Important: For Rogue and Logan, each X-Men movie is a year they stayed at the mansion. So they have been there for 3 years, this fic takes place right after it. I just wanted to clarify that.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the characters in this story, they are owned by Marvel.
Rogue sat in the passenger seat of a 2003 Honda Civic that had been 'borrowed.' The three of them had decided it would be best to travel by car to avoid being with crowds of people. This way, if Rogue's powers acted up, they would not be endangering other people's lives. Augustus was driving and Gambit was shoved into the back. Every once in a while Pulse would glare into the back seat and Gambit would flip him off.
The two of them did not get off to a good start. The night before they stayed in a hotel and that is where the fighting began.
Night Before
Rogue, Remy, and Augustus walked into the lobby of a Holiday Inn. There were quite a few people due to the fact it was nine at night and travelers decided to take some much needed rest. "Don't worry, the bill is on me." Augustus told his two companions.
"Are ya sure? Ah brought money with meh. At least let meh pay for half." Rogue offered to him. He shook his head and told her that he didn't mind.
Remy went up to the counter to a young girl behind the counter. "Bonjour, chere." He gave his best smile, causing the eighteen year old girl to blush. "Is y'r best room available?" She quickly hid behind the computer and started typing. Meanwhile, at the other counter Augustus was making room reservations. He went to pull out his wallet from his back pocket and found it missing.
"Where the hell is my wallet?" He yelled angrily and started searching his pockets and his bags.
"We have a room with two double beds. Do want a whirlpool tub?" The clerk asked Remy, her face was red from blushing.
"Would y' recommend it?" Remy asked her.
Rogue glared at him. 'Ah take it back, he is how Ah thought he was. Stinkin' swamp rat.' She thought. She glanced over at Pulse who was looking frantically for his wallet. He was on his hands and knees searching the floors of the lobby. "Ah should have just gone alone." She sighed.
"This normally would be two hundred dollars, but I was able to give you my discount. It comes down to one hundred and seventy-five." The clerk told Remy. "I just need you to fill out this information and see some ID and credit card."
"Of course, petite." He nodded and pulled out his wallet. He glanced over at Pulse who was asking people if they had seen a wallet. 'Dat is sad.' He thought. He filled out the information requested and received the keys to the room.
"Hope you enjoy your stay, Mr. Lord. If you need anything, I'll be here all night. I mean, you can call the front desk and we will try to help you." The girl told him and handed back his ID and credit card. He took her hand and kissed it.
"Merci." He gave her one last wink and turned to Rogue and Pulse. "Y' ready to go?" He asked them.
"Yeah, but Ah think Augustus might be sleepin' down here." Rogue looked over at her new friend. "Why don't we get some sleep and then we'll report it stolen in the mornin'?" She suggested to the blonde.
"I don't believe I will be able to do that. As I have told you I am a thief. The police most likely have reports about me and will arrest me on sight. I suppose I can get my money some other way." He sighed.
"Well, whenever ya decide ta join us, we're in room 334." Rogue told him and carried her bag to the elevator. She pushed the button and waited. "Ya comin', Cajun?" She turned and asked him.
"Right behind y, chere."Remy said and then walked over to Pulse and put an arm around him. "Y' might be a thief." He said and pulled Pulse's wallet from his coat pocket and handed it to him. "But I be de Prince of Thieves." He told him and walked off to join Rogue.
Augustus stared down at his wallet and then glared at the Cajun mutant. The elevator door opened and Rogue and Gambit got on. "You rotten Son of a-" the elevator door closed.
They reached the room and dropped their bags on the bed. It was a decent size room for the night. There were two queen size beds with a nightstand between them. There was a small table that seated four people and a vanity next to the closet and the bathroom. The walls were white with a picture hovering over each bed.
"I'm gonna go take a bath." Rogue told Remy and unpacked a pair of sweat pants and t-shirt.
"Need any help?" Remy asked her. Rogue rolled her eyes at him.
"In your dreams, swamp rat." She said before closing the door. Remy sat on the bed and turned the TV on and flipped through some of the channels when there was a knock at the door. He sighed, knowing who it was, and went to answer the door.
