So essentially, what they were doing at the moment. It sounded like he was right about keeping them out of the larger cities.

But this also provides Knock Out with some key information about the Sentinels that he didn't have before, namely their tracking capabilities with regards to DNA and mimicking powers. He was assuming, though he had only media confirmation, that mutant abilities ran the same gamut of manifestation as imPort powers had. Everything from mundane, harmless tricks to hugely destructive capacities.

"I wonder if your own powers work on a DNA level as well," he muses thoughtfully. "That would explain why they don't affect me. What kind of range does this tracking have, do you know? I can't--" He mentally reaches out and taps against the impenetrable firewalls of secured military networks reflexively, but there's not so much as an iota of yield. "Trying to get into that information is going to attract attention we don't want," he settles with. "I'm sorry. It's just not my function. Someone better equipped would be..."

But the phrasing Rogue had used was nagging at him. True, they'd seen only a small portion of the country on their travel thus far, but nothing looked destroyed. No newspaper articles had flagged his tracers as wanton destruction.

"Then what happened?"