Sorry that it took me a while to update. My mom had me on a computer ban yesterday (too much time on -), so I had to wait to write my chapter today. Man that sux! Anyway, here my shout outs to you wonderful reviews:
The Uncanny R-Man: I really liked that part too, especially since I was still playing that game at the time. I would just love to see Logan say that! Heehee, he's such a maniac in this story, but ya gotta love him! Thanks for reviewing! WOOHOO!
ldypebsaby: Don't worry, I got your post for ch. 7. I say that after this there'll probably be just one more chapter! OMG!! So yeah, two more chapters including this baby. Thank you for all your support!
todd fan: I know what it's like to be in one of those moods. - Don't worry, Todd, she'll never find you in the fridge . . . I meant her fridge not mine!!! Thanks for all of your reviews! You really rock!
KaliAnn: I'm glad you love it so much! And here's a dose of sugar. Go get hyper! You deserve it! BTW, the truth shall be revealed!
Logan: You can't handle the truth!
Rogue: Oh shut up!
bobtheheadlesschicken: I'm serious, if I could, I would love to make a movie or something outta this! Then again, I would love for that to happen to the 'Monty Python & the Holy Grail' one with X-Men Evo and I don't even own that story! BTW, if you haven't read it, do. It's absolutely hilarious! And if the new recruits ever heard about Logan laughing and playing games, OH BOY they would never let him live it down! Heehee! Of course then he'd have to kill them.
Professor X: Uh, Logan, where are the new recruits?
Logan: Uh, I don't know. [blood drips from his claws]
Professor: Logan, you're lying to me.
Logan: No I'm not!
Professor: Tell me the truth!
Logan: You can't handle the truth!
Rogue: Oh will you shut up already?!?
Oh yeah, thanks for reviewing!
Electric Fire: Hi! Glad to have a new reviewer! There's gonna be something like that at the end, but it'll be Logan saying it.
- Thanks for the comments! Welcome to our ohana!
Rogue14: Another chapter done! Thanks for reviewing!
Ripdos AKA Bad Ash: Logan's kind of an intellectual in this story; basically anything smart he has to say is in his thoughts. Don't worry though, his speech with make sense and everything. He just doesn't talk much. He's also a little more . . . let's just say . . . into his animal side. - I'll see what I can do with Rogue and kicking $%. She is after all the one being rescued. If I had it my way, I would've had her kick Sabertooth's $% long ago. No, wait, this is my story. I can have it my way. Oh well, maybe I don't. Sheesh, I'm a mystery to myself! Anyway, we'll see. I'll make sure to take a look at your story. Thanks for the suggestions! Keep reviewing!
Disclaimer: Wouldn't you think that if I owned X-Men: Evo and Lilo and Stitch this would be on TV and not here?! (that's for you bobtheheadlesschicken J ) Actually, I would've made an X-Men Evo movie by now. MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Chapter 9
"Oh thank you! Thank you very much!" said Jean gratefully to Caliban as she stepped outside his store. "You won't be disappointed! I'll show up early to help with the morning deliver-"
She stopped when a large red fire truck, with all of its horns and sirens going off, zoomed down the street past her. It headed for their street branching off on the left.
"Oh, don't turn left," she mumbled like a prayer. The fire truck kept going for a minute, then turned up the street on the left.
"No!" she mumbled again as she began to run as fast as she could. Can't I leave her for one minute without having a catastrophe? Oh no, of course not! Oh, I hope she's alright!
Logan managed to wriggle his way from underneath a pile of debris. His claws had extended automatically during the explosion. He held his aching head in his hands. Suddenly he saw Jean running up the driveway and quickly retracted his claws. Fortunately she hadn't even noticed him. She ran straight to Xavier's car which had already arrived.
Jean could see Rogue talking with the Professor. "An' one of 'em had blue scaly skin and yellow eyes like a cat," she could hear Rogue say. "Oh Rogue!" she called out exhausted. She was deeply glad that Rogue hadn't been hurt. But now there was a new issue at hand as Xavier motioned Rogue to get into the car.
"Please," begged Jean. "Don't do this."
"You know I have no choice," answered the Professor.
Rogue listened to the conversation. What's gonna happen now?
She got her answer. "No!" cried Jean. "You're not taking her away! I'm the only one who understands her. If you take that away she won't stand a chance!"
Logan had also been listening from a distance. Now he too finally understood. Xavier was going to take Rogue away from Jean.
"You're making this harder than it needs to be," said Xavier calmly.
"You don't understand! She needs me!"
"Is this what she needs?!" He pointed to what remained of their house, which was basically blown out sides and some of the base. "It's clear to me that you need her a lot more than she needs you."
