Yes! I found some time to write this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! (Takes a breath) Yeah! Well, this chapter is Rob going on a rampage.... poor, poor Rob. This chapter is going to have to run a little short because I did not have a lot of time to write, but ya know, you still get all the good stuff! Have fun reading!

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To Nemesis X - yeah! camera phones rock! though I don't have one, I just thought that it would be funny to have one - even if it never worked! They just look so cool! Pictures! Pictures for all! well... not exactly, but.....

Chapter 16

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Professor Xavier immediately understood the terrible possibility of the problem as soon as he looked at the phone that Todd had given him.

" Who IS that guy?," Todd asked meekly, though he felt much more comfortable with Xavier than he had felt while with Scott. Though Todd did not know why, Scott was dealing with emotions that had made him far more distant than he intended.

" It is Magneto," Xavier said at last and handed Todd back his phone, " Perhaps the most dangerous mutant on the planet," though Xavier did not thinking about his old friend like that.

" What does he want with Rob?," Todd asked, still confused about why someone would be after his brother.

" His power," Scott said, speaking after his long silent brooding.

" I thought all he could do was, you know, convince people of things," Todd injected.

" Though that is not the fullest extent of his true powers," Xavier said, " I doubt even Rob was aware of how far his abilities stretched. He can convince people of just about anything, but he also has the power to alter another mutant's mutations - even permanently suppress another mutants powers. Rob has already accidentally used this power against one of our students here."

" But why would Magneto want Rob to destroy mutants powers?," Scott asked, " if what he wants is mutant dominance?"

" I don't know," Xavier answered, being unable to find an answer, " though we are probably going to find out very soon."

" Just wait," Todd interrupted, " Rob won't help someone like that."

" Rob may not realize what he is doing," Xavier said, hints of his own imprisonment under the mind control floating on his voice.

" Can't you find him with Cerebro?," Scott offered as a solution. Though is was near impossible to track Magneto with the machine, it was probably safe to assume that Rob would be found relatively easily.

Xavier made as if to leave, but paused. He closed his eyes for a moment in deep concentration, and then blankly said, " Rob is here."

" That's great!," Todd exclaimed.

Xavier was silent for another moment before he concluded, " He's under mind control, he has no power over his choices."

Xavier looked at Scott urgently, " I don't know why he is here, but you cannot let him touch you. That's the only way that he can take away your power. You must stop him before he has a chance to hurt any of the other students. I'll think of a place where we can keep him until he recovers."

Scott groaned as he quickly ran out of the Professor's office, " Great. How can I fight someone without touching them?"

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Rob stopped where he was. He had to let go of his powers. He had been convincing every mutant that he had approached in the school that he wasn't there, but there were far too many people around to carry on much longer. The strain was starting to wear him out, and he had so much to do.

Just as sudden as possible, Rob appeared in the middle of the hallway of the school, which made Nightcrawler, Adrian, Bobby, Brit, and Kelly jump in surprise.

" Hey," Adrian said, being far too accustomed to being the only mutant that would pop up out of no where to scare them, " Hey, where have you been? Just wait, how did you escape? Are you okay?"

Rob only stared, being unable to even realize that he was looking at his best friend.

" Ummm," Brit bit her lips, " Are you okay? You look really, really sick."

Rob only stared out from eyes that were deathly milky white. Rob began to walk up to the group in a frightening mechanical way, almost as if he were resisting the very movements that he was making. Adrian had no idea what he should do - he was overwhelmed that his friend was okay...well...sort of, but he didn't even know if he should approach Rob. Unless this was Rob's idea of saying 'hi' after being kidnapped for a few days - by pulling a prank.

Before Adrian could do anything else, or any of the other mutants in the school at the moment, he heard Xavier's voice in his head. The message made him groan - Rob was under mind control and he could not be trusted because he had the power to take away a mutant's powers. Almost immediately, Nightcrawler teleported away.

" Did you hear that?," Kelly asked the teens.

" Great," Adrian thought aloud and immediately, he also tried to teleport away. Tried. He attempted to do it, but he could not - Rob was preventing him from using his powers.

" Hey, man!," Adrian said to Rob, " Stop! Let me go!" Adrian was now feeling very freaked out, though still clinging onto the fading hope that this was all a very elaborate prank.

Rob was just about to reach out and grab onto Adrian when something stopped him. Someone was directly behind him. Rob wheeled about just as he felt someone touch his bare arm. Before he had turned around, they were gone, a BAMF! sound in his ears as the smell of brimstone filled the air. Assuring himself that whoever it was had left, he turned back upon the group of teens.

He turned and frowned. There was a large wall of ice blocking his way. He had the power to prevent a mutant from using their powers, but once they had been used there was nothing he could do. He would have to go the long way to Xavier's office.

Rob turned and started in the other direction.

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Nightcrawler and Todd reappeared in Xavier's office.

" I did it!," Todd said, and handed the camera phone to the Professor, using his powers to tell himself to display any memory that had anything to do with what Magneto was planning for Rob to do. He concentrated for a moment - he had never really been sure how he had to use his powers to focus upon one single memory. He only hoped that it would work.

" There," Xavier replied, looking at the screen.

" Vhat is it?," Nightcrawler asked, though with a visible shyness to his voice.

Todd and Nightcrawler looked at the phone. They could clearly see the face of the older man who Todd recognized as Magneto.

" He has stood in my way for far too long," Magneto was saying, " I need you to stop Charles Xavier - make him just like these human beings he cares so much for."

And just like that, the picture on the phone cut out.

" Awe, shit," Todd said on impulse, " But how does this guy know what Rob can do?"

Todd rolled his eyes to himself. Obviously, he could find out - he concentrated on telling his brain to display any memories that Rob had on how Magneto learned about Rob's ability. Todd looked down at the phone - there was a new person on the screen, a teenager who Todd did not recognize.

" I don't want anything," the boy was saying, " It's Magneto who wants something."

" John," Xavier said - he knew that Pyro had left in order to join up with Magneto. Xavier also knew that Rob had momentarily used his powers against Pyro - causing Pyro to be unable to use his. That's how Magneto knew.

Xavier concentrated for a moment, sending a mental message to his X-Men, telling them that Rob had been sent on a mission - a mission to take away Xavier's powers forever.

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" Nice one," Adrian was saying to Bobby as the group of teens made their way down the hall. They had no idea where Rob was - he could be walking right next to them and they would not even realize it. Bobby was walking almost as fast as a person could before breaking out into a run - he was heading to Rogue's room. He had to make sure that she was safe.

They reached the room, and Bobby flung the door open.

The room was empty.

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