Ryoko Subaru: well, FF.net is mucking about so, yeah with nothing to read I have decided to sit at the computer and think…and think…and hopefully something will get written.
Joshima: *pulls self out of sack and shakes off wet hair right into Ryoko's face* yes well…I'll just poke you in your back everytime you stop writing.
Ryoko Subaru: I thought I killed you off!
Joshima: *grins* you cant get rid of me that easily!
Ryoko Subaru: *scowls* fine, just sit there and be quiet!
Joshima: not bloody likely
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X-MEN Next Dimension Chapter six: Lab Rats~X~
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Citizens Advice Bureau, New New York, Friday 9th April 2307
Office of Mutant Sightings
5.16pm
Eyes scanning the newest sightings she quickly looked around the room, her dark eyes narrowed at the man in the corner photocopying a few pages. Turning on her scanner she quickly put them through the machine and then connected to the web. Fingers flying across the keyboard she kept her eyes on the man, making sure that he wasn't spying on her; hoping to report someone doing the wrong thing to the boss and getting a promotion or pay rise.
To: BlueMagoo@firestarter.comFrom: sparky@firestarter.com
Subject: baseball
Hey Blue,
Little cracker here, just a heads up on some scoop that I found. Singled out onto the webs site, stop and shift if you can. I'll catch you later at the ball game.
L.U.S.U.B
Black hair obscured her view as she quickly sent the email and then hacked into the webs site, she smirked at the webs that tried to catch her out before she could post her information and quickly retreat from the site. Looking back up to the photocopier she sighed as the man was still there, his back to her. Closing up the file she piled it up with the other sightings of mutants and shut down her computer, it was time for her to go home and report back to base about what had happened that day, and how many more mutants had been captured.
"Hey Jubilation!" the black haired woman turned her head around and blew a pink bubble gum ball before popping it and chewing, one finely shaped eyebrow raised.
"Yeah?"
"Here you forgot this" the black haired woman smiled and held her hand out for the briefcase the man by the photocopier was holding out to her.
"Thanks" she replied, she could feel sweat trickly down the back of her neck.
"No problem, I'll see you tomorrow" Jubilation Lee nodded her head and quickly left the man, her heart beating wildly in her chest. 'That was a close one.' Quickly making it down to the underground parking lot the Asian woman unlocked her car and headed home.
"Hi honey I'm home"
"Hey Darlin'" her heart stopped and her throat closed in on itself as the young woman blinked back tears, she had long ago stopped hoping to hear that voice again.
"Logan?" she quickly flicked on the lights and before her stood the half-dead wolverine; he was slumped against the wall, blood dripping down all over him.
"Wha-?"
"Jubilee?" the voice came from behind her and was distinctly male. She turned around and smiled at her housemate. "What are you doing standing in the door?"
"Oh I ah-"
"Whose that?" she looked over her shoulder at Logan who was studying the man with Jubilation and snarled; he could smell deceit on the man. He pushed himself off the wall and with a frightening skint had his claws out and ready to attack. Jubilee could feel that sweat returning and she sighed, running a shaking hand through her silky black hair.
"Lei Hong, this is Logan. Logan this is Lei Hong…" she bit her bottom lip and waited to see what they were going to do.
"Wolverine?" Lei Hong asked, his computer mind scanning the information he had received on the mutant by their organization. "Weren't you dead?" Logan didn't let up from his fighting stance; his muscles ached as thought about the situation he was in.
"You were dead?" Jubilee gasped and she stepped towards Logan only to be held back by Lei Hong. She glared at the other Asian and pulled from his grasp.
"Was, close the door Jackie Chan, ya got any bandages 'round here darlin'?" Jubilee nodded her head and quickly moved from the door going into the bathroom to fetch the first aid kit. When she came back to the entrance hall she noticed that both Logan and Lei Hong hadn't moved.
"Oh calm down the both of you, Logan sit down before you fall down." She sat opposite him on a lazy boy and handed him the first aid kit. Lei Hong sat down next to his housemate, his eyes still warily watching the new mutant.
