Ryoko Subaru: ahh, sorry it's taken me forever to even think about updating this! I was reading a few Remy/Rogue fics and well I've been inspired to continue!
Joshima: yes well, you are very slack!
Ryoko Subaru: it's not my fault! I was busy
Joshima: yeah, busy sleeping!
Ryoko Subaru: anyway, I hope that you enjoy this chapter
X-MEN~ Next Dimension Chapter five: fight for your right~X~
"We
shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the
beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender."
-Sir Winston
Churchill
~X~
Parks Conference rooms, Jacksonville North Carolina, Thursday 8th April 2307
Conference room no. 3
9.45pm
" We are here tonight with world renown artist Shaun Kilkenny, Shaun why have you chosen to centre your newest creations around mutants?" the screen changed to a well dressed young man sitting rather uncomfortably in a chair,
"We'll I believe that Mutants have the right to be free and, well to be honest they fascinate me. The last painting of my collection was taken from a sketch that I drew while I was visiting the Blair Institute of Mutants, I-"
"Shut up, I want to hear this!" all attention went to Raven Darkholm who was seated in front of the holo-vision, the remote in her hands, the other leaders of the mutant groups moved from their positions to get a better look at what was happening. The volume was turned up and everyone was quiet as the screen panned to a large painting.
"This one I called longing to be free, the name actually came from a little girl standing next to me who was watching the mutants named Rogue and Gambit just after I'd finished my sketch. As you can see, this painting depicts the anger and hurt these mutants have suffered because of our ignorance and hatred of them. I do believe that this has to be one of my favourites." The male reporter smiled and pointed his finger at the girl
"Did you change her to be this perfect so that you could show your audience that these mutants aren't as scary and dangerous looking as we have thought them to be?" Shaun looked at the reporter like he was crazy
"I drew what I saw, this is exactly how the mutant Rogue looks, I was lucky that I decided to sketch at the Nocturnal House that day, the mutants are usually hiding, these two were in plain view for a long time, and it made it easier on me to be able to capture their features and to draw it almost to an exact likeness."
"You also have a painting called separations, where did you get the idea for this painting from?" The painting was done in red hues and was of two young females and many soldiers surrounding them and forcing them apart. Shaun looked a little uncomfortable.
"I saw this when I was walking home one day…it has stayed with me for a long time…" he trailed off, his eyes locking onto the painting. The reporter cleared his throat; Shaun shook his head and gestured for them to follow him.
"This is the last that I will show you, my collection will be on show at the Windsor Arts Museum. This painting was done just after a friend showed me a home video he made of a mutant capture which included two mutants, a lot of FOH and a few sentinels. This one here" Shaun was pointing to the mutant that was surrounded by FOH soldiers "seems to be protecting this one over here, I realised after I had finished this painting that the other mutant got away because the one with the claws was protecting it. The home video was very…how should I put it…disturbing? It was very bloody and rather upsetting to see that this is how the mutants are captured. I-" Shaun trailed off as he looked more closely at his painting. Then pushing past the reporter he went back to his painting of Rogue and Remy, then back to the one he had just been talking about. "I don't believe it," he whispered
"What?" the reporter asked, face alight with surprise and hope that something exciting was going to happen.
"Its Rogue" the reporter looked a bit confused for a moment before he grinned.
"The mutant from that painting?" The artist nodded his head thinking for a few moments. The reporter smiled and turned back to the camera.
"Well this is an exciting turn of events, if you would like to see more of these paintings and maybe spot more of this mysterious Rogue then you can go to the Mutant exhibit at the Windsor Arts Museum, the exhibit is open from the 10th of April right until the 1st of May. This is Aaron Walker from World Wide News, goodnight.
Raven sat back in her couch and smirked
"It seems as though there are some humans out there willing to accept mutants, Peter!" the Russian man stepped forward, his arms at his side, ready for orders. "Get a troop ready, I want you to find this artist and see if he has friends that are willing to help us in our campaign." Peter nodded his head and saluted before turning around, signalling to a few of his men to follow.
"Wait!" the Russian stopped and turned to the newest leader, the young woman looked at Raven.
"I'll go with him…I know of a few pro mutant humans myself." Raven smiled and flicked her hand in a dismissal; Wanda rolled her eyes and pushed her black hair from her face before following the tall commander out of the conference room.
"So…Peter was it?" Wanda watched him as he continued to walk, a few of his men trailing behind them.
"Yes" rebel mutant leader sighed and clenched her hands.
"Do you speak more then that?" there was a brief silence before it was broken by his soft, yet commanding voice
"Yes." One of the trailing mutants laughed slightly at that and Wanda turned around to look at him.
"What's so funny?" the blonde smiled
"He's not much of a talker, I'm Bobby, better known as Ice-man." Wanda took the outstretched hand and shook it slightly
"Wanda, you'll call me Scarlet Witch," the blonde laughed and his blue eyes danced with laughter
"Sure thing!"
