A/N: Thank so much for all of the wonderful reviews. I am so very sorry that it has taken me so long to update this chapter. But work, school and wedding planning kind of took over for a moment and I really hated the first version of this chapter that I wrote. Anyways, in this chapter I kind of took some liberties that go against what is normally expected when concerning this type of theme in the comic books. So I hope it's not too farfetched. But then again aren't every fan-fiction story? Nevertheless, I hope you all enjoy it.
---Side note: Thank you gem1990 for being my new beta for this story. It is highly appreciated and I hope you will continue to like my stories.
Smoke curled lazily up into the evening sky in dark wisps creating a smudge like affect on the setting sun. Wind blew in large gusts along the plains of old New York and tumble weeds that were once so familiar to me in the South danced along the edges of the vacant city streets.
"Mein Gott," Kurt Wagner said at my side. His tale whipped wildly behind me as he starred down into the depths of old New York. I could see him fumbling for his rosary as he began a slow Catholic prayer that hummed gently across the blazing evening wind.
"There be no Dieu, here, mon ami," I heard Gambit's Cajun lit flitter around me as the smell of his cigarette drifted to my nose. I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Only you would know huh? Le Diable Blanc," I said as I turned to him to give him one of my bigger smiles. When Gambit had arrived at the mansion last year (and then left suddenly) he had tried his very best to get past my skin (and men) issues. But in the end he conceded defeat and was now one my closest friends. I mean what girl doesn't want a thief in her back pocket?
"Of course Remy know my little river rat," he replied and then took a drag from his cigarette. I shook my head at the endearing nickname and then continued to look over the terrain. It was all but barren until you got to the heart of the city, what was left of it that is.
"Now remember," Scott's voice boomed across the small landing we occupied, "This simulation is real. This is what we predict will happen to the future if we allow certain events to take place. We have gained this prediction from a precog who witnessed it only a few days ago.
This simulation will not allow you to die, but you will receive minor injuries and will feel pain when you are indeed injured. Also as a side note, if you are captured then you are captured until someone rescues you. Remember this is a real simulation and if you are captured real things will happen to you."
"So in other words don't get captured," I heard Jubilee quip at his side. I couldn't help but let a smile cross my face. That girl could turn any serious situation into a humorous affair.
"Yeah so Jubilee you better stick with Rogue," I heard Bobby call out from somewhere behind a group of some X-Factor team mates.
"Are you implying that I get captured a lot Robert Drake?" she replied to him with her hands on her yellow covered hips.
"A lot would be an understatement yellow," I heard Wolverine state as he grabbed Jubilee by the arm and carried her along with him.
"Logan you suck at defending a woman's honor!" Jubilee screeched as she was led away from the teams. The soft chuckling of the group seemed to lighten everyone's moods before Scott opened his big leader mouth and ruined the moment.
"Alright people, now is not the time to be laughing or making jokes. We have two hours to get inside and stay alive. This is a survival mission. Whoever can survive the next two hours wins. If you are captured or hurt in anyway, you lose. Now be reminded the simulation does not end if everyone is captured. We have two hours in here win or lose. So make the best of it."
"Aye, aye captain," said a chorus of voices. Victor and I turned to see that it was unfortunately the Junior X-Men team.
"One of these days I think Cyke is going to kill them all," I said with a whisper as everyone began to form small recon groups.
"Naw, they'll kill themselves long before one-eye gets the guts to do it himself," Victor said with a smile.
"What a lovely assessment of that situation," I heard Emma Frost's lithe voice say from behind us as she strolled over to Scott's group.
"I hate that woman," I said through clenched teeth as she began to lean suggestively into Scott.
"If it makes you feel any better frail, about half the other women in here hate her too," Victor replied.
"Yes actually, it does. It'll make me killing her and hiding the body a lot easier, especially with all the help I would get," I countered harshly as I tugged on my leather gloves and tucked them into the cuffs of my uniform.
"Simulation begin," Scott's voice said loudly across the vast space before us.
"Stay close," Victor whispered to me and I smiled gently up at him.
"Same to you sugar," I replied with a wink. He just growled low into his throat and crouched low into a stalking stance. I quickly followed suit as our ten different groups ran, flew and in Bobby's case, slid into the heart of New York City .
"It's quiet," Thunderbird said from behind us.
"Too quiet," replied Northstar.
"I have a bad feeling," Northstar's twin sister Aurora stated as she landed next to her brother.
"What do you mean?" I asked as I slowly began to remove a glove.
"There's nothing here," she said just above a whisper, "from overhead I can't see a soul insight, well all but our other teams that is. Not a cat, dog or even a rat, let alone a human."
Thunderbird crouched low to the ground, his hand running over the dirt that now covered a New York City street. Victor took a deep breath smelling the air and then huffed like a horse as he exhaled.
"Still smells like New York without all those gas fumes."
"This dirt has not been disturbed in days. We will have to go further into the city for me to be able find any trace of life," Thunderbird said aloud as he dusted of his dirt covered hands.
