Agent-G: yeah, I liked that touch of having the lab show up again too. Don't worry, Remy and Rogue will have their revenge.

Fighting Destiny – Second Chance

This time, things would go right, it just had to go right. She had done it before, literally, and now she could make sure there would be no mistakes, such as forgetting to disable the self-destruct sequence. Marianne still couldn't believe those idiots had gone so low to actually do that.

The plan, this time, was slightly different. Bobby and Ray had come along, for diversion, together with Logan. They would be responsible to keep as much of the once who guarded the lab off of the team that went in.

Michael, Rogue and Scott were going to disable the self-distruct while the rest was going to get the captured mutants out.

"Just to let you know," Marianne looked up at the sky, "if this lab goes boom on me again, and I'm not so lucky, you and I are going to have a LOT to talk about."

"You ready, Fantasy?" Jean asked her.

"As ready as I'll ever be," they were interrupted by a couple of explosions, "I think Wolverine, Iceman and Berzerker have started. Now we should get going."

That was the sign and the two groups went their way. The first problem Marianne ran into were the guards. Guards with guns, to be exact, and in her opinion: they were far too trigger happy.

"Aw, come one boys, put down your toys and nothing will happen," she walked closer, to come to the conclusion they really were too trigger happy. Luckily, jean was fast enough with her TK to stop the bullets.

"Vhy do I have zhe urge to yell 'Neo' right now?" Kurt joked as the bullets were slammed into the walls.

"You tell me, okay guys, time to go beddy-bey," Marianne frowned slightly, untill the guards just fell over.

"What did, like, you do to them?!" Kitty cried out.

"Sssh! They're asleep. What did ya think I'd do? I'm a doctor! I prefer to keep people in one piece, or I have to patch 'm up again. But I am goin' to need an asperin when we're done," Marianne grinned slightly.

The group quietly accepted the explanation and slipped past the sleeping guards. The fact that two were actually snoring did help out with Marianne's explanation. It did give them the creeps, though: she could make them believe anything! But then again: she had only just used her powers, and that had saved them a bit of a fight, so that was worth something.

"This was when the selfdestruct thingy started to work," Marianne mused to herself, "guess Gun, Cyclops an' Rogue got through. Okay guys," she now spoke louder, "there are two halls with cells. Our job is to get as many of them out as we can. Nightcrawler and Shadowcat, you too will be in charge of getting most of them out. Jean, you need to use your TK to open the cells and the others, well, you carry as much people out as you can."

"Rogue, Gun and Cyclops are coming this way, they disabled the self- destruct sequence," Jean informed Marianne.

"Good, then Gun and Cyclops can make sure you all get the mutants out unharmed," Marianne smiled, before gesturing towards the door. Making clear that this was one of the things Jean had to open.

Soon enough, everyone was busy while Marianne was checking up the mutants who weren't directly ported out. At the moment, she was having a lot of trouble convincing a girl that she really didn't want to hurt but wanted to help her.

"Ouch!" Marianne yelped as a knife slashed her arm, for the third time. Apparently, the girl's mutation was creating knives. And she was far too handy with that power. As the blood on Marianne's right arm testified.

"Okay, that's it. I just wanna help, and we need to get you outta here," Marianne straightened and used the very same illusion she had used on the guards.

"That should do the trick. Now, let's get you outta here," she smiled, satisfied that this time around, things were going much better.

"There should always be a second try at things," she joked to herself, while silently wincing as she used her wounded arm to help keep the girl on her feet.

"Let me help," Kurt ported in and swung one arm around the sleeping girl and one arm around Marianne before porting the both of them out.

"Where are the others?" Marianne asked as she saw that only the team who had been taking the captured mutants out of the base were at the jet. She instantly began to worry for Michael.

"Zhey're remodeling zhe lab," Kurt grinned, as a red beam ripped through the roof of the lab.

"Yeah, we, like, wanted to make sure, like, they wouldn't use that again. Those poor people!" Kitty said, she was looking slightly pale at having witnessed what had gone on in the lab.

"So, that's how it look to see it go down and not be on the inside," Marianne grinned while cutting of the sleeve of her uniform, it had already been ripped apart by the girl's frightened attacks.

"What happened ta ya?" Rogue winced as she saw the three cuts.

"I kinda scared one of the captured mutants, I think. The one Kurt transported back with me, she can make knives out of objects. That hurt," Marianne winced as she cleaned the cuts before putting some bandages on them.

A wide grin spread on her face as she saw Logan, Bobby, Ray, Michael and Scott came walking up while the lab was slowly falling apart behind them. There was something to be said for this kind of work, but Marianne knew very well that she wouldn't be coming along next time, for both her and Michael's sake.

"Anne!" Michael called out as he saw her, letting out a breath he had been holding ever since they went in. Then he saw her bandaged arm: "what happened to you?!"

"Aw, I've had worse. Don't fuss, it's not that big of a deal, I'm the doctor, remember. I got it like I get all of my injuries in the name of my job. Now, I've gotta ask you: just what is so damned scary about me that they think that I'm the bad guy... girl... what ever," Marianne joked.

"You're a doctor, that's what's scary," Michael swung his arm around her.

"Everyone is accounted for?" Scott looked the team over, and came to the conclusion that indeed everyone was accounted for.

"Then I suggest we get back to the Institute and everyone can recieve proper care," Jean smiled sadly.

//Other dimension//

Ben was at the moment very confused, Rogue had just been asking him about the shower installation of the hall where all the girls were, at the moment, settled. Then again, he figured, everyone was entitled to being a little weird. Certainly with what was happening.

The attempts of Forge weren't going good. He had indeed managed to open a portal to another dimension, but it hadn't lasted long and the forming of the opening had caused the safehouse to nearly fall apart, if Sarah hadn't stabalised the earth around it. Sarah was currently locked in her room with a major migraine.

Later that night, when the girls were in the showers, several screams rang through the safehouse. As it appeared, someone had put green paint in the water supply. No one seemed to notice the fact that Remy had been washing his hands that afternoon, and that the used water had a suspiciously green colour. And this was only the start of the small disasters that would happen to the girls behind the plot of getting Remy and Rogue together.