The Savage Lands

19:17 (7:17 pm)

Day 1

Rogue scrunched up as tight as she could as the plane hit the ground and started skidding.

The crash was deafening. Sounds of metal twisting and screaming in harsh protest reached her ears as the plane slid to a stop.

"Rogue! Out! NOW!"

The downed aircraft started making queer sounds and the controls started crackling.

She struggled with the fastenings on her seatbelt in the now cramped cockpit, but it was no use.

She was stuck.

"Logan! Help me! Ah'm stuck!" she yelled.

She heard a loud 'snikt'.

"Here, now get out!"

The straps fell apart as if they were made of cobwebs.

Rogue threw herself out the twisted side door and started running as fast as her legs would

carry her, being her first instinct.

BOOM!

Something hit her from behind as the jet exploded, shoving her ahead.

"Rogue! Keep running! Don't stop!"

Flaming bits of metal started raining through the air.

Her ears ringing from the bomb-like sound of the jet detonating, she kept running.

Finally the air seemed to clear and the air grew cooler by comparison.

She looked behind her at the flaming mass that she had been on board just moments ago.

"Rogue..Rogue...*pant*..are you...okay...?"

Rogue sank to the ground, exhausted. She could only nod.

"Why...didn't you...*pant*...fly?"

She shrugged.

"Ah...ah dunno...ah just...*pant*...can't."

Logan looked at her oddly for a moment before gasping out his next question.

"You...*pant, pant*...got the...*gasp*..'mergency...kit?"

Rogue held it up.

"All..here...*pant*...shugah."

After a long silence broken only by their breathing, Rogue raised her head and looked around her at their surroundings.

"Where are..*pant*..we?"

Logan shrugged.

"It wasn't on the map, remember?"

Rogue smiled sadly.

"Doomed to die in the middle of nowhere. How great does it get?"

"We're not gonna die. We gotta start working our way towards the village."

"We can't go that far shugah!"

"Well we gotta try."

Rogue nodded numbly.

"You're right. So which way do we go?"

"Scooter said it was South of Magneto's territory."

"So we need a compass."

Rogue rooted around in the bag for a minute then held up a compass on a rope.

"Here we go, shugah."

Logan took the compass from her hands and studied it for a moment.

"North is..thata way." He waved his arm vaguely at the field.

"Wait a sec.that's odd."

"What?"

Logan moved the compass a bit.

"It went all crazy for a minute..south is that way." He pointed at the forest looming up in front of them.

"Then let's get going, shugah."

Rogue picked up the bag and started into the woods.

Logan looked at the compass one more time, then put it around his neck and followed

Rogue into the woods.



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The Savage Lands

21:53 (9:53 pm)

Day 1

"Logan, Ah'm getting tired, think we could make camp?"

Logan turned and studied Rogue for a minute.

Her face was grubby, white patches showing through the dirt where tears had streaked down from her green eyes.

Her brown hair was a matted mess, the white bangs stained with muck.

She looked awful.

~Poor kid,~ he thought. ~She's really been through it today.~

He always had to stop and think for a minute about his healing factor.

He could just keep on going, none-stop, but that didn't mean that whoever was with him could keep up. But now when he thought about it, he was pretty tired himself.

"Sure, kid," He said thoughtfully. "We could stop."

Rogue sighed with relief and sank to the ground.

She knew how Logan could forget that he was the only one with powers to heal himself.

She'd seen him dish it out in self-defense classes. One time he'd made them do ten laps after an hour of class. They were barely able to crawl to their rooms after that one.

"We should get a fire goin', to start with."

Rogue nodded and rooted around in the bag for a bit, finally holding up a pack of matches like a prize.

"Here's the matches shugah."

"Give 'em here."

Rogue handed him the package and watched him stand up.

"Where're you going?"

"Gotta get some wood," He mumbled as he started out.

A few minutes later he returned with a bundle of wood in his arms.

"Here we go," He said as he put the wood down.

"Can you see any rocks?"

"Why?"

Logan sighed.

"To put around the fire so the whole friggin' forest doesn't go up in flames."

Rogue looked around.

"Don't see any-wait-there's one."

She scrambled to the rock and picked it up.

"Here's another one."

Pretty soon they had a fire crackling in their fireplace.

"That's better," Logan said as he threw another stick in the fire.

Rogue nodded and started looking through the bag.

"What you doin'?"

"Ah'm hungry," She said.

"Now that I think about it I am too."

She finally pulled up a ziplock bag full of foodstuffs.

"What?!" Logan gasped in horror. "That's it?!"

Rogue couldn't help it. She laughed.

"It's not funny, dammnit! I could eat a moose. That makes me wonder."

Rogue grinned.

"What?"

"I wonder what kind of animals are out here."

Rogue grimaced.

"Probably t-rex's and pterodactyls."

Logan laughed.

"Hardly. But I wonder if there's anything worth hunting out here."

Rogue chewed on a fruit bar.

"Maybe. That would mean one less big furry creature to worry about."

Logan growled. "You worry about us big furry creatures?"

Rogue giggled. "Cut it out, Wolvy. You know what ah meant."

He threw another stick in the fire.

"Sure I do. I wouldn't worry about the big furry creatures too much if I were you, though..any animals around usually stay away from fire." He said. "Except for me,"

Rogue punched him playfully and started digging through the bag again.

"Whatcha lookin' for?"

"Blankets," Rogue answered without looking up. "Here they are-er-it is-"

"Huh?"

"Well.." She held up a blanket.

"....There's only one...."

Logan scowled.

"There's gotta be another in there!"

Rogue shook her head.

"Only one shugah.." She tried her best doe-eyes.

"..Please..shugah.."

Logan growled.

"Oh..stop it..fine..you take it.."

Rogue smiled and gave Logan a hug.

"Thanks, shugah!"

He shrugged.

"Well , I guess big furry creatures like me don't need blankets,"

"Shut up and go to sleep."



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