"Professor, what happened?" asked Amara. The professor was preparing to erase the thought from their minds when Rogue spoke up.
"Ah did it. Ah'm the reason the sentinels are roamin' the streets. Ah asked Agatha Harkness fer help with mah pow'r and she mustah used Dorian's DNA to add that skin or whatevah to them."
"I don't think that's quite the whole story. Some other organization has used Agatha and stolen the blueprints of the sentinels. The sentinels are most likely closing in on our location. We need to take action soon," said the professor.
"I'll go. No one else even laid a scratch on them. I have to take care of this," said Logan.
"But you can't stop 'em. At least Ah can turn off their powers before everyone else comes. There's no way anyone can go near those things without disabling their powers first."
"I bet to differ," Wanda said as she walked in. The rest of the Brotherhood, Mystique, and Tabitha followed. "We took out one of the sentinels on the way over here. I held its power and weapons long enough for everyone else to destroy it." She turned to Logan. "Thanks to whoever disabled the front cannon." She received a smile back.
"Then it's settled," stated Xavier. "You and Rogue will lead the counter attack against the remaining sentinels."
"What about Fury? Shouldn't we wait and let him shut them off?"
"I'm afraid we don't have time to exhaust all our connections at this point, Logan. If he hasn't taken care of it already, agent Fury may not be able to. We need to take an offensive."
At that moment, loud crashes were heard from the streets. Rogue and Wanda prepared to take point. Rogue and Wanda put their backs to the wall next to the exit blocked by the sentinels. Rogue counted to three on her fingers. They turned to face the first sentinel just outside the opening and used their powers at full strength. It short circuited for a moment. The sentinel started right back up but that second was just what the mutants needed to take it down. Colossus, Iceman, Magma, and Boom Boom hit the piece of scrap metal with all they had.
"It's made of adamantium!" shouted Wolverine from inside the foxhole. Even so, they were able to cause damage to certain areas of the sentinel. The other sentinel appeared from behind his counter-part and shot an energy blast from his hands at them. Rogue used a combination of a telekinetic shield, Dorian's neutralization power, and her absorbing power to create a shield that blocked the impulse shot by the sentinel.
With that last defensive move, Rogue fell to her knees. Wanda used her power to hold the mutant power of the sentinels' skin while the rest of the mutants pounded away at areas not made of adamantium. When Wanda felt her grip loosening, Rogue and Dorian focused their powers on disabling the sentinels' stolen mutant ability. The sentinels began shooting containment gel. Most were able to deflect or destroy the gel, but Rogue was too drained to notice. Only Logan seemed to notice. He ran to cut her out. His claws became stuck in the gel when a third sentinel appeared and captured the two of them. Magneto tore the robot limb from limb. Wolverine and Rogue fell as the sentinel was pulled into pieces. Logan used his free hand to break the now hardened gel. Two more sentinels approached the subway entrance just as they had destroyed the others.
"We've got more company. I don't think we're getting anywhere, and I don't think we can keep this up much longer," Amara said.
"Just these last two. Only six attacked the Institute and these would be the last of them," Hank said, trying to reassure her. Dorian quickly disabled the sentinels' mutant ability.
"Kurt, if you can get meh on top of that thing, Ah might just be able tah take it out," Rogue explained. Kurt teleported her atop the robot and Rogue tried not to get thrown off. "Ah hope this works," she told herself as she used Gavin's power to make a hole down the middle of the sentinel. She jumped down and floated when she found the power source. Rogue electrocuted the sentinel with Storm's power and it shut down. She could hear sound of victory and knew the others had taken out the last sentinel while she was inside. Rogue flew out the hole she made and joined them in the celebration.
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Author's Notes
Ok don't linch me 'cause I didn't post last week and this isn't the longest chappie either. I mean come on, last Saturday was V-Day and my school's Sweathearts Dance. Not to mention I went to two B-Day parties the next day, so I had a pretty packed weekend. Lots of stuff has been goin' on lately too. Anyways, no more excuses. I want to hopefully finish the next chappie by Saturday. I'm not making any promises, but if you're hopeful you can always see if I did it. I love all of you so very much for sticking with me this whole time. I know it's a bit aggrevating when authors don't update as much as you'd like them to, but you have dealt with my shinadigans and I thank you all for it. On to the shout outs!
SHOUT OUTS!!
ishandahalf: romy never fails in the end. it's meant to be remember? anyway, the prof is bein a bit of a butt head, but rogue won't remember it in the morning.
cajunbelle: yea i really like how rogue is using a combo of the powers she absorbed to essentially create a new power. thanx for the review!
rogue14: thanx for the review!
roguesheart: well, you do have to consider agatha isn't quite freely trying to hurt rogue. she doesnt want rogue to lose her power and rogue doesnt want to either deep down. besides, where would they all be if she didn't have her powers right now? pretty much screwed. thats ok, agatha will make it up to her. yea, the recruits and everyone will be around. what would a fic be without extras? o right, don't need 'em that much do i? well they're loved so i'll hide them in a lil box on my shelf for safe keeping.