Chapter 7
Before doing anything else, two S.H.I.E.L.D agents placed this metal collar around my neck that apparently inhibits my powers, and on my hands they put on these heavy balls that wrapped all the way around my hands and magnetically linked together, preventing me from moving my hands at all.
Now, I am being escorted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents down the halls of the super-powered criminal prison known as 'The Raft'. And if being separated from my family again and then stuffed into a prison cell wasn't bad enough, of all the people they escorted with me, it just 'had' to be Azazel…
He, like me, was placed in the same, heavy restraints and is being flanked by four agents. But unlike me, Azazel was taken prisoner because he deserved it. I wasn't even supposed to be seen by S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Fancy seeing you here Raven." Azazel says in a wicked, mockingly flirty tone.
"Shut up." I growl.
"Come now Raven, can't we let bygones be bygones? No?" he is really getting on my nerves.
"Shut. Up." I growl, in the same tone.
"You really don't let anything go, do you?"
"Shut up 'Azazel'" I snarl.
"Bah" he grunts, "You're not as fun as you used to be. No matter, soon I will be free from these restraints and when I do, let's how much your children will—Uggk." Azazel chokes. I had just swung my arms up and slammed my metal covered fists into Azazel's throat, and in the process, whacked three agents to the floor.
"Get her under control!" One of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents ordered, but as soon as I sensed the two coming up behind me, I raised my elbows and shot them straight back at the same time, catching both in chest.
By shoving another agent into the last two, I have just enough time to take the rest of my anger out on that bastard Azazel. I kick him in the face, pause, and bring my cuffed fists down on top of his chest and stomach quite forcefully.
I'm about to hit Azazel once more, but a painful shock goes through the collar. "ARGH!" I yell, falling to my knees. Four agents grab my arms and pull me up. The other four agents pick up Azazel, who is coughing spastically.
"That's enough of that." a woman's voice says.
I look up, second in command, Agent Maria Hill, stands over me with her arms crossed.
"Agent Hill." I smirk, "Still doing Fury's dirty work I see." She ignores me,
"Take that prisoner to the infirmary. Make sure his inhibitor collar is working right… And take this one to her cell." Hill orders.
Azazel smirks weakly at me as they carry him away, "I was I wrong Raven," he coughs, "You 'are' still as fun as you used to be." All I can do is stare at him angrily.
I find myself in a prison cell with concrete floors, walls made of metal (Adamatnium I presume), and an energy-made cell door that can't be opened unless from the outside. I sit in the cell, with the cuffs and collar still on, and just stare at the door with no concern whatsoever, but my empty thoughts are interrupted when Agent Hill comes back with files in her hands. I ignore her presence as if she isn't even there.
"You can ignore me all you want Mystique, but you're still in there and are charged with all of your crimes and prison escapes, not to mention beating an Avenger in his own house. I still can't believe you actually pressed the S.H.I.E.L.D. call-in button on his Avenger Card, and thought we wouldn't get there immediately." she says mockingly.
"What do you want, Hill" I say finally.
"The prisoner you attacked is in the ICU." she says.
"Azazel, got what was coming to him. And besides, since when do you care what happens to super villains anyway?" I ask.
"I don't, I'm just curious on how you were able to use your abilities with a working inhibitor collar and cuffs on." Hill questions.
"I didn't use powers. I used skill. Skill isn't a power." I say plainly.
"Right. Now tell me, why does this "Azazel" mean something to you?" she asks.
I just glare at her, not responding.
"Well? I'm waiting" she says.
"I'm not answering that question Hill, why don't you check it off in your file" I say. Hill shocks me again with the collar and I cry out.
"You will answer my questions Mystique. And this isn't my file, it's yours." she frowns.
I roll my eyes, not caring at all if she has my info, knowing that they'll never have all my info as I have it hidden somewhere S.H.I.E.L.D. will never find it.
Hill opens the file and begins reading it out loud, "Name: Darkholme, Raven. Gender: Female. Eyes: Yellow. Hair: Orange. Race: Species: Mutant."
I roll my eyes at that last part before she continues, "Date of Birth: Unknown. Involvements: Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Dark X-Men, X-Factor,…etc."
