Chapter 9
After Mystique received the phone call there was banging and yelling down the hall. She picked up a tray full of food and handed it to the girl next to her.
"Take this to their cell." The lights started to flash on and off as the girl walked away with the tray. /I need to keep an eye on her, but for right now I have other things to do./ Mystique climbed the stairs and punched in the code for the metal door. It opened into a pantry and then she ascended the next set of steps to the first floor. As the door opened a black cat with yellow eyes ran across the room to the window and leaped out of it onto the grass. Right as she was about to leave she turned her head and hissed as the brotherhood members returned to their home.
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"Let us out!" Kurt changed locations and was banging on the ceiling. "You can't keep us in here!"
"It's, like no use. We're stuck until someone gets us out." Kitty mumbled from her seat, while massaging her head. As soon as she woke up she tried to phase out of the white room but when she walked towards a wall she ran into it bumping her head in the process. Kurt then tried to get across the room by teleporting but that didn't work either. The only things in the room was two twin metal beds with no sheets
"You're right. Ve vill vait for someone to get us." He stopped talking when he heard footsteps coming from outside. With a twist of his body he easily flipped in the air and landed on his legs as the door opened. Both of them were ready to charge until they saw exactly whom they were going to attack. In front of them stood Wanda Maximoff. Both of them just stared at the Scarlet Witch too confused to even say anything.
"Ve aren't captured and staying at that crazy man's compound?" Kurt was the first one to get out of the shock of seeing her and asked the question. Up till now they had thought that they were back at Trask's base, but now they didn't know what to think.
"No you're captured and staying at the crazy bitch's compound." Wanda's words were dripping with sarcasm and her glare told them to be quite. This didn't work on Kitty who had built up immunity to them from being constantly glared at by Rogue. Kitty stood up and looked her in the eye when she said, "You own a compound?"
Wanda's eyes narrowed as Kitty waited for her answer. Before any fight could break out Kurt wrapped his tail around Kitty's waist and pulled her behind him.
"Vhat she meant to say is vho's keeping us here." Behind him Kitty tried to get out of his hold. When she was close to succeeding her feet left the ground and she was suspended in the air swaying side to side. "Ve have the right to know."
"It's Mystique. She needs you here so you're going to stay here and not do anything." Using her power she placed the tray on the floor as she headed out the still open door.
"Vhy?" Just hearing her name got him angry. /After all the trouble she caused blowing up the mansion getting rid of the professor and now she was going to hold me and Kitty prisoner!/
"She needs you two and that's all you need to know." Wanda left locking the door behind her. "She needs you two," Kitty imitated Wanda's voice. "Bitch."
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"Leave now." Magneto ordered Piotr to leave and went to his office, which was floating in an empty dome. When he reached the edge of the walkway metal soared from the bottom and created a path to the room. Inside the room was only a desk with drawers and a video screen, because the room was only used for talking to people and nothing else. When he reached the end he used a COM unit on the wall.
"Pietro come to my offic..." A gust of wind hit him as his son leaned against the archway. "What do you need, pops?"
Eric refrained from sighing and sat behind his desk to show this was a formal meeting. "What I need is for someone to follow Mystique around. She may be a problem to me and I want her monitored at all times. I have already shown you a picture of most of her aliases. Track her down and place this device on her." At this point Eric had removed a silver box. When he opened it the inside was lined with a black cloth and there was nothing else Pietro could see.
"What do I put on her?" Pietro looked closely at the box but there was nothing in there.
"This." He flipped the box over and a black dot fell into the palm of his hand. In an instant it changed colors and matched his skin. Again it was invisible. "Place this on her skin and then return back to base."
The device was placed back into the box and then put into Pietro's hand. "Try not to fail me." With that said Magneto opened up a drawer and started to look at some papers.
"I'll be back in a couple of minutes."
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"What do you mean there gone!" Logan came back to find that the jet was missing, Kurt and Kitty were taken, and that Rogue was the person behind it. "Stripes wouldn't just leave with them."
