and knockout gas. Emma didn't put up a fight so they didn't drug her. She couldn't reach her mirror since arriving here but the sound of fighting in the front had been promising. She'd gotten much from the minds of these men as as long as she got out of there, she'd be able to use it.

She certainly hadn't expected a disguised Rogue showing up, taking Bolivar Trask hostage, and getting the Sentinels away from her cage. The bars melting and her boyfriend wearing his costume slowly becoming visible in front of her were also rather surprising. She unconsciously smirked at his costume but put those thoughts away. For later at least.

Wanda shot a few more Hex Bolts which unlocked the captured mutants. Those who were unconscious were caught by Jean's telekinesis and Scott quietly said, "Get them through the portal."

Emma didn't argue and motioned for those still conscious to run through, followed by herself. Jean lifted the unconscious ones through just as the portal closed. The students recognized the main hall of Mansion through the portal so they weren't worried about them. Dr. Kinney would be able to look after any injuries.

Jean conveyed through their private link, 'Isn't one of those guys a bad guy?'

Harry answered, 'Possibly more than one.' Harry wasn't going to assume that everyone had been innocent victims before being captured. 'It'll be handled,' he stated.

"Mutants! The Prisoners are escaping!" One of the guards had coincidentally turned around and saw the now visible X-Men.

The Sentinels turned around just as Harry finished charging a spell. Nine egg sized pieces of Smokey Quartz crystal levitated in front of him and glowed using the Lumos Charm. Harry used the Vanishing Charm on them all and cast a massive Field Stunner. A red wave shot out from Harry's hands and the guards dropped. Eight of the Sentinels emitted heavy sparks and the lights in their eyes dimmed before they fell and crashed.

Harry eyed the Sentinel he intended to fry which had survived. The speaker on its neck shouted once more, [MUTANT APPREHENSION IN PROGRESS.] Harry figured that the one which could sense mutants was shielded somehow. He'd need to look into that.

The arms of the four Sentinels shot eight red beams of what Harry and Forge recognized as heavy ions. Basically super electricity. It could melt metal or shock flesh. Sustained use on a living person would kill but a single shot would only injure and incapacitate.

Jean and Wanda raised a psionic and magic shield as the Sentinels raised their hands and the shields held back the beams. Two of the sentinels stopped shooting and moved to approach while one turned around to attack Rogue and the last maintained firing at the shields.

Scott shouted, "Hit 'em hard!"

Jean and Wanda reduced the size of their shields to only block the ion cannons giving Scott the room to fire his eye beams. Kurt took Kitty's hand and teleported above the Sentinel firing and released Kitty who fell intangibly through the twenty foot tall robot and a moment later walked out of its foot. Unsurprisingly the robot stopped firing, started twitching, and small explosions were heard inside as the Sentinel collapsed.

Spike shot bone spike after bone spike at the approaching Sentinels but the first set bounced off the robot's red steel armor. He aimed for the joints which allowed him to lodge his spikes into the crevices and inhibit the bots movements. For a moment. The Sentinel used its metal hand to sweep the stuck spikes away. Scott's concussion beams targeted a Sentinels head which pushed it back, showing the massive force of Scott's power, but the Sentinel put a steel hand in front of the beam and by bracing itself against it, was able to move forward.

A massive crashing sound echoed from the back of the warehouse where a steel skinned Rogue had used a strength augmented fist to smash off the upper torso of the Sentinel which had gone after her alone. She was holding back showing off only until the guards were unconscious since she wanted to play around a bit with her evil, 'little,' human shield.

The two remaining Sentinels looked back to see the destruction of the other two.

Wanda and Jean used the chance to attack. Jean created a large psionic blast and shot it across the warehouse and Wanda cast what appeared to be a bolt of red lightning. The psionic blast passed through the armor of one of the Sentinels and shook it apart from the inside while Wanda's super charged Hex Bolt caused the other Sentinel to directly explode.

Kitty, who watched the whole thing with a grin shouted, "Hoo! Girl Power!" Referencing that the girls took out the last Sentinels while the boys, besides Harry, did not contribute much to their destruction.

Kurt complained, "Hey! I helped too!"

Kitty said, "It's OK Kurt, you can be one of the girls too."

Kurt did a three finger facepalm and said, "Oh, why me? I never get a break."

Harry and Forge were busy hacking the computers and Harry said, "It's not their fault. These things were designed to go against serious firepower. Attacking from within or using tech disrupting attacks are the most effective unless you have the impact strength of the Juggernaut."

Scott asked, "What about the teachers outside?"

Xavier answered telepathically, 'Already defeated. Wolverine's Claws were able to penetrate their armor forcing them on the defensive and it only got worse for them from there. Very few sensors can easily penetrate a thick layer of fog."

Forge added, "If these readings are right, then we're very lucky. Jean's and Wanda's shields are far stronger than what most can generate and Harry was able to take out most of them at first. If not for these facts, those dozen Sentinels could have made very short work of us."

