What's next?

Strip mall

Jean saw the mutant girl duck into a strip mall, so with her hands over the holes in her outfit she followed.

"Come on, please stop making me follow you like this!" Jean called out to her.

"You chose to follow me!" The girl called back.

"We can help you!"

"Help? You can't even keep your clothes on!"

Jean had to admit the girl was right, but she didn't like it.

"That's it." She frowned, her green eyes began to glow with an orange fire as she started to let out the powers she usually kept locked away. She and her friends had been chasing this girl and all they had accomplished was embarrassment. "You are coming in with me."

"No, I'm not!" The mutant girl clenched her fists and summoned the orange and purple energy again, and as Jean took a step nearer the girl unleashed it in a blast of power.

Jean threw her own telekinetic powers back, and the girl's energy blast was deflected off her body, disipating into nothing.

A warm glow faded from Jean and she breathed out.

"There." She said, smiling, "You can't hurt me."

"I hurt your clothes." The girl smiled back. Jean looked down at herself, to see the last of her uniform and underwear, burned to ash, fall and dust the ground at her feet.

"Oh, crap." Jean groaned. She looked up to see the mutant girl smile and disappear into the crowd which was gathering around to look at Jean.