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The young girl ran down the road, hood pulled up around her face so she would not be recognised. Unfortunately it was too late; the sentinels had already recognised her and were chasing her down the street. Letting her hood drop, a streak of white hair appeared, contrasting with the rest of her brown hair, tied back in a ponytail, flapping behind her as she ran.
Rogue was slowly running out of breath, and knew it would be a matter of time before the sentinels caught her. Her powers of absorption were no good against the sentinels, and so she was forced to run. Glancing behind her to see how close the anti-mutant robots were, she failed to notice the edge of the pavement, and tripped, landing hard with a grunt. Giving up, she rolled on to her back, and saw the sentinel standing over her, its eyes glowing as it prepared to deliver the death blow. Suddenly, something flew over her and hit the sentinel, exploding and sending it stumbling slightly. She turned to see the silhouette of a man in a trench coat, with glowing red eyes. She also noticed a deck of cards in one hand, whilst the other held a bo-staff. He bent the deck of cards in his hand and they immediately started to glow, and, letting go of the cards one by one, they flew into the sentinel's leg, separating it from its body. The sentinel toppled backwards and fell to the floor, making the whole ground shake. Rogue watched as her mysterious saviour leapt over her, running up the sentinel's body until he reached its head. Plunging his bo-staff through one of its glowing eyes (similar to his, Rogue thought) she watched it glow as the sentinels head also began to glow, before exploding. Rogue sat up, fearing her rescuer had been caught in the blast, only to see him standing in front of her, hand outstretched to help her.
'You all righ' petite?' he asked, helping her to her feet.
'Ah'm fine. Thank you,' she responded looking him in the face. She found his eyes enchanting, and she found him very handsome.
'Name's Remy LeBeau, chere,' he said with a smile. 'Who might you be?'
'Mah name's Rogue,' she said, blushing slightly.
'Dat's an odd name,' said Remy, as he looked over at the fallen sentinel.
'It's a code name really,' Rogue explained. 'I don' really like to use mah real name.'
'Everybody calls me Gambit,' he said. 'You ain't de only one wit a code name.'
He began to look her over, and she felt sure he had rescued her in the chance that she would come back to his place for some 'fun', and so was shocked when he suddenly spoke up.
'You got quite a nasty cut, dere, petite. Come on back to my place o' residence. We got people who can fix dat in no time.' He grabbed her gloved hand and pulled her along with him. She had to struggle to keep up with him, as he walked quickly, and she had to run every few steps to keep up with him.
'Where're we goin'?' Rogue asked, still desperately trying to keep up with Gambit.
'I got some friends, dey like us. Mutants. It's one of de best places for us'.
Within five minutes, they had reached the gates of a mansion. Cameras followed Gambit and Rogue as they walked up to the gate. Gambit looked directly at the camera, and the gates opened.
'Welcome, chere,' he said with a slight bow, mimicking a waiter in an upper class restaurant. 'to de mansion of Professor Charles Xavier.'