Shout outs:
enchantedlight: Thanks. Hope this update was soon enough.
Star-of-Chaos: I'm glad you liked that part. Kinda just a hint of the fact that they did have a relationship in the comics. Betsy even hit on Scott before she found Warren.
GambitGirl2008: Thanks, hope this is a quick update.
Kaliann: Glad you like the story, and enjoy your vacation.
crazy-me: Thanks, and I'll try to.
AN: Okay, just to note here, this story is almost done. About three more chapters after this. Just wanted to let you know.
Disclaimer: Do I ever own it? Nope...
JUST ADDED: Seems something went wrong and the whole chapter is not showing!!! I noticed this when I looked it over. The preview was fine, but it turned out bad. I'm trying to fix it and I hope it changes soon. So I replaced this chapter with this content with this note added. If it's fine and the whole chapter shows, then yes!!! If not, please bear with it. It stops toward the end, and you can tell if it's fully showing because I have an author note at the end. So if it doesn't all show, I know, but please still read and review. I hope it'll fix soon.
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Drifting through the air at a casual pace, Rogue surveyed her options. Sooner or later, Magneto was going to do something. All she had to do was stop him before he could bring her friends anymore harm.
If only it was that easy.
Having absorbed many mutants, Rogue knew how it felt when she was the thief of her victims' soul, pilfering their psyche. Thankfully the effects weren't permanent because it was already getting crowded in her head with the evanesced psyche of her previous victims. But it was always the same. They'd struggle, maybe scream, or give her a look that always haunted her dreams. Rogue never knew the feeling of being absorbed. She still felt a little guilty, even after absorbing her enemies. There was always a part of them she could never give back.
But only Magneto had fought back. Not once had the other person stopped Rogue from her absorption. The master of magnetism had, and he'd even maintained his powers. If he was that powerful, it scared Rogue what he could be capable of.
Looming around the side of the tall skyscraper, Rogue watched the man dressed in crimson armor with a flowing purple cape. He looked formidable enough; just the vibes he gave off were somewhat intimidating. But Rogue knew what she wanted, and she wouldn't back down. There were answers in the man's mind, and Rogue had the key to unlock them. She just hoped it wouldn't be like a Pandora's Box.
Rogue slipped off her gloves and descended onto the balcony as quietly as she could. Magneto was surveying the battlefield, even though it seemed most of the fighting had stopped. But his back was to Rogue, and his attention elsewhere.
As Rogue stalked up to Magneto, a quiet chuckle could be heard faintly. And it was coming from Magneto.
"Right on schedule," he muttered, as a metal bar clamped around Rogue's waist, holding her in place. "But then again, I have no schedule."
"What're you planning, buckethead?!" Rogue demanded angrily, as she struggled with her restraint.
"You'll have to touch me to find out," the man replied casually. Oddly, the bar loosened.
Rogue gaped at him, confused about his answer. It seemed like a trap, but she couldn't tell. Magneto's smug grin didn't help. His face was an enigma, as were his intentions.
"Like I would let you do that though." Spat Magneto, and with the flick of his wrist, Rogue was tossed onto her back.
Magneto turned his attention back to the vast number of mutants down below him. A waved his hand through the air, directing his metal orbs onto a roof a few building away. Rogue was sure his team was in the orbs, although she could barely even see the traveling orbs, due to lack of light on the roof. It was already late night.
Rogue hoped that maybe she could find Remy's motives in the man's mind before her. If he knew.
"You're not just going to lay there like a weakling, are you?" Magneto asked nonchalantly, without even looking back at Rogue.
"And disappoint you?"
Rogue hopped up onto her feet, and outstretched her palms. A few crates behind her lifted into the air. Magneto now turned aware, fully aware of the threat next to him. A metal pipe lifted in front of him, as he began to bat down the crates Rogue launched at him.
Then he sent the pipe shooting at Rogue like a metal arrow. She leapt backwards against the wall as it protruded into her previous position. Both mutants lifted into the windy sky.
