**Chapter Twenty-Seven**
(X-Jet)
Cyclops sat in the cock pit seat next to Storm who was flying. Wolverine and Jean sat in the back.
"I see it," Storm said. Through the window of the jet they saw a large rock struckter in the middle of the ocean. Storm's eyes turned pure white as a thick fog covered the sky. She gently landed the jet on the water.
"Jean see if you can contact anyone," Cyclops finally spoke. Jean nodded.
~Kitty, Kitty its Jean, can you 'hear' me?~
"Jean?" Kitty heard the voice in her head. ~Jean, is that really you?~
~Yeah, where are you?~
~I'm not sure. We're stuck to a wall~
~Stuck?~
~Yeah, all six of us~
~Six? What happened to the other one of you?~
~Mystique and Toad took Lyric somewhere and did something to her~
~Where is she now?~
~I don't know~
~You guys just hang there we'll find~
"I got a hold of Kitty, they're stuck to a wall. Across from a metal platform,"
"They're up there," Wolverine said pointing up. About thirty-five feet up they could barely make out an enterance to a cave. "I can smell them."
"Storm can you get us up there?" Cyclops asked.
"Yes, but Jean, you'll have to steady us," Storm's eye's again turned white and a large gust of wind picked up the four at an amazing speed until Jean's telekineses grabbed them, pulling them to the entrance.
Wolverine sniffed the air. "Six of them are down this hall. The new girl, she's close,"
"You guys go head," Cyclops said. "I'm gonna find Lyric." the three X-Men went on as Cyclops trailed slowly behind trying to find Lyric.
"Scott..." he heard his name being whispered as he approached a small openeing. "Scott..." he walked in seeing Lyric laying on the floor.
"Lyric," he bend down to her taking her hand in his. "Lyric, wake up, its Scott." no answer. He got up to get help. When his back turned he felt something sweep across his legs ang he fell to the ground. He almost passed out from the blow to his head. A figure loomed over him. His eyes started to blur. A hand came towards his visor, on reflex he closed his eyes and when he did he black out.
**Chapter Twenty-Eight**
Cyclops slowly started to come to. The back of his head was throbbing. Before opening his eyes, he reached up to check for his visor but his hands were stuck.
"You can open your eyes," Storm said. He did. He looked at his surroundings. Storm was to his right covered in a hard substance, then he relized he was covered in it too. To his left Wolverine was in the same perdicament. He was a little up and diganally from Jean and the rest were in a row.
"Where's Lyric?"
"Up there," Rogue said. Cyclops looked up and saw Lyric standing with Mystique and Pyro. Toad was crouched next to them.
"Why is she up there?"
Lyric obviously heard and smiled. Her legs melted to water and she floated to Cyclops. "Why do you keep asking 'what am I doing'?"
"Lyric, its me, Scott,"
"I know who you are, I just can't remeber why you're worried about me," she placed a hand on his forhead letting his thoughts of her flow to her. "Oh right." she floated down. "That night. Just 'cause we slept together doesn't mean I love you." Scott felt like someone punched him in his gut. What the hell did they do to her? "They gave me site Scott. Yeah I'm a telepath. I have so much power I didn't know I had. I'm telepathic, I can communicate with sea creatures, I can turn into water and my echo-location is more powerful than you can ever imagine."
"You're full of it!" Jubilee yelled. She didn't know what happened to Lyric but she couldn't hold it in.
"Oh am I?" Lyric went to Jubilee's level. "Toad, I think that its a bit crowed it up here." she backed away.
"Wh-what?" Remy could barely hear what Lyric said. He just came to after had blacked out for a third time.
"Right," Toad knew what Lyric was hinting. His toung shot out breaking Jubilee's restraints.
"Nno!" Remy yelled as Jubilee started to fall.
"Nooo!" Rogue saw one of her best friends falling to a watery grave. She felt something in her arms. Power. She threw her arms up breaking the substance. She expected to fall like Jubilee but she didn't. She was flying.
"Ah'm flyin',"
"Get Jubilee!" Jean yelled.
Rogue did as she was told. She put her hands ahead of her as she flew. She saw bright lights. Jubilee was trying to break her fall with her power. Rogue was gaining speed. Soon she was under her friend. She put her arms out and caught Jubilee.