Rogue couldn't take it anymore. The reality was just too horrific. Her worst nightmare had come true. She was being taken away from the only family she had left, and she probably wouldn't ever see her again. Ah can't let that happen! She opened the door facing away from the driveway into the woods and took off. Xavier looked inside and saw that Rogue was gone. "Rogue? Rogue!"
"Rogue!" Jean began to call.
Logan had been watching the whole thing. He now understood what was going on, but the weight of the situation didn't really sink in until he saw Rogue's photo of her family lying on the ground. It had been burned on the opposite corners. As he picked it up and looked at it, emotion began to set in.
Without each other, without family, they have nothing. At least before when things were bad they still had each other to get through it. If they're separated, they won't have anything to help them get through the hard times. Maybe Jean will be able to handle it. She has Scott and her job. But Rogue won't. She'll be going somewhere where nothing is familiar to her. She won't have any friends to comfort her.
He felt terrible. He knew this whole thing was inevitably his fault. He knew that from before. Now he went and blew up their house!
Aw man! I've gotta find Rogue.
He went into the woods and began to sniff her out. It didn't take long, since Rogue wasn't that deep into the woods. He soon saw her and touched her arm while he was in the bushes. She gasped and realized who it was. He came out and stood in front of her. He looked at the picture in his hand, then handed it to Rogue. She took it from him and stared at it, then she looked up at him with a menacing look on her face. "You've ruined everythin'," she hissed.
What did I tell you? Didn't I tell you this would happen? You came back, blew up her house, and now she hates you. Great job!
There was only one thing left for Logan to do. He looked down at his hands for a moment, then he flexed out his claws.
Rogue stared at him, or rather his claws. "You're one of 'em?" Logan felt somewhat ashamed for hiding it, but what else could he do?
Rogue gave him a sudden push of anger and frustration. "Get outta here Logan," she hissed quietly.
Logan wanted to say something and began to reach out to her. Then he heard a click, like that of a gun. He turned and saw a large figure hiding in the bushes. "Get down!" he shouted as he dove to knock Rogue out of the way. As they fell, they were enveloped by a large tightly knitted black net. The net rolled a few feet as the pair tried to break free from it.
Sabertooth came out from the brush laughing. "And here I thought you would be difficult to catch!" He grasped the top of the net with his large paws. "Haha! Silly me!" With that, he began to drag the net away.
Jean figuredthat Rogue had ventured into the woods. As she went searching, she called out to Rogue constantly. Suddenly she felt the ground shaking and heard some large footsteps. Then she saw Sabertooth. "AAH!" She cried out as she nearly fell down backwards. Sabertooth didn't notice her as he made his way to his ship.
Using his massive strength, he lifted the bag over his head and dumped Rogue and Logan into a large glass container. Logan, fortunately, fell in first with Rogue after to land in his lap. Sabertooth quickly screwed the top on the container, then lifted that over his head. "There you are! All buckled up for the trip!"
He jumped up to the back of the ship where the container was supposed to go. It clicked in and he clung to it for a moment as he looked inside. "And look," he added, pointing to Rogue, "I even caught you a little snack!" He climbed over the top of the ship to the hatch at the front. He climbed into the driver's seat, closed the hatch, and started up the engine.
At that moment Jean was trying to get to the ship. "No! Stop!" But before she could reach it, the heat from the engines knocked her down. There was no way to reach Rogue.
Logan spotted a crack in the glass container. He used his claws to make the opening bigger to let himself out. Before he could attempt to get Rogue out, the ship took off with her and Logan tumbled to the ground.
He rubbed his head and started to stand up when something whacked him really hard, knocking him back down. "Okay, talk! I know you had something to do with this." It was Jean. She was standing over him with a large branch in her hands. "Now where's Rogue?"
Logan didn't answer. "Talk! I know you can!"
After a sigh, Logan stood up again. "Okay, okay . . ."
Jean screamed and whacked him again. He groaned and struggled to sit himself up. "Where's . . . Rogue?" Jean asked again.
He let out another sigh. "Rogue-"
A sudden plasma blast hit Logan and sent him tumbling some several feet. Out of nowhere Magneto jumped out, tackled him, and clasped his wrists in those doggone hand cuffs. "Now, all your washing is up!"
"You're under arrest!" shouted Mystique, holding up a police badge. "Read him his rights!"
"Now listen carefully," said Magneto. Then he picked Logan up with his powers and began knocking him into a tree head first. Magneto laughed wildly. "That's right! You have no rights!"
As Magneto was having his fun, Jean slowly began to stand up and stare at the two mutants. She knew now that Rogue wasn't making that stuff up.