"Well she did." Jean stood in front with Scott as the other students tried to help with wreckage that was their home. Some helicopters brought them home and then the adults came in the car a little latter. They were standing on what was left of the porch trying to explain what happened to Aurora and Logan.
"We were thinking that she might have taped into Mystique's memories and started acting like her." Scott tried to explain but was cut off by Logan. "Then why did she take half-pint and the elf? Mystique would have just left everybody and taken off."
"Logan is right but there is nothing we can do right now." Storm caused a slight storm to water some plants as she continued to talk. "Without the professor we have no way of locating or helping her. We will have to wait for now."
"I don't want to admit it but Ro's right. She could be anywhere, and we need to find the Professer and fix this place up." Logan wanted to go break something instead of fix it but now wasn't the time.
"You guys go. I need to check on something." Scott started walking to the gates. They all knew that Cyclops considered himself the leader and it was a hard blow to have three of their own go missing. So they let him go.
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/Damn mutt./ A cat jumped from a tree she was held prisoner in for about an hour. The dog barked again at her but it was held behind a fence this time when his master found him. She entered a dark alleyway so she changed back to her normal form. /They must have figured out it was me by now. I'll need to lay low for a while./ In a blink of an eye she changed into Risty and was about to leave when she heard a voice come from behind her.
"Stop right there." Scott Summers stood in front of the only way out. "Change back."
"I don't know what you mean, luv." /Damn it./ His eyebrows went up and he moved forward. "Fine." After saying that she changed back to her blue self and crossed her arms.
"I mean your real form." Now Mystique's eyebrows went up and she stared at the boy ahead of her.
"I am in my real form. Now can you hurry it up?" Her eyes narrowed as her feet slid slightly to get into a better position.
"You know what I mean Rogue!" /Rogue? He doesn't.../ "Please come with me back to the mansion. We can help you there."
"I'm not Rogue you buffoon. I'm Mystique!" /They still believe it! I should have just gone with it. Too late now./ "Now get out of my way!"
"Rogue please! Mystique's psyche is controlling you. When we find the Professor he can help wipe away that psycopathic bitch from your mind."
"I'm not Rogue! And you will not refer to me as a psychopath or a bitch!" Mystique sprang forward leaping 5 feet into the air and coming down on Cyclops. He rolled in time to get out of the way and dodge a hit right to his face.
"Rogue listen to me you can fight this!" Cyclops stopped to reason with her when a gust of wind distracted him. By the time the wind was gone her foot collided with his chest causing him to double over. A hand grabbed his hair and pulled his head back.
"I'm...not...Rogue!" She hissed into his face getting angry over the whole situation. "My name is Mystique." There was silence for a while. /At least the boy knows how much trouble he's gotten himself into./
"...Rogue..." Scott was able to mumble it before his body was thrown into a wall.
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All over the United States random strong winds were felt and then vanish as soon as they appear. /I just have to find her. This is taking too long./ He picked up speed until he reached Bayville. There he slowed down a bit so he could see everybody's face in an area before he moved on. It took four minutes after he left the base to find her. She was changing into her regular form.
/Too easy./ He was about to place the device on Mystique when he noticed Scott Summers coming. /This is going to be interesting./ The two talked a bit and then Scott said something weird. "I mean your real form." /Is Summers' glasses too dark or something? Maybe he ended up blowing up his own eyes with those laser beams./ He waited a while and he heard him talking about how Mystique was Rogue. /Weird I think mister leader persons on crack./ At that instant he wanted to head to the brotherhood house and tell the others about what happened. /I guess I can't now. They would never let me back in there. Not like I care or anything./
/Here's my chance./ Pietro rushed forward when the two were fighting to place the device on Mystique and ran back to the base as fast as could.
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Scott awoke to the feel of sand beneath him. His hand reached up to touch his glasses but they weren't there. With a silent curse he began to walk across the desert occasionally opining his eyes to see where he was going. A pack of wolves started to attack him but he escaped and some people found him.
They took him to the hospital where a doctor wanted to check his eye. Though Scott protested the doctor got it open and a red beam tore a hole into the roof. Scott was able to escape but had no where to go. Finally some thugs found him and started a fight. They all left except for one who he had pinned up against the wall.
