Chapter II: Two Months Later

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Two months had passed now. Not a long time, but the X-Men welcomed any free time they got. They were still exhausted from everything that had happened. Their fight to escape the dimensions and the race against time to save humanity had worn them out. Everyone had finally got used to John, Wanda, and Pietro being there. In Danger Room sessions they proved to be a good team by watching each others backs. Everyone was relieved. They were afraid that the three would rather save their own lives.

Rogue and Remy finally found out what their baby would be. She would be a girl so they named her Bekka Marie LeBeau. Rogue was looking forward to her baby being born. She could not wait to see how beautiful she would be. Remy was looking forward to it because Rogue's mood swings were terrifying. Since she had Magneto's powers, she would often toss anything that was made of metal at Remy whenever he made her mad.

So far Logan and Ororo were going no where. Logan had been acting very odd. It seemed that being in a relationship with a woman………scared him. He surprised her just a week ago when he told her that he would be going to Japan to get his head together. He said he had no idea when he would be back though. She hoped it would be soon. She did not know why he was going to Japan, but she had a feeling that something in his past happened there.

Kurt and Kitty had not gotten married yet. They agreed to wait until Mystique and Anya was out of the picture first, plus they were still very young and still had some time. Mystique was Kurt's mother. He did not want to feel this way, but he knew that she had to be stopped. Even by his own hands if it came down to it. Kitty still felt bad about going after her to kill her, but they decided not to talk about it ever again. They just agreed that if they had to kill her, it would be because she was trying to kill them or their friends.

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It was an early Saturday morning. No one had school and there were no Danger Room sessions scheduled. Scott and Logan were in charge of the Danger Room and since Logan was gone, that meant less sessions. This made the students very happy.

Kurt, Kitty, Rogue, Remy, Wanda, and Pietro stood around in the kitchen eating breakfast. They were the last ones to eat. They always waited until everyone else was gone before coming down to eat. A mansion with almost a hundred students at breakfast sometimes got very crazy.

"Like, what should we do today?" Kitty asked biting into a biscuit.

"How about nothing'," Rogue said looking sick. She grabbed her stomach and ran out of the room.

"Poor Rogue," Kurt said. "Being pregnant looks hard." He suddenly had mental images of Kitty being very cranky and sick if she was pregnant.

"Kurt, are we gonna have kids when we're married?" Kitty asked.

"S-Sure, mein liebe," he said quickly biting into an omelet.

"This is boring," Pietro said. "Let's go watch a movie or something."

"Okay," Kitty said.

They all made their way out of the kitchen and into the living room. Luckily no one was in there. Everyone was either outside or in their rooms.

"What should we watch?" Wanda asked. She finally let go of some of her anger and was now acting social.

"A horror movie," Remy said.

"No way!" Kitty argued. "I don't like horror movies."

"Come on!" Remy said. "Halloween is in a couple weeks! We gotta watch somethin' scary."

"That sounds like a good idea," Pietro said picking the most gruesome horror movie he could find.

Rogue finally walked into the room after getting over her morning sickness. But as she walked in, the movie they were watching was displaying severed heads and other body parts just lying around. She gagged and put her hand over her mouth.

"Oops," Remy said as he watched his wife run out of the room again.

"Told you!" Kitty said with her eyes covered.

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In an apartment in down town New York,

Mystique had rented an apartment to hide in. Whenever she was out in public, she had disguised herself as a woman with blue eyes and long black hair, but when she was in her room, she looked like her real self. She looked out her window and glared at all the people she saw walking around. 'They should all be dead,' she thought bitterly. 'I was so close. If Phoenix had not interfered………' She stepped away from her window and sat down in a chair. 'I wish I had not killed Jean Grey now. Otherwise she would still be just Jean Grey and not Phoenix. Whatever happened to that sorceress mutant?'

"You mean me?"

A woman appeared in the room that Mystique recognized. "Anya," she sneered. "You're the one that attacked my son!"

"Vhy should you care?" Anya asked walking over to her dressing table. "You don't even have pictures of him."

"You must be German," Mystique said. "I lived their once. That's where I gave birth to Kurt."

"Ja," Anya nodded. "I am German. I don't vant to be. I don't vant to be from anyvhere. I do not vish to be of zis vorld."

"Why are you here?" Mystique finally asked.

"No reason," Anya answered. "I just vanted to see ze mother of ze one I killed."

"What!" Mystique gasped standing up. "Kurt is dead!"

"Nein," Anya shook her head and smiled. "I did kill him in ze past, but thanks to ze mutant you captured, he made a time traveling device zat sent ze X-Men to ze past. You also killed ze humans. But since Forge's machine was a success, zey vere able to go into ze past and save Kurt Vagner and ze humans." She smiled even more wickedly. "You too died."

"What?" Mystique asked.

"Keety Pryde killed you to avenge you son," Anya continued. "I died as well. It eez funny. Almost all of us died and now here ve are!" She started laughing. "Eet feels so veird to have zese thoughts, ja?"

"What is the point in telling me all this?" Mystique crossed her arms over her chest.

"Just a fair varning mein rival," Anya answered simply. "Ve both are after ze same thing. I just vanted to tell you to not underestimate ze X-Men. Guten tag, frulein Mystique."

Mystique stared at the spot where Anya was standing. "Rival huh?" she said. "I'll stop you. I will be the one to destroy humanity and the X-Men. Not you."

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Author's Note: Sorry for another short chapter. Things are just getting set into motion so it will get longer I promise!

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