"Sorry, we didn't order no room service." Remy told Pulse, who pushed the door open and walked pass the Cajun.
"Very funny." Pulse muttered and dropped his bag on the table. "Where's Rogue?" He asked, noticing the she was not there.
"De femme is in de shower." Remy answered and pulled out a pack of cards and began shuffling them. It was a habit he did when he wasn't allowed to smoke. After a while he began to play solitaire.
"So, what are your powers?" Pulse asked him, trying to make conversation.
"How do y' know I got any?" Remy asked as he moved a two of hearts over a three of spades.
"Well for one, your eyes are a dead giveaway." Pulse told him.
"I throw cards." Remy told him and picked up another card and moved it to another play. Pulse didn't look impressed. 'Non of y'r business what my powers are, homme.' He thought to himself.
"Playing cards? What good does that do? Do you go around giving people paper cuts?" Pulse laughed to himself, ignoring the look Gambit was giving him. Remy chuckled and picked up a card and twiddled it around in his fingers.
"Believe moi, it's a very bad paper cut." He smirked with his eyes glowing red.
Rogue was enjoying her bath. She couldn't remember the last time she felt so relaxed. Soon, she would be free of her powers and not have to worry about harming anyone. She would be free of this life. Still, she felt a little guilty for not telling Jubilee or Logan where she was going.
She let the water out of the tub and dried off. She looked into the mirror as she finished dressing. 'I'm not gonna let people walk over meh anymore.' She thought to herself. Previously, she had always let people decide what she was to do. Her parents, David, Bobby, and everyone. She was sick of it. She wanted to be more independent and not so helpless.
"OW!" She heard a scream from the other room. She threw the wet towel over the shower rail and went to find out what was going on. She found was Pulse holding his bleeding forehead.
"What happened?" She asked as she rushed over to his side. She found Gambit on the bed holding playing cards in his hand.
"He didn't think cards could be weapons. Just provin' him wrong." Remy told her. Rogue shook her head and grabbed a towel to put over Pulse's head.
"Ya gonna be okay?" Rogue asked him. He nodded yes and glared at Gambit.
"That was a dirty trick." He snarled at the Cajun.
"Consider y'rself lucky, homme. I used to use knives." He told him.
"Ya guys are grown men. Can't ya get along for twenty minutes?" Rogue glared at both of them.
"He started it!" Both of them yelled at each other.
X-Mansion
Kitty walked down the hallway to the kitchen knowing the others would be having breakfast. Sure enough, Jubilee, Piotr, Lorna, Bobby, and Jono were sitting at the table. "Morning Kitty." Piotr greeted her.
"You guys are not going to believe this. I just went to talk to the Professor about that Weapon X stuff and he gave me detention!" She yelled. Bobby dropped his spoon back in his cereal and Lorna's mouth dropped open.
"Why did he do that?" Bobby asked. In all the years he had been at the mansion, he had never received detention for talking to Xavier. Turning the basketball court into an ice skating rink and destroying Miss. Monroe's garden, which he got detention for.
"He said something about me disturbing him. He was sitting in his office looking out the window. He wasn't doing anything." Kitty complained and sat down next to Jubilee, who looked depressed.
"That is not the only problem." Jubilee told the brown haired girl. She had been quiet all morning and it was very unlike her. "Rogue didn't come home last night. I am worried about her."
"Maybe she went to visit her parents?" Lorna suggested. The others shook their heads. They knew Rogue was not welcome back in her home town after what happened with her first boyfriend.
"Did she leave a note?" Kitty asked. Jubilee shook her head. She had been up until two in the morning waiting for her friend to come in. Normally, Rogue was in their room before anyone else.
"No. There was no note. She left her cell phone here and half of her clothes are missing. I think she ran away." Jubilee told the group.
"This is my fault. I shouldn't have said those things to her." Bobby said. He knew he should have apologized to Rogue before anything like this had happened. Truth was, he was beginning to get scared of her. When she had only the absorbing powers he could deal with it. All he had to do was be careful around her skin, but with other powers developing and out of control he didn't think he could take that.