"Is there a point to all this?" I ask cutting her off.
"Relatives: …" Hill continues slowly, and leaves the answer to that statement uncompleted, making me feel somewhat nervous.
"…Anna Marie Darkholme aka Rogue" she says finally. I continue to not show my true feelings and kept the fact they know Rogue is my adopted daughter—which is mortifying to me—hidden under a straight face.
"All this time, we assumed she was a loyal team mate, we had no idea Mystique could have a heart." Hill taunts. Hearing her taunt would normally anger me, but knowing they know about Rogue was more important.
"What do you want?" I ask again.
"Tell me Mystique, who is this?" Hill asks, holding up a photo of Rogue and Kurt together, pointing at Kurt. "I see him with you two in all these photos, but he's not with you in the brotherhood or any other teams. We found out he was a prisoner at a Weapon-X facility that you rescued him from, but somehow all the files they had on him were destroyed. All we could find there was that they called him Nightcrawler. I notice he looks exactly like this Azazel person only he has the same shade of blue and yellow as yours is. So for the sake of your daughter (if you really care for her at all) tell me who he is?"
I stand there by my cell, still not answering her question.
"Fine have it your way. You have 24 hours to comply before we go after her as well." Hill threatens in a yet mild tone. And as soon I finish my last thought I hear a crash outside and feel a slight vibration, I see that the lights are still on and the alarms aren't going off. "What was that?" I ask.
After what seems to be half an hour later, I hear a guard that had just passed my cell get attacked and then I see him as he falls to the floor unconscious. I ready myself for anything.
8 HOURS AGO
I was leading Kurt and Rogue away from S.H.I.E.L.D. quinjets and trying to stay out of their spotlights.
Run you two. We have to escape them!" I yell.
"Easy for you to say, you haf more experience vith zhem Mutter." Kurt says, teleporting in front of me, before teleporting again and reappearing on top of a quinjet, stabbing his swords into it so he could hang on.
"Kurt? Kurt!" I scream, seeing him on top of one of those things.
"No need for zhis… or zhat… or anysing for zhat matter." he says, pulling wires and breaking equipment from the quinjet, causing it to spiral out of control and crash on top of a rooftop. But just before it crashed, Kurt teleported back to me and Anna again.
"One down, three to go." he says.
"Kurt, please I know how good you are, but we just got you back. Please oh please don't do anything that risky unless you absolutely have to." I say.
"But I-" he starts, but I cut him off again, "Kurt."
"Yes Mutter." he sighs.
After that was made clear, we find ourselves under the spotlights of S.H.I.E.L.D. again.
"Uhh Kurt?" Anna asks.
Right after she said that, Kurt grabbed Anna and I and teleported the three of us away from S.H.I.E.L.D., reappearing on a faraway roof top.
"What're we gonna do now?" Anna asks.
"Can't ve just keep running avay from zhem? Like the Veapon-X soldiers?" Kurt recommends.
"NO! This is S.H.I.E.L.D., they play a lot harder than Weapon-X does. They are gonna be much more difficult to get away from." I explain. "So, what now?" Anna asks.
"Alright, here's what we're going to do. They're obviously after me, so Kurt, you and Anna start running that direction, and after 5 minutes, you teleport even farther from here, while I go in the opposite direction grabbing their attention" I say.
"And if you get caught?" Kurt asks with a tinge of worry.
"You keep running, that's what you do." I say seriously.
"Momma, no, you can't!" Anna cried.
"Ve're not leaving vithout you." Kurt says.
Seeing that they won't give up, I simply tell them what they want to hear, "Fine. After 5 minutes and teleporting Anna to safety, you teleport back to me and pick me up."
"Bu—" Kurt starts, but I yell "Just do it!".
After that, the S.H.I.E.L.D. spotlight shined on all of us, and Kurt and Anna finally did what I asked. Knowing they were safe, all I do is keep running. I definitely catch S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attention. After what seems to be 5 minutes of running and still not getting captured, I think I might actually pull through and not get captured. Turns out, I was wrong. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents shoot out a net and capture me like some wild animal.
"S.H.I.E.L.D., this is S.H.I.E.L.D. team 1, we captured Mystique. Repeat we captured Mystique." I hear one of the agents say.
