When we finally touched down in japan we had to land the jet directly on top of the building where Xavier had sensed Remy. Pitor fired up our on board holographic conference set, instantly a 3-d model of the building popped up and we examined it.

"Ok." Logan started. "The guy that owns this place is some big tycoon. He'll be in the penthouse, here." He pointed to the top floor which highlighted it's self as he did so. This was my que to jump in on the brief.

"That's where Logan and I will go. If Mister Big Shot isn't home there should at least be a computer terminal we can access." Rouge held up her hand like we were still in school.

"Won't they have guards, security of some sort?" I nodded to her and pointed to all the kids.

"That's where you guys come in." I pointed to two points on the buildings east and west grounds. Which lit up at my touch. "Here and here you guys will set up separate diversions. Bobby you'll go with Rouge and Kitty the three of you should be able to do some damage." The tree shot side-ways smiles at each other that betrayed their excitement. "And Jubilee and Pitor will hold the west end." Jubilee bounced up and down in enthusiasm.

"You mean I get to shoot fireworks off at rent-a-cops!"

"What ever gets their attention." Logan answered dryly. Jubilee and Pitor smiled at each other and high-fived. Logan stepped forward and offered some last words.

"Don't do anything crazy. The surrounding architecture will give you some cover. Just hold up until we come to pick you up." With that the kids strapped on their repelling belts so they could scale down the building. When we got out of the jet the kids lined up on the ledge of the building and pulled the buckles out of their belts. Then pressed the buckles to the ledge and waited for the beep that told them that their belts had adhered themselves to the concrete. Logan and I watched until the kids had all scaled down on their high tension micro-wire. Then there was nothing to do but wait until Logan and I could make our move. We sat in silence for ten minutes Logan pacing, me twiddling my playing card pendant. A few more minutes and Logan almost snarled out.

"How long does it take a couple of kids to set up a distraction?"

"Be patient Logan we'll know when it's time to move." Then there was a big bang and our heads whipped to the east. It looked like a water main exploded shooting a geyser forty feet in the air.

"That would be Bobby." Logan nodded at my observation. Then in the west there was a huge fireworks display that put New Years in Australia to shame.

"And there's Jubilee."

"And that's our que." Logan finished for me. With that we headed for the building access. Sure enough the distractions worked, nobody was in the halls to stop us. Our plan was officially ago.

With Remy

Remy and Hojo were chilling out in the room that Remy had been provided with. Remy was relaxing in a leather chair with his ankles crossed on top of the table in front of him. Hojo on the other hand seemed a nervous wreck pacing back and forth.

"We can't just sit around and wait. The boss is going to get impatient soon. If something doesn't happen soon..."

"Calm yourself mon frere." Remy interrupted not giving away the fact that he was concerned as well, but he couldn't move until something happened from the outside. Suddenly the window in the room was blinded out by huge explosions of blues, reds, and pinks. Both of the thieves looked out the window a moment in awe, and Remy's face stretched into a big grin.

"Way to go Petite. That's our signal Hojo." They turned to the door but before they opened it Hojo held out his arm to stop Remy.

"There will be at least two guards outside the door, no matter what happens out side." Nodding his head Remy gestured for Hojo to stand behind the door. Then he went into the room and picked up a heavy vase and smashed it loudly against the wall. The crashing sound alerted the guards and they came bursting in one was caught by surprise with Remy's boot to the face. The other guard fell to the ground without a word when Hojo sneaked up behind him and karate chopped him in the neck. Without another word Remy went up to the guard he'd roundhoused and lifted him by his collar. Moaning a little as he came to the guards eyes went wide at the fury that was burning out of Remy's eyes.

"Alright homme, Gambit knows you guard all talk to one another. What do you know about a little girl named Rin being held here?" The guard just blinked dumbly tryint to think of a brave answer, but the thought died as Remy pulled out a playing card. The card began to glow a violent shade of purple in Remy's hand.

"You betta answer Gambit now. It be most unfortunate if he had to shove this little card down your throat." The guard swallowed and began to stammer instantly.

"Uhh, I heard the, the, there was a g,g,g, girl in the lower le,e,e, levels. There are old abandoned rooms down there. She's locked in one of them." The guards breath picked up in panic and Remy released his collar just as he fell into a dead faint. Straightening out his collar Remy gave Hojo a wiry grin.

"Lets go get your girl Hojo."

With Anna and Logan

The two guards left at the door of the bosses penthouse were easy to deal with. They were nothing but muscle packing heavy guns. Lucky that Logan's as close to bullet proof as you can get. When we kicked in the door we were faced with a surprised looking man in a suit with greased back hair, sitting behind a desk. He slowly rose from his seat but Logan rushed forward and pushed him back with his claws against his throat. Calmly I set myself in his sight and looked him in the eye.

"We're here for Remy Lebeau." The man looked me up and down for a moment and then broke into the slimiest grin I'd ever seen.

"You must be Miss Bailey. How nice to meet you in person." Logan raised an eyebrow at me, which I returned in kind.

"You know me?" The sleazes grin only widened.

"Only from surveillance photo's I have of you. I'd meant to use them as leverage in case Lebeau ever needed some persuasion to work for me. Luckily enough though he came to me asking for work." I shared a knowing grin with Logan before I answered.

"Now I get it. Your the dirt bag that stole from us. Now why would you do that?" The man set his jaw and I knew that he was done talking to me. I nodded at Logan, who hauled the business man out of his seat and began to shackle the man to one of the pillars in the office. Meanwhile I sat down at his desk and began to type on his computer, hacking into any file that I could in the short time I'd have. Looking at all the dirty laundry that was hanging in that one hard-drive I let out a low whistle. Logan came to my side after he finished tying up the boss.

"Whattcha got kid?" I looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"The man's got pockets in nearly every facet of the black market possible. Money laundering, extortion, antiquities, underground mutant research, you name it." Logan nodded.

"So now we no the motivation for stealing that device from the mansion."

"Profit." I finished for him and then I began typing again looking deeper into the files about the job on the mansion.

"Looks like he ordered a man named simply Hojo to steal the regulator. But he hasn't given any specs or positive conformation to any prospective buyers." Logan's head tilted in confusion.

"Why, a piece of stolen hardware like that. I'd think you'd want to sell it as quick as possible." I thought about the question a moment then the answer dawned on me. I flashed the boss a smug grin of my own.

"He couldn't because he didn't have the whole thing. The regulator requires an experimental power source that never worked. The same component that you thought Remy stole from the drawer."

"That he did steal from the drawer." Logan quickly amended me, I nodded my head at the comeback.

"Obviously a bargaining chip to get us closer to this genius." I waved dismissively to the boss man, who gave me an offended look. The man scoffed at me and threw in a nasty tone.

"I don't know what you think your going to accomplish from this. It's not like you can stop me." Logan snarled at him, but I just nodded my head and answered in a matter of fact tone.

"I know that 'we' can't do anything to you, but..." I hit a few more keys and then smiled at the boss sweetly. "That was me freezing all your assets bank accounts, contacts, everything." I pressed the enter key one more time. "And that was me sending more then enough evidence through e-mail to all the different organizations that are currently looking for you such as the CIA, Interpol, and the United States Military. I'm sure they all have one or two things to discuss with you." The man looked like he'd been forced to gargle rancid milk. I must say it was satisfying to see him look so defeated. Logan gave me a crooked grin, but we had to get to business.

"Come on Logan, we need to find Remy before the cops show up. We probably have less then thirty minutes."

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