"Don't worry, Rem-Rem. I'll be right back." Rogue smiled at the Cajun's concern. She had told him she was heading to the store for some water and food.

"Be careful out there."

"I think I can protect myself." She flexed, and then rolled her eyes. "I'll even walk there."

"Maybe I should go with you.."

Spyke, who was sitting against the wall, rolled his eyes at them. He couldn't believe those two. I mean, could you? His stomach was practically churning with all the concern and love blooming between the two Southerners.

"You go out there with those eyes? That just screams mutant."

"They could easily be mistaken for contacts."

She patted his cheek. "Maybe in your world. But I'm going. You say here and make sure Sir Spikesalot doesn't poke his eye out."

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"Auntie O." Evan sighed after several minutes of silence between he and Gambit. "We have to find out where they're hiding them before it's too late." He soon went into another coughing spasm.

"I think it's too late for you." Remy said shifting weight from one leg to the other.

"But it's not too late for us to save them."

"So, you expect three and a half of us to save a bunch of mutants? I don't care if they're close to anyone, it sounds ridiculous."

"They do it on cartoons all the time. It's possible with the right plan."

Remy's brows arched up. "Do you have a plan?" He asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"I'm—" He winced but kept going on. "Working on one but I don't think you'll like it."

"Why?"

"Because it involves the three of us."

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What if someone recognized her as a mutant? I mean the people of Bayville weren't all that bright (Can we say DUNCAN?) but there had to be someone who'd recognize her as one of Xavier's students. When she walked into the store, the three people in there didn't seem to notice or care much.

Feeling her pulse quicken, she decided just to get water and to worry about what to get to eat later. Rogue quickly walked over to were they had gallons of spring water. As she bent down to grab one, she had suddenly felt dizzy. When the small wave of dizziness passed, a throbbing pain came between her temples. Rogue fell to her knees as a rack of variety of potato chips swung back and hit the ground. Rogue quickly stood up, grabbed the water and bamf'd out of there.

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"So, you want Rogue and I to risk our lives in a plan that most likely won't work?"

"You know that if Rogue hears my plan, she'll be willing to do it at any cost?"

"What plan?" Rogue asked, appearing behind them holding a jug of water. She walked over to dying African American and knelled down next to him. "I have some fresh water. I reckon it's a bit more fresh than the water here."

Remy merely grumbled something about her not being able to walk to the store and back in such a short time but dropped it. "Spyke here wants you to go meander around town saying that you got attacked by a mutant in the sewer system so when the asses that abducted mutants come down here, we can trace them back to their hideout."

She made a face. "I don't like it. Too many holes in it."

"You think you can think of something better?" Even asked with a dry cough.

Rogue ran her tongue over her dry lips as she glanced behind her shoulder at Remy. "Yes, I do."

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"Do you want to die like all your other mutie friends? Then tell us where the other mutants are!" Trask yelled at the mutant, known as Calliban, who just remained silent. "Fine, two can play it at this game." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a walkie-talkie. "Get Mesmero in here, now."

Kelly then walked in. "Mutants have been relocated back at the mansion."

"Lets get on them. Now." Trask ordered, giving Calliban a look before getting up. "You better stay put and cooperate before you end up like your other Morlock mutie friends."

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"You're crazy. You're fucking crazy." Remy's grip around Rogue's waist tightened. "You brought us back to the place we had to flee from."

Spyke doubled over, the spiked plates, which were once armor that practically covered his whole body, started to crack and by piece by piece it fell off. "It doesn't matter." He groaned. "Sooner or later they'd track us."

"Mutant tracking device?" Remy questioned as Rogue pulled out of the embrace his arm had around her.

"Yeah; Calliban."

"Isn't he the mutant who can trace and find lower level mutants?"

"Yes." Spyke snapped at her. "He's the reason they took all of us. For him." He yelled, falling back on his boney behind. "Not much time left." He wheezed.

"This is stupid."

"Remy." Rogue tried not to raise her voice in annoyance at him, but she did.

"What?" He snapped back at her, in the same tone of voice. He was expecting a snappy comeback but instead, she hugged him. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

"Don't worry. Everything will turn out fine." She inhaled deeply when he hugged her back tightly. "I promise."

Evan looked up at the two and rolled his eyes. "You two are pathetic."

The embrace was broken. Remy stared down at the panting mutant. "For someone who is dying, you're certainly—"

"They're close. By the gates." Rogue suddenly said, losing her balance. She gripped onto the couch. "Lets separate. I'll go upstairs, you two stay down here. And with those words she teleported out of there.

"You can feel it." Evan said to Remy as he struggled to get to his feet. Remy asked him what he meant as he gave him a hand. "You know something that ain't too good is going to happen, man and you know what? I can feel it too and I can feel that—" He didn't even get to finish his sentence as he collapsed to the ground, in a semi-conscious state. His pupils flicked back and forth as Remy picked him up and put the younger mutants over his shoulder.

"I just want this to end." Remy admitted out loud as the footsteps came. He quickly got out of the room, getting out a card in advance out of his pocket.

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Her heart pounded against her chest in such an alarming rate she thought her heart would explode. She could both hear and feel the fast paced rhythm of her pulse circulated in her ears. The throbbing pain found it's way back to its place between her temples. Rogue ran wildly through the halls. Gasping for air, she ran into the library only to run hard into someone wearing a black outfit and facemask. He smiled down at her.

