Chapter 3: Intruder
Kurt was unsure of how long he'd been sleeping for, but he felt something holding onto his shoulder, and shaking him violently.
"Kurt…wake up…" he heard a familiar southern accent.
Kurt leaned up, opening his eyes, "Wha…did I fall asleep?" he blinked, he looked at Rogue, the room was dark, the TV was still on, and a blue light shone on Rogue, giving her an almost ethereal glow.
"Kurt, I think we have someone in the mansion…"
"What?" Kurt sat up, "did the alarms go off?" he yawned, and stretched.
"No," Rogue grabbed a hold of his arm and yanked him up, "c'mon…"
"Where are we going?" Kurt demanded of her, stumbling a little, he tripped on his own tail, and almost fell, but managed to catch his balance at the last second.
"To the war room – to check security."
"But it might just be one of the
others coming home…"
"It isn't, they all left in
the Van, Kurt, the van isn't here, I didn't hear the door opening, I just…"
"You just what?"
"I saw shadows…someone is sneaking around, Kurt…"
"Wait," Kurt stopped her, "You saw shadows?"
"Yes, I was in the kitchen getting a can of soda – I didn't turn the light on 'cause I knew where I was going. Anyway, I saw a silhouette…someone is creeping around in the dark…I know it," they headed into the elevator, and Rogue hit the button to go down.
"Maybe it was just your imagination, maybe something passing the window…"
"No, Kurt, I know what I saw…" Rogue
looked at him, "there's someone in here…someone who got past the security…"
"But we have one of the most
advanced security systems available, Rogue, how could someone have gotten past
it?" Kurt demanded.
"I have NO idea," Rogue stated, "someone who's really good at breaking into places could do it quite easily…" she admitted, just then, the lights in the elevator went off – and it stopped moving, they were both plunged into darkness.
"What the…" Kurt almost swore, he grabbed on to the sides of the elevator, it shook violently with suddenly stopping.
"I think the electricity has just been cut off…" Rogue admitted, "I can't see anything…how do we get out of here…"
Kurt wrapped his arm around her waist and teleported them out of the elevator, and into the war room, he realised he should have done this in the first place, the war room was also in total darkness, Kurt tried the light switches, they weren't working.
"I think there are some flashlights somewhere over here…" Rogue stated, "Kurt, you can see in the dark, can't you?"
"Yeah, pretty well…my eyes are like a cats," he stated, he searched the darkness, "here they are," he fumbled in the dark to try and get it on, a light cut across the war room and landed upon the computers, wires had been pulled out, and the monitors and screens had been cracked.
"Oh…my…God…" Rogue gaped, then she spun around, she saw a shadow behind Kurt, and gaped, "Kurt, there it is…"
Kurt spun around, he saw something rush past him, it was almost too fast for him to get a grip on it. He teleported, trying to head it off, and he got a kick in the face, and it felt like the end of some sort of pole right in the stomach, he dropped his flashlight, and the light went out.
"Kurt?!" Rogue asked, "I can't see yo—UGH!" Rogue felt something hit her in the back of the head and she fell to the floor.
Kurt pulled himself up, and looked for Rogue, even his eyesight couldn't pick up enough to see what was going on in the war room, whatever it was managed to even stay in the shadows of the darkness, and move with such speed and agility that would have even left Logan's head boggling in battle.
Kurt located Rogue, and he grabbed her arm and teleported out of the war room, they ended up in the kitchen, it was the nearest room he'd figured he'd find some more flashlights.
Rogue began to come to her senses again, "god that hurt…" she rubbed the back of her head, "did you see who it was?"
"It was too dark…" Kurt could see clearly in the kitchen – the moon was out and there was just enough light in the room to see where he was going. He found a drawer, and yanked it open, finding a couple of flashlights, "Here," he handed one to Rogue. "Stay close…if we get into too much trouble, I'll need to teleport us out of here…"
"I wonder when the others will be back…" Rogue thought aloud.
"Probably not too long…hopefully…" Kurt walked beside her, he felt her grab onto his arm.
"Maybe you should teleport us out of here right now?" Rogue asked, "I don't like the thought of fighting in the total darkness…"
"We need to know who is here with us, Rogue…someone is here for a reason."
"And that reason be the cherie," a voice chimed, Kurt felt something hit him hard on the head, and he fell to the floor.
Rogue spun around and raised her flashlight, and the light cut across the darkness and found the intruder. Gambit. One of Magneto's lackeys. "Gambit!" she yelled, "Why are you here!"
"For you, of course," Gambit smirked, "Magneto has asked for you."
"I'm not going anywhere…" Rogue folded her arms.
Kurt rubbed the back of his head, "ow…what hit me…"
"That stick of his," Rogue began to take her glove off.
"Chere, you don't WANT to do that," Gambit smirked, his eyes almost seemed to glow for a moment. Another silhouette appeared behind him, "If you won't come willingly, we're gonna have to take you by force…" he held a playing card up in the air, and it began to glow, so brightly it was lighting up the area around them – and behind him, the silhouette began to come into focus, a girl, perhaps not too much older than eighteen, with long blonde hair, and bright blue eyes, she donned a black mask, and a black leather cat suit.
"Who's this meant to be, cat woman?" Rogue mused.
The blonde grabbed Rogue by the collar and raised her into the air as if Rogue weighed nothing, it was apparent this young woman possessed more strength than ten men.
Kurt looked at Gambit and the blonde, they didn't seem interested in him at all, so much they had their attention on Rogue.
"Let me go!" Rogue kicked at the blonde's leg, to not even harm her slightly, the attractive blonde simply laughed, she grabbed onto her fists and tried to wrench her fingers from the hold she on her collar – it was beginning to choke her.
"Is that the best you can do!?" she tossed her head backwards, "I heard you were spunky, but certainly not a weak little girl…"
"Carol, we best be going," Gambit stated.
Seeing Rogue's legs hanging down, Kurt saw this as an excellent opportunity to try and teleport her out of there, he grabbed onto her leg, and in a split second, teleported – what he hadn't realised is that he would bring the blonde with them – since she'd been holding onto Rogue.
They were now on the grounds outside the Mansion, Kurt was laying on the grass, holding onto Rogue's leg, the Blonde still holding in the air.
Rogue screamed and grabbed a hold of the blonde's neck with two hands, trying to strangle her, it seemed no good, she didn't seem affected at all, in fact, this only prompted the blonde to jump – and they felt both amazed when she flew – Kurt kept a hard grip on Rogue's ankle, Rogue felt herself being tugged between them both, flying through the air, the blonde holding onto Rogue's collar tight as she could, Rogue felt as if she was choking.
"Let me go!" Rogue screamed.
The blonde flew, heading away from the direction of the Mansion still holding on strong to Rogue, and Kurt still dangling, "Rogue, fight her!" he cried up to her.
"I can't!" Rogue gasped, finding it harder to breath.
"You're coming with me…" she shook Rogue, trying to somehow break Kurt's grip from her, Kurt only held on stronger.
"LET ME GO YOU BITCH!" Rogue screamed.
The blonde smirked, "The name's Miss Marvel."