I just want to say this before anyone reads ahead. I know there are plenty of theroy's out about what is in this chapter. This is simply my take on it at the moment to make a good story. I'm sure it's probably wrong and has many loopholes, but just go with it for the sake my idea and storyline.





"This castle is quite old and dates back to the days of early renascence however it was abandoned centuries long before I or Magnus, better known to you as Magneto, came upon it. Magnus is a very intelligent man, however after all that he has gone through his vision of the future is much different that what Charles wishes it to be.

Mutants were still very young in development, Magnus and Charles being the two eldest of our kind and I was one of the few right behind. However the new out break began to spark fire between the humans and mutants. So Magnus fled to this castle to start his experiments that were going to save us all.

He began to set up the best computers he could find, although it being the early 80's, computers didn't come a dime a dozen as they do today. His goal was to find the mutant gene and find a way that people could control the gene and be able to surpress it, or ignite it. With the ability to do this, Magnus figured that he could save others from the pains of growing up under the scrutiny of being different, and allow them to accept their lives when they were ready and when they could fight off the human mobs against them.

Both Irene and I followed Magnus and believed in his goals to retrieve mutants when they would be able enough to fight off the humans that would sure to seek the mutant's death. Along with me came my infant child Kurt, and my step-child Marie who is Kurt's half sister. Kurt is my full child, however Marie is not, but shares the same father as Kurt. Marie was a very quiet child, who was a late bloomer in her use of voice. She didn't learn to speak until she was 3 which is only a few months after the episode in your dreams Rouge.

Magnus continued to build up to his grand experiment, eventually leading him to build the glass tube chamber that are now littering the ground here. His funds were limited and he was only able to build three of them, each a little different in the experiment. He was so sure that he had at least built one of them correctly, but now he needed to test out which one was the right one.

Although reluctantly it was agreed that Kurt would be the test subject to discover which tube was the correct one, due to the fact of his appearance. Magnus felt that the baby Kurt would need the mutant gene surpressed more than any of us because we could all still pass as human, he couldn't.

The first test was all set and ready to go. Irene and myself were both frightened and excited at the same moment about the possibilities of what might be if these tests work. Magnus sat behind a large panel with buttons, pushing some and throwing switches to start up the tube that held Kurt in there by himself. The noise boomed and scarred off little Marie who ducked in the shadows of the massive computer. I remember Irene screaming something to me however I couldn't hear it, the machine's churning were over powering and disrupting all other noise, except for one.

Perhaps it's just a mother's sense but I could hear Kurt's wailing and crying. He was in pain, probably more pain than any of us had ever felt before. A gas came through into the test tubes and completely engulfed my son, however I could still hear his crying, even more than before. I couldn't take it, the noise of his pain was driving me to the point of insanity. I screamed at Magnus to stop, however he just kept pressing on. I screamed at him again only with the same end result. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I furiously ran to the control panel and randomly began hitting buttons, hoping that I would find the one that could stop the test. Magnus became furious at my actions however he had to abort the experiment since I had sent it all out of alignment with my random pressing of buttons. His rage became so great that he couldn't stand it anymore. In a rush he took of into the night, flying high above the clouds that had been swarming.

I found a heavy wooden chair and after a few swings was able to break through the glass, finally retrieving the baby Kurt. I knew that I couldn't allow these things to go on any longer and decided to flee for Kurt's life. However fearing for Marie's life as well Irene came up with a plan. I was to take Kurt and head west, she would take Marie and go east from the castle. Eventually when we've made it back to civilization, we'd meet together in Irene's home in Mississippi.

We found Marie still hiding in the shadows, her eyes tightly shut and covered by her hands. Luckily she had not seen the horrid experiment or else I fear it might have scarred her forever. I don't know how Marie and Irene escaped, you may ask them however all I know is my part when I ran from the castle with Kurt. Magnus came back and saw me running, he trapped me on the bridge and in a fumble I dropped poor Kurt over the bridge into the waters. I followed the river until I found Kurt being picked up by the local villagers, I figured that it was best to let him live there than be hunted by Magnus as a test subject."


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"And that is my story to tell," Mystique took in a long sigh followed by an uneasy pause. Rogue became still and looked to Kurt, not only for the pain he must be feeling of what happened to him in the tubes, but about being lost over the bridge. So much pain and suffering that he was too young to remember.

"If all of this is true, then just what ever happened to Marie?" Rogue knew that Mystique's story was factual, but still something inside told her that something was missing, that they weren't getting the whole story. "I have been with Irene longer than I can remember, but I know that I have never met anyone named Marie."

A voice boomed from above in the sky, although coming louder and clearer with each passing moment. Magneto! He had found the castle as well and finally landed in the center of them all. "Perhaps that is because they don't call her Marie anymore because that name is too gracious for her. They simple call her by the only suitable title for her... the Rogue."


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