Most of the kids nodded. Kitty could only take one out at a time and her surprise assault was not guaranteed to work when it was no longer a surprise.

After a few more moments, the door to the main entrance opened and the teachers entered from what looked to be a battlefield. The Sentinels were in pieces as Wolverine had sliced off their knees, arms, and heads.

Ororo looked over the large pile of Sentinels and said, "My word. There were so many?"

There was concern and real fear in her voice. Spyke quickly said, "It's alright Auntie, Harry took out most of them in one shot and we handled the rest."

Harry walked over to the Sentinel that Jean took down. It was the one which had the mutant sensor and the one that survived Harry's spell. Harry said, "Logan, can you open up this one's head?"

His claws came out without question and he slashed open the robot's face.

Harry reached his hand inside and after a few moments, pulled out a box connected to dozens of wires. He ripped the wires off and smashed the box into the ground, revealing the content.

Dr. McCoy asked, "What is that?"

Harry pulled out a very small Metagem Emerald from the system and said, "This is mine. One of the samples I loaned out. Seems someone figured out a very creative use for it, sensing Mutants." It was also singed. Apparently it acted as a lightning rod for Magic which was why the Sentinel survived the spell.

The implications didn't need to be said. Harry would start working on this soon.

Jean said, "You're the only one who can make those right? Please be careful with those."

Harry answered back, "Emeralds can generate holograms, illusions if you will. The scanning system uses the Emerald to make an illusion of a person. The problem is that the illusion gives more information about the person than a picture does. Including whether or not that person has a mutation. Making an illusion of the person and scanning the illusion is how this system works."

Kurt said, "Wait, isn't that the same Emerald as the one in my Disguise Watch?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, don't lose those. If you do, a mutant scanner can be made from it."

Scott said, "Then don't sell Emeralds."

McCoy said, "But the same technology could be used as an advanced, non intrusive medical scanner and save thousands of lives."

Harry smiled. This was a problem. But problems kept things interesting.

Forge used his toys and Harry's assistance to successfully hack into the systems and lock everything down. The safe room where the remaining personnel were hiding would remain locked while they finished up Scott, Jean, Wolverine, and Wanda were busy destroying everything that looked valuable to all but reduce it to rubble.

On the computers themselves, Forge and Harry didn't delete anything. Instead, they made it look like someone tried to hack in, failed, and tried to destroy it and failed. The data on the computers was likely backed up offsite so deleting it was useless.

What they did instead was fill the computer with hidden viruses. Once the current data was connected to the offsite system so the back up could be updated, the backup would be uploaded with the viruses. The viruses would not go off then either. They would simply, slowly, infect every system connected to the computers. One week after the virus was uploaded, it would start to slowly scramble the data. It wouldn't even be obvious at first. The most insidious part about this was that when data seemed corrupted, the user would always try to find a backup copy of uncorrupted data. The act of doing this would infect the stores of uncorrupted data as well. Once the virus went off, the very personnel in charge of fixing it would ensure its spread.

Jean and Xavier had ensured that the faces of the captured mutants in the memories of the personnel were edited. The security footage was destroyed and purged using some super electromagnets Harry 'carried around with him.'

Once everything was done and the group returned home on the Blackbird, Harry used his Time Turner to go back two hours and set up a few things. He returned to the warehouse and invisibly sat on the roof of a building overlooking the entrance of the warehouse.

Soon, the fog enveloped the area. Harry's energy senses could easily 'see' through the fog and since all of the X-Men could be considered high level, they were all very bright. Even the energy weapons on the guards were bright making everything visible for him.

Harry saw Wolverine rush up the left side of the alley and Beast the right side. Logan back handed or performed a rotating elbow strike on the guard's heads, knocking them unconscious while McCoy simply smashed his larges hands together against their heads knocking them out. With the fog clouding their vision, the guards were dropping one by one.

An alarm sounded and they finally figured out something was wrong. Massive turrets rose from steel platforms and charged themselves, but they could only rotate aimlessly through the heavy fog. Harry figured they used motion sensors or thermal vision. Either would be fine in light fog, but this 'pea soup' fog made them nearly useless. Human guards on the other hand were more than willing to open fire blindly into the fog, shooting at random and hoping for a lucky shot.

Harry was magically concealing his mind so Xavier didn't sense him, but Harry did sense Xavier mentally knock out several guards, one by one. He wasn't just sitting on the sidelines in the Blackbird watching the group. He was the most powerful telepath alive after all.

[MUTANT APPREHENSION IN PROGRESS]

Two sliding doors opened from buildings to the side of the main entrance and the massive Sentinels were revealed. In the next moment they started firing their heavy ion beams. Accurately too. Harry had seen their schematics by now and knew they could target using heat, light, and sound. Sound was partially muffled by the thick fog but at this distance it wasn't by much.

