AN: here we go, part two of this little saga.  Please note that, since FFNet has been down for 2 DAYS NOW!!!!!!, I will be cranky when all chapters past 9 or 10 go up, until I state otherwise.  Thus, flamers, whom would usually be ignored, ridiculed a little, then have their flames used to make a s'more, will be ripped to shreds, anally reamed by a Sentinel, given to Wolverine for a game of 'Shadow Stalk' sans paint, fed alive to a rabid Yorkie, given to a starving Great White, then will join Lance in being reformed.  *D-Ark motions towards a door labeled 'Lance's Reforming Room.' Through the door, screams of 'NO, ANYTHING BUT THE TELETUBBIES!!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!' quickly followed by more screams, this time, 'NOT THE BARNEY SONG!!!!!!!!! D-Ark then grabs the camera, and turns it away* the sight of that room is too gruesome for you all. Go on now, scroll down and read the fic I labored so hard on, working past my deprivation of reviews.

Chaotic Boredom:  Thanks for all the reviews.  Sorry your mother thinks your crazy.  Have you checked to make sure there isn't some Vaseline on the chair, cause you keep falling off.  I agree with you about the Rogue, and there will be more, it's just that I have three or four 'saga' things planned.  Each saga could also be called a mini-series in the story. This particular saga centers on the New Mutants, A.K.A. X-Men Blue Team.  Later sagas will focus on combos of characters, or New Mutants with some older X-Men thrown in.  There will be more Rogue and some of the other X-Men, just not quite yet.  And as for Rahne, I know, I know, but it had to be done for the plot…  Plus, imagine her reaction when she sees Moira alive?  And yes, I like using songs, especially during major fights, and turning points, as they have the effect of increasing the impact of a scene.  Try listening to a fast-paced song while reading a fight scene, and you'll see what I mean.  And as for the inconsistencies, I was so FF.Net deprived; I wasn't quite paying attention the first time through, and sorta screwed up a few consistency things.  When I went back to correct them I thought I got the original text out.  I guess I didn't… Oh well, on to the important part.  The Fic

(AN: This chapter will switch mostly between Kyle and Rahne's P.O.V., thus, we get to deal with Rahne's wolf persona, and it's nicknames for people.  I will place the name of the person in brackets next to the nickname, and it's source, the first time I use it.)

Chapter 13: The Entrance

Several members of the newly declared X-Men Blue Team woke earlier than they expected, finding themselves awake well before dawn.  Yet it was not Wolverine who woke them, indeed, the self-regenerating berserker was still asleep himself, but obviously ready to leap to action in a split-second.  As Rahne sat up from where she was sleeping, she saw that there were five other bodies moving in the dark of the cave.  As she watched them, the wolf in her laughed at her foolishness, calmly informing her that it was just Sightless Hunter (Kyle, for the 'Shadow Stalk' Scenario,) Flaming One (Amara, for her Magma form.) Frozen one, (Which one? Bobby, for his Iceman form) her mate, which brought a furious blush to her face, and a silent, 'He is not' to her wolf half (Sam, for reason's you don't get to know yet.) and Snapping Cub (Jubilee, for her youth, and occasionally, um… snappish personality).  Rahne then stood up slowly, and then whispered to the other early birds.

"If ye' all don' stop ye' squirmin', ye goin' tae' be a waken' th' others', an' they aren' goin' ta' be happy, iffen ye' take me meanin'."  The five bodies turned to look at Rahne, and Kyle spoke, and spoke in equally hushed tones.

"And good morning Rahne, I suggest that we get a fire going, since it seems to have burnt itself out.  We can figure out why we're awake once we've done that."

The other bodies nodded, and two of them broke off from the shadows to go and fetch more wood for the new fire.

However, they made a single mistake, they forgot that, to get to where the wood is, they had to pass Wolverine.  And, no matter how quietly they walked, they would never slip past the man's keen senses.  As they walked past him, his eyes sprang open, and he began to move, a battle cry coming to his lips.  Kyle had luckily been edging towards Wolverine, just in case he suddenly heard a noise from one of the presently awake students, and stopped him with a quick palm to the chest. Speaking low and fast, in a tone they had never heard from him before.