"And so it seems you've picked up some telekinesis, Rogue. But have you not touched a soul in the past while? Surely I know of only two telekinetic mutants."
"Well it looks like you know three now!" Rogue spat, as she threw herself into an aerial sidekick. Magneto evaded it easily, and turned to face Rogue.
"And yet it seems you've acquired these abilities longer than your regular limits. Yet Miss Grey, whom I'm expecting was the one you touched, seems fine."
"Well aren't you observant today!"
Magneto floated in the air casually, not retorting at all. Rogue neglected to attack again, hoping that she could get some answers the easy way. It was never fun to be the pilferer of a person's soul. Even though it didn't hurt her, there was still pain and guilt.
"Why you stay with Xavier I can't comprehend!" Magneto shouted, as his aggression rose. "You could take any power you wanted, yet you play by the rules! Why not have a choice and become powerful? Your limitless power would be very appreciative."
Rogue scoffed angrily.
"By who, you?! All you want to do is use me to become a weapon against the Professor and the X-men, as well as anyone who defies you! Ah'm no weapon, Ah'm a person!"
"You're a versatile mutant who can take whatever you want from someone! Their talents, personalities, their powers! You're just afraid!" Magneto bellowed into the night.
"Why wouldn't Ah be?! Ah can't touch people without harming them! You have no idea how it feels?!"
"But maybe Gambit does," whispered Magneto with a sly grin. Rogue gasped as any harsh comments faded from her voice. "If you joined me, you two would be teammates. You're relationship would be stronger, and you'd grow closer."
Rogue was speechless for a few moments.
"No, you're bad, and Remy's good! Ah know that! You're using something against him, otherwise he wouldn't want anything to do with a scumbag like you!!"
The master of magnetism was taken back, as he glared angrily at Rogue. With a growl, he summoned a magnetic pulse between himself and Rogue.
"You are not doing that again to meh!" Rogue stated, as she created a TK shield to shoulder the attack. "It's your turn to be knocked on your ass!!"
With a blast of telekinesis, Magneto's magnetic pulse was deflected, and he was hit with a fury of TK. Magneto plummeted backwards through the air, and smashed through a wall.
"This ain't over yet," whispered Rogue, as she took off after him. Just as Magneto started to stand up back on the balcony, Rogue halted to floating in the air, and drew her hands back. Magneto was dragged up a few feet into the air, only a foot away from Rogue. "Ah want answers!!"
Rogue thrusted her hands onto Magneto's face and into his helmet. The absorption commenced, as both mutants glowed in the night.
It was only a split second into it that Rogue realized she'd fallen into a trap. Now it was too late.
Magneto cringed through the pain and smirked, gripping Rogue's wrists so she couldn't pry her bare palms off his face. Rogue cried out as a flood of thoughts and memories swept over her.
She couldn't organize anything. Magneto's mind was too chaotic to search for anything. He had his thoughts well guard. Everything poured in, but it was like deciphering a code. Rogue couldn't access anything.
But it was overwhelming her. And Magneto was not letting go. The absorption was too much, as Rogue herself started to feel the effects. But then new memories flooded her mind. Memories of how the X-men treated her so badly. Scott and Jean were yelling at her. Kitty was treating her like dirt. Kurt was chasing her. Wolverine was attacking her. Rogue tried to fight it, being sure that the memories were a façade of fake images. But as the seconds passed, Rogue grew more and more possessed by the memories. To her, they were the truth.
The lone enhancements that had somehow stay with Magneto from somewhere clashed with Rogue's power. Every person she'd ever absorbed were speaking in her mind, fighting to take control. Their powers, emotions, and control surfaced.
Rogue was losing her own control.
Now she was self possessed, trapped by each part of everyone she'd touched. Magneto had passed out now, enabling Rogue to finally break free.
Magneto slumped onto the balcony, while all the scattered objects that had been spiraling around Rogue, due to her TK and her emotions, dropped onto the balcony as well.
Rogue knew Magneto had planned it all. He had purposely done it all to overload her powers and to alter her memories somehow. The truth was enshrouded in the shadows of Rogue's mind, as she turned and gazed down at the X-men.