"Aurora go fly above us and scout the area, if you find something before us do not engage, come straight back to us and report your findings," Sabertooth commanded. She did not reply as she shot up into the air.
"Northstar and Thunderbird I want both of you to go ahead of Rogue and me and scout the alley ways. I don't want any surprises," Victor told the other two who, like Aurora only nodded as they sped off into the distance.
"And what do you command of me oh fearless leader?" I asked with a fake bow trying to make the nerves that had filled me from the quietness to settle away.
"Stick with me frail, I am not in the mood to come save your ass if you get caught," he said as he moved forward, following the scents of Northstar and Thunderbird.
"Pft, me? Get caught? Nope that never happens," I said mockingly to my former kidnapper now turned, well I don't know exactly what we are. Lover's who don't make love? I don't know.
"Just shut up," Victor growled out not looking at me as we prowled the lower east side of New York City.
The silence of the evening was almost unbearable as we tracked the boys. The buildings that once stood tall and proud now crumbled all around us. I took note of some of the shops that I still shop at with Jubilee and the rest of the X-Girls. It was very depressing to see your home turned to ruin.
"There isn't anything here," Northstar told us as he stopped abruptly in front of us. I was slightly startled at his sudden presence.
"Not yet anyways," Aurora said as she settled down next to her brother, "we've got a nice sentinel storage building about half a dozen blocks west of here and it's heavily guarded."
"Of course it is," I said with a sigh.
"It's also guarded by mutants," she said with a look towards me.
"What?" I asked, taken aback with surprise.
"Looks like Magneto finally got what he wanted," Northstar said more to his sister than to us, "mutant domination."
"But at what cost brother?" she asked him with a perfectly raised white eyebrow.
"I nominate we kidnap a guard and get the low down on this reality," I said throwing my thumb over my shoulder.
"I agree with Rogue," Thunderbird agreed.
"It is the most logical way," Aurora retorted.
"Fine Rogue, go get your guard, Aurora and Northstar got with her. Thunderbird and I will set up shop in an old building two clicks east near the old subway station," Victor explained to us.
"Sounds like an excellent idea captain," I said with a mock salute. He just rolled his eyes as Aurora lifted me up into the air. Northstar followed us on foot at near lightening speed.
"How many guards guard the parameter?" I asked her as we passed the X-Men's favorite pizza joint. The roof was torn off and barely anything was left inside.
"Thirty. It won't be hard to pick one up and not be noticed," she replied as we landed about half a block away from the gated fencing.
Northstar was already waiting for us at the corner of the street. He was leaning up against a lamp post that was barely holding its self together.
"Alright Rogue you're up," Northstar whispered to me as I landed next to him.
"Northstar you'll have to carry the body so you'll need to be close to me," I said to him as we began to move towards the first guard in sight. Aurora immediately took for the air again, using the shadows to hide her floating figure.
We found a brunette man and blonde woman in what appeared to be guard uniforms scouting out the parameter of the fencing. Both were talking in low whispers and didn't even notice our approach.
"Two for one?" Northstar asked me and I nodded. Two could give us a lot more information that just one. I removed my gloves and tucked into my back pocket.
Slowly and carefully I crept up on the two unsuspecting people. It wasn't until I was nearly on top of them that I realized how young they really were. They couldn't have been more than fifteen or sixteen years old. But it didn't matter, this was a mission.
I carefully placed my hands on both the children's necks and hoped to feel their power drain into me, but nothing happened. Both turned to face me immediately and I felt panic rise inside of me.
They both looked at me in confusion. I on the other hand looked like a rabbit stuck in the head lights of an oncoming vehicle.
"Commander what are you doing?" The boy asked me in confusion. But when he looked at me I was left in shock.
He stood tall and strong against the burning sun in the distance his beautiful hazel eyes and sun tanned skin where stunning in the evening sky and a long white streak of white hair framed his strong face. I turned to look at the girl; she had blond hair that flowed down past her waist and tanned skin like her brothers and eyes that were a brilliant shade of green.
"Really Dog don't call her that," the girl said annoyed as if i wasn't really there and I straightened back up a little at the name. Dog not many people I know carry that title.
"She likes being called that Victoria, right commander?" The boy, Dog asked me and I only nodded my head. I was completely lost here.
"Well I am sorry," the girl said to me, "but I refuse to call you commander mother. It just doesn't sound right."
"Wait what?" I finally said in confusion at what she just addressed me as.
"Hey did you touch dad or something?" Dog asked me and I only shook my head.
"What are you talking about Dog?" Victoria asked her brother in obvious agitation.
"Her mark is gone," Dog said as he reached out a hand to touch my face. I of course immediately flinched back in surprise.
"Vicky I think we have a problem," Dog said as he raised his laser gun up at me.
"I am beginning to see your point brother," she responded as her body began to bow up in anticipation.
But before either could move or say another word they were hit upside the head with a large lamp pole. Complements of Northstar of course.
"What's the holdup love?" He asked me as he hoisted the unconscious pair on to his shoulders.
"My power doesn't work on them," I said meekly as Aurora landed next to me.
