"Ok team, spread out. There are three points of entry, the front door the back door and the hangar Kitty and the others entered before. Kitty and myself will enter the hangar. Logan and Remy will take the front door, Piotr, the professor and Kurt take the back door. Ok? Comms are to stay open at all times." Storm opened the plane door and the teams departed. Their mission was to find Rogue and anything that could possibly help them locate Sinister.

"Sinister is not here mon amis." Remy stated as they stood on the beach after exited the small rafts that bought them from the island they landed on. Storm looked at him.

"Are you sure?"

"Oui, Remy knows de security, he ain't here. Didn't leave long ago. However, Remy sure Rogue be here still – dey her boot prints non?" he pointed to the wet sand which clearly held her foot prints.

"They are, ok teams lets go."

"What happened to make Rogue run off anyhow?" Logan asked Remy as they made their way to the front door. Remy glanced at him and sighed.

"She fell asleep and Storm's powers manifested and den yours, you know your claws are from your mutation? Chere had claws made of bone – ripped her hands pretty good when dey came out." He stopped as Wolverine growled and looked down at his hand.

"Always thought they did that to me." The Canadian muttered and then motioned Remy to continue.

"She gave Remy a good beating before Beast managed to jolt her into waking up. Freaked out when she realised what she done. Den later she got upset dat Sinister had gone quiet, seemed to tink dat no one wanted to find out what was happening to her. Remy and Beast didn't handle it too well, let her go off upset."

"She woulda run off anyhow gumbo, girls got issues with people playing her. Won't help her to beat yourself up."

"Oui, Remy know. Look like Rogue didn't use de front door." Logan looked as Gambit walked up to a stone cliff face.

"If what you said was true she might have all our powers, she could have go in using Kitty's." Logan pointed out, Remy just nodded as he tapped various points on what looked like stone. Suddenly a panel slipped sideways revealing a key pad. He typed in various codes to no avail. Wolverine growled impatiently. Shrugging at the gruff man, Remy pulled the panel off and crossed a couple of wires, a second later the hidden doors slid open noiselessly despite their size and apparent weight.

"Would have been quicker to just blow them up Gumbo."

Oui, but better not to startle de super powerful mutant inside non? Don't want her running off again."

They walked down the corridor, noting the absence of power. Gambit felt it before they got to the door at the end of the room, the gentle hum of electricity. "Power behind dese doors here." He pointed to the doors at the end of the hall, "What's de betting Rogue be in dere?".

"I'd say pretty good, do your fancy wire crossing and get us in."

A few moments later the door slid open seamlessly and Gambit cursed, it was the lab. In all of Sinister's bases there would be one, it was a place Gambit feared and he would have preferred Rogue hadn't seen it at all. He noticed the office door ajar and with a muttered curse he bounded across desks and chairs and swung it open, she wasn't in there, but he knew what was.

"What is it Gumbo?" Wolverine stood behind him as Gambit stared at the wall behind the desk. "she's been in here recently, five minutes ago maybe, where'd she go?"

"Right into a trap. Merde!" Remy smashed his fist down onto the desk, Logan frowned.

"Care to explain?"

"Put you hand on de back wall." Was all Remy muttered as he slumped into the chair behind the desk, Logan looked confused but did as Remy said. He muttered a few choose swear words as his hand slipped through the wall.

"A portal?"

"Oui, dat be how Sinister moves from country to country so quickly. He sets dem up in all de labs. None of de lackeys supposed to know about dem, course Remy did – used dem to get me around when I was shorting mon chip. Always in a different point in de base, always hidden."

"How did Rogue find it?"

"Sinister will have left a trail for her to find, she probably didn't know it was a portal, probably tought it was a hidden room – especially if she's using de chat's powers."

"So we go through and find her."

"Non, if de portal still goes to where Rogue is den a whole team of lackeys will be waiting for us. But chances are he's moved de portal to somewhere else and sealed it so it's one way only."

"So for all we know we could walk through it and end up inside an active volcanoe or something?"

"Oui."

"Ok, got to get in contact with the others and see if they've found anything."

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"Ro?"

Logan and Gambit entered the hangar, immediately they spotted Storm up a ladder looking through the files where Remy had found his and Rogue's information.

"Wolverine, Gambit what have you found?" she descended and Kitty appeared through the shelves towards them as well.

"Seems Rogue has walked into a trap left by Sinister, we'll find the professor and then fill everyone in."

"Ok, Professor where are you?" Storm spoke into her communicator.

"We are in what appears to be living quarters, everything has been taken, we will join you in the hangar immediately."

"Did you find anyting else in here?" Remy asked, Kitty looked at the haggard Cajun and sighed.

"Nothing much, files on a few mutants we know of. Some interesting information about Sabertooth that Rogue and Kurt might really want to hear, or not. A lot of the stuff that relates to anything that might help us appears to have been taken, what's left is mainly old notes."

"Oui, only take what's needed and what won't give us de advantage. Sinister has moved a lot like dis."

"We'll find her Remy." Kitty said quietly as Storm put a hand on his shoulder, "And we'll save Jean too. We have to."

"What have you found team?" The professor's voice cut through their reverie and they all turned to see him, Piotr and Kurt come through the doorway.

"Well it appears Rogue has walked into a trap." Logan began.