Prodigy later learns that his mental blocks can be removed, allowing him to permanently retain the knowledge he absorbs, but he first experiences a telepathic illusion created by Dani and Emma Frost of a possible future based from that decision. David and Sofia then decide to become team co-leaders. She turns out to be a bad team leader, causing David to unofficially take charge with great success. Dani initially appoints David as team leader, but he declines in order to give the position to Wind Dancer.
His fellow teammates are Surge, Elixir, Wind Dancer, Wallflower and Wither (who later joins the Hellions Squad and is replaced by Icarus). He is placed on Dani's squad of students, called the "New Mutants". David decides to attend the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning and is made roommates with Josh Foley, who he is initially hostile toward due to Josh's past as an anti-mutant bigot before he discovered his own mutant powers. David is rescued by the librarian at his school, the former New Mutant Karma, and her lover Danielle Moonstar. He takes college-level courses while finishing high school and attempts to keep his mutation a secret until the anti-mutant hate group "Purity" outs him to his parents and attempts to attack him.
Feeling this made him a cheater, and knowing the knowledge would fade, David becomes driven to study even harder. He begins to realize that he is a mutant with the ability to know anything that the people nearby know. 1.1 Early life and moving to the Xavier Instituteīiography Early life and moving to the Xavier Instituteĭavid Alleyne is introduced as a naturally intelligent boy, but who finds upon becoming a teenager that the answers to his exams and assignments begin appearing in his head whenever he is in the same room as his teachers.