Evolution: Through the Looking Glass.
Chapter 5: Assault
Hi guys I thank everyone that reviewed (posted and unposted) I love the idea of this story and originally it was just an excuse for me to put myself into a story. However, Brian has pretty much become his own person (I swear he tried to kick me in the crotch)! I've decided that this story might take longer than I had originallly planed it. Twists and turns lie ahead so stick with me and I promise you won't be disappointed.
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Rogue stood there shocked, she had no idea just happened. She watched Brian run down the street away from the school; she wanted to run after him, ask him what the hell just happened. However, her body had other plans, as it stood froozen like a statue on the south pole. Just then Scott drove up to the curb that Rogue was standing on. They had been friends since the moment she saved his life on that school trip and he was surprized to see the vacant look on Rogue's face. "Rogue, Rogue? Are you alright?" He wondered
"What?" She snapped out of her daze "Hey Scott, can you take me home fast?"
"You're not walking home with Brian? Did something happen?" Scott was genuinly worried and promised himself that he would kill Brian personally if he had done anything to Rogue. Rogue hoped into the passenger seat and smiled at Scott.
"Thanks, but you won't have to kill him." She smiled as Scott sputtered "Sorry, I haven't really learned how to control Jean's powers yet."
"Just don't let happen again." He teased and drove off.
Watching from a telephone booth, with an unnatural interest in the event that transpired just minutes earlier. She was a woman of medium height and pale icy blue hair. She glared at the two mutants that drove off, and began dialing a strange number into the pay phone. "Master, It is my opinion that Fenrir has become too involved… yes, but… Yes, Master, I will not get involed" she hung up the phone "yet." She stepped out of the phone booth and looked around to see if anyone was within sight, She smiled and the ground collapsed underneath her. With that she was gone.
Elsewhere, Rogue and Scott were just arriving at the mansion, Rogue just about jumped out of the car when they reached the main door but tripped over a gardening hoe. "Damn it Kurt needs to pick up the stuff he uses." She swore as she left the hoe where it laid and continued her run into the mansion. She had never felt like this before; she was excited, confused, happy and dumfounded all at the exact time. Her hormones and mind where vieing for control of her body. Her mind told her to find out how this could happen, but her hormones were screaming to find him and jump his bones. She charged through the halls dodgeing her bewildered team-mates and the arrent wall that tried to jump out infront of her. This continued until she reached the object of her race, she nearly tackled her best friend as she met kitty in their room. "Kitty, Kitty!!!" Rogue gasped excitedly.
"What, What!?!" replied a startled Kitty pryde
"Brian! He," she gasped trying to catch her breath
"He what?"
"He kissed me!!" She shouted between breaths as she beamed brightly
"Whoa, is he alright!?!"
"That's just it! Nothing happened!"
"What?"
"He. Kissed. Me! And nothing happened, nothing!"
"On the lips?" wondered Kitty.
"Yeah Ah've gotta find him, Ah don't know where he lives!"
"Just hold on a minute! He's coming to you tonight, right?"
"Yeah?"
"Well lets get you Ready for
tonight and you can go from there! Lets start with your closet…" The two girls
cackled on together as a weary presence stood out side of the door down the
hall. There Logan stood pouring over the information he had just received
because for his animal keene senses. He grumbled to himself, He had known that
there was something strange about that kid. However, he decided to wait this
one out he didn't quite understand why he was going to wait, his instincts told
him to and if there was one thing he trusted it was his instincts. Hours passed
and Rogue had decided to make her famous Cajun fried chicken. The aroma
permeated the air of the kitchen and the dining room around them. It had gotten
to the point that fighting the other students of the institute off with a
stick. She was not the best cook but one thing she did know how to do was fry
chicken and fish. She stared at master peice and basked in it's glory as Kitty
came into the room and noticed that Rogue had not gotten dressed yet.