"So where have you been all this time then?" Logan growled at the other male in the room but his eyes immediately went to Jubilee.
"Have ya seen Stripes?"
"No, but I know where she is. They caught her Logan, she's at the Blair Institute of Mutants, she's safe from what I know, and Mystique is coming with an army load of mutants to get them out of there." She smiled brightly. "I'm their insider, so is Lei Hong, he's in the division of Mutant coding. He takes their DNA and then puts them into categories, that way we know what mutants they have in the institutes and where they are. Oh Logan, I'm so glad that your alright, I hand heard about any of you for months, ever since we were separated." She sighed and sank deeper into her chair. "So where have you been? You look like you've been to hell and back again." The older mutant grunted as he pulled the bandage tight to his arm and looked up with darkened eyes.
"They had me in a lab when I woke up. I don't know where I was and I don't care. Thing is though, it was real easy to get out. I think they have a tracer on me, so I came here. Found yer name in the phone book, wasn't too hard to find the place."
Lei Hong quickly went to the computer and connected up promptly, his fingers like lightening across the keyboard as he went into the webs site, he bypassed the message left by Jubilee and went straight to where the chat room where someone was always monitoring the boards.
Light has entered the webs site chatLight says: wolverine is alive
Forge says: on it. I'll contact you, blueMagoo says thanks to little cracker, info was good
Light says: I think we'll need a medic too
Forge says: ones on its way. Stay safe.
Light says: will do.
Light has left the webs site chat.
Lei Hong turned to see Jubilee and Wolverine talking about a few things while the young Asian girl helped with the bandaging of his several wounds. Black eyes narrowed at their closeness and his hands tightened into fists. All three were startled with the loud knocking on their front door. Out the corner of his eye he saw the Wolverine place Jubilee behind him for protection and Lei Hong felt anger at the older male from interrupting their normal life. Opening the door he grunted in acknowledgement as Sam Guthrie waltzed into the room with a large backpack that was likely filled to the brim with medical supplies.
"Oh mah…" the medic promptly fainted in their living room while the older mutant and Jubilee laughed jovially at the sight. Lei Hong shook his head and shut the door soundly. He could already feel the beginnings of a headache approaching; it was going to be a long night.
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Blair Institute of Mutants, New New York, Friday 9th April 2307
Nocturnal House
6.43pm
Kurt opened his scrunched up eyes and hesitantly took his hands from his ears. The place was quiet and the remaining six mutants were standing there, their eyes on the now closed off wall that the soldiers had poured from. Golden eyes searched their faces; Remy, Rogue and Shadow were missing.
"What happened?" he asked K9 who was standing beside him, grey eyes turned to golden and Kurt swallowed passed the lump that rose in his throat at the look K9 was giving him.
"They killed shadow…it's my fault, I…I told him and rogue to fight, you know…to further our plan. They took her and Remy away again." K9 shook his dark brown hair from his eyes and sat down next to the crouching blue mutant.
"Vhat-vhat are zey goink to do to her?" the older mutant shook his head and sighed. Both of them turning their attention back to the wall.
"All Mutants in the Nocturnal House please return to your bunks, you are all to be without food this night for your rebellious acts." The six other mutants filed after the slumped and dejected form of Kurt who was being supported by K9.
"Are we still going to continue with Rogue's plan?" Shizer asked, his green eyes wide with worry. K9 shrugged.
"We'll wait until they come back. But I sure as hell want to pay them back for what they have done to us."
"So we wait?" Shrapnel asked red eyebrows raised. K9 nodded and put Kurt onto his bed where they all convened around, waiting to see what had happened to the two remaining members of their habitat.
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Bayou6.50pm
Toad crouched under a tree, the humid air was making his skin itch and the flies which he would normally be loving, were really bugging him to no end. Shifting his weight he turned to look at the Blob, he snickered at the fat boy who really didn't belong in the whole habitat, and at the blonde girl that was sitting near him. He tried to hide his laughter but couldn't quite. The blonde girl glared at him with icy blue eyes and lifted herself up off the group and hovered above it.
