By the way, yeah I used to be Thunderfox 150 but, now, I'm not. Lol.

Now, at last, review answers! I would do this more often, but I keep forgetting!

Rogue77: Well we've pretty much said everything already but oh well. Thanks for reviewing. By the way, you have to update soon! I updated like ALL my stories and you didn't update a.d.r or Blue Phoenix for ages!!! You have to do that. Then I will be happy. Which will make the world happy. Because I rule the world. And the world is happy when I'm happy. Which isn't very often. Because I'm not always happy. But when I'm happy, the world is happy. Mwahahahaha. And Jean is dumb. Hehe.

Sarah-Crysala: Yesh Jean is stoopid I think it's just a think with telepaths I mean she is dumb and the Professor simply sucks gragh they're annoying! And about the plot, I don't know if it thins or thickens. I'm not very observant ^_~ And I got rid of the rollerblade for you. Rogue is now shoeless. Lol.

DemonRogue13: Thank you! Read the rest and review that too plz!

NiNab: Ok, ok, I updated! I agree, Rogue fics shall take over. Rogue fans will cheer and Jean fans will die. The end.

Hush: *rubs head* Humph ok I carried on I would put John in but I haven't seen very much of him at all so well you know. Hope you're better soon, but no doubt you already are by now!

GriffinFox: When I read your first review I had to re-read that chapter to see if I actually put that! Lol :p Yeah on behalf on all Rogue lovers: JEAN SUX! ^_~

Rogue14: Thanks for reviewing mush *bows*

Wiccamage: Your reviews make me confused; so do you like this story or not? From the fact you keep reviewing would say you do but what you write in them sounds like you don't. Plz explain!

MaMaMoOoSh: Yesh you go do that I hope you like the rest!

Uykuy: Why thank you! You rule *hugs you*

Shadow of the Sword: Don't worry you can see he hasn't died I'm not planning on letting anyone die unless anyone has any ideas? (HEY EVERYONE HEAR THAT THE TIME IS NOW IF YOU THINK SOMEONE SHOULD DIE AND NOT JUST SCOTT AND JEAN COZ THEY SUCK! ^_~)

rogue4eva: Read ahead and find out! ^_^

Anyway, here's part II of Wednesday morning. Enjoy! (If only I could write good stories eh? ^_~)

Chapter 9 - Wednesday II

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"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about that if I were you."

Jean looked up into glowing yellow eyes beneath a hood, and that was enough for her to tell that it was indeed Magneto. She let out a strangled (AN if only lol) wail and flew up into the dark, star-littered sky. She glanced down at the hooded figures and the brotherhood, and flew off towards the Institute, where the others were waiting. *

"MAGNETO! It's MAGNETO!"

Jean burst into the Rec. room, yelling, and met everyone's surprised stares at her return so soon.

"Remy already knew dat, mes ami. (1) Remy told you dat a long time ago." Remy answered. Slight muffled sniggering went round the room. Jean flushed and sat down next to Scott, scowling.

"Anyway," the Professor continued, from before Jean's grand entrance, "The plan will still work without the Brotherhood. Would you like me to go through it again?"

There was mumbling and nods of heads. The Professor explained again,

"Storm and Nightcrawler will take the money to the Pirate Ship. The New recruits will be taking shelter in the Brotherhood house, as Magneto would not attack there, like we have guessed he will attack here.

"The rest of the X-men and Remy will enter the old caves near Ozcas Canal. These are near the Pirate ship, so everything said and done will be witnessed.

"Beast and I will be staying in the plane, just in case you need to get back to it quickly and don't have time to come all the way.

"While Magneto and his cronies are occupied with the money, Iceman, Shadowcat and Jean will try to rescue Rogue and Wolverine. Everyone else will distract Magneto until we have Rogue and Logan, then we will flee the scene. Understood?"

Everyone nodded, except Bobby, who asked the Professor, "Why did you say Iceman, Shadowcat and Jean? I thought you said I wasn't going."

"I did, but - Bobby, Amara - I have changed my mind about you two. Go and change into your uniforms immediately. You are coming with us."

*

"YOU GUYS ARE SICK!"

"Stripes, just shut up, it ain't gonna help anything."

Rogue fumed as she watched Mystique flaunt about the room in her form.

"Yeah, Strahpes." Mystique mimicked, speaking with Rogue's southern accent, "Its not lahke anyone knows where yah are, so they can't come and rescue yah."