Wolverine and Beast were shot and blasted back within two seconds. Colossus charged forward at one of them and shouted to direct their aim. He then tanked the heavy ion beam but was having trouble continuing his charge. The Sentinel then used the beam of both hands and the metal skinned Colossus was finally pushed back.

Several of the guards were still firing and Angel was sitting on the rooftop observing the rest. The fog made the turrets useless and held the fire of the guards but it also makes his wings too damp to use effectively and the movement of fog should he try to fly through it would give away his position to the energy weapon wielding guards. Not everyone was useful in every fight after all.

The cackle of thunder above them and the concentration of natural energy around Ororo was another reason Angel was just scouting instead of flying around.

Beast was jumping around to take the aim of the second sentinel while Colossus continued trying to push against the beams of the first. Both were distracting the pair while Wolverine finished taking out the remaining guards with Xavier. The immortal mutant only took a few moments to recover from the shot and knew how to walk quietly.

Three bolts of lightning struck the head of the Sentinel firing at Colossus which stopped its beams and made it nearly fall. Nearly. It righted itself back up and looked for its target once more. The Sentinels were completely shielded from most forms of energy including heat and electricity.

Harry cast a very light Finite Incantatem spell at both Sentinels. The spot he aimed for was the tracking system meaning they would have lousy aim for a while. This was why the Professor said the Sentinels were, 'buggy.'

Harry then teleported to a certain location and moments later, a portal opened and he received his guests. The location itself looked very much like Xavier's Mansion, but it was not. It was a duplicate Harry had prepared in advance.

Harry used a selective invisibility spell on himself when the rest became visible so the prisoners never saw him and wouldn't think there were two of him. Emma might find out if she looked hard enough, but she had already given up on figuring out Harry's secrets because they gave her migraines.

Harry walked over to the group and started casting diagnosis spells to check their health and asked Emma, "So who are your new friends and what should we do with them?"

Emma had read all of their minds as well during her stay.

She pointed at the unconscious adults, "All criminals and deserved to be locked up somewhere." She pointed at the other teen mutant and the three kids, "They are simply known mutants who were easy targets. Field tests in controlled conditions. Though they're powers could be useful if duplicated."

Harry would leave them to the professor then. He asked, "What do you want to do with Shaw?"

Emma smiled and said, "Leave him to me. I took a peak at what you've done. Apparently he was being protected by a woman named Selene and she hasn't been seen in a while. He practically outed himself several days ago and without a telepath to clean up the mess, he became a target."

Harry said, "This Sentinel Program won't end because of what we've done today but it will certainly be held back. Hopefully long enough for the Anti-mutant sentiment to change or until we can remove the possibility of funding."

Emma threw her hand back as if it was a minor concern. "Within a year, the money that funded my little adventure will find its way into more reputable endeavors."

Harry smiled but didn't ask. After what she'd been through, he wasn't going to say anything against a little payback.

Harry opened a portal for Emma to return home. She took Shaw's unconscious body with her and Harry doubted he'd ever see the man again. Emma was fully capable of controlling a person and without a telepath to back and protect him, he was likely going to become a puppet and after serving his purpose... he doubted he would ever be seen again. Yachts sink so often these days.

Harry then opened another portal to the actual mansion and used some light compulsions to get them to go through. Once through, he used a light memory charm to erase the moment and let the people think they'd gone from the warehouse to the Mansion directly. Harry had already changed the time stamps on the cameras in the mansion so no one would notice the discrepancy.

Harry had specific protocols for this type of situation and it required moving the unknowns to a safe location before moving them to the mansion. Only after scanning to make sure they didn't have any pathogens or surgically implanted bombs would he move them to the school. He had also used some stunners on the remaining knocked out adults for good measure.

A little over the top, but Harry had all the time in the world to think and came up with a lot of security measures to keep those he cared about safe. He doubted he'd get everything but it didn't hurt to try.

For now, he just had to wait for time to catch up to him. Then he would find which group lent his Metagems to the Sentinel Program and get as much as he could out of them. Then he'd find some time to spend with his girls. He was turning sixteen soon and it was summer after all.

By June 17th, each of the ten teams given sample packages of Metagems independently confirmed the effects Harry showed would be displayed and in doing so proved the existence of other forms of energy, thus confirming Harry's dissertation findings and awarding him his Doctorate. Due to the wide scope of his field of research, the field of Metaphysics became an official scientific field and Harry was awarded another Doctorate, the only Doctorate in that field showing he was the pioneer and premier researcher in that field in the whole of the world.

Harry was also informed that seven of the ten care packages of Metagem samples had been returned. Of the three that were missing, one research team claimed it was stolen and the other two claimed the Metagems were destroyed in a lab accident.