"You find something funny frog boy?" Toad shook his head quickly, that was the problem living in the same place with a guy that can eat ten times over his body weight and a girl that can fly, punch through almost anything and is hard to even injure, he wasn't as confident as he should be.
"Yo I was just thinking about the whole Nocturnal House thingo, was wondering who was in it yo." Fred sat up and smiled dumbly
"I reckon it was Rogue, it'd be something shed do right?" Toad smiled brightly and hopped up into a low hanging tree.
"Right yo, do you think she tried to break out?" the blonde scowled at both boys
"Whose this Rogue?" Toad flicked his tongue out and scratched at his nose
"What do I get in return Carol?" the blonde sneered
"Your life?" Toad swallowed thickly
"Alright, alright I'll tell you!"
"That's a good little frog boy."
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Fire Pit6.50pm
"Hear that? Sounds like there's a rebellion going on and we don't even know about it!" Lance complained, St John and Scott were sitting with him, their faces turned up at the crowds that had thinned after the whole alarm going off.
"Probably some Sheila pmsing." Lance and Scott turned and glared at St John
"Stop joking around!"
"I'm not jeez, a guy gives his two cents and he gets run into the ground"
"So tell us about what you heard when you went to that whole 'breeding thing.'" Scott turned red and he sat up quickly, his breathing coming a little raggedly.
"Oh err. Well…Oh! I heard Rogue, she and Jean were talking…well yelling really."
"What were they talking about?" Scott scratched the back of his neck
"Whom they got?" the two males with him laughed
"Well?"
"What?"
"Jeez, who did rogue get?" St John asked, he realised how sad he must sound asking for gossip, but for him this whole thing lost its novelty in the first week.
"Gambit" St John cracked up again and almost fell off the rock they were on.
"You're jerking the chain right?" Scott shook his head, trying to translate the strange jargon that St John used while Lance scowled
"Peitro is going to be p-oh…crap." Scott and St John both turned on Lance.
"You've had Goss this whole time and you've held out on us? You little bugger" Scott was eyeing Lance
"So…Peitro has a crush on Rogue?" Lance nodded hesitantly
"Well flip an egg and call me toast!" St John muttered under his breath
"What?" Lance asked
"What?" St John asked confused
"What?" Scott asked, having missed out on what had just been said. Lance groaned and rolled his eyes up
"Heaven help me"
"What?" St John repeated, his nose scrunched up as he tried to figure out what Lance had just said.
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The Plains6.50pm
Jamie watched as Jean rushed back to the toilets, he always wondered why the girl's bathrooms were open all day and yet the boys ones were locked until they had to go into their separate dorms. Shrugging he trotted over to a very angry looking Peitro. The speed demon looked as though he were about to burst a blood vessel.
"Why so glum?" Jamie asked as he plopped down next to the white haired young mutant.
"Kitty-kat-said-that-roguey-doesn't-like-me" Jamie smiled and shook his head
"Well you were the enemy for a long time, so why should she like you?" Peitro hissed and glared at the younger boy
"Shut-up" Jamie shrugged and got up
"I'm going to go and see what's wrong with Jean" Peitro sneered
"Don't-you-know" Jamie shook his head "when-they-took-her-away-they-impregnated-her-and-every-other-girl-her-age" Jamie's eyes widened
"She's pregnant with some guys baby?" Peitro shrugged and nodded his head "wow, I wonder if she'll call it after me, that would be so cool." Peitro watched the chipper young mutant almost skip over to the girl's bathroom to wait until Jean came out again.
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Blair Institute of Mutants, New New York, Saturday 10th April 2307 Experimentation Room 114, adjacent to the arena9.01am
"Subject Remy Le Beau aka Gambit, Mutant number 2033. The Subject has yet to participate in any experiments and test subject Rogue, Mutant number 2986 is being held in the arena for back up if the mutant refuses to comply with our orders." Doctor Helen Lee smiled at the young man who was shackled to the wall, burning red eyes glaring at her.
