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           Disclaimer – I don't own X-Men: Evolution

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           "So, they actually got you to wear spandex?" Rogue's heart skipped a beat, as he walked in closer, the shadows of the night no longer hiding him. "What's wrong, Roguey? Not happy to see me?"

           "I can't believe you." She whispered staring at him. Her hands were rolled up into tight fists. He didn't seem any different; he still had the same cocky attitude and wore a trench coat.

           "So I take it you didn't miss me?" He smirked, crossing his arms. "I'm hurt Ro', I'm really hurt." He could feel the vibes coming from her. He didn't need to be an empath to see the anger coming from Rogue; it showed in her eyes. "Still holdin' a grudge 'gainst me, huh?"

           "What do you think?" He watched amused as she slowly slid off one glove.

"You know we're enemies now, Rem-Rem." She placed the glove on the side of her hip, under the belt. "How 'bout I show you how much I really missed you?"

"I can sense that you're angry with me, chérie. You really think I'm going to let you get close to me?" He tapped the fence. It was the only thing that separated them.

"Face me like a real man. Forget that you know me." She pressed her body up against the fence. "We're enemies now. We have no past."

"Can you live up to those words?" His smirk faded as he placed a hand in his pocket and took out a card. He held it between his index finger and his middle finger. "The minute I charge this, things are going to change—"

"Like they already haven't? I have nothing else to lose."

His smirk returned. "You actually want to fight me?" He took a small step back from the fence, not knowing what her actual power was.

"Not before I get some answers."

           ***

           Laughter erupted from Pyro's throat as flames encircled around the surrounding area. "What's the matter, X-Men? 'Fraid of fire?" The ring of flames danced around them, getting higher by the minute.

           Kitty yelped as she stumbled back into the flames. She rolled through them and into an open area. The minute she opened her eyes and realized she had phased through the flames. That guy is crazy.

           "Hello." She looked up to see white eyes staring down at her. Kitty quickly got to her feet and gulped when she looked up to see that he towered over her. "Are you—"

           "Stay away from her!" Nightcrawler bamf'd in front of her, wrapped his tail around her wrist and bamf'd them both out of there.

           "Sorry to rain on your parade." A woman's voice yelled from above Pyro. He looked up to see a white haired woman flying in the sky; her arms stretched out. A bolt of lightning erupted from the sky followed by rain.

           "Pun!" Pyro yelled, defeated, as his flames became steam. "What is with the world and all these bloody puns?"

           ***

           Her gloved knuckles connected with his lower jaw. Remy stumbled back a step from the direct blow. His smirk never left his face as he reached up and gently touched his jaw.

           Maybe I shouldn't have let her cross the fence. He thought, amusingly to himself. "I see you haven't lost your touch."

           "I see your head is still as hard as ever." She mumbled, running her exposed fingers over her bruised knuckles. "What's the matter, Swamp rat? Afraid to hit a girl?" She stared into his eyes, a twinkle of anger glimmered in the glowing red orbs. "Oh, I forgot—" Her Southern accent got thick with sarcasm as she dared to speak forbidden words. "Your pa told you never to hit a gal, right? But since when do you listen to him?"

           "You don't think I would hit you?" He asked, his smirk slowly fading as he stared into her eyes, trying to find any remains of the bond they once shared. All he could sense from her was anger, sadness and what felt like some confusedness. She was furious with him, and he knew his empathy powers had something to do with that, which left her feeling confused. It's going to be hard tryin' to hate you, chérie. Especially since I still care about you.

           "No I—" With one swift movement, his shoulder moved. Before she could react, his fist slammed into her abdomen.

           ***

           St. John sat himself down in the muddy ground as Sabretooth and Colossus kept the enemy busy. A frown had formed on his face; he felt powerless. The 'Weather Witch' still flew high in the sky, making the rain fall. Why can't fire be rain proof? He asked himself, sighing heavily. "Hey!" He yelled when someone grabbed him up by the collar of his uniform and slammed him against a pile of rocks. "You're dirtyin' up my uniform—" His eyes met the dangerous blue eyes of Wolverine. "—X-man!"

           "Listen up bub—"

           "The name is Pyro." The pyromaniac glared, offended that the X-Men had gotten his name wrong. Three Adamantium claws ejected out from between each knuckle on the enemy's hand. "O' you know what, mate? Bub is just fine!" Pyro squeaked nervously as he shifted his eyes and stared sideways at the three claws that were placed next to his head. Before Wolverine could say anything else, Sabretooth came up behind them, causing him to let go of Pyro and go after his arch nemesis. "They're fightin' like cats and dogs!" He laughed, amused. Out of nowhere, Storm, fell to the ground. A metal rod was encircled around her waist. He blinked and looked up to see Magneto in the sky. "Oh yay."

           ***

Rogue let out a cry of surprise as four charged cards flew out at her. She barely managed to dodge each one, the last one blowing up right next to her feet. She stumbled down and started to breath heavily.

"Give up?" Remy asked, cocky as ever. He walked over to her and crossed his arms. "Where are your great mutant powers, Ro'?" He asked, smirking. "Guess they're not super strength and un-natural flyin' abilities."

"Only if you have them." A small groan escaped from her sore body as she attempted to stand up. When she did, she realized Remy was only inches away from her. "I can't stand you!" With a quick turn on the ball of her foot, she tried to kick him with a low sidekick. As he went to block the kick, she picked up her leg more and kicked him hard in the gut, the same place where he had punched her. Knowing she had caught him off guard, she aimed a punch at his face once again.

"Ah-ah-ah." He blocked the punch by grabbing her wrist. "I'm not goin' to touch you again." Myst' and Irene would have mon head.. He licked his lips and pulled her closer to him. "I rather have you in my grasp."

