Siren's Mystery

Rogue and the girls came walking in to the lobby of the Ritz Carlton dressed in their leather and black clothing as they approached the front desk.

"May I help you?" The concierge asked.

"Yes we would like a room for tonight." Jean said as she began to project a thought into the man's mind.

"Do you have a reservation?" the man asked snidely.

"Yes we do if you look we have booked the penthouse suite." Jean said projecting the reservation on the screen.

"Yes I see please wait while I get you your key." The man left and Jean wiped her forehead as she began to struggle with maintaining her illusion when the man returned with the key.

"Do you have any luggage?" He asked.

"No but we will be visiting the clothes shop and the spa tomorrow so would be so kind as to book an appointment for us." Jean said.

"Yes of course and how will you be paying?" Kitty acted quickly and grabbed a piece of cardboard from a nearby magazine and slipped it to Jean. Jean began concentrating and made the cardboard look like a credit card and handed it over.

"Thank you." The man said as he scanned the cardboard Jean focused harder and made it appear that the card was accepted. Jean and the others made their way to the elevator.

When they arrived at their room the girls quickly dispersed each one going to a room. Tabby went directly to the living room area where the mini-bar was fully stocked.

"Awesome!" She said as she grabbed every alcoholic beverage inside and went to the table to spread them out. Amara went to the bathroom and marveled at the size of the tub. She went to the taps and started drawing herself a bath as she waited she began to undress. Jean had found the master bedroom and laid on the king size bed. Instantly the feeling of comfort surged through her body it felt like the mattress was slowly beginning to swallow her whole. A few minutes later Jean heard the girls arguing in the living room she got out of the bed to see what was happening.

Outside Jean found Rogue and Tabby wrestling over the only bottle of vodka when the bottle lifted out of their grip and floated over to Jean's hand.

"What is with all this racket?" Jean questioned.

"It's nothing." Tabby said with a sulk.

"Really from here it looks like you two are trying to get drunk from one bottle of vodka when there is a wide assortment at your disposal." Jean said with a smile as she went to the fridge and pulled out several bottles of juice and soda to mix the drinks with.

"Jean are you...?" Kitty said in astonishment as Jean took her vodka and OJ and slammed it back like a pro.

"What we came here to have some fun right? Well drink up." All the girls went to grab a drink and just as Kitty was about to let the liquid pass her lips she was stopped.

"Except for you Kitty you are still way to young to drink." Jean said as swallowed back another drink. After about 15 minutes of constant drinking Jessica Tabby Jean and Rogue had begun to feel its effects quickly and their inhibitions quickly became a blurred obstacle. As the group sat down to let the alcohol run its course they heard a loud giggle from the bathroom and a small splash. Everyone got off the couch to find Kitty and Amara submerged head to toe in bubbles.

"Is... everything... ok... in... here?" Tabby asked drunkenly.

"Yeah Kitty here just wanted to have a bath." Amara said as Kitty began taking off her soaked clothes.

"Man that tub is huge we could probably fit all of us in there." Rogue said feeling a little tipsy and perhaps a bit naughty, began to undress and once the last of her clothing had been removed she hopped in.

"Come on in y'all the water feels soooo good." Rogue said in delight.

It only took a little shoulder shrug for the rest to follow and then all of them were in the tub.

Meanwhile back down in the lobby a sinister looking man walked up to the concierge.

"How may I help you sir?" The man behind the desk asked in his regal and haughty tone.

"That bunch of ladies that had arrived here a few minutes ago, I am a friend of theirs and they are expecting me would you be so kind as to tell me what room they are staying in?" The man asked.

"I am sorry sir but the hotel has a strict privacy policy." The concierge said.

"Oh I understand." The man reached into his back pocket and pulled out a $100 bill and held it in his hand and offered it to the man behind the desk. "How about looking for another friend of mine his last name is Green." The concierge hesitated for a moment before taking the money.

"Your friend is staying the penthouse suite sir."

"Thank you very much sir." The man said his gratitude's then walked away.

"If your friend should ask who called for him what name shall I give him?" the concierge asked.

