Now is the chapter where your questions of her powers will be answer!
Memories of Another
Gambit sighed as everyone finally got there. Storm looked at him.
"Did you see who it was that was attacking us?"
"Oui, I talk to 'em before ya got here." Gambit paused. Wolverine raised an eyebrow.
"And?"
"And I got good news and bad news. Good news is dat Rogue is alive and has de key. Bad news is that she doesn't remember anythin' and was de one dat attacked us." The others stared in disbelief. After a few minutes he was plague with questions by three teenagers.
"Vere zis she?!"
"Chère disap-"
"Is she, like, alright?!"
"From wha' Remy-"
"Did she say anything?!"
"Uhh . . . 'bout dat . . ."
"Vhy did she attack us?"
"Oh, dat . . ."
"How was she, like, able to do that?!"
"Remy not too-"
"Vhen vill she be coming back vith us?!"
"Well, dere is-"
"How long till she see her?!"
"Dere's a pro-"
"How come she can't, like, remember?!"
"Uh . . ."
"Zis there anyvay that ve vill be able to talk to her?"
"Well, Chère-"
"Does she look alright?!"
"Why does she, like, have the key?"
"TELL US!!!!!!!!!" All three of them shouted at once. Gambit had back up to the point where if he took another step he would fall into the water.
"All Chère said was dat she din' remember much. Dat and she wanted ta know who I was. When I told her dat her name was Rogue she said it wasn't. Den, when Remy asked Chère what her name was she said I din deserve it. I asked her what I could call her and she said Ma'at."
"Children, I believe it is best if we give Gambit some room. We don't want him falling into the water on such a night." Storm looked hard at Gambit while the three backed away. "Are you sure that she said Ma'at?"
"Oui, I'm sure. Why?"
"Ma'at is the Egyptian Goddess of truth and justice. She passes judgment over the newly-dead souls as they enter the Underworld. If she were to take that name atleast Rogue is doing some good in this city. She must of thought we posed a threat in order for her to attack."
Ma'at watched Gambit interact with the others. 'Concerned? Ah should talk ta Hawk . . .'
"Hawk."
**Yes Ma'at.**
"These people seem to know meh from before Ah came here . . . Ah thank that Ah should meet with 'em. What do ya thank?"
**Alright, but I think if would be best if you brought them to Hell Star. But I want you to get back to the team as soon as possible as just give them the address.**
Storm turned her back to Remy and looked at the others.
"Well, we have to-" She was caught off guard as an envelope was blown by the wind right in front of her. She reached out and it landed in her hand. She gave it to Wolverine. He took a sniff.
"This is from Stripes . . ." Wolverine gave it back to Storm as she spoke. Strom opened the envelope.
I am uncertain of your mission at this point along with my teammates. However we have agreed to speak to you. You may come to the mutant club Hell Star. On the bottom is the way to get there. Along a password that you'll need. We will meet you there. And there shall be the answers we all seek.
A Fury,
Ma'at
Storm looked at the bottom. There were directions on it.
"It appears that we will need to go there if we have any hope of getting the key." Storm sighed. The others nodded in agreement.
After an hour and a half of walking around they finally came to an alley. Storm looked at the password.
"Without hope all will fall."
"We got trick. So much for you being the leader." Sabertooth snarled after a few minutes of waiting. He turned to leave.
"Hey, pal, wha ya doin' turnin' tail and runnin' back 'om(home)?" A female voice with a cockney accent rang through the darkness. A cloaked figure stepped out of the shadows. She walked over to a manhole and with ease lifted it up. "Go 'own 'ere and go righ'(Right). Ya should see another cloaked figure. They'll tell ya what to do!" They went down reluctantly. Storm tensed up a bit. After trudging through some sewage they came to a dead-end.
"So Melody let you in here, eh? Well then put one hand on the wall and when it turns green walk through." The voice came out of no where. There was a slight hesitation as they did as they were told. The wall glowed green and they walked through. They walked into a very large club. There were some people dancing to the booming music. The walls were paint red and so were the booths. There were strobe lights out on the dance floor. A bar over on one side of the club and some tables all around. A girl with blonde hair and brown eyes came up to them. She wore a deer hide jacket over a dark magenta halter top with a black skirt that went to mid thigh and had a small slit and nylons and boots.
