I am the passenger

Walter leaned against the wall and waited for Nadia to unlock the door. "Just put moral in the closet or something, alright?"

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"Boys don't cry!" said Nadia's handbag.

"Yeah. Good plan."

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Bel happened to be walking by. He lived on the floor now, after all.

He heard the voice from Nadia's bag and froze, eyeing it suspiciously.

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Nadia shot Bel a glance. "He's reprogrammed. Don't worry."

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Jamie dashes up the stairs and skids to a halt outside of 507. For those people who have seen Jamie they might notice he's out of that ridiculous costume he's been wearing the last few days.

"Guys! Guys! Have you seen me running around?"

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Nadia jumped back from Jamie, definitely noting the lack of uniform. "Why, did you go evil again?"

Her hand may be reaching for her taser.

Moral popped his head out of her bag. "Boys don't cry!"

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Buh?

"What the hell are you talking about?"

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"That's not even a little bit funny," Walter said, coming out from beside Nadia to have a clearer path at Jamie. "I thought you said you weren't doing this anymore."

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Bel crossed his arms and glared at Jamie. "You'd better have a pretty good reason for making a dupe," Bel said. "I told you what I'd do if you ever let that thing out again."

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Moral jumped out of Nadia's bag and skittered over to Jamie.

"Hurting people is mean!"

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"Ooooookay. Have you people been eating the brownies at Empire?" Jamie said staring at the robot. "Or more importantly, have I been eating the brownies at Empire?"

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"You sent out duplicates. One of them was your dark side, and he . . . hurt a lot of people. You don't remember?"

Nadia's hand was still on her taser, but she didn't remember that this might be one of the dupes from before all of that happened.

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Jamie shook his head. "I'm not the original Jamie. I'm one of his duplicates he sent to a school up in..."

Then he shook his head. "Okay... no time to explain. I need to find Jamie or Marie right away."

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"What do you want with Marie?" Bel said suspiciously. He didn't like her being dragged into this mess again.

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Jamie huffed in frustration. "Okay... Long story short? She's a mutant who can drain the life energy, memories and powers of anyone she touches. We need to find her and help her before her powers kick in."

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"How the hell do you know that?" Nadia asked.

"Cursing is disrespectful," Moral added.

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Jamie looked at Moral and was about to say something but shook his head.

"Remember that scanner Jamie brought in to scan you a couple months ago? It registered an extra mutant on campus that we assumed was Jake. Two weeks ago Jamie asked me to take a closer look at that scan because supposedly that mutant wasn't on campus at the time. When we compared the signature on the scan to known mutants? It ended up matching someone in my dimension. That's when I realized that Marie is a younger version of that person that I know."

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"She's a mutant? And she drains energy?" Bel said. "But she's touched me plenty of times and nothing happened."

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Walter didn't have a pole long enough to touch the question of why Marie had touched Bel "plenty of times," but really the question wasn't relevant.

"Have you checked her room yet?"

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"I checked earlier and she's not there," Jamie replied. "I just did a quick search throughout the dorm and both Jamie and Marie aren't here."

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"So we need to look in town. We're going to need more people though."

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Suddenly Jamie's body looked like it lost all motor control as he almost collapsed against the wall. Taking a few moments to catch his breath he started to nod.

"If we're going to get people? We need to do it now. Jamie just passed out. I think Marie's power just got activated."

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"Caray." Nadia gave her room a slightly longing look. "If we're going to search town, we need more people. Can you tell where Jamie is? Maybe we can get something out on the radio?"

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"Wait a second," Bel said. "We can't get the school together and hunt her down. She hasn't done anything wrong, right? So getting a mob together is just gonna freak her out more than she already is if her powers just kicked in. I say just a few of her friends go out to find her, and if we can't find her, we spread the word and get some more help."

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"Right. Good enough. Who's closest to her that we can get right now." Yes, he'd rather be going back to 507, but not tonight, it seemed.

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Jamie regained his composure and shook his head to clear his thoughts. "I'll make a couple of dupes to check the dorms once more and recruit anyone who would be close to Marie and see if they can help track down Marie and Jamie."

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Nadia nodded. "We'd better start checking around town, then."

As Jamie started duplicating, Moral began quickly looking from one Jamie to another. "Boys don't cry? Drink your milk? BOYS DON'T DRINK MILK SHARING IS MEAN--*bzzt*--WHAT LANGUAGE DO YOU SPEAK!"

And then it fell over on its side and twitched.

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The Jamies all look down at the tiny bot and shrug. "Um. We're going to go start the search. We'll take the dorm and then start canvasing the town."

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"We'll meet up back here later," Bel said. "I've got my cell on me. Call me if you find her."

He shimmered out of the hall.

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