A Siren's fractured soul

Mysterio was very pleased with himself, He pressed a button on his gauntlet and commanded his robots to carry the girls to his the dungeon. After about on hour Jean began to wake up to find that she had been shackled to a wall and her head was splitting like a quart of firewood. She shook her head a few times to clear her mind but found she couldn't.

"Oh good your awake." A voice sounded over a speaker.

"Who are you? Where are my friends?" Jean asked loudly.

"My aren't you the inquisitive one, fear not my pretty your friends are fine for now. And as to who I am well soon you will call me master."

"Let me see my friends!" Jean yelled.

"Certainly my dear." a powerful light began to power up from above illuminating the darkness that surrounded her and she saw her friends to her shock had been each placed in a very diabolical chamber of there own. Tabby was placed in a cell filled with highly flammable liquid if she tried to use one of her plasma bombs she would incinerate herself. Amara was doing everything in her power to keep from freezing as she was suspended in a vat of liquid nitrogen. Rogue was still passed out but like Jean was shackled to a wall. Kitty was suspended over a pit of spikes if she tried to phase out her restraints she would be pulled toward them impaling her and Jessica had been placed in a small Plexiglas box that was submerged in acid if she tried to open the case in any way the acid would eat her alive. Jean began to struggle with her restraints trying to free herself but she couldn't and her head was so clouded she couldn't focus enough to use her abilities.

"Why are you doing this?!" Jean yelled as her voice echoed through the room.

"Well my dear to put it simply, I wanted you and now I have you. Oh I am sure you will resist hence why I have something special for each of you to ensure you obedience." Mysterio hit a switch and a small whirring sound was heard as a device lowered itself into the center of the room. "What you see in front of you is a cerebral re-programmer it uses light and sound to place your minds in a highly suggestible state once I have softened your minds enough you will be mine to do with as I please." Mysterio switched another set of switches and the machine began to activate filling the room with a small buzzing noise the equivalent of a mosquito buzzing in your ear nothing to dangerous just annoying then a light began to pulse once every 20 seconds or so. Rogue began to wake up at this point as her senses were assaulted by the loud and continuous noise and light that had began to grow in intensity, until it started to become unbearable the girls did there best to block it out but the machine wouldn't quit. It would only be a matter of time until their resolve gave up and then Mysterio would have his army of slaves.

Meanwhile Peter was swinging through the city as fast as he could he knew Mysterio was no one to mess with and none of the girls knew how to fight him. Only Peter could save them now and save them he would. Peter was coming up the last side street and had arrived at the movie studio. It was here oh so long ago it seemed that Spider-man and Mysterio had first come to blows thus cementing the villain hero relationship they had. Peter let go of his web and dove toward the ground he did a little flip in the air and landed gracefully on his feet.

"I Give it a 9.5 for delivery but your execution needs some work." Peter turned and saw Kurt pretending to hold a sign above his head.

"Not funny Kurt." Peter said as he walked over to his friend and roommate.

"Yeah he's been spending too much time hanging around you." A voice sounded revealing the remaining X-men as they climbed out of the X-van.

"You guys made it great now do me a favor stay out of the building." Peter said sounding less like himself and more like a vengeance driven maniac making some of the X-men concerned. Peter made a motion to enter the building when he felt a hand grab his shoulder.

"What do you mean wait out here? We are going to help you." Logan said as he popped his claws.

"NO!" Peter yelled as he pushed Logan away angering the feral mutant.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING YOU LITTLE..." Logan was cut off as Peter pulled away a hidden panel in the ground right where Logan was about to step revealing a pressure sensor attached to a canister of unknown contents.

"That's why you can't go in, you don't know Mysterio like I do. I am the only one who can get around his traps." Peter explained. Logan bent down and sniffed the device, then stood up and walked over to his pupil.

"Looks like the student has become the teacher. I don't say this often but thanks kid if I had stepped on that panel we all would have been blown to hell, that there is a small FAE (Fuel air explosive) it would have taken us out and everyone within a 2 block radius." Logan said as he looked at the group buildings where the girls were being held. "Can we expect more surprises like this in there?" Logan asked.