"Yes, it is." Jubilee snapped at him. "You didn't see any of us calling her dangerous in front of her. I swear you don't care about anybody, but yourself." She yelled. Bobby stood up and was about to defend himself when Piotr stopped him.
"I don't think she ran away." Piotr told them and grabbed Bobby by the arm and pulled him back into his seat. The last thing they needed was a fight. "I knocked on Gambit's door and found it open. He is gone too. He must be with her."
"You don't know that for certain. He's not a student here and might have gone out for the night. We need to talk to the others and tell them." Jubilee insisted.
"Rogue is not a little girl. She is twenty years old. This is not the first time she has left. She knows how to take care of herself. If she wanted to be found she would have left a note." Kitty said to the black haired girl. "Besides, we have other things that are going on that need to be dealt with." She told the group.
Jubilee stood up from her seat, glaring at Kitty. "How can you be so heartless? Oh yeah, that's right. You don't give a damn about her because you've spent all this time since your arrival trying to steal her boyfriend." She shouted.
"I did no such thing! Rogue is my friend too, but unlike you, I respect her wishes!" Kitty yelled back.
"Don't give me that crap. Rogue told me all about how you and Bobby went ice skating and were holding hands and laughing." Jubilee argued, missing the hurt look on Piotr face. "You've been after him from the beginning and he is stupid enough to fall for it."
"We went ice skating because we are friends. That is what friends do!" Bobby joined in on the argument. "I never cheated on Rogue. I've never laid eyes on another girl since I met her. I am allowed to be around my friends."
"That's why you were spending all your time with your buddies instead of your girlfriend? You excluded her. She felt like an outcast. She told me what the other kids around here say about her. She needed support and you weren't there for her when she needed it." Jubilee screamed at them. Kitty rolled her eyes.
"You know what, I am done with this. You can argue all you want about why Rogue is gone, but I'm through." Kitty told them and got up from the table to leave. "And don't ever talk to me again." She added to both Jubilee and Bobby.
"Believe me, it's not a problem. I wouldn't want you stealing my boyfriend." Jubilee snarled before exiting the other way.
Bobby picked up his forgotten bowl of cereal and threw it in the sink before leaving for his room. The only people that remained in the kitchen were Piotr, Lorna and Jono. "Um, what was that?" Lorna asked. They had all seemed like very close friends and then the next minute they were at each other's throats.
I think we have a problem. Jono said. We should probably go talk to them.
"Good idea." Lorna agreed. She looked over at Piotr, who remained quiet. "Are you alright?" She asked.
He nodded yes, but he really wasn't. He had a crush on Kitty since she had arrived at the mansion. He never really thought of the idea of Bobby and Kitty hooking up until just now. 'Was she telling the truth when she said Bobby and she were friends, or were they more?' He thought to himself.
Magneto's Hideout
"You called us boss?" Avalanche, one of Magneto's new members of the Brotherhood asked. He had joined a few days ago along with Blob. The other members were gathered in Magneto's office, except for Cyclops.
"Yes, I have very important matters to discuss with all of you." Magneto told them. "As you all know, we apprehended Cyclops and he has decided to join us. He has no memory of what happened before and none of you are to give it away. Do I make myself clear?" He instructed his group of mutants.
"Yes, sir." The group answered. Mystique only nodded, but never answered. She was very bitter with Magneto over him leaving her when she had become 'cured.'
"We also need more members. As many of you know, each time we set our plans in motion, the X-Men are always there to stop and defeat us. This cannot happen. There are some mutants I know of that will join us and some that may need convincing." Magneto told them and a large metal screen came up on the back wall.
"The first is Toad. He was once a member, but due to the X-Men he was electrocuted and thrown into a lake. It has taken him time to recover, but he will join us." Magneto informed them and switched to the next mutant.
"Her name is Revanche" A woman with purple hair came on the screen. "She might need some convincing, but it shouldn't be too hard." Magneto said and switched to the next photo. Pyro almost dropped his lighter at the photo of a face he once called a friend.
