Disclaimer: I don't own the Xmen but I own Cyrus and Rose.
Chapter 8: Surprises Never Get Old
As Scott and Logan were walking towards the mansion. Magneto stood there smiling, just then he said something, "Wait, the both of you." They looked at him. "Coming here." He said.
Logan and Scott to Magneto and stand in front of him.
Magneto looks at them. "No, don't attack, not just yet." He turned around and paced. "if you two go in now, you will most likely fall to Charles and his fellow mutants. Instead we shall wait until we attack, we shall recruit more mutants to fight with us." Magneto said and then the BrotherHood exited.
**
Later that night, Angelo approaches the Professor. "Professor?"
Charles turned and faced Angelo. "Yes?"
"Scott's missing. He said he was going to take a little jog around the mansion… but that was over five hours ago!"
Charles jaw dropped. "Angelo, are you sure it has been that long?"
"I'm positive, Professor." Angelo said.
"Well then… let me go in cerebro to see where he and Logan are at."
**
Charles, Emma, and Hank then walk in cerebro and Emma and Hank stand behind Charles while he approaches to put it on his head.
Charles put it on his head, gulped and started to talk before he used cerebro. "Emma, while I use this read my mind to see what I see and tell Hank what you see, I'm going to concentrate very hard to see those two could be. My guesses are Eric got them…"
Charles puts on cerebro and searches all the mutants in the world.
Beast looks at Emma while she is seeing what Charles is seeing.
"Emma, what do you see? See any of them yet?" he asked.
Emma looked at Hank, "No, not yet anyway."
After many minutes of searching, Charles takes it off his head and sets it down. He turns around and faces Emma and Hank.
"Charles, don't tell me you're going to stop now." Emma said.
"I know where they are at… They are with Eric." Charles said and then took a deep breath.
Hank looked at him. "How are you sure of this?"
He sighed, "Eric knows how to block cerebro to keep himself safe from it. And since I can't get to them they have to be with him."
**
Weeks have gone by the mansion without Scott and Logan there. The students are around the school, in different locations. Professor X uses his mind power and sends them all a message "My children, please meet me in the living room for a meeting." Charles demanded.
All the students go in the living as soon as they hear the message. Cyrus and Rose sit on the couch together, Angelo and Rogue sit on the other couch and Bobby is leaning up against the wall. Emma and Hank are standing near the students and Charles rolls in.
"Good, everyone has made it." Charles commented.
"So, Professor, what's up?" Bobby asked.
"Since the disappearance of Logan and Scott, I've been looking at different mutants to be a teacher to help you. And with that said we have two new teachers that are joining us; this first one is Kurt Wagner." Kurt then bamfs in the room and stands next to Charles and he continued, "Please don't be scared of his looks, he is a transporter. Whenever we are in uniform you shall call him Nightcrawler. And the second teacher that will be joining us is Sean Cassidy." Sean walks in and stands beside Charles, "His codename is Banshee."
**
Later the next day Eric is with his BrotherHood of mutants. Eric faces them while they are sitting and begins to speak. "Jean, Sabertooth, Toad, Logan and Scott, let me introduce to you the newest members of the Brotherhood. First is Betsy, she's a telepathic like Charles and Emma, and she's also a ninja. Next is John… but we like to call him Pyro. Next to him we have Remy, whom I like to call Gambit. Now with all of us fighting with one another, we shall defeat the X-Men and then the real war, between humans and mutants, shall begin!"
**
At the mansion, Rose is under her favorite spot under the willow tree, when all of a sudden a card falls onto the ground. She looks up and Gambit comes jumping down and puts his hand over her mouth. "Now listen, dis is a message for de Professor." He hands her a piece of paper. "Give dis to him and tell him dat a war is going to happen sooner than he can dink." Remy said then pushed Rose on the ground and exited. Rose paused, not ever expected something like that would ever happen. She stands up and runs inside looking for the Professor.
She finally reaches him. "Professor!" She yelled, breathing hard.
Charles went towards her. "What? What is it? What happened?"
