Here it is, the next chapter of my story…thanx to all ho reviewed…I'm in the 60's

Here it is, the next chapter of my story…thanx to all ho reviewed…I'm in the 60's!!! YaY!!! ::Does a little dance:: Err, yeah!! Anyway, thanx to all who reviewed, I really love to read them!! And I DO care!! If all it takes to make someone who's having a bad day feel better is to put them in my story…by george I'll do it!! LoL =) I have no problem with it… Anyway, so much for my WAF little message =) I'm sure YOU don't care…most of you are probably like… what the hell is she talking about? Why doesn't she just get on w/ the story? That's it, I'm skipping the message from now on…But I thought I'd just include it =) okay anyway on with the story…again, most of you are probably thinking…thank you God! =)

Disclaimer: I'm tired of them read the other chapters

Logan stirred. All the others in the cubical made their way to him, with the exception of the Professor, for he was already positioned next to him.

"Is he waking up?" Kitty asked as she knelt next to him. Storm nodded and turned her attention back to her fallen comrade.

Wolverine grunted as he came back into the conscious world. He blinked several times, then looked around at the circle of people, now kneeling around him. He looked at Kitty who was positioned near his head.

::groan:: "What happened to your face half-pint?" was his first comment.

"Evan did," she stated as she glared at the one mentioned. Evan smirked, then put on a guise of innocence. (A/N the food coloring was going to come into play in a different ending I was planning, but I went a different route, so…I figured I just stick it in somewhere to give it some purpose LoL)

Wolverine sat up, despite Storm's attempts to keep him lying flat. He looked around, noting who was there, and where he was. Someone was missing.

"Where's the elf?" Logan asked gruffly. His question prompted a sharp intake of breath from Rogue, Kitty hung her head, Scott looked the other way, Jean twirled her hair and Evan faked a cough. Ororo and the Professor simply looked at each other.

"Kurt is now with Mystique," the Professor said calmly.

"The elf is with Mystique? What exactly do you mean by that, Charles?" Wolverine's gaze pierced the Professor's eyes. Ororo fielded the question.

"It would appear that Kurt has…he has joined her." She said quietly, sadly.

"No," was Wolverine's reply. "No,"

Kurt had to think quickly. If he wanted to free the X-Men, he had to do it now. There was no way he could face something like what was in that oversized test tube. An idea suddenly came to him…He wasn't sure if it would work, but it was the only one he had, so it would have to. He ran out of the room and down the hall that led to the cubical where the X-Men were being held. Mystique watched his flight through a small window on the door of a room in the hallway.

"Hey y'all! Look, it's Kurt!" Rogue drew their attention to the figure running towards them. It was definitely Kurt.

"Kurt!! Like, I knew you would come!!! I knew you couldn't be like, totally evil!!" Kitty exclaimed as he drew nearer to the invisible prison.

"Yo, man, what took you so long? This whole being-held-against-my-will thing is not my style." Evan said when Kurt was standing infront of the prison.

"So sorry…I vas detained, or razzer, am detained…" he said as "Kurt" morphed into Mystique.

"Where's Kurt?!" Scott yelled to Mystique.

"Why, he is right here…" She motioned to the doorway, and the genetically engineered mutant (by brotherhood genes, the only one that is out of the test tubes) entered, holding a weakly struggling Kurt.

Mystique turned to Kurt. "I knew that you couldn't be trusted. I don't know what I was thinking, inviting you to my side, to the side that will inevitably triumph." By that time, Kurt had ceased struggling. "Your pathetic…can't even put up a fight to save yourself, and your friends."

A few moments went by before Kurt spoke.

"You're wrong muzzer." He said as he glared at her.

He took what little strength he had remaining and bamfed over to the control box for the invisible prison. He opened it, pulled the plastic that was covering the wires off, paused a moment, then grabbed all the wires in the box and pulled. As the numerous wires snapped, the barrier disappeared.

Kurt looked in triumph at Mystique.

"I'm not veak." He said. Mystique was momentarily paralyzed with surprise. Kurt was looking smugly at Mystique, when his attention was diverted by a crash coming from the room housing the new test tube mutants.

He turned to the X-Men, who were now exiting the area to which they had been confined and said hurridly, "Ze new mutants!! Zey're in zat room!!"

Mystique took the time to order her mutant to attack Kurt. It ran to Kurt, picked him up and threw him against the wall. His body hit the exposed wires. The X-Men watched as their teammate's…their friend's body went rigid as the electricity flowed through it, heard him scream in pain, then saw his eyes roll back and his body, limp, fall to the floor.

There you go…please R/R I need anything you can give me…support is oh so wanted =) Thanx everyone, you've been great!! Keep up the hard, err, R/R, yeah!

~Megan