I don't own the x-men, blah, bloody blah!

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update! Got way too much homework and hardly enough time!

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I was dumbfounded by the sight of my own twitching form below me.

"Holy Shit!" I began to hyperventilate, failing my arms, trying to swim through the air back to my body. Suddenly, a thought struck me and I froze.

"Ah must be dead." My own words hit me like a ton of bricks. I found myself screaming at the top of my lungs, unheard by Magneto below. Scared out of my head, I spun around in the air, desperately trying to avoid anything that looked like a bright light or tunnel.

"Marie." A voice came into my head.

"God?" I froze. Oh shit.

"Ah'm not gonna die. No way! No how!" I screamed, desperately trying to swim through the air towards my real body.

The voice chuckled back at me. "You're not dead Marie."

In my panic, I hadn't realized that the voice was actually the Professor's.

"Huh?"

"Don't be afraid," he said calmly.

"I'm floating 6 feet above my own fucking BODY! I think I have the right to be afraid," I screamed back at him.

"Now Marie, calm down," the Professor said soothingly, a slight hint of command in his voice. "You are experiencing what we telepaths term an Out Of Body experience."

"Screw that!" I yelled. "Ah want mah body back!"

"Marie, It's either an O.O.B or Magneto's electrical current and I think we both know which is better for you!"

I looked down at my body, shuddering at the thought of the pain I had felt only moments before.

"Now Marie, I need you to do me a favor. We've got a rough estimation of your location as Magnetos magnetic field is confusing."

"So you want me ta find out where Ah am right?"

"If possible, yes."

I glanced over at Magneto. He had stepped away from the podium, staring a small security screen behind it. He looked up at my body, his smirk dropping from his face. With a flick of the switch, Magneto turned off the machine. My body ceased to twitch, my head dropped down lower to stare blankly at the opposite wall.

"Fine." I sighed. "But how do Ah move?"

"Using your mind, imagine yourself moving forward. And you will?"

Concentrating, I slowly found myself moving towards the wall. I held out my hands to stop myself but found that I floated straight through it. I came giggling through to the other side.

"Oh mah God! That was so much fun! Ah have got to practice with Kitty more often!"

I heard the Professor give a mental cough, so I turned to the task at hand.

I looked around, unable to see anything except black. Finding the wall, I became to follow it. Approaching a dim light bulb, I began jogged towards it. I froze in shock as Sabretooth stepped out of a door, a low growl coming from his throat.

"Oh shit, oh shit!" I began to chant to myself, my knees feeling weak. Sabretooth took a step forward, his eyes staring at my neck. I stumbled backwards as Sabretooth continued forward. I adopted a fight stance as he came closer.

"Oh fuck! Don't hurt me!" I yelled, losing what little composure I had. My arms flung up to protect my head and I squeezed my eyes closed.

I felt a slight feeling of intense hatred as a gust of hot wind tickled at me for a second or two. Opening my eyes, Sabretooth wasn't standing in front of me anymore. Turning around, I watched Sabretooth as he strolled down the hallway.

Remembering to breathe again, my knees gave up from underneath me. I knelt on the floor, unable to do anything more than take in deep breathes.

"Just taking a small breather okay. Found a door out."

"Good." He replied

After about a minute of staring at the floor, I pushed myself up onto my feet. Taking in a reassuring breath, I walked towards the door, slowly allowing myself to float through.

I covered my eyes as a bright sunrise stung at my eyes. As they adjusted to the light, I squinted as I looked out at my surroundings. I was standing at the top of a rock incline, tall trees reached up towards the sky surrounding the compound. Kneeling down, I placed my hand on the dirt, tasting the familiar feeling of metal.

"Ah found out why you can't sense me Professor. The compounds foundations are build on a cliff containing a….." I paused to concentrate on the type of metal below my feet. "…Strange type of metal ore. It's like Magneto's helmet…… just different."

I was trying to describe it, but it was impossible to find the words for the feeling of metal. Tearing myself away from the pull of the metal below, I floated down towards the trees for a closer inspection. The smell of Pine played at my nose, the needles and a few leaves rustled below my feet. The trees appeared to be in reasonable straight rows, unusual for a natural forest but a few rogue trees of different breeds broke the order.

"Okay, the trees are pine. The Trees are in rows like a man-made forest, but its unattended, there are weeds and other small breeds of trees amongst them."

"Thank you Rogue. We now have a positive location. You seem to be in Samsome Forest, formerly a logging forest, but privately purchased two years ago." The Professor left my mind for a few seconds, returning with news of the others.

"Remy and Logan will be at your location in a few minutes, the rest of the team won't be far behind."

I nodded my head. "Great. Then Ah'll just wait out…….."

I paused as I felt a slight dizzying feeling.

"I think you have to return to your body. Your mind isn't used to astral projection and it may have an effect if you stay 'out' for too long.

I sighed to myself and began walking back towards the door.

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I looked over at Magneto as I walked through the steel wall. He was standing in front of my body, his eyes scrutinizing. He slapped my face gently with a gloved hand, my face remaining completely emotionless.

"Okay, Ah'm ready to go back to mah body now." I said, allowing myself to float nearer. I was beginning to feel an unusually light-headed, like I had been spinning around in circles.

I felt a slight hesitation on the Professors part, but I knew he would comply. Closing my eyes, I felt slightly nauseated as I floated back downwards towards the chair. I felt a sudden jolt as I was pulled back into my body and breathed in deeply.

Magneto's smirk returned as he stepped cautiously around me.

"Nice trick. Learn some meditation from Xavier did you?"

