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After getting lost many times, Bobby and Rogue finally figured their way out. Then they got lost again trying to get back to the new X-Men headquarters.
"I'd never thought I'd say this, but I hate New York." Rogue said.
"Ditto." Bobby replied.
Both were under a lot of stress, and were getting rather annoyed.
"God! If we don't find the headquarters soon, Blaze and John could be in big trouble!" Rogue yelled angrily.
"Don't look at me! You should have memorized the way over!" Bobby scolded.
"Why didn't you, Bobby?"
"I think that's beside my point."
"God! Ok, we shouldn't be fighting with each other, we should be working to find our way back and warn them." Rogue reasoned.
"Yeah I guess you're right." Bobby mumbled.
They walked slowly and silently for a while until Rogue bumped into an Asian woman with a yellow jacket. Rogue had been looking to the side, so she didn't see the woman. And when she bumped into the woman, her forehead collided with the woman's, causing Rogue to give her a zapping feeling, in other words taking her life force.
The Asian winced at Rogue's touch, eyeing Rogue a little suspiciously and as if she'd seen her before. Rogue felt a pang of worry, but the woman said,
"Wow, that's the biggest shock anyone's every given me. Are you all right kid?" The woman smiled casually, but her eyes darted to the other people around her nervously. It looked like her casualness was her acting.
"Sorry." Rogue apologized sheepishly and then reached out her hand to help her up. But when her hands were aimed towards the woman, sparks, or . . . fireworks came out of her hand and towards the woman. The woman scowled and waved her hand through the air.
The fireworks disappeared.
Rogue stared at her hands and looked around desperately, hoping no one noticed. Fortunally, there weren't many people on the usually busy streets of New York, and whoever was walking were all talking on what looked like high tech versions of cell phones and did not notice the teenager send fireworks at someone.
The woman grabbed Rogue's arm and gave her a stern "follow me" look.
"Hey, let her go!" Bobby demanded, getting his hands ready to ice someone.
"Wait Bobby." Rogue said. She was never able to shoot fireworks out . . . and the most recent person she touched was the Asian woman. So that means . . . she must be a mutant too!
"I think we can trust her." Rogue said slowly.
The woman smiled and led them to an apartment building nearby. They went into the elevator silently and got out the same way. Rogue knew for sure this woman was a mutant, but she was on her guard anyways, just in case. Rogue could see that Bobby was tensed up too.
The woman took some keys out of her yellow jacket and opened the door. As she walked in, the large gold hoops in her ears bounced around with her.
"Well, come in."
Bobby and Rogue snapped out of their trance and stepped inside the room. It was a fairly large apartment, with a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room with a T.V.
"Nice place." Bobby commented.
"Thank you." She went over and locked the door. Bobby gulped, and Rogue winced.
"Don't lock the door!" Bobby burst out.
The woman smiled. "Don't worry, it's only so people can't disturb us when we're talking. You two are free to leave whenever you want. But . . . there's something I want to ask."
"Wait us first. First of all, who are you?" Bobby demanded.
"My name is Jubilation Lee, or as my X-Men comrades call me, Jubilee. The power that she let out, who I suspect is Marie, is my power. I can create fireworks."
Rogue's eyes widened at the mention at her own name, but Bobby recognized the woman.
"Wait; remember what the Professor was saying maybe 3 days before the battle?" Bobby's question was to Rogue.
"No, what?"
"He said that a new student would be coming soon, and her name is Jubilee. He said that we had better win that battle or there'd be no hope for new students like her and others." Bobby reminded her.
Rogue's eyes sparkled with recognition. "Yeah! Now I remember!"
Jubilee smiled.
"So does that mean that the X-Men won, then?" Bobby asked.
"We already know that we won, Bobby," Rogue pointed out, "remember they said that the raid at the mansion was how . . . how the Professor . . . how he died."
"Yeah, he died trying to make this a better world for us." Jubilee's eyes were downcast and sad, but then it brightened up with confusion. "And I've seen you two before. You, you have the same power as Marie, and you look like her as a teenager, too. And you," Jubilee pointed to Bobby, "You look exactly like Bobby, or Iceman, her boyfriend. But . . . but you're dead!"
"So I've heard." Bobby muttered.
"We are Marie and Bobby. But we're from the past." Rogue said disturbingly cheerfully.
Jubilee's mouth dropped.
"Yeah, it's hard to take in, we're getting used to it ourselves." Bobby said sheepishly.
"Listen; do you know where the X-Men headquarters is? We need to get there, like, right now!" Rogue urged.