"And finally, Rogue. She is extremely powerful. She, as many of you know, is an X-Man. It may take time to convince her to join us, but it will be well worth it. With her powers, it will make us unstoppable." Magneto told the group.
"I doubt she will join us. Not with Bobby and Wolverine there." Pyro told his boss.
"We will not have to worry, I have sent a man to retrieve her and gain her trust. It will make the transition much easier." Magneto said to the younger mutant. He went over a few more things before dismissing the Brotherhood.
Pyro and Mystique were the first to leave. "John, come here." Mystique grabbed him. "I need to talk to you." She dragged him to her room and shut the door and locked it. "What do you think of Magneto's plan?" She asked.
"It's going to fail, like all the rest of his plans." Pyro told her as if it was obvious. So far, everything Magneto came up with failed.
"Exactly, that is why I think the Brotherhood needs a new leader. One that will succeed." Mystique told him and walked over to her dresser.
"Your planning on getting rid of him?" John asked her.
"Would you miss him?" Mystique asked pulling out a large book and placing it on her bed.
"He may have rescued me from the X-Men, but I don't owe him anything. All he thinks of me is a lackey. Just like the rest." Pyro snarled. Mystique smiled and opened the book.
"There will be some changes coming in the future, mainly with him." Mystique told him and he got closer to look at the book. She turned a page and there was a picture of Magneto disappearing.
"What is this?" He asked.
"A very dear friend of mine gave this to me. It is her diary of what is to come. It is to prepare us for when the day arrives. It is the only reason why I came back. If I knew that old bastard was going to get his I would have killed him myself. All we have to do is wait for the day to arrive." Mystique laughed.
X-Mansion
Elizabeth Braddock aka Psylocke stepped out of her car and looked at the huge mansion in front of her. She was in her mid twenties, stood five foot seven, shoulder length blond hair with blue eyes. She had arrived at the same time as two other students, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. All three knocked on the door and no one answered.
"What no welcome party?" Pietro asked. Wanda grew agitated.
"They know we are supposed to be coming." She growled.
"When I talked to Hank McCoy on the phone he said that they had been very busy lately, but someone would be here to greet us and show us around." Betsy told the younger mutants. She turned the knob on the door and found it open. "Not very high on security I see."
They entered the mansion and found a few students wondering around. Soon I will be complete. Psylocke heard in her head. She scanned through some of the minds, but was unable to find the source. 'That was not human.' She thought to herself.
"Excuse me." Wanda said, getting the attention of Sage. "We just arrived, now where do we go?" She asked.
"Normally, you would meet with Professor Xavier, but lately, he has been busy. I will show you where your rooms are and then let one of the students show you around." She told the three.
"What kind of crap is this? I came here to get help with my powers and this Xavier guy decided he is too busy?" Wanda growled and the mansion began to shake.
"Wanda, calm down. I am sure they will help us." Pietro tried to reassure his twin sister. He knew if he didn't, the entire building was going to come down.
"The other teachers here help with powers also. There are danger room sessions at seven in the morning and another at eleven with Logan." Sage informed them and brought them to their rooms.
End of Chapter 10
Next week is hell week aka every teacher is giving a test, so I unfortunately may not be able to update. At the latest, next update will be February 7th.
Thank you so much to: FluidDegree, firely4543, ola, tfobmv18, Wanda W, and 1moonwitch. I appreciate you guys for taking the time to tell me what you think so far. As for Xavier, the reason why he is acting the way he is will be answered in a few chapters. As a hint, I am using a mix idea from the comics and X-Men The Last Stand.
Next Chapter: Instead of giving a few details of the next chapter, I've decided to give a small preview of what is to come
"We had a deal and you better keep your end of the bargain." The man on the other line of the phone snarled.
"Don't worry, just a little side tracked. It will be done by de end of de week." Gambit told the man.
"That is not good enough, Gambit. You have three days to do your job or I am sending someone else." The man said before hanging up. Gambit clicked his phone shut and threw it against the wall. He knew he shouldn't have made this deal.