~X~
Blair Institute of Mutants, New New York, Friday 9th April 2307
The Plains
7.32am
"Are you alright Jean? You've been in there all morning" A concerned Kitty stood by the girls bathroom door, her ear to the wood, she could hear retching and was wondering what was wrong with the red head. The toilet flushed and the door soon opened to a green looking Jean. "Oh, sit down" Kitty led her to the bunks and set her down before going into the bathroom and getting a cool washcloth.
"I don't know I just feel so sick!" Kitty chewed her lip
"Was it something you ate?" The telepath shook her head and held her stomach; her body was feeling strange, like it wasn't just her that inhabited it at the moment. She'd never felt anything like it before it was like she was…
"Oh no…" Kitty watched as Jean paled considerably more.
"What?" Jean looked up at the brunette with worried grey eyes
"I'm pregnant!"
~X~
Nocturnal House8.00am
"You'd think they'd give us a better breakfast then this!" K9 complained as he pushed around the rather disturbing looking food that was on the plate. Remy scrunched up his nose
"Remy don' like dis eit'er, looks like someone sneeze int' mon food" a dark shape flittered next the K9 and both mutants looked at him, the mutant shifted and patted them on the backs in a consoling manner, Remy and K9 laughed and waved him off.
"Yes yes, I know shadow, although I do believe that you're the lucky one, not having to eat to survive." The passive mutant shook his head and continued on his way, pausing to touch Rogue gently from where she was staring at her food with a disgusted look on her face. The female mutant smiled and shook her head waving him away. Remy watched all this silently, his red eyes taking note of how long Shadow touched Rogue and the exact brightness of her smile, checking to see if there was anything going on between the two of them.
"Chill boy, she's not going for the ghost." Remy looked back over at his companion and shrugged.
"What make you t'ink dat?" K9 rolled his eyes
"Only the fact that you've bent your spoon in half, the way your teeth were clenched, your back straight, eyes trained on the two of them. Damn boy, you've got it bad for the little chick." Remy sighed and placed his deformed spoon in the grey slop that was breakfast.
"Remy don' understand why…de fille, she jus' so…"
"Special? Yeah yeah, we all think so, just stake your claim before beastie boy over there does" Remy turned to look at where K9 was pointing, and a low growl came from his throat, he could feel his powers buzzing just beneath the surface. "Although I don't think you have anything to worry about there." Both males turned around to look at Rogue who had been staring at Remy; she smiled at them both before turning back to her breakfast, a faint blush spreading across her cheeks. Remy smiled and sat back as K9 winked at him. The Cajun watched from the corner of his eye as Kurt sat next to his sister and they both talked about things as they used to be back at the institute. He could hear them laughing about something they remembered.
"Do you remember that time when Kitty cooked dinner and Logan chocked on what he was eating and everyone was laughing so hard that we couldn't even help him? He got so angry with us we had late night danger room sessions for a week!" they both laughed again and Remy closed his eyes taking in the sound of her being happy. He didn't understand why she was affecting him so much, sure she was the only female in the habitat and he was used to having women around him constantly, but…she was different, she felt different, and the breeding experience had been different as well, he had tried to take her mind off of everything except the pleasure, and the comfort, he felt a need to protect her and although it frightened him slightly, it felt good as well.
~X~
Rage Mutant Arena, Indiana, Friday 9th April 2307
Holding Cell B14
2.10pm
He watched from his cell overlooking the arena as they started to put up posters
Mighty Magneto vs. Professor Xavier Sunday 18th April 2307
His eyes grew cold as they continued to put up banners proclaiming the soon to be fight. Little did they know that on that night, many of them would die. Xavier glanced over at Eric who was slumped against the glass wall of his cell asleep. 'Soon…soon we will be free.'
~X~ Blair Institute of Mutants, New New York, Friday 9th April 2307 Nocturnal House4.15pm
Rogue watched from the shadows, the crowds had swelled over the past hour, a lot of them were throwing things at the glass to try and get some kind of reaction from the mutants in the habitat, non were going to fall for it.
"Hows it going little chick?" Rogue sighed and shifted her weight as she looked over her shoulder at K9.
"Good. Ah think they believe meh…we'll ah hope they do." The tall young mutant nodded and stretched his arms over his head.
"How about we spruce things up, especially for all those little humans out there!" Rogue's attention was now fully on K9
"Lihke what?" he grinned in the darkness and whistled through his teeth, and from the leaves came Shadow.
"You and shadow here are going to have a little tussle." Shadow smiled at Rogue and walked over to her hesitantly arms held out in a peaceful way. Rogue smiled and touched his dark, almost see-through self; the skin shimmered and became more solid before going back to how it was just before.
