Chapter Eleven
"I REALLY wish they would find a better way to wake up the team without giving the rest of us bloody heart attacks!" Alexis yelled a night later, when she was woken, yet again, by the wail of the alarm.
"A Team report to the hangar bay NOW! That means you too, Warren, Betsy and Sean." Logan growled over the intercom.
"Holy wow." Thora breathed. "That's 14 people."
"This must be something big." Allesandre added. "I hope they're okay."
There was a loud knock at their door before Justine and Siobhan walked in, trailing blankets and pillows behind them. "We're bunking with you tonight." Siobhan announced, plopping down on the floor between Thora's bed, and Laura's and Alexis' bunk.
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"Are you sure that's safe?" Kitty asked nervously as she watched Storm, Angel and Banshee jump out of the BlackBird while it was still flying.
"Hush Kitty. Ah wanna hear what they're sayin'" Rogue stated, slapping Kitty lightly on the arm.
Kitty made a face at her, but switched on her communicator headset as well.
"There's about eight people down there. There are obvious mutants." Warren's voice came through. "I don't know if the others are, but they're causing a lot lf property damage."
"Keep out of the way until we get down there." Scott ordered.
"Roger. Angel out."
"About time you showed up!" Warren yelled as the others ran up to the battle scene.
"Any idée why dey doin' dis?" Remy asked, charged cards ready in his hands.
"None." Warren answered with a shake of his head. "It looks like we have a bunch of rogue mutants who just want to destroy the city."
"Ah resent that remark!" Rogue yelled over to them.
"You would." Warren yelled back.
"Jean!" Scott called over to the red head. "Can you find out what they want?"
"No." Jean answered. "They're shielding me somehow. I can't get a thing."
"What the heck is that!?" Rogue demanded, pointing up the sky where an odd shape was flying across the sky, heading towards them.
"It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super Man!" Bobby joked.
"It ain't no Super Man, Super Woman maybe." Rogue answered before she was hit into a wall by the UFP[1].
"Rogue!" Warren yelled, looking over to his fallen comrade.
"Remember." His opponent said. "Always watch the BIRDIE!" He yelled, slamming his fist into Warren's gut. "Fly birdie, fly!" He cackled, throwing Warren into a nearby wall.
Silently Rogue snuck up behind the woman who had attacked her. Quickly she pulled off her gloves and grabbed onto the woman's arms.
The woman let out an ear piercing shriek as her power was drained from her body. "LET GO OF ME!!!" She yelled, kicking behind her, as they rose into the air, but she was getting weak and the kick had no effect.
"Rogue!" Scott yelled up to her. "Let go! You're draining too much! You're going to kill her!"
"Ah. Ah can't!" She cried, tears flowing down her cheeks. "Help me!" She sobbed.
"Child, let go." Ororo said quietly, as she pried Rogue's hands off the other woman's arms. Once unsupported by Rogue the woman fell the 5 feet to the ground, and lay still.
Ororo grunted as Rogue fell against her, dead weight, and began to twitch.
"Henry!" Ororo yelled, setting Rogue on the ground lightly. "Henry! She's going into convulsions!" She yelled again.
"Check the other woman Ororo. Make sure she's still breathing and still has a pulse." Hank ordered, taking Rogue.
Ororo nodded and crawled over to the woman's prone form. Lightly she pressed her fingers to her neck. "Dear god Hank. There's no pulse."
"Back to the BlackBird now!" Scott's voice came over the com. "The police are here, retreat to the BlackBird!"
"Take her." Hank thrust Rogue into Ororo's grasp. Mimicking her, he lightly pressed his fingers to the unknown woman's neck. "There is a pulse." He said with a sigh of relief. "It is very faint however."
"Storm! Beast! Rogue! Where are you? We need to go! Get your asses on this jet now!" Logan yelled through the communicator.
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"When you gonna wake up chere?" Remy asked, stroking the back of Rogue's glove covered hand. A day had passed and she still wasn't awake.
"Remy?" She croaked, cracking an eye open. 'Remy, you have to help me." She wimpered. "She won't leave me alone, she won't go away. She won't get outta my head."
"Who chere?" Who won' get outta your head?"
"The woman. She's trying to take over! She won't go away." Rogue yelled, tears coursing down her cheeks. "Ah can't fight her Remy, she's too strong."
"What about the shields the Professor put up?"
"She broke through them. She's too strong for me Remy. Ah can't handle her."
"Shhh, chere. It'll be okay." Remy said, smoothing Rogue's hair back, careful not to touch her skin. "De Professor will find somet'ing t' help you, an' den I can go back to chasin' you, non?"
