I'M FREE


Disclaimer: Marvel characters do not belong to me. Once I steal all of Bill Gates ideas, the I'll buy Marvel and then evey single character of Marvel will do my bidding. The song is not mine either, but hey it's a deep song.

Author's Notes: Please review. I know it's kinda long, but I'd really appreciate if you let me know if it sucks or not. Trust me the next chapter will have you on the edge of your seat.

Summary: Magneto has a little something up his sleeve, regarding the X-men. When he kidnaps the team its up to the one he left behind to save the day, and it ain't who you think it is.


Ratings: R, for the language.



It was a cold Monday morning, and everyone was still asleep in their rooms. With the exception of Jubilation Lee, better known as Jubilee. Normally she'd be the last person to go to sleep, and the first person to wake up.

Today was a different day, and she decided that she had enough of this lifestyle. She was sick and tired of watching the people she loved die or get hurt. She was tired of the abuse her body had to take, from all of the rigerous training and workouts. Most of all she was just tired of being an X-Men. She wanted out, and that's exactly what she was doing.

She stood at the foot of her bed with a pile of clothes in her hand, trying to figure out what to pack next.
Then suddenly without warning, the mansion alarms went off. She heard all the commotion downstairs, and did not suit up for battle. Her time as an X-Man was over.

"Come on people, we're under attack!" Scott bellowed as he raced toward the entrance of the school.

He looked out the window and he could make out one shadowy figure in the front lawn.

"How did he get past our gates?"

" That's not important now. What's important now is how are you going to get rid of us"

Scott turned around to see Magneto along with Mystique, The Blob and Juggernaun .He also noticed that the rest of the X-Men were wearing inhibitor collars, and that their powers were useless.

Scott prepared to use his eyebeams, when someone came from behind him and snapped on an inhibitor collar. He turned to see that Sabretooth was also among Magneto's henchmen.

" What do you want Magneto"

"Well Cylops, I'm here for three reasons"

"Well I'm waiting"

"Did your mother ever teach you any manners, well I guess I'll have to teach you.

Cyclops felt the collar around his neck tighten like a vise grip. Shortly Scott found it hard, if not impossible to breathe.

"Don't do that again Cyclops, is that clear"

Since he could not breathe, he could only nod in agreement.

"Now the reason I'm here is because I need the Professor. That my friends is reason one. Reason Two I need a protege. Reason three I need to use Cerebro."

Jean was crying at this point especially after seeing her husband attacked. Yet she still had the courage to find her voice and speak up.

"The professor is not here. He's away on a seminar to help young mutants. We can't help you there, but if you let us go we will help you in any way possible."

"Do you think I'm dumb!"

"No I was'nt implying...."

"Shut up!! If my memory serves me completly we need a telepath to operate Cerebro right?"

"Only the professor is skilled enough to use it"

"Jean did'nt I say shut up!! I built the damn thing, along with Xavier. Therefore I know how it works. So, since Xavier's not here we'll just have to use the next best thing"

"You aint going to touch her bub, if ya get my drift!"

"Ha Ha Ha Logan, you're still alive. I thought I got rid of you the last time we had our little song and dance."

"If ya think ya can waltz in here anytime ya want, and make crazy demands then you don't know the X-men."

"My patience is running very thin little man. I have asked, and now I'm demanding. Jean get your sorry ass in the Cerebro chamber now!!!!"

"GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

"Don't worry Logan, we'll get to play with each other in a moment."

"Look sugah we'll help you any way we can, but you must let me know. What do yo want from us?"

"Ah Rouge my love. I think of all that could've been, but you've moved on and so have I. You have Remy here, and I have my masterplan."

"Which is Mon Dieu."

"My little cajun friend, would you like to know. Well I just got word that there's a powerful young mutant, whose just discovered his powers. His heart is cold and black, so I don't think he'll be joining the good guys anytime soon. That's why I need Cerebro, so that I can track him down. Then I plan to kill him."

"I won't help you if you're just going to kill some innocent child."

" Well Jean, Let's look at it this way, its either him or you. As a matter of fact, you've wasted enough of my time. Jean let's go!!"

With that being said he violently grabbed Jean's hair as he lead her to the Cerebro. There were two voices that could be heard calling her name, and no matter what she would love them both for all eternity.


Jubilee opened her window, and began to crawl out of the ledge. She heard all the commotion downstairs, but she was no longer an X-Man. So she just did'nt care anymore. That is until she heard Jean screaming at the top of her lungs.

"OH PLEASE STOP!! I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE. IT HURTS. NO MORE PLEASE!!!"

