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"Let me out of here!" Pyro pounded on the plastic walls of the holding tank he had been placed in hours earlier. "Let me out, you bloody drongos!" When the electric door opened, he slowly stepped outside. "Y'all better not be joshin' me." The clear plastic door shut behind him, and suddenly, in front of him stood Wolverine. He ran back to the cell and banged on it. "Let me back in, let me back in!"

Wolverine grunted. "C'mon hoser. I ain't goin' to kill you. Yet. Lets just work on gettin' out of here first."

"Aww." Pyro awed. "You like me. You really like me!"

"Just shut up and follow me—bub." Pyro shut his mouth and skipped out of the room, at Logan's heels. When they got outside, Logan came to an abrupt stop. Pyro slammed into him. "Shh." Logan hissed at him before the young Australian could open his mouth.

"We have to get out of here, Fred!" Loud footsteps. Heavy panting. "Trask already flew the coop!"

"We're in a coop?"

Wolverine nudged Pyro—hard. "Shh!" He growled, which just made Pyro yelp.

"Sheesh, I hope they take you first, mate." He mumbled bitterly. When he realized he opened his mouth, he sighed. "Oi. I'm goin' to kark it before I even get out of here."

"I said shut up!" Before the two mutants knew it, they were face to face with two humans with shocked faces. The cowards yelled and then ran off. Logan shot Pyro a look.

"What?" He asked, with innocent eyes, which soon narrowed at the Canadian. "Can we get out of here, now please?" He barked in an aggravated tone of voice at Wolverine, whose brows just arched up. "Don't just stand there, move drongo!"

"Better watch who you're snappin' at, bub."

"Meow."

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"Thank you, Samuel." Ororo rubbed her wrists as she sat up on the metal platform.

"No problem, Ms. Munroe."

"I'm confused about all of this." Piotr was standing in the doorway, holding an unconscious Kitty.

"There's not much to say, man." Ray showed up behind him, Amara next to him. "People thought they could out do mutants by capturing us and infecting us with a mutant killing virus."

Storm cleared her throat. "Right now, we need to work on getting the others and getting out of here."

"There's barely anyone left in here." Sam spoke up, staring down at the ground. "But I have a feelin' this ain't over yet."

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard. Before anyone could move, something blasted through the wall. Chunks of ice were scattered around on the ground.

"Hah! I told you that if we kept going through the walls, we were bound to find them!" Bobby, along with Roberto walked through the new opening in the wall. Rahne was in her wolf form and was in Roberto's arms. Roberto rolled his eyes at Bobby's comment.

Ororo stood up. "Children, we need to find the others."

Ray just shot a look at Bobby as he stepped into the room. "I'm sure they've heard us, right Ice-boy?"

"Now is not the time to—" Ororo spoke up but was cut off by Bobby.

"Yeah, Electricity-boy. And why don't you go send a spark up your—"

"Enough!" The snowplow—Weather witch yelled throwing her hands up. A thick crack of thunder could be heard from even where they were.

"Eep." Ray hid behind a clueless Amara.

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"Scott, wake up." Jean shook her bitc—lover. "This isn't funny, Scott, come on!" A glass on the counter which had popsicle sticks that doctors use to shove down your throat in it flew off and smashed against the wall. Jean had woken up from what seemed like a deep sleep minutes earlier. It didn't take her long to escape and to find her little Cyclops. Scott just mumbled something about bacon and lettuce. Haha, maybe he was dream ordering! Get it? Oh, shush. "Scott, snap out of it." And with the snap of a thong, he snapped out of it! No, actually, he didn't. But a pool of drool was starting to leak out of the side of his mouth. How attractive. Jean poked his shoulder. "Scott?" He was breathing, wasn't he? Yes, unfortunately, he was. "Scott?" Uh oh, here come the water works.

"Red?" Wolverine walked into the room, overhearing her screaming a certain Cyclop's name from down the hall. Pyro was practically attached to his arm.

"Wow." The red head said, staring at her. "What did you do to him?" He chuckled. "Or what didn't you do to him?"

Usually, Jean probably would have tortured him senseless for several hours by dressing him up in her thongs, but instead, her eyes just got watery. Her green eyes that matched her green—never mind. No more thong jokes. Promise. "Scott isn't waking up."

Pyro scratched his chin. "Maybe that's because he's unconscious?"

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"Oh man, I feel like I just got off a loopy roller coaster after five continuous rides." Kurt complained, rubbing his furry stomach. He mumbled some other things in German as Ororo helped him to his feet.