"Good job, now reel her up and send her to the Raft." a voice says over their communicators. The agents put a power inhibiting collar around my neck and my hands in these giant metal, magnetized handcuffs.
They force me in a quinjet and take me away. And as they fly away, I can see Kurt, who just teleported to the scene see me in the quinjet. As the quinjet flies higher and higher, Kurt teleports so can be in reach each time. But alas I know his limits, and I know he can't teleport higher for much longer. Finally, I see him stop teleporting because he teleported to safety as I'm being flown away to prison. But I know that no matter what prison they put me in, no matter how long it takes for me to get out, I only hope that Rogue and Kurt will be safe.
POV: Nightcrawler
6 HOURS AGO
Just mere moments ago, I vas rescued from Azazel by my Mutter and my beloved Schwester. And now, the two of us—my sister Anna (Rogue) and I—lost our Mutter again.
"It isn't fair! No matter what we do, this always happens to us!" Anna groans in despair. I try to comfort her with a hug, but shrugs me off, "Knock it off Kurt, not 'til we get her back."
"Come now Anna, you can't' just simply jump into sings like this." I reason.
"I know, that's why you and Ah are gonna get her back. Just like Momma and Ah got you back."
"I vill alvays be by your side Rogue, you know zhat. But ve need a plan if ve're going to take on S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Ah know. That's why it's a good thing Ah already have one."
"Vhat do you haf in mind?" I ask, crossing my arms.
"Well, first, take us to the Quinjet thing ya crashed earlier."
"Alright. Hang on Rogue." I say, not questioning her odd request. I extend my hand.
"Ah always do… Nightcrawler." Anna says, and ve teleport.
Ve reappear to the site of the zhe quinjet zhat I had crashed into zhe roof not too long ago.
"Vhat are ve doing here?" I ask, not making a connection. Anna just smiles, zhen I realize, "Vait, zhat's your plan?" I look over zhe broken aircraft, "Do you honestly believe zhat ZHIS can be salvaged?"
"Heck, Ah don't know Kurt, but we gotta try something."
I sigh, knowing she's right, "Fery vell zhen… Let's begin vith zhe—" a loud noise interrupts me.
"What was that?" Anna asks.
Ve both look through the glass of the cockpit and discover zhe pilot vas not unconscious nor vas he dead for zhat matter.
"How's he still breathin?"
"I do not know. But ve have to get him out of here." I reply.
Ve approach zhe cockpit and open its door, only to see zhe injured pilot, holding a radio transmitter in his hand, "—need back up. Repeat agent down. Requesting back up now!"
I sving my sword, knocking zhe transmitter and his veapon out of his hand and zhen rapidly bring zhe tip of my ozer sword up to his throat, "I sink not, mein freund." I growl, my German making me just slightly more intimidating.
Anna approaches zhe pilot, whose hands had shot straight up vhen he saw my swords. As she got closer, she pulls off her glove, and just before she places her hand on his forehead, she says, "Sorry 'bout this sugah, but I'm gonna need to borrow some of your mind."
Zhe pilot passes out immediately, but Anna lets her finger tips linger on his head for just a little longer to get more information. After slipping her glove back on, her expression more confident now zhat she had absorbed zhe pilot's knowledge, Anna helped me remove zhe pilot from the cockpit.
"Kurt!" she says abruptly, sounding excited.
"Vhat?" I ask.
"This guy knows how to fix this mess, and now I know how to fix it! We can fix the Quinjet!"
"Vhat luck! Now ve haf some progress." I smile. Just one small step closer to rescuing our Mutter.
"Come on, let's get crackin'!" Anna says.
She relays the info she obtained to me and taking in vhat she said quickly, ve start repairing the aircraft.
Ve vorked for four hours, Anna occasionally going back to feed off more information from the pilot vhen ve needed it. Zhe sun vas starting to rise again. Ve vork for about another hour before deciding that vas as good as it was gonna get vith the little knowledge we had. All it took was five hours to fix zhe trashed quinjet.
"Aaaand, done!" Anna says vith pride.
"Now ve mustn't rush zhis. Zhis has only been just fixed and ve vouldn't vant it to fall apart again as ve're flying" I advised.