"Yeah, actually, I do. I'm in undercover, looking for young mutants and trying to get them to the H.Q. Follow me, I'll take you there."
A few minutes later the three stepped out of Jubilee's apartment building and walked to a store called, "Medicines Galore." Rogue and Bobby looked at each other. They didn't even know what "Galore" meant.
"This looks familiar . . ." Bobby commented.
"That's because it's Scott's store. Not really his type of work, sure, but it pays for rent, and it's the perfect place for the X-Men, who aren't like Wolverine, to heal." Jubilee explained.
"Yeah, if we looked at what we were leaving, we might have been able to find it again." Rogue muttered.
Jubilee walked in, and the couple followed. She walked up to the clerk and smiled, tossing her black hair over her shoulder.
"Can I have some of that new medicine, the X-llergy?" Jubilee asked innocently.
The clerk smiled and waved his hand.
Nothing happened. Rogue and Bobby looked around, confused.
"I'm sorry, we don't have any on the shelves right now, but I believe we have some in the back. Why don't you follow me?" The clerk motioned for them to follow him.
The three followed him through the door behind him, the back room. As they followed him in, the door closed by itself.
"Welcome back . . . again, Jubilee." The clerk greeted her.
"You too, Psych." Jubilee returned the greeting. "Your telekinesis has been improving."
"Well, that's what you get when you're around a master such as Jean Gray." Psych replied. "Well, I believe you know where to go. Now I have to go convince people in the store that they did not see you walk in there." He left the room and closed the door. They heard the click of the lock behind them.
"Help me move this." Jubilee said, pointing to a row of boxes. Bobby and Rogue obliged and together they were able to move the boxes aside, revealing an old rug. Jubilee removed the rug, causing dust to fly in the air around them, making Rogue and Bobby cough.
Under the rug revealed a large secret trapdoor.
"Old school trapdoor, nice." Bobby commented.
But when Jubilee lifted it, it revealed a hollow space. They jumped in to find a series of numbers and buttons, like an elevator. Jubilee pressed a button that closed the trapdoor, and they heard the boxes stacking back on top of them.
"Or not so old school." Bobby said.
Jubilee pressed another button and they felt the elevator move down.
"You know, I don't remember going out this way." Rogue said.
"That's because you don't. This is how you go in, but going out is a whole different story." Jubilee explained.
"Oh."
The elevator came to a stop, and a door opened. And Rogue and Bobby found themselves inside the X-Men's headquarters. Again.
Marie spotted them and jogged over. "Hello Jubes, what brings you here?"
"These two got themselves lost. So I decided to show them the way back." Jubilee said. "Nice to see you again, Marie, an adult or . . . a teenager."
Marie winced, "So I see you recognized them."
"How could I not? Want to explain how they got here? I haven't asked them yet."
"Um, right . . . KURT!" Marie yelled.
A puff of blue smoke appeared beside Marie, and our favorite tattooed blue mutant appeared. "You called?"
"Could you explain to Jubilee how these two came? I need to talk to them."
Kurt nodded his head, and walked off, Jubilee following.
"Now," Marie began, her attention now on Bobby and Rogue, "where's Liz and John? Did you get the information?"
"John has the disks, and . . . those two got captured. Those mutant police people were waiting for us right outside the vent." Bobby explained.
"Oh no." Marie put a hand to her mouth. "We must find them immediately. Let's just hope that they didn't see if they were bugged or not. I find that when people are busy with hating someone, they forget certain details such as finding bugs."
Rogue looked at Bobby with a confused expression. Bobby explained, "Bugs, as in tracking stuff. Don't you watch spy movies?"
"Sparky! Arcade! Get to work and track Blaze!" Marie barked at two nearby mutants on the computers.
"Don't worry, we'll find them. And we'll save them." Marie reassured the couple. But they knew that in Marie's mind she was thinking, "I hope."
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"God, you guys, you'd better hurry up." John muttered.
Blaze had just been taken away to figure out if she was a mutant or not, which meant in other words: Torture her and see if her powers flare up as a pissed off instinct.
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"Ahhh!" Blaze thought she would never stop screaming. Sure, the burning fire part didn't really bug her, being her power was fire, but she had to pretend to be afraid of it.
But now they were dumping water on her! How evil is that! And it was freezing cold too!
"C'mon Rogue . . . c'mon Bobby . . . get help soon!" Blaze murmured. The only reason she thought water as torture was because of her element. But knowing these government scientists, they would soon get very physical with the torture . . . and soon.