With all the powers at her disposal, Rogue was ready to use her formidable force against the people she used to consider friends. Now she was lost to them. The false memories fueled her, as Rogue floated down toward the mutants below her.
Back in the midst of her mind, Rogue cried out helplessly. Now that she was as equal as all the people that occupied her mind, there was no control.
It was up to the X-men to save their friend now.
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Jean Grey looked up into the nighttime sky as a lone figure floated towards her. Lightning cracked above in the newly formed thunderstorm clouds. A bright red glow appeared on the shadowed figure's face.
And then Jean felt herself being lifted into the air.
All the metal objects that had been scattered around the lot started to vibrate, as the X-men looked around in confusion.
One by one, each of the mutants were suddenly dragged into the air by an unseen force. They were floating as a group, all facing an emotionless Rogue. None of them could break free, as they were in her hands now.
Once Rogue's eyes filled with ruby colored energy, everyone was alert. Jean, the closest, gasped and thrusted out her wrist together and palms out, giving Rogue a forceful push to divert the optic blast that launched from her eyes. It narrowly missed everyone, destroying the roof of a warehouse.
Angered, Rogue simply swept her hand through the air in a horizontal motion, and all the X-men were casted onto the ground roughly. They quickly scrambled to get up as the wind picked up around Rogue. A very thin twister shot from her hands and descended down a few feet to the ground. Sand was brushed into the air, and the X-men became trapped inside the vortex of a sandstorm. Kurt and Kitty escaped with their powers, while Jean put up a shield to block the sand. Most of the others just shielded their faces.
"Something's wrong with her!" Kitty shouted as she phased up out of the ground a few good feet from the sandy whirlwind.
"No kidding!" Jean retorted, as she widened her shield to deflect debris.
"We'll have to take her down! Something's happened to her and she's attacking us spitefully!" Scott added in his leader tone, as the X-men prepared themselves to stop Rogue.
But she was not going to have any of it.
Scott fired of two optic beams, which Rogue evaded easily. She countered with a lightning bolt, striking the ground as Scott leapt away.
Flying above, Warren tried to sneak in on Rogue. But it was almost impossible to, as Rogue's telepathy told her where everyone was. She looked up, and released and optic beam.
Warren was slammed into the chest. The winged mutant flipped through the air a bit, but tried to recover. Until Rogue blasted him again, this time pinning him to a pillar. The scarlet beam washed over Warren as he was pinned, aimed at his chest. The front of his uniform shirt torn apart into shreds from the intensity of the beam, as did his sleeves. The beam wasn't burning or bruising him, as the crimson ray covered his bare chest.
Warren tried to escape with strong flaps of his wings, as Jean tried to snatch Rogue with her TK.
As Rogue was yanked downwards by Jean, Warren took off into the air, only to collapse onto the ground. Rogue retaliated and whipped Jean off her feet with a strong gust of wind.
The rest of the X-men separated, as Rogue fired off a powerful optic blast that tore right through the ground, revealing that it was hollow. Nobody paid attention to what was down beneath them though.
Rogue however knew exactly what she was going to do.
With barely any concentration, the whole area started to shake from her quake. She focused the energy right on the group of X-men, causing the ground beneath them to break up and collapse. Everyone was dropped into the underground level beneath them. Rogue smirked with delight as she hid in the shadows to see what awaited her enemies.
A deep vibrating sound shot through the room beneath. Most of the X-men were in the dark shadows, except for the small cascades of lights from around the warehouse. They could feel the ground as it shuddered beneath something massive.
Around them were tall pillar like constructions, like climbing towers. The room had a high ceiling and was shaped like more of a rectangle. They could find the sides, but the front and back of the room was enshrouded in the shadows. Piles of crates were situated near the towers, while the middle area of the room was bare, except for the rocky ground that had broken in.
The footsteps grew louder, as a few floodlights came on that were attached to the towers. But there were also glowing lights in the middle of the room. The figure they were attached to was an extremely large silhouette. As it stepped into the light, the X-men stared in a stunned manner.