"What the hell...Rogue?"
"Yeah,"
"Are you flying?"
"Yeah, Ah am. Look Ah gotta get you to the X-Jet," she flew around the island dropping every now and then.
"Am I too heavy?"
"No, here," she put her down on the jet. "Ah gotta head back. Ah'm gonna tell them ya didn't make it."
"Okay," Jubilee went inside the jet as Rogue flew back. She liked this new power, but now was not the time to have fun.
"Where is she?" Lyric asked.
"Ah didn't reach her in tahm. She's gone,"
"No," Remy flet his heart rip in two. The love of his life had just died, "God please no," he gently whispered. Tears rolled past his temples to his hair.
"Remy..." Bobby was almost in tears.
"My kids..Jubilee...they're gone, dead,"
"Remy, I..."
"I just lost everything my life was worth living for. I'm gonna kill myself,"
"Remy, don't talk like that. You can't do that,"
"Can't I? I'll do it if we get out of here. Bobby I know the kids weren't born yet...I'll never get to be a dad..I lost everything..." he couldn't even form sentances anymore.
"That's an unusawell power you have," Lyric said coming towards Rogue.
"Ah know,"
"You could just fly away, to safty,"
"Ah know, but Ah'm not gonna leave mah friends,"
"How noble of you. Toad double it,"
Toad spit out a double load of slime pinning Rogue to the wall making it hard for her to breathe.
Scott watched Lyric standing with Toad, Pyro and Mystique. Why is she doing this he kept asking himself.
~Scott,~ Jean thought to him.
~What?~
~That's not Lyric,~
~What are you talking about?~
~They put a chip in her head, she doesn't know what she's doing. We need to get it out,~
~Then she'll be back to normal?~
~Yeah,~
~But how can we get it out?~
~Rogue,~
~But she's under too much,~
~So? I think she can still do it. And maybe if I can get your visor off or something,~
He didn't reply.
"You love her don't you?" Jean couldn't believe she said that after what happened and everything.
"Yeah," he replied quietly.
"Then we have to do this,"
"Okay,"
"Rogue," Jean leaned over as far as the restraints would let her.
"What?"
"Can you get loose?"
"Ah hope so 'cause Ah can hardly breathe,"
~All you have to do is get a little lose and you can make it. I know this is a new power, but we really need it,~
~Ah know, so you just want me to stay here after Ah'm lose?"
~No, when Scott gets himself free you need to catch him and take him to the ledge. He's gonna free the others. You need to be there to get Remy. Take him to the jet then come back. We'll need you, can you remeber all that?~
~Yeah,~
~Good, when I say now, you break free,~
~Got it~
~Kurt, Kitty, Bobby,~
~What?~ all three replied.
~Scott is gonna free you guys soon. When he does, Kurt be ready to port, Kitty levealtate, and Bobby can you make an ice bridge or something?~
~Yeah, but what about Remy?~
~Don't worry, Rogue will get him,~
~Okay,~
~All this needs to be quick. Scott, put your head down,~
Scott aimed his eyes for his chest where he was being held.
Jean looked up at his face. Her mind lifted his visor up. He felt the metal lift up.
"Now," Scott opened his eyes. Two red beams of pure energy shot from his eyes breaking the green restraints.
At the same time Rogue tried putting her arms up but her prison only cracked. She did it again and this time the green substance shattered. She dove beneith Scott catching him under his arms.
"Visor!" he called to Jean. Her mind placed the visor back to its normal resting spot. Rogue put him on the plate form.
"Good, a play toy," Toad said. He let his toung out around Rogue's ankel.
"Rogue!" Scott went for her.
"Get the others. Ah can handle mahself," reluctantly Scott turned away. "Sorry sugah." Rogue said to Toad. "Ah ain't a play thing!" she yanked her leg pulling almost every muscle in Toad's toung and he released her.
Pyro and Lyric went to help, but Mystique motioned them to stay.
Scott pressed the button on his visor aiming for Jean first. She easily moved herself to the platform. Next was Storm and Wolverine who got to the platform by wind. He then freed Kurt who imediatly ported, Kitty just walked on the air. Bobby had to do something completly new to him. If he failed he'd fall to the water like Jubilee. He felt the pressure of the beams and the restriants shatter he put his hands down. To his surprised and relief a small ice bridge formed and he slid over it almost knocking Rogue over.
