A/N: for anyone who's mad about the last chapter I'm really sorry. Believe me, I sat for hours trying to decide how to do it and who needs to go and after a while I came up with those guys. If I really had a choice I wouldn't take them out, I like Lance and Todd and Evan, they're all cool, but some people had to go, there were just too many. I sat on the phone talking to my friend about this too, and we came to that conclusion. I thought of everything I could do to get them out, but it just made more sense to do it that way.
Disc-I don't own X-Men k?
Kurt looked around the old alley way, taking hold of Rogue's wrist and teleporting them back to the mansion, though the site that came to their eyes was something that was never expected. Rogue gasped, the whole mansion was gone, blown to bits with Pietro standing around, smirking!
Rogue ran at Pietro, grabbing him by the shirt collar, he was in no mood to run today. "Pietro! Waht have ya done? Where is mah son, ah know ya did this!" Rogue screamed in his face.
"Hey, hey, Roguey, just chill ok? I didn't do any of this, it was Lynx who did it, but Fred, Todd, and Lance are in there too, they weren't fast enough to get out." Pietro looked at Rogue, trying to act like he really missed his friends.
"Ah don't care, where is mah son?" Rogue looked from Pietro to the pile of bricks and metal that once was a huge mansion.
"I don't know, he's the one who blew up this place, him and Remy." Rogue's mouth dropped, how could her husband and son have done something so terrible like this? It couldn't be real, it couldn't be true.
"Yer lyin', ya know ya are." Rogue continued yelling at Pietro.
"He's right chere, at least I think he's right." Rogue turned to see Remy and Tyler slowly making there way over to her and Pietro from the woods.
"Remy, Tyler, how could ya?"
"I'm sorry chere, we didn't know, Magneto was controlling us with Mesmero." Remy hugged Rogue as Tyler stood back, looking at the woods, hoping for some miracle that Lynx would still be here, but she wasn't.
"Are ya ok sugah?" Rogue stepped away from Remy and walked to Tyler, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah mom, it's just, I cant believe that it was all Lynx's plan, it's not like her." Tyler looked down to the ground.
"Ah know Tyler, but she's naht the girl thaht ya use ta spend yer birthday's with, she's changed in tha last few months." Rogue sighed, changed was a huge understatement at least.
"I know mom, I know." Tyler looked back at the woods.
"What the hell happened here elf?" Logan got out of Scott's car and looked at Kurt.
"It vas Lynx, zhe did zhis." Kurt pointed to what was left of the mansion, which was basically nothing.
"Lynx did it? How do you know?" Logan grabbed Kurt by the front of his shirt and lifted him off the ground.
"Pietro told us!" Kurt said before Logan dropped him and scanned the area for Pietro, but he was no where in sight.
"From waht ah know Logan, everyone is gone, they didn't geht out fahst enough and they were crushed." Rogue walked over to Logan, trying very hard to hold back tears.
"How did Lynx destroy it?" Logan walked to the ruble and picked up a metal bar, dropping it back on the huge pile.
"She got Mesmero ta control Tyler ahnd Remy ahnd had them blow it up."
"Oh my god, Logan, what happened, are you ok?" Rita got off Logan's bike and ran to him, wrapping her arms around him.
"I'm fine darlin', but everyone who stayed home besides Tyler and Remy aren't so fine." Rita put a hand to her mouth and gasped.
"Oh no, Kitty, Evan." Rita leaned against Logan, she couldn't find the strength to stand by herself.
Logan looked at Rita and put an arm around her, trying to help her stand. "Hey darlin', it'll all be ok, just give it time." Logan put both arms around Rita as she put her head on his chest, letting the tears flow freely. "Don't cry darlin' don't cry."
"The eye is driven to tears when the heart grieves within." Rita said, her voice muffled against Logan's chest. Logan ran a hand down Rita's hair, kissing the top of her head. Logan looked at Rogue who was hugging Remy as Kurt was sitting under a tree, trying to think of Kitty being dead. Tyler was gone, he had slipped away somewhere and no one had noticed.
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Piotr stood outside, looking at nothing really as he heard someone behind him, moving with cat-like ability, Lynx. "Are you sure you did the right thing Lynx?" Piotr turned and looked Lynx as she got closer to him.
"I have no doubt in my mind about it." Lynx smiled and kissed Piotr.
"How can you say that Lynx?" Piotr looked down at Lynx.
"In desire, swiftness itself is delay." Piotr looked shocked at what Lynx said.
"God Lynx, you remind me of your mother so much, very wise beyond your years, Rita was the same way when she was a teenager, always smart." Lynx scowled at being compared to her mother.
"What do you think Pietro will do without his friends now?" Piotr turned around again and looked to no where really.
"The wound which one must suffer in victory is painless." Lynx watched Piotr for a bit and sat down.
"Don't you miss your old friends, even in the least?" Piotr sat next to her and put an arm around her shoulders.
"Not really, they're part of my past and I've put my past behind me." Lynx leaned against Piotr and closed her eyes.
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"Oh my stars and garters." Hank walked up behind Charles, Ororo, Logan and Rita, following their gaze to the mansion. "What happened?"
"The Brotherhood got to the mansion while we were gone." Ororo sighed, shaking her head.
