"Oh, if you think that's awesome, just wait 'til the day you're in a firefight and I get to transmute your skin to adamantium. The look on their faces when the bullets start ricocheting, it's amazing." He laughs, only for the laugh to get cut short when Exodus levels a glare in his direction, and he hastily adds, "Uh, I mean, if you ever decide you're okay with being in one of your combat units. There's plenty of Acolytes that don't."

Exodus himself sighs, for the truth is not so much 'plenty' as 'one in ten'. Maybe. For good or ill, theirs is a home that must be defended often, and not even just from humans. "Brother Chrome brings up a good point, however suddenly. Iggy, if you decide you do wish to stay here, you should know that the day may come when you are needed to defend your home. Avalon is our sanctuary, but she is not impregnable, and invaders have breached her before -- the followers of Xavier among them. He commands a private mutant strike force and has sent them up here before. It is not inconceivable that he might attempt to do so again."