"Here… someone told me to give this to you." She said and handed him the letter.
Charles read it and tilted his head and placed a hand on his head, rubbing it. "Eric… why are you going so far?" He asked himself.
Charles went to the teachers.
Hank looked at Charles. "Is everything OK, Charles?" he asked.
Charles put down his head. "No… for the first time no Hank…"
"Is it Magneto?" Kurt asked.
"Yes…" Charles then thought to myself.
Emma looked at him. "What are you going to do, Charles?"
"I'm going to go have a chat with an old friend…" he responded.
"You can't go alone!" Sean exclaimed.
"I have to, if he would to see anyone else other than me, he would kill them. Please, do yourselves all a favor and just stay here." Charles said and then went to the X-Jet.
As Charles was taking off Emma and Sean look at him leaving.
Emma looked at Sean, "Do you think everything will be OK?"
"Yeah, I'm sure the lad knows what he's doin'."
**
Cyrus is walking down the hallway when he comes upon the bathroom door. He sticks his ear on it to hear who was in there. He hears singing happening while someone is taking their shower, and that someone was Rogue. He laughed to himself and ran upstairs and ran in the other bathroom. He looks at the toilet, goes to it and flushes. Seconds later the only thing that could be heard was a screech coming from Rogue. Bobby hears the screech and runs to the bathroom. "Rogue?" he asked, "Are you OK?"
Rogue opens the door and has a towel wrapped around her, and she looks at Bobby straight in his eyes. "Robert… Drake… was that you??"
Bobby looked at her confused. "What was what me?" He asked, not even knowing what came out of his own mouth.
"If yah didn't do it…then it must've been…" She stopped, her eyes widened and cringed her teeth and finish her sentence, "it must've been Cyrus…"
Bobby laughed, "What'd he do now?"
"He must've flushed a toilet while I was taking my shower and the water was freezing!" She said shivering.
"Freezing water? That's the best kind of shower to take!" He said.
She sighed and looked at him. "Sorry, hun, but people without the name 'Iceman' like to take warm or hot showers."
She started to think, after a few seconds she got a big smile on her face. Bobby looked at her with fear on him.
"Rogue… what do you have planned for Cy?" He asked.
She looked at him, "oh nothing, sugar. Just don't be near him today…" she said and walked away.
Bobby, like any typical man, looked at her walk away and whistled.
**
Later on that day Cyrus is sitting on his windowsill, watching Rose read 'Hamlet' when he reaches for his Spanish guitar. When he looked at it he found out that the strings have been taken off. His eyes bugged opened and yelled, "ROGUE!!"
Rogue walks in his doorway, nice and calm, and asks "what?"
He looks at her, with a angry face on him. "Where are my strings at??"
"Oh, yah mean THESE one's?" She pulled out the strings out of her pocket.
"Yes, THOSE one's." He said and started to get up. He stopped, and then realized he can't get up. He was stuck on his windowsill. He looked at her, "You didn't…"
She laughed, "Of course I did, sugar."
"You glued me down?!" He exclaimed.
"Yup, I sure did. This is payback for what yah did to me while I was in the shower." She said and walked away pleased.
**
That night everyone is inside, waiting for Charles to return. Hank talks to Sean. "Let me go check up on the Generation X institute."
Kurt over hears and looks at Hank, "what's the Generation X institute?" he asked.
"It's our other institute for gifted people, people who need more help before they become a X-Men member." Hank responded.
"My daughter, Siren, is a teacher there." Sean commented.
Hank goes to the computer and checks in. He clicks on the icon that reads 'Gen-X Institute' and waits for it to open. When it opens the only thing on the computer screen is the word 'DESTROYED'. His eyes widened and yelled for the other teachers. They gather around Hank and look at the screen.
"Oh my God…" Kurt said.
"How'd this happen?" Emma asked.
"Oh my starts and garters…" Hank said.
"My daughter!" Sean exclaimed. "How could this have happened?"
Hank looked at him, "I don't know, my friend. I guess we will have to go down there and found out ourselves."