Rogue smiled lightly and grasped his hand. "Thank you Remy." She whispered.
"Anytime, chere. Anytime." He replied, kissing her gloved hand. "Go to sleep chere, I'll go get De Professor."
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"I'm bored." Savanna whined, two days later.
"And you're heavy. Get the hell off me." Mark growled, pushing the girl off his lap.
Savanna made a face and sat on Marcos' lap instead. "We really need to find something to do." Savanna muttered, shifting around to get comfortable.
Marcos grabbed her hips to hold her still. "If you are going to sit on my lap, sit still." He warned.
"Getting a tad uncomfortable there, Marcos?" Roberto asked with an evil grin.
"Cogida de Roberto[2]." Marcos said, glaring at the Brazilian.
"Aw, you know you love me." Savanna said with a winning smile, winking at Marcos.
"No, I do not."
"Ouch, that hurts."
"Good."
"Children, behave." Bobby sing-songed, as he walked into the room.
"What do you want?" Savanna demanded, her nose stuck up in the air.
"Love you too Savanna." He said with a slight roll of his eyes. "Anyway, I got put on driving duty 'cause Siobhan needs to go get new clothes. Anyone wanna come with us?"
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"And the creatures known as teenagers descend upon their watering hole, armed with allowances and rich Cajuns." Alexis joked, grinning at Remy.
"You lucky that Remy be a softy." Remy sighed, handing her a twenty.
"Thanks!" She chirped, and ran off to catch up with Allesandre.
"Push over." Bobby laughed as he raced by.
"But we love you anyways." Jubilee said, coming up to walk beside him. "You're our favourite Cajun."
"I'm your only Cajun." Remy said, flinging an arm over her small shoulders.
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"So, what all do you need?" Laura asked her quiet companion.
"More clothes." Siobhan replied. "I only have enough to last me two days."
"Laura, my dear. How good to see you again." A smooth voice greeted from behind them.
Laura's body tensed up at the sound of the voice and she spun stiffly to look at the woman. "Mystique." She greeted with a slight nod of the head.
"And who is this lovely young lady?" Mystique asked, shifting into her normal form, as she went to brush Siobhan's hair out of her face.
Laura caught the hand before it could touch the Irish girl. "Don't touch her Mystique." She warned, her eyes flashing. "And don't come near us again. I know what you've done in the past, and I don't want anything to do with you."
"Pity." Mystique said softly, flicking her own hair out of her face. "You could have been great."
"If being great means being evil, then I'll leave it to you RAVEN. "I'll stick to being a good guy."
'Yeah what she said." Siobhan agreed, with a nod of her head. "Evil's bad. Probably fun, but bad none the less."
"Do you actually think the Flatscans will accept you?" Mystique asked, leaning against the wall. "They'll never accept us. They're scared, and they'll take that fright out on us." She hissed. "Your Professor preaches unity with them, they don't want unity, they want us GONE! Do you want to be the ones to face that hatred? Because if you stay with Xavier you will. It is constantly in the public eye."
"I'd rather work towards them accepting me rather than becoming what they fear. It's mutants like you, Magneto and his brood that give the rest of us bad names. Now stay away from us, or I'll send Mr. Logan after you."
As the pair walked away, Siobhan leaned over towards Laura. "What's a Flatscan?" She asked in a whisper.
"It's a derogatory term some mutants have come up with for pwople without the x-gene. It's like calling Japanese people Japs, or calling black people the N word [3], or the normal humans calling us Muties." Laura explained, her lips set in a thin line.
"Oh." Siobhan said softly. "Have you talked to Michael lately?" She asked, completely changing the subject.
A large grin broke out over the Canadian girl's face at the mention of her boyfriend, and she began to play with her necklace. "He e-mailed me last night. He'll be moved into his dorm at NYU by the 21st, he said he'd come up and visit me a week before school starts."
"You really like him don't you?" She asked with a small smile.
A dreamy smile passed over her featured. 'Yeah. We'll be going out a year at the end of September."
"How did you guys meet anyways?"
"He was my math tutor. I ended up having to get a new tutor because I could never concentrate around him. He asked me to a movie the second week he was tutoring me, and it snowballed from there."
"How cute." Siobhan grinned.
Laura smiled back, and pointed down the hall. "There's a Hot Topic store down that way if my memory serves me correctly."
"OoooO! Hot Topic!" Siobhan exclaimed and took off down the hall.
"Lord help me." Laura muttered, following after the Irish girl.
[1] UFP- unidentified flying person lol
[2] Fuck off Roberto
[3] I refuse to say the word, or type it, it's rude.
