X-Men Evolution: Rogue Evolution

Family 10.5

The outdoor breeze ransacking the school's courtyard was enough to keep all but the most determined outdoor eaters inside. The most determined evidently being Anna, Evan, and the crust-goth kids sitting at their usual bench in the most shaded end of the courtyard. Anna and Evan's umbrella had been bound shut keep it from running away, but with the dark overcast looming above, Anna was half tempted to open the thing. At least that way they'd have some chance against that evening's rain should it want to get an early jump on things.

Anna managed to gulp down all her school lunch slop asside from the mound of semi orange colored mashed potatoes. Handily enough, it was so strangely dence it acted as a fairly decent anchor against the wind and kept her tray in place. She tucked a dislodged hairs behind an ear. "Does New York get hurricanes?"

Evan, tending to a laptop with one hand and a sloppy joe with the other, ripped another bite out of the beef bleeding sandwich. "Sometimes," he said through a mouthful. He chewed and swallowed. "We should be at the end of the season so I doubt this is anything." He put down his sandwich and checked his watch. "You haven't heard from Kurt have you?"

"Nah. I know Kitty had to stay after class to finish some test, but I didn't hear anything from our blue boy."

He pulled out his phone, tapped something into the screen with his thumbs, then rested it screen down on the table. "Well, I was gonna wait for everyone to be here, but I can go ahead spill it to you. I've been doing some reserch into what we found in Xavier's study."

Anna crossed her arms and tucked her hands under her armpits. Maybe going inside wasn't such a wussy idea after all. It was getting harder to shake off the chill nipping at the back of her exposed neck. "Oh yeah? What in particular?"

"I'm still working on cracking the cipher. I'm not even really sure where to start without knowing more about his day-to-day and getting some context. But I was thinking about the JFK date you put together. What if he's referencing the airport?"

"How do you figure that?"

"Think about it. It's every Sunday, it's his whole day, and none of us remember seeing him on any given Sunday. So he must be going somewhere. 11221963, JFK's assassination, what else would every Sunday have to do with some dude's death?"

Anna's lip pulled back just enough on one side to form a grin. "Well, you know a lot of people make every Sunday 'about some dude's death.'"

"What do you mean?"

Anna pulled her hair out of her face for the thousandth time and shook her head. "Never mind, Ev. What else you got?"

"I'm not sure what he's doing at JFK. Maybe meeting someone or flying somewhere -"

"If he's flying, why not just take the Blackbird?"

"Because he doesn't want us to know he's flying somewhere."

Anna gave a shallow nod and allowed her chin to lower towards her chest on the down stroke. She took one of her hands in the other and pulled at the fabric of her glove. She watched as the soft leather tightened when she applied pressure and crinkled when she let go.

"I also started looking into that material that Kitty couldn't phase though. I couldn't know exactly, of course, but I found this alloy called Adimantium. Apparently it's hard to make and super expensive. Since Xavier has never been one to cut on cost and is a super private guy, I thought it might be a good lead."

"Learn anything else about this stuff?"

"Not a lot is available on it. There was the scientist dude who fabricated it in a laboratory and patented it. How it's made and what it's made of seems like a pretty well guarded secret."