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After getting lost many times, Bobby and Rogue finally figured their way out. Then they got lost again trying to get back to the new X-Men headquarters.
"I'd never thought I'd say this, but I hate New York." Rogue said.
"Ditto." Bobby replied.
Both were under a lot of stress, and were getting rather annoyed.
"God! If we don't find the headquarters soon, Blaze and John could be in big trouble!" Rogue yelled angrily.
"Don't look at me! You should have memorized the way over!" Bobby scolded.
"Why didn't you, Bobby?"
"I think that's beside my point."
"God! Ok, we shouldn't be fighting with each other, we should be working to find our way back and warn them." Rogue reasoned.
"Yeah I guess you're right." Bobby mumbled.
They walked slowly and silently for a while until Rogue bumped into an Asian woman with a yellow jacket. Rogue had been looking to the side, so she didn't see the woman. And when she bumped into the woman, her forehead collided with the woman's, causing Rogue to give her a zapping feeling, in other words taking her life force.
The Asian winced at Rogue's touch, eyeing Rogue a little suspiciously and as if she'd seen her before. Rogue felt a pang of worry, but the woman said,
"Wow, that's the biggest shock anyone's every given me. Are you all right kid?" The woman smiled casually, but her eyes darted to the other people around her nervously. It looked like her casualness was her acting.
"Sorry." Rogue apologized sheepishly and then reached out her hand to help her up. But when her hands were aimed towards the woman, sparks, or . . . fireworks came out of her hand and towards the woman. The woman scowled and waved her hand through the air.
The fireworks disappeared.
Rogue stared at her hands and looked around desperately, hoping no one noticed. Fortunally, there weren't many people on the usually busy streets of New York, and whoever was walking were all talking on what looked like high tech versions of cell phones and did not notice the teenager send fireworks at someone.
The woman grabbed Rogue's arm and gave her a stern "follow me" look.
"Hey, let her go!" Bobby demanded, getting his hands ready to ice someone.
"Wait Bobby." Rogue said. She was never able to shoot fireworks out . . . and the most recent person she touched was the Asian woman. So that means . . . she must be a mutant too!
"I think we can trust her." Rogue said slowly.
The woman smiled and led them to an apartment building nearby. They went into the elevator silently and got out the same way. Rogue knew for sure this woman was a mutant, but she was on her guard anyways, just in case. Rogue could see that Bobby was tensed up too.
The woman took some keys out of her yellow jacket and opened the door. As she walked in, the large gold hoops in her ears bounced around with her.
"Well, come in."
Bobby and Rogue snapped out of their trance and stepped inside the room. It was a fairly large apartment, with a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room with a T.V.
"Nice place." Bobby commented.
"Thank you." She went over and locked the door. Bobby gulped, and Rogue winced.
"Don't lock the door!" Bobby burst out.
The woman smiled. "Don't worry, it's only so people can't disturb us when we're talking. You two are free to leave whenever you want. But . . . there's something I want to ask."
"Wait us first. First of all, who are you?" Bobby demanded.
"My name is Jubilation Lee, or as my X-Men comrades call me, Jubilee. The power that she let out, who I suspect is Marie, is my power. I can create fireworks."
Rogue's eyes widened at the mention at her own name, but Bobby recognized the woman.
"Wait; remember what the Professor was saying maybe 3 days before the battle?" Bobby's question was to Rogue.
"No, what?"
"He said that a new student would be coming soon, and her name is Jubilee. He said that we had better win that battle or there'd be no hope for new students like her and others." Bobby reminded her.
Rogue's eyes sparkled with recognition. "Yeah! Now I remember!"
Jubilee smiled.
"So does that mean that the X-Men won, then?" Bobby asked.
"We already know that we won, Bobby," Rogue pointed out, "remember they said that the raid at the mansion was how . . . how the Professor . . . how he died."
"Yeah, he died trying to make this a better world for us." Jubilee's eyes were downcast and sad, but then it brightened up with confusion. "And I've seen you two before. You, you have the same power as Marie, and you look like her as a teenager, too. And you," Jubilee pointed to Bobby, "You look exactly like Bobby, or Iceman, her boyfriend. But . . . but you're dead!"
"So I've heard." Bobby muttered.
"We are Marie and Bobby. But we're from the past." Rogue said disturbingly cheerfully.
Jubilee's mouth dropped.
"Yeah, it's hard to take in, we're getting used to it ourselves." Bobby said sheepishly.
"Listen; do you know where the X-Men headquarters is? We need to get there, like, right now!" Rogue urged.