Rogue opened her mouth to argue that in fact, yes someone did know, Logan sent her a keep-your-mouth-shut-or-else look. Rogue shut her mouth again and glared at Mystique, who was staring into a mirror.

"Rogue! Would yah rather Ah went out lahke this?" Mystique shape-shifted from Rogue like she was now, to Rogue in a pink cheerleader outfit. Logan suppressed a snort of laughter at the look of horror on the real Rogue's face.

"If Ah wasn't tied up Ah would KILL yah rahght now!" Rogue yelled at Mystique, who simply laughed and morphed back into Rogue as she is now again. At this point Magneto entered the room with Sabretooth and Tabby close behind, carrying some rope.

"Are you ready Mystique?" Magneto asked.

"Ah sure am. But do yah think Ah'd look better with mah hair up?" Mystique replied. Sabretooth rolled his eyes, and he and Tabby started tying her up. Magneto caught Rogue and Logan watching with puzzled looks on their faces. He explained,

"We have to tie her up as otherwise it wouldn't look convincing." Then he said to Tabby, "Are you ready to go to the mansion?"

Tabby sighed, looking down, then her eyes rose to meet her new boss's. "Yeah, I'm ready."

"You won't back out?" Magneto persisted.

"No! I won't!"

"Good. Because it's an important job that needs to be done."

After Mystique was well and truly bound up, so that she couldn't move even if she wanted to, Sabretooth hoisted her up over his shoulder.

"Lets go." He growled, and the four of them left, Tabby one way, Magneto, Sabretooth and Mystique the other.

*

Kitty peeped around the wall of the cave at the huge pirate ship. It was really close, she could see it as you would see the stage from the audience's view. About ten metres away and six metres below the caves in which Kitty stood now, two figures were standing on the ground next to it, and she knew they were Storm and Nightcrawler. Storm was shaking rather badly, looking up at the deck of the pirate ship, which was too far up so she couldn't see onboard. Nightcrawler was pacing around next to her. Storm was holding a little bag with all the money inside.

Kitty withdrew from the cave's edge and looked at Jean, who was standing beside her.

"They're, like, not here yet." She told her. Jean sighed and told the Professor telepathically.

he answered back. He could see nothing from where he hid in the plane.

"Typical, it's raining." Amara said glumly, staring out of the cave entrance.

"Yeah, well, we'd probably get wet anyway, being next to a canal." Evan shrugged.

"Why does it always rain on me . . . " Bobby started singing, conjuring up an ice guitar and pretended to play it.

"Shut up, Bobby. This is no time for messing around." Scott interrupted.

"Ok, ok!" Bobby said, holding his hands up in mock-surrender, "Man, I know what Kurt means now. You really do need to lighten up."

Scott ignored this comment, and turned around to talk to Jean. Bobby mimed smashing the ice guitar over Scott's head, which made Amara giggle.

Kitty looked round again at the ship. Then, as if in slow motion, the ship began to move. Kitty watched, eyes wide with shock.

"Guys!" she whispered loudly, "The ship's moving!"

Everyone hiding in the cave ran to the cave's main entrance to watch the unlikely movements of the enormous ship. Except for one, who smirked and slipped away out of the secret escape route no one knew about at the back of the cave so quietly, nobody noticed.

The ship shuddered; it became slightly blurry before their eyes, and then the metal beams securing it to the ground began to bend and twist in an unnatural way before breaking and falling apart. The ship started to lift off the ground, and flew nearer towards the deepest part of the huge canal. The ship landed half in the water, half out. The X-men in the cave watched, temporarily paralysed with fear and astonishment as two figures onboard were silhouetted against the moon, one holding a smaller, thinner person. The person was tied up, and wriggling against the tight bonds that held her.

"Rogue . . . " Kitty squeaked.

*

"I'm bored!"

"Me too!"

"Why do we have to wait in this dump while everyone else gets to fight Magneto?"

"They took Bobby and Amara, why not us?"

Ray, Roberto, Sam and Jubilee were not best pleased about the Professor's plan. Rahne was trying to calm them all down. It wasn't working.

"Come on guys, I'm sure it was for the best."

"If you call waiting in a stinky, damp, trashed place like this while the others get to have a good fight for the best, you must be more than a screw loose." Jubilee retorted.

"Sure, there's no place like home, yo." Came a very familiar, muffled voice from inside a cupboard.

