Title: Feliz ZeyfPO2-4194
Chapter 3-"Emotional Implications"
Author: Blimey The Toad
April 30, 1997: Xavier's Mansion, Med Lab
It's been over two weeks since our run-in with Sinister. A few days after the team arrived back to the mansion, after I'd had time to examine Rogue and Gambit, to make sure that they were okay physically, I told the X-Men what I'd found when he examined Rogue. Her eggs had been extracted, similar to the method used by doctors when "harvesting" eggs to be sold to woman incapable of having their own. Going on what Scott had told me earlier, about how Gambit had been aroused, I came to the most plausible conclusion: Sinister was going to create a child from Gambit and Rogue.
"What? Yer not serious, Hank. Ah... no..."
Gambit had been upset, but Rogue had been hurt the worst by it. She had run to her room, and when Gambit had persued her, she had knocked him back down the hall a good twenty feet. He was told to "give her time", and that she was just "in shock right now", but she had not left her room since receiving the news, and that has been two weeks. Gambit brings food up to her room 3 times a day, and sometimes sits with her while she eats, but she won't say anything to him. She just stares blankly at her food, chews as mechanically as anyone could, and hardly even acknowledges that he is in the room. He, however, was more successful then the rest as far as getting through to her. However, her keeping herself distanced from him is, I fear, causing his depression to increase. If she doesn't let us try to help soon, we may lose two of out most powerful X-Men, as well as two of our most valued friends. I just hope someone can get through to her...
Jean and Storm attempted a few times to comfort her, and eventually Wolverine and Bobby came to her room, pleading with her to come out with them, watch a movie, eat out, even just leave her room. She wouldn't even let them into her room, and when Bobby tried to force his way in, he'd ended up with a broken arm. She did speak with the professor, at his urging, and told him that it wasn't fair that she was going to have something she always wanted, a family, and her child would be Sinister's little science experiment. She was having a hard time dealing with the emotions she was feeling, and the emotions caused by having the shadows of minds of her "victims" wasn't making it any easier. I just hope she get's back to being her old self again, so we can hunt down Sinister and make sure he never tried anything like this again...
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Sinister's Lab, Boston, Massachusettes
Mystique made her way over to Sinister, anger showing all over her face. He heard her coming, and turned around to face her.
"Damn it, Essex! I TOLD you to stay away from Rogue! I warned you! Why the fuck did you have to use her? Why is she so damn important?"
Sinister took on a tone of voice like that which you would use with a child. "Mystique, you don't know what I do about Remy LeBeau, codename: Gambit. If you did, you'd realize the genetic potential inside of him, waiting to be tapped. He is capable of so much more than he is currently aware of, and because of his inhibitions to endangering anyone, he won't even try. If I raise the experiment from birth, it will be able to do everything I know it's capable of. And I will be the one to have access to the experiments, full reign to do whatever I please to the child."
"That doesn't answer my question, Essex. Why did you choose *Rogue*?"
"Let's review her powers: the ability to absorb the life-force out of living beings, which also eventually grant her the abilities of flight, super-strength, and invulnerability. If I control the way the genes interact, I may be able to broaden her absorbtion power-besides just life-force and memories being the end-result, what if the child could use the energy absorbed from a being and convert it into kinetic energy? And with LeBeau's untapped empathic and mild telepathic powers, the child wouldn't even have to make direct skin-to-skin contact, just link up to it's victim's mind. It would create an invincible mutant, under my control. Boundless power, infinite scientific implications... that is why."
"But what if... what if the resulting child goes out of control? Rogue and Gambit both have chemical imbalances. They are both so impulsive... what if the child is uncontrollable?"
Sinister gave a small hint of a smile. "That's why I keep you here, Mystique."
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I *know* I promised to show July 22, 2014 this chapter, but I lied. I'm sorry! I just wanted to clear up *why* those two X-Men would be the best choice... I never really touched on that earlier... whoops. Anyways, chapter 4 will be coming soon... and will be longer, I swear!
