KLAN: We're back! And we're skipping Shadowed Past becasue . . . wait, why are we skipping it?

PFAN: *rolls eyes* Because it has nothing to do with our story line or our characters. It's not that we have anything against Rogue.

KLAN: Ohhhh . . . yeah, that's why.

VoRAN: I thought it was because you two are too scared to write a whole chapter on Mystique and her kids.

PFAN: That may be a small part of it. Here's a recap of Shadowed Past.

Somehow Rogue has nightmares of Kurt getting abducted. After a little while, she finds out after absorbing Mystique, she found out she absorbed more than her plans of keeping Rogue from the X-Men; leading the X-Men to find out that Kurt's mother is actually Mystique. Then Wolvie finds out our favorite fuzzy blue dude, Nightcrawler, was the subject of experiments conducted by Magneto; but doesn't tell anybody.

PFAN: There! Recap!

VoRAN: Now how 'bout starting the new chapter? This basement bedroom is starting to get to me.

KLAN: Oh yeah, she painted it a brighter orange! Thought I told you.

PFAN: Presenting the NEW CHAPTER!

Grim Reminder

Part 1

Green and white lights turn on in a lab, revealing Logan suspended in that Bio Fluid, tubes connecting him to different machines and lab equipment.

He suddenly opens his eyes, looking back and forth a couple times before clenching his hands into fists, extracting his claws. He easily slices through the pod he was suspended in and jumps out.

The picture blurs a little as Logan stumbles out of the lab. A couple shots of him falling to his knees in the forest, followed by a couple shots of the forest.

Logan starts running, trying to gain distance from the crazy comic book style laboratory. He stops, closes his eyes, and starts remembering whatever happened to him in that lab; glimpses of a scientist and his claws. He opens his eyes and turns around, standing in a fighting stance. He leapt at the second man, (KLAN: Who's . . .)(PFAN: Shut it! It's a surprise!) and the shot went white for a second before revealing the ceiling of some bedroom at the Mansion.

Logan woke up as he fell to the floor. He climbed back onto his bed and held his hand to his forehead with a grunt.

PFAN: Opening sequences will not be rewritten. If you would like to read them, refer to the SpykeCam chapters. Thank you.

Kitty rolled over in her bed, phasing through her alarm clock to turn it off. She walked down the hall to the bathroom, ignoring the 'Occupied' sign on the knob as she phased through, rubbing her eyes.

"Hey! Do you mind?" Rogue asked. "The sign says 'occupied'!." She said as she opened the door, pushing Kitty back into the hallway. "The door was locked."

Kitty shrugged, "Who can read at this hour?" Rogue glared at her as she closed the door again. "Sorry." Kitty said as she walked back to her bedroom.

"Dear mom and dad. Today started out just like all the other school days; with everybody feeling a little crowded. Me included . . ." Kitty recited as she typed an email. ". . . especially with a roommate like Rogue." She typed as Rogue, now fully dressed, but still with bed head, looked through a drawer. " . . . Though it's not that easy to get close to her, or healthy, either." Rogue pulls out a hairdryer and starts brushing her hair. Kitty gets annoyed and closes her laptop, leaving the room. She phased through the door, to find Scott, Kris, Evan, Jean, and Kurt walking down the hall still in there pajamas, mumbling about not enough bathrooms. Kitty steps out of the way as they walk by and Rogue walks out of the bedroom, bumping into Kitty with her shoulder on the way.

"Finding a place to be alone around here is really a matter of timing." Kitty types, now sitting at the table in the kitchen. "Sometimes you have to settle; like when Mr. Logan's around. But that's okay, because he doesn't want to talk to anybody."

Logan lowers his coffee cup and looks over at Kitty, now frozen in slight terror. "What's the matter, half pint? Am I reading too loud for ya?"

"Uh, no. Just enjoying how quiet it is." She replied, leaning onto her elbows.

"Alright, breakfast!" Scott says as he leads the group of teens into the kitchen.

"Waffles, alright!" Cassie and Kurt smile as they walk around the table.

Scott turns on the TV set as the others pile food onto their plates. ". . . there's an unknown creature in the Canadian Wilderness." The anchorman said.