"Sorry Kurt, but Momma's been with those S.H.I.E.L.D. jerks a lot longer than she should have been, and we gotta get her now!" Anna replies.
As much as I vant to argue vith her on this, she's right. Our Mutter needs us, and she vould never hesitate if ve needed her, and I vill never do zhat to my family.
"You're right. Come on, let's get Mutter back!" I say, and after vone last touch on the pilot's head, Anna takes the controls of the quinjet and flies us into the air.
After about an hour of flying, ve finally are near S.H.I.E.L.D's super villain prison—zhe Raft.
"Alrighty, we're here!" Anna announces.
"Yes, now you remember the plan, Ja?" I ask.
"Of course I remember! You sneak in to momma's cell and break her out, while I cause a distraction and absorb some of the villain's powers to take on the guards."
"Good. Now, remember to only absorb a little, zhe last sing ve need is for it all to be too much for you to handle." I say and Anna agrees.
As we fly closer, an alarm starts going off inside the Quinjet, and red lights started flashing all over the control panel.
"Uhh Kurt? Remember how you said we shouldn't rush into things?" Anna asks, her expression guilty and worried.
"Ja?"
"Well, looks like you were right, cuz Ah can't control this anymore…" she lifts her hands from the controls to show how it was moving on its own. The craft begins losing altitude the nose starts to fall.
"Hang on!" Anna shouts, pressing buttons rapidly, desperately trying to regain control of the raft.
"It's no use Anna, ve have to jump!" I yell.
"Crap." Anna, giving up and pushing a button. Ve vere both shot up out of the aircraft. Zhen, ve begin to fall. As ve get closer to the water, I extend my arm, grab Anna, and teleport us straight into the water so ve vouldn't impact. Ve swim to the surface again, gasping for air.
"Where'd the—" Anna begins to ask, but her question is answered when she sees the Quinjet crash into the island, but not the prison.
"It doesn't matter, our priority is finding Mutter" I say, and I begin teleporting us across the water towards The Raft.
After 15 minutes of off and on teleporting and swimming, we finally reach the shore and make our way through a back entrance of the prison.
"Remember zhe plan, and stick to it." I whisper once inside.
"Right." Anna agrees, and ve run off in our own separate directions.
As I sneak srough zhe hallways, I afoid efery security camera and guard zhat I pass, making sure I'm unseen and unknown. I pass zhe cell block and reach a security point, but as I prepare to attack my way in, I see zhe guards aren't even avake on zhe job. "Heh, zhey better hire some new men." I mock out loud. I look through zhe files. After a few minutes of searching, I find vhere zhey are keeping her. As I leave zhe main point I see zhe guards are vaking up from zheir naps. Zhat's my cue!I immediately get out and start making my vay to my Mutter. I approach her cell, I see a guard walk past it. Seeing zhis vas my opportunity, I attack zhe guard and kick him down, his head laying just in view of the cell. I valk in front of the cell and see my Mutter standing zhere, ready to fight, "Kurt?" she sounds surprised. "Hello Mutter" I smile, bending down to grab the guard's keys off of his belt. "How did you-?"
"Rogue and I fixed zhat Quinjet I crashed and flew it here. Zhis place actually vasn't too hard to find." I explain.
I step into the cell and grin as I unlock Mutter from her power inhibitor and restraints. Zhen, as a cruel joke, I lock the guard in the restraints and cell instead.
Mutter smiles vith pride.
We have only walked a short distance when she hold out an arm to stop.
"Was ist los?" I ask, speaking in German again.
"I want to give a little "treat" for a certain S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." She explains, heading towards a PA intercom. She turns it on and in a disguised voice, she says, "Mystique has escaped. Repeat Mystique has escaped."
I grab her arm, "Vhat are you doing?!"
"Payback my dear Kurt." she smiles wickedly. Mutter turns back and starts talking into the intercom again, "She's disguised as me. Maria Hill. Whatever I say don't trust me!" she says.
I suddenly realize vhat she's up to and grin, "Very nice Mutter!"
"Thank you Kurt." She grins again, "I'm sure she'll have fun, with security." Then, my Mutter's face falls, "Where's Rogue? I thought she was with you!"
