Imagination is a Powerful Weapon…For a Mutant
By Alyssa_Anime_Angel
Alyssa: Well cause of the few reviews I got I will continue. Don't own X men the movie or otherwise. Though I do own the persona of Enigma.
Oh and Aurora is Ororu, Aurora looks better.
Chapter 3 – The Rogue no longer a rogue.
Enigma saw Rogue sitting with her legs crossed and eyes closed trying to find her light. She was having no luck.
"Rogue, that's enough, stand up."
"Huh?" Rogue said standing up.
Enigma shook her head disappointed and said, "I will walk you through it, now get back into the same position you were in."
Rogue sat back down and closed her eyes a little exasperated.
Rogue said, "Okay what now?"
" I want you to block out everything except the waterfall, focus on the sweet melancholy sound."
Rogue focused blocking out every other sound except for the waterfall.
When Enigma felt Rogue was focused enough she melded her voice into the waterfall.
Rogue heard the waterfall sing, "Find your light, what makes you who you are, what makes you human and still not human. You can do it, believe you can do it."
Rogue listened to the waterfall and could hear the song of life it sung, not even realizing that it was Enigma's song of life.
Enigma was exhausted so she walked over to where the unicorn was grazing and laid down next to it, snuggling into the magnificent creature that was all apart of her imagination. She fell asleep to the sweet sound of the waterfall.
"I don't believe her!" exclaimed Logan.
"I know how…" Professor X was cut off yet again.
"She's taken Rogue hostage and what's this power of imagination, what a load of bullshit!"
"That's enough Logan, we have to trust her," said Aurora.
"If it will stop you from going down there and threatening Enigma then I will do a search for Rogue with Cerebro to prove that she is telling the truth."
Logan nodded his approval and with that Professor Xavier left the room for Cerebro.
Professor X made contact with Cerebro and looked for Rogue.
He was drawn towards the grounds when he saw Rogue and Enigma in the exact same place.
He went in for a closer look and was blasted with mental images of two adults fighting and hitting the child when she cried saying she just wanted to stay here. He saw the child going to school and having no friends there and having her lunch taken by bullies. He saw her parents fight about her and shift her from home to home where she was always miserable and never make any friends. He saw her on and exchange between houses, watching her parents fighting and he realized that they were fighting over not who wanted to take her but who didn't want to take her. They didn't love her in the slightest. Suddenly her heard her yell, "I wish you would both just die!" And before her eyes the two figures of her mother and father fell to the ground lifeless. The child screamed and he was also hit with a mental scream from Enigma. He was kicked out of her mind with such a force that he was pushed backwards into the door; luckily he caught himself in time.
He could hear banging on the door and he opened it.
Jean asked, "Professor what happened?"
"We need to check on Rogue and Enigma."
"Huh?"
"No time lets go."
Professor X, Jean, Scott, Storm and Logan left for the grounds.
Rogue looked deep inside of herself and could hear the voiced of the ones she has touched. She ignored them and focused on the waterfall. It seemed to be guiding her and she followed it willingly.
Suddenly she felt all warm inside and found that she truly cared for all life and she knew that this was the place, this was her light. And she knew exactly what her other powers were and exactly how to use them. She felt extremely happy, as she knew that the energy required for the new powers would give her about an hour a day where her absorbing power would be useless. She was so excited that she didn't notice the song of the waterfall change. A little bit later she heard a scream and was 'thrown' out of Enigma.
Rogue shook her head and looked behind her at Enigma and she froze.
Enigma was sitting completely still, there were tears falling down her cheeks and she had a very faraway look on her face. Rogue also noticed that the grass around her was dead.
"E-Enigma?"
No reply escaped Enigma's lips.
Rogue turned around as Professor X, Jean, Scott, Logan and Storm came up behind her.
They froze as they saw Enigma and Jean and Storm ran up to her.
"Enigma are you okay?" Jean touched her shoulder and was blasted with the mental image of Enigma killing her parents.
Jean jumped back and Storm asked, "What?"
Professor Xavier jumped in to explain, "Jean don't touch her, her forgotten memories are resurfacing and if we don't help her then she will destroy herself."
Jean vaguely nodded, haunted by the image.
Rogue stood up and asked, "What's…what's wrong with her?" almost teary eyed.
Just then Enigma looked at them, more specifically at Professor Xavier.
"You…you . made . me . remember…I…didn't . want…to…re-member . I…have…broken . cause…I…killed . them…no . I…deserve…to…die!"
Enigma's words were disjointed but they got the idea.
Enigma as though she was no longer an enigma said, "Rogue if free…and because of you *she focused on Professor X* I am not. What I did was evil from anyone's perspective and even though I didn't think they would die I wished for it and it came true. I am able to take life, the most precious thing in the universe and even though anyone can take life I take it in a way that they cannot fight back. I am also able to take away the very will to live and therefore I should not live."
"That isn't true!" yelled Rogue.
"I killed my parents by just wishing for them to die, everyone I am near gets hurt, am I not just a burden?"
"You helped me!"
Enigma nodded and said, "True but eventually you would come to harm because of me."
"You can't give up, you above anyone know the consequences of that and you're not a burden you're an angel."
"An angel?"
Rogue nodded smiling and looked at the adults. They were also smiling at her, well except for Logan, that was way too much to expect.
Enigma smiled as she collapsed to the ground.
"Enigma!"
Rogue rushed to her and checked on her. Enigma was all right and Logan walked up to the unconscious girl and picked her up.
"Guess we had better take her back to the school," he said gruffly.
Rogue beamed and everyone left for the school
Rogue was so happy that she had helped her friend and that she was no longer alone that she flew to the school leaving very stunned looks on everyone's faces.
Alyssa: Sorry it was so short but a short chapter is better than no chapter. I hope you liked it and please REVIEW!