Jubilee climbed back in her window. There would be plenty of times that she could walk out, but this was clearly not the time. She walked back in her room and took off her shoes. She climbed on top of her dresser and gently pulled at the ventilation shaft. '

The vent shaft opened very smoothly, and she sat it off to the side as she climbed in the crawlspace. She turned around to reach back on her dresser to retrieve the vent cover, and put it back into place.

She made this little entryway,for whenever she wanted to spy on people.
Especially Wolveine.

She crawled and crawled until she reached the Cerebro room. She almost cried out in horror, when she saw Jean on cerebro. Sure Jean been on it a bunch of times, but never to the extent where blood was falling down the sides of her face.

Jubilee wanted to rush right down there to save the day, but against Magneto it would be pointless. So she decided to see where all of this was leading.

"Please stop!! I've found him. He's in New Zealand. His name is Zachary Taylor, and he's fourteen years old. He can conrtroll metal like you, but he's stronger, Much stronger. I sense an greater evil in him that goes beyond anything, I've ever seen before. He's not worth it Magneto. Let him be, or I fear he'll be the death of us all."

" Not if I can help it. Which one of you losers can fly the Blackbird?"

"Scott or Storm."

"Scott it is then."

"No wait you can't take Scott, I'll go if you just let him go!"

"Jean was that a proposition? You know what I think. I'll just take you all along with me after all. Well come on, the others are waiting."

Jubilee quietly turned around and headed for the one place she would be of help. She headed to the Blackbird. There had to be somewhere that she could hide, until she could be of help. So she began.
****

"Logan you of all people should be interested in phase two of my little plan."

"You betta leave me outta this Metals, I ain't in tha mood. You may have won the last time, but this I ain't ready to lose!"

"News flash Wolverine, I win everytime."

"Boss it's time to leave."

"Thank you Mystique. Everyone get up, it's time we all took a little trip. Let's go to the Blackbird."


Jubilee stood in the plane, trying to figure out where to hide. Then she suddenly realized that she could hide in the cargo bay. So she hurriedly scrambled inside, and closed the door behind her. She moved to a spot where she could see the passenger section, and had to stiflle a surprised moan when Magneto entered the plane.

"O.k. Jean are you still up for flying this bird? I did'nt think so Cyclops if you will."


The rest of the ride went in silence. No one said a word, and surely they wondered what the madman wanted with them. Not only that but the team was rapidly falling apart.

Jean was now a mess, barely able to stay awake. The entire team feared that she would black out, without ever regaining conciousness again.

Scott was flying the plan under the watchful eyes of Magneto.

Rouge was crying uncontrollably, while Gambit tried to calm her down.

Wolverine was trying his hardest to keep the animal side in him in check.

Storm was trying to console everyone, which was hard, because she always had Mystique in her face.

The team was falling apart fast, and there was'nt anything anybody could do about it at the moment.


The plane ride took over four hours to reach New Zealand. Once they were there, Scott set the coridinates to a little hideaway that Magneto had selected earlier. Once there they found that he'd chose a very sophisticated cave, that was equipped with all kinds of traps and alarms. Surely, Magneto has been toying with his little plan for quite some while.

"O.K. everyone we're finally here. Blob take Jean to the Medi-Center. She needs immediate medical attention, besides I'm not quite done with her yet. Sabretooth take Wolverine to the torture chamber, and don't you dare touch him. He's very important for my next phase. Mystique take the remaining members to their holding cells. If they try to escape, do not hesitate to kill them.Move it out!!"

Magneto went to his private quarters to rest. Four in a half hours on a plane had taken a lot out of him. He needed all the rest that he'd could get. The next few hours will prove to be trying indeed to him. He closed his eyes and slept decently in a long time, since his plan came to play.


Jubilee finally emerged from the plane, with caution on her mind. She made her way to the entrance of the plane. She headed toward the cave and went inside of it. She heard where they were taking Wolvie. As far as she was concerned, no one was ever going to torture Wolvie again. Not as long as she had breathe left in her body. So she went on her search.
*********


Magneto woke up feeling quite refreshed. He glanced around the room and mentally gave himself a pat on the back. He'd finally caught the X-men. Things were definately about to get intersting.

"Now it's time for work.

Magneto headed toward the chamber room. As soon as he got in the front of the cave entrance, he noticed small footprints going into the cave.

*That's funny. Where did such little footprints come from? Oh yes now I remember, the runt. Gee he's sure a small one. Ha Ha Ha*

He went inside the cave and saw that Logan did indeed remained untouched. He was proud of Sabretooth. Logan was strapped in wrist cuffs that hung above his head. He had gone all feral now. I guess looking at Creed's ugly mug all day could do that to someone though. Sabretooth played his part exceptionally well, and now it was time for him to play an even bigger role in his plan.