"Sorry," he aplolgized. "Ya know that thing you said about not being a play thing?"
She rolled her eyes. "Not now Bobby." she flew up ready to catch Remy. When the beams hit she caught him and was shocked at how light he was.
"Rogue?" she had already started her journey to the jet.
"Yeah,"
"Where are we going?"
"To the jet, you need to rest,"
"No,"he tried to get free. "Drop me."
"Ah'm not gonna drop you,"
"Rogue, I lost everything five minutes ago, I don't want to live,"
"Remy, you'll feel better once your on the jet," they landed and she helped him in.
"Rogue, I'm never gonna feel better. Not unless you can bring Jubilee and my kids back to life,"
"Ah think Ah can do that,"
"What?"
"Ah've got to help the others," she walked out the door and flew off.
This is my chance. he didn't pay any attention to what Rogue said. He was too busy trying to find something to kill himself. He went to the front area. Maybe I can break the glass or something. Or rope...that's it! he croached down to a small drawer where he knew there was rope. He pulled it out.
"Remy?" a quiet voice asked from the cock pit seat.
"No," he whispered to himself. He knew that voice. He felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and turned around. "Jubilee?" his eyes glistened with tears.
"Yeah," she sat next to him as he flopped to a sitting position.
"You're alive," he leaned in kissing her on the lips then cheek and neck.
"Remy," she pulled away and when she saw his face she saw the tears. "Why are you crying?"
"Rogue told me you didn't make it. I thought I lost you and the kids..."
"Oh..." she pulled him to her and he rested his head on her chest. She stroked his hair gently kissing the top of his head. "You didn't lose me."
"I thought I did. I, I was gonna kill myself," he expected her to scream or something but she didn't.
"Why?" her voice was gentle and understanding.
"I didn't want to be in this world with out you and the kids. I know that if you're out of my life I would never find anyone else," he pulled away. "I love you so much Jubilee."
"I love you too," she kissed him again holding him close. "So much."
(X-Jet)
Cyclops sat in the cock pit seat next to Storm who was flying. Wolverine and Jean sat in the back.
"I see it," Storm said. Through the window of the jet they saw a large rock struckter in the middle of the ocean. Storm's eyes turned pure white as a thick fog covered the sky. She gently landed the jet on the water.
"Jean see if you can contact anyone," Cyclops finally spoke. Jean nodded.
~Kitty, Kitty its Jean, can you 'hear' me?~
"Jean?" Kitty heard the voice in her head. ~Jean, is that really you?~
~Yeah, where are you?~
~I'm not sure. We're stuck to a wall~
~Stuck?~
~Yeah, all six of us~
~Six? What happened to the other one of you?~
~Mystique and Toad took Lyric somewhere and did something to her~
~Where is she now?~
~I don't know~
~You guys just hang there we'll find~
"I got a hold of Kitty, they're stuck to a wall. Across from a metal platform,"
"They're up there," Wolverine said pointing up. About thirty-five feet up they could barely make out an enterance to a cave. "I can smell them."
"Storm can you get us up there?" Cyclops asked.
"Yes, but Jean, you'll have to steady us," Storm's eye's again turned white and a large gust of wind picked up the four at an amazing speed until Jean's telekineses grabbed them, pulling them to the entrance.
Wolverine sniffed the air. "Six of them are down this hall. The new girl, she's close,"
"You guys go head," Cyclops said. "I'm gonna find Lyric." the three X-Men went on as Cyclops trailed slowly behind trying to find Lyric.
"Scott..." he heard his name being whispered as he approached a small openeing. "Scott..." he walked in seeing Lyric laying on the floor.
"Lyric," he bend down to her taking her hand in his. "Lyric, wake up, its Scott." no answer. He got up to get help. When his back turned he felt something sweep across his legs ang he fell to the ground. He almost passed out from the blow to his head. A figure loomed over him. His eyes started to blur. A hand came towards his visor, on reflex he closed his eyes and when he did he black out.
**Chapter Twenty-Eight**
Cyclops slowly started to come to. The back of his head was throbbing. Before opening his eyes, he reached up to check for his visor but his hands were stuck.