"If I know Mysterio this was just a greeting card. His way of saying hello, if we go in there we will be facing things that make that bomb look and feel like a firecracker." Peter explained.

"ENOUGH! Jean is in there the more time we spend chit chatting like little school girls the more time this asshole has to do god knows what to them in there." Scott said very angrily and reached for his visor and fired a blast.

"NO!" Logan and Peter yelled together but it was too late the blast tore through the gate destroying every trap and tripping every sensor alerting Mysterio to there presence.

"Are you f #$ing nuts now Mysterio knows we are here you just made an impossible situation 10 times worse!" Peter yelled as he grabbed his commander's shirt shaking him violently a couple of times before Kurt and Logan separated the two.

"Easy webs, give him a chance to explain." Logan said looking at Cyclops with a 'this better be good look' on his face.

"There's no time to explain Peter get going find the girls we will approach this way now go." Scott said sounding more like his old self. "Kurt, go with him." Kurt nodded grabbed Peter and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Inside, Mysterio's machine continued its assault the cacophony of sound and lights mixed with the wails and screams of the girls. Rogue was taking it the worst her because it wasn't just her mind that was being affected but every personality she had absorbed. Her weakened mind couldn't keep them imprisoned if things kept going the way they were she would lose control again and all the powers lying dormant inside her would rush forth again.

"Stop it, Stop it!, STOP, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Rogue began to scream and thrash at her shackles but the machine kept increasing in tempo until finally Rogue went limp.

"Rogue! Damn it you bastard, When we get out of here..." Tabby shouted only for her voice to be drowned out by a sudden increase in the light pattern.

"That will never happen my dear, for now on you belong to me." The Voice said over the speaker. Mysterio was very pleased with himself; that was until his proximity sensors started going off like a Christmas tree.

"Well what do we have here?" Mysterio said as he brought up his security feed seeing the x-men breaching the front gate. "Ah, more guests for our little party." Mysterio reached over and pressed a button activating his robot army. "So sorry my dears it seems we have been interrupted, however we will continue with tonight's entertainment." Mysterio said over the loud speaker.

Elsewhere Kurt and Peter had taken to a hiding spot above the abandoned movie lot trying to figure the best way in.

"Ok so how do we get in?" Kurt asked knowing his teleport ability is limited at the moment.

"Damn that Scott if he hadn't been so impulsive I would've been able to sneak in, find the girls and then call for help but no he had to go and start blasting." Peter said angrily.

"Peter getting mad at Scott will not help the girls, now focus you know this Mysterio better than us." Kurt said getting Peter to redirect his thoughts.

"Right, Ok, if I know Mysterio he is going to take the girls somewhere he can control them, but he also has an over-exaggerated need for the dramatic… There." Peter said pointing at an old movie studio that had a movie title over it that read "Montana Max and the lost dungeon of terror."

"How do you know he's in there?" Kurt asked slightly amazed.

"Because that was the last film Beck was working on before he was fired, and it's the only building that still has power running through it." Peter said as he fired a web-line and swung toward the building Kurt teleported away.

Meanwhile Cyclops and the others were busy fending for their lives as wave after wave of old movie monsters and aliens kept attacking.

"You know knocking them down is easy getting them to stay down is hard Bobby said as he froze a half completed werewolf causing it to stop but only for a few moments before it activated a self-warming system causing the ice to melt and allowing the werewolf to resume its attack.

Cyclops was having better luck as his optical blast was taking out robot after robot, but what was scary was that Scott was enjoying the destruction, maybe a little too much. Logan took notice of this when he saw Scott target a robot headed for Jubilee and fired barley missing her head. Wolverine wasted no time and ran over to Scott and grabbed him by the collar forcing him to the ground and taking Scott's visor off forcing Scott to close his eyes.

"What do you think you're doing shades you nearly sent Jubilee to early grave now what's going on in your head?" Logan growled out as he decapitated a robot dressed like an octopus man.

"GIVE ME BACK MY VISOR LOGAN I NEED IT SO I CAN FIGHT." Scott screamed barely keeping in control.

