Shocking News

Ben had wanted to keep lying on the sofa, but Katharine Hepburn walked over. "Henry, get up and sit properly. Stop taking up the whole sofa by yourself. It's practically becoming your bed."

"Oh." Just as Henry got up, his phone rang. When he answered it, he heard Cassandra's anxious voice immediately say, "The thing you mentioned happened. Turn on the news!"

"The thing I mentioned? The news? Which channel?" Henry's mind had not caught up yet, and he merely fumbled around the table for the TV remote.

"Any channel will do. They should all be reporting the same thing."

"It's this big? Don't tell me another plane crashed into a building somewhere."

Ever since that incident in 2001, security checks at United States airports had become far stricter. Anything that could possibly be used as a weapon was forbidden from carry-on luggage. Recreating that incident was practically impossible.

But once Henry turned on a news channel, he finally remembered the news he had been waiting for.

"Our station reports that at ten o'clock this morning, during the White House's open day, a Mutant took advantage of the opportunity to assassinate the President of the United States. United States Secret Service personnel bravely repelled the enemy, successfully protecting President George Bush and driving back the assassin.

"Based on internal White House surveillance footage provided by the Secret Service, experts have produced a sketch of the suspect, whose face bears distinctive markings. The FBI has also issued a nationwide wanted notice. Any member of the public who provides valid leads will receive a reward."

The news footage repeatedly showed Nightcrawler knocking down Secret Service agents in the White House corridors.

The Mutant vanished in a burst of blue smoke, then abruptly appeared somewhere else. With this elusive ability, he took