"Stay away!" She screamed, throwing her hands at him. A force caused by telekinesis sent him flying into the built in bookcase. A sob erupted from her throat as pushed back memories resurfaced in her mind. "No!" The Rogue yelled, stumbling back. "No." She phased through the wall and into the next room, which was the ransacked room the mutant teenagers had been attacked in. Suddenly, someone grabbed her from behind. She felt something sharp being held into the flesh of her skin.

"Why don't you calm down, mutant? Don't you want to play?"

"I'm a mutant and you're using a knife against me?" She laughed as the blade of the knife cut into the sensitive skin. "I almost feel bad for you." She elbowed him in the stomach. The knife cut deeper into her neck. She threw him over her shoulder. The knife left a two inch long cut in her neck. Blood seeped from the thin, and not very deep, cut. When the guy got back to his feet, she picked him up, hovering his body several feet from the ground. 'You don't want to play with this mutant, buddy.' Rogue sent telepathically to him. That was when the door flew open. The loud sound of heavy footsteps destroyed her concentration. She dropped the man and teleported out of there. The deafening sound of a gun went off and a bullet whizzed passed the blue smoke.

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"I'm slowing you down, man." Evan groaned from behind his shoulder. "Just forget about me. I'm—" He was cut off by a gun shot heard from directly up from them. "Get out of here already! Rogue knows where to meet us." Remy grunted as he quickly walked through the kitchen, and through a pantry. "The back door is on the other side of the kitchen." Spyke had yelled when they reached a dead end (which actually was a stack of pork and bean cans.

Groaning, Remy turned around in the other direction and when he had finally made it outside, two men walked out in front of him.

"You can't escape us."

"Want to bet?" The card glowed with kinetic energy.

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Rogue had teleported onto the roof. She landed on a tilted part and tumbled down it. She teleported, once again, so she wouldn't fall off the roof and pummel to her death. This time she reappeared in a neat and tidy bedroom, which was probably Xavier's. Everything she had pushed back into her mind, the memories, and the pain of her brunt shoulder, surfaced in her mind. She fell to her knees and clutched her head. Make it stop. She begged as tears squeezed their way out of her closed eyes. Please make it all stop. The unwanted memories seemed to slam their way into her mind. Rogue get out a gasp as the ground disappeared beneath her and she started falling. Her body just shut down as she fell down to the first floor. With no powers to stop her, she hit the ground. Hard.

A young man, who had taken his mask off, walked over to her unconscious body. He gently kicked her before he unclipped his walkie-talkie off from his belt. He pressed a button as he brought it to his mouth. "Caught one."

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Remy tumbled back, Evan landed next to him. His eyes rolled back into his head after mumbling something in the Cajun's ear. Remy glanced down at him, knowing he was gone and there was nothing he could do, nothing but to stop whoever was killing off the mutants. The only way he could do that was to get captured. Remy sighed as more men appeared. He pulled out more cards from his pocket. He wasn't going over to give up that easy and they weren't going to get him without a fight.

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I wrote down the plots for each part and since two and three had very little, I just put them together. The next one with most likely have all three and one in the future will have four. Hope y'all liked this chapter.. ^_^;

Ishandahalf More Dun dun dun! Perhaps I should entitle the next part DUN DUN DUN. Or.. not. ^^

Personage Rogue's in the clouds for a reason and it's quite amusing, eh?

Goldylokz Yeah, I never cared too much for him. He leaves being some senseless, flat character and comes back all angst-y acting like he's the macho king. Whatever.

Star-of-Chaos Well, imagine if he were born with spikes.. ;-)

RoguesHeart Spyke was such an "angry teen" in Uprising I decided to make him even more of an "angry teen." ^_^ I'll try to speed up a bit on my updates. My crack bunny seems to be sedated. HMMM..

Roguechere Hyuck hyuck! Your review made me realized I've been spelling MORLOCKS.. MORTLOCKS.. Oh well! ^__^ Huzzah! If my story sucks at least the writing style of it will get a chuckle out of you. :)

cool- chick-rae Spyke is dead. Lets throw a party after his funeral. Hah. Right. He is indeed a crappy character.

blck fire It's SisQo? I think I wrote Sisco. Oh well. Same thing.

willa. j Sorry, all out of TVs! :( You think you know where is this going!? Good maybe you could help me then..

Steph Silverstar It does what?

SweetRevenge151 Aww, you think my story is pure gold!? Geezums, you should see it in the morning before it rejuvenates itselfs!

Lady Farevay Right now Rogue and Remy are borderline at being friends and being more than friends. I'm glad you like my weird writing style. I think I put 'boney ass' or something somewhere in this chapter for you. :P I LOVE PUNS. They're so punful!

kitsu black If you want to know what happens, hack into my computer, go into the file entitled Changes and read the plots I wrote for this in there. Sounds simple enough. :) I will tell you at least THREE mutants will die in upcoming chapters. ;)

Persona the ITG Spyke has always irritated me in the 'nails scratching chalkboard' or 'biting down on foil when you have filings in' kind of way. You can take my judgment if you want.. I like to think I'm partially insane although I know someone out there would object to that and say I'm.. completely insane? Oh well! At least I do have good insane judgment!

Lightspeed Suzuka I hope you liked this chapter and I'm glad you still think it's wonderful!

Thanks for reviewin' y'all. ^_^