Standing before them was a mechanic monstrosity, a massive weapon. Clad in armor and filled with multiple energy cannons and blasters, the robotic fighter stared down at the X-men. It's cold and glowing gaze shifted on them.
"Mutant signatures detected. Elimination, commence now." A computer like voice stated deeply. The X-men started to back up away from the towering behemoth, only to find themselves stuck.
"Operatives, move out!" A man shouted from the balconies above. The X-men finally noticed a large number of men with guns around them. But they vanished into the shadows, as a lone man stood staring with utter glee.
The Sentinel was ready.
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Above the underground level, Rogue watched silently. All the voices nagged at her as she did, and it was getting hard to stay in one spot. She needed to clear her head before she lost any amount of control she had left.
The X-men had started fighting the Sentinel now, but they were fighting a losing battle. There wasn't enough room to move much due to the Sentinel's size. Those who could fly did, and some hid for sneak attacks. But then Sentinel could easily attack multiple mutants at one time.
Now though, as the robotic destroyer started to suffer more obstacles and attacks, it resorted to firing off greenish goops. The first goop hit Kitty, but she phased through it as it hardened around her. Todd and Scott weren't as lucky, as they became caught by the goop.
Warren and Tabitha were hit as well, lessening the X-men strength more. It soon became more and more evident that they needed to retreat. Even without all their teammates.
The X-jet appeared over them in the nighttime sky, but before it could descend closer, Ororo, Hank, and Fred were caught as well.
Rogue gazed up at the X-jet, seeing the Professor maneuvering it. He might've been able to stop her, so Rogue quickly took off into the air.
She didn't even bother looking back, as she shot through the clouds.
None of the X-men were going to stop her. Rogue had gone rogue on them.
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A few rooms next to the underground level with the Sentinel, the mutant known as Wolverine was slowly regenerating, almost completely healed from his own duel with the robot hunter.
He was awake and his senses were on alert in the room he was in. Trapped by restraints, he didn't bother to struggle. Even though the room was casted in shadows, it didn't mean Wolverine couldn't know what was happening.
But an odd scent piqued his interests suddenly. He wasn't alone anymore.
Waiting in the shadows close by, a girl watched. Adamantium claws poked out from her gloved knuckles, as she clenched her fists.
"You're the reason," the girl whispered. Wolverine snarled and struggled against his restraints to find the mysterious hiding person.
In a lone ray of florescent light, a gleam shot off against two adamantium claws as they moved closer toward Wolverine.
"Weapon X..." The voice trailed off in a whispered filled with anger and hatred. Wolverine watched as another set of adamantium claws appeared above him, ready to pierce into him.
Wolverine had no idea there was some like him. But whoever it was, they had a score to settle with him.
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And that's the end of the three part. Rogue's lost it, kind off an earlier Self Possessed but she hates the X-men. I changed around the mutants who got captured as well. And because of all this, mutants have yet to been revealed to Bayville. Expect that soon though. Only a few chapters to go. Please review!
enchantedlight: Thanks. Hope this update was soon enough.
Star-of-Chaos: I'm glad you liked that part. Kinda just a hint of the fact that they did have a relationship in the comics. Betsy even hit on Scott before she found Warren.
GambitGirl2008: Thanks, hope this is a quick update.
Kaliann: Glad you like the story, and enjoy your vacation.
crazy-me: Thanks, and I'll try to.
AN: Okay, just to note here, this story is almost done. About three more chapters after this. Just wanted to let you know.
Disclaimer: Do I ever own it? Nope...
JUST ADDED: Seems something went wrong and the whole chapter is not showing!!! I noticed this when I looked it over. The preview was fine, but it turned out bad. I'm trying to fix it and I hope it changes soon. So I replaced this chapter with this content with this note added. If it's fine and the whole chapter shows, then yes!!! If not, please bear with it. It stops toward the end, and you can tell if it's fully showing because I have an author note at the end. So if it doesn't all show, I know, but please still read and review. I hope it'll fix soon.