The person in front of him changed form revealing Mystique. She attacked him but because he wasn't able to see he couldn't block all the hits and was kicked into a warehouse.
"I wouldn't open those eyes of yours you might blow up some families' home." Mystique flipped trying to bring her foot down on his head but he dodged.
"Rogue you can still stop this." Her hands were raised to do another flip but they just stopped there.
"You couldn't possibly still believe I'm Rogue." /This is unbelievable. Is there something wrong with him?/
"Yes if you were actually Mystique you wouldn't have thought of something so lame as putting me in a desert. Not that I'm calling your idea lame, Rogue, but your just not the evil plot making type."
"My idea was perfect you just don't know an evil plan when you see one!" She huffed bringing her hands down and crossing them.
"Well I'm sorry it was just lacking in creativeness isn't remote areas where everybody leaves people?" Scott just shrugged remembering various movies and books where they left the main character alone in a secluded place to survive on their own.
"But I let you blow up that hospital!" A small smile formed on her face as she pointed it out.
"Yeah, now I can give them some money to make it better and maybe some more supplies so that it would make it easier to treat people."
"What about all the turmoil? The fear?" /He couldn't possibly have felt nothing through this whole thing./
"I have more problems dealing with girls and I live with like 5 of them who all get their thing at the same time of the month. That's real fear." The thought brought up past memories about it and he couldn't control the shiver the went down his spine.
"Well if males weren't so inconsiderate... what am I saying?" Mystique stopped mumbling to herself and began fighting again. All the stuff on the ground and Mystique's fast pace of fighting put him at a disadvantage. So he decided to reason with her again.
"Rogue...stop..." Scott heard her footsteps stop a few yards away from him.
"I am not and have never been Rogue. I got out of the compound and then went back to Bayville." Her tone was calm and slow. After all this fighting she wanted him to know that it was her who was doing this not her daughter.
"You sure?"
"Of course I'm sure."
"Okay." His eyes opened and a beam hit the ground beneath her feet causing her foot to get stuck. Scott came forward but the floor caved beneath them and they fell into the room below. The room was dark putting them on even ground. Scott was able to get a couple shots in before Mystique made a direct hit knocking him against a crate.
Before she could knock him out her feet left the ground and she was slammed into a stone wall until it collapsed from the pressure of the blows.
"Scott?" Jean floated down to the ground and pulled Scott towards her. "Are you all right? Was that Rogue?"
"No that was Mystique. How did you find me?" He didn't think he was close enough to Bayville for Wolverine to track him down and there was no other way except...
"I used Cerebro. And I know I shouldn't be using it, I'm not ready but it was...easier...finding you then it was finding anyone else."
"I'm just glad you're here Jean."
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"So Mystique is still out there?" Logan, Hank, Jean, and Scott were using the X-copter to get back home.
"Yeah but what I don't get is how Mystique got out." Jean looked at Hank who was piloting the machine. Storm had to stay back and look after the others while they were gone.
"It isn't your fault Jean she could have changed into anything and got out of the warehouse..."
"I don't mean the Warehouse Mr. McCoy. I mean back at the base. All the ways out were locked and there must have been at least a dozen guards in that area."
"She probably knew the codes, and mostly people were near the roof trying to get to us. She could have easily escaped while we were waiting for Rogue."
"Oh my God!" Jean's eyes widened as an idea struck her. "I think we were wrong the whole time!"
"What do you mean Red?"
"I mean that Rogue might be working for Mystique."
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The cards flew out of his hand the explosion causing people to scatter. Rogue grabbed what she bought and ran ahead to nearby store as Remy stayed back to hold them off.
When the smoke cleared a dozen men charged him at once. The first few he dodged and he used the momentum of the next one to turn him around and throw him into the people behind him. Someone was able to hit Remy from behind causing him to stumble. But he just rolled springing to his feet and tossed a charged card to the guy's chest knocking him down and out. Two others came from behind the knocked out boy and tried to tackle him.
