x_team | Report from the Salem Center

For those of you who couldn't make it, some stuff went down at graduation to say the least.

Apparently Natalie Gleason was a mole, placed here with an inhibitor to gain information and help to formulate an attack by both the new group we found in Chicago and upstate, calling themselves the Purifiers, and our old friends, the cybernetic freaks the Reavers.

Both groups invaded the graduation hall with the help of a power outage, and apparently were there to capture the Professor. Before anyone freaks out, Xavier was hit by a tranquilizer dart, but he's still with us. According to Beast he'll be a bit woozy for a few days, but he should make a full and complete recovery.

Most of us escaped without major injury. I'm sporting a few cracked ribs, but should be ok in a few days. Unfortunately, there were also a few audience members in attendance who have minor injuries from their escape attempts, and one who took a shotgun blast to the knee. Thank you Reavers. He's being held at a local hospital, and I'll go to check in on him later this afternoon.

We also have a few of the Reavers, and even a few of the Purifiers in custody, as they are currently being held at the local station. Also, the big catch is Donald Pierce. We got him. Hopefully the police are moving the bastard to a more permanent holding facility where he will stay for a long time.

Now for the hard part. We did suffer a horrible loss last night. During the attack, Nicholas Gleason and 'Lazybones' were cut off by Pierce. Several tried to get to them, especially Nightcrawler, but we were overwhelmed, and he was eventually injured by a Purifier in the process. In their fight, Pierce struck Gleason, and left a pretty nasty wound. Nightcrawler eventually got to the boy but with his injury and the attack coming from another Reaver, he wasn't able to teleport out. Lazybones was able to protect him and incapacitate Pierce, but when they came to, Gleason was gone.

A few of us spent the night trying to find the boy, but his trail went cold just outside of the theater. Of course we'll keep searching, but we haven't made much progress so far. I don't want to make presumptions, but from the reports I heard, Gleason was in bad shape when he disappeared.

I ask for all of us to be very sensitive over the next few days. It maybe difficult for a lot of us, so please just be active, and present around the mansion.