"What?!?" Rogue exclaimed, having heard Betsy's answer. "We cahn't jus' leave 'em! What about Scott an' the others?!"

"We can get them later! We need to retreat!!" Betsy yelled back.

"Okay then," Pietro started speaking, sounding condescending. "And how do you propose we do that?"

"Very fast." Betsy said a bit distractedly. Everyone's minds were unsure. Bobby and Jubilee shot each other looks as if asking 'what do you think?' No one had enough time to think because next minute a huge blast hit Jubilee in the side.

"NO!" Bobby shouted and then turned about to face Plethora. "YOU--"

"We gotta go NOW!" Betsy yelled. Bobby looked up.

"We can't leave without Jubilee!"

"Come on, this is our only chance!" She countered back and then pinkish light seemed to form a cloud of energy around Betsy's head. It grew larger and larger until it was big enough for even the Blob to fit through, had he been here. "In here, NOW!" Nobody looked sure, for they had no idea what this was. Then, M readjusted herself to hold an unconscious Jamie and flew straight in. The others didn't budge. "Come ON!" Betsy shouted once again. "This is our last chance." Siryn flew in next, following M. Bobby looked the most determined to stay.

Rogue and Kitty both looked longingly at a van parked a little ways away that held their friends. Rogue was thinking of Scott, Kitty was just concerned. She then turned around and marched to the portal, Lance was not far behind his Kitty. M flew back out with absolutely nothing in her arms.

"Where's--"

"Jamie?" M finished for Rogue. By the way Siryn had been wailing, she had learned his name quickly. "I handed him to Siryn. I came back to get--" She was cut off by a blast. M had been looking at Magneto before she was interrupted. Kitty and Lance stopped to look around, just outside the portal. Apparently a combination between Gambit and Polaris' attack had set off an explosion, which caused a chain reaction. If they didn't get out of there soon, they'd be buried. M took one step towards Magneto before Betsy gave her a tug in the other direction.

"Move or lose it, before we're buried!!" She yelled to everyone. Rogue and Iceman were still staring in the direction of the captives. Betsy pointed to Rogue, directing M to grab her as she grabbed Bobby by the collar. Firmly holding him, she herded all the others to the slowly closing portal. On the way she also grabbed hold of a slow Kitty and took her and Bobby with her. Kitty had a hold on Lance but he was wrenched from her grasp.

"LANCE-- let me go, you--" She pounded her free fist against Betsy who didn't even notice.

Everyone was cut off from their protests as they were rushed into the portal without Magneto or Avalanche. The portal closed the moment Betsy leapt in, with Bobby in one hand and Kitty in the other.

I was a world of raging energy, shooting this way and that. You could easily get lost in this jumble. Everyone who had gone before Betsy had waited for her in this field. Only she could guide through this other dimension known as the Crimson Dawn. Somehow she had an instant bond with the energy in this world. She could feel it flow through her, feeding her power she never knew she could have.

What seemed like aged was only seconds in reality. Everyone emerged, thrown into a heap as they exited. They had landed in the sewers 'God know where'.

One by one they each got up and tried to put their thoughts back together. Bobby's face was of only anger. He couldn't find Betsy to give her a good hit in the gut so he just shouted.

"We have to go BACK! We can't just leave them! Come out and face me Braddock!!" His eyes struggled to adjust so he could have his revenge.

"Ah won' let yuh Bobby! Not if Ah git a piece a' hur first!! BETSY! You left ahre friends tuh DIE! Scott's ahre leader an' we let them take him withou' a fahght!"

The others were pretty upset too. Theresa, for Jamie getting injured and leaving Sam, Toad, for leaving Wanda, Pietro, for his sister and partially for his father, Rogue, for leaving Scott, Logan and pretty much everyone else, Bobby for leaving Jubilee, and Kitty, for leaving Lance and Kurt. Soon they were all yelling with the exception of Gambit, Polaris, M and the unconscious Multiple. It was pure chaos because they were shouting everywhere. They were not yet sure where she was because it was pitch black.

"Mahnd if Remy takes a light?" He whispered to Polaris and M. As he asked he held up a playing card and it began glowing with Reddish energy. This was plenty to light up the tunnels around them with and the two girls giggled at Gambit's little play on words. When the light shown, a hush followed over the entire group. All of them looked around, but there was no sign of Betsy. They had emerged at a four-way tunnel down there in the sewers and it didn't look like she was down any of them. They had been yelling at nothing but air. Or so it seemed. Something from behind Gambit knocked the card out of his hand, causing it to explode. The sewer rumbled and without the little light they couldn't see what had happened.

