[Tommy blinks, frowning at Brandon. He'd assumed he was a mutant. That was just how it went, right? Super powers usually meant mutant or mutated spider bite or aliens.]

So what, you're like, kid Thor or something? How'd you even get powers?

[He snorts and kicks a rock ahead of them.] Seriously. That's what I was saying. I wish I punched Cyclops.

[He really does. But shouting in his face had been just as good at the time.]

Yeah, well, it wasn't like we were about to let them take him away.