( okay. so jay has a point there - but that wasn't exactly what julian was getting at. he twists around mid-air, still heading in the direction of the convenience store but facing jay. )

Congrats, you've named both the problem and the solution they came up with. Students died, because the flatscans hate us. It didn't matter how hard we tried to keep to ourselves, they didn't give a damn. They just wanted all of us dead to try and cull the number of new mutants coming into the world. The teams? I agree, shitty concept, but at least we had a built-in buddy system.