"Wolverine, impaling two of your charges would not be a good thing. The two of them are going to get some wood, and killing them isn't exactly the smartest move you could make.  We are presently lucky that the rest of our team is maintaining the normal teenage sleeping pattern, which would allow them to sleep through a nuclear explosion.  Put the claws away, sit back down, and take a few deep breaths with your nose.  Mystique can't impersonate two people at once, so obviously if both scents check out, then we are in no danger, correct."  The last statement was not a question.

The very powerful man nodded, and took a few sniffs.  Shaking his head clear of the fogginess of sleep, he nodded, and sat back down on his original perch, wide awake.

"Who else is up." He asked, his tone gruff.

"Rahne, those two, who have yet to speak so that I may be able to identify them, and one other, who also hasn't spoken yet."

Rahne spoke up, her lilting voice suppressed by her effort not to wake the others.

"Bobby, Amara, an' Sam are th' others, Kyle me boy."

Wolverine nodded, and sat down, intent on guarding his charges.

Bobby and Sam each came back about ten minutes later, carrying some wood each.

"Mystique's gotta be slipping.  From the looks of things back there, she hasn't been down here ever."

Wolverine glared at his charges, "How do you know that?"

Sam spoke next, "Thare's a torch lit up near th' staeirs."

Kyle shook his head, "A torch that wasn't lit last night.  Obviously, it was lit this morning… She knows were coming."

Wolverine nodded.  Silently, he admitted that he had to hand it to Jacob; he trained the kid well.  "And she wants us to know it to."

As the conscious members of the Blue team got their fire going, they were all pensive.  Just what could Mystique have planned, if she wanted them to know she knew they were coming.  Finally, Wolverine spoke.

"I'm goin' to contact Cycs, let her know that Mystique is ready for us.  Maybe we can surprise the b*tch."

"But how do we surprise her, if she knows were coming?" Bobby asked.

"Not all surprises require the element of surprise." Said Kyle.

"Huh?" was the general reaction to that statement.

Meanwhile, Logan was on the communicator, communicating with Cyclops.

After closing the link to Gold Team, Logan sighed, and turned to his charges.

"Good News is, she apparently has no idea that the others are there, meaning they have the element of surprise… Bad news, there's no time to switch entrances, so we get to go in the hard way."

Kyle nodded, "How long til we hit?"

"As soon as we eat. And we're going to at least try to be stealthy."

Amara gave an exaggerated sigh, and the others broke down laughing.  Through all of this, the rest of X-Men Blue slept.  Deciding to wake them, Kyle walked over to the group, and silently woke each of them, gently shaking them awake.  Some of the things that were said as they fought to stay asleep were rather amusing, although why Roberto talking about whipped cream and chocolate sauce was a subject he didn't want to broach, and exactly what Boom-Boom was dreaming about that involved a collar was a concept that Kyle felt would scar him for life.

Finally the X-Men were awake, and they gathered around the fire, and quickly and quietly ate their food.  The group finished their meal, and waited, tense and ready to head into the base.  Finally, a double beep came over the communicator, yet no other noise followed.

"That's the signal," Said Wolverine, and with that, the X-Men Blue Team headed to the stairs that lead into the Monastery.

As the team of young mutants trekked up the stairway to the Monastery, all of their nerves were on edge.  Rahne, Kyle and Wolverine were especially tense, however.  Rahne's wolf persona was practically screaming 'trap', and was pointing out that the Old Wander (Logan, for his age, and globetrotting tendencies) and Sightless Hunter, both of whom were  skilled warriors, were also unsure about the situation.  Every one of Wolverine's combat honed and trained senses were slamming him with mallets, each mallet bearing the word 'trap' emblazoned on the side.  And Kyle's training with Sensei, who was fond of more than just his usual morning bath in the way of traps for his student, had made him keenly aware of vulnerable situations, which this one was.