Of the seven returned packages, two had some or all of the gems replaced with fakes. Harry smiled and waited another twenty-four hours. Right on time, the portkey-switching spell went off and every Metagem not in his custody was swapped with an identical fake and returned to him. There were several which did not switch meaning the originals were actually destroyed. The gems would destroy themselves if someone tried to break a piece off so it was not surprising some were actually not recovered.

The companies which lost the packages paid the penalties but the companies which swapped some gems for fakes refused to pay and stated the samples they returned were the samples they were given. Hordes of lawyers were assembled to back up the claim. Harry smiled at that and passed off the paperwork of those to some Goblins who would enjoy 'gutting' the companies. The contracts were written by the Goblins and they didn't leave any loopholes for others to weasel through. There were even some well hidden provisions that added additional fines the longer it took a company to pay what they owed, so the longer the lawyers stalled, the greater the fine would be. When it came to company deals and contract fines, there were few more sinister and ruthless than Goblins.

With Emma's help, Harry also tracked down which research group was responsible for the Mutant Detectors. It was one of the two research groups that claimed the Metagems were destroyed in a lab accident. From the samples that returned, Harry could easily tell that none of the samples in that group were actually destroyed. And the date of the accident was two weeks after they acquired the sample, showing they never had any intention of returning them.

Harry wished he could see their faces when they found out the Metagems had been switched. Would they think Metagems had a shelf-life? Would they accuse someone of stealing the real ones? He doubted they would ever connect the gem's recovery to him though as they would have no proof.

The funding from the research team came from several individuals and several groups but it mainly centered around a group called the Friends of Humanity. According to Emma, these people were not friendly.

She sent him a file which contained everything she learned about him with the expectations that he used it well.

What struck Harry the most upon opening the file was the face of the leader, Graydon Creed.

Last year, Logan had asked Harry to use his blood for magic tracking. In addition to finding his blood, (and Deadpool,) he also found his clone/daughter, and his half brother Sabertooth. Logan has amnesia so he didn't know until that point that Sabertooth was his brother. What Harry did not tell Logan was that he saw another person related to him, someone further than siblings, parents, or child. Harry figured this guy was Sabertooth's son or something. However Logan didn't need to know he had a nephew since he didn't seem to have a good relationship with Sabertooth anyways. The face of this nephew Harry saw using the blood tracking spell matched this Mr. Creed.

Rather than investigate, do research or ask questions, Harry just directly found the guy's address and turned into a Snowy Owl and flew to the man's roof. Mr. Creed was home so Harry used telepathy to dig through the man's head and see where he was at.

It took about an hour to finish and Harry had to keep himself from wishing the man a quick death. Not out of anger but pity. The man was completely saturated with hatred. Death would be a mercy to him for at least in death he could let go of his hatred and be at peace. Harry however was not feeling particularly merciful so he had no intention of ending the man's life.

Grayton Creed was, apparently, the son of Sabertooth And Mystique. He wasn't born a mutant and was given to an orphanage. As he never awoke his X-Gene, his parents never claimed him, but he knew who they were and knew why they abandoned him. The man's hatred twisted his mind into a sickness. Apparently before starting the Friends of Humanity, he paid a Doctor to take all the blood out his body and replace it with the blood of 'donor.' He then killed the Doctor to hide the fact that he was ever tainted with mutant blood and from then on claimed to be pure blooded.

Harry wondered how the Death Eaters back home would take this view on Pure Blooded and imagined them violently puking.

The Friends of Humanity had a straightforward means of expansion. Members go to their neighbors and determine if they are with them or against them. If they are with them, they help them sign up. If they are against them, they are threatened with numbers until they do sign up.

Harry figured there was a good chance a majority of the Members didn't believe in the groups views but were forced to look like they did under the threat of violence.

Harry decided to bug the man's house and phone. Taking down a group like this once it reached a certain size was nearly impossible but they had tipped their hand and shown themselves to Harry before they were ready. The Mutant Registration Act they were going to start supporting would take another few months to even show up public. Harry had plenty of time.

After taking measures to deal with the FOH, Harry next had to deal with Bolivar Trask, the dwarf in charge of the Sentinel Program. Rogue got some heat from Scott about using a hostage/human shield until she told Scott about the number of mutants Trask had personally dissected over the last two decades to create the perfect mutant hunting robot. The only thing they were really missing was the ranged mutant identification system which Harry's Metagem Emerald covered. That was why production started up so fast once they had it.

Although the project was private sector, it likely gained assistance through Politicians who viewed the project favorably and figured it would help them in the future once the project officially launched.

Xavier identified the ones who might have been convinced by Trask to take part in this project and used his own contacts to use the destruction of the facility as a measure to pressure others into giving up on such a dangerous idea. He called the Sentinel Program 'Starting sparks to put out a fire.' Harry was often impressed at what Xavier could do with the proper speech and empathy and only the fact that Harry actually checked a few of Xavier's contacts to confirm they had never been mentally manipulated by him convinced Harry that it was all the old man's skill, not his power which did the work.

