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Life Under A Magnifying Glass

While some of the furor over the revelation that Xavier's was a school for mutants had died down, there were still reporters broadcasting from outside the school gates. There were daily reports on what they thought was going on in the school and more reports on what public officials were doing to calm fears. As reporters dug for soundbites to fill the air, little bits of "news" were put out for the public to see.

As the world looked in, the X-Men tried to keep doing their daily routines. Though as more news was reported it became more difficult to live there formerly anonymous lives.

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"Ohmigodnoitwasn'tmeandAidenokwellitWASbutitwasn'tohmigodnotlikethatohmigodthereareCAMERASintheBEDROOMS..."

Sara grabbed on tighter to the edge of the couch.

"Isitreallyhotinhere?"

Her voice dwindled away. She collapsed into a heap on the floor, pulling the couch over with her.

Angel didn't catch any of Sara's high speed babble, and Aiden's comments were quickly forgotten in favor of Sara's sudden collapse.

"SARA!" Angel screamed, rushing to her side.

Aiden wasn't gone long. He came right back into the living room with a paper bag and a bottle of water from the fridge in hand. His eyes widened at the collapsed Sara and couch combo.

He scurried over to shove the couch out of the way and kneel next to his friend.

It struck him that he had no idea what to do. "Uhhh..."

Sara's eyelids fluttered, but she did not wake up. However, she was muttering something. Something that sounded like:

"Mojo... smoking crater..."

Angel, largely because her job has her working with kids, actually has a little bit of first aid training. She slipped a pillow under Sara's head.

"Stay with us, hon..."

Aiden set down the cold water bottle and the paper bag.

"We'll get Mojo back sometime, Sara. It'll be okay. See? No strangling right now."

"Strangle Mojo?"

Sara opened her eyes, and took in the fallen couch, then Angel and Aiden leaning over her.

"Ohmigod."

"You gave is quite a scare, Sara."

She looked over at Aiden. "What's this 'bout Mojo now?"

Aiden carefully grabbed the paper bag to hand to Sara if necessary. He coughed and then cleared his throat.

"Mojo has made a porno and put it on the net. It looks like Sara and me. Except Sara isn't that flexible, and you and I have never had sex in Sara's room. Well, when it was Sara's room. I don't remember if we did it in there while we were remodeling..."

Sara started making that keening noise again, then she cut off abruptly.

"Wait. You guys did it in MY room?!?"

"That low down no good sonnuva..." Angel started, but Sars's keening and question cut her off.

"Of course not! We got more class than that!"

"It wasn't your room at the time. Heck, there weren't even walls up to call it a room. Though I do remember a couple horses and some plywood..." Aiden shook his head to stop the distraction from pulling him too far away.

"Might not have been where your room currently is?" He added to be helpful. "But we should probably figure out how to get all the Mojo cameras out of the base. I don't think they looped into Val's security system because she didn't put those in our bedrooms."

Sara muttered under her breath.

"I'm flexible. I do yoga. Ohmigod, how would you know how flexible I am, anyways?"

She sat up.

"If all else fails, I could EMP the place. Or maybe EMP Mojoworld."

"Wait... you mean that fat sack of..."

She sucked in a breath. "Oh. Mah. God."

Aiden raised an eyebrow at Sara. He wasn't sure what she was muttering about but he caught the word 'flexible.' He chose to not even speak on it.

Though he did notice the girls' god was getting a lot of lipservice today.

"You EMP this place, you'd fry a lot of our stuff. And then we'd have to replace it. If the cameras have been here awhile, and I'm betting they have, they might be shielded just because Sara lives here. Getting to Mojoworld is near impossible with assistance from Spiral, and I don't want to ever see her again." Being tortured once was enough for him. Also, he was feeling a lot calmer about this porno thing than he thought he should be.

Sara was not even remotely calm about this porno thing.

"You're right. EMPing is too good for that fat sack of slime. I'll nuke him like the multiiverse's biggest bag of popcorn instead."

She thought for a moment.

"You know, if we could just find the things, I could focus-fry them. With a little luck, it might even feed back to Mojo's equipment."

"Trick is findin' 'em," Angel said. "'Cause Ah want those things out of mah house."

"We could figure out where they were if we looked at... uh, the stuff. Figure out what angles the shots are coming from. But that's hoping he didn't send mobile cameras that will move." He scratched his temple to try to this figure out. The gals were on the vengeance, so he would have to do the figuring out. He could do this. He had been chosen to teach Zip for a reason.

"Otherwise, we might need to call in help?"

"Help. Ohmigod. Then everyone will know about this. Not like they won't anyways..."

Sara thought through the options. Who had the kind of technology needed to detect an interdimensional spy camera?

"It's got to use some kind of funny phased signal to transmit. If it was microwave, or even the kind of sub-space tachyons that the Shi'Ar and Kree use on their ships, I'd have seen it. Unless they've got a sensor so they only phone home when no one's around."

Angel started to pace. Because of who she was, pacing extended to walking up the wall and onto the ceiling.

She thought. "Maybe... we turn off power to the building, you can find anything still runnin'?"

"Well, I was thinking Valeria since she lived here and it is going around her security system somehow. But..." He shrugged. He knew Valeria moved out to be with her family, but he missed her. Mostly because he did not like being the calm, rational one. Where was Caroline? She could take that spot back.

He considered the suggestion. "We could give it a try. Also, would Sara see anything mystical? If Spiral had a hand in it, then there could be magic."

"Valeria could figure out how to find them quick." Sara nodded. "Turning off the power would maybe help... maybe, if we could catch them phoning home. They'd have to use more power then. But it won't help at all if they're magical. I can't see magical energy unless it's producing light or heat."

Angel frowned. "Okay, so we definitely need to give Val a call. ...And maybe find a hotel until this is over."

Aiden scrubbed his face with his hands then ran his fingers through his hair. This thinking straight thing was a little draining.

"If we can find a place we can afford that will ley us bring Cedric. Otherwise, you girls could go to Xavier's while I stick around here." He was not keen on staying elsewhere. It meant Mojo chased him out of his home. Though something in his DNA made him not quite as disturbed by being watched as the girls.

"The biggest difference between here and there right now is that the cameras pointed at the school aren't transmitting to another dimension. Unless California counts."

Sara paced back and forth.

"I don't like the idea of that bloat forcing us out of our own home. I do like the idea of hanging sheets and signs all over the place telling his audience just what a miserable loser he is."

She turned to the nearest wall, held up both middle fingers, and mouthed 'You Suck' at it.

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