Everyone backed up and faced the spot of darkness where Gambit had been standing. He lit up another card quickly. The others all jumped when it revealed Betsy standing less than a foot away from them with a not to friendly look on her face.

'BETSY?!?" Rogue exclaimed in disbelief. Everyone else was too stunned to talk and their mouths hung open, forgetting their complaints for a moment. The looks on their faces depicted a hint of bewilderment and fear.

Betsy looked very different. Not only did she seem to have a different aura around her, but over her left eye was a large red tattoo in the shape of a dagger. Even Gambit, normally calm, cool and collected, looked like he was biting his lip. Bobby swallowed his surprise and began the finger pointing.

"You just LEFT the others there! We could've saved them! If you hadn't been so careless, Jubilee would have escaped with us!"

"Lance, like, practically had his foot in that portal thing when those guys took him out!!" Kitty chimed in. All at once everyone began complaining to her face. Everyone except Gambit, Polaris and M who were not so sure what was wrong with Betsy. It seemed like she was almost a different person. It was Bobby who tried to attack her first by freezing her, in short, he missed. She walked backwards up the wall behind her and crouched with her back against the ceiling and her hands and feet pressed flatly against the wall. The spot where she had just been was ice, frozen in the shape of a C against the wall. Rogue and Betsy looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes with the same sneering look. Rogue reached over to touch Toad but he leapt away in good time. Then, remembering something she had done earlier, she tried to leap up and touch Betsy but failed. Betsy leapt to the ground about ten feet away. With a confidant smirk, Rogue began running towards Betsy and suddenly took flight. The Rouge came at Betsy like a… cannonball. The speed and resist she had was too great for the young psychic to so anything about it. In a second the two were on the ground, Rogue pinning Betsy. So far, Betsy was able to keep Rogue from touching her skin.

"What's th' big ahdea?!? You left them, you did it!! Ah though' Ah knew yuh Betsy, but th' Betsy Ah know would nevah leave her friends!" Betsy kicked Rogue off in a flip as she landed on her feet in the same movement. She leapt backwards a couple feet.

"Don't call me that." She said in a monotone voice.

"Call yuh whut?!" Rogue asked, annoyed because Betsy had escaped her grip so easily.

"Betsy." She said returning the glare Rogue had been giving her. "The name Betsy represents what I was. Now, I am Psylocke. A new name for new power."

"Whut new--" Rogue was cut off before she could finish asking. Betsy… or Psylocke had just disappeared, vanished, into the shadows. She reappeared behind everyone. They all whipped around, a little afraid of her.

"What do you have to be afraid of?!?" Betsy asked, glaring at them as if she could see right through them. "YOU are the ones who started this fight. What?!? Did you expect me NOT to fight back?!?? We had NO choice and I saved all your asses back there!! I could have run for it on my own, but I 'waited', I waited for you guys and this is the thanks I get?? Maybe next time I should leave you to rot with the others." Betsy's eyes had new fire in them as she screamed at them with newfound anger and frustration. In reality she was NOT the Betsy they knew, she had changed. It was still yet to be determined whether it was for better or for worse. As far as those who remained were concerned, it was for worse.

Silence blanketed their little group as their only light was still one of Gambit's cards. Many glances were exchanged between many people. It was as if Psylocke was daring anyone to challenge her.

"Look, we safe fo' now Remy t'inks so le's jus' drop it." Remy broke the tension as the battle lines were seemingly erased. Others let go easier than some, Theresa and Pietro, for example. Pietro believed his father and sister were more than capable of taking care of themselves and so he wasn't that much worried. Yes, he cared about Wanda but he was still a selfish little bastard at times, most times, and this was one of those times. Theresa cared that Jamie was hurt but she knew he was safe now and decided to not get caught up in this quarrel. Even though on the outside some like Rogue, Bobby, and Kitty let it go on the inside they still held onto the fact that their teammate… Psylocke was the reason they weren't back there trying to save their friends.

"Yuh know this ain't ovah!" Rogue said under her breath. "An' next tahme, Cajun, yuh won' stop meh either." She said with a curled lip and a glare.

"We will see 'bout dat chere, we will see." He shot her one of his irresistible smiles that made her blush. It seemed that there was nothing that could put a damper on his spirits. Their thoughts were cut short as a sharp blast sent one of the sewer walls flying. "Oops, maybe Remy spoke too soon befo'e."

TBC…

Please Review, I'd like to know how many people are reading my story. Please let me know if I make a mistake about the accents, this is my first time trying them, or the characters and their reactions. I want it to seem at least somewhat believable.