Finally, the team could see the end of the stairs.  All they had to do was cross one landing, and climb up a few hundred stairs.  The team was feeling the exercise though, and Wolverine had to admit, even the older students would have trouble after climbing stairs for 2 hours straight, and some of them would have made it plain.  The younger students hadn't, but they were obviously fatigued.

Figuring to let them rest a bit before the next set of stairs, Wolverine led them across the landing.  As the team crossed one by one, there were no incidents. Finally, only Tabby had to cross, as she walked across the landing, the trap that Wolverine, Kyle, and Rahne had been expecting sprung.

The middle of the landing swung down, dropping Tabby into a hole.  Quickly grabbing the side of the hole, Tabby found that her feet could grab no purchase, as the walls were designed to hold the platform without being close enough to get a footing on.

Seeing their teammate's plight, Sam and Bobby ran to assist the girl.  Wolverine started to turn back, but was headed off from that idea by a blast of pure sound, which sent him flying towards the trio. Wolverine slammed into Bobby and Sam, knocking them off their feet and carrying them with him, and knocking Tabby, who was just getting out of the hole, back in to it, and this time she was unable to get hold of a ledge.  As her arms flailed, she felt a hand clasp onto hers.

"I've got you." Said Amara, the bearer of the hand.

As Tabby swung from the perilous hold of the other girl, she realized that the bottom of the pit was nothing but stone spikes.

"Grab my hand, Tabs," Said Jubilee, who was reaching down with her hand.

Tabby grabbed onto the other girl's hand, and the two of them, throwing their weight into it, pulled the girl up out of the hole.  The three of them then turned to see whom had attacked them, and saw that the sight before them was far from comforting.

Their opponent was having little difficulty, as he controlled the high ground, and none of the projectile users were presently in the fight.  As the other mutants came at him, he simply blasted them back.  Kyle was particularly beaten, as, by the time registered the attack was coming, he was already hit.  After the first hit, he only got worse, taking longer to register each attacks approach, and the fight was getting desperate.  Bobby, Sam and Wolverine had picked themselves up by this point, and were heading towards the fight.

Rahne looked up at the mutant in front of her.  He was good, there was no doubt about that, but now the question was, how to beat him?  Suddenly, she had an inspiration.  Since the other mutant seemed quite content to just let them come to him, she drew back a little, and waved over Bobby and Amara.

"Iceman, I want ye' tae' fire a beam o' ice at 'is feet, Magma, a fire stream at th' same plaece."

The two mutants nodded, and grinned, guessing at her plan.

Iceman began to unleash a beam of ice at the mutant's feet, yet not at him.  Magma did the same with her fire.  When the two of them combined…

The blast of steam caught Banshee by surprise, and he staggered back, the heat a shock to him.

Rahne, Wolverine, and Sam each rushed at him.  Sam hit first, his cannonballing slamming the Banshee to the ground, and placing him behind him. Rahne hit next, her form fully wolf. She landed on the Banshee as he began to get up, and slammed him back down.  Finally, as he began to stand again, he found the claws of Wolverine at his throat.

"You begin to even talk to loud, I'll spread your voice box across the wall. Got it, bub?"

"Aye, sair, I wasn' meanin' no harm, sair.  But Mystique, she be havin' me kid sistar', and she be threatenin' tae' kill 'er iffen I don' do waet shae' says."

Wolverine watched the young man, and took a few cautious sniffs.  Smelling that he was telling the truth, he let him go.

"We'll help ye' get ye' sister, bub.  But you stab us in the back, and I'll kill ya' myself."

Banshee nodded, "Mystique 'as th' Brotherhood guardin' th' entare buildin'. 'Nd th' security room 's 'n th' saouth tawer."

Wolverine looked at him, yet could smell that he wasn't lying.  "I just be wantin' me sistar back.  I dao not trust Mystique ta be keepin' her word." Banshee said by way of explanation.

