Little panels slid back from the ceiling and little gun turrets slid down with laser sights to fixate on anything with a natural body heat. They moved around quickly trying to find us and as soon as they did, I knew we were in for it. I wasn't sure what their range was, but by the looks of it, we were took close to all of them as they were simply just everywhere. Eric tried using his powers to bend the barrels of the guns or bring apart some of the wiring, but he was just too weak to do something like that. Whatever they had him hooked to was a terrible device. I should've destroyed it completely. Such a device should've never even been thought of.

I used my pwers to start destroying the guns, but they just kept coming. Eric was too weak to run. I tried picking him up, but it was all dead weight. I was starting to get tired. I had used too much of my powers and going into my spirit form just took too much out of me still. We kept moving, but we kept moving slower and slower. There was just so much energy being wasted on our escape. We had only moved about fifty feet once I started getting dizzy. The first gun had hit Eric in the back. He screamed in pain and fell to his knees.

"Eric, no! We have to keep moving!" I yelled blasting the gun that had shot him. I forced him back to his feet and started walking again, but we only made it a couple steps before Eric fell again. I tried pulling him up, but he wasn't moving. I screamed his name as I got shot in the chest. I fell to my knees looking up at the gun that had shot me. I hit it with a fireball destroying it. I forced myself back up and reached for Eric. I started draggin him across the floor.

Where was Gambit and Colossus? Wherever they were I hoped they were fairing better than us. This was terrible. I was so weak. How could I be so stupid? Charles hadn't tried to contact me yet, so I shoudl've know he was being blocked somehow. I guess I figured the complex was built out of the same material as Eric's helmet. I had to get out of here. I had to get out of here now. I had to get us out.

Another shot to the back and I turned to blast it. This kept going on and before I had gotten out, I had been shot so many times, I didn't know how many times it was. The front doors were sealed shut, but that didn't stop me. I put my hands on the door and heated my hands. I focused all I could on the heat and tried not to think of the pain searing through my body. Some of the wounds were almost healed, but some were just pouring the blood. The door began to melt away slowly. This was taking way too much out of me. I couldn't take this for much longer.

A hole just the right size to get out had finally formed and I went and grabbed Eric. I pulled him outside. I tried to drag him farther, but I just couldn't do anymore. I had managed to pull us to safety, which was my goal, but it wasn't going to do us much good if I killed myself. I fell on my back.

"Kat," Eric whispered moving. I couldn't answer him. I had nothing left. I just had to rest. Get my stregnth back up. I heard Eric move. He tried to get up, but he fell back beside me. "Kat." I opened my eyes as much as I could, but it wasn't much. I could see the blurry outline of my eyelashes blocking my view. "Charles..." I heard him whispered. "Charles. It's bad." Then all went dark. I knew I wasn't dead. You can't have nightmares when you're dead.

I dreamt of chaos. Fire. Eartquakes. Tornadoes. Floods. Death. People I loved, pleople I cared for dead and bloody around me. The landscape was a barren wasteland. Trees were charred and smoking. And in the middle of it was me. But it wasn't me. I couldn't explain it, but whoever that was had stolen my body. They had taken my identity and made it their own right down to the last molecule. But there was something off about them. Something destructive. Something evil. Something that I could never be.

I shot up out of bed gasping for air. I felt something on my shoulders pushing me down and the first thing that popped into my head was to defend myself so that's what I did. I wall of fire surrounded me and kept me safe. I couldn't see anything. Everything was such a blur. There was a smell, a familiar smell, but part of me was still in that dream. That horrific dream that couldn't possibly come true. I heard a voice, a voice that pulled me out of everything. The fire fell instantly as everything came into focus instantly.

"Logan?" I scanned the room until I found him in the corner putting out a fire on his sleeve. I jumped from the bed ripping out IVs and an oxygen tube and ran into his arms. He held me against him tightly, but the sense of sheer joy left my body and I pushed him away from me.

"How long was I gone?" I asked crossing my arms. Logan, at first, didn't want to tell me. Which in turn told me I had been gone for a really long time.

"Almost a month." I started smacking him on the arms and shoulders.

"You mean to tell me I have been missing for nearly a month and you haven't even came looking for me? It's not like you could've picked up my scent or anything!"

"I lost your scent as soon as we left the property. It was almost like you vanished. There was no finding you because Charles couldn't find you. What happened? Where were you?" I thought about this for a moment.

"Honestly? I couldn't even tell you." I tried to think of something to say to him.

"Why did you go?"

"I was going to try to call off Eric's little brats since the children were so miserable at school. I was there for a long time and Eric never came. I tried to find him in my spirit form, but someone trapped me inside. So I forced my way through and something had trapped Eric on a gurney and they were sucking his powers out of him and using them against me. I don't know what they were after, but something is telling me, it was me." Logan thought about this. "Where's Eric?"