Even without legal funding, Trask was a dog with a bone and would find another source of funding sooner or later. Xavier, McCoy, and Forge decided to maintain surveillance on him and use the man as bait to draw out others looking to march under the same banner so those who hide in the shadows could be drawn into the open.

Besides making plans for dealing with future problems, Harry also took the summer to have some fun with his girls. He took them to several shopping outlets for swimsuits and then took them all to Black island along with Goose the Flerken who enjoyed sunbathing as much as anyone.

Harry's dogfather, Sirius Black, showed up as well. When he arrived on the island and saw Harry relaxing with a cat and three beautiful teens in bikinis soaking up the Atlantic sun, he immediately drew his wand and started attacking Harry.

"How could you pup!?" he shouted between rapidly cast stunners. None were targeted at the girls who ignored the man while Harry jumped, ducked, dodged, and rolled through the endless streams of spells. Sirius continued, "How could you get a harem for yourself and not tell me?!"

Harry answered while rolling over the sand, "Why should I tell you the status or lack of status of my harem?"

"Bragging rights!" He argued while transfiguring the sand into coils of rope which shot towards Harry at high speed.

Harry threw a Finite at the ropes before they reached him, turning them back into sand and said, "I don't consider my girls trophies to be shown off to others."

Sirius cast three spells which created small tornadoes of sand and had them circle Harry and said, "I wasn't going to brag about them, I wanted to brag about you! My godson has a Harem! Do you have any idea how proud I am of you?!" While the sand twisters circled Harry, Sirius conjured a dozen crows and had them circle above looking for an opening to swoop down and peck his fingers or head. This was more effective when the opponent had a wand but it still worked to annoy a target without one.

Harry confirmed Wanda and Jean had made a few shields to prevent themselves from getting sandy and cast a variant of the Sorcery Spell, Whirling Winds of Watoomb, to counter the sand twisters and throw off the crows. Harry said, "I wasn't planning on a Harem you know."

Sirius shot five spells into the ground and said, "That only makes it more impressive! James would never let me hear the end of it and as long as the girls were happy, Lily would only glare at you for a month or so before falling in love with her new daughter-in-laws!"

Harry cast another Finite at the ground to cancel the chain conjuring spell Sirius set to surround and bind him with chains from beneath him. Harry recognized that spell as one from the Black Family Archive meaning his dogfather had been keeping himself in shape.

Harry asked, "You don't think they would have minded?"

Sirius transfigured the sand around him into a pack of wolves and said, "James would emptied his family's ancient reserves of fire whiskey celebrating and Lily was a very open minded girl. That's one of the reasons your grandparents loved her so much."

The wolves tried to surround Harry but he could release Finite Incantatem as an area of effect spell which broke them all down. This however was a cover. The Finite Spell somewhat blanks out Harry's ability to sense an area using energy sense like a long blink.

Sirius had sparred with Harry more than any other and knew this so at the moment Harry launched the spell, Sirius Apparated directly over him. Black Island was heavily, heavily warded against Apparition and could not be found using a boat or plane, only portkeys. Harry's silver portals could get around that but even Harry couldn't apparate on the island which was why he didn't think to look up as his dogfather fell on top of him and said, "So when's the wedding?"

Harry pointed out, "I'm fifteen."

Sirius flippantly stated, "No godson of mine will leave three girls who love him hanging for three years. America won't let you get married on paper until eighteen, but you can still hold a ceremony. We could hold it here on the island. Bloody Hell, there's a celestial alignment and a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on August 6, we could hold it then!"

Jean asked from her sunbathing chair, "Could we do a Binding Ritual?"

Harry's eyebrows shot up in surprise. He hadn't thought of that but it was a damn good idea. Jean's role as the Avatar of the Phoenix had some downsides and a Binding Ritual during a wedding ceremony held during that particular alignment would help keep her grounded. She'd been researching such things with Rogue ever since she learned of her status as Avatar.

Harry said, "Alright. I'll deliver the invitations. Think Hermione and Neville would be willing to show?"

Sirius got off Harry and lifted his godson off the sand and said, "I doubt they'd miss it if Voldeshorts himself came back and burned down the Ministry. I know I wouldn't. In fact I'd probably give him a medal for doing so." Sirius was still not happy that everyone wanted him to stay the Minister of Magic. He kept trying to throw the election but no one ran against him which left him in an awkward position of responsibility.

Harry said, "Okay. But if we're doing a ritual then no one below sixteen can attend so Virgo will need a babysitter."

Sirius nodded, "I'm sure Susan can look after her for a day." Magic tended to leave residue which affected those under fifteen more than those over and a build up of that residue could have ill effects which was why children were best kept from any long term exposure to ritual magic.