"It's like sometimes Mr. Logan can be so incredibly rude." Kitty adds to her email.

"As a result, authorities have closed Mount McKenna National Park until further notice." The news continued.

"Mount McKenna?" Logan grumbled to himself.

"Mount McKenna? My mom used to go there all the time." Cassie said.

Logan drops the remote and stalks out of the kitchen. "Hey, Logan, you okay?" Scott asks.

"I mean, Professor Xavier is always saying we're kind of like a family here, and we all have to get along, but Mr. Logan doesn't act like it. He's always going off, doing this lone wolf thing."

Logan stumbles into his bedroom, hand clutching his forehead. He stumbles farther into the room, grabbing onto the desk chair for stability before falling to his knee.

"It's not like his life is so much tougher than ours."

Logan holds onto his head as he cringes at the pain before throwing the chair across the room with a growl. He stands up, clutches his fist, and extracts his claws, swinging at anything in front of him as he walks around his room.

Kitty walks down the hall as Logan's claws come throw the wooden bedroom door. "Mr. Logan?" She asked. Logan bursts out of the room. "Sorry, uh, hi, I, uh, are you okay?"

Logan growls slightly, "Yeah, fine, fine. Just, redecorating." He says, shutting his door.

Kitty walks into the sitting room to find Evan shooting spikes at the ceiling. "Evan, what are you doing?"

"It won't hurt anybody." Hope said, placing a book back onto the bookshelf, and glancing up at Evan's poster. "At least I think it won't . . ."

"Didn't have space for this in my room." He answered, shooting a couple more spikes up to the poster.

"We all share this area, you know? What if some of us don't like the Festering Boils?"

"You could, uh, deal with it." Hope giggled a little as she found a new book and walked out of the room. "See ya." Evan said as he hopped over the couch.

Kitty sighed, plopping onto the couch. "Evan is the youngest, and he is so immature, you know?" Kitty typed. "It's like he has no idea how his actions affect the rest of us." A couple spikes start to fall from the ceiling, loosening the poster, which, in turn, makes it fall onto Kitty's head. "Or, like, maybe he does." She added. "Hope is pretty cool, though. She's calm, like Jean; she's always telling us to relax, and not over react." Outside, by the garage, Kitty is now sitting in a tree typing her email. "On the other hand, some of the kids here a very nice. Like Cassie, she acts just like a normal teenager; pulling pranks and trying to make light of every situation." Kitty smiled as she typed. "Then there's Scott. Sometimes he tries to be totally responsible for Professor Xavier and the other students, then other times, he acts just like a regular High School kid." Scott fires up his car, turning on loud music, which scares Kitty out of her internal monologue, causing her to lose balance on the tree branch. "Today, he's definately a kid." A butterfly flies past her and she follows it, looking over her shoulder to see Professor X and Logan in a small sitting area. "Thank goodness for Professor Xavier, he keeps the lid on things around here. Not an easy job sometimes, especially with Mr. Logan. I bet he really gets after him for trashing his room."

Logan paces a couple times in front of the Prof. "Something in that news story; I don't know . . . what set me off."

"Well, let's talk about it." The Professor said. "Sit down."

Logan sits down on the cement bench. "Charles, there's something in my head. Buried there. How 'bout you get inside and see if you can pry it loose?"

"Alright. But, first, you need to relax."

"Huh, yeah, easy for you to say." Logan laughs.

The Professor reaches out and places his hand on Logan's forehead. They both grunt as Charles sees inside Logan's head. A scientist walking toward him, then a couple shots of his face, wearing glasses, or are they goggles, so you can't see his eyes. The Professor removes his hand from Logan's head and sits back in his wheelchair.

Logan grunts and rubs his chin. "Tell me that was a dream or something."

"No. A memory; long forgotten, or rather, supressed." Charles replies. "I believe that was a glimpse of how you came to acquire your unusual implements. Do you wish to continue?"

"Go for it." Logan answers.

The Professor touches his hand to Logan's forehead again. Logan looks at another mutant, crouched in a fighting stance, then looks behind him to see the scientist. He turns his head back and Sabertooth jumps toward him. The Professor sits back, "Are you alright?"

