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Landon’s life wasn’t a tale of sadness like others in the world. He’d grown up in a ‘broken’ and all be it odd home, but it was great. Sure his parents were part of the divorce statics, big deal. They had both moved on a remarried. He saw his mom and stepfather every couple months. But growing up with Aislinn as his mom, well he couldn’t have asked for a better mom. His childhood was stable. He had his dad, Aislinn, and his little sister. The only odd things about his childhood were that Demitri and Solangel lived in the house too. But he considered them his Aunt and Uncle, which Demitri was actually his godfather anyways. The other odd thing was that Solangel and Aislinn ran a daycare in the basement. But that was actually pretty beneficial to his childhood.

It was because of that daycare that he’d been able to become such good friends with so many other kids. It seemed like everyone’s kids, well at least everyone from the Xavier Institute, were sent to the Haven daycare. Through his mom and Aunt Solangel’s daycare he became best friends with Ashley, Atif, and Rose. He also became close to the kids even younger as they started coming to the daycare. As the oldest there he had developed a brotherly bond with most of the young kids. Those whose mutation was apparent at birth because of visible signs he felt most protective of. Which were really his little sister Cora Lee who’d been born with purple hair and then Isis and Kurt’s little boy who not only had the fur and tail like his dad, but had wings and on top of that was albino. So he made sure even outside of the daycare setting that he didn’t let anyone mess with them.

Growing up in a mutant household that ran a mutant daycare, there wasn’t much he bothered questioning. He knew things were always going to be ‘weird’ based on other people’s standards of normal. But for him this was normal, everyone else was actually weird. There was only one thing he ever really questioned. And that was why his dad and cousin Kim stopped talking. He probably should have accepted that as normal since it happened when he was a toddler, but it just never sat well with him. Because of the falling out he rarely got to see his cousins. Lily, Merrick, and Josalyn didn’t go to the Haven daycare like other kids. He rarely saw Merrick or Josalyn, they were only brought over when Demitri specifically asked to see his siblings. He saw more of Lily because when big enough would just wander away from the Lehnsherr Academy and end up at the Haven. She was around as a combination of her being closer to Demitri than she was to her own mother and because she’d developed her powers at a very young age so Jean Grey came to the Haven as her mentor. And Landon had only see Emma, who was about Cora Lee’s age, and little Sebastian a handful of times in passing because they were not related to Demitri and thus had no reason to come over.

Not getting to see his cousins didn’t seem normal to him. From old family albums, home movies, and stories his grandparents told him his dad and Kim had been inseparable growing up. His grandpa told him that some days it felt like they were sown at the hip they were so close. So when Landon was old enough to ask questions he never got answers. All the adults just told him he wouldn’t understand and it would only confuse him. So he made it his personal mission to find out the truth. He talked Lily into helping him; she had an interest in this since if her mom and David got along again she wouldn’t have to sneak over to the Haven. But when she asked questions around the Academy she got shrugs and when she dared as Wanda she got yelled at for daring. Which Wanda’s reaction was another reason to keep digging. If she got that upset about being asked why David would have stopped talking to Kim there had to be some deep dark secret that no one wanted them to know.

As time went on he expanded his mystery team to include his friends Ashley, Atif, and Rose. They didn’t care as much in regards to David and Kim not talking, but because Landon was their friend they helped. Their interests changed after some sleuthing they discovered that the falling out had started back when the X-men had been attacked by the Friends of Humanity. That sparked their interest since their father’s, Tanner and Logan, had died during that ordeal. None of them could figure out how a group of humans attacking the X-men would stop David from talking to Kim though. But now they had added to their mystery. It wasn’t just about figuring out why David and Kim had stopped talking. It had changed into finding out more about the attack on the X-men. Ashley and Atif’s dad Tanner may not have been the strongest mutant out there, but he was skilled in combat and the idea that he was taken down by a group of humans seemed absurd. More than absurd and in the realm of impossible was that this group of humans had managed to kill Rose’s dad Logan. Everyone knew he was basically indestructible so how was it possible?

