Title: Chances

Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue. (Except for Chasm)

Rating: PG-13 for adult situations, language and adult content

Author's Note: Sorry about the delay on this chapter. I am working on the next one now. Please R & R.

The training sessions started the next day after the meeting. Logan had never participated in any of the sessions, so he had no idea how it worked. Jean didn't join them because she was working with Xavier on getting a better trace on Marie. That was better off. He didn't think he could handle seeing her training in a tight jump suit. Hank, better known as Beast was in the Med-Lab preparing for any emergencies. They all walked silently to the danger room. There wasn't much to laugh about at this point. They were all worried sick about Marie. But maybe not knowing, was almost better then actually knowing.

Cyclops, Storm, Gambit, Jubilee, Kitty, Bobby and Logan walked into the room. They didn't have time for a light work-out, so they all started stretching to prepare for the intense session ahead of them. Logan looked at his surroundings; the room itself was entirely made out of metal. As was most of the other lower level rooms. It helped keep other telepathic minds out of their meetings, or so the professor told him. Logan knew that Xavier and Jean always formed a quasi-shield around them, to help protect them from people who wanted to know of their plans. The room itself was huge. As most of the rooms in the mansion were. But this room was almost like Cerebro in a way. It was dome-shaped and round. The light source in the room seemed to be the dome itself. As if the metal were glowing. 'With this place, who knows?' Logan thought to himself.

While everyone else was stretching, Jubilee went over to what looked to be a control panel. She pressed her hand onto the screen, and a woman's computerized voice welcomed her by name. Jubilee asked for training session 110 and accompaniment 212. The computer woman thanked her and began the session. The room itself seemed to shimmer and fade. Logan blinked and he was surrounded by trees. Like he was in the forest. Even with his extra-keen sensory system, he could not detect that he was not in an actual forest. Besides for the faint metallic scent that seemed to come from the ground. All the sounds were right. Damn. He was in a forest. Or so it seemed. the X-team had finished stretching and were ready to begin. Cyclops made his way over to Logan.

"This will be a rough mock-up of the real thing. It's one of the harder simulations to go through, but we don't have time for a light work-out. Our enemies will most likely be against us two to one. Their favor. What makes this an even harder session is that one of our own is going to "join" the bad guys. We don't know who it is. The computer mentally tells one of the crew that they are to join the other side at the last possible second. It has already told one of us in fact. So, if you are it, I wouldn't say anything. Or else we'd have to kill you now." Scott smiled as if that thought pleased him more than anything. Logan wanted to slap that smile off his face, claws extended. But he just growled instead.

"When you go against the computer it is as if you are fighting a real person. The damage they inflict to you is not real. But when one of our members becomes turn-coat, make it hand-to-hand combat. If you kill someone here, they will die." With that Scott turned around. "Jubilee hit it!" Jubilee yelled to the computer, "Music 205." Everyone got into a circle, backs facing each other. Scott looked up at the sky and said, "Start program." From out of nowhere about eight beasts stepped out of the trees. Seeing the group, they ran towards them howling.

Logan took a quick look at them. They were huge. About seven to eight feet tall, hairy and flat out ugly, they were the stuff that nightmare's were about. They looked like huge trolls. Something out of a Tolkien fantasy. As soon as the beasts advanced, the music started. Techno. Of course Jubilee would pick techno. "Jubilee, what the hell is this shit?" Logan yelled to her. Jubilee looked startled, then she laughed and yelled back, "Prodigy!" Logan just grumbled about new age music. The beasts had started circling them, moving forward.

"C'mon Logan, let's kick these hairy beasts asses!!!" Logan shot Jubilee a quick grin, then he ran forward to one of the beasts and unsheathed his claws. Storm had taken to the air and was calling storm clouds in. 'I hope she knows how to aim those lightning bolts!' Logan thought. Cyclops wasn't using his visor yet. He was using hand-to-hand combat with the ugly things. Bobby had turned one of the beasts into an ice statue, and was proceeding to break it's frozen limbs off. Logan happened to glance over his shoulder and saw Kitty struggling with one of the beasts. He looked as if he were going to over power her. She was against a tree, and he was strangling her. Logan started running over to her. Kitty saw Logan, smiled and then she went through the tree. Dragging the beast with her. When she came out the other side, nothing followed her. She smiled at Logan, then went to another beast to pick a fight.

Gambit had climbed into one of the trees, he was way above everyone else. Logan got angry, thinking the kid had run away from the fight. Then Gambit looked over at him, and grinned when he saw his face. Two of the beasts started climbing up the tree after him. Gambit jumped down past the beasts and then pulled a few cards from his sleeve. He flicked them at the trolls. The cards exploded on top of them, turning the beasts into dust. Gambit looked at Logan and grinned again. "Gambit can fight a good fight, no?" Logan ignored him. He was enjoying this too much. Logan turned around to get back into the fight when one of the trolls went to attack him from the back. Logan smelled him just in time. He turned to face his adversary and saw about fifteen other trolls come out of the woods. He decapitated one of them with his claws and yelled to Cyclops. "I thought you said it was two-to-one not four-to-one!"

Cyclops yelled back, "I lied!"

Logan growled to himself. Just when he was about to go after a few more of the things, Jubilee shot some of her famous fireworks towards the beasts. She killed three of them in one shot. Logan looked at her and she just gave him that ingratiating grin that they all gave him. He just shook his head and went back to the fighting.

The fight got hot and heavy towards the end. The trolls kept coming out of the woodwork. It seemed never ending. Then they found out who the traitor was. Logan was running towards one of the beasts, claws extended when he slipped on an ice patch, that he knew wasn't there a second ago. He fell flat on his ass. He sat there dazed for a second, then he jumped up and ran after Bobby. The Iceman was busy trying to ice Logan's path. But Logan dodged the ice with agility. When Bobby realized his game was up, he signaled for a surrender. "Training session 110 is now complete." The computerized voice announced. The forest and the trolls faded until they were standing in the metal room again. Logan had stopped when he had heard the voice. He snarled at not being able to grab Bobby and pound him. Cyclops announced that it was a good session and they were breaking for lunch. Once in the halls again, Logan walked casually next to Bobby and called him a wuss, then strolled on by without another word. Bobby laughed to himself.

* * * * *

Xavier and Jean interrupted their lunch. They had gotten a good trace on Marie and informed them, that they would be leaving tonight.

Logan wanted to leave now. "Why the hell are we waiting so long? They could move her. Anything could happen in that ten hour time span. We have to go now!" Xavier looked at Logan calmly and explained;

"With the cover of night, we will have a better chance of breaking into that facility. We will need everything we possibly can have in our favor. I am keeping Jean here with me, in case anything goes wrong and I cannot link to anyone telepathically. We will be keeping tabs on what is happening. Scott will fly the jet," Logan snorted at that remark. Xavier continued, "Logan you will be his co-pilot. When you get there, Jubilee will keep the plane in stasis in case of the need for a quick flight. Wolverine, Cyclops, Beast, Storm, Gambit, Shadow Cat and Iceman will all be a part of the away team. Each of you will have your parts to fulfill. Here is how we are going to do it..." And so they got their plan set and ready. In a few hours they would rescue Rogue. She would be home safe by morning. Or would she?