"We will discuss it at the rendezvous location," she said as she hosted me up into the air and flew us to the meeting location.
Victor was already waiting for us outside the building when we got back. His arms were crossed tightly over his broad chest and he had a very unpleasant look on his face.
"Rogue I thought I said one guard not two," he said to me as Northstar carried the two inside the barely standing building.
"Trust me we want these two," Northstar said in my defense. Victor just gave him a raised eyebrow.
"Apparently," I said walking up to Victor and planting a kiss on his cheek, "these are my children."
"Really?" he asked me with a skeptical look.
"Yeah and you want to know the funny thing," I said in mock idiocy, "the girl Victoria who also goes by the nickname Vicky calls the boy Dog. I mean what are the odd chances in that Victor? My future children carrying names like Vicky and Dog."
"Are you implying that they are our children Rogue?" he asked me with an even higher raised eyebrow.
"I think it's rather obvious, yes?" I said with a smile.
Victor didn't respond to me as my futuristic-non-existent-children woke up. (A/N: This is what my fiancé and I call our future children when we are discussing future plans). They both groaned and sat up.
"Who are you?" The girl asked first as she rubbed the sore spot on the back of her head.
"You know who we are. What we want to know is who you are," Victor said as menacingly as possible.
"Pft, please dad you know that stuff doesn't work on us," The girl said with a grin.
"See told you," I hissed out with a smile as I crossed my arms to look at the girl who would be my daughter.
"Answer the question," Victor said as he starred at the two. They turned to look at one another as if to have some sort of telepathic conversation before either answered.
"I am Dog Logan Creed, currently an Omega imperial guard. This is my sister Victoria Anna Creed, also an Omega imperial guard. You are our parents one Anna-Marie "Rogue" Creed and one Dog Victor "Sabertooth" Creed you are both the leading Alpha's of the Eastern Sanction of the New World Order," Dog said as if this was something he had learned by heart.
"Okay well we are not your parents," Victor said in agitation.
"Yet anyways," I said with a soft smile. I was really too pleased with these events. I was going to have children hopefully one day and both would be immune to my skin.
"Do either of you know how all of this came to be?" Aurora asked.
"What do you mean?" Dog asked standing up from his position on the floor.
"This world of course, we must find out what set these events into motion so that we can put a stop to it," She replied a little more obviously than I would have liked. The two looked at us in confusion and then back to Victor and I.
"Our brother did it," Victoria told us with a sigh, "Him and his Dark Queen the Phoenix . We were supposed to be the next generation. A pure generation that is purely mutant and unstoppable. But the serum that they injected mother with when she got pregnant with us not what it was supposed to be."
"No it was worse, the Legacy Virus" Dog spat out as he picked up where his sister left off, "it mutated with mother's DNA. The serum transformed her mutation into a poison that spread across the continent, nearly killing everyone."
"What!" I screamed out in horror.
"When you touched someone instead of sucking out their life force like normal, you instead left them infected with the virus. You also however like normal would gain their mutation," Victoria explained.
"You also never lost the powers you gained either. It of course made you one of the most powerful mutants on the planet," Dog started off, "But after we were born Graydon or Apocalypse as he's calling himself now, discovered that Dad's mutation mixed with the serum created an antidote. This of course made Victoria and I Apocalypse's favorite siblings."
"What do you mean by favorite?" Thunderbird asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well besides a few clones of us we have another sister named Morgan, she's about five now. She lives underground with the resistance along with our other two brother's Jacob and Jasper. They are twins as well about twelve or thirteen now. We don't see them often," Victoria explained a little sadly.
"There are five of you?" I asked confused and a little overwhelmed.
"For now, there used to be eight but the other three died," Dog said sadly as he looked away from us.
"What happened to them?" I asked in earnest more curious now about the lives of my future children than of the mission.
"Hannah, didn't receive the immunity to the Legacy Virus like the rest of us did, she died before her second birthday. Charlie and Maggie both died on the battle fields," Victoria explained with a shutter.
"After Charlie and Maggie you started sending the other's underground. Victoria and I were already in the spotlight. There's nothing you can really do to save us. But Apocalypse really doesn't pay much attention to what goes on here anymore so you've been giving the kids to Uncle Logan and Auntie Ro. It's safer for them that way," Dog said with a sigh.
"Eight kids…" Victor said in shock, "and I give most of them over to that badger."
"Five, Sabertooth, the other's aren't here anymore," I respond as I sit down on an over turned barrel.
"Dog, Victoria, Charlie, Maggie, Hannah, Jasper, Jacob and baby Morgan," Dog said in birth order.
"Do you know where the resistance is now?" Thunderbird asked.
"Of course! We're not imperials for nothing you know," Victoria said as she stood up and made to stand next to her brother.
"Then where?" Northstar asked in agitation. They both smiled a similar smile.
"The subways of course," Dog said with his father's smile, "the fastest way to get around New York."
A/N: So how was it? To farfetched to be believable? I hope not. This chapter kind of outlines the rest of the story and how different characters will be involved within it. So again I hope you enjoy it.