Landon refused to give up on finding answers, and so did his friends. Solangel had joked that if they wanted she could turn one of them into a great dane and they could call themselves Mystery Incorporated. No one volunteered for that idea and Landon said they’d sleuth just fine, perhaps better without a talking dog that eats everything in their group. But he did like the name ‘Mystery Incorporated’, probably because he watched too much Scooby Doo as a kid. But it did have a ring to it. They were a group of kids from various backgrounds who came together and searched out the truth. To help him figure out what happened he decided he had to immerse himself completely into the past. He started keeping a log on his tablet of everything he found. He researched every mutant group that had been in Bayville and every mutant who’d been part of it. It wasn’t easy since other than the X-Men and recently the Academy no one kept records, so he had to do a lot of asking around and searching old newspapers to get his answers. But as a result of all his investigating, he had no answers but he knew everything there was about the mutant population in Bayville. He was probably the only person, of his generation at least, that knew the XC had been named such for their founders Xecellence and Cold Fire. Though now the XC and even the Brotherhood were no more, shortly after the construction of the Lehnsherr Academy they joined up with the Acolytes.

When Landon’s mutant ability emerged and he enrolled at the Xavier Institute he found he had access to even more information. Maybe it was because of how much he’d studied the past that he’d moved up quickly to the rank of team leader. After all he had studied every fight that had been documented and memories and even learned from them. Being a team leader worked out well for him, it gave him more unsupervised access to the computer files. But with all the new levels of access to intel he was no closer to finding answers. And now as he was getting to his senior year of high school he wasn’t sure he’d ever find the truth about why his dad stopped talking to him or how a bunch of humans could have taken down so many powerful mutants. And recently his interest in finding answers had been side tracked by teenage hormones.

Today was like any other Saturday he was up in his dormitory studying. Atif had taken off earlier, acting very weird and trying to hide what he was going out to do. Atif had been acting like this every Saturday for nearly a month. Landon’s natural sense of curiosity and wanting to solve a mystery had peaked about what his roommate and best friend was sneaking off for. But he never investigated because he figured Atif was allowed a secret or two. After all Landon was keeping a couple big secrets from Atif. But how does one tell their best friend that they have a crush on their twin sister? Sure he could tell Atif about his crush on Rose, that would be less weird but he still said nothing about it. The only person out of his friends that knew he’d developed crushes on Ashley and Rose was his cousin Lily. He only told her out of desperation of needing to talk to someone. And that turned out to be a bad idea since she then of course told his dad and Uncle Demitri. Who have been of no help. His dad just makes fun of him because Rose is Logan’s daughter and comes from a long line of kick ass DNA, all who would kick his ass for looking at her wrong. Then he makes fun of him about Ashley just because she’s Atif’s twin and you apparently ‘don’t go after your best friend’s sister it always ends badly’ at least that’s how his dad phrased it. Demitri was slightly more help, but just told him to follow his own path. Because if he had a clue what to do about the situation he’d have asked them for advice, Landon rolled his eyes at that tid bit of advice.

Landon put down the text book he was reading and picked up his tablet from the floor. He started swiping through the old photos he’d had stored on there. They went back to the days of being in diapers at the daycare. He laughed a little at some of the pictures like of Ashley dumping her bowl of baby food, maybe it was carrot based on the color, onto Atif’s head. As he continued to flip through the pictures he watched as the gang grew up. Things like first days of school all standing awkwardly in their nice new clothes and new shoes that they hadn’t had a chance to break in so they pinched their feet. Then he got to last year’s picture and stopped. There it was the year that flipped the switch. That was the year he started to notice Ashley and Rose as women. Sure his whole life he knew them as girls, but they were always seen as just one of the ‘guys’ and part of the gang. And since that year he’s had a hard time seeing them as just part of the gang.