"What kind of tussle?" she watched shadow cautiously, it amazed her how such a passive mutant could become very violent when threatened, she'd seen him and one of the newer mutants battle it out for the corner a few days after she'd arrived. Shadow of course winning silently as he was easily able to conjure the shadows to do his bidding.
"Something to make you look crazy, or angry or whatever, just a fight for no real reason." Rogue shook her head and looked back to where the humans were still staring at the habitat, hoping to just catch a glimpse of a mutant.
"If its ok with shadow." The see-through mutant smiled at her and patted her reassuringly on the back before silently making his way to the glass and sitting peacefully on the little fence that she and Remy had occupied a few days earlier. Rogue counted to fifty before stalking out, her hair dishevelled and her face marred with mud.
"SHADOW!" her screech startled the humans and the other inhabitants of the habitat, all of them came running to where Rogue stood fuming over the huddled form of Shadow. K9 gave a slight nod to the other mutants to tell them that this was all planned out and that it wasn't a real fight so they shouldn't take it as such. All turned their attention to Rogue who was pointing a finger at the shadow mutant.
"This is mah spot, git yer own!" Shadow shook his head, getting up from his position to stand defensively before it. "Ah won't say it again" Shadow moved closer to her, just within striking distance before the formidable mutant lashed out at the only female in the Nocturnal House. It was a whirl of black that consumed the small mutant and she was covered in it! With a raged scream she tore from the attack and landed a swift kick on the still tangible mutant before her foot sunk into his body. Cursing and making sure that her eyes looked a little crazed she continued to try and swipe at the shadow, screaming and ranting and scratching. She could hear Remy arguing with K9 about something or another in the background before strong arms gripped her and pulled her away. She kicked and screamed trying to twist from their embrace and that was when all hell broke loose. Alarms sounded outside in the halls and the lights turned red.
"All persons in the Nocturnal areas please vacate, we repeat all persons in the Nocturnal areas please vacate." The shrill sound of the alarm hurt Kurt's ears and he fell to the ground covering them and trying keep the sound from damaging his delicate hearing. The walls opened to the habitat and in filed armed soldiers holding stun guns, and all mutants within the habitat felt the frizzle of the x-gene dampeners being turned on and their abilities becoming useless.
"Unhand the female" Rogues eyes widened and she thrashed even more as she felt more hands grabbing her, her screaming tearing up her throat and making it burn. It was supposed to be all fun and games until they were ready to execute their plan, this wasn't supposed to happen…they were taking her away again.
"NO!" she punched one of the soldiers and twisted from the others, she noticed that they were again taking Remy away, and he was struggling like there was no tomorrow, they had his hands cuffed and were trying to get his feet when K9 hit a few of them from behind. She felt cold metal being clasped around her neck and she jerked to get away from it but found it to be connected to a chain.
"Stop or we harm the female!" all mutants stopped their struggling, and watched as Rogue tried to get away, her hands clawing at the metal around her neck, a collar…she really was an animal. Tears stung her eyes and she looked at the male mutants that were stepping away from the soldiers…'we'll get out of here…all of us, and they will pay for this' her thoughts were broken as Shadow charged forwards, his eyes usually a ghostly white were now black like the rest of him and a ragged cry broke from his lips that were always so silent. One shot sounded in the air and the mutant fell to the ground, skidding to a stop at Rogue's feet. Her heart stopped as Shadow didn't get back up. Ignoring the tugging on her neck she crouched in front of shadow.
"Sugah?" her voice was a soft whisper and she nudged his now solid form. "come on, git up!" she tried to pull him up, the alarms still blaring in the now silent habitat. Rogue's hands shook and she bit her trembling lip…not another one…not for her. "git up…please, shadow, sugah, git up" her eyes blurred and she gripped the cold arm of shadow and she tugged at him, tears fell from her eyes and she glared at the soldiers who were watching uninterestedly. She could feel her anger bubbling up…they had killed one of them when they weren't in danger, not with shadows powers negated…he'd been harmless. She looked at the soldier that had fired off the old-fashioned handgun and her green eyes narrowed and hardened. "I'll kill you personally" she vowed, taking a mental note of when he looked like and what number he had on his chest.
"Che're?" she ignored the voice, she ignored them all as she was lifted from the ground and practically dragged out of the habitat…shadow had died and it had been all her fault, she would never forgive herself or the soldier for that.
~X~
Ryoko Subaru: short, yes well…the next chapter is going to have…shall I say a lot more to it? So hold your horses, and I'll get right on it.
Joshima: don't count on it
Ryoko Subaru: shut up *stuffs Joshima in a sack and throws him off a cliff* well now I feel better
Kami: *cough* well…that was a little harsh.
Ryoko Subaru: *shrugs* he was asking for it! See ya all next chapter!
Joshima: *from inside bag that is falling towards the ocean* she would also like to thank the reviewers. She's quite busy at the moment and can't give you all your own praises but she hopes next chapter she can. *Goes back to waiting for his inevitable death*