"Scott we are in a bad situation here, a situation that you put us in and we can't be dealing with an out of control blood thirsty psycho out here. Your team is in trouble we are barely holding on and we need a leader! Now stop your bitching and cowboy the f*&% up!" Logan shouted as he threw Scott his visor back. Scott grabbed his visor and put it back on as he got to his feet he realized Logan was right his team was scattered and disoriented and Peter wasn't around to take over it was up to him and only him.

"Jubilee, Havoc, fall back behind me and Logan. Spike and Iceman form a perimeter around us and give us some cover." Scott commanded and like a well-oiled machine the group

"Well what do we have here?" Mysterio said as he brought up his security feed seeing the x-men breaching the front gate. "Ah, more guests for our little party." Mysterio reached over and pressed a button activating his robot army. "So sorry my dears it seems we have been interrupted, however we will continue with tonight's entertainment." Mysterio said over the loud speaker.

Elsewhere Kurt and Peter had taken to a hiding spot above the abandoned movie lot trying to figure the best way in.

"Ok so how do we get in?" Kurt asked knowing his teleport ability is limited at the moment.

"Damn that Scott if he hadn't been so impulsive I would've been able to sneak in, find the girls and then call for help but no he had to go and start blasting." Peter said angrily.

"Peter getting mad at Scott will not help the girls, now focus you know this Mysterio better than us." Kurt said getting Peter to redirect his thoughts.

"Right, Ok, if I know Mysterio he is going to take the girls somewhere he can control them, but he also has an over-exaggerated need for the dramatic… There." Peter said pointing at an old movie studio that had a movie title over it that read "Montana Max and the lost dungeon of terror."

"How do you know he's in there?" Kurt asked slightly amazed.

"Because that was the last film Beck was working on before he was fired, and it's the only building that still has power running through it." Peter said as he fired a web-line and swung toward the building Kurt teleported away.

Meanwhile Cyclops and the others were busy fending for their lives as wave after wave of old movie monsters and aliens kept attacking.

"You know knocking them down is easy getting them to stay down is hard Bobby said as he froze a half completed werewolf causing it to stop but only for a few moments before it activated a self-warming system causing the ice to melt and allowing the werewolf to resume its attack.

Cyclops was having better luck as his optical blast was taking out robot after robot, but what was scary was that Scott was enjoying the destruction, maybe a little too much. Logan took notice of this when he saw Scott target a robot headed for Jubilee and fired barley missing her head. Wolverine wasted no time and ran over to Scott and grabbed him by the collar forcing him to the ground and taking Scott's visor off forcing Scott to close his eyes.

"What do you think you're doing shades you nearly sent Jubilee to early grave now what's going on in your head?" Logan growled out as he decapitated a robot dressed like an octopus man.

"GIVE ME BACK MY VISOR LOGAN I NEED IT SO I CAN FIGHT." Scott screamed barely keeping in control.

"Scott we are in a bad situation here, a situation that you put us in and we can't be dealing with an out of control blood thirsty psycho out here. Your team is in trouble we are barely holding on and we need a leader! Now stop your bitching and cowboy the f*&% up!" Logan shouted as he threw Scott his visor back. Scott grabbed his visor and put it back on as he got to his feet he realized Logan was right his team was scattered and disoriented and Peter wasn't around to take over it was up to him and only him.

"Jubilee, Havoc, fall back behind me and Logan. Spike and Iceman form a perimeter around us and give us some cover." Scott commanded and like a well-oiled machine the group

"Well what do we have here?" Mysterio said as he brought up his security feed seeing the x-men breaching the front gate. "Ah, more guests for our little party." Mysterio reached over and pressed a button activating his robot army. "So sorry my dears it seems we have been interrupted, however we will continue with tonight's entertainment." Mysterio said over the loud speaker.

Elsewhere Kurt and Peter had taken to a hiding spot above the abandoned movie lot trying to figure the best way in.

"Ok so how do we get in?" Kurt asked knowing his teleport ability is limited at the moment.

"Damn that Scott if he hadn't been so impulsive I would've been able to sneak in, find the girls and then call for help but no he had to go and start blasting." Peter said angrily.