"You can open your eyes," Storm said. He did. He looked at his surroundings. Storm was to his right covered in a hard substance, then he relized he was covered in it too. To his left Wolverine was in the same perdicament. He was a little up and diganally from Jean and the rest were in a row.
"Where's Lyric?"
"Up there," Rogue said. Cyclops looked up and saw Lyric standing with Mystique and Pyro. Toad was crouched next to them.
"Why is she up there?"
Lyric obviously heard and smiled. Her legs melted to water and she floated to Cyclops. "Why do you keep asking 'what am I doing'?"
"Lyric, its me, Scott,"
"I know who you are, I just can't remeber why you're worried about me," she placed a hand on his forhead letting his thoughts of her flow to her. "Oh right." she floated down. "That night. Just 'cause we slept together doesn't mean I love you." Scott felt like someone punched him in his gut. What the hell did they do to her? "They gave me site Scott. Yeah I'm a telepath. I have so much power I didn't know I had. I'm telepathic, I can communicate with sea creatures, I can turn into water and my echo-location is more powerful than you can ever imagine."
"You're full of it!" Jubilee yelled. She didn't know what happened to Lyric but she couldn't hold it in.
"Oh am I?" Lyric went to Jubilee's level. "Toad, I think that its a bit crowed it up here." she backed away.
"Wh-what?" Remy could barely hear what Lyric said. He just came to after had blacked out for a third time.
"Right," Toad knew what Lyric was hinting. His toung shot out breaking Jubilee's restraints.
"Nno!" Remy yelled as Jubilee started to fall.
"Nooo!" Rogue saw one of her best friends falling to a watery grave. She felt something in her arms. Power. She threw her arms up breaking the substance. She expected to fall like Jubilee but she didn't. She was flying.
"Ah'm flyin',"
"Get Jubilee!" Jean yelled.
Rogue did as she was told. She put her hands ahead of her as she flew. She saw bright lights. Jubilee was trying to break her fall with her power. Rogue was gaining speed. Soon she was under her friend. She put her arms out and caught Jubilee.
"What the hell...Rogue?"
"Yeah,"
"Are you flying?"
"Yeah, Ah am. Look Ah gotta get you to the X-Jet," she flew around the island dropping every now and then.
"Am I too heavy?"
"No, here," she put her down on the jet. "Ah gotta head back. Ah'm gonna tell them ya didn't make it."
"Okay," Jubilee went inside the jet as Rogue flew back. She liked this new power, but now was not the time to have fun.
"Where is she?" Lyric asked.
"Ah didn't reach her in tahm. She's gone,"
"No," Remy flet his heart rip in two. The love of his life had just died, "God please no," he gently whispered. Tears rolled past his temples to his hair.
"Remy..." Bobby was almost in tears.
"My kids..Jubilee...they're gone, dead,"
"Remy, I..."
"I just lost everything my life was worth living for. I'm gonna kill myself,"
"Remy, don't talk like that. You can't do that,"
"Can't I? I'll do it if we get out of here. Bobby I know the kids weren't born yet...I'll never get to be a dad..I lost everything..." he couldn't even form sentances anymore.
"That's an unusawell power you have," Lyric said coming towards Rogue.
"Ah know,"
"You could just fly away, to safty,"
"Ah know, but Ah'm not gonna leave mah friends,"
"How noble of you. Toad double it,"
Toad spit out a double load of slime pinning Rogue to the wall making it hard for her to breathe.
Scott watched Lyric standing with Toad, Pyro and Mystique. Why is she doing this he kept asking himself.
~Scott,~ Jean thought to him.
~What?~
~That's not Lyric,~
~What are you talking about?~
~They put a chip in her head, she doesn't know what she's doing. We need to get it out,~
~Then she'll be back to normal?~
~Yeah,~
~But how can we get it out?~
~Rogue,~
~But she's under too much,~
~So? I think she can still do it. And maybe if I can get your visor off or something,~
He didn't reply.
"You love her don't you?" Jean couldn't believe she said that after what happened and everything.
"Yeah," he replied quietly.
"Then we have to do this,"
"Okay,"
"Rogue," Jean leaned over as far as the restraints would let her.