"Hello? Galactic Command?" said Mystique over her communicator. "Weapon X is in custody. We'll wait right here." With that she turned it off with a beep. Then she saw Jean staring at them.
There was some awkwardness for a minute. At first Magneto was oblivious, as usual, to Jean's presence and the fact that she was staring at him and Mystique. He was just having way too much fun with torturing Logan. But soon he noticed her too. "Don't interact with her," whispered Mystique. She turned her back on Jean, pretending she wasn't there. Magneto did the same. After a moment, Jean asked, "Where is Rogue?"
"Who?" asked Magneto, turning back to her. Mystique elbowed him in the ribs. "What?"
Jean hesitated before asking again. "Rogue. My sister."
Logan wanted to tell her, but he knew if he said anything Magneto would start beating him up again. Magneto and Mystique exchanged uncertain looks. "Uh, sorry," said Magneto. "We do not know anyone by this . . . uh . . ."
Jean had lost her patience. "Rogue! She's a teenage girl! She has brown hair, white bangs, green eyes, and she hangs around with that thing!" For her last statement she pointed at Logan, who recoiled back.
Magneto sighed and hung his head. "We know her."
"Bring . . . her . . . back."
"We can't do that," cut in Mystique. "That would be a misuse of galactic resources."
"You see, the problem is . . ." said Magneto, taking Logan by the back of his collar, " . . . we're just here for him."
"So . . . she's gone?"
"Look on the bright side," Mystique tried to comfort her. "You won't have to yell at anyone anymore."
Jean stood there, hugging herself, then she collapsed to the ground and started to cry. Magneto and Mystique did feel sorry for her, but there was nothing more they could do. "Come on, we must go," said Magneto. The three mutants began to walk away. Then Logan stopped and looked back at Jean. She wasn't the only one who cared for Rogue.
He walked over and knelt down in front of her. "Ohana."
"What?" asked Jean, looking up.
"Hey!" snapped Magneto as he went over and yanked Logan upwards. "Get away from her!"
"No!" she objected as she stood up. She put her hands on Logan's shoulders. "What did you say?"
"Ohana. Ohana means family. Family means . . ."
"Nobody gets left behind."
Logan grinned. "Or forgotten. Yeah."
Magneto and Mystique looked at each other with bewildered looks. Suddenly, Logan turned to Magneto and said something in an alien tongue.
"WHAT?!" shouted Magneto, grabbing Logan by the collar. "After all you put me through, you expect me to unhand you just like that?! JUST LIKE THAT?!?"
"Uh, yeah?" was Logan's answer.
Magneto gave him a dark look, then said, "Fine." He began to look for the key to unlock the hand cuffs.
Mystique could not believe what Magneto was doing. "What?! You're doing what he says?"
"Uh, well . . . he's very persuasive."
"Persuasive? What exactly are we doing?"
Magneto smiled. "A rescue!"
Jean's face lit up with hope. "So, we're going to get Rogue?"
"Yup!" Logan answered.
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Logan managed to get a motorcycle from somewhere and soon everyone was riding down the street piled onto it. Logan drove the bike, Magneto sat on the back seat, and Mystique and Jean held onto each side of Magneto while standing up.
"Oh great!" shouted Mystique. "I was hoping to have theft, endangerment and INSANITY on my list of things I did today!"
"Ha! You too?" asked Magneto, making Logan chuckle.
They soon reached the place where Magneto was hiding his spaceship. When he revealed it from underneath a cover of branches, Logan jumped up and down excitedly. "What?" chuckled Magneto. "You think we walked here?"
"This is Captain Sabertooth requesting permission for hyperspace clearance," said Sabertooth to his computer.
"Standby for clearance," said the computer.
On the back of the ship, Rogue was staring out over the layer of clouds they were passing over. She slowly sat down in the container, hugged her knees, and looked at the picture of her family. So, this is it, she thought. Mah last moments here on Earth. Ah'm never gonna see Logan or Jean again.
She already knew she was upset about being taken away from Jean, but it was now that she realized how much she would miss Logan, too. Sure she was mad at him for blowing up her house, making her have to be taken away from Jean, and now being trapped in this spaceship to be taken away from her home planet forever. But he was her friend, her best friend, the only person she ever felt was really her friend.
Now she felt terrible about shoving him like she had and telling him to go away. After all, he hadn't blown up her house on purpose. He just chose the wrong place to be chased by crazy alien mutants. Maybe he never really wanted t' leave. Whah else would he've come back? She bit her lip as she thought about it. Ah'm really gonna miss him and Jean.
