Rob spent the rest of the day in the med

Rob spent the rest of the day in the med. lab sleeping and awaking in intervals. Nobody came to visit him. Nobody came to check on him. Nobody did anything. It made him uneasy. They were usually right in his face and now they were leaving him alone. It didn't seem right to him.

He seemed ok. He could move without hurting himself now. He didn't know why he was just sitting around. Getting up and just leaving was obviously an option. But something was holding him back. Something was keeping him captive in this place. He guessed it was the connections he had made with the others here. That was why he hadn't wanted to stick around.

Rob slowly pulled himself into a sitting position. He didn't feel any pain. He stood up and looked around. His duffel bag was lying next to the bed. He grabbed it and headed towards the door. It opened before he could press any buttons on the door. He shrugged and walked through it.

The mansion was surprisingly quiet right now. He walked to the front door. He placed his hand on the doorknob when something in the front lawn caught his eye. Logan was fighting a tall, muscular man. The man let out a roar and Logan took a swipe at him with his claws but he was easily batted away. Rob continued to survey the lawn. The members of the Brotherhood were attacking the X-Men. They had some blue lady with them and a guy that seemed to be floating in midair. The Professor's wheelchair lay on its side, the professor sprawled several feet away, unconscious. The X-Men were fighting their best, but they seemed to be loosing.

Rob turned away from the window. He should be out there. He should be helping to defend them. But something inside of him told him it was a bad idea. Something told him that if he walked out of this house he would be dead in the next twenty minutes. He started to back away from the window when he caught Rogue looking at him through the window. She was distracted for two seconds by him and in those few moments, Fred had taken advantage of it and had began to squish her under his immense body weight.

"Rogue!" Rob heard himself scream. He pushed the front door open. Everybody in the battle heard the door slam behind him. Rob started running towards Rogue. He began to rip his gloves off. Fred took one look at him and batted him away. Rob fell several yards away from where Fred was. Fred got off of Rogue and started lumbering towards Rob.

"Don't." a man's voice commanded. Rob watched helplessly as the floating man came closer to him. "Join us, Rob. We can help you with the pain."

"I don't know who you are, but I'd rather die then join your band of losers." Rob told him. Most of the X-Men looked towards him with that statement. Rob felt a sense of loyalty towards the people who had taken him in. Suddenly all the things that the Professor and Rogue had said to him made sense. He was part of their group. They weren't going to randomly abandon him. He couldn't do it to them. This fight was about him and would be ended by him. He stood up and ripped off his gloves.

"As you wish," was all that was spoken. The floating man came straight towards him. His entire body was covered. Rob saw no out of the situation. He grabbed the person nearest to him. It was Pietro, once again. He started to absorb Pietro's life force and mutant gifts at a surprising rate. The floating man seemed to be taken aback that somebody would do something like this around him. Rob let go of Pietro and he fainted. Unfortunately for Rob, he looked dead.

"Don't. Hurt. My. Friends." Rob said. He used Pietro's speed to avoid the flying man. He ran towards them and started to help a few of them up.

"You've made a grave mistake, Rob. You don't mess with Magneto." The flying person-Magneto-came up behind him. Rob ran over to the other side of the building. He didn't see Magneto check Pietro and swear revenge. He didn't hear Magneto tell the tall, muscular man to get him. And bring him back no matter the cost.

"Rob! Watch out!" he heard from behind the other side of the lawn. Rob looked back and saw Kitty and Rogue pointing behind him. Evan was jumping up and down right next to them, pointing behind Rob. A few moments later, the three of them took off running towards Rob. He held out his hand as if to stop them. They continued to point behind him.

A roar sounded from behind him. Rob turned around in time to see the man jump out of a tree and fall straight towards him. Then everything was black.

~

"Rob!" yelled Rogue. They had finally caught up to him. Evan was throwing spikes at Sabertooth, trying to distract him. Rob was lying unconscious on the ground and he wasn't breathing this time. Sabertooth was trying to get to Rob.

"Don't bother, Sabertooth. He's no good to us dead," she heard Magneto say. For the first time, she realized that Rob was bleeding out of his nose and one ear. Sabertooth's feet had landed on Rob's shoulders pushing him to the ground rather hard and then his fists had each hit Rob's head on either side. It looked pretty bad, but she didn't think he was dead. He couldn't be dead. It wasn't possible.

"Brotherhood, let's get out of here," she heard Mystique yell.

"If you did anything to him, I'll kill you!" she yelled at the now retreating Brotherhood. Sabertooth let out a roar and showed his fangs. Fred looked back at her, Pietro over his shoulder. Lance was the only one to speak.

"So says the traitor."

Rogue looked back at Rob's body. Kitty was trying to perform CPR. The rest of the X-Men ran over to them. Storm looked at Rob's body and then back at the Professor, who had been restored to his wheelchair. She shook her head.

"Kurt, carefully transport him to the med. lab," she said. "But I'm not sure if there's much we can do for him right now. Professor, you better contact his grandparents."