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Rogue's New Face

"Who's attacking us?" Logan asked as he burst outside and rushed to Storm's side. Everyone else was already outside and in full uniform. "What's going on?"

The Earth gave a sudden shake, but the reason of doing so remained a mystery, though Logan had an idea it had to do with the attacker on the school.

Storm looked at him, then up at the sky which was crackling in a threatened manner. "Sentinels." She said simply.

"Who's behind it?" Logan asked.

Storm shook her head. "No idea. But get ready. There's a fair few of them." She glided into the air, to see how close they were.

Everyone else stood at the ready. Beast, Angel, Iceman, Colossus and Shadowcat. Logan knew from training that each of them had certain skills that would provide useful. Colossus could smash the Sentinel to pieces, as could Beast. Iceman could freeze the thing in less then a minute. Angel knew how to distract them long enough for Kitty to phase inside the Sentinel, and easily unwire them. And Storm could fry them in a heartbeat.

Logan stood, waiting with everyone else. A tree fell over, and the Sentinels were upon them. With a massive leap, Beast was launched at the nearest Sentinel. Angel was in the sky, and the air had grown considerably cold as Iceman began freezing them.

SNIKT. Logan's claws had come out. He always hated fights against robots, or thing bigger than him. It was difficult to bring his opponent down. Oh well. He'd have to make due.

With a sharp whistle, Colossus had run over to Logan, picked him up and threw him into the air. From on top of the Sentinel, Logan could see just how many there were. He had to stop himself from yelling in annoyance. At least a dozen. At least. There had to be more.

What the fuck is all this about? Logan sawed off the head of the Sentinel was standing on and it soon fell over, causing the ground to shake briefly.

Logan continued fighting, like everyone else, but the Sentinels kept coming.

It came as a surprise when the Sentinels stopped moving though, and man appeared in front of the ranks of robots.

"Bravo." The man applauded in a mocking sort of way. "I didn't expect you all to put up such a tough fight." He smirked.

"What the Hell is he talking about?" Kitty panted, standing up next to Peter and Bobby, who were only a foot or so away from Logan. Angel and Storm touched ground, and Beast leaped back on the ground beside them.

The mysterious man began clapping again. "Although I must express how disappointed I am that not all of you are out here. Where's the rest of your team?"

"What are you going on about?" Warren asked. "There's no one else. It's just us."

The stranger frowned. "No. You're missing at least two others. They're the ones I'm interested in." He said, his smirk returning.

"If you mean Jean and Scott." Storm said in a warning voice. "You can forget it, you twisted-"

"Not them! I don't even know who they are!" The man looked exasperated. "I mean-"

"You mean me." A familiar voice came from behind everyone.

Logan (and the others of course) spun around to see Rogue leaning against the currently open doorway to the Institute. She stepped forward and the door swung closed behind her. She continued to walk forward, staring at the stranger with an odd look in her eye.

The man now looked excited as he grinned in an evil, twisted way, at Rogue. "Precisely!"

Rogue walked past the group, everyone too surprised to saw anything. What's going on? Marie?? Logan wanted to ask her, but his tongue felt glued to the roof of his mouth.

Rogue was now yards in front the mysterious man. At the sight of her, the Sentinels began to go haywire as they all began moving again.

Rogue's gaze shifted from the man to the Sentinels which began walking forwards... towards her.

"Rogue!" Logan hissed, knowing she could very well hear him. "Get back here!"

The man was smirking. "Now be a good dear and just stand still. It'll be a lot less work on my part taking you back where you belong. And um... where is your friend?"

"What friend?" Rogue asked in a monotone, eyes fixed on the Sentinel. "You mean the one you killed?"

The Sentinels were growing exceptionally close to Rogue, but she ignored the close proximity of them and it frightened Logan. She didn't have powers. There was no way for her to fight them off.

"Nonsense! We didn't kill him!" The man was looking absolutely scandalized. "We merely knocked him out. Make his return easier."

"Well the doctors certainly told a different story." Rogue told him, eyes finally looking him in the eye.

