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The Beginning of The End

They were finally here at their destination, the place where they may meet their doom. The ten stood together gazing at the gigantic building in front of them with an electric fence separating it from the woods all the way around. The ten once strangers that bonded in their times of need and became friends looked at each other and realized that this may be the last time that they see each other. Their goodbyes expressed without words, just looks. Then, they separated and went their own ways. A tall, lean man with red on black eyes walked to what seemed to be the front of the building followed by a tall, blonde girl who, if you looked just right, had flames dancing in her eyes. An extremely tall teen with jet-black hair and electric blue eyes walked past them, his companion another blonde girl with cerulean blue eyes. Following a little behind them was a short boy with spikey brown hair. They made their way to one side of the building. Next, a group of three girls, two blondes and one with auburn hair and two white stripes, walked to the back of the building. That left two boys standing together at their side of the building. One with dirty blonde hair and almond brown eyes, and the other taller, with spikey blonde hair and ocean blue eyes.

Rewind

6 months earlier:

Rogue sat on the roof and just gazed at the stars in the inky black sky. She was just thinking about how life was going at the Institute. After Jean died sacrificing herself at Alkali Lake, things just hadn't been the same. Scott just moped about and mostly kept to himself. He no longer went on missions and barely showed up to teach his classes. But what did you expect he just lost the love of his life. Logan was angry all the time especially since he has to pick up the slack for Scott. Kurt left, back to Germany to reunite with his family. Ororo was the same as always, wanting to be strong for all the others, but you could tell that she was missing her best friend. The Professor was saddened at the loss of one of his first students, but he understood that Jean did what she thought was best. Many of the students are scared, worried that they might again be attacked in the middle of the night. Stryker definitely left a lasting impression at Xavier's School for the gifted.

John is gone and now an enemy. He was one of her and Bobby's best friend and they just didn't understand why he had to join Magneto's cause. Bobby and her had recently had a falling out and are officially broken up. They just didn't understand each other anymore. Bobby was just too absorbed with becoming an X-Men. Plus she noticed that he was hanging around Kitty a lot and when they broke up it didn't take long for Bobby and Kitty to start seeing each other. She should have seen it coming, why would a guy like him want to date someone who you couldn't touch. A tear slowly slid down Rogue's cheek as she thought about her break up with Bobby. She quickly wiped it away with her gloved hand.

The wind suddenly picked up and blew her hair in her face. A low rumble could be heard up above so she looked up into the dark night. What looked like a huge robot, excuse me robots, were flying in the direction of the Institute. She quickly stood up and then saw that jeeps were rolling down the road headed in the same direction. She sent out a telepathic warning to the Professor and ran.

Upon receiving the urgent message Xavier sent a call out to all of his students and the X-Men.

"We are under attack everyone get to safety, X-Men suit up."

The students started piling into the halls and running around frantic. Storm ran up to them and led them to one of the hidden passageways and told them to follow Danielle, one of the older girls. Reluctantly the kids left Storm and followed Danielle wondering if they would make it out alive.

The gates came crashing down with a bang and the jeeps rolled in. Men with firearms hopped out and ran towards the mansion. The robots, sentinels, landed with a loud thud and started attacking the mansion.

"Scanning DNA, mutant signature detected" one of the sentinels announced happening upon a frightened boy. It reached down with its gigantic hand and clamped around the boy who was rooted to the spot in fear. The sentinel picked him up and brought the boy to one of the many trucks that rolled in after the jeeps. The boy was then detained there by soldiers.

Logan burst through the front doors with an animalistic growl and released his claws previously housed safely in his forearms with known 'Snikt'. He charged the many soldiers and sunk his claws into them. Storm took to the sky and her eyes turned a milky white as she called up a lightening bolt that struck a sentinel head on.

Kids were being dragged out by soldiers and put into the trucks to be taken to God knows where.

Bobby slid out on one of his ice slides and started icing up one of a sentinel's legs, but it fired a laser blast at him and he had to swerve to get out of the way.

Cyclops came out of the mansion blasting at a sentinel that had its sights on Bobby. The sentinel wasn't affected that much and now turned its attention on Scott.

Colossus came out and armored up with bullets ringing off of his chest. He picked up one of the jeeps and hurled it at a nearby sentinel. Shadowcat soon came out and joined in the fight.

The X-Men soon realized that this was a losing battle though seeing that they were greatly outnumbered. They fought on though having nowhere to run and hoping that they could buy enough time for the children to flee to safety. Iceman was cornered by two sentinels and was knocked unconscious and placed in the back of one of the trucks. Storm fell from the sky as she was hit from a laser by one of the sentinels. Cyclops was overrun by soldiers and was down for the count. The Professor was carried out slung over the back of a soldier like a sack of potatoes. He was knocked out cold. The soldiers now had the place surrounded.

"Surrender now or I'll shoot him," a soldier demanded pointing a loaded gun at Xavier's temple. This stopped the feral Wolverine not wanting the one man that had truly tried to help him and fight for mutant rights to die. So that was it 4 teachers and 531 students were handcuffed and loaded onto the trucks. The trucks were designed to neutralize a mutant's power. Little did the soldiers know that the school had 532 students enrolled.

Rogue scrambled down from the roof, almost losing her footing twice. She ran for the woods and waited for the X-Men hidden in a tree. This is where she saw the X-Men, her friends, and fellow classmates captured and rudely taken from their home. She moved to jump from the tree and a branch snapped with a loud noise. Terrified she moved farther back in the tree trying to stay out of sight. One of the soldiers looked back and scanned the area with his piercing blue eyes.

"Something wrong Morgan?" questioned one of the leading officers.

"No, nothing sir. Just thought I heard something," Officer Morgan replied.

Rogue breathed out a sigh of relief and quietly jumped from the tree and ran off into the woods making a promise that she would rescue her friends.