"Whatever happened to me, it all started with that goul in the black coat." Logan says, rubbing the back of his head. "He's the guy who did this . . ." He says as his claws pop out of his left hand. "I gotta go." He stands from the bench and walks away.

THe Professor stops him, "You're going to that mountain in Canada, aren't you? THe one you saw on TV, and in your nightmares."

"Happen to pick that up while inside my head?"

"Do you want company?" THe professor asks as Logan starts to walk away again.

"Do I ever?" Logan asks, now leaving the small area.

Kitty is now sitting in the jet, trying to finish her email. "Well, I guess I better sign off before Kurt pops in here and finds me. He's always doing that; totally freaks me. Besides, I'm about late for school . . ." She types just as Kurt bamfs into the jet.

"THere you are! Why are you in here?" He asks.

"Out of like, necessity."

"Whatever. Come on, Cassie was lookin' for you; something about a ride to school."

"All I wanted was one minute alone in this stupid mansion . . ."

Cassie ports into the jet. "Why are you hiding in the jet?"

Kitty sighs, and closes her laptop. Kurt laughs slightly as he says, "Ooh, touchy. Looks like someone's got an astro-physics test today."

"That could . . ." Cassie starts, but is cut off by the Jet's engines turning on and moving slightly in the hangar, causing the three of them to lose their balance and fall to the floor as it takes off.

Logan switches on a couple buttons above his head as the jet gains altitude. Kurt opens the door leading to the cockpit. "It's Logan." He says.

"Let me guess, he didn't want anybody's help?" Cassie asked.

Kurt starts to walk into the cockpit. Cassie and Kitty grab him, pulling him back. "I wouldn't. He's been acting, like, mega weird all morning." Kitty points out.

"Oh don't be so dramatic." Kurt smiles, walking toward Logan. He put his hand on Logan's shoulder, "Hey man, what's happening?"

Logan freaks and punches at Kurt, claws extended. Kurt dodges the metal claws as Cassie and Kitty practically freak out. Logan goes limp and retracts his claws, holding his hand on Kurt's shoulder.

"Oh, is this seat taken? Sorry." Kurt says sheepishly before bamfing back to Kitty and Cassie.

"Still think I'm being dramatic?" Kitty asks as Cassie smiles.

"Actually, no I don't."

"Engage Autopilot." Logan says as he clutches his hand to his forehead. He walks back to the three teens, "Why are you following me?"

"We're not following you." Kitty and Cassie say defensively.

Logan extracts his claws and swipes at the door as Cassie ports farther into the small room after Kurt grabs Kitty and bamfs away from Logan.

"Now you made him angry." Kurt mumbles.

"I gotta take you back before. . ." Logan says before growling in agony. ". . .you gotta get away . . .something in my head. . . I can't control it, can't be trusted. . ." He reaches up and presses the button to close the door. As it's closing his claws come out and slices through the metal.

"He locked us out!" Kurt says.

"No . . ." Kitty starts.

"He locked himself in." Cassie says.

"So we'd be safe." Kitty adds.

"THere's a crazy person flying the plane! You call that safe?" Kurt asks. (PFAN: Not as crazy as some other people we know.)(KLAN: *Looks over at Miley* didn't we tie her up?)(VoRAN: I'll get the straight jackets.)

"You got a plan?" Cassie asks.

"Can you transport us to the ground?" Kitty asks.

Cassie laughs slightly as Kurt says, "Like, picture this, bumpety, bumpety, bumpety, splat!"

"Yeah; too high, and way to fast." Cassie says.

"Then I guess we're stuck on this flight. Question is, where are we flying to?" Kitty asks.

Logan lands the jet in a clearing somewhere in the Canadian Wilderness. (KLAN: I'm guessing near Mount McKenna XD) He pulls his hood over his head and walks off as Kitty phases through the jet, now in her uniform, landing in the snow. She starts to walk away when Cassie and Kurt port behind her. "Did you get into the cockpit?" She asked.

"Yeah." Kurt said.

"The transmitter is jammed. We couldn't reach the Mansion." Cassie shrugged. She looks out into the forest, "I wonder where he's going . . ." SHe said absently.

PFAN: The rest will come in part 2! Enjoy!