"Are you all right, Nightcrawler?" She asked, cupping his chin. "You don't look so well."

"Yeah." Bobby mumbled, running a hand through his hair. "He looks kind of blue."

"Robert, this isn't a time for jokes." Ray said, crossing his arms over his chest. Ororo glanced over at him.

"Thank you, Raymond." Ororo turned her attention back over to Kurt. "Can you teleport?"

He said something (or just cursed) in German. "Don't you think I've tried?"

Ray slowly brought his hands up to his face, and then brought his index fingers together. An electrical charge flew from one finger to another. He let out a small sigh of relief.

Amara, on the other hand, let out a loud, irritated sigh. "Can we go home now?"

Ray's eye twitched. "Sure thing, princess."

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"Maybe he's like sleeping beauty." Jubilee flicked the unconscious Scott in the forehead. She glanced behind her shoulder and looked at Jean. "Maybe you should pucker up and kiss him. Hey, if we're lucky he'll turn out of his stiff, boring frog—"

"You're not helping." Jean sniffed, twirling strands of red hair between her fingers. She turned to Logan. "I can't get to him telepathically. Maybe if we get back to the institution.."

"We will." Wolverine walked over and picked up Scott. He grunted as he put him over his shoulder. "We get the others, find the two Southerners, and find Chuck and we'll go."

Jubilee, who had been found by a wandering Pyro, walked out in front of him. "If anyone attacks—"

Pyro patted her forehead. "You'll blind them."

The Asian girl made a face. "Right."

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Rogue laid next to Remy, her head rested on his chest and her arm sprawled out over his abdomen. Her eyes slowly opened to see that they were both still laying in the dim room. She shivered as she closed her eyes. "Remy." She mumbled, pressing the side of her face in deeper.

"Bonkers! They look pretty cozy." Pyro piped up as he stepped into the room, the others behind him. "A Kodak moment. How sweet!"

Jubilee blinked. "Should we wake them?"

Jean took a step forward, bent down and gently touched Rogue's shoulder. "Rogue, wake—"

"Don't touch me!"

Pyro tsked at Jean. "That's what you get for waking her up."

Jean shot him a look. Wow, there's a lot of that going around, isn't there? "Rogue, listen—"

Rogue immediately sat up and got to her feet. "No, you listen. Something is happening and—" Once again, pushed back memories surfaced, flooding her mind. Voices, of those she had absorbed, all whispered in unison in her mind. "Stop it." She mumbled, rubbing her temples. "Shut up."

"Told you." Pyro said to Jubilee. "Schizophrenia."

Inside of shooting Pyro a look, Rogue bamf'd out of there.

"We have no time to look for her. She'll come back." Logan said, resisting the urge to put his head through a wall. "Someone has to carry Gumbo."

"The bloke is bigger than me." Pyro put his hands up. "He'll crush your beloved Pyromaniac."

"If only." Logan huffed.

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"Hank!" Ororo was surprised to see Beast walking down the dark hallway.

"Ororo! Good evening." He flashed his pearly whites at her. Yes, by pearly whites I mean his teeth.

"What's so good about it?" Ray mumbled, scratching his nose.

"I was looking for you guys!" Hank said, continuing to smile. "Trask shut off the power, so everything is off. I do have a lot of explaining to do. But first, lets go tell the Professor you are all alright."

"Uh, Beastie?" Amara said, fiddling around with her pierced ears. "We're all not here."

"Why couldn't Charles contact us?" Piotr asked, eyeing Hank.

"Mesmero put a mental block up in all of you."

"Who-mero?" Roberto asked, raising a brow.

"I'll explain later."

"But we're missing—" Ororo was cut off when Logan and the others appeared. The short Canadian had someone thrown over his shoulder while Jean was telekinetically holding an unconscious Gambit.

Pyro rubbed his chin. "This was all too easy."

"Shut up and don't jinx us. You can do that when we're back at the institute." Jubilee instructed.

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"What on earth?" Rogue looked around in the room she had teleported in.

"Hello Rogue."

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Woo! I wrote this in several hours due to the fact my time is running up. By the way, I talked to my dad, and when my internet is turned off, he said it'd only be for a few weeks. =\ WEEKS. Better than months, no?

Sorry for a sucky chapter (sucky = no Rogue/Remy interaction) but the next chapter will definitely have some. I expect there to be 35 chapters.