I would never even try to describe what I did to get us in, but we made it in after a matter of minutes. And we weren't drowned.

"I thought this was a dam or something?" I asked, looking at the secret-looking machinery and the unconscious or dead soldiers littering the ground.

"Weren't you listening at all?" Dil asked. Chi was busy being amused by the electricity that they had zapping from random cut wires.

"I never listen." I said, proudly, walking with my nose in the air. Apparently, I never looked where I was going, either, because it was shortly after that I ended up wandering around by myself.

"Umm… hello…?" I called. So I was a few cookies short of a concerto, yelling out in a bad-guy's fortress. But, hey, I was lost! I wandered around some more.

"Hello?" I called again, opening a door. Wow, this room was weird, I realized as the door snapped shut and locked behind me. It seemed to be a huge metal ball. Hm, kinda like cerebro. Weird. But I had never stood at the bottom of cerebro before.

"What is that?" I heard Professor Xavier's voice echo down to me. "Oh, I see…" His voice continued.

"Is the old geezer whacked? Talking to himself?" I spoke to myself, musing, "But, then again, he was kidnapped. Maybe they messed with his mind or something."

"Yes, of course. Let's find all the mutants." He continued on his monologue. I wished that it was brighter in the room. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Only a vague outline of the room. I wondered how I could get up to where he was. I didn't really have a water-source. Save from the one outside. And I didn't think that they'd like it very much if I broke their dam. People tended to frown on that. "Yes, I'll concentrate really hard!"

It was then that the world fell apart. I let out a shriek of pain, which must have distracted the Professor for a brief moment, because it almost stopped. Then, it grew even worse.

"What is this?!" I screamed, curled up into a ball on the ground, trying to keep my head from imploding. Or exploding. Whatever it was. I could see water swirling around the room. Or maybe that was just inside my head. Or blood. I couldn't tell. All I knew is that I wanted it to stop. I could feel waves of pain breaking against my head. Or was that the lake breaking the dam? I didn't know. And then with a loud scraping noise that I couldn't hear over the pain, it stopped.

"Okay, what was that?" I muttered to myself.

"Well, well, well," I heard the voice of Magneto as the lights came on. "How does it look from there, Charles? Still fighting the good fight? From here it doesn't look like they're playing by your rules. Maybe it's time to play by theirs."

I hadn't recovered yet, so none of this made any sense to me. I was just standing up when suddenly, large metal panels started whizzing around the room.

"Hey!" I shouted, angrily, "Watch what you're doing!" The panels halted momentarily, as Magneto's head peered over the edge of the walkway.

"The water girl? Whatever are you doing down there?" He looked at me curiously. "Do you realize the damage you could cause?"

"Personally, I'd be more worried about all the breaks in the dam than the damage to this room." I shouted back at him, "I think this thing is gonna break any moment. And, after all, I'm an expert."

"Ah, well." He said and his head disappeared from my sight.

"Hey!" I shouted, "Come back!" But no matter what I did, there were no more responses. The lights went out again after a moment.

"Yes, now, I'll be concentrating on the humans." I heard Xavier. I sighed deeply and sat down. Didn't these fools realize what kind of trouble we were in? Maybe, just maybe, I'd be okay. But not them. Most people didn't react well to tons of rock and water crushing them.

"Okay, I am now seriously bored and annoyed!" I shouted. Maybe I could bring Xavier out of his brainwashing. Or something. But mostly, I needed a source of water. It was very annoying to be trapped in this type of situation.

It was then that I heard the most peculiar noise. It sounded like "Bamph!" I blinked, but the lights were still low. Maybe it was my imagination. Or I was losing my crackers too.

"Professor?" I heard Storm's voice. Weirdness. How could she be in here? The door was locked. Then it dawned on me.

"Hey! I need some help down here! Someone! Yo!" I waved my arms frantically, as I saw the heads of Storm and Nightcrawler appear over the edge.

"What are you doing down there?" Storm asked, then shook her head. "Kurt, get her. And be prepared. It's going to get very cold very fast."

"What? Why?" Kurt asked.

"Just shut up and do what she says!" I shouted. I was kind of sick of being trapped. It wasn't a pleasant feeling. The room did begin to get cold, just about as fast as she had said. Thankfully, Kurt appeared before me in a whiff of dark smoke.

While I was still coughing, he grabbed me and teleported back to the walkway where Storm and the Professor and some other dude in a wheelchair were. I felt sick to my stomach from the teleporting and the smell of smoke didn't help, either.

"C…c…cold…" I whined, shivering. "Stupid Iceman anyway…"

"W…w…what?" Kurt, who was also shivering uncontrollably, asked. Before I could get the answer out, finally, the illusion had dissipated.

"Okay, you can stop the cold now!" I sniffled. Storm rolled her eyes at me, but did stop the cold. There was a large jolt. "I told you idiots the dam was breaking!" I panicked.

"No, you didn't." Storm said.

"Oh, yeah, that was Magneto." I agreed. "But the point is, this this is on the verge of collapse. We gotta get out of here. Or you can all die. Your pick."

"Kurt." Storm commanded. He grabbed the three x-peoples and we were teleported out of the room. I didn't know why he chose to leave the bad guy, but who was I to argue. I couldn't even describe how much teleporting did not agree with me. But I ran with the rest of the x-kids and others out of the dam as fast as we could go.

"I thought I told you to stay in the jet." Jean said, snidely. But not very sternly. After all, she was much happier now that her boyfriend was there.

"Eh." I shrugged, noncommittally, continuing to run. "Hey, Dil, where did you wander off to? And what did you do with Chi?"

"She ran away, sorry!" He explained.

"If you people would quit gabbing on," Scott shouted at us, "We could go faster and maybe not die!"

"Sheesh…" I muttered, but got back to paying attention to running. Bossy losers anyway.