The first time he had been paired up with Mystique, Jean Paul believed that one of them would end up dead. She had arrived in a simple pants and shirt outfit. While they had been on watch she had asked out of the blue if it was true that he was gay. The brusk question had caught Northstar by surprise and he answered with a brisk and cold affirmative. She had just smirked and her 'clothes' melted away until she was standing there in just her skin, which apparently was what she had been doing all along. He remembered her saying "Good, then I can be in my real form without being a distraction."
Ever since that night, whenever they had watch together she would stand about without even the pretense of clothing. He had once asked if she wasn't cold. After a moment of looking at him, she just replied no. Other than a propensity for nudity, she was completely professional which was something Northstar could respect. So he didn't mind being teamed up with the shapeshifter. She didn't seem to mind his often cold demeanor and he could deal with her quirks.
Mystique actually enjoyed having guard duty with Northstar. She hated dealing with shifting on clothes, hiding who she was even a little. Xavier and his crew were rather uptight about many things though and nudity was one of them. It wouldn't have been much of an issue if she had been paired with brotherhood members as they were used to her walking about as she wished. She still did when she was in the brotherhood's personal area. However the powers that be, Xavier, decided it would be best to pair brotherhood with x-folk. Northstar was one of the few x-people she was paired with that was neither distracted by her discarding the illusion nor was trying to be overly friendly either to hide their own unease or in an attempt to actually make friends with her.
They were paired tonight and both of them thought it would be the same quiet night that they had spent many times before. Then the alarm went up. Northstar glanced to Mystique who's skin looked harder than usual. She was already readying a weapon and opening the box of grenades. She tossed a few over to Northstar. They were in one of the sectors that didn't supposively have Darkseekers.
Jean Paul spoke into the headset. "I'll confirm this sector clear then be over there." He was already in the air. Mystique took the binoculars and kept ready. It wouldn't do to let them in the backdoor without a fight. Mere moments later, he confirmed. "Sector clear." That was all Mystique needed to hear before heading to her secondary post, nearer the school.
Northstar flew over to where the invasion was and was shocked by the mass of Darkseekers. "Merde." he said as he stopped in the air looking at them all. Then he went into action. once the grenades were gone he tried to figure out the best place to be. He could move faster than them and flash as bright as the candles on God's birthday cake. With this mass of infected, that might not be enough. Still, he would fight with all he had to keep them away from the school.