"You are the ones that Ma'at encountered." It was more of a statement than a question. Slowly then nodded. "Come with me." She turned and started to weave her way through the club. Eventually they came to a staircase. The girl walked up the stairs. At the end of the stairs there was a large room. A huge booth was at the other end. At the booth sat three women. One with silver hair and green eyes, another with spiky brown hair and brown eyes and the last one had red orange hair with green eyes. The one with silver hair wore an elegant blue robe over a black dress. The silk robe had black rose prints on it. The one with brown hair was an almost backless buttoned up green shirt with navy blue jeans and tan hiking boots. She had several arm bracelets on and several necklaces. The last one with the red orange hair wore a silver choker with a dark lavender buttoned up sleeveless shirt on along with black pants and boots.
"Please sit." The red orange haired woman motion to some seats in the booth. With great caution they sat down. "You have no need to introduce yourselves. I have great access into any computer system. I have already told the Furies about your powers."
"Furies?" Storm raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, you see, we choose that name because of the Furies were in Greek myths. They punished the wrong. So it is only natural that it should be our name." It was spoken with a bit of a smirk from the woman.
"You already know about us, how about telling us about yourselves." Storm looked the woman square in the eye as she asked.
"How do we know that you can be trusted?" It was the woman with brown hair.
"Ya know all 'bout us, how do we know that you can be trusted?" Sabertooth snarled. The woman with silver hair was sipping some tea.
"You have no choice there. You came to our city. If it were the other way around then you would be acting the same way." She didn't even look at him while she was speaking. Sabertooth started to rise.
"Don't make me mad. You couldn't stop me on your-"
"ENOUGH!!!" Storm stood up and glared at Sabertooth. "We are not here to make trouble. Sit down Sabertooth. I believe that Magneto had told you not to endanger the mission." Lady Hawk stood up now.
"Magneto?! If you work with him than there is no place for you here!" Lady Hawk had a dangerous look in her eyes.
"Didn't you say that you could hack into any system?" Sabertooth snarled once more. Angelic Demon glared as she stood.
"Silence! You have no right to speak with us. The only reason is because you knew something of the past of a Fury, Ma'at!"
"We had to join forces with Magneto for the time. There was a gather threat to both our teams that we are trying to deal with at the time." Storm spoke with stern tone. Lady Hawk nodded to Angelic Demon and sat down.
"I see. I knew of your powers and such but I didn't not think to look into who Gambit, Sabertooth, and Colossus were working for. I thought them to be other X-men even though it might have been hard to believe. Since they were with you and all . . . I am getting lazy . . . well, I shall not make that mistake again. And to answer your question earlier about us,we will tell when Ma'at gets here." She spoke with a wave of her hand. She looked over at the door. "Here she is now." Faye walked through the door. She had black leather pants and boots along with a red turtleneck and a black leather jacket. She wore gloves and had a red bandana on her head pulling back her hair so is couldn't be seen. It started a bit above the eyebrows. She had gold hoop earrings. Her makeup hadn't really changed. Just her lipstick was darker and she now wore blush. "Well, now that you are here Ma'at we shall introduce ourselves and our powers. This is Smokescreen." She motioned to the woman with silver hair.
"I have power over smoke. I can make it however I want. Acidic or tear gas. I can also turn myself into smoke."
"I'm Angelic Demon." The woman with brown hair spoke with a glare thrown in Lady Hawk's direction. "It's best to show you my power." Angelic Demon stood up. She took a deep breath and angel wings shot out of her back with alittle blood. After a moment they went back into her back. "My wings change with my mood. If ya piss me off then they change to leathery gargoyle wings. But if ya really piss me off then my eyes change to glowing red, I get fangs, my skin becomes like leather and I might get claws." She sat back down.
"My codename is 5th Element." This was the girl that lead them there. "I have some control over the elements."
"That would totally make you, like, pretty powerful."
"Well, my powers aren't that good. I feel the pain of the Earth. But my power of the Earth only goes to plants. And water is different. I can walk on it and all but the amount of pressure that I have isn't that high. I could knock you down with if but that's it. Wind, I can only use gusts of wind and bring in storms from near places or move them away but my range isn't that far. Fire is just a pain in the ass. I fell the heat but if I control it the fire will turn black and goes out faster." 5th Element spoke with a small smile.
