Hank gets a stubborn look. "We'll see."

He laughs. "Go ahead and try."

"Hank built Cerebro, the machine I used to find you."

"I have no idea how impressed I should be by that."

"Very."

"All right."

"Of course, none of this addresses the issue that we don't have anywhere to go," Hank says.

"Yes, we do."

"Do we?"

Raven frowns. "Charles, you can't possibly mean--"

"Can you think of a better use for it?"

"A better use for what?" the blond man asks.

"Raven and I have a house in Westchester, New York. It hasn't been lived in in years, but there's plenty of room for everyone, even taking training into account."

"And probably more fun than living in a cave."

"Depends on who else is living there," Raven says.

"True enough."

Charles buggers off to acquire transportation to New York. Lacey engages the other girl in conversation.

It transpires that Angel didn't die like Darwin; she defected voluntarily, lured by Shaw's promises of status in a world of mutant supremacy. Lacey is not terribly impressed with this. It transpires that there was a showing-off-and-picking-silly-codenames session, which Lacey naturally missed by virtue of not having even heard the word mutant before at the time. No one is especially in the mood for silly showing off right now.

Yeah, it makes sense that they wouldn't be, really.

Raven vaguely encourages them to come up with silly codenames anyway, and fills them in on everyone else's. She's Mystique, Hank is Beast, Alex is Havok, Sean is Banshee, Erik is Magneto and Charles is Professor X. Lacey is vaguely noncomittal on the grounds that her power is blood and this does not make for a PR-friendly codename.

"I'm having trouble thinking of a silly codename I can stand."

"What've you got that you can't? All I can think of is 'Bloody Mary,' which is also terrible."

"Adorable. I'm not telling you the ones I can't stand, because I can't stand them."

"But then how will I guess whether you can stand it or not if I have an idea?"

"You'll just have to ask and find out."

"Titan? Ogre? Cryptid? Bigfoot? Any of a number of dragon-related things?"