But before I can answer her question, an alarm starts blasting us.
"That doesn't sound good..."
POV: Rogue
15 minutes ago
After my brotha left to go get our momma back, Ah make mah way to the main prison cells to pick up some powers.
As Ah head along, Ah act all sneaky to try an' avoid all the guards. I hope Kurt is the same thing.
After a while, Ah finally got past the non-powered super villains and found the main, hard core power houses. Awesome.
As Ah look around, Ah find myself in awestruck, seein that these villains here were of all species, whether they were humans, mutants, mutates, inhumans, magic users, or better yet, aliens! They were all here.
"Wow!" Ah mutter to myself, "Alright, let's get crackin."
Ah run around the prison halls, the first one I go to is in a rubber room that has no metal at all. His cell says: Dillon, Max: Electro.
I open his cell, leavin him in his shackles, take off my glove and touch his face, takin his powers and making him pass out.
"One down, two to ." Ah smirk, watching my hands generate electricity, "This is gonna be fun."
Ah leave the cell, and run all the way across to another cell to see a blonde woman dressed in green in shackles surrounded by this weird energy, her cell says "Amora the Enchantress."
Not caring at all what her stupid name is, I step into her cell and approach her. As Ah walk forward, she tries to back away, but is not successful at all and Ah touch her, making her pass out and takin her power too. At that moment, Ah start to feel the combo of the powers rushing through my veins.
Ah don't want it to go over my head, so Ah decide to only take one more power before Ah stop and start usin' the powers to get us out of here. I approach another cell and see the mutant known as Juggernaut held in some pretty impressive restraints. Heh.
Ah open his cell, just stroll right in and take his power.
As it starts coursing through me, I feel my strength super charge and my muscles grow huge.
"Whoa, okay, that's enough... Gotta find Kurt and Momma and get us outta here." Ah tell mahself.
As Ah start to leave, Ah see some villain that literally looks like a pterodactyl and am intrigued. He's in a lot of restrains, his mouth is muzzled, and his eyes are glowin yellow.
Normally, Ah would just walk past him, but I can't. Ah find myself walkin towards the cell.
'That's right you inferior bug! Release me from my predicament!' And I hear this *thing*'s voice in my thoughts.
Ah don't know how but he's controlin me, like that Azazel guy controlled Kurt, and like Kurt, Ah couldn't control myself.
Ah raise my hand and use Electro's powers. It blasts the alarms and tech there opening all the cells and releasing the villains from their prison cells. The alarms were blasting.
"Ahhhh, this is much better than that tight cell." the pterodactyl says,
"What-wha did you do to me?" Ah ask angrily.
"My name is Sauron dear, I have many abilities including hypnotic control and a slight telepathic ability." he says. Ah can't tell from his face if he's smirking, but Ah can hear it in his voice.
"Why you-!" Ah shout, and Ah attack him and pin him to the ground and unintentionally absorb his powers, now making my collection 4.
Why did Ah do that, Ah didn't want his powers, now this could be too much for me to handle.
Ah watch in disgust as my skin turns to scales, pterodactyl wings pop grow from my back, and my eyes turn red.
"Now look what you did to me!" Ah shout angrily. But before Ah can take any more frustration out, Ah am thrown off of Sauron by some bald villain.
"Well looky what we got ourselves here, a little absorbing girl?" The bald man mocks.
Ah turn around and see a familiar villain, one called "The Absorbing Man" who could do what Ah could, plus more.
Ah get myself up from the ground and glare at him straight on, "The name's Rogue, baldy."
"Whatever, Ah'm getting myself outta here, and Ah got nothing to prove to some half-assed, second rate version of me." Absorbing Man blows me off.
"Half-assed? Second rate? Ah'm gonna make you eat those words, you big gorilla!" Ah growl, shooting Electro's powers at Absorbing Man while using Sauron's wings to fly quickly towards him. But as Ah got closer he absorbed the concrete floor and metal walls. He punched me with a metal fist and threw another punch at me with a concrete fist throwing me across the room.
Around me, Ah see S.H.I.E.L.D. agents scurrying all over the place and villains tryin to escape. Normally Ah wouldn't worry myself over proving who's the best, but with all this villain pride Ah'm feeling, Ah HAVE to prove Ah'm the best.