R/R, you know you want to *wink wink, nudge nudge*
"I REALLY wish they would find a better way to wake up the team without giving the rest of us bloody heart attacks!" Alexis yelled a night later, when she was woken, yet again, by the wail of the alarm.
"A Team report to the hangar bay NOW! That means you too, Warren, Betsy and Sean." Logan growled over the intercom.
"Holy wow." Thora breathed. "That's 14 people."
"This must be something big." Allesandre added. "I hope they're okay."
There was a loud knock at their door before Justine and Siobhan walked in, trailing blankets and pillows behind them. "We're bunking with you tonight." Siobhan announced, plopping down on the floor between Thora's bed, and Laura's and Alexis' bunk.
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"Are you sure that's safe?" Kitty asked nervously as she watched Storm, Angel and Banshee jump out of the BlackBird while it was still flying.
"Hush Kitty. Ah wanna hear what they're sayin'" Rogue stated, slapping Kitty lightly on the arm.
Kitty made a face at her, but switched on her communicator headset as well.
"There's about eight people down there. There are obvious mutants." Warren's voice came through. "I don't know if the others are, but they're causing a lot lf property damage."
"Keep out of the way until we get down there." Scott ordered.
"Roger. Angel out."
"About time you showed up!" Warren yelled as the others ran up to the battle scene.
"Any idée why dey doin' dis?" Remy asked, charged cards ready in his hands.
"None." Warren answered with a shake of his head. "It looks like we have a bunch of rogue mutants who just want to destroy the city."
"Ah resent that remark!" Rogue yelled over to them.
"You would." Warren yelled back.
"Jean!" Scott called over to the red head. "Can you find out what they want?"
"No." Jean answered. "They're shielding me somehow. I can't get a thing."
"What the heck is that!?" Rogue demanded, pointing up the sky where an odd shape was flying across the sky, heading towards them.
"It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super Man!" Bobby joked.
"It ain't no Super Man, Super Woman maybe." Rogue answered before she was hit into a wall by the UFP[1].
"Rogue!" Warren yelled, looking over to his fallen comrade.
"Remember." His opponent said. "Always watch the BIRDIE!" He yelled, slamming his fist into Warren's gut. "Fly birdie, fly!" He cackled, throwing Warren into a nearby wall.
Silently Rogue snuck up behind the woman who had attacked her. Quickly she pulled off her gloves and grabbed onto the woman's arms.
The woman let out an ear piercing shriek as her power was drained from her body. "LET GO OF ME!!!" She yelled, kicking behind her, as they rose into the air, but she was getting weak and the kick had no effect.
"Rogue!" Scott yelled up to her. "Let go! You're draining too much! You're going to kill her!"
"Ah. Ah can't!" She cried, tears flowing down her cheeks. "Help me!" She sobbed.
"Child, let go." Ororo said quietly, as she pried Rogue's hands off the other woman's arms. Once unsupported by Rogue the woman fell the 5 feet to the ground, and lay still.
Ororo grunted as Rogue fell against her, dead weight, and began to twitch.
"Henry!" Ororo yelled, setting Rogue on the ground lightly. "Henry! She's going into convulsions!" She yelled again.
"Check the other woman Ororo. Make sure she's still breathing and still has a pulse." Hank ordered, taking Rogue.
Ororo nodded and crawled over to the woman's prone form. Lightly she pressed her fingers to her neck. "Dear god Hank. There's no pulse."
"Back to the BlackBird now!" Scott's voice came over the com. "The police are here, retreat to the BlackBird!"
"Take her." Hank thrust Rogue into Ororo's grasp. Mimicking her, he lightly pressed his fingers to the unknown woman's neck. "There is a pulse." He said with a sigh of relief. "It is very faint however."
"Storm! Beast! Rogue! Where are you? We need to go! Get your asses on this jet now!" Logan yelled through the communicator.
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"When you gonna wake up chere?" Remy asked, stroking the back of Rogue's glove covered hand. A day had passed and she still wasn't awake.
"Remy?" She croaked, cracking an eye open. 'Remy, you have to help me." She wimpered. "She won't leave me alone, she won't go away. She won't get outta my head."
"Who chere?" Who won' get outta your head?"
"The woman. She's trying to take over! She won't go away." Rogue yelled, tears coursing down her cheeks. "Ah can't fight her Remy, she's too strong."
"What about the shields the Professor put up?"
"She broke through them. She's too strong for me Remy. Ah can't handle her."
"Shhh, chere. It'll be okay." Remy said, smoothing Rogue's hair back, careful not to touch her skin. "De Professor will find somet'ing t' help you, an' den I can go back to chasin' you, non?"