Wolverine nodded, and the group headed up the stairs, this time with an extra ally.

Banshee had noticed that one of the kids seemed to be having trouble moving steadily.  Walking up besides Rahne, he spoke, "Iffen ye'll excuse me lass, might I be askin' why that lad 's havin' so much trouble walkin' straight?  Didden he go an' get himself a good time 'n a pub?"

Rahne turned, slightly startled to hear a Scottish accent, but shook it quickly.  "Nay, he didden.  He's bein' blind, ye' see, 'nd ye'r attacks have gone 'nd messed up 'is balance and 'earin'."

Banshee's eyes widened, and, instead of speaking, headed next to the staggering Kyle.

" 'ere lad, let me 'elp ye. After all, it bein' me own fault ye bein' messed up liken this."

Kyle nodded, and placed a hand on Banshee's shoulder.

"Me name bein' Conner Finnegan, but th'y alsa call me de Banshee."

Kyle smiled, "I can see why they call you that.  I am Kyle Trevais, also known as Sage."

X-Men blue team continued their trek through the Monastery, now making much better time, now that Kyle wasn't staggering like he got himself drunk.

Finally, they reached a long corridor, with a steel door on the far end.

"T'rough th't door there bein' anotha'er corradoor, withen the Tower Entrance bein' at the far end. The trick bein' this."

Banshee then reached down, picked up a stone, and threw it to the ground about halfway through the corridor.

TCH, SWISH.

Right after the pebble hit the ground, a large blade, attached to a rope, swung through the space it occupied.

The Blue Team Members traded looks.  While they had run courses like this in the Danger Room, someone usually got nailed.

In a flash of inspiration, Kyle walked himself to Wolverine, and began to whisper to him.

The self-regenerator smiled, and then began to walk down the hallway.

SNICKT, TCH, SWI-SWISH, BOOM.

The first sound, if you don't know it, get out of my fan-fic.  The second was Wolverine triggering the trigger, the third was the blade swinging, only to be interrupted, and the fourth was the blade crashing to the ground, severed from it's rope.

The group progressed down the hall way in this manner, carefully avoiding the remains of the blades.

Finally, the Blue Team had reached the final corridor before the tower where the Security room was situated.

However, as they crossed the corridor, the door at the far end opened, and from it came…

"Yo, Conner, what're you doing with the X-Geeks, yo?"

The Blue team wasted no time with chit-chat.  Amara and Bobby let rip at Toad with their powers, forcing him onto the defensive.

However, an enclosed space was Toad's advantage, and he was bouncing off the walls, as well as the roof and floor.  He jumped off the roof onto Sage, whom he caught with both feet, knocking him into Multiple and Wolfsbane, who were right behind him.  As the now eight Multiple's stood, Sage rolled to the side, which put him next to the wall, and off of Wolfsbane.

Toad was already on the move again, hopping around and coming at them again.  Berserker hit him in the back, knocking him into a wall, where he continued to pin him with his powers.  Jubilee and Cannonball, seeing their classmate had no intention of stopping, grabbed his arms, and pulled them so that his aim was taken off of the now well-done Toad.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"  Jubilee yelled at Berserker, "YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!!!"

The rest of the X-Men Blue team were watching Ray, their faces angry.  He simply turned towards the door at the far end, and stalked through it.

~The members of X-Men Blue team progress deeper into the Monastery.  With the help of Banshee, whose sister was another prisoner of Mystique, they are closing in on the Security room, intent to shut down the system.  Yet discord is growing, as Berserker's brutal assault on Toad has angered the rest of them.  Will Blue team be able to make it through the mission in one piece?  Will Berserker attack another Brotherhood Member with the same fury?  What other traps might Mystique have that aren't part of the security system, and will the X-Men be able to free not only their captured instructors, but Banshee's sister as well.  What will Rahne's reaction be to seeing Dr. MacTaggert alive?

Find out in part three of the Mystique's Monastery Saga:  The Breakout!