He couldn’t even really pin point why the switch flipped. It was all the little things he always knew about them just seemed to amplify and go from just their quirks to being something cute about them. Like how Ashley would twirl her hair around her index finger when deep in thought. Or how no matter how tough you thought Rose was, when she got embarrassed her cheeks turned this perfect shade of red. He’d been trying to figure out over the last year how to even approach the subject with them. But really how do you tell two of you best friends that you had a crush on them? He wasn’t sure how he’d deal with the possible rejection. And then rejected or not what would that do to their group dynamic, especially with Ashley being his co-leader. So for now he was keeping it under wraps. He even made Lily, Demitri and his dad swear to not tell anyone else. He didn’t want Cora Lee to find out, she was co-leader with Rose and the two had been attached at the hip since they were big enough to crawl. The last thing he wanted was his little sister finding out and then telling Rose.

“Why are girls such a mystery? I think I’ll have more luck figuring out what happened the night the school was attacked than I’ll have with girls.”, he groaned as he turned the tablet off and pulled his text book back over to him. “Back to a silent day of studying.”, he grumbled. It’s not that he didn’t like studying; he was focused on being valedictorian of his class and then getting into college so he could become a history major. The only person who could take the title from him was his own cousin Lily. But they’d agreed end of the year there would be no hard feelings since one would be valedictorian and the other would at least be salutatorian. They were both tied at the moment with perfect 4.0 GPA. Lily having the 4.0 just was icing on the cake to her own siblings, Merrick and Josalyn, disliking her. The rift between those three was at least was no mystery. Lily had started life in their biological father’s, Calvin Shadow, house. Despite having been brought to live with them at a young age she just never seemed to adjust to being a ‘Bryant-Frost’. Her sneaking over to the Haven for secrete training with Jean probably didn’t help the bond between the triplets. They still were annoyed that she didn’t give up the Shadow part of her name and developed powers first. Maybe someday when the gang solved the mystery Landon and his cousins could all be friends like they could have been.

Description
Landon’s life wasn’t a tale of sadness like others in the world. He’d grown up in a ‘broken’ and all be it odd home, but it was great. Sure his parents were part of the divorce statics, big deal. They had both moved on a remarried. He saw his mom and stepfather every couple months. But growing up with Aislinn as his mom, well he couldn’t have asked for a better mom. His childhood was stable. He had his dad, Aislinn, and his little sister. The only odd things about his childhood were that Demitri and Solangel lived in the house too. But he considered them his Aunt and Uncle, which Demitri was actually his godfather anyways. The other odd thing was that Solangel and Aislinn ran a daycare in the basement. But that was actually pretty beneficial to his childhood.

It was because of that daycare that he’d been able to become such good friends with so many other kids. It seemed like everyone’s kids, well at least everyone from the Xavier Institute, were sent to the Haven daycare. Through his mom and Aunt Solangel’s daycare he became best friends with Ashley, Atif, and Rose. He also became close to the kids even younger as they started coming to the daycare. As the oldest there he had developed a brotherly bond with most of the young kids. Those whose mutation was apparent at birth because of visible signs he felt most protective of. Which were really his little sister Cora Lee who’d been born with purple hair and then Isis and Kurt’s little boy who not only had the fur and tail like his dad, but had wings and on top of that was albino. So he made sure even outside of the daycare setting that he didn’t let anyone mess with them.

Growing up in a mutant household that ran a mutant daycare, there wasn’t much he bothered questioning. He knew things were always going to be ‘weird’ based on other people’s standards of normal. But for him this was normal, everyone else was actually weird. There was only one thing he ever really questioned. And that was why his dad and cousin Kim stopped talking. He probably should have accepted that as normal since it happened when he was a toddler, but it just never sat well with him. Because of the falling out he rarely got to see his cousins. Lily, Merrick, and Josalyn didn’t go to the Haven daycare like other kids. He rarely saw Merrick or Josalyn, they were only brought over when Demitri specifically asked to see his siblings. He saw more of Lily because when big enough would just wander away from the Lehnsherr Academy and end up at the Haven. She was around as a combination of her being closer to Demitri than she was to her own mother and because she’d developed her powers at a very young age so Jean Grey came to the Haven as her mentor. And Landon had only see Emma, who was about Cora Lee’s age, and little Sebastian a handful of times in passing because they were not related to Demitri and thus had no reason to come over.