She jerked away from him, half-disgusted. "Aren't you at least goin' to tell me why you left?"

"Left what?"

"Me." For a split second, he suddenly didn't sense any anger from her. That didn't last long. "Did you expect me to welcome you back today?"

"I didn't expect you to get up—" He started to say but stopped. "Marie, You don't know what happened last year." He paused. "Can't you keep your emotions to yourself?" A dull pain had found its way between his temples. All the readings of Rogue's emotions had given him a headache. "I'm sick of tryin' to figure you out."

"Then don't. Why don't you just leave for good? Go back to 'Orleans and marry Bella why don't you?"

"Hell no." He reached up and touched his jaw. "She'll break my jaw."

"Why did you leave, Remy?" Rogue asked again, ignoring his last statement. "I deserve to know why."

"Curiosity killed the person."

"Killed the cat."

He blinked dumbly. "Same thing."

If Rogue hadn't been furious with Remy at that moment, she would've laughed and teased him but that's the thing. She was. "I have ways of gettin' information out of people, Rem."

"By dressin' in spandex?" His comment just made Rogue feel like she should hit her head repeatedly off something hard. His head, perhaps. "Should've known you'd stay with the X-Men." He suddenly said. "You've always been a girl scout."

"I'm full of surprises." She slowly reached out and placed her hand on his shoulder. "I-" She got cut off as Remy shoved her against the fence. He pinned back her wrists with his hands and pressed his body against hers so she couldn't move.

"I ain't takin' any chances." His breath was hot against her face. Chills ran down her spine as their eyes met. For some reason, she suddenly thought about Kitty and her crush on Kurt. It was obvious to everyone but Kurt, but hey, that's life.

"Whoa!" Rogue yelped as she felt her body fall back, through the fence.

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A smile curved on Pyro's lips as fire shot up from his hands. He stared at Cyclops, suddenly grinning at him. "What's the matter, Eye? Can't you SEE the fire? 'Cause you know, see and you have one.. Bah! Never mind."

"Enough!" Magneto yelled glaring down at the mutants. Everyone stopped moving and looked up at him. "I have come here for a reason."

Cyclops glanced over at both of Magneto's associates. "Oh, really?"

"Watch it, before he turns you into a tin can." Pyro mumbled and then realized his words. He leaned over and waved admiringly over to Colossus. "No offense to you, Mate!"

I can't believe these are our enemies. Jean said to herself as she lowered herself to the ground. The big one is the only serious one. We can beat them.

If only she knew about the one with cards..

           ***

           "Ow." Rogue winced after gravity caused her to fall down. She looked up to see a surprised Remy staring down at her from the other side of the fence.

           "Did you.. go through it?" He asked out loud and ran his fingers down the metal fence. "Is that your power, chérie? To go through things?"

           "No and don't call me chérie." She got to her feet and then remembered about the X-Men. "Oh god." She mumbled, and then walked through the fence, knowing she should go help her teammates.

           "Leavin' so soon?" He grabbed her arm to stop her. She tried to phase out of the grip but suddenly found that she couldn't. "You said you wanted answer, no? Why not ask me now?"

           "I don't have to ask." She raised her hand to his face. He grabbed the exposed hand by her gloved wrist. The second she saw his bare fingers; she quickly leaned forward and kissed the side of his index finger. She squeezed her eyes shut when she heard his body fall to the ground and felt his memories start to swirl around in her head. A wave of fatigue went through her. She stumbled back into the fence and clenched the thin metal wires with her hands, as if she were holding herself up for support. Memories from before he met her, and after along with memories before and after his power manifested circulated. It took over a minute for things to settle and she let go of the fence and stumbled forward. A bright glowing red color coming from behind her made her twirl around to see that she had charged the fence. "Merde." Rogue quickly walked over to Remy's unconscious body, grabbed him from behind his shoulders and tried to drag him as far away from the charged fence as possible. Mon dieu. It's goin' to blow.

           Suddenly, the fence pulled out from the ground and was thrown more than ten feet away from them. It exploded, not harming anyone but the tree it landed by.  Rogue turned around to see a man in a cape standing behind her.

           "You should be more careful, Rogue." He said staring at her. He wore a bucket over his head, which confused Rogue on why anyone would wear such a stupid thing outside.

           "Magneto." She immediately recognized him from the stolen memories. "What do ya want?"

           "I believe that is one of my men you have unconscious by your feet. You have an interesting power."

           "Good for me."

           "Would you like to test out the true limits of your power?"

           "I would rather not have a power, Mags." She crossed her arms firmly over her chest. He looked almost familiar to her, but she couldn't let if it was from the overload of memories or not. There was just something about him.. "I know you work with Irene."

           He chuckled. "Irene works for me. How does it feel being betrayed by—"

           "Rogue!" A red optic blast came aiming at Magneto. He quickly rose into the sky, dodging it.

           "Merde." Remy mumbled, sitting up. "What hit me? A truck?"

           "It's time to go Gambit." Magneto ordered as the younger male got to his feet. He glanced over at Rogue. "We'll be back Rogue."

           "Sounds great." She mumbled between her clenched teeth. "I'll get my planner and we can set a date."

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"Are you, like, okay?" Kitty asked yawning heavily as she lowered herself down into the seat next to Rogue. Rogue just nodded her head. "What happened?"

"Nothing." Rogue answered softly. "Absolutely nothing."

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Part two completed – December 9, 2003

The next chapter will be up by Thursday. I changed the plot around 'cause if I did what I originally intended for this chapter, it would be short and it would suck. The next chapter will mostly deal with the aftermath and stuff. You  will see. ;)

I did notice that I've been making Pyro sound gay. But he's not gay. He's bisexual. :P

Anyway, hope y'all liked it. Read and review. :)