'What happened to me?' By Samman
Disclaimer: I don't own the x-men.
Author's Notes: Your reviews are lovely.
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Chapter 10: Running around…
"Remy!" Green eyes widened at the sight of Remy and she tried to sit up but the stinging pain in her arm remained there. Relief washed over her and she started crawling backwards and to the side to get up but her legs wouldn't help…
"Bastard." With glowing red eyes Remy cursed and gave the soldier another kick and grabbed him by the collar picking him up and throwing him against the wall only to have two other soldiers come behind him who Rogue did not notice until they were ready to attack.
"Damn it!" Rogue hissed and getting up on her feet quickly, she ran came to plant her feet in one of the soldier's way who fell almost on Remy. Rogue clenched her teeth with regret and dreaded even more to see some more friends of humanity coming towards them from the other side---where Cyclops was attacked.
May be Cyclops was down, she thought. Uh-oh.
"Rogue-y' go t' de ot'er side. Run." Remy managed to say as he flipped another agent over his back and spun to the other side causing the soldier to pile on top of the other. With much difficulty Remy glanced at Rogue and yelled at her to run but she wouldn't listen to him.
"B-but Remy where's Jubilee…" Rogue stuttered hastily.
"I sent her wit' Bobby an' ugh-Scott. We can' find de rest." He looked at her trying to convince her to go but she just stood there panicked and unable to make the decision.
"Rogue, chere jus' go-go help de others-we got no time-hurry up-Come on!!!" He said furiously and Rogue looked at him and taking steps backwards she ran as fast as she could.
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"Huh. Okay we're gonna do this as fast as we can, okay? Did anyone see Ororo, Jean, Betsy or Warren?" Scott whispered as him, Bobby and Jubilee crouched in a corner on the third floor of the hotel beside the elevator. They had ran upstairs as Remy had handed Jubilee to Scott and later they had found Bobby.
One advantage of staying beside the elevator was that there was only one elevator operated in the hotel, so even if the foh soldiers came to attack them through the elevator, these three x-men could take them down. The only ones with the guns were surrounding the parking lot and the hotel.
Bobby spoke up first, his voice hoarse as they crouched close to each other. "I saw them, the friends of humanity were looking around and below the cars to see any mutants, they were searching through the torches. Ororo, Betsy and Warren were there with__" He paused, aware that Scott would become more worried about Jean.
"They were wearing collars. Jean wasn't there." Bobby simply stated.
Running his tongue over his dry lips, Scott took a breath and looked to his left and right. "Okay, so what we have to do is find a way out here."
"But how's it possible?!" Jubilee hissed and looked at Bobby who shrugged and signaled Scott to continue on.
"We have to get out of the hotel somehow, because friends of humanity have surrounded the whole area, and its all power navigated. So we're in big trouble."
Bobby stopped him with his hand. "Where are you visors?"
"Right here." Scott's blue eyes shifted to his pocket which he patted with his hand.
"I hope to God Professor knows that we got trouble here." Jubilee threaded her fingers of both hands together and squeezed her eyes shut, trying desperately to think of a way to get out of there.
"Someone's coming." Scott said as he attached his ear against the wall, trying to listen to the sound of elevator.
Nodding to Scott, Bobby got on the other side of the elevator and left Jubilee with Scott. Bobby mouthed Jubilee that they would be alright as she bit her lip with worry.
As soon as the elevator door slid open, Scott got up from his side and punched the first soldier who was going to march through the hall way, and thus as he went backwards loosing his balance in pain, two others fell backwards causing others to tumble and mess up too.
Bobby leaped at the first two and charged them with kicks and punches. On the other hand, Jubilee accompanied him using the gymnastic skills that she had been taught by Gambit a while ago.
Scott alone took care of all the soldiers that were somewhat successful in hurting him causing him to fall down. Blood spattered from his jaw that he now covered with his hands. Another agent-the one who seemed to be the leader of the small group came towards him and took out something from a small electronic box. He took out an object—a genoshan collar.
Jubilee helped herself out quickly with getting caught by the two soldiers that were currently fighting with Bobby, she ran and lunged at the agent who was going to snap the collar around a semi-conscious Scott.
"Oh no you don't!" She grabbed his neck with both of her hands with so much force that the collar dropped out of the soldier's hand.
The soldier waved his arms in mid air as she dug her finger nails into his flesh and clutched his neck with her palms. The soldier chocked and unable to breath, his eyes popped out. "Le---let---uk-k" Strange sounds came from his throat as Jubilee continued her torture.
Bobby, who had dealt with the few friends of humanity, came in front of the soldier whom Jubilee held with her hands. He blew one heavy leg towards the soldiers mouth knocking him unconscious out of Jubilee's arms.
"You okay?" As soon as he could, Bobby came towards her and took her hands in his bigger ones. As she nodded, he messaged them for less than a second and they moved to Scott who had already gotten up and almost on his feet.
Jubilee went to his side and kept a hand to his shoulder. "C'mon Cyke we gotta hurry up, you'll be able to walk right?" She asked with worry.
Scott ever so slightly smiled at her concern. "Yeah yeah. C'mon."
"Shit. There are more coming from the stairs!" Bobby turned his head to look at the back and the three of them ran with extreme speed.
"Stop muties! You're already under our surrender. Stop!!!" The five soldiers ran after the three mutants who were running with much faster pace.
Cyclops, Bobby and Jubilee ran up the steps quickly and snapped their heads quickly if they were running. They reached up the fourth floor and continued running.
"They might come from the elevator-let's go in here-huhhh-don't make a noise." Scott panted and said breathlessly as he opened one of the hotel bedrooms and led them in, finally shutting the door quickly but silently.