Not getting to see his cousins didn’t seem normal to him. From old family albums, home movies, and stories his grandparents told him his dad and Kim had been inseparable growing up. His grandpa told him that some days it felt like they were sown at the hip they were so close. So when Landon was old enough to ask questions he never got answers. All the adults just told him he wouldn’t understand and it would only confuse him. So he made it his personal mission to find out the truth. He talked Lily into helping him; she had an interest in this since if her mom and David got along again she wouldn’t have to sneak over to the Haven. But when she asked questions around the Academy she got shrugs and when she dared as Wanda she got yelled at for daring. Which Wanda’s reaction was another reason to keep digging. If she got that upset about being asked why David would have stopped talking to Kim there had to be some deep dark secret that no one wanted them to know.

As time went on he expanded his mystery team to include his friends Ashley, Atif, and Rose. They didn’t care as much in regards to David and Kim not talking, but because Landon was their friend they helped. Their interests changed after some sleuthing they discovered that the falling out had started back when the X-men had been attacked by the Friends of Humanity. That sparked their interest since their father’s, Tanner and Logan, had died during that ordeal. None of them could figure out how a group of humans attacking the X-men would stop David from talking to Kim though. But now they had added to their mystery. It wasn’t just about figuring out why David and Kim had stopped talking. It had changed into finding out more about the attack on the X-men. Ashley and Atif’s dad Tanner may not have been the strongest mutant out there, but he was skilled in combat and the idea that he was taken down by a group of humans seemed absurd. More than absurd and in the realm of impossible was that this group of humans had managed to kill Rose’s dad Logan. Everyone knew he was basically indestructible so how was it possible?

Landon refused to give up on finding answers, and so did his friends. Solangel had joked that if they wanted she could turn one of them into a great dane and they could call themselves Mystery Incorporated. No one volunteered for that idea and Landon said they’d sleuth just fine, perhaps better without a talking dog that eats everything in their group. But he did like the name ‘Mystery Incorporated’, probably because he watched too much Scooby Doo as a kid. But it did have a ring to it. They were a group of kids from various backgrounds who came together and searched out the truth. To help him figure out what happened he decided he had to immerse himself completely into the past. He started keeping a log on his tablet of everything he found. He researched every mutant group that had been in Bayville and every mutant who’d been part of it. It wasn’t easy since other than the X-Men and recently the Academy no one kept records, so he had to do a lot of asking around and searching old newspapers to get his answers. But as a result of all his investigating, he had no answers but he knew everything there was about the mutant population in Bayville. He was probably the only person, of his generation at least, that knew the XC had been named such for their founders Xecellence and Cold Fire. Though now the XC and even the Brotherhood were no more, shortly after the construction of the Lehnsherr Academy they joined up with the Acolytes.

When Landon’s mutant ability emerged and he enrolled at the Xavier Institute he found he had access to even more information. Maybe it was because of how much he’d studied the past that he’d moved up quickly to the rank of team leader. After all he had studied every fight that had been documented and memories and even learned from them. Being a team leader worked out well for him, it gave him more unsupervised access to the computer files. But with all the new levels of access to intel he was no closer to finding answers. And now as he was getting to his senior year of high school he wasn’t sure he’d ever find the truth about why his dad stopped talking to him or how a bunch of humans could have taken down so many powerful mutants. And recently his interest in finding answers had been side tracked by teenage hormones.