She looked at the picture again. Man, whah is it that things always seem t' go wrong? Whah do things always go from bad t' worse? She paused for a moment. Whah do ah feel like ah'm in a Disney movie? She shuddered at the thought and buried her head in her arms.
Just then, some kind of red engine came up out of the clouds behind Sabertooth's ship. Rogue looked up just as it turned, revealing a much bigger red and white spaceship. There, in the front window, stood Logan. He waved to her, and after wiping her eyes, she waved back to him.
"Computer," commanded Sabertooth inside the ship, "connect me to Grand Councilor Storm." After a few seconds, he heard he voice over the intercom. "Sabertooth, what's going on?" At that moment, the red ship came up alongside Sabertooth's ship.
"I thought you'd like to know that the abomination is-"
Suddenly, the ship made a honking noise that sounded like some weird tune that I can't describe right now. Sabertooth stopped talking and looked out the window. He saw Logan making faces at him from inside the ship. Then he saw him stand on his head a place his butt against the window.
"AAAAH!" cried Sabertooth. "Yes, captain?" asked Storm a little impatiently.
The red ship turned slightly sideways so that its wing hit Sabertooth's ship. Sabertooth grunted from being shaken around. "I'll call you back," he growled as he hung up. He began to chase the red ship. "How did you get out of there?!"
In the red ship, Magneto was driving, Jean was in the front passenger's seat, Logan was doing something at the controls, and Mystique was sitting further back in the ship where there were more seats.
"So what exactly are we doing?" asked Jean a little nervously.
"Don't worry miss," Magneto assured her. "It's all part of a big plan. We are professionals." Then he saw Logan chewing on something metallic that had been near the controls. "Hey, get that out of your mouth!" He grabbed Logan and shook him roughly.
Sabertooth began firing at them, while Magneto tried to dodge his shots. However, one blast hit its mark. It went right through the ceiling to where Mystique was. It blasted into the floor next to her, making her jump. Magneto looked back and saw the damage. At that moment the ship was heading towards the mountains. "Hang on!" he announced.
Then Magneto turned the ship sideways to go through the mountains. Sabertooth hadn't been able to get to the gap in the mountains in time, causing him to hit the side of one. So he had to go along the other side of them and try to cut the red ship off.
As the red ship went through, they came upon Blob, who was peacefully sitting next to a river that went through the mountains and was about to lick his ice cream cone. He then stopped and saw the ship fly over him. The tip of the ship's downward facing wing just missed his hand and knocked the ice cone out of it. He hung his head in disappointment.
"Okay," said Magneto. "It's show time!"
Logan smiled and went over to the emergency exit.
"Here we go!"
"AAAAAAHH!" cried out Jean
When the mountains ended, Magneto made a U-turn and passed right in front of Sabertooth's ship, knocking him at the same time. It was now Logan's chance. He flung open the door and let himself be sucked outside. He flew through the air and landed on top of Sabertooth's hatch. Then he crawled to the back of the ship where Rogue was. He began viciously slashing away at the glass with his claws.
Sabertooth was far from pleased to have Logan on his ship. "You little trog! Get off my ship!" He adjusted his engines so they hit Logan and knocked him off the ship. "LOGAN!" cried Rogue.
Everyone watched as Logan made the long fall. It was accompanied by a few bounces off the mountain tops.
BOING!
BOING!
He finally reached flat land and did a few skid bounces before stopping and passing out. The frog that he met in chapter three was standing next to him.
"Computer, locate Wolverine," commanded Sabertooth.
"Wolverine located."
Sabertooth growled angrily. "We finish this now." His ship took a dive downward to where Logan was lying.
Magneto looked through his binoculars. "Logan is unconscious."
"What do we do now?" asked Jean.
"Stay close. Hope for a miracle. That's all we can do."
The frog looked up and saw Sabertooth's ship heading toward them. Then it jumped on Logan's head, bringing Logan to consciousness. Logan managed to look up just as Sabertooth fired his one shot.
Logan grabbed the frog and rolled out of the way.
"NO!" shouted Sabertooth as he was forced to pull away. As he left, Logan saw Rogue in the back. "Don't leave me, okay?"
"Okay," answered Logan. He watched as the ship flew off. "Okay," he said again, feeling very anxious. He needed to rescue her. But how?
Suddenly, a gasoline truck came down the street towards him. He scowled and put down the frog.
"Okay."
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Ooh, we're almost at the end! WOOHOO! Now I know I need to get the next chapter done A.S.A.P! I want to thank y'all for all of your reviews. You've made it a great experience being a first time writer! Well, enough chit-chat. Gotta write that next chappie! See y'all soon!