Chapter 2: Numb As A Statue

DJneo24 - First off I must thank my first reviewer 'DaasBuffy'... THANK YOU! Moving on... well I told you someone else would be writing this chapter. This is Warren (my other half, well you get it)

Warren - Hey!

DJneo24 - Warren is the guy that's going to just screw you up while you read this!

Warren - (snickers) I don't know what you mean! Ok here we go

***************************** "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. I know right now you can't tell, but stay a while, and maybe then you'll see a different side of me!" - Matchbox Twenty (Unwell) *****************************

**Recap Flashback**

"Can you help me... can you read my mind?" The professor took a long deep breath.
"I can try..."

**End Recap Flashback**

The professor sat with his hands just over Bobby's head. Bobby lay there on his bed still as a statue. He closed his eyes as the bald headed man above him entered into his mind. It was black all around him as the professor stood up, he could tell Bobby was in pain. He saw something... something like a light... a spectrum. He walked towards it, but it kept moving further and further away. As he finally caught up to it the alarm sounded and he lost his concentration. Bobby sat up alarmed and hit his head against the professor's.
"Oww! I'm sorry... did you find anything?!" Bobby was shouting over the loud noise of the alarm towards his mentor.
"We'll talk later! Right now you have to go with the team!"
"But..."
"GO!" he followed the orders he was given, but he didn't know how he would be of use considering the fact that he was completely out of the mind set to fight a toddler much less a being that had the potential to kill him. He ran toward the Black Bird Jet and as he did he ran into Cyclops (not literally).
"Why are you here?"
"I've come to take the damn thing out for a joy ride! What the hell do you think?! I'm here to help!"
"You? Help? Did the Professor brainwash you?" Bobby gave his 'friend' and evil glare. "All right, all right... I won't say anything until after we take care of the problem." They started moving towards the massive jet once again.
"Speaking of which, who is the problem?"
"Da problem is our ol' friend Magneto!" Gambit said surprising the two X-Men from behind. "He'z attackin' da military institute VMI!"
"Why?"
"Iz Magneto, need i say mor'?" Bobby shook his head to show that he understood and followed the two men onto the plane. Jean, Rouge, Beast, and Wolverine were already onboard and seated. The Black Bird let out a loud noise before lifting off of the ground.

**About 10 Minutes Later At VMI (Virginia Military Institute)**

"There he is, that son of a b..." Wolverine was interrupted by Scott.
"Rouge! You take Wolverine and Gambit, and attack him from the left. Jean, Iceman, Beast, and myself will take the right and we'll all through everything we've got at him. Rouge, while taking the hands of both Wolverine and Gambit flew out of the top of the Black Bird, while Cyclops and his team ran out of the loading dock. His team charged on from their direction and threw everything that they had at him, but he seemed to know every move that they would make.
"The all mighty X-Men, are nothing but dirt. You can't even take out one mutant!" Magneto lifted Wolverine by the adamantium in his skeleton and dropped him into the college school next to them, and then he lifted the Jet. Rouge and Beast tried to stop him but they got pinned under it. The rest of the team rushed to their aid while the villain flew off, and after he did Jean passed out. Bobby instinctively built up ice pillars under the 3 ton jet to lift it off his fallen comrades. Scott rushed to Rouge as he was the only one wearing gloves and he checked her pulse.
"She's still alive but barely." He looked over to Gambit who was next to the massive pile know as the Beast. He didn't say anything, he didn't have to. They look in his eyes told them everything. Bobby started to cry. At that moment he knew that the man who was like a father to him, Hank McCoy, Beast, his teacher, his mentor was dead. Logan (Wolverine) stumbled out of the huge pile of rubble seemingly unharmed, and just in time to see the news crews on their way.

**Back At The Mansion**

The Professor was sitting at his desk watching the news.
"A group of mutants attacked the Virginian Military Institute today. It is believed that they are part of the mutant liberation front, a new group very similar to the Black Panthers. We did get a few shots of the attackers..." Wolverine and Gambits faces flashed over the monitor. "These mutants are considered to be very dangerous." Just then Black Bird landed and Scott came running down the empty hallway carrying Rouge and Jean close behind. He took he into the medical room, and the curious Professor guided the wheel chair into the room behind the group.
"What happened?" he asked. Scott was still in tears but he explained the whole thing while Jean got to work on Rouge. Then he told him to go check on Bobby because he looked even more distraught than before.
When the Professor got to his Iceman's bed room he found Bobby kneeling on the by his bed crying into his mattress.
"Why? Why couldn't I save him?"
"It wasn't your fault, there was nothing that you could have..."
"Done? Nothing I could have done? You know my powers... there's about a million things that I could have done! I froze out there, now Beast is dead and Rouge's on the operating table!"
"You didn't freeze up... you saved Rouge's life! You are a hero. I know it hurts that you lost Hank, it hurts for me too. It's ok to cry, and mourn, but you can't ever blame yourself!"
"A hero? A hero, am I? Then why can't I even figure out what's wrong with me. Why have I let my team down so much? WHY?"
"You saved a life, Bobby! And as for you, what ever it is you're hiding... I don't think that you're ready to find out what it is yet! I found it but it evaded me, ran from me. You aren't ready for it."
"Not ready? What the hell do you mean not ready? What ever it is, it's destroying my relationship with everyone and blocking out my train of thought! I need to know what is going on with me! If out can't help me, maybe I should find somebody who can!" Bobby stood up pushed by the Professor and slammed the door.

**Meanwhile Back In The Medical Room**

"Scott, I have to give her an injection. Fill this siring with 9 mL of that green fluid over there."
"What is it?" Scott asked his wife.
"An antivirus! Hurry up! If we don't get this into her soon enough she'll die!"

*********************************** Warren - Well what's gonna happen to poor Rouge? and Bobby? and the rest of the X-men? I guess you'll just have to come back for more next time!

DJneo24 - My god! I put you in for one chapter and you kill somebody, put someone near death, and Put poor Bobby so close to have a mental breakdown it isn't even funny! (Laughing) I loves ya man! Don't forget to review!