Animeluvr: Don't give me nightmares.  Nice idea though

AN: Time to this here plot movin.

-telepathy-

Chapter 20: Magneto has created a WHAT?!

The morning after the party, Professor Xavier rolled into the kitchen to find Kurt sitting at the table, his hands wrapped around a mug of hot chocolate.  His face was creased with worry, and his eyes were distant.  However, Kurt's appearance, as odd as it was for the elfin mutant, was not what concerned the Professor.  Rather, the thoughts he was broadcasting were what caught his attention.

*Jean telekinetically hurling tanks through walls of buildings*

*Cyclops leveling city blocks*

*Beast unleashing the next Black Plague*

*Magma melting the foundations of entire buildings*

*Boom-Boom demolishing Hoover Dam*

*Sunspot demolishing Buckingham Palace*

*Storm unleashing the Great Flood*

*Rogue, killing innocent men and women with a touch*

*Wolverine slaughtering small towns*

*Shadowcat robbing research centers*

*Cannonball flying through buildings*

*Wolfsbane chasing and mauling people*

*An army of Multiples (Jamie)*

*Jubilee blinding security systems*

*Iceman freezing people to death in an instant*

*Berserker frying people*

-That is quite enough Kurt!- the Professor sent, his mental 'tone' furious.

Kurt jumped at least three feet into the air. "Zorry, Professor.  I'm just thinking."

The Professor rolled towards Kurt, "Very loudly.  You're broad casting some very interesting images, although I cannot imagine any of the students doing what you envision."

Kurt's eyes found the Professor's for the first time since he had rolled into the room.  Professor Xavier felt the pain and anguish in those eyes almost like a punch to the gut.

"Nein, Professor.  That is vhat vorries me."  He took out a bag, the same one that he had taken from his mother.  "Mystique left me and Rogue zis.  I checked it, so there is no need to worry about a trick.  But vhat she said it contained is vhat worries me."

The Professor looked at Kurt, who didn't seem willing to say it out loud.  He established a telepathic contact with Kurt and...

Good God, What is Magnus thinking!

"Let me see that, Kurt." Said the Professor, his tone stern, as the students filtered into the room.

Quickly the word spread.  The Professor was trying to take something from Kurt, and he didn't want to give it over.

Rogue walked into the room.  She took one look at the bag Kurt was holding, and began to glare at the elf.

"Yah' actually belahve that she was tellin' thah truth."

Kurt turned to look at Rogue. "Ja, Rogue.  I've looked at it.  Our dear mother was, for once in her life, truthful."

The other students looked back and forth from Rogue to Kurt.

Jubilee turned her head to Rahne. "Kurt and Rogue, brother and sister. That's a shock."

Kyle shook his head, and made a slight slicing motion, as Rogue continued.  "She gave birth to you, Kurt.  She adopted me."

Kurt looked at Rogue, "You're still mien sister."

Kyle spoke up from behind her. "Just because some one adopted you does not make you one bit less their child.  Mystique may not have been all that close to you, but she still tried to look after you, in her own, obscure way.  She could never do so in an outright fashion.  After all, doing that would make you obvious targets to Magneto, and a dozen others who wanted her dead."

Rogue spun, "How would you know?"

Professor Xavier smiled, even as the students quickly cleared out from between the two.  "Kyle is adopted, or had you forgotten that fact, in your willingness to insult a lady who took what life gave her, and did the best she could."

This comment caused quite a bit of staring from the student body.

"Raven Darkholme, also known as Mystique, was raised by a father who is kindest to call a bigot, although he was several other, less legal things.  When his daughter showed the ability to shape-shift, accidentally reverting to her normal form in the middle of an argument with him, his immediate reaction was to begin beating her.  He did so every day, thrice a day, to the day he died at her hands.  Soon after that, Mystique met Magneto, and quickly became his most trusted agent.  When Mystique gave birth to Kurt, Magneto took him, and began experimentation. Mystique could not let her son be experimented on, but intervening would show Magneto a weakness he could exploit.  Therefore, she took Kurt, and then, to preserve his life, left it in the hands of fate.  Irene, a close confidant of Mystique's, had assured her that Kurt would most likely survive."

Rogue spoke up, "The same Irene that raihsed meh?"

Xavier nodded, "Her mutation allows her to see the most probable future, thus her codename, Destiny.  She then adopted you Rogue, why, only Mystique knew.  However, it quickly became obvious that she could not raise you herself. She was a wanted mutant terrorist, and Magneto would not hesitate to use you as leverage.  She therefore left you in Destiny's care."

Rogue shook her head, "Thaht mahy beh true, but Ah still don' trust er."

Kyle chuckled from behind her, "If you did, I would say that Mystique had tricked us again."

Rogue ignored that, and looked at Kurt. "So that means..."

Kurt nodded, his face solemn. "Magneto has developed a mind control device."

AN: Short Chappy, but expect the next one soon.