"Beck, Quentin Beck." Beck then walked out of the hotel and found a dark alley and took off his long trench coat to reveal a green and yellow suit he then pressed a small button on his lapel and a glass dome began to cover his head. He looked to the sky and then reached into a small pocket and pulled out a small drone about the size of a small bird and then with a toss the drone began to soar into the sky.

"Now my little friend lets see what you can find out about those mysterious young ladies." The drone skyrocketed itself to the top floor. Beck began instructing the drone to look through a window to find a rather compromising image all the girls where running around in the buff obviously having a good time.

Beck was enjoying the show as well and was about to shut the drone down when he saw Kitty wearing only her panties come phasing through the door.

"Intriguing." Beck said as eventually all the girls began to show off their abilities. "Well, well my beauties it appears you may be of some use. Beck then signalled the drone to return and then upon retrieval beck disappeared into the night.

Back at the mansion a freak storm was brewing over the mansion as the Professor and Storm were having a small battle of wits inside Storm's mind.

"Storm please don't fight me you must not let the suits influence win you must regain control." Charles said as perspiration began to form on his forehead. Storm thrashed and twisted screaming at the top of her lungs as she began to face her worst fear. In her mind Storm was in a dark box that was slowly getting smaller and smaller making her feel more and more anxious.

"Give up and this will all stop no more feeling trapped let me take over and I promise you will never feel fear again." a dark voice said from the emptiness. Storm was loosing the battle she couldn't take anymore when a sound rang out through the darkness and it grew stronger with every passing second.

"Come on Ro fight it. You are stronger than it don't let it win." It was Logan calling out to her from the darkness like beacon of hope in the night. Then a second voice rang out.

"Come on Auntie O your not going to lose because you are too stubborn." It was Evan her nephew. Storm began to feel the strength within her grow and the darkness began to lighten until it was no more than a small spot in the middle of a grassy field.

"You think you won. You will never be rid of me I am a part of you." The spot spoke.

"Maybe but for now on you wont be running free inside my mind." Storm then woke from her dream state feeling much better then when she started.

"How do you feel Storm?" The professor asked.

"Much better professor." Storm looked down and saw that Logan was holding her hand, when she looked down at it Logan quickly removed it and walked away.

Charles rolled away and took a drink from a large glass of water that Hank had brought for him.

"Charles are you alright?" Hank asked.

"Yes, thank you Hank." Charles replied. "How many more are there?" Charles asked.

"Just Scott, Bobby, Forge and Morph. The others are alright." Peter said as he walked in from the kitchen.

"Yes, thankfully the influence on most of the students was only superficial they were easy to reset but those four they have so much deep seeded insecurities it will take something drastic to reintegrate their psyche's." Charles said deeply concerned for his students.

"Well how long before your rested enough to start on that group." Peter said impatiently, he knew the longer he waited the worse it will be for Rogue and the others.

"I'm sorry Peter I used everything I had to help Storm. I am afraid I wont be able to help them tonight."

"But Professor we need every one back on their feet so that we can start searching for Rogue and the others." Peter protested.

"Peter, Patience is a virtue." Beast said in his medical tone.

"Screw patience! Rogue is in danger, and I for one don't intend on waiting around here while she gets further and further away." Peter said storming off to his room where he slammed the door. Peter quickly changed into his spider suit. Once changed he fired his web and swung away determined to find Rogue even if he has to look all night.

Peter searched hi and low there was no sign of the girls, until he stumbled across a police car outside a local under 18 bar. Peter felt a strong pull to the scene and swung down to scope it out. Peter landed on the roof of the bar and decided this would be a great time to try out his new invention he switched his selector on his web shooter and fired a mini cam into a nearby telephone pole once activated Peter started to receive audio and video.

"So let me get this straight ma'am, this gentleman attacked you and was trying to rob you correct?"

"That's right officer."

"And then out of the blue 6 women came to your rescue and they subdued this man in less than 2 minutes using some rather "unique" methods shall we say."

"Officer I know how this looks yes it's quite possible these women were mutants but they saved my life."

"I don't suppose you got a description of these women did you?" The woman did not like the way this was going and decided that she needed to protect those who protected her.

"No I didn't now if that's all I would like to go home." The woman said defiantly.

"Yes you can shall I have an officer escort you home." The officer said.

"No thank you I live just down the street." the woman said and then began walking away.