The man's jaw dropped open in surprise, but it closed again and he seemed to be indifferent about it. "No matter, we weren't really interested in him that much anyways."

The Sentinels had stopped walking now. "Mutant 46 located!" One of them bellowed loudly.

Rogue looked back up at the Sentinel. It reached out an arm, and bent over to grab her, but she remained still, looking at it, not at all bothered.

"ROGUE!" Nearly everyone screamed.

"Move!" Logan yelled, but before he, or anyone else for that matter, could move an inch in her direction, the Sentinel froze, arm outstretched, hand inches from her.

A malfunction? Logan asked himself.

Rogue tore her gaze from the Sentinel and back to the man. "Really Trask. You should know by now. Metal sucks!" She hissed at him.

What is she talking about? Logan wondered.

The man now identified as Trask stood gaping at Rogue, but soon calmed himself again. "I see you're up to your old tricks."

"As are you." Rogue looked at the Sentinel, looking disgusted. She stepped away from it and walked in Trask's direction.

"Don't come near me!" He warned. "I'll set all the Sentinels on you!" He threatened.

Rogue looked at the army of Sentinels still standing, and back at Trask. Shrugging, she ignored his warning as she kept walking towards him.

As Trask had promised, all the Sentinels turned in her direction and all began shouting. "Mutant 46 located!"

They all came bearing upon her as they stepped in her direction, though none of them got as far as bending over as they were all sent flying into the air as though hit by some invisible force. Logan looked around to see if perhaps Magneto was in their midst, but no sight, sound, or scent confirmed this.

"You know..." Rogue was talking as she walked as casually and calmly as ever towards Trask. "I had a plan that after I got the cure, I was going to go back to Mississippi and see my family again, who I haven't spoken to in nearly three years." The pain was back in Rogue's eye. "I wish I had followed it. I shouldn't have gone to you."

WHAT?!

"But you did." Trask was smirking with triumph. "Nothing you can do about it. And you're going to come back with me. Whether I have to drag you by the hair, or you come peacefully."

The odd look was back in Rogue's eye as she looked at the fallen Sentinels. "As I see it, you can't hurt me, and I don't intend on going anywhere peacefully with you, you dirty lying bastard."

Trask whipped a hand out of sight, and when it came back in view, he was brandishing a gun. "Don't force me to use this." He said in a twisted pleading way.

Rogue stopped walking and stood staring at him as though he was stupid. "Are you deaf? Look around you for a second Trask! A gun isn't going to get to me. I told you before, metal sucks." She shook her head, closing her eyes.

"ROGUE!"

BANG, BANG, BANG!!

Three bullets went soaring through the air, and each of them hit Rogue with a weird clanking noise. A moment later, the bullets fell to the ground, useless.

Rogue opened her eyes again, but a fire was dancing in them now. Logan finally recognized the look in her eye. It was fury. It was pain. It was hate. He hadn't recognized it before because he had never seen her give anyone that look before. He could practically smell her hate, flowing off her. She hated this guy with a passion.

"I told you!" She growled, looking Trask right in the eye. "And you didn't listen! Like before! And like before, I'm pissed... right... off!"

In the blink of an eye Rogue was on top Trask, her hands throttling him. A sinister look had crept onto her face and she shook him as the guy clawed at her hands for release and oxygen. She did let go, but she forced him up with her.

"This is for James!" She said, appearing calm in an eerie kind of way and punched him right across the face. A sickening crunch followed and blood poured from his nose.

"This is for everyone else!" She said again and kicked him behind the legs so he fell flat on his back on the Earth with a loud 'THUD!'

As Trask laid on the ground moaning with pain, Rogue turned to walk away, but as though she had a second thought, she turned back around and slammed her foot down on his stomach.

Trask let out a loud yell and then gasped in pain. "Who was that for?" He managed to get out, and somehow saw with a smirk.

"That was for me." Rogue said, looking down at him as though he was a filthy worm that had managed to crawl onto her boot and she couldn't shake him off. "Because you killed me too."

A/N: I wrote this chapter a while ago, but I was holding onto it because I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. So I decided to post it and let you guys be the judges.