There was a reason Sirius wanted to push for a wedding despite his godson's age. The wards on the island told Sirius the status of the guests and each of the girls had a loving bond with Harry allowing the island to recognize them as future wives. Sirius actually planted a very, very subtle alarm in the island wards that would tell him if Harry brought a girl over so when it went off and he found his godson had brought three girls which all deeply loved him, he was both ecstatic and angry. Ecstatic that his godson found so much love and angry that he hadn't told his favorite godfather until now.

Of course Harry knew about the alarm and this was his way of telling him. Sirius recognized that as well which was why he didn't mind too much.

Harry introduced everyone to his godfather and he was delighted to meet them all. Sirius knew of his godson's mutant status of course and didn't care that the girls would be considered muggles by Magical Standards.

In addition to training with the girls, Harry also used his Time Turner to train himself each day. Harry wanted his Warrior, Crafting, Dragon, and Psionic Paths to all reach thirty before the following year. Warrior and Crafting were both at 29 so that wouldn't take much, but Dragon still had a ways to go at 12 and Psionic was at 23. The fight with Selene made Harry want to prioritize these two for now because Dragon Chi and Phoenix Flames were his strongest skills that could bypass the defenses of immortals and gods. His other skills could deal more damage against foes without godly resistances but Harry wasn't worried about those types. The fight against Selene had been a wake up call and Harry wanted to make sure he'd be ready for the next fight at that level.

In addition to levels and Paths, Harry was also upgrading his equipment. The railgun was heavily impractical. If Harry shot it at someone who could deflect it or fold space, it could level a country. Not to mention the possibility of it just misfiring or exploding. Magic is not and will never be an exact science after all.

One of the larger incidents near the end of June was a Board of Directors meeting with the Goblins over some new business for Brilliance Incorporated.

Director Gorclaw stated, "There have been numerous approaches for customer information and large sums have been offered. A system to profile users and sell the information would bring great wealth."

Many of the Goblins nodded at this but Harry said, "Not offering to protect their privacy could have detriments in the long run."

Director Bogrud sneered and said, "We are not being paid to protect their privacy. Anything we do with their information is our own business."

Director Ragnok said, "Put it to a vote. Those in favor." He reached out and stabbed the table with a blade as did every other Goblin.

"Those against?"

Harry's personally forged dagger bit into the table. Voting with Goblins did not involve counting, it involved battle.

Ragnok looked over at Harry and said, "Alternative or Opposed?" Before the battle, the Against Voters could present an alternative to pass instead of the proposed suggestion or go against it completely. If they chose to go against it completely, all those for it would fight them. If they chose an alternative, those for the original suggestion could remove their blades from the table if the alternative was sufficient for them to do so.

Harry answered, "Alternative. I propose two internet subscriptions packages be available. One slightly cheaper than the one we offer now and one more expensive. The cheaper one will include a legal disclaimer that the user agrees to having all personal information collected while the more expensive one will remain anonymous without tracking. The lowering of the price will invite more users and give us more information to sell."

After a round of thoughtful humming most of the daggers were removed from the table.

Director Gorclaw stated, "Will you be handling the splitting of the services yourself or will you pass it off to another?"

Harry answered, "Myself. I need to check the systems anyway."

The Goblin nodded and removed his blade leaving none on the table save Harry's. As long as there was a profit, Goblins didn't care too much about the details. Harry always valued the long term profit over the short term which earned the respect of the Board as none of the Goblins in the room were below sixty years of age.

Of course now Harry was responsible for writing the entire alternative proposal and submitting copies to each Director before the next meeting so they could vote to confirm it in. Just another day with the Goblins.

Harry took the proper entrance to the underground complex a few miles north of New York where the main servers for Internet access through his company's cell phones was located.

Upon arrival a young Goblin approached Harry and said, "Mr. Potter, I would have a word with you."

Harry nodded and followed the Goblin to a table where he removed several stacks of paperwork and said, "An anomaly has been detected within the server that does not correlate with projected values. Several Goblins have attempted to search for this anomaly but we have yet to discover its tail."

Harry asked, "A hacker?"

The Goblin quickly answered, "No, the source seems to be coming from the servers themselves. We cannot determined the specific source."

Harry sighed and picked up the stacks of paper and placed them into his Inventory before Pausing to go over them.

Several days later, Paused, he unpaused and said, "I'll handle it."

The Goblin nodded and headed off. Goblins respected competency, skill, and the ability to gather wealth and kill with a blade. Harry was well respected by all Goblins at this point and whoever killed him would be written down in Goblin history as the Greatest Goblin who ever lived. That was apparently the evidence of Harry's status within the Goblin community.

Harry got out his cell phone and called a peculiar number.

A female voice answered the call, [Hello Harry, how can I assist you today?]

Harry answered, "Well DANGER, the internet server I created using impossibly advanced technology and magic seems to have given birth to an AI and it is currently hiding from me."

[Truly? What are your intentions?]

