X-men 3 By: Freelancer

Disclaimer: I own nothing, at least not yet.

I made the sentinels smaller, because I think they were huge in the comics. I looked a picture of them on the internet and they looked huge. But I didn't want to use giant machines.

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile.

CHAPTER4:__________________________________________________________________

=Brotherhood Hideout=

Jean sat in a chair and watched her life play through her mind. She was a little girl playing with her friend outside. A ball rolled into the street, and her friend ran to get it. The brakes of the car squealed, but it was too late. Her friend lay sprawled on the street, bloody and lifeless. A great searing pain went through her head. Thoughts from the ambulance medics filled her head. "She's a goner." "That's a lot of blood." "Julia, are you okay?" So that's my name, Julia. Next she saw herself moving objects with her mind. Being called a freak. Standing with a tall dark haired man. He had brown eyes and his name was Brian Thorne. Next, she was in a hospital, lying in a bed with a baby wrapped in her arms. She was smiling, he was smiling. The hospital room turned into a beach. She, her husband Brian, and their little girl were playing in the sand, making sandcastles, laughing, smiling. Next she was speaking to an audience about mutant rights, for both herself and her husband were mutants. But a senator was criticizing, saying that mutants were dangerous. Next, she was standing in front of her house, but the door was already opened. She stepped inside and looked around. "Mutants burn in hell!" and "One mutant down, a million to go" were spray painted across her walls.  Her eyes started to water as she began to wonder where her family was. She ran down the hall to her and Brian's room and peeked in to find the battered body of her husband. The face was unidentifiable. Sobbing, she ran towards her daughter's room, dreading the worst. She stepped in and immediately sank to her knees, screaming and sobbing. She crawled towards the little body and hugged her, asking her to please open her eyes. This was a hate crime. Humans had murdered her family out of hatred. Now flames of hatred for all humans had risen inside her.

Jean became conscious. Her face was hot and she had tears in her eyes.

Magneto walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Julia, we would like to offer you an opportunity to avenge your family. Punish the humans for what they did."

"Just give me the chance." Jean heard the words come out of her mouth, but it didn't feel right. More like a programmed response. However she did feel the extreme hatred for all humans and the need for vengeance.

"Now go rest, you've been through a lot in 10 minutes. We'll talk about our plans later."

=New Orleans=

Scott was on his way to meet his contact in a Bar and Grill. He had forced Rogue and Bobby to stay at the hotel.

Not liking the silence, he turned on the radio.

I'm here without you baby but your still on my lonely mind
I'm here without you baby
but you're still on my lonely mind.
I think about you baby
and I dream about you all the time

Scott frantically turned the station.

and I know that

You're in a better place where

Angel's wings caress you but I still

Miss you!

"Ahh!!" He quickly slammed the power button.

He pulled into the parking lot and walked into the bar. Look for auburn hair, Scott thought. There. In a corner of the bar, a mysterious young man with auburn hair sat playing cards with himself.

Scott sat across from him. "Hi I'm Scott Summers, you must be Remy…"

"Shhh! First, me n' you, we play cards. Then we talk."

"Uh, sure."

Remy dealed out 5 cards to each of them.

"I'm guessing we're playing poker?"

Remy nodded and stared at his cards, thinking. Scott looked at his cards. 3, 4, 5, 7, 7. Hmm… Should I keep the pair… or go for the strait? He looked up at Remy's face, a true poker face. He couldn't tell what kind of hand he might have. I'll just go for it.

"One card." Scott took the card and slowly turned it over. A six!!! Scott found it hard to not smile.

Remy laid down 2 cards, and took 2 more cards. As he looked at his cards, he was expressionless. He looked up at Scott.

"You ready? Ok.."

Scott happily laid his cards down.

"A strait, hmmm… that's good." Scott smiled as the other man commented on his cards. "But…" Scott's smile faded. "That won't be good enough."

Remy laid down his cards. Two 8's and 3' Jacks. A full house.

"Good game, good game. Now let's talk."

"So, Remy…"

"Call me Gambit."

"Ok, Gambit, you have been recruited by Magneto, right?"

"That's right."

"But you're going to cooperate with us?"

"Yep."

"Ok, so do you have anything to tell me right now?"

"Well, not really. Nothin's really happened 'cept Magneto bringn' in new recruits. No major plans that I've heard of yet." Remy thought for a moment. "Well, there was this one recruit they just brought in from Canada or somethin. She seemed really important to Magneto. I think he has plans for her."

"Alright, let me know if you find out anything more. We'll talk again soon." Scott stood up, about to shake Gambit's hand when several machine looking things came into the bar.

"There's three at the bar, and 2 over there in that corner."

A few sentinels moved towards the 3 mutants at the bar. One of them turned into a grizzly bear and began attacking the machines. But the machines had no problem in shooting the bear with tranquilizers. Then they shot the other two mutants.

"Now get the two in the corner."

Scott was about to open fire on the machines when he heard whizzing noises pass his ears. He caught a glimpse of cards flying towards the machines and then… exploding. The machines backed up a little, then began advancing on them, shooting tranquilizers in their direction.

Scott continued firing on the machines when Remy grabbed him.

"Come on! This way!" Remy pulled Scott through the back door of the bar and out into an alley.

"That's them over there, get them!" Three more sentinels were coming towards them from the end of the alley.

Scott and Gambit raced towards the other end of the alley. They were almost into the street when Scott saw Gambit collapse on the ground. Scott knelt down and tried to pick him but stopped when he felt a fiery sting in his arm.  A dart was implanted there. He looked behind him and saw several sentinels charging towards him. Just before he lost complete consciousness, he heard a car stop in the street in front of him and a door open. Two pairs of hands grabbed him and pulled him into the car. They then grabbed Gambit and sat him next to Scott.

Scott felt the car accelerate and then he blacked out.