Chapter 3-"Emotional Implications"
Author: Blimey The Toad
April 30, 1997: Xavier's Mansion, Med Lab
It's been over two weeks since our run-in with Sinister. A few days after the team arrived back to the mansion, after I'd had time to examine Rogue and Gambit, to make sure that they were okay physically, I told the X-Men what I'd found when he examined Rogue. Her eggs had been extracted, similar to the method used by doctors when "harvesting" eggs to be sold to woman incapable of having their own. Going on what Scott had told me earlier, about how Gambit had been aroused, I came to the most plausible conclusion: Sinister was going to create a child from Gambit and Rogue.
"What? Yer not serious, Hank. Ah... no..."
Gambit had been upset, but Rogue had been hurt the worst by it. She had run to her room, and when Gambit had persued her, she had knocked him back down the hall a good twenty feet. He was told to "give her time", and that she was just "in shock right now", but she had not left her room since receiving the news, and that has been two weeks. Gambit brings food up to her room 3 times a day, and sometimes sits with her while she eats, but she won't say anything to him. She just stares blankly at her food, chews as mechanically as anyone could, and hardly even acknowledges that he is in the room. He, however, was more successful then the rest as far as getting through to her. However, her keeping herself distanced from him is, I fear, causing his depression to increase. If she doesn't let us try to help soon, we may lose two of out most powerful X-Men, as well as two of our most valued friends. I just hope someone can get through to her...
Jean and Storm attempted a few times to comfort her, and eventually Wolverine and Bobby came to her room, pleading with her to come out with them, watch a movie, eat out, even just leave her room. She wouldn't even let them into her room, and when Bobby tried to force his way in, he'd ended up with a broken arm. She did speak with the professor, at his urging, and told him that it wasn't fair that she was going to have something she always wanted, a family, and her child would be Sinister's little science experiment. She was having a hard time dealing with the emotions she was feeling, and the emotions caused by having the shadows of minds of her "victims" wasn't making it any easier. I just hope she get's back to being her old self again, so we can hunt down Sinister and make sure he never tried anything like this again...
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Sinister's Lab, Boston, Massachusettes
Mystique made her way over to Sinister, anger showing all over her face. He heard her coming, and turned around to face her.
"Damn it, Essex! I TOLD you to stay away from Rogue! I warned you! Why the fuck did you have to use her? Why is she so damn important?"
Sinister took on a tone of voice like that which you would use with a child. "Mystique, you don't know what I do about Remy LeBeau, codename: Gambit. If you did, you'd realize the genetic potential inside of him, waiting to be tapped. He is capable of so much more than he is currently aware of, and because of his inhibitions to endangering anyone, he won't even try. If I raise the experiment from birth, it will be able to do everything I know it's capable of. And I will be the one to have access to the experiments, full reign to do whatever I please to the child."
"That doesn't answer my question, Essex. Why did you choose *Rogue*?"
"Let's review her powers: the ability to absorb the life-force out of living beings, which also eventually grant her the abilities of flight, super-strength, and invulnerability. If I control the way the genes interact, I may be able to broaden her absorbtion power-besides just life-force and memories being the end-result, what if the child could use the energy absorbed from a being and convert it into kinetic energy? And with LeBeau's untapped empathic and mild telepathic powers, the child wouldn't even have to make direct skin-to-skin contact, just link up to it's victim's mind. It would create an invincible mutant, under my control. Boundless power, infinite scientific implications... that is why."
"But what if... what if the resulting child goes out of control? Rogue and Gambit both have chemical imbalances. They are both so impulsive... what if the child is uncontrollable?"
Sinister gave a small hint of a smile. "That's why I keep you here, Mystique."
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I *know* I promised to show July 22, 2014 this chapter, but I lied. I'm sorry! I just wanted to clear up *why* those two X-Men would be the best choice... I never really touched on that earlier... whoops. Anyways, chapter 4 will be coming soon... and will be longer, I swear!
