Chapter 12: Mind Battle

Rogue had arrived at her first stop, a fighter jet; however there are people on the jet. 'Why can't these things just go smoothly?' Rogue asked herself as she walked up to the plane after checking to see that no one else is around. Rogue walked up to the jet and opened up the door. "Off." Rogue said simply.

The two pilots looked at each other in confusion and then realized what is happening. "I get it; the boys are playing a joke on us again. You can leave now little lady." The two laughed for a second. "That is one of the worst jokes they have played on us, they must be running out of ideas." The pilot closer to Rogue said.

Rogue left and then returned, rubbed her forehead and then spoke again. "Really get off." Rogue grabbed the first pilot by the throat and threw him out and then kicked the other out before he could fire his gun that he was pulling out. "Thanks guys, appreciate it." Rogue started up the jet and was off as military personal came out firing at the jet. Rogue traveled for some time until she reached an area far enough away from Wesker for her to be happy. Rogue got out and pulled out the missile that she snuck into the back of the jet.

"This ought to do it." Rogue said as she headed back toward the jet when a pain shot threw her head and then she collapsed onto the ground.

"Who are you and why are you in my mind like this?" Rogue asked looking at something that looked to be made out of very black worms.

The thing chuckled lightly as it turned to face Rogue. "You sucked me back into your mind, very good." The thing paused for a moment. "I'm the Uroboros project and thanks to you, I finally have a strong enough host to take over and use to my will and won't die easily and a weak enough one that can't control me." Uroboros said.

"Get out of my head, I don't want you there." Rogue said as she tried to attack Uroboros but failed as the thing moved to the side. Rogue crashed onto the ground of her mind and then looked over at Uroboros. "What do you want?"

"You haven't figured it out yet, how sad." Uroboros then made itself look like Rogue. "I want to rule the world but I need to take out a few problems first. I need to wipe out all those that could destroy me meaning your little friends, even mutants that aren't friends to you but take out the strongest first or maybe I should take out the weakest. Thanks for the heads upon that." Uroboros said smiling.

"I won't let you do this, this is my body and my mind and I have control of it and only me. If you think I'll stand by and let you hurt people, you better think again." Rogue said getting ready to attack again.

"You don't have a choice in the matter, I control you and you can't do a thing about it Rogue. You wanted power and you got it." Uroboros smiled.

"No, I didn't want power, I just needed it temporarily! I never asked for this!" Rogue screamed as she tried to attack Uroboros again.

Meanwhile at the mansion, Gambit is being taken care of as he is receiving stitches and having the blood cleaned off of him. Kitty peeked in and watched only a few seconds and then turned to leave but bumped into the Professor. "Professor, I'm sorry but I wanted to see how Gambit was doing."

"It's quite alright Kitty, I can't say that I'm completely focused right now. I don't think it's possible to get into Rogues head and help her. Even if I managed to knock her out and with her power as unstable as it is, I'm scared that touching her could be the end for me. For once Kitty, I'm not sure what to do and so I thought a good break from it would be to check up on Gambit." Xavier said.

"Go ahead professor." Kitty said as she stepped aside to let him by.

"Thank you Kitty." Xavier said as he rolled by her and into the room. He then went up to Hank. "How are things with him Hank?" Xavier said seeing Gambit receive more stitches.

"He has been badly beaten. I'm surprised that he isn't dead with all the shards that I pulled out of him. Many of the shards I'm sure are from him using his powers. There were some very big shards of debris." Hank pointed over to the pan full of shards of wood, metal, and other materials. "He should be fine after some much needed rest though."

"Thank you Hank." Xavier wanted to leave but couldn't seem to find the will to.

Kitty had walked into the kitchen and found Scott and Jean eating and talking. "Hey, mind if I join you two?" Kitty asked sadly.

"Yeah, come on and sit down." Jean said seeing the pain on Kitty's face.

"You're not taking this very well either huh; I guess I can't really say that I'm surprised. You and Rogue are the best of friends." Scott reached out and put a hand on Kitty's. "She'll be ok Kitty; we'll make sure of it." Scott said trying to give Kitty some kind of comfort.

"It's just, its not fair. Like, why does Rogue have to be the one to get caught up in this? We need to go back." Kitty said but felt like screaming.

"We will Kitty but we have to wait for the professor to get us ready." Scott said knowing that he may have said the wrong thing.

"I don't care what he does but I'm going with or without you people. I have to get her back." Kitty screamed and then up and left.

"I didn't mean to make her mad." Scott let his head drop a little.

"Don't worry Scott; she is just upset right now." Jean went over and got into a hug.

Back in Rogue's mind Uroboros had had enough. "Its been fun but I have a world to take over." Uroboros then left Rogues mind leaving Rogue on the ground in her mind and knocked out cold.

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