CHAP12

Rogue prepared herself to dash at the two men guarding the doors to Aurora's

own personal hell. She gasped at the sight of their two large automatic guns.

"WON-derful." She said. "how am ah supposed to get over there without bein'

shot inta' Swiss cheese?"

"I could teleport you right behind them!" Suggested Kurt. He took Rogue in his

arms.

"good luck" Aurora touched Kurt's furry face. BAMF! Kurt and Rogue re-

appeared right behind the guards not a moment later

"what the?" one of the guards turned and was met with Rogue's un- gloved fist.

He fell to the ground. The other fired wildly, shots echoing throughout the forest. Kurt

wrapped his tail around the man's neck while he continued firing at nothing in particular.

Rogue touched his face with her bare hand. He had a look of terror on his face before he

passed out.

"come on!" Kurt called to the rest of the team. They leapt out of the brush and

joined rogue and Kurt at the doors of the building. Aurora looked up at the familiar white

building. The barbed wire fences surrounding it. It was all too familiar to her.

"are you okay?" asked Kurt

"yeah. Come on, let's go." They dashed into the building. Sirens began blaring

throughout the entire structure. "security breach! Security breach!" they screamed.

"damn it! The sirens! Remy, Toad, Rogue, fight off the armed guards. Believe

me, they'll be coming soon. Kurt, the main lab is over here. Kitty, guard the door to the

lab. We'll also need you to get us inside. Quickly." Kurt and Aurora headed off to the

laboratory. Rogue Toad and Remy stood in the middle of the hallways, ready for

anything. They heard yelling from the guards not too far down the hallway. They knew

they would be coming for them instead of Kurt and Aurora. The cameras were mainly in

the hallways. Aurora had said there were none in the labs, in case someone decided to use

it against them some day. The guards were racing down the hall. With each step the

guards took, Rogue's heart beat harder against her chest.

"Rogue...I have somet'ing to tell you" said Remy glancing over at her. "Before

we git' killed."

"what is it, swamp rat?"

"I have to tell you that.well.." he turned to Rogue.

"guys! This is no place to be doin' this! They're comin'!" yelled Toad.

"Remy..what?" asked Rogue, looking into his red eyes. He leaned down and

kissed her. The feeling of his warm lips on hers was a strange and unfamiliar feeling to

her. She pushed him off just as her powers were beginning to take over.

"you idiot! You could get killed that way!" she yelled, but inside, she was

bursting with excitement and happiness.

"This is it!" said Aurora, pointing to a steel door. She felt faint. She knew this

room well. It was the place all of the experiments had been performed on her. Her body

ached just thinking about it. She began to feel a burning sensation on her scars. She

looked into the small window on the door.

"no stryker. We're fine. Let's go." Kitty grabbed them both and they all phased

through the laboratory door. The smell of iodine hit their nostrils. Aurora was in a daze.

She glanced around the room. She remembered how terrifying it was to be laying on that

dirty cot with needles and knives cutting into her flesh. She touched the handcuff on the

bed. Still broken. The image of her arm twisting until the cuff broke entered her mind.

The frightened face of the man she harmed. She grimaced.

"you okay?" asked Kurt, taking her hand.

"yeah, yeah."

"There's the computer! What do we do now?" Kitty pointed to the computer.

"Keety, you're good at computers! Ve should be asking you that question!" Kurt

huffed.

"oh yeah, right." Kitty sat down near the computer.

"Hack us into the main database. After that I'll open all the cells. Then, Kitty, you

regroup with Rogue and the others and try to find the professor."

Kitty simply tapped a few keys, and said excitedly "We're in!"

Rogue and the others still stood in the hallway. Finally the guards rounded the

corner.

"it's about time!" Remy sneered.

"OPEN FIRE!!!!!" yelled one of the guards, and Rogue, Remy, and Toad were in

the middle of an array of bullets.

"this sucks!" said toad, jumping to dodge bullets. Rogue quickly took off her

gloves and lunged at one of the guards. Her hands wrapped around his neck and he

screamed and fell to the floor.

"who the hell are these people?" one of the gunman stopped firing. Toad jumped

on him from behind, causing him to fall to the ground. Another one of the gunman

attacked Rogue from behind, taking her to the floor.

"hey Remy..think you could give a girl a hand?" She asked, trying to push the

heavy gunman off of her.

"oh chere, I can give you more than a hand. I'll give you a full deck!" He threw

two charged cards at the man on top of Rogue, who twisted about when he was hit, and

fell to the ground. Rogue got up and dusted herself off.

"thank you."

Remy bowed, and winked. One of the armed guards pulled something out of his pocket.

"backup! Requesting backup! Main hallway near the doors! Backup!" he shouted.

"shit!" Rogue, Remy and Toad stared wide eyed, until Rogue touched the man's

face with her hand.

"back-" his sentence was stopped short, but it was to late. Backup was on the way.

"I'm opening the cell doors now." Said Aurora, back in the lab

"yes! Wunderbar!" exclaimed Kurt, dancing around happily, and shaking his tail.

"CELLS 1 THROUGH 5 OPENED." The computer said. Down one of the wings,

the cells doors flung open, liberating the mutants that lived in them, from the only home,

the prison that they had known for so long.

"looks like WE have backup too!" Rogue said, pointing to the newly freed

mutants. The liberated mutants began attacking the enemies, the gunmen who were

fighting Rogue, Remy, and Toad, taking them down almost instantly. Rogue and Remy

smiled at each other. It was working! Some of the mutants had been freed and were

helping them!

"CELLS 6 THROUGH 12 OPENED." The computer said.

"great! Keety, you can join Rogue and the others, now. Look for the professor and

Magneto and get them outside. Ve'll find you there." Ordered Kurt.

"okay. Good luck, guys!" Kitty phased through the door.

"Mr Stryker! We have a break in! the mutants! They're escaping! Somebody has

let them out!" warned a guard at William Stryker's office.

"Wonderful..." Stryker scowled. "I suppose I'll have to take care of this

personally.."