Ah look around for someone else to absorb, and end up absorbing the abilities of an unconscious villain called Speed Demon, giving me his super speed.
"AH'M BETTER THAN YOU, AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA KNOW IT TOO!" Ah scream, zooming right back at him to return a hard, Juggernaut punch to his gut.
"You wanna play dirty huh? Well two can play at that ." Absorbing man sneers, absorbing the abilities of two escaping super villains, Hydro man and the Radioactive man. Water starts to go all around him and his eyes glow green.
"HA! Ah'm still better than you'll ever be!" Ah say, attacking him with magic and electricity.
"We'll see." Absorbing Man smiles wickedly, absorbing the powers of another escaping super villain, this one being "Living Laser" and now he's using his ability to go as fast as Ah am. We speed down the halls side-by-side, kicking, punching, and everything in between, until, Ah fly straight up and hover over Absorbing Man, just out of his reach, "Ah've had enough of this!" Ah say, flapping my temporary wings slowly to stay suspended above him.
"Why don't you come down here and fight like the "best" you claim to be?" Absorbing man taunts.
"Uh uh, Ah already got these wings, Ah'm not gonna waste them by not flying. You wanna fight? Come get me!" Ah fly straight up again, going farther and farther up into the huge room.
Then, Ah hover again, watching little Absorbing Man squirm as he tries to find someone to absorb that has the power to fly. What. An. Idiot. Not only does he not realize he could just absorb Sauron's abilities like Ah did, but Hydro Man can levitate using a cyclone of water...
Ah lazily flick balls of electricity down at Absorbing Man, watching him shake with each zap, waiting for him to use some common sense. Then, after ten minutes, he finally-still not using the Sauron idea-figures out the water cyclone and flies up.
"What, did absorbing so many things push your brain out your ears or somethin Sugah? 'cause that was pretty stupid." Ah mock him, a large sneer on mah face."
"Shut up snow cap!" He growls, insulting my hair.
Ah flick another electricity ball into his face and dive back towards the ground, "Catch me Goldie Locks!"
As Ah fly down, Ah notice another group of scrambling villains, one of which just happening to be Molten Man. Ah wonder how that'll react against Absorbing Man's temporary hydro powers...
Ah swoop down silently, tap Molten Man on the shoulder, and say, "Nice doing business with you." As he collapses to the ground from my touch.
Ah start to feel the heat raging through my body and Ah stare up at slow Absorbing man gleefully.
"Get read to get your ass kicked, powder cake!" He growls.
Ah raise a hand and an eyebrow, "Did ya just call me *powder cake*? Really? That's all you could come up with?" Ah laugh, "You're first insult was better halfwit, and if your fighting skills are as bad as your taunts, this is gonna be easier than finding cows on a cattle farm!"
Now Ah've really pissed him off, "You're gonna regret messing with me "Sugah"!" Absorbing Man comes charging at me head on, and Ah knock him back using the "Enchantress"'s magic combined with hot, molten gloop.
At first, Ah think Ah actually took Absorbing Man down, but he flies right back up. So, Ah fly toward him again, blasting Electro's lightning out of my right hand, casting Enchantress's magic in my left, and breathing Sauron's fire breath, at the same time. Meanwhile, as Ah was blastin him with just about everything I got, he's made himself a metal shield, completely deflecting everything I'm using.
Then, right as Ah'm about to use more fire breath and some of Molten Man's powers, Absorbing man uses Hydro Man's abilities and shoots water at me like a high pressure hose, cancelling my fire breath and my electric powers, and pushing me right into the ground.
"You had enough of this? I've had more than enough. And I want outta here. I'm not wasting my time fighting you." Absorbing Man says, landing beside me.
Ah stand back up, "Sounds to me like someone can't handle a little fight? Are you going off to take your afternoon nap, *Baby*?"
Just as he turns around furiously, Ah charge at him again with Juggernaut strength and Speed Demon speed, and yell, "We're not goin anywhere til Ah beat you plain and simple, Rogaine!" Ah shout, taking him Absorbing Man completely by surprise.