"Was that . . . Toad?" Jamie asked. No one answered. "Fine, just ignore me then." Still no one answered. "I'll see for myself then." Without hesitation, Jamie got up and shoulder - rammed the door that he thought Todd was behind. This wasn't the best of ideas, as now there was six Jamie's rubbing their shoulder and glaring at the door. Roberto rolled his eyes and stood up.

"Why didn't you just open the door?" he said, and pulled the handle. Three bodies fell out onto the floor, tied up and gagged. Only one of them had got their mouth free.

"See! I told you it was Toad!" Jamie yelled and pointed at the crumpled heap on the floor.

"Toad could do with some help gettin' free, yo." Todd murmured.

"Mmmf-mmmf-mmf." Added Pietro.

"Mmmfle-mmmfle-mmmf." Lance joined in.

After a good few minutes of untying the three, Ray asked, "Where's Blob?"

"They shoved him in the bathroom." Lance answered.

"Yeah, he didn't fit in any cupboard we had." Pietro added, grinning.

*

Rogue was growing impatient.

"Do yah think they'll have beaten them yet?"

"For the sixth time, no! They might not have even seen them yet!" Logan snapped.

Rogue glared at him slightly, and continued to gaze out of the minuscule window into the night. It didn't help; it was so dark outside she would've been better off trying to look through a brick wall. Plus, t was hard to look at things upside down, though, Rogue had to admit, she was pretty used to it now! Suddenly a dark shape flashed past the window.

'Pietro?' She thought. 'No, it was too slow; if it was Pietro, she wouldn't have noticed he was there at all.'

"Logan, there's someone out there." Rogue told the older man.

"Ok, did you see who it was?"

"No. But Ah know it isn't Pietro."

"How'd you figure that one out?"

"Nevah mahnd."

Rogue heard a quiet noise on their right, near the door.

"Logan . . . "

"Shh."

They watched as the door slowly started to open, creaking as it did so. There was a shadow on the other side of the door, the silhouette of a person. Suddenly there was a clap of thunder, and the door burst wide open. There was no one there. Outside the thunder clapped, and the open door revealed a natural storm, the rain pouring down.

"No one there, Stripes."

"But - but - there was . . . "

'Forget it Rogue. You must be losing it, you've been hanging upside down for days.' A voice inside her head (that sounded suspiciously like Jean) said.

'And you haven't slept.' Another voice that was obviously Lance joined in.

'Yeah, and like, you haven't eaten in ages either.' Kitty's voice added.

'Ja, you gotta do zat!' Kurt's voice joked.

'You'll starve yourself to death.' Logan joined in.

'Ha ha!' Sabretooth laughed at her.

'What is this? Let's all gang up on Rogue day?' Rogue thought to the voices in her head, then to herself, 'Maybe I did just imagine it . . .'

Suddenly she heard a voice whisper directly in her ear.

"Ello chere."

Rogue jumped and turned her head in the direction of the oh-so-familiar voice. "Cajun! Quit sneaking up on meh! If mah hands were free Ah'd hit yah rahght now!"

"Remy bets you would, chere. But right now, Remy come t' rescue you." His eyes were warm, charming. But Rogue didn't fall for that.

"Oh yeah? An' what about Logan? Yah gonna rescue him too?" she answered back, smirking.

"If he would like dat." Remy said to Rogue, and then to Logan, "Would you like dat?"

"Just untie me." Logan growled. Remy charged off the metal holding Logan to the wall, then his power holding collar. Logan smiled slightly as SNIKT! out came the claws.

"You know, I haven't had them in that long since I got 'em." He said.

"Er, can yah untie meh now?!" Rogue, who was still tied up and felt forgotten, yelled.

"O' course, chere!" Remy answered, and undid the metal beams holding her. He lifted her down and put her on her feet.

"Come on, we gotta go help the others." Logan said to the two, and started to run. Remy followed. Rogue tried to run, but she'd only taken three steps when she started to feel dizzy and she felt her legs collapsing under her. This, she thought, was almost definitely because of no food.

'Told you!' the Kitty in her head said. Rogue thudded to the ground, and the last thing she saw was Remy, probably turning to see why she wasn't following, looking at her, calling, "Chere!" before she blacked out.

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What did you think then? Was it ok? Please tell me! And if I missed you out at the beginning I am incredibly sorry *bows down before you*

1 = Can someone who does French please tell me do you call girls mon ami and guys mes ami or is it the other way round? I do German and Spanish you see the only French I know is ballet and Remy doesn't go around speaking fluent ballet steps now does he?!

Please review!

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