"Sabretooth, make sure that Logan is strapped in securely on the right side of that cave. Then once you're done, I want you to take your position on the left side of the cave. Make sure Logan is tied up, then I'll give further instructions."

Victor Creed snickered as he tightned the wrist cuffs on Logan. He loved the fact that Wolverine was feral now. That usually meant that the fun's would shortly come.
After the he strapped in Wolerine, he took his spot on the left side of the cave.

"Now Creed Turn your back to the cave wall. Then I want you to push both of the levers down, that's on both the left and right side of you. You must let them down at the same time. When I say go, you'll do as I say, is that clear?"

"Yeah yeah yeah. Can we get this done with? I'd like to play with ta runt before he dies."

"In time Creed. Now get ready. Now!!"

Sabretooth did exactly what he was told. He'd expected Logan's head to blow up, or to see tons electricity to flow through the runt's body. However, he'd never expected to be betrayed by Magneto. For the moment he pushed down the levers. Six cuffs shot from the wall, immobilizing him to the wall. He had cuffs on both wrist, his waist, both ankles, and he had a inhibitor collar around his neck.


"I was looking foward to killing tha runt, but now your ass is on tha top of my list!"

With the flick of his wrist a piece of squared metal flew and became attached to Creed's lips.

"Don't you people ever shut up!! Now boys the second phase has begun. I will sucessfuly drain all of blood, which will become mine. Not only will I be the master of magnetism, but I will be unstoppable. Thanks to you both. Now let the transfusion begin."


Magento removed a small remote control, that he had hid in pocket. He sat down in the little makeshift chair that waited for him. Then he pressed the button on the remote. Two needle point wires shot into both his left and right arm. Almost immediatly he felt the blood draining into his system. To Creed it seemed that Magneto was crazy for filling his body to the max with blood. Unbeknownst to everyone else, that Magneto gave himself a self inflicted wound and bled out the majority of his blood. Not all of it just some, and replaced the missing quarts of blood from Wolverine and Creed.


When he could take no more blood, he pressed the button once again. The wires suddenly released from his arms. He felt so powerful, but the last phase had yet to come. That phase included the young mutant named Zacary Taylor. He looked at both Wolverine and Creed, with a sinister smile on his face. With another flick of his wrist, Magneto made a metalic switch blade, and held it out for inspection.

"Let's see if my little plan worked shall we?"

Magneto put the blade to his wrist, and quickly slid the knife across his tender flesh. The pain was great, but in no time at all the wound closed right back up. He dropped the remote and the knife on the ground., because it was now useless to him.

"It would seem that you two have served your purpose. I'm about to check on Jean, for she's important in my last phase. I hated I had to push her so far with Cerebro, but you see I needed that information. As soon as I'm finished with her, I'll be back to finish you two off. You did'nt really think I'd let you live after all of this. Did you?"

Magneto walked out of the cave, and headed to the Medi-Center. His plan was almost over, and very soon the X-Men would be no more.
*****

Jubilee wanted to cry out throughout the entire ordeal, as Magento took away Logan's essence. Yet, she dared not, for fear that she would be found out. She emerged from her hiding place within the crevices of the cave wall. She walked up to Wolverine, and for the first time in her life he actually looked defeated. She softly caressed his face, and the tears began to fall.

Wolverine stired a little before he forced his eyes to open. He was now too weak to be feral, and Jubilee knew it. The pain in his eyes told her that his fight was over.

"Jubes........Wha......are...ya doing here...Leave me please."

"Wolvie you know I can't do that"

"PLEASE!"

"I can't."

"I'm...not worth your life.....Jubilee."

"That's just it. To me you are. I was about to quit the X-men when I heard you guys in trouble."

"What?"

"Yeah. Then I heard him saying that you were an important part of his plan. I couldn't walk on you like that. Friends don't abandon friends."

"I'm asking you as a friend to leave..... Jubes.... Darlin I don't want ta see ya hurt. Everybody is out fer tha count, even me. If you ever cared about me ya leave."

"Logan I can't do that."

"Please Jubes."

For as long as Jubilee had known Logan, she had never ever saw him cry before.
So the sight of him crying now brought pain to her heart like never before. She glanced down to hide her own tears and noticed the knife and the remote lying by her feet."

**There has to be a way to reverse this little gizmo. Waitaminute I'll just do the same thing Magneto did, and press this other button.**

"Jubes please, please...."