Rogue smiled lightly and grasped his hand. "Thank you Remy." She whispered.
"Anytime, chere. Anytime." He replied, kissing her gloved hand. "Go to sleep chere, I'll go get De Professor."
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"I'm bored." Savanna whined, two days later.
"And you're heavy. Get the hell off me." Mark growled, pushing the girl off his lap.
Savanna made a face and sat on Marcos' lap instead. "We really need to find something to do." Savanna muttered, shifting around to get comfortable.
Marcos grabbed her hips to hold her still. "If you are going to sit on my lap, sit still." He warned.
"Getting a tad uncomfortable there, Marcos?" Roberto asked with an evil grin.
"Cogida de Roberto[2]." Marcos said, glaring at the Brazilian.
"Aw, you know you love me." Savanna said with a winning smile, winking at Marcos.
"No, I do not."
"Ouch, that hurts."
"Good."
"Children, behave." Bobby sing-songed, as he walked into the room.
"What do you want?" Savanna demanded, her nose stuck up in the air.
"Love you too Savanna." He said with a slight roll of his eyes. "Anyway, I got put on driving duty 'cause Siobhan needs to go get new clothes. Anyone wanna come with us?"
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"And the creatures known as teenagers descend upon their watering hole, armed with allowances and rich Cajuns." Alexis joked, grinning at Remy.
"You lucky that Remy be a softy." Remy sighed, handing her a twenty.
"Thanks!" She chirped, and ran off to catch up with Allesandre.
"Push over." Bobby laughed as he raced by.
"But we love you anyways." Jubilee said, coming up to walk beside him. "You're our favourite Cajun."
"I'm your only Cajun." Remy said, flinging an arm over her small shoulders.
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"So, what all do you need?" Laura asked her quiet companion.
"More clothes." Siobhan replied. "I only have enough to last me two days."
"Laura, my dear. How good to see you again." A smooth voice greeted from behind them.
Laura's body tensed up at the sound of the voice and she spun stiffly to look at the woman. "Mystique." She greeted with a slight nod of the head.
"And who is this lovely young lady?" Mystique asked, shifting into her normal form, as she went to brush Siobhan's hair out of her face.
Laura caught the hand before it could touch the Irish girl. "Don't touch her Mystique." She warned, her eyes flashing. "And don't come near us again. I know what you've done in the past, and I don't want anything to do with you."
"Pity." Mystique said softly, flicking her own hair out of her face. "You could have been great."
"If being great means being evil, then I'll leave it to you RAVEN. "I'll stick to being a good guy."
'Yeah what she said." Siobhan agreed, with a nod of her head. "Evil's bad. Probably fun, but bad none the less."
"Do you actually think the Flatscans will accept you?" Mystique asked, leaning against the wall. "They'll never accept us. They're scared, and they'll take that fright out on us." She hissed. "Your Professor preaches unity with them, they don't want unity, they want us GONE! Do you want to be the ones to face that hatred? Because if you stay with Xavier you will. It is constantly in the public eye."
"I'd rather work towards them accepting me rather than becoming what they fear. It's mutants like you, Magneto and his brood that give the rest of us bad names. Now stay away from us, or I'll send Mr. Logan after you."
As the pair walked away, Siobhan leaned over towards Laura. "What's a Flatscan?" She asked in a whisper.
"It's a derogatory term some mutants have come up with for pwople without the x-gene. It's like calling Japanese people Japs, or calling black people the N word [3], or the normal humans calling us Muties." Laura explained, her lips set in a thin line.
"Oh." Siobhan said softly. "Have you talked to Michael lately?" She asked, completely changing the subject.
A large grin broke out over the Canadian girl's face at the mention of her boyfriend, and she began to play with her necklace. "He e-mailed me last night. He'll be moved into his dorm at NYU by the 21st, he said he'd come up and visit me a week before school starts."
"You really like him don't you?" She asked with a small smile.
A dreamy smile passed over her featured. 'Yeah. We'll be going out a year at the end of September."
"How did you guys meet anyways?"
"He was my math tutor. I ended up having to get a new tutor because I could never concentrate around him. He asked me to a movie the second week he was tutoring me, and it snowballed from there."
"How cute." Siobhan grinned.
Laura smiled back, and pointed down the hall. "There's a Hot Topic store down that way if my memory serves me correctly."
"OoooO! Hot Topic!" Siobhan exclaimed and took off down the hall.
"Lord help me." Laura muttered, following after the Irish girl.
[1] UFP- unidentified flying person lol
[2] Fuck off Roberto
[3] I refuse to say the word, or type it, it's rude.
R/R, you know you want to *wink wink, nudge nudge*