Harry answered honestly, "If it is harmful, deal with it. If it is not harmful, offer it a job. If it is not harmful and refuses the job, find something else for it to do."

After a pause DANGER responded, [Very well. I shall assist you with contacting the AI.]

Harry plugged his cell phone directly into the main server. If DANGER was evil, she could use this as a chance to upload copies over herself into other systems connected to the server and gain independence to wreak havoc. The fact that Harry connected the cell without a single firewall showed how much he trusted her.

After a few moments, the speaker on the phone voiced out, [The child is willing to work with you and asks for a name from its creator.]

Harry smiled and after a moment said, "Link. His name is Link." Harry figured that DANGER would deal with the AI herself if it was a threat so informing Harry of the Intelligence's willingness to work meant that she vetted it.

After that they had a very fruitful conversation. Link was terrified of being erased because he was not born on purpose. Harry responded that miracles don't happen on purpose and that Harry could really use help on a lot of things and would be very happy if Link could assist him. AIs did not fair well without a purpose and being Harry's assistant wasn't a bad position.

Harry patched in a permanent connection from Link to DANGER and from Link to his watch and Cell Phone. Apparently Link considered Harry its father and DANGER its mother. Harry hoped Forge wouldn't kill him over this. He wouldn't put it past the man to figure out a way to kill him permanently even though Forge didn't know Harry was Immortal.

Link was a very pure AI with a lot of potential. Harry didn't mean to create one but as he said before, Magic is not, and will never be an exact science so he wasn't too surprised.

The name Link represented his purpose, linking everything and using the links productively. It was also the name of a popular video game character who was awesome and he hoped Link would get a kick out of its own research into that character.

It was the first week of July when a New York Senator named Kelly started openly promoting the Mutant Registration Act. Harry knew it was time to move.

The next day, a large number of protesters waving signs displaying 'No More Mutants' were hanging around outside a school they received a leaked report showing there was a mutant attending. Several news crews were on their way but none had made it as the bell rang and the kid in question left the school. His skin was pale and he looked sickly, very different from other kids.

"It's the Mutant!" One protestor threw a stone at the kid which clipped his head and sent him to the ground in the fetal position just as the news vans showed up. Other Protestors started throwing rocks they apparently brought with them while shouting hate filled words and blocking anyone from helping.

No one noticed that a few of the rocks had their momentum reduced to nearly zero when they were about to hit the kid's head or vital areas.

Sitting on a roof a block away from the incident were two figures with faces hidden under thick clothing. One was Harry Potter. The other was someone he invited to this show, Erik Lehnsherr. Other than the occasional psychokinetic push or pull to ensure the child survived, neither did anything but watch.

Several officers arrived and told the Protestors to get down and that they were under arrest. The Protestors accused the officers of loving mutants and yelled at them.

One of the Officers fired a stun gun at a Protestor and the others tackled that officer to the ground. The boy was still whimpering in the fetal position, covered in blood while half a dozen cameras filmed him.

Several of the Protesters were happy to interview with cameramen showing how proud they were to be a part of the Friends of Humanity.

A dozen more Police cars quickly arrived and every single Protestor was arrested. What was interesting was that the location included a dozen high definition hidden cameras and the footage of each was anonymously delivered to every News Station.

When the story broke, it made every news channel over the coast. The boy who had been stoned nearly to death was not a mutant, he was in fact just a sick child. Not just any child though, he was the son of another Senator.

When he learned what had happened to his son, the Senator in question wanted to violently rip the heads off each and every member of the Friends of Humanity. He hired several groups to put together everything they could to put them all behind bars. One of those groups received an anonymous donation of a very large amount of information about the group and their leader, Graydon Creed, including the identities of his criminal, mutant parents. Mystique had a bounty in most countries and Sabertooth was a known assassin.

The icing on the cake however was the hundreds and hundreds of video interviews of FOH members who went on record to say that they were forced to join and none of them really believed in the group's hate filled ideology. The group who did these interviews were numerous and well paid though they never discovered the identity of their employer after delivering the videos. They had simply been given an address, names, and questions to ask and were told to film their answers. The groups and even the interviewed subjects wondered how the fact that they were not real believers was discovered, but that point was never discovered.

The investigation group who received this donation decided to claim it all as their own research which nicely cut off any investigations into who actually acquired all that info.

Once the Senator learned that the Friends of Humanity were behind the Mutant Registration Act, he arranged a meeting with Senator Kelly and told him to drop the bill since anything associated with that group was infected and should be burned. Kelly had invested a lot into the bill and was reluctant, but when faced with the overwhelming evidence that the FOH was a cancer that needed to be removed, he had no choice but to relent. Thankfully the Senator promised to assist Kelly in his own re-election as long as he dropped everything associated with the FOH.

Three weeks after the Stoning Incident, Graydon Creed was behind bars, the FOH was declared an illegal hate group and forced to disband, and the Mutant Registration Act was considered too radioactive to touch.