She turned her back to Wolvie and quickly slit her wrist, then she quickly sat in the small chair that Magneto sat in. She hid her arm from Logan as she pressed the remote button. She pressed the first button that Magneto pressed first. She felt Wolvie's and Creed's blood rush into her body. She sat there stunned at the feeling of it all. Then she pressed an red button, that she guessed was the reverse button. If she was wrong at least she would die, with the only man that she ever really loved.

At once her wrist healed, then all of a suddened it reopened. It scared her first, then she realized that the reversal had worked afterall. She felt her blood being drained from her body as it went to both Logan and Sabretooth. She would have prefered to give all her blood to Wolvie, but she had no other choice.

Once the reversal process was over, Jubilee slunk down in her chair too weak to move. She glanced over at Wolvie, who was now looking at her from the corner of his eye. He was still crying and calling out her name over and over again.

She finally found the strenght to get up, and she walked over to Wolvie. She removed his inhibitor collar, a talent she learned from Gambit when they were prisoners on Genosha. Then she removed the wrist cuffs that he was hanging to.

In one motion he collapsed in her arms. Since she did'nt have the strenght, they both fell instantly to the floor.

Wolverine looked into the eyes of the young girl, who had just risked her life for him, and wondered why.

"Why Jubes, why?"

"It's simple Wolvie.....I would do anything for you. Which ironically is the case right now."

"Jubes I'm not worth it, and I can't understand why you'd put your life on the line and die for me."

"Wolvie I have and I will always....Love you."

"I'll kill the sorry son of a....... He'll pay Jubes, HE'LL PAY!!"

"Wolvie......."

"Jubes I love you too kid, more than you ever know. Do me a favor, will ya?"

"Anything Wolvie, anything"

"You know that singer Kenny Loggins"

"Like, he's so old Logan"

"Do you know him?"

"Yeah I know him."

"Do me a small favor. Hide back in that small crevice that you were hiding in, and sing that cheesy song of his."

"All of his songs are cheesy."

"No their not, besides I've heard ya singing them a time or two myself."

"Logan if you don't speed things up Magnus will be back in here to finish us both off."

"O.K. kid. Just sing that song" I'm free", and it'll tell you exactly how I feel about you. When I get done we can take things from there o.k?"

"O.K."

Logan caressed her face once again, and helped her back into the small crevice behind the wall. Before Logan could walk off Jubilee grabbed his arm.

"Logan be careful."

"I will darlin."

In a move more out of desperation than anything else, he pulled her into a passionate embrace.

"Sing the song darlin. I think Creed is going to want to wake up for a little payback too."

"Trust me runt, I'm already awake, and grossed out of my mind. Ya always liked em young, did'nt ya. Well what are ya waiting for. There's a man that can control metal, and have our healing factor to boot. We're not one hundred percent, but thanks to tha frail we should be able to beat him."

"Let's roll Creed, but if ya try something funny I'll kill ya."

"Likewise runt, likewise."


Jubilee stared at the man she loved walk away from her as the tears begin to gather in her eyes. She was surprised when Logan kissed her. However, she still felt that It was more of a goodbye kiss than one out of passion.

She knew that she could'nt last for long. She had drained away most of her blood, and her wrist was now reopened. Yet she did'nt think about that. She decided to sing that song that Logan told her to sing. She was a bit curious as to what hidden message in the song, was meant for Jubilee to hear. So she began huming the song in her head, listening closely to every word of the song.


Looking into your eyes I know I'm right
If there's anything worth my love is worth a fight
We only get one chance
But nothing ties our hands
Your what I want
Listen to me
Nothing I want
Is out of my reach.
I'm free.

Heaven helps the man who fights his fear.
Loves the only thing that keeps me here.
I'm free.
You're the reason that I'm hanging on.
My hearts staying where my heart belongs.
I'm free!
Running away will never make me free.
And nothing we sign is any kind of gurantee

I want to hold you now.
I won't hold you down.
Shaking the past
Making the breaks
Taking control, that's what's it takes.
I'm free!

Heaven helps the man who fights his fear
Loves the only thing that keeps me here
I'm free

No good reason that I'm hanging on
My heart's staying where my heart belongs.
I'm free!

I want to hold you now!
I won't hold you down.
You're what I want,
Listen to me.
Nothing that walks out of my reach
I'm free

Heaven helps the man that fights his fear
Loves the only thing that keeps me here
No good reason that I'm hanging on
My heart's staying where my heart belongs.


"My god he really loves me, enough that he'd even die for me. Guess what Logan, my hearts staying where my heart belongs too."