Peter pressed a button that caused the camera to self destruct and fired a web line and swung away after her, he needed to talk to her. He tracked her to her apartment door where he fell from his web line and landed softly behind her just loud enough to alert her to his presence.

"AHHHHH!" The woman screamed as she saw Spider-man behind her.

"It's alright I am not going to hurt you I need your help." Peter said with his hands at shoulder level in a non threatening manor.

"Ok here is some advice. Don't sneak up on someone who was just attacked." the woman said as her heart began to slow.

"Sorry I didn't have time to be subtle." Peter apologized.

"It's alright. So how can I help you?" she asked.

"The women who helped you they are very good friends of mine and they are in serious trouble."

"Well what can I do?" she asked once again.

"I need you to tell me anything that you didn't tell the police and was this girl with them." Peter reached into his belt and pulled out his phone where he had a picture of Rogue on it and showed it to the woman.

"Yes she was one of them but she looked considerably different."

"Ok is there anything you held back from the police?" Peter questioned.

"I may have overheard something about them not going back to a mansion and finding a place to stay for the night, and maybe something about hearing sirens I was too far away to make anything intelligible out what they were saying." The Woman explained leaving Peter feeling more lost than when he started.

"Is that all?" Peter asked and the woman just nodded her head. "OK thanks." Peter turned and fired a web and swung away.

"Did you find any useful Peter?" Charles said over Peter's com system.

"Professor? How did you know...?" Peter questioned.

"Peter I'm psychic remember." Charles answered.

"Right."

"Well did you find anything?" Charles questioned once again.

"Nothing concrete, they saved a girl in trouble and disappeared. Any luck with Cerebro?"

"I am afraid I am too weak to use it and jean would have found a way to hide herself and the others from me as well their brain waves are being altered so their is a lot of static I can't get a fix on them." Charles explained.

"So we have nothing." Peter stated

"For now, look Peter it`s late far too late for you to be heading back to the mansion to be of use, I will set you up a hotel room then in morning we will try again." Charles explained. Peter agreed and made his way to the hotel.

The next morning Peter woke up feeling very groggy and frustrated. He sat up in bed grabbed the TV remote and sat back to watch before checking out. He was watching an old episode of Knight Rider thinking of ways he could find the girls, when he heard the TV say something about tracking KITT using his homing signal and Peter shot out of bed like a flash.

"AWWW I am such an idiot!" Peter quickly put on his mask and activated his communicator.

"Spider-man to base come in base."

"Base here Spider-man." Logan answered.

"Wolverine are there any missing vehicles from the garage?" Peter asked.

"Yeah now that you mentioned it the Jeep is missing." Logan answered.

"Yes!" Peter exclaimed loudly.

"What is it webs?" Logan asked confused by the outburst.

"The Professor asked Forge and I to fit a tracking system into each vehicle on the premises. God I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner." Peter said and began walking Logan through how to activate it.

"Have you got it Logan?" Peter questioned growing impatient.

"Satellite tracking now webs, keep your britches on." Logan said and 30 seconds later the system activated showing the location of the vehicle.

"Ok webs says here that the Jeep is at the Ritz Carlton on Maple." Logan announced.

"OH you have got to be kidding me." Peter said as he stood up.

"What is it webs." Logan asked.

"That's were I am staying right now." Peter said as he quickly got dressed into his suit.

"What are the odds of that?" Logan said sarcastically.

"Trust me its too astronomical to count." Peter answered as he opened the hotel window and crawled out on to the ledge. "Get the X-men rolling Wolverine I am going to need back up."

"Acknowledged." Logan cut off the com and hit the alert button on his console. For the next hour Peter scoured the outside of the hotel looking for rooms big enough for 6 girls with a major attitude problem would stay then he figured it out the penthouse suite, he then crawled his way to the top floor he looked in using every ounce of stealth he had and saw the room was empty he found a balcony and as luck would have it, it was unlocked. Peter walked in and sat down to wait.

The girls on one hand were enjoying their spa day and had just finished getting their new clothes and were making their way to the room. When they opened the door they were shocked to see Peter waiting for them in full spider-man gear.

"You girls have a fun night?" Peter said sarcastically.

"Peter!?" Rogue said in shock at seeing her boyfriend.

"That's right and we have a lot to talk about."