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The institute was gone.
Rogue blinked as she opened her eyes. The sky was a dark grey color. No clouds. No sun. Just grey. She was laying on something sharp but she didn't even notice. Her head hurt – No. Her body hurt and her right arm was numb.
Everything that had happened was a blur. All she could remember was looking around for Jubilee inside the mansion then she heard a huge explosion.. And everything went black.
Her eyes began to get water. Ah promised
Remy Ah would be back in a minute.
- "Roguey, Where y' goin'? We need t' get out of here." Gambit grabbed Rogues arm. She jerked away from his grip. Another explosion was heard from outside. The mansion shook.
"Ah hafta find Jubilee. Ah'll be out in a minute." She gave him a quick kiss on the lips then ran off. Wolverine ran down the hallway, all geared up.
"C'mon Gumbo." -
A man walked towards her body. "Stupid mutant scum."
Again, She blinked. Where are the othahs? She attempted to sit up. Rogue let out a cry of pain as she felt a zap of pain go from head to toe.
He laughed at her. "Don't worry, Mutant. Everything will be over shortly.."
Several men then ran out of the back of a truck. "Get all of them. Dead or alive." The man said, grunting. "Then round up the sentinels."
What's goin' on.. She asked herself as she fell
into unconsciousness.
***
Gambit blinked. Where the hell was he? He shook his head then looked around. He
was in a white room, on a bed in an upright position with restraints around his
wrists, waist and ankles. They kept him to the hard bed. 'Dis is very
uncomfortable.
"I see you're awake, Mr. Lebeau." A woman dressed in a white lab coat walked into the room. She had tan skin and dark brown hair pulled up into a bun.
"Oui. Mind tellin' Remy where he is?"
"That is really none of your concern." He glared at her then smirked. His
gloved weren't on. He placed his palms on the bed then charged the bed.
"Y' don' tell Remy an' 'dis room goes boom." The woman took a step back, surprised. She hadn't expected his powers to be able to do that. She quickly brushed off the surprised feeling and smirked back at him.
"You make this room go 'boom' and you will not see any of your
fellow mutants again."
The bed was quickly uncharged. "Where is Rogue?" He growled. She didn't answer.
"Where is Rogue!?"
The woman just laughed then walked out of the room.
Gambit's eyes glowed red.
***
Mutants. He hated mutants. They are a threat, a menace. They poison the gene
pool and upset the natural balance of power. He had told people before.
"I'll just have to save the human species." Trask muttered walking down the
hallway. His base was underground. It was even 'specially' protected. So
mutants can't track us down. He told his accomplices.
Slowly, he would take out the mutant population. He walked into a chamber where Xavier laid, in a permanent sleep. He knew the Professor could figure a way out if he was awake. Trask wasn't stupid – He had created the Sentinels that destroyed the mansion and got background information on the mutants at the institute. He first was worried about Kurt Wagner and Katherine Pryde's powers of teleportation and corporal intangibility. He had a room made that was resistant against their powers and several others.
He had felt somewhat bad when he got to the site. All the mutants were unconscious – not dead. He shook his head at the thought. That one girl with the different colored hair was conscious for a while. He recalled her medical charts and such. Power and memory absorption with skin-to-skin contact. He shook his head again. She risks the lives of humans. Of putting them in a coma, of killing them.
He would have to experiment with such things.
***
She laid on an old, hard, white hospital bed. Her right arm was in a thick white cast and she wore a green hospital scrub uniform. Her own clothes were in the trash. Dry blood caked on them and rips all over. Her hair was a mess but she just stared up at the ceiling.
"No last name?" A young woman walked into the room wearing a tight white lab coat. Rogue glanced at her. "Marie, huh? Very common middle name."
"Ah prefer Rogue."
"And I prefer for there not to be any mutants." The woman snapped, taking out a chart. She started scribbling down notes.
"Oh yay. Another mutant fanatic."
"At least we're not cold-blooded killers."
Rogue sat up. "Excuse me?"
"You heard me." The woman approached her. She then took a needle out of a pocket. "A mutant killed my parents, you know." She knelled down next to Rogue. "And you know what else, Mutie? I blame you."
Rogue suddenly felt a slight pinch in her arm. The woman stood up and watched as Rogue slipped into darkness.
The woman knelled back down and stroked the side of her face with her gloved hand. "Don't worry Rogue. It's all an act to throw off Trask. I won't let anything happen to you or Kurt."
***
"Did you check on all of them, Raven?" Trask asked as she entered his office. He sat behind his old wooden desk. She nodded her head.
"Most are conscious now." She informed him. "Except for Marie. She's still unconscious." He stood up and walked towards her.
"Really?" He asked. "Raven, did you know I have surveillance set up all around? I see everything." She tensed up as he continued. "And know everything."
"I don't understand-"
"I know where my real assistant is and she's not happy. Especially since you're a mutant."
A woman stepped out of the shadows and zapped Raven with something in her hand before she could react. Raven get out a short and hard gasp as she transformed back into her normal blue body and fell to the floor.
***
"Restraints don' make Gambit happy." Wolverine glared at Remy and wondered why on earth the woman had put him in there. It made sense to him when the Cajun broke loose from the restraints around his wrists. He had smelled Mystique.
"Y' don' look comfortable, Wolves." Remy said as he made a small explosion on the metal bar around his waist. It disconnected and he bent down then disconnected the metal bars around his feet. Wolverine inhaled deeply. How he loathed his straight jacket. He growled as Remy walked towards the door.
"Hey Gumbo, Yer forgettin' someone over here."
"Remy mus' find chére first."
"While you find Rogue I'll find the others."
Remy shrugged but agreed. "Fair deal, mon ami."
***
- To be continued..
I'm sorry if I confused anyone.. Especially with the Trask thing and perhaps the Mystique (which will be explained in the next chapter) thing.
I was going to have a whole fight scene, which I did start to do, but when it was half finished.. it looked incredibly stupid. Maybe I'll add some flashbacks from it in the next chapter 'cause the chapter is going to mostly consist of where the other mutants are and such.
I'm going to answer a few reviewers which is something I haven't done yet in any of my three Evo fics.
AngieX – No romyness in this chapter.. Maybe a hint or two. Sorry. :( The next chapter won't have any real Romy in it.. Just a moment at the end but the chapter after that will! I promise.
Winter Fire – I'm glad you cracked up at the Remy part. That made me laugh when you said you cracked up.. Dunno why though..^^
Pookie Sanchez – I was going to try to answer you with some 80's slang but I'm not smart enough to remember or think of any..
Rogue77 – I was trying to make fun of Kitty with that.. *coughs* But it seems like no one understood that. I tend to have a strange sense of humor.
Sarah-Crysala – So that's why Remy could touch her.. Oh damn.. Maybe I should.. I dunno.. Thanks for the information. :o)AND THANKS TO ALL THE REVIEWS! I APPRECIATE IT!!
I would've answered more but I'm dead tired.. and hungry! Time to eat.. :)