Because he wasn't prepared, I managed to slam him through three walls, until finally he used Radioactive man's power and blasted me off of him.
It was just me and him at a standoff, staring each other down, "You wanna keep fighting? Fine by me!" He growls, charging at me.
"Now we're talkin! Time for your epic beat down, Rapunzel!" Ah sneer, charging too.
Ah thought this was gonna be one hell of a super powered punch, but as soon as my ungloved fist touches Absorbing Man's skin and vice/versa, this green energy starts emitting from our bodies , coming out of our eyes and mouths and we were blasted onto the ground, both of us feeling this excruciating pain.
Ah'm on the ground, panting in pain. Ah look up and see Absorbing man's out cold, and back to his original self with no other ability. Ah look at myself and see that Ah don't have scales anymore or any other power either.
"What the hell just happened?" Ah pant.
Then, Ah see Sauron walk over to me, smiling wickedly. "My, my. That was quite the experiment" he says. "And if my theory is correct…." He bends over and touches my skin, but this time Ah don't absorb his abilities or mind or anything.
"Ah Ha! Just as I suspected. Your skin to skin contact absorption ability with someone with the same ability as your own, such as the Absorbing Man for example, created a feedback that cancelled all existing abilities you had previously absorbed and temporarily cancelled yours!" Sauron explains sinisterly happy, "But no matter, the reason I am here, is because I detected residual telepathic control in your mind before you encountered me in my imprisoned state. And the reason I have so much interest in you, is because I have strong hatred and desire for your mother Mystique."
Oh no, not this again. Please don't let someone come after mah family again, not when we're so close to getting away from all this craziness.
"I sensed the residual telepathic energy was something you had absorbed, but no longer exists now, due to the feedback. It matters not, because the next time you come into a close proximity with… your brother, the telepathic influence I have already put in you will take control of him and then both of you will become my mindless puppets as you will kill your mother for me." Sauron says evilly.
I try to get up and stop him, but the feedback from Absorbing Man is too much, and all I can do is watch and listen.
"And just so you don't warn them and spoil my plans, I will erase your memory of this encounter."
"No, no, no!" Ah shout, tryin to resist him.
"Don't worry my dear, you won't feel a thing. After all this never happened, happened, happened, happened, happened."
His last word repeats over and over again until Ah pass out, forgetin the entire encounter.
"Rogue! Rogue wake up!" Says a voice distantly.
Mah brain is clouded and Ah feel in a daze. Ah open mah eyes.
Above me, Momma and Kurt are tryin to get me to stand.
"Momma!" Ah say happily, but drowsily, reaching up to give her and Kurt a hug
"It's good to see you too dear, niw please tell me, what happened? Why are you lying on the floor?" Momma asks.
"Ah…..Ah can't remember. The last thing Ah do remember is my fight with Absorbing Man and a blast suddenly knocking us both to the ground when we touched." Ah explain, holding my forehead. Ah turn around and see that Absorbing Man is gone too.
"Vell, at least you are alright." Kurt says.
"We all are, now let's escape this prison before we find all of ourselves prisoners." Momma interjects.
We make a break for it and find ourselves at the entrance. All the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are too busy dealing with the more important escaped prisoners, rather than three suspicious mutants.
"Quickly, over there!" Momma says, leading us to a S.H.I.E.L.D. speed boat. Somehow, we managed to sneak off the prison island with no one noticing us what so ever.
"Let's see you threaten me now Hill." I hear Momma say quietly.
"Vhat did you say Mutter?" Kurt asks, thinking she was talking to us.
"Nothing important, Kurt." Momma answers.
"Well, at least we can finally lay low for a while..." I say, "Ah tell you, this can be a little much sometimes."
"On the contrary Miss Darkholme, there's still more to come." a voice says, sounding like it is in mah head.
"What? Who said that?" Ah ask out loud. Kurt and My momma look at each other and then back at me, their eyebrows raised.
"Say what dear? No one said anything." Momma frowns.
"Okay, whatever. Let's just find ourselves a new 'home' and take a long relaxation" Ah say, tryin to calm myself.
"I second that notion dear Schwester." Kurt agrees.
With that bein said, the speed boat we are steering makes itself go straight to the main land, back to New York.