"Peter getting mad at Scott will not help the girls, now focus you know this Mysterio better than us." Kurt said getting Peter to redirect his thoughts.

"Right, Ok, if I know Mysterio he is going to take the girls somewhere he can control them, but he also has an over-exaggerated need for the dramatic… There." Peter said pointing at an old movie studio that had a movie title over it that read "Montana Max and the lost dungeon of terror."

"How do you know he's in there?" Kurt asked slightly amazed.

"Because that was the last film Beck was working on before he was fired, and it's the only building that still has power running through it." Peter said as he fired a web-line and swung toward the building Kurt teleported away.

Meanwhile Cyclops and the others were busy fending for their lives as wave after wave of old movie monsters and aliens kept attacking.

"You know knocking them down is easy getting them to stay down is hard Bobby said as he froze a half completed werewolf causing it to stop but only for a few moments before it activated a self-warming system causing the ice to melt and allowing the werewolf to resume its attack.

Cyclops was having better luck as his optical blast was taking out robot after robot, but what was scary was that Scott was enjoying the destruction, maybe a little too much. Logan took notice of this when he saw Scott target a robot headed for Jubilee and fired barley missing her head. Wolverine wasted no time and ran over to Scott and grabbed him by the collar forcing him to the ground and taking Scott's visor off forcing Scott to close his eyes.

"What do you think you're doing shades you nearly sent Jubilee to early grave now what's going on in your head?" Logan growled out as he decapitated a robot dressed like an octopus man.

"GIVE ME BACK MY VISOR LOGAN I NEED IT SO I CAN FIGHT." Scott screamed barely keeping in control.

"Scott we are in a bad situation here, a situation that you put us in and we can't be dealing with an out of control blood thirsty psycho out here. Your team is in trouble we are barely holding on and we need a leader! Now stop your bitching and cowboy the f*&% up!" Logan shouted as he threw Scott his visor back. Scott grabbed his visor and put it back on as he got to his feet he realized Logan was right his team was scattered and disoriented and Peter wasn't around to take over it was up to him and only him.

"Jubilee, Havoc, fall back behind me and Logan. Spike and Iceman form a perimeter around us and give us some cover." Scott commanded and like a well-oiled machine the group responded. "We just need to buy Spider-man some time so dig in and pray." Deep in the recesses of Scott's mind a heavy weight suddenly began to lift and Scott began to feel more like his old confident self.

Mean while inside the studio Mysterio was frantic his machine needed more time to complete the process but he was quickly running out of robots and time. It left him no choice he reached for a knob and turned it to full causing the lights and sounds to flood the room causing all the girls to yell and scream louder.

"Come on give in you must give in." Mysterio said over the speaker.

"GO TO HELL YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Tabby yelled. Mysterio flicked switches and pressed buttons when the skylight above him suddenly shattered and from above came Peter diving down on his arch nemesis fists clenched. Mysterio threw hands to his head to protect him but it was no use as Peter connected and down to the ground Mysterio went, out cold.

"My sentiments exactly." Peter said agreeing with Tabby. He ran over to the console and looked it over and just decided that the best course of action is to take a cue from Logan and raised both hands above his head and smashed them down on the control console shutting the machine and the robots out side off. "Ok Kurt, get them out of there while I clean up this mess." Peter said into his communicator.

"On it." Kurt said as he teleported into the room with the girls.

"Kurt!" Jean said upon seeing her good friend. "Get Rogue she needs medical right away." Kurt ran over grabbed Rogue and teleported out. Back in the control room Mysterio began to get to his feet feeling a lot of pain in his head and his jaw he gave his head a good couple of shakes to clear his vision when he looked up and saw Spider-man standing over him like a very pissed off titan.

"Spider-man wha..." Mysterio was cut off mid sentence as Peter grabbed him by the throat and began to squeeze.

"What were you trying to do Beck?" Peter questioned but in his rage held his prisoner too tightly.

"GULP...Can...Glug." Was all that Mysterio could muster but Peter couldn't get past his rage and began to tighten his grip when he felt someone grab his arm.

"Spider-man let him go!" Peter looked and saw Kurt staring back at him. "Everyone is safe, relax." Peter let go of Mysterio and he fell to the floor in a heap and began to cough as he filled his lungs once again with precious air.