"Rogue, don't you think it's about time you got ready!" Kitty said
looking at the clock. Rogue glanced at at the clock as well. It read 5:45 in
evening, and Rogue was about to make a mad dash to her room until she noticed
the hoard of drooling students that stood in the door waiting for the perfect
oppertunity to pounce on the unsupecting chicken.
"Kitty, can you please watch this while I go change?"
"Sure," Kitty picked up a spatula and promptly slaped bobby's wandering hand "Back or you'll, like loose a finger!" Rogue hurried up to her room where she found the dress that Kitty had helped her pick out. It was a beautiful black, silk, spegetti strap dress that that had small red and green flowers in strategic points as to accent the black. She sliped the silk dress on and pulled on a pair of her favorite eldow length gloves. She reached into the top of her dresser and pulled out fine silver chained cross that looked like it was made of old style nails, Scott had given her this for her seventeenth birthday and cherished it with all that she was. She walked to the mirror and spun on her heel, 'staisfactory' she thought.
Just then the front gate ringer sounded and Rogue rushed down the steps, being careful not to trip or clobber some unsupecting mutant on the way down. She was met with a gawking audiance that seemed to be trying to block her way.
"Don't ya'll have somethin better ta do!" She quipped as the others looked at her with mischievous blank looks. She rushed to the door, and opened it before Logan could intercept her date.
The door swung open and Brian gasped as he beheld his 'pale skinned goddes'. It was like a dream; there she stood. She was covered in black silk that hung off her curves as if it had been specially crafted for her body and no one elses. The back light from the inside of the mansion highlighted the auburn in her to the point that would have mad precious gems jealous of her color. The final touch was the silver cross that dangled loosly from her neck drawing his attention directly toward her shapely collarbone. She was indeed a goddes, and what had he worn? He had the aduacity to put on a pair on his favorite jeans and a dress shirt with a blue dragon. He kicked himself mentally for being such a dumbass, and walked in.
"I," his voice cracked to a very high pitch "I brought some biscuits and gravy, I couldn't find any place to buy cream gravy so I just made a batch my self." he laughed nervously.
"Dude, you're under dressed!" Kurt always had a gift for the obvious.
"Buzz off Kurt!!!" yelled Rogue at the demon looking kid.
Just then the institute defence alarm choose this particular point in time to sound, it warn the residents of the hostile forces that approached. Magneto smiled as he stood on the front lawn with his Acolytes. The X-men rushed to the front yard joined quickly by professor Xavier and Brian. "Why have you attacked my home, Erik?" Asked Professor Xavier sternly
"Who's your friend, Charles?"
"He's a visitor; I'm sure that whatever it is. It doesn't concern him."
"Quite the contrary, old friend. That boy has injured one of mine." With that the Acolytes assumed attack position and the X-men spread around Brian as to protect him.
"Kurt, get Him in the mansion!!!" ordered Scott as Kurt grabbed Brian and tried to teleport him to deep inside the mansion. However, Brian managed to break Kurt's grasp before he teleported. Brian pushed himself to the front and looked magneto straight in the eyes.
"Listen, Pajamas, that jerk attacked me! It's own fault! I don't what's going on but your interrupting something I've been waiting for all week, so why don't you just go back to where ever it is that you come from!"
"Filthy cockroach, you and your insolent kind will bow before us. I wanted you alive to begin with, but now I see that you are nothing more than just another worm!"
"Worm? That's not very…" Brian's retort was cut off a surge of flames came flying his way. Luckily, Rogue had seen this coming and tackled him out of harms way. Without a word she got up and rejoined her friends as the battle ensued.
The two titanic forces collided with enough power to shatter the sound barrier. The Xmen and the Acolytes were even matched in both skill and power; it was all Brian could do to watch and wonder what was going on. He eyes kept a firm eye on Rogue, she fought as she had been specially trained to do so. Gently yet powerfully meeting every attack as if she a master martial artist. It wasn't just Rogue acting this way either, all of the people he had come to know at the institute were acting as if they had been trained for this particular type of thing.
