"How?" Jubilee asked as Xavier put on the helmet.
"I need you to concentrate on your link with him," Xavier said. "Try to imagine yourself pushing out from your body towards that sensation."
"Right," Jubilee said hesitantly, closing her eyes.
Xavier himself concentrated on linking to the girl and guiding her mind to mind. In the process, as Cerebro recorded the varying differences between Jubilee's mind and Xavier's, the machine learned to track the aliens.
Jubilee gasped as she seemed to race forward for a moment, until she jerked to a stop. If anything it reminded her of Winona Ryder in that fourth Aliens movie saying "it's like I'm liquid" when talking about plugging into a computer.
"Keep moving," Xavier's voice declared. "Don't be afraid, I'm right beside you."
Jubilee's point of perception shifted for a moment and she saw Xavier, looking supremely powerful in this other realm, indeed at her side.
"Right, follow the tug," Jubilee said, and then she was moving again until.
The images she received as she found Ranma, and the feelings she sensed coming off him, just reaffirmed her belief that he wasn't truly evil. Part of it was the genetic conditioning, but indeed, Ranma was...unaware of many things. He was a danger, but more from ignorance than intent.
"This is in China," Xavier said as they watched Ranma gently clean up another girl and set her down.
"I guess he just has a thing about Chinese girls," Jubilee said with a mild tone of resentment.
She may not have thought he was intending harm, but the fact remained that she hadn't really asked for what he'd given her. Xavier felt a little comforted that Jubilee seemed well enough to make a joke.
"Whoah, he's gotten taller," Jubilee said as Ranma stood up and started to look around in confusion.
"Cerebro has the coordinates," Xavier said. "Let's pull back."
"Right," Jubilee said reluctantly, and Xavier could hardly missed the lingering mental clutch Jubilee held before leaving.
Jubilee was once again struck by the sensation of non-existance as she started to return to her own body. And then she stopped again, as another presence made itself known to her.
"Hello," she said nervously, realizing that the Professor was not yet aware that she had lagged behind.
"Who are you?" the presence asked.
"I'm Jubilee," she answered. "Who are you?"
"Eve," the presence, a definite female, seemed curious about Jubilee, and cautious but not hostile yet. "You are not one of us, but you feel like one of us."
"Are you...project Eve?" Jubilee asked, nervously.
"Yes," the presence said. She seemed about to continue and then paused. "Leave, leave! She is coming."
"Who?" Jubilee asked, and then she felt it approaching a chill up her spine. "Sil."
"I can't face her long, Jubilee," Eve responded as the darker presence stampeded toward them, only to be blocked by something of immense power. "Who...?"
"Me," Xavier said, returned having noticed Jubilee's continued trance. "I think it is time for all of us to return to our proper places, while she is blocked."
Eve apparently took no time to argue and her presence suddenly vanished. Xavier escorted Jubilee back with him as Sil's mind railed in vain.
A few minutes later Jubilee was blinking back into awareness of the physical world in the Xavier mansion.
"This is more serious than we at first suspected," Xavier noted.
****
"What's wrong, Eve," Dr. Laura Baker asked.
"Sil," Eve gasped. "Sil found us, tried to kill us."
"Us?" Dr. Baker asked.
"Jubilee and me," Eve said taking a deep breath.
"Who's Jubilee?" Laura asked, nervously.
"She's a hybrid," Eve said. "But not like Sil or me." Laura took a breath as the revelation hit her. If there was another hybrid out there that had taken a name.
"Somebody else is using the formula," she gasped.
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