"You may call me Lady Hawk. I can fly, cancel out mutant powers within a fifty foot radius and I have the sight of an hawk. I chose Lady Hawk because I keep close tabs on everything in the city. Just like a hawk I know plenty about my territory." The red orange haired woman smiled after she told them this. "As you know this is Ma'at." She motioned to Faye at this point. "Her original power was to absorb memories and such on skin to skin contact. But because of a . . . incident that happened with Artemis, another Fury, when she was out on her rounds she was going to die. She was exposed to a gas that would have destroyed her mind. So in order to save her Ma'at absorb her completely. Once we clean out her system we will put her back in her body and she'll be fine."
"Child, please tell us what the other powers were." Storm smiled at Ma'at. Ma'at couldn't help but fell she knew Storm from somewhere.
"Of course, Ah have extremely great agility. Along with enhanced speed, strength, hearing, and cat lahke abilities such as the fact that Ah always land on mah feet." This was told with a smirk. But it soon faded. "Now, what is that damn mission ya were talkin' about?!" Lady Hawk glanced at her with a sharp look.
"Ma'at, when I asked you to be honest with them and tell them everything that did not mean be rude." Lady Hawk hissed. Ma'at glared.
"Ah don't see tha problem. We have a raght ta know . . . they don't have any raght. Not 'bout us or our powers." Ma'at spat. Lady Hawk held her glared.
"In order to be trusted one must trust." Lady Hawk turned back to the X-men and Acolytes. Ma'at placed her elbow on the table and rested her head on her hand with her eyes closed. "How do you know Ma'at?" Before Storm could reply to Lady hawk Kurt jumped in.
"Zhe's my Zizter!" He was all but screaming. 5th Element, who had been taking a sip of water spat out the water. It Kurt had been alittle closer he would have been soaked.
"WHAT?!" She whipped around to Ma'at. "YOU HAVE A BROTHER?!!!"
"Not lahke Ah knew before now." She opened one eye and looked at her while she replied. 5th Element was busy looking back and forth between the two.
"You don't even look alike . . ."
"Yeah, vell, my mother was her foster mother . . ." Kurt put his and on the back of his neck and looked down. 5th Element was grinning from ear to ear.
"Then you need to tell me all about the embarrassing things that Ma'at did!!!"
"Vell,-" Before Kurt could finish Ma'at interrupted him.
"How do Ah know that ya are telling the truth?" She had bother her eyes opened. Lady Hawk glanced at her.
"That is a very good question. Perhaps if one of you not mind you will allow Ma'at to touch one of you?"
"Half-Pint. She was Stripes roommate."
"Half-Pint?" Lady Hawk was looking strangely Logan.
"Shadowcat." He grunted with a jerk of his head towards Kitty.
"Is that alright with you?" Lady Hawk asked her.
"Sure, like, why not. There isn't anything to, like, hide." Lady Hawk looked over at Ma'at and nodded. Ma'at stood up and walked over to her while taking off a glove. She reached out and touched her face long enough to get her memories. Shadowcat fell back into her seat out like a light once more. Ma'at took a minute it get a baring on where she was. After she cleared her head she sat back down.
"Sorry guys but this is gonna take awhile for mah ta sort thangs out." Ma'at closed her eyes and crossed her arms. 5th Element nodded and looked over at Gambit. For the first time she realized that he had red on black eyes. She ran over to Iceman, Gambit and Nightcrawler. They both looked up at her as she smiled and grabbed there arms. Without a word she dragged them off. Lady Hawk watched them leave.
"Well, you may go off to look around the club till Ma'at have your friend's memory sorted out. I will be staying here making sure that Ma'at is alright along with you friend." Lady Hawk gave a light sigh as she motioned for a waiter to come over.
"Yes ma'am?"
"Edward, please bring me a washcloth."
"Of course." Edward turned and left without wasting a second. Smokescreen put down her tea and stood.
"I am not one suited for clubs. If you would like to a join me there is a library in back." Storm smiled and stood. Colossus stood along with her. The small group left. Angelic Demon pulled herself up and went down stairs to find something to do. Wolverine left for the bar and Sabertooth left to do something else. Soon Edward come back with a small bucket of ice water, a glass of water, and a washcloth. Lady Hawk thanked him and he left. She stole a glance at Faye before she began to tend to Shadowcat.