Remy pulled out a metal rod that extended into a 6 foot pike, and used it to jump over his attackers. From there he sent cards into some shrubs making the dirt fly. When the people were trying to protect themselves from it he escaped heading into the store that Rogue went into.
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Rogue slowed down when she reached the men's section. She took a ball cap and a jacket and put it on to disguise her hair and clothes. No one followed her inside and she was safe for a while. /Maybe I should have stayed and helped Remy./ After thinking that she looked back and saw some security guards walking her way checking how people looked as they past.
"Shit." Rogue ducked behind some displays and tried to head to the back of the store where the exit was. Before she could reach it more guards showed up and they were coming towards her area. /Damn it what am I going to do? There is nowhere to hide except.../ In a second she made up her mind and headed into the boy's changing room. Keeping her head down she walked past the first stalls when a hand came out and pulled her into one.
Rogue bit her tongue to stop herself from shouting when she was pulled in. Before the person could do anything she rammed her foot down scraping his leg from his knee to his foot.
"Merde." Remy cussed softly as he let go and started rubbing the damaged spot. "It's just me!"
"Ah know." Rogue smiled and took a seat behind him. "How are we goin ta get out of here?"
Remy noticed the smile but thought better about saying anything about it. "I throw some cards and den we run."
"Sounds good." Both of them left with Rogue not wearing the cap or jacket anymore and walked to the exit. Some guards came running but Remy just threw some cards and they ran the rest of the distance to the car. As soon as they got to it Remy slid into the driver's seat and they drove off.
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"Where we goin from here?" Rogue turned her head and looked over into the other seat to see Remy's face. After they ran from the mall they drove off taking a secluded road until the sun went down. Then they decided to pull over and rest. They heard on the radio that the president has stopped the production of sentinels and he announced that Mutants are human beings like everyone else. Of course it doesn't mean everyone was going to listen to him.
"We need to catch a plane and den we're at de base." Remy had his hands behind his head and his seat all the way down so he could sleep. "Do yo' know how to ski?"
Rogue narrowed her eyes before replying, "No, why?"
"Oh no reason, chere ." Remy smirked and opened one eye to see her response.
"You're up ta something aren't ya?" This only made him smile more and sit up so he could tower over her. She had pulled her seat all the way down making a sort of bed for herself with a bunched up jacket as a pillow.
"The only way to get to de compound is by skiing. It's near de base of a mountain." Her eyes widened at that and she shivered slightly at the thought of going anywhere near that much snow. Rain she was used to, but snow. "Don't like de cold?"
"Never got used ta it. Aren't ya from down South too? How can ya stand having a base in any sort of cold area?"
"Don't go there of'en. Usually out doin' work and stayin' at hotels or apartments." Something about the way he said it made her think that sometimes it wasn't his room he was staying in. "But yo'r right about de cold I can't stand it. Never could."
"Where are ya from anyways?" Remy laid back down taking up the same position he was in before when she asked.
"New Orleans. De perfect place. It never gets too cold down there." A sad smile appeared on his face as he stared through the window not really paying attention to anything he saw. "How about yo'?"
"Caldecott, Mississippi. Right next ta the river." Saying her hometown's name brought back all her memories of it and the thought of how she could never go back. It didn't ruin the memories though and she still smiles even though she is sad, mimicking Remy's expression. And they both just laid there thinking about their past until they fell asleep.
Author's Note: I'm trying to get the next chapter up soon, before Finals start. Finals...I hate finals...
Aro: There is always charged cards.
Caliente: Thanks for reviewing!
Goldyloks: At least Rogue still looks tough. Plus Remy's trench is still new right now. It's when he's been wearing the same thing till he's thirty, then it becomes ratty and then changing colors...eww
ishandahalf: I don't think I made them stupid enough. Or maybe I made them too much stupid. I don't know but I definatly going to add more stuff on it in later chapters. And shopping! Gotta love the shopping.
Anime addicted: I don't think I'll last that long either, with or without a guy. Esp. if he's like Remy ;)
charice: good to know that you luv my story.
Uth`e: It would have matched her outfit but then she wouldn't have to wear Remy's anymore and that's bad. And about where he'll take Rogue you just have to wait and find out!