"What's...cough, cough... going on?" Beck asked.

"You tell us you vere the vone holding our friends captive." Kurt said.

"I was, I don't remember anything. Last thing I remember was getting a visitor in prison then everything is blank." Mysterio explained but Peter didn't buy it however he didn't have time to really press the matter so he fired his web shooters at Mysterio encasing him from the shoulders down in a cocoon and picked him up.

"Let's go Kurt, take us back to the others." Peter said and then the trio disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

A few hours later back at the mansion Hank was busy treating the injured members of the sirens with some help from the professor making sure the influence the sludge left had been purged.

"You all seem to be in good health, physically anyway." Beast said as he finished with Jean.

"Yes and it appears that your minds have been purged of any dark influence left behind." The Professor said as he rolled across the floor.

"That's like totally great but what about Rogue?" Kitty asked.

"I am afraid the damage to her psyche was very severe, we are helping her the best way we can. Now I suggest that you all go upstairs and get some sleep because tomorrow we need to start damage clean up with the hotel you stayed at last night. They weren't very happy when the details of how you got the room came to light." Charles said as he turned around and went into another room where an unconscious Rogue lay.

"You heard the professor girls up stairs and in bed." Beast ordered and once the room was clear he joined back with Charles to monitor Rogue. "How bad is it Charles?"

"It's very bad Hank whatever that machine was trying to do, couple it with the suits negative imprints left behind and all the personalities that Rogue has absorbed... I don`t know how to fix her." Charles said feeling fearful of what he must do to save his student.

"Is there nothing you can do Charles?" Beast said feeling lost as how to help her himself.

"There is a way but I don't like doing it." Charles said looking to Hank as if pleading for him to come up with an alternative.

"Do what you must Charles. I'll go tell Peter."

"No Hank I'll tell him once it's done." Charles said as he placed his hands on Rogue and went to work.

Meanwhile upstairs the girls made there way to theirs grateful they were no longer under the influence of the sludge.

"Man it's good to be home." Tabby said as she opened the door to her and Amara's bed room and yawned. "Good night everyone." Tabby said and went to bed and one by one the group made their way to their own rooms. Jessica opened her door and made her way to her bed she got undressed grabbed her sleepwear and laid on her bed when she noticed a note on her pillow addressed to her on the outside. Jessica sat back up and unfolded the piece of paper and began to read.

" Dearest Jessica. I am sending you this note to let you know 3 things, I have never been good with spoken words even writing them is hard to do but given the events of the last few days this is the only way to tell you what has been on my mind as of late.

The first thing I wish to say is that I hope you get back safe and sound, and when you find this letter I should be gone. Please don't try and find me as I will not be coming back.

Second I ask that you please forgive what I have done and perhaps one day I will forgive myself.

And third, I love you I have since the moment we met. You and I have shared so much my only regret is not being able to tell you in person. Your laugh made my day brighter, your smile made me think that there is a heaven, and your innocence gave me hope that there would be better days ahead.

So I guess that's it as I said please don't hate me or go looking for me and please tell Morph he was right I didn't have the balls to tell you how I felt.

Goodbye my love, with kindest personal regards Forge."

Jessica folded the paper in her hands and once again found herself crying over the broken heart Forge had given her.

Peter came walking in to the infirmary looking to check on Rogue but was promptly cut off by Hank who knew it was only a matter of time before Peter came looking for his girlfriend.

"Peter you shouldn't be here." Hank said somberly.

"Excuse me." Peter said no quite sure what Hank was getting at.

"It's alright Hank it's done." Charles said looking very tired.

"Professor what's going on?" Peter asked starting to get concerned.

"Peter I had no choice the damage was too great." Charles responded.

"What did you do?" Peter said as his anger grew.

"Peter that machine whatever it was seriously degraded Rogue's mental barriers that keep the personalities she has absorbed in check. Also that suit left behind multiple copies of itself in each personality, I could spend years cleaning up the mess and still not be able to properly put her back to the way she was. It left me with only one option. I am sorry Peter but I had to erase her memory completely."