"Commencing experimentation at 9.03am. So Mr Le Beau how are you this morning" Remy remained silent, he wouldn't do anything they asked him to, not until he saw that Rogue was safe. "Very well. You see that arena just behind me? Well Rogue is held in a cage there. See we hold very dangerous mutants in the arena, ones that kill the other mutants in the other habitats and so they must go into solitary confinement, but every once in a while we let them out for a little play time." Remy's face paled, he couldn't understand how anyone could be this cruel, especially to threaten the life of another human being…'non, we not human t' dem…'
"Y' let her out dis minut'" Doctor Helen Lee smiled softly and shook her head.
"Over there Mr Le Beau are seven different drinks, use your mutant abilities to tell me which one is drinkable and which one isn't. You will drink the one you choose." Remy shook his head
"Mon powers aren' like dat!" Doctor Lee smiled and she waited patiently for a few minutes.
"Do you refuse Mr Le Beau?" he growled
"Remy can' do dis!" Doctor Lee nodded her head and pressed a red button, her cold eyes turned to the arena and Remy's eyes followed her. There, he could just make her out, the smallest of the other mutants and she was just sitting there on the ground, not even bothering about the large mutants that fought around her. His eyes narrowed
"Gambit never said he wouldn' d' it, he jus' can'" Doctor Lee shrugged.
"That isn't my problem then is it?" Remy snarled and his red on black eyes watched as Rogue was attacked, she leapt from the ground, her body twisting away from the mutant. His eyes flickered back to the drinks and they shifted uneasily from the task at hand and from watching Rogue.
"If you make a decision then the mutants will be put back into their cages. She will be safe is you comply." His breathing was coming out quick and shallow; he could feel his body shaking and sweat forming all over him. Clenching his bound hand into a fist he grunted
"De pink one" Doctor Helen Lee pressed the red button again and a whole horde of soldiers carrying stunning guns ran out into the arena to herd the mutants back into their cells.
"There now, that wasn't so hard now was it?" Remy growled and allowed himself to drink the liquid that was in the pink cup. It was plain and simple water for which he was grateful. "Now, you rest for a moment. Experiment 01 was a success. Stay still Mr Le Beau while we get the net experiment up and ready." Remy turned his attention back to the arena. 'Dat wasn' so 'ard, I jus' 'ope Rogue is safe.'
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The Arena, Rogue's cell9.15am
She could have sworn she'd seen Sabertooth out there, fighting with the other stronger mutants. She'd have to check next time, if they could get the brawn into their little escape, then there was a better chance that it would happen. She waited in the dark. She knew that they would open it up again and force her out into the sand that was stained a rusty red from blood that had been spilled. She closed her eyes and hoped that Remy was safe; she couldn't handle it if something happened to him.
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Experimentation Room 114, adjacent to the arena9.22am
He had his eyes closed when they came in again. He realised just after she'd left that he could use his powers, in the heat of picking a bottle to stop the fighting going on in the arena he hadn't even thought about what the doctor woman had said to him.
"Experiment 02 will take place in room 116. The maze. Record time has been set for one hour and twenty-five minutes. We hope that Subject Le Beau will be able to beat this record. Failure to do so will result in rhe punishment of subject Rogue in the Arena." Remy growled, these people were going to pay when he got out of this mess.
The MazeIt was easy enough for him to figure out the right direction, the only problem was that he was getting a little disorientated by the mirrors that were surrounding him. A few times he had to dodge some booby traps that he had set off by passing through a few state of the art detectors, but now that he was aware of them he could bypass their traps easily. His mind was distracted when the computed voice told him his time and how much further he had to go.
"Forty five minutes and counting. You are half way Subject Le Beau." Scowling he continued to push himself, finally deciding to close his eyes and allow his awareness to kick in and help guide him without disorientating himself in the process.
"Eyes open Mr Le Beau, that's cheating. Subject Rogue is punished for five minutes." Remy's eyes snapped open and he slammed a fist on the mirror in front of him, splintering it and injuring himself as well.