Colossus and Sabertooth were the first to be knocked unconscious and his friends where focusing on the human flamethrower and pajamas, but wait there was someone missing. Just then came a hard crack to the back of Brian's neck sounded as if it where a Mack truck that had hit him. "I told ya, mon ami. Le cherie is mine." Brian heard a voice say as he turned to the man that attacked him earlier as he hoisted his staff high above his head. Brian was still quite dazed from the first attack but somehow managed to dodge gambits staff. Brian knew that he was not going to get help from his preoccupied friends and managed recover composure enough to gain control of the fight. He quickly grabbed gardening hoe that lay near bye and blocked Gambits second blow. After being on the defensive for a few minutes he saw his chance at getting the upper hand and took it. Brian swept Gambit off his feet and dealt a quick blow to the back of his neck, rendering him unconscious.
Suddenly he heard a scream, it was Rogue. Old bucket-head had gotten her by the throat and was now trying to choke the life from her body with the use of a metal ring. It seemed that the fight had come down to just them. "His helmet, Brian. Find a way to get his helmet!" said the professor to Brian's mind. Without words Brian dropped the hoe and charged Magneto yelling at the top of his lungs. Hearing the yell, Magneto dropped the young girl and prepared to intercept the young human. Brian lept in close and managed to knock the helmet off before Magneto caught him by the very iron in his blood. Professor X saw this opportunity to use his powers and took it, He made the master of magnetism drop Brian next to Rogue, who jumped on top of Brian in an attempt to keep him away from Magneto. Professor Xavier took control of the Acolytes minds and wiped any memory of Brian out. He then gave them all a suggestion to go home and they did, even Magneto.
Rogue tried to stand Brian up but decided not to consider the ordeal he had just been through. "Are you alright?" She asked
"Ah will be when I get some Cajun food in me." he joked as he cringed from exploding pain in every vein and capillary in his body.
An hour later, everyone had recovered from the previous battle and gotten themselves clean. Now they where all sitting in the dining hall, having dinner though some choose not to eat because of the sever soreness they each felt. Professor X had been explaining everything about the institute, those men that attacked and mutant training that went on inside the Xavier institute.
"You do this on a daily basis?" asked Brian as his became stern with emotion.
"Yes." answered Rogue as Brian turned to Professor X.
"And it doesn't bother you to play with kids lives!?!" Brian spat at Professor X "Never mind, I'll just go." Brian stormed off and after a few worried moments Rogue went after him. She caught up to them with in the courtyard and stopped in front of him.
"Brian, what was that all about? We chose to protect humans, Professor Xavier provides the training so we don't kill ourselves." She said as he stopped. "Are you gonna tell me what that was about?"
"When I was young I lost my parents to war, I guess it just kinda scared me..."
"Scared you?" she wondered
"That I might be alone again."
Rogue pulled off her glove and took his bare hand. "You're not alone, any more." She said as they felt their minds join as one for a split second.
"Rogue!" Brian said in surprise, as he felt no adverse effects. "Huh?"
"You're not alone…" She said as she leaned in and kissed him.
Elsewhere, inside the mansion Dr. McCoy had drawn Professor X and Logan into his office at the bottom of the mansion. He paced around the room rubbing his chin wondering how he was going to break the news to the two. Logan growled, inaudibly complaining about having better things to do. So he just flicked the screen on showing the injury to Brian's arm, and pointed to a small cluster of specs that crept along the crack. "Do you know what a nano machine is?"
"Microscopic machines, you use them in healing small wounds, don't you, Henry?" wondered Charles.
"These are nano machines, at least that's what I think they are."
"So what's wrong, Hank?" grumbled Logan.
"These nano machines are like nothing I've ever seen before ever!!!"
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End Chapter 5
Sorry guys I got a little bit long winded in that chapter, my writer's cramp kicked in again. I apologize if it's not very good, and I promise to do better with the next chapter. It is time for my favorite time, its review time.
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