Mekanix #3

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Synopsis

Kitty is standing in the doorway to her apartment, her jaw dropped in shock. A team of FBI agents are ransacking her apartment, their actions justified by the search warrant she clutches in disbelief. The agents are from a special branch of the bureau; the Homeland Anti-Terrorist Task Force. As Kitty complains loudly to the agent blocking her door, a man in a black suit leaves the group and comes over to ask what the problem is. He gives Kitty the Purity slogan, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,” and keeps her from entering her own apartment.Kitty watches from the hall as the agents violate every bit of privacy she has, finally running out of the building after one of them taunts her about her Dad getting busted by the feds when she was a kid. Turns out her leaving was exactly what they wanted, as they have an agent ready to tail Kitty. It looks more and more like the feds are on a mutant hunt rather than a terrorism investigation. Kitty’s used to this kind of thing, though, and ditches her tail by boarding the el, then standing still and phasing as the train moves on without her. She heads straight for a lawyer.Kitty shows up for her counseling session with Dr. Lyszinski. The doc prods her about feeling responsible for her parents. A frustrated and tearful Kitty vents a bit at the shrink, and finally leaves, saying she’s better off alone.Back at the University Heights precinct, Tom More is being questioned by the same detectives that interrogated Kitty. He isn’t being treated like a suspect they way Kitty’s whole class was, but it’s not clear whether he’s given them any hint about Kitty being a mutant. When he heads back to his dorm room, Alice is waiting for him at the door with a bottle of champagne and a barely-there negligee.After Tom and Alice have had what seems to have been a VERY good time, Alice begins to get dressed, letting Tom know that she and Jeff used Tom’s infiltration of the physics computer network to cause...