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The Arena10.15am
It was him…she moved quickly and dodged the attacks that were sent her way. She somehow managed to find herself standing before the large man, his long blonde hair was mattered, dark, almost black eyes were staring at her with amusement, and he snarled before pushing a mutant that had been creeping up behind her away.
"Sabertooth"
"Rogue" she smiled and shook his hand
"Fancy meeting you hear," she said as she ducked under a punch aimed at her.
"You as well" they moved away from the fighting "so where's the claws?" Rogue's smile faded and she looked away
"Killed" she whispered, Sabertooth snarled and grabbed the nearest mutant and quickly snapped its neck in his anger.
"Who?" Rogue looked up at him, her eyes showing her sadness
"The FOH!" Sabertooth bared his teeth and Rogue was again reminded of how similar Logan and Victor really were. "I have a plan to escape…and when we do, I'll come down and get you…do you accept?" it hadn't been exactly how she had wanted to word it, but she was still unsure of it they could count Victor Creed among them. The savage man nodded his head
"I'll hold you to that" Rogue grinned and punched the man that was behind her before turning back to Sabertooth.
"Good. I'll see you around then" and she disappeared into the fighting mutants just as the soldiers once again came running out to push them back into their holes in the wall.
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The Maze10.29am
He stumbled from the room, his head spinning.
"Experiment 02 is a success. Both subjects will be returned to their habitat before 're-breeding' is to take place in four days between them as their first attempt came up with negative results. This is Doctor Helen Lee head of Mutant interaction and Experimentation. " Remy closed his eyes and allowed the soldiers to drag him all the way back to his dorms and to be thrown back in. he felt sick, and tired, and dizzy. The coolness of the floor soothed him slightly and he felt himself start to drift into sleep. A few voices buzzed overhead but he ignored it, succumbing to the numbness.
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Nocturnal House10.33am
Rogue was thrown in a few minutes after Remy was, she was smiling slightly at the others and she took in the shape Remy was in. brushing off her brothers attempts to check her over to make sure she was alright she motioned to the other males who were awake to follow her into the bathroom.
"What happened?" Shizer asked, as he sat on the toilet seat. Rogue sighed and leant against the wall.
"I met Sabertooth."
"Vhat?" Kurt asked standing up quickly, his eyes wide with fear "did he hurt you?" Rogue shook her head and smiled
"No…he however agreed to help us escape, now that I know where some of the other mutants are we may be able to get more out then we originally thought. " They all nodded their heads thinking about what was going on.
"Where…where is shadows…" Rogue trailed off and K9 patted her shoulder much in the same way shadow did the day before.
"They took his body away. We don't know where it is" Rogue bobbed her head down and clenched her eyes shut.
"In two days we attack. I don't care anymore, this place is hell and we are going to get out!"
"YEAH!" all eyes went to a sheepish looking Shrapnel who was scuffing his toe on the floor. Rogue rolled her eyes and pushed passed them all; she needed a rest after the emotional roller coaster she had been on for the last few days. The others followed her out of the room, their minds on the fact that very soon, all of them might be free.
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Ryoko Subaru: oooh….what the? I apologise for the chop and change stuff that was going on, but it needed to happen. There were also many appearances of mutants….hehehe I hope that you all didn't get too confused.
Joshima: that's right, no one really dies in this fic, they just get really bad boo boo's
Ryoko Subaru: *looks at Joshima strangely* are you all right? You should seriously stop watching George of the Jungle.
Joshima: *shrugs* why?
Ryoko Subaru: *rolls her eyes* anyway some help and stuff. L.U.S.U.B means (love you see you bye) and is © of my sister who made it up! Yeah! Umm… I think that's about it. If you have any questions then ask Joshima…he understand things better then me
Joshima: that's cause you're an absolute idiot she also forgot to mention that 'flip an egg and call me toast' means 'well ill be darned' and anything else that you think it might mean.
Ryoko Subaru: right! :D