"It appears that Kitty, Jason, Evan, Lance, Fred and Todd were in the accident when it happened, none of them survived." Charles looked at Hank.
"Oh my, where are Scott and Jean? Have they been told yet?" Hank looked to the ruble again.
"Not yet, I have told them to come back, I believe they should be here when we tell them." Charles looked to the driveway and saw Scott and Jean driving up in Jean's SUV.
"Professor! Where's Jason and the others?" Jean jumped out of the car, not even bothering to turn off the engine, with Scott right behind her.
"I'm terribly sorry Jean, but Jason and the others did not endure the explosion." Charles looked down when he saw the expression on Scott's and Jean's faces, he hated to see his students and friends like this.
"Charles…" Jean didn't know what to say, both her children where dead. "Who?"
"Lynx did it, she had Mesmero tahke over Remy and Tyler's minds and use their powers ta blow up tha institute." Rogue and Remy stood off to the side.
Jean's eyes narrowed as she raised her arms while pieces of the mansion flew around her, almost hitting everyone around. "How could she take both my children?" Jean yelled as she floated into the sky as more pieces of the mansion began flying around her.
Jean! Please try and calm down and come down here. Charles's voice entered Jean's mind as she threw up her mental shields, shutting him out of her head. "Stay out of my head Charles!"
"Jean, please listen, come down here, I know your mad, I am too, but we can talk." Scott looked up at Jean.
"No Scott! I'm tired of that girl, she's trying to get us all killed!"
"Please Jean." Scott sighed, he was fighting a losing battle this way. Scott went to his car that Logan had left in the driveway and grabbed his visor, putting it on the turning his beam down the lowest it will go, shooting Jean's legs, knocking her off-balance, causing all the pieces of ruble to fall, nearly missing everyone else.
Rita's wings came out as she quickly rose into the air, grabbing Jean and bringing her safely down to the ground. Scott put his sunglasses back on and ran to Jean as Rita put Jean on the ground. "Are you ok Jean? Did I hurt you too much?"
Scott picked up Jean and walked back to the group. "Just my ankle, it got twisted." Jean closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down.
"Remy sorry Jean." Remy lowered his eyes, looking anywhere but at Scott or Jean.
"What happened here? It looks like ground zero." Marie and Shawn stepped out of Shawn's truck and walked over to their parents.
"Remy and Tyler were controlled by Mesmero to blow up the mansion, they were the only two who survived." Rita looked at the twins as Marie stumbled back when she heard the news, bumping into Shawn.
"Tyler survived?" Shawn put an arm around his sister as she got her balance and straightened up.
"Yes Shawn." Rita watched Shawn and Marie look over the damage.
"Then where is he?" Marie looked around the group of people, Tyler wasn't with him.
"What do you mean? He was just here." Remy looked around too, Tyler had left. "Maybe he went to the woods to think."
"Why would he need to go and think?" Marie looked at all the adults.
"Because, Lynx was the one behind Mesmero's actions." Shawn and Marie both looked down at the same time as Remy told them this.
"I cant believe that one person could change so much such a in short time." Marie sat down, looking to the woods.
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Tyler looked around the almost deserted convenient store as he slowly walked to the pay phone, not knowing how the conversation might go. He took his cell phone from his pocket and looked through the call history, finding just the number he wanted.
Tyler waited a few minutes before someone picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Did you have fun trying to kill everyone? Even your own friends?"
"Tyler? How did you get this number?" Lynx sounded pissed, she didn't expect him to call her, ever.
"Well, you called my cell once, and it's in my call history." Tyler leaned against the pay phone.
"You shouldn't have called here, it's not safe, just go be with your parents."
"So I can be with Jean and Scott? You killed their only two children, don't you feel even the least bit guilty?" Tyler looked around the store parking lot.
"No, not really, the X-Men had it coming." Lynx said, as if the subject bored her.
"Why? Because you don't like your parents you take away my home? I thought you were my friend Lynx, you sat there in front of me a few months ago and cried, and now you act like we never had anything? Like we weren't even friends?" Tyler looked back to the phone, his anger rising.
"Sometimes you have to give up a few things in life to come out on top, and that's what I did, too bad Logan wasn't involved though." Tyler almost dropped the phone when he heard the last statement.
"You would kill your own parents?" he was shocked.
"They aren't my parents, only Rita."
"If you really think that Logan accepting you as his own doesn't make him your father, then your just a bitch and you always have been." Tyler hung up the and phone and sat down on the curb, thinking.
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Marie took Shawn's truck and drove around most of Westchester, looking for Tyler everywhere, after a while she finally found him at a convenient store. Marie looked out the window and down to the boy sitting on the curb. "Hey boy, what are you doin?"
Tyler looked up, a bit startled. "Thinking, bout Lynx, she tried to kill Logan in the mansion, but he wasn't around." Marie's eyes widened when she heard the news ad got out of the truck, sitting next to Tyler.
"It's ok Ty, she's changed a lot and there's nothing you can do except sit back an watch, so that's what you have to do, but me and Shawn are always here for you." Marie kissed Tyler on the cheek and put an arm around him.
Tyler looked at Marie and smiled. "Thanks Marie, I know you guys are always here for me." Tyler put an arm around Marie as well and she leaned her head against his shoulder. "Thanks." Tyler softly said again.
"Welcome."