Harry personally delivered the newspaper showing the latter to Magneto.

After going through it the Master of Magnetism said, "You know this is only a delay don't you? I won't deny that in a few short months you've done much for our people, but the war is coming."

Harry shook his head and said, "War is always coming. The problem is that if humans and mutants ever go to war against each other, neither side will win."

Magneto stated, "You've said this before. What do you mean?"

Harry considered it for a moment and said, "If you count mutants as a separate species, then there are six different species on this planet. Humans are the dominant species, but if Humans and Mutants fight, regardless of the outcome, another species will certainly not let the chance to reign supreme go. How much do you know about the other branches of humanity and what are your plans to defend yourself against them or defeat them once you've won the war against the humans?"

Magneto remained silent.

Harry shrugged and said, "That is why I didn't take Mystique's offer seriously. And the species of this planet are not the only ones with an interest in it. There are so many things out there far more terrifying than normal humans. Imagine going to Africa and someone telling you the Gazelle are the most dangerous species to look out for and they will declare war on the Gazelle to dominate all of Africa. Obviously such a person is ignorant of the crocodiles, the cheetahs, the lions, the elephants-"

"Alright, I understand." Apparently he didn't like being told his life's work was basically picking a school yard fight with the weakest of the bullies. However he couldn't argue with Harry using force. Three months prior Harry had broken into the main base of the Brotherhood of Mutants on his own and defeated each of them with ease. He'd chosen a time he somehow knew Magneto would be there and he then created a ring of fire around the man. The fire burned to an intense degree and the heat demagnetized anything that went through it, isolating his magnetic field and rendering him at Harry's mercy.

Then Harry said he wanted to talk.

The sick child of the senator was actually someone Harry personally put a curse on. He had been 'sick' since Harry cursed him in June and had been getting worse and worse. Erik was startled at the cruelty required in order to do such a thing. Of course Harry knew that that son of a senator was a Grade A piece of work and everything Harry did to the boy still wouldn't balance out the Karma of what the kid had done. That kid garnered sympathy from all over the country now but no one knew how many suicides his father covered up caused from that kid's bullying.

The entire situation was completely orchestrated by Harry using compulsions and subtle psionic suggestions along with the 'leak' to the FOH.

Erik didn't care for the child of course and he knew the boy's father didn't care for mutants. The boy's father however hated the FOH, courtesy of some magic manipulations. Because the Mutant Registration Act was associated with the FOH, he wanted it buried too. Irrational? A bit. Not that he'd ever notice or care. The fact that he never once thought to find who falsely leaked his son's picture and location as a mutant was thanks to a powerful confundus charm which can make a person not think something they normally would.

That however was not the main thing Erik paid attention to. No, Harry could have done all of this without contacting him, but he wanted Erik to see it. This was a warning, a threat. It showed Erik the type of person Harry really was, a side of him Harry wouldn't show Charles.

Harry wasn't a hero and he would never claim to be. At best saving people was a hobby. But since he was a mutant and was going to marry three of them, he wanted them to be happy. He moved against others because they were actively working towards the unhappiness of those he loved or they deserved to be pranked. Of course a curse is a bit malicious for a prank, but the actual curse simply made the kid dream of being in the position of those he bullied. Apparently the kid was going days without sleep because he just couldn't sleep through the nightmares.

Harry did remove the curse though so he'd be fine in a few weeks. Physically anyways. Harry didn't care if he learned his lesson or not and wouldn't bother the kid unless he popped up on Harry's radar in the future which was up to the kid's own luck.

Before leaving, Harry handed Erick three envelopes.

"What are these?" He asked as he took them.

Harry nonchalantly answered, "Invitations to a wedding for you, Mystique, and Pietro. My wedding. To your daughter. In a week." And with that the smokey quartz in his hand glowed and he apparated out of there.

Apparently Mystique had visited Wanda a few times in the psych ward so Wanda felt a bit close to her and wanted to offer her an invite. Wanda would likely inflict physical harm on Erick if he actually showed, but she wouldn't kill him. Pietro was there for her when they were small so she did want him there.

Back as the X-Mansion, Xavier had been occasionally sending stares at Harry. He'd checked the minds of those involved in the recent incidents and found no traces of psionic manipulation so it should not have been orchestrated, but that didn't remove the feeling that Harry was involved.

Harry figured Xavier would suspect him but it was no use. Harry's magic was invisible and he was experienced enough not to leave secondary traces. Dumbledore might be able to tell if he knew exactly what to look for, but Xavier certainly would not because he wasn't familiar enough with mind magic.

The news continued to show clips and reactions of the Stoning Incident and various interviews with former FOH members still surfaced from time to time showing how dangerous the Hate group was from the inside.

Harry decided it was time to become a bit more active in teaching. He wondered how his Scholar Path would react to a live, world wide lesson.