Magic circles revolved around the shock gauntlets I had obtained from Shocker after defeating him, analysing the gauntlets and how they worked.

Shocker may have been a crazy thief but he sure knew how to craft a good invention. Just by using some vibration and shock related tech, he managed to create a powerful weapon.

The shock gauntlets were a weapon powerful enough that I could personally use them although not without heavily modifying them. I immediately took out a bunch of blank papers and started writing the modifications and enchantments I would have to perform on the gauntlets before they were combat ready.

Hmm! First of all, I would have to use some enchantments to enhance the power of the gauntlets. Although the gauntlets were already quite powerful, they just were not enough for me to use because of how powerful I was.

Moreover, I would also have to put a psychic trigger enchantment on it. Currently, it worked on thumb trigger which would not be enough in high speed combat.

Furthermore, all these enchantments could not be performed on the current framework of the gauntlets. I would have to obtain some specially enchanted metals next time I went to Kamar Taj in order to fortify its structural framework.

There should also be a channelling disk on the palm area of the gauntlets otherwise it would be difficult for me to use magic and release lightning bolts through my hands.

Now that I was reminded of my lightning, I should also put some lightning resistance enchantments on it so that it doesn’t get destroyed the first time I unleash a lightning bolt wearing it.

“Now, this is something I can use.” I said as I completed the final sketch of the blueprint.

This marvellous product does, however deserve a name. Let’s call this ‘Dragon Claws’ for now.

Just as I was adding the last touches on the blueprint, I heard a knock on my room.

“Peter, you there?” Emma’s voice came from behind the door.

“Give me a few minutes, Emma.” I called out and hastily finished the last touches.

Then, I opened the door to find Emma calmly waiting for me. “Sorry for making you wait.”

“Huh! What is this?” Emma’s gaze drifted behind me to the blueprints on the desk which I didn’t have time to remove.

“What are you doing, Peter?” She asked me curiously.

“Just a new project I am working on,” I replied nonchalantly, “I will show you when it is complete.”

Our initial interaction had not been the smoothest, what with Emma trying to read my mind and then receiving quite an intense backlash.

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However, to my and everyone else’s surprise, Emma had humbly apologized to me the very next day, leaving all of us shocked as she was quite an aloof one.

According to Kitty, it was because Emma found me interesting so she had apologized.

Over the last few days, we had surprisingly become fast friends as Emma herself was quite an intelligent girl. It was truly sad that Emma’s field of interest was business and economics and she was not much interested in science.

Due to her rather soft behaviour towards me as compared to a quite sharp attitude towards others, Kitty believed she was romantically interested in me despite both of us never having encroached upon that topic.

However, even if Kitty’s prediction was true, I was unfortunately not ready to engage in a romantic relationship at the current moment. In the recent months, I had been through a lot and simply was not ready to invest in a relationship yet.

“By the way, why did you come over?” I asked curiously.

“Professor Xavier has called for us in the conference room.” Emma replied.

“Then, what are we waiting for? Let’s go.” After all, we had already gotten late because of me.

When we arrived, we saw that everyone else had already arrived and we were the last ones.

“Ah! Peter, Emma, you are here. Come, have a seat.” Professor Xavier greeted us warmly upon our arrival.

“Why did you call all of us, Professor?” Kurt asked curiously.

“Well, I have already informed all of you about the X-Men initiative.”

Indeed, he had told us about it. It was an initiative under which us mutants worked on some government sanctioned operations which are difficult for government to perform by themselves and in return the government provided us support and funding.

Generally, only Logan and Ororo went on such operations but recently they also asked us students for help if our powers could increase the success rate of the operations and if we wanted to help.

Although I didn’t like someone my age participating in such operations, it would be hypocritical for me to object considering that I had already participated in a dimension invasion.

And the others were no glass vase, they also had their powers. Moreover, Professor Xavier had assured us that they would only take us on relatively simple missions and that our safety would be considered greater than the success rate of the mission.

“This time, it is a rather simple mission. That is why I called all of you. So that you can learn from this meeting and be prepared for the time you yourself have to participate in a mission.” Professor explained the reason for calling the meeting.

He activated the large monitor in the conference room and the monitor showed the picture of a young boy about our age.

“This is Bobby Drake, a resident of the Long Island. Recently, it was revealed that he was a mutant.”

The monitor now showed a new image. Bobby extending his hand towards someone who was encased in ice while a girl screamed near them.

“Unfortunately, it seems his powers activated in public thus revealing him to be a mutant. Currently, he has been locked in a local police station for his own safety.”

Professor Xavier then revealed what was our mission. “ Our mission is to go in that police station and extract him. If possible, convince him to join our school.”

“Peter,” Professor Xavier addressed me, “ You are quite powerful. Moreover, combined with your magic, you are also quite versatile and can help us if something unexpected happens. I would like you to join us in this mission.”

“Alright!” I agreed as the mission was quite easy.

“Since you would be joining us on the mission, have you thought of your codename? If you haven’t, you can just use a temporary codename for now.” Professor Xavier asked me for my codename considering we could not use our actual names during the mission.

Although most of the X-Men had fitting codenames, some of them were still using temporary ones since they still hadn’t decided on their actual codenames. Like how Jean had ‘Marvel Girl’ and Emma had ‘Silencer’.

Besides, Scott’s codename ‘Cyclops” could be said to be a misleading one since Cyclops didn’t shoot laser beams.

“Just call me ‘Drake’ for now.” I replied after some thought.