As Cyclops shut the door, the automatic device attached to the door made a strange beeping sound and locked the door completely. Confused, Scott tried to move the handle of the door in all the directions but it did not move a bit. It was all a trap. They had been chased after purposely so they would get locked in the bedrooms and so the friends of humanity could come and get them.
Jubilee's eyes widened and she charged at the door trying to open it. "Open the do--"
Bobby moved forward and covered her mouth with his. "Sshh Jubes they're gonna know we're in this room." He whispered in his room as she struggled.
In a minute, she relaxed and jerked out of his grasp. "What do you mean?!" She hissed angrily but Scott got a hold of her arm and explained to her.
"Jubilee, there are about a thousand bedrooms in this hotel, and it's all empty right now. Almost every room is attached with these devices so that we're locked in here. They don't know which room we're in so it's gonna take some time when the check every single room on every single floor. For now we're here, we gotta think of some plan." Scott said to her, his voice low and stern, their eyes locked and serious.
Bobby who had gone inside the bathroom to check some sort of opening as there was no window in the room, but he only came with a tensed face.
"Nothing, I checked in there, the window is a little too extra small." He wiped off his sweat and looked here and there in the room as neither of them replied.
"Shit...this just keeps getting better and better." Scott murmured as he led Jubilee to sit on the bed and took a seat beside her. For a moment, he blocked his mind of anything they were saying and ran his hands through his hair, thinking of Jean and hoped that she was safe.
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"Ugh." The skinny soldier doubled over as Rogue kicked him again. After all…she was a former terrorist.
"Damn you friends of humanity." Rogue winced as the soldier swung past her and twisted her arm. She twisted and the action caused the soldier's arm to twist along with her and drop him on the floor.
"Gotcha." She smirked at him…but this time, angrily.
From somewhere a hand draped tightly around her waist and violently and threw her across huge decorative mirrors on one of the walls of the ball rooms. Rogue didn't fall, instead she stumbled backwards with unbalanced steps as her vision began to blur.
"Rogue!" Remy punched the soldier across the face as hard as he could and blood showered from his own hard fist.
'Why is this guy always so late?' A thought ran across her hazy mind and her feet didn't help her anymore as she fell backwards against the wall. The huge framed mirror shook from its place where it hung and fell downwards on Rogue, the glass shattering around her as she fell.
After Remy beat the soldiers up to his requirements and was sure that the two of them were unconscious, he made his way to the limp body that lay on the ground and was of his… team mate.
"Chere…" He fit both of hands on the frame and lifted the heavy material with effort. He winced at her sight and his breath caught in his throat, scared that Rogue was not breathing. But as quickly and carefully as he could, he picked up the pieces of glass that were sprinkled on her tiny body.
He was revealed to see that she was conscious but she lay limp on the floor with her eyes were fully opened and one of her arms moving, desperately trying to get up.
Remy slid his hand under her neck and steadied her neck. "Chere, get up. We gotta hurry up. I know it's hard but c'mon y' gotta help me here." He glided his hand further to her back and helped her get up.
"Remy..Ah-Ah can' walk. Not now." Rogue talked as if she was drunk, now her eyes half opened as she used her strength to get up and leaned against him.
Remy pushed her hair out of her face with one hand and painfully stiffened his arm on her waist and prepared her to run. "Chere dere be more o' de friends of humanity who're lookin' for us. Heck, I don' even know where Scott an' Bobby are. I can' here dem anywhere, everyone's gone." He looked at her face and straightened her leg by reaching down.
"'Kay Remy---Ah think they're…they're comin'…Remy." Creases formed on her face as she worried that they were going to get caught. Friends of humanity were still rummaging around the whole hotel to find traces of the left over mutants.
"Jus' hold on chere, I'll stop once we get somewhere safe. Jus' keep up wit' me. 'kay?" He looked into her eyes and as she nodded, they headed to the exit of the hotel that was far away from where they were now. It was a slow start but they increased their pace, they could here loud thuds of footsteps of the soldiers.
"Rogue c'mon faster." Remy encouraged her and they started running, Rogue held her breath and ran with him, now only one of her bare hands in his. She stumbled on every step she took with Remy but continued running.
Remy stopped at a point where there was a turn and it led stairs up the hallway. "We're goin' upstairs…in one of de rooms. Y' tink you'd be able to make it t'rough dere?" He held her shoulders to steady her and both of them breathed heavily.
"Ah think so." Weakly, Rogue said and soon they were running up the stairs.
"What floor is this?" Rogue asked as they continued running up without pausing in any lobby. "Remy..huh which floor do we have ta go to?" She said frustratingly when Remy did not bother to answer.
"Dis one's- de sixth floor." He dragged her arm and Rogue desperately tried to catch up with him.
Picking a random bedroom, Remy opened the unlocked door and pushed Rogue in. They came inside and Remy hadn't closed the door completely when he felt the door lock automatically. A small electronic device was joined just below the door and had a keypad over it.
"Fu*kin' shit." Remy said as he stared at the door blankly with Rogue standing at his side, her jaw dropped that they had been so easily trapped.
"Remy…Ah can'…it, it hurts." A whimpering voice escaped Rogue's lips and she kept a bloody hand to her bloody forehead.
Quickly Remy stepped closer to her and she went limp in his arms. "Easy petite, Remy got y'. I'm right here."
"Uh…Oww-Remyy." Rogue once again shook in his arms as he slowly slid her down on the bed, grabbing the pillow and sliding it under her head.
Remy laid her down in the middle of the bed and suddenly, Rogue's eyes closed fully and slowly, and she slipped into unconsciousness in front of Remy who stared at her, his red on black eyes wide.
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Next: Let me tell you that, Rogue is not dead, okay? She just fainted, I just wanted to make sure so that you guys weren't upset or anything. The reviews are awesome. Two thumps up for you guys.
