In one swift, fluid motion, Remy reached into Carol's pocket and withdrew the Eye of Death, dodging to the side to avoid a vicious kick.

A soft crunching sound behind him alerted him to Rogue's sneak attack. He simply knelt down and Rogue went tumbling right over him, landing on the ground in a heap. She flipped back onto her feet and thrust her hand at his face as if she were trying to smother him with her hand or something. At the last second he grabbed her hand, stopping it an inch from his face. It was a simple matter then to employ basic judo technique and send her sprawling right back to the ground.

Had it been any other member of the Brotherhood, he would have used substantial, if not lethal force but there was a.vulnerability about her that restrained him. After one final glance, he ran, the diamond in his possession, right into Freddy.

Rogue stood groggily shaking her head to clear it. Since she didn't know that Remy had the Eye, she assumed it was in Carol's possession and attacked.

***

Logan felt a bullet tear through his shoulder, then another through his right side, neither one slowed him down in the least. With one last gargantuan stride, he burst through the door of the vacant building where the snipers were. In all likelihood, they had been placed there by Raven as a contingency to fall back on; not that he cared. They'd shot at him and they would pay.

Someone in a ski mask leaped in the way, an Uzi in his hands. Logan didn't bother to dodge or anything, he simply ran straight into the guy, his adamantium reinforced skeleton knocking him out instantly. Two more men came from the adjoining room with AK-47s, firing wildly. Two bullets managed to hit Logan, and had he been a normal person, he would have been dead. But Logan was not normal, not by a long shot. The wounds didn't even slow him down.

Logan pulled out his Desert Eagle and fired twice, the huge handgun recoiling violently. The two attackers went flying into the wall.

Logan could hear the frantic running of the people on the second floor who were now aware that something was very wrong. They were trapped and by now they had to have realized that they were dealing with someone they weren't equipped to handle.

First one rifle, then another went clattering down the stairs, followed by two men with their hands up.

"We-we surrender," the first man said.

Logan smiled, "Good." Too fast for them to react, he rushed forward and punched them both hard enough to knock them out. They were one thing he didn't need to deal with right now.

***
Freddy enveloped Remy in a bear hug, attempting to squeeze the breath right out of him.

Remy wriggled his arms around in the little room he had until his hand hit Freddy's belt buckle. He used his mutant power to render the moleculed of the buckle volatile.

"Let me go," he gasped, "because once my hand leaves your buckle or whatever, it goes boom. It blows up, and I'm sure you can imagine the pain you will experience when your buckle explodes liked a stick of dynamite." Remy tried to appear in control but he couldn't breathe and he would black out soon if nothing happened.

Freddy didn't like it, but even as dumb as he was he could imagine what would happen if he didn't let go, so he dropped Remy who in turn, renewed the molecules' stability.

"Thanks, mon ami," Rem said. He twirled his bo staff and jammed it right into Freddy's neck, hitting his carotid artery and rendering him unconscious. Freddy's face registered a look of surprise as he dropped to the ground.

***

Carol blocked Rogue's side kick and punched Rogue in the stomach dropping her to her knees. She spun around and kicked Rogue savagely in the face, sending her rebounding off the ground.

Carol knelt down and glared down at Rogue. "There is nothing you can do to stop me," she said simply. "So if I were you, I'd just leave."

Rogue reached her hand up feebly, evoking a laugh from Carol. "What? Are you gonna hit me? You think you can hurt me?"

In answer, Rogue touched her index finger to her Carol's forehead."

"Is that supposed to hurt?" Carol asked.

Rogue chuckled through bleeding lips. "Yeah."

Carol looked like she was about to say something but then froze, just beginning to realize that something was wrong. She couldn't move. Her limbs wouldn't respond and she felt as if her strength were being drained out of her. The last thing she saw was Rogue's battered face grinning up at her.

Rogue rolled out from underneath Carol's limp form and stood to her feet, the stolen energy already beginning to renew her.

She saw Freddy fall to the ground and Remy start to run from the fray. Her eyes narrowed. Remy was heading out of the alley, and for some reason, she felt she had to stop him.

Then the memories that Rogue had taken from Carol hit. Remy had taken the Eye, she realized.

Shaking her head to clear it, she ran after him.

Remy turned right at breakneck speed and ran out into the middle of the street. A car narrowly missed him, whizzing behind him and he had to do a log roll to avoid being hit by a truck. He finally reached the island in the middle of the street and paused, looking behind him to see if anyone had followed him.

Rogue had. She followed him going right into the busy street. She dodged the first car that came at her but just a few seconds later, a bus hit her head on, sending her flying off to the side.

Immediately, the bus skidded to a halt and other cars started honking, thinking that Rogue was dead.

She was not. She got to her feet, and ran after Remy, ignoring the gasps of the bystanders. It was a good thing she'd recently acquired invulnerability because without it, she'd be splattered all over the street like so much roadkill.

Remy leaped off the island and right into the adjacent street, stopping and going to avoid cars. He could hear sirens in the distance as well as the constant beat of Rogue's footsteps behind him. Didn't she ever give up?"

He turned into an alley and then darted into another one at top speed. Surely she couldn't have followed him this far.

A blow from behind hit him, sending him sprawling to the ground.