Today was like any other Saturday he was up in his dormitory studying. Atif had taken off earlier, acting very weird and trying to hide what he was going out to do. Atif had been acting like this every Saturday for nearly a month. Landon’s natural sense of curiosity and wanting to solve a mystery had peaked about what his roommate and best friend was sneaking off for. But he never investigated because he figured Atif was allowed a secret or two. After all Landon was keeping a couple big secrets from Atif. But how does one tell their best friend that they have a crush on their twin sister? Sure he could tell Atif about his crush on Rose, that would be less weird but he still said nothing about it. The only person out of his friends that knew he’d developed crushes on Ashley and Rose was his cousin Lily. He only told her out of desperation of needing to talk to someone. And that turned out to be a bad idea since she then of course told his dad and Uncle Demitri. Who have been of no help. His dad just makes fun of him because Rose is Logan’s daughter and comes from a long line of kick ass DNA, all who would kick his ass for looking at her wrong. Then he makes fun of him about Ashley just because she’s Atif’s twin and you apparently ‘don’t go after your best friend’s sister it always ends badly’ at least that’s how his dad phrased it. Demitri was slightly more help, but just told him to follow his own path. Because if he had a clue what to do about the situation he’d have asked them for advice, Landon rolled his eyes at that tid bit of advice.

Landon put down the text book he was reading and picked up his tablet from the floor. He started swiping through the old photos he’d had stored on there. They went back to the days of being in diapers at the daycare. He laughed a little at some of the pictures like of Ashley dumping her bowl of baby food, maybe it was carrot based on the color, onto Atif’s head. As he continued to flip through the pictures he watched as the gang grew up. Things like first days of school all standing awkwardly in their nice new clothes and new shoes that they hadn’t had a chance to break in so they pinched their feet. Then he got to last year’s picture and stopped. There it was the year that flipped the switch. That was the year he started to notice Ashley and Rose as women. Sure his whole life he knew them as girls, but they were always seen as just one of the ‘guys’ and part of the gang. And since that year he’s had a hard time seeing them as just part of the gang.

He couldn’t even really pin point why the switch flipped. It was all the little things he always knew about them just seemed to amplify and go from just their quirks to being something cute about them. Like how Ashley would twirl her hair around her index finger when deep in thought. Or how no matter how tough you thought Rose was, when she got embarrassed her cheeks turned this perfect shade of red. He’d been trying to figure out over the last year how to even approach the subject with them. But really how do you tell two of you best friends that you had a crush on them? He wasn’t sure how he’d deal with the possible rejection. And then rejected or not what would that do to their group dynamic, especially with Ashley being his co-leader. So for now he was keeping it under wraps. He even made Lily, Demitri and his dad swear to not tell anyone else. He didn’t want Cora Lee to find out, she was co-leader with Rose and the two had been attached at the hip since they were big enough to crawl. The last thing he wanted was his little sister finding out and then telling Rose.

“Why are girls such a mystery? I think I’ll have more luck figuring out what happened the night the school was attacked than I’ll have with girls.”, he groaned as he turned the tablet off and pulled his text book back over to him. “Back to a silent day of studying.”, he grumbled. It’s not that he didn’t like studying; he was focused on being valedictorian of his class and then getting into college so he could become a history major. The only person who could take the title from him was his own cousin Lily. But they’d agreed end of the year there would be no hard feelings since one would be valedictorian and the other would at least be salutatorian. They were both tied at the moment with perfect 4.0 GPA. Lily having the 4.0 just was icing on the cake to her own siblings, Merrick and Josalyn, disliking her. The rift between those three was at least was no mystery. Lily had started life in their biological father’s, Calvin Shadow, house. Despite having been brought to live with them at a young age she just never seemed to adjust to being a ‘Bryant-Frost’. Her sneaking over to the Haven for secrete training with Jean probably didn’t help the bond between the triplets. They still were annoyed that she didn’t give up the Shadow part of her name and developed powers first. Maybe someday when the gang solved the mystery Landon and his cousins could all be friends like they could have been.