"What?"
"Can you get loose?"
"Ah hope so 'cause Ah can hardly breathe,"
~All you have to do is get a little lose and you can make it. I know this is a new power, but we really need it,~
~Ah know, so you just want me to stay here after Ah'm lose?"
~No, when Scott gets himself free you need to catch him and take him to the ledge. He's gonna free the others. You need to be there to get Remy. Take him to the jet then come back. We'll need you, can you remeber all that?~
~Yeah,~
~Good, when I say now, you break free,~
~Got it~
~Kurt, Kitty, Bobby,~
~What?~ all three replied.
~Scott is gonna free you guys soon. When he does, Kurt be ready to port, Kitty levealtate, and Bobby can you make an ice bridge or something?~
~Yeah, but what about Remy?~
~Don't worry, Rogue will get him,~
~Okay,~
~All this needs to be quick. Scott, put your head down,~
Scott aimed his eyes for his chest where he was being held.
Jean looked up at his face. Her mind lifted his visor up. He felt the metal lift up.
"Now," Scott opened his eyes. Two red beams of pure energy shot from his eyes breaking the green restraints.
At the same time Rogue tried putting her arms up but her prison only cracked. She did it again and this time the green substance shattered. She dove beneith Scott catching him under his arms.
"Visor!" he called to Jean. Her mind placed the visor back to its normal resting spot. Rogue put him on the plate form.
"Good, a play toy," Toad said. He let his toung out around Rogue's ankel.
"Rogue!" Scott went for her.
"Get the others. Ah can handle mahself," reluctantly Scott turned away. "Sorry sugah." Rogue said to Toad. "Ah ain't a play thing!" she yanked her leg pulling almost every muscle in Toad's toung and he released her.
Pyro and Lyric went to help, but Mystique motioned them to stay.
Scott pressed the button on his visor aiming for Jean first. She easily moved herself to the platform. Next was Storm and Wolverine who got to the platform by wind. He then freed Kurt who imediatly ported, Kitty just walked on the air. Bobby had to do something completly new to him. If he failed he'd fall to the water like Jubilee. He felt the pressure of the beams and the restriants shatter he put his hands down. To his surprised and relief a small ice bridge formed and he slid over it almost knocking Rogue over.
"Sorry," he aplolgized. "Ya know that thing you said about not being a play thing?"
She rolled her eyes. "Not now Bobby." she flew up ready to catch Remy. When the beams hit she caught him and was shocked at how light he was.
"Rogue?" she had already started her journey to the jet.
"Yeah,"
"Where are we going?"
"To the jet, you need to rest,"
"No,"he tried to get free. "Drop me."
"Ah'm not gonna drop you,"
"Rogue, I lost everything five minutes ago, I don't want to live,"
"Remy, you'll feel better once your on the jet," they landed and she helped him in.
"Rogue, I'm never gonna feel better. Not unless you can bring Jubilee and my kids back to life,"
"Ah think Ah can do that,"
"What?"
"Ah've got to help the others," she walked out the door and flew off.
This is my chance. he didn't pay any attention to what Rogue said. He was too busy trying to find something to kill himself. He went to the front area. Maybe I can break the glass or something. Or rope...that's it! he croached down to a small drawer where he knew there was rope. He pulled it out.
"Remy?" a quiet voice asked from the cock pit seat.
"No," he whispered to himself. He knew that voice. He felt a gentle touch on his shoulder and turned around. "Jubilee?" his eyes glistened with tears.
"Yeah," she sat next to him as he flopped to a sitting position.
"You're alive," he leaned in kissing her on the lips then cheek and neck.
"Remy," she pulled away and when she saw his face she saw the tears. "Why are you crying?"
"Rogue told me you didn't make it. I thought I lost you and the kids..."
"Oh..." she pulled him to her and he rested his head on her chest. She stroked his hair gently kissing the top of his head. "You didn't lose me."
"I thought I did. I, I was gonna kill myself," he expected her to scream or something but she didn't.
"Why?" her voice was gentle and understanding.
"I didn't want to be in this world with out you and the kids. I know that if you're out of my life I would never find anyone else," he pulled away. "I love you so much Jubilee."
"I love you too," she kissed him again holding him close. "So much."