"Easy there." Kala said as he pulled the once rampaging now stabilized mutant out of the flesh pillar, looking like a very ordinary young Asian boy except for the single metal wire-like substance that was on his chest and some visible veins around it, while Hope could only watch and then he conjured a blanket and wrapped it around the naked teen. "Hey guys, this is Kenji and we should probably get out of here before an angry mob forms and demands our heads or worse, for us to pay for the damages." Alien mutant said as he gestured to the ruined buildings.
"Just open a portal to Blackbird." Cyclops said with a sigh.
"Wouldn't it be better if I just opened one to Utopia?"
"It's tradition." Kitty said with a shrug and Kala created a portal for everyone to go back to Blackbird.
The flight back to Utopia was relatively calm except for when Kenji woke up and hysterically demanded something to draw with and something to draw on, which Kala provided him with, and spent the rest of the flight with a dangerously huge smile as he kept drawing what Hope could only assume to be a vortex of eldritch abominations with a very familiar grey figure in the centre.
"So is that your power, creating painting supplies?" Gabriel asked with a smirk. "If so, kudos to you for stopping artist kaiju there; it couldn't have been easy." He said as he pointed at Kenji, who still seemed to be in his own little world; uncaring of anything other than keep drawing and sometimes cackling while muttering something about 'true understanding'.
"Not really, that's just some magic that I've been dabbling on my free time."
"…you dabble on painting supply magic?" Gabriel asked with a tilt of his head but Hope's attention was on Idir, whose head had just snapped in attention when she heard the word 'magic' and had a rather prominent frown on her face.
"I dabble in magic in general, what I did is simply a storage spell. I was carrying the supplies already."
"…why?" Hope asked with an incredulous tone, not able to comprehend why anyone would bring painting supplies on a mission.
"I have a pocket dimension for storage, I filled it with pretty much anything I could find and think that it might be useful."
Yeah... she could not argue against that logic. Not after all those times she and her father wished they had something very specific in their travels.
...and now she was sad due to her thoughts about her dead father, great.
"The place we're going teaches magic?" Idie asked with a frown, looking like she did not exactly like that idea.
"Not really, I just have some sort of an apprenticeship with Doctor Strange. There is only one person other than me who can use magic back on Utopia, though you might want to stay clear of her."
"...I guess it's not anything that surprising. Sinful practices in an abode of monsters seem fitting." Idie said while looking down and Hope could only wince at that. She knew that Idie's mental state wasn't exactly the best but this much...
She knew that Idie's out of control powers had ended up killing her family and friends and that memory would likely haunt her for the rest of her days but seeing herself as a monster? She had to see that what happened was an accident and not her fault, if only Hope knew of some way to help her.
"Monster?" Kala asked with a raised eyebrow before laughing. "Sorry to disappoint you lil miss, but the only one here who have the right to call themselves a monster is me." He said with a grin that showed teeth.
"Yeah, and what gives you that right?" Gabriel asked with a scoff.
"Power and heritage." Kala said proudly. "For I am Hiro Kala, the son of Hulk."
"...Hulk?" Gabriel muttered with wide eyes, which every other new mutant on the Blackbird also had. "You mean the green giant monster who just recently kicked the collective asses of the Avengers Hulk?" Gabriel practically squeaked the last part out and shrunk down in his seat when Kala gave a smirk with an evil glint in his eyes.
The flight after that was silent except for the sound of Kenji painting, none of them exactly sure what to say anymore. Before long, the Blackbird reached their destination. Formerly Asteroid M, currently known as, Utopia.
"Friend Kala!" Where they were immediately greeted by Hercules, though greeted may have been a misnomer since the greek hero immediately went to the son of Hulk. "Friend Kala, why have you not tell me about your sister?!"
"...my what?!"
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