"Yeah, actually, I do. I'm in undercover, looking for young mutants and trying to get them to the H.Q. Follow me, I'll take you there."
A few minutes later the three stepped out of Jubilee's apartment building and walked to a store called, "Medicines Galore." Rogue and Bobby looked at each other. They didn't even know what "Galore" meant.
"This looks familiar . . ." Bobby commented.
"That's because it's Scott's store. Not really his type of work, sure, but it pays for rent, and it's the perfect place for the X-Men, who aren't like Wolverine, to heal." Jubilee explained.
"Yeah, if we looked at what we were leaving, we might have been able to find it again." Rogue muttered.
Jubilee walked in, and the couple followed. She walked up to the clerk and smiled, tossing her black hair over her shoulder.
"Can I have some of that new medicine, the X-llergy?" Jubilee asked innocently.
The clerk smiled and waved his hand.
Nothing happened. Rogue and Bobby looked around, confused.
"I'm sorry, we don't have any on the shelves right now, but I believe we have some in the back. Why don't you follow me?" The clerk motioned for them to follow him.
The three followed him through the door behind him, the back room. As they followed him in, the door closed by itself.
"Welcome back . . . again, Jubilee." The clerk greeted her.
"You too, Psych." Jubilee returned the greeting. "Your telekinesis has been improving."
"Well, that's what you get when you're around a master such as Jean Gray." Psych replied. "Well, I believe you know where to go. Now I have to go convince people in the store that they did not see you walk in there." He left the room and closed the door. They heard the click of the lock behind them.
"Help me move this." Jubilee said, pointing to a row of boxes. Bobby and Rogue obliged and together they were able to move the boxes aside, revealing an old rug. Jubilee removed the rug, causing dust to fly in the air around them, making Rogue and Bobby cough.
Under the rug revealed a large secret trapdoor.
"Old school trapdoor, nice." Bobby commented.
But when Jubilee lifted it, it revealed a hollow space. They jumped in to find a series of numbers and buttons, like an elevator. Jubilee pressed a button that closed the trapdoor, and they heard the boxes stacking back on top of them.
"Or not so old school." Bobby said.
Jubilee pressed another button and they felt the elevator move down.
"You know, I don't remember going out this way." Rogue said.
"That's because you don't. This is how you go in, but going out is a whole different story." Jubilee explained.
"Oh."
The elevator came to a stop, and a door opened. And Rogue and Bobby found themselves inside the X-Men's headquarters. Again.
Marie spotted them and jogged over. "Hello Jubes, what brings you here?"
"These two got themselves lost. So I decided to show them the way back." Jubilee said. "Nice to see you again, Marie, an adult or . . . a teenager."
Marie winced, "So I see you recognized them."
"How could I not? Want to explain how they got here? I haven't asked them yet."
"Um, right . . . KURT!" Marie yelled.
A puff of blue smoke appeared beside Marie, and our favorite tattooed blue mutant appeared. "You called?"
"Could you explain to Jubilee how these two came? I need to talk to them."
Kurt nodded his head, and walked off, Jubilee following.
"Now," Marie began, her attention now on Bobby and Rogue, "where's Liz and John? Did you get the information?"
"John has the disks, and . . . those two got captured. Those mutant police people were waiting for us right outside the vent." Bobby explained.
"Oh no." Marie put a hand to her mouth. "We must find them immediately. Let's just hope that they didn't see if they were bugged or not. I find that when people are busy with hating someone, they forget certain details such as finding bugs."
Rogue looked at Bobby with a confused expression. Bobby explained, "Bugs, as in tracking stuff. Don't you watch spy movies?"
"Sparky! Arcade! Get to work and track Blaze!" Marie barked at two nearby mutants on the computers.
"Don't worry, we'll find them. And we'll save them." Marie reassured the couple. But they knew that in Marie's mind she was thinking, "I hope."
* * *
"God, you guys, you'd better hurry up." John muttered.
Blaze had just been taken away to figure out if she was a mutant or not, which meant in other words: Torture her and see if her powers flare up as a pissed off instinct.
* * *
"Ahhh!" Blaze thought she would never stop screaming. Sure, the burning fire part didn't really bug her, being her power was fire, but she had to pretend to be afraid of it.
But now they were dumping water on her! How evil is that! And it was freezing cold too!
"C'mon Rogue . . . c'mon Bobby . . . get help soon!" Blaze murmured. The only reason she thought water as torture was because of her element. But knowing these government scientists, they would soon get very physical with the torture . . . and soon.