I just stared at him. I knew he was desperate to find out something, his own memories betraying him. But just what he needed was his guarded secret.

I took in a deep breath, attempting to look beaten. Hanging my head, I watched Magneto's reflection on the metal wall as his expression turned to triumph.

"What do you need to know?" I said downcast, carefully making my voice waver slightly for effect.

Magneto stood up straight in an unmistakable stance of power. He looked down his nose at me, he looked almost pitiful.

"Where is Remy staying?" he started.

"He has his own apartment somewhere in the city." I lied.

Magneto nodded slowly, absorbing the information. "Where?"

I looked up at him, faking a look of stubbornness.

Magneto adjusted a pair of medical gloves on his hands. Positioning it over my dislocated left wrist, he looked me in the eyes. "Where?"

I closed my eyes, waiting for the pain again. I felt the cool of Magneto's hands against mine and before I had the chance to enjoy it, he applied pressure and a whimper burst from my throat as I felt the bone click back into place.

"Where?!" He yelled in my ear.

My mind froze. Where would Remy have a house? I raffled though my mind, trying to think of a good location. A light bulb switched on in my head. Remember back to our latest date, the words sprung out of my mouth.

"It overlooks the east side of Central park." I yelled out, hanging my head as though I had just given away the 'great secret'.

Magneto opened his mouth to say something else, but a bright red button behind us began to blink, and he rushed over to the screen.

"Drat!" he said quietly to himself. Pressing an intercom button, he spoke quietly into a small microphone and Mystique and Toad ran into the room.

Magneto only had time to point towards the door before it flung open, smoke and dust pouring into the small room, Logan stepped through the smoke haze, followed closely by an angry looking Remy.

"Remy!" I screamed out, struggling against my restraints.

Remy's eyes scanned the room and his gaze looked on mine. He raced towards me, exploding a charged card in Toads face. Logan had frozen on the spot. Shaking his head, his eyes refocused and he flicked his arms, letting rip his claws. Mystique smiled and stepped towards him. Remy quickly scanned my restraints before carefully placing a finger on the metal.

"Watch out." He grinned as he charged them up.

I could feel them heat up through the velvet and it was just beginning to burn at my wrists as they were flung up into the air. I quickly took to removing the bar across my chest, but I paused as I felt Magneto 'catch' them and they came flying back at Remy's face. Toad made the mistake of jumping on Remy's back, causing Remy to duck down. Toad took two pieces of metal to the throat and neck and went down for the count.

As this was happening, Logan and Mystique were in battle stances, each waiting for the other to move. Moving her hands behind her back, Mystique hands turned a milky skin tone and large metallic-looking claws grew from underneath her nails.

Logan's eyebrows knotted together in faint recognition of the hands, his eyes concentrated on them. Shaking his head, he refocused on Mystique and lunged towards her. She artfully dodged his claws as he slashed wildly at her. I could feel the frustration build up inside him. Finally, he hit her, leaving a nice row of neat slashes across her thigh.

Logan grinned at her as she cried out in pain and anger. Taking advantage of her distraction, he kicked her legs out from underneath her. Mystique fell flat on her back was a resounding thud and Logan stepped forward to plunge his claws into her chest. Logan froze as Mystique rammed two of her claws into Logan's upper thigh, narrowly missing his groin. Logan's eyes widened in pain, but a look of relief soon covered his face as he realized what they had missed. Mystique jumped back onto her feet, delivered a few more kicks to Logan's face.

Remy raced towards me, Magneto blocking him with a large piece of steel piping. Remy saw the piping and in one movement, gracefully swung on it, landing his foot in the middle of Magnetos face. Remy grabbed the piece of metal across my chest and together, we managed to bend the metal so I could squeeze out from under it.

Remy held out his gloved hand to support me, which I gladly accepted. Pulling me to my feet, Remy called out to Logan.

"Let's go Wolf boy!"

Logan grunted in reply as he delivered a knee in Mystique face. For the second time that day, Mystique fell unconscious to the floor. Logan gave me a look of concern before he made for the door.

I stepped past the threshold of the doorway, finding myself unable to move any further. I gasped in pain as I felt a painful tightening in my heart. Grabbing at my chest, I fell from Remy's grip onto the dusty floor. Curling into the fetal position, tears leaked from my eyes as my vision blurred in and out. Remy bent over me, a look of pained worry across his face. I looked back in the small room in which I saw Magneto kneeling down on one knee, his hand outstretched towards me.

"Remy LeBeau, if you would kindly step back inside the room please?" Magneto said sarcastically. Remy looked hesitantly down at me.

"….I….I… iron," I managed to choke, pointing to the discarded dart that lay on the floor. Remy gave it a quick glance, quickly bending over to pick me up.

"If you don't move now, I'll close up her artery completely."

My body gave an involuntary shudder at the thought. Remy instead took my hand and gave it a kiss, the contact with his lip quick enough not to invoke my power.

"Take her. I'll be out soon," he said quietly to Logan.

I sighed in relief as some of the pressure in my chest subsided and I rolled out onto my back, looking up at Logan. Logan had a look of pure hatred across his face as he acknowledged Remy's order. I could tell that Logan's fear of Magneto's power was the only thing holding him back.

Bending over to pick me up, Logan suddenly paused. A look of shock was the only warning he had time to do before he was thrown into the wall. As he smashed head-first into the metal, I heard a loud crack and he slumped to the floor.

Remy picked me up, trying to use Logan as a distraction to get me out of there. We only managed to get a few feet before Sabretooth came out of no-where, blocking off our only exit.

"You're not going anywhere my dear," Magneto smiled. "Not until Remy gives me what I want."

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