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Drifting through the air at a casual pace, Rogue surveyed her options. Sooner or later, Magneto was going to do something. All she had to do was stop him before he could bring her friends anymore harm.
If only it was that easy.
Having absorbed many mutants, Rogue knew how it felt when she was the thief of her victims' soul, pilfering their psyche. Thankfully the effects weren't permanent because it was already getting crowded in her head with the evanesced psyche of her previous victims. But it was always the same. They'd struggle, maybe scream, or give her a look that always haunted her dreams. Rogue never knew the feeling of being absorbed. She still felt a little guilty, even after absorbing her enemies. There was always a part of them she could never give back.
But only Magneto had fought back. Not once had the other person stopped Rogue from her absorption. The master of magnetism had, and he'd even maintained his powers. If he was that powerful, it scared Rogue what he could be capable of.
Looming around the side of the tall skyscraper, Rogue watched the man dressed in crimson armor with a flowing purple cape. He looked formidable enough; just the vibes he gave off were somewhat intimidating. But Rogue knew what she wanted, and she wouldn't back down. There were answers in the man's mind, and Rogue had the key to unlock them. She just hoped it wouldn't be like a Pandora's Box.
Rogue slipped off her gloves and descended onto the balcony as quietly as she could. Magneto was surveying the battlefield, even though it seemed most of the fighting had stopped. But his back was to Rogue, and his attention elsewhere.
As Rogue stalked up to Magneto, a quiet chuckle could be heard faintly. And it was coming from Magneto.
"Right on schedule," he muttered, as a metal bar clamped around Rogue's waist, holding her in place. "But then again, I have no schedule."
"What're you planning, buckethead?!" Rogue demanded angrily, as she struggled with her restraint.
"You'll have to touch me to find out," the man replied casually. Oddly, the bar loosened.
Rogue gaped at him, confused about his answer. It seemed like a trap, but she couldn't tell. Magneto's smug grin didn't help. His face was an enigma, as were his intentions.
"Like I would let you do that though." Spat Magneto, and with the flick of his wrist, Rogue was tossed onto her back.
Magneto turned his attention back to the vast number of mutants down below him. A waved his hand through the air, directing his metal orbs onto a roof a few building away. Rogue was sure his team was in the orbs, although she could barely even see the traveling orbs, due to lack of light on the roof. It was already late night.
Rogue hoped that maybe she could find Remy's motives in the man's mind before her. If he knew.
"You're not just going to lay there like a weakling, are you?" Magneto asked nonchalantly, without even looking back at Rogue.
"And disappoint you?"
Rogue hopped up onto her feet, and outstretched her palms. A few crates behind her lifted into the air. Magneto now turned aware, fully aware of the threat next to him. A metal pipe lifted in front of him, as he began to bat down the crates Rogue launched at him.
Then he sent the pipe shooting at Rogue like a metal arrow. She leapt backwards against the wall as it protruded into her previous position. Both mutants lifted into the windy sky.
"And so it seems you've picked up some telekinesis, Rogue. But have you not touched a soul in the past while? Surely I know of only two telekinetic mutants."
"Well it looks like you know three now!" Rogue spat, as she threw herself into an aerial sidekick. Magneto evaded it easily, and turned to face Rogue.
"And yet it seems you've acquired these abilities longer than your regular limits. Yet Miss Grey, whom I'm expecting was the one you touched, seems fine."
"Well aren't you observant today!"
Magneto floated in the air casually, not retorting at all. Rogue neglected to attack again, hoping that she could get some answers the easy way. It was never fun to be the pilferer of a person's soul. Even though it didn't hurt her, there was still pain and guilt.
"Why you stay with Xavier I can't comprehend!" Magneto shouted, as his aggression rose. "You could take any power you wanted, yet you play by the rules! Why not have a choice and become powerful? Your limitless power would be very appreciative."
Rogue scoffed angrily.
"By who, you?! All you want to do is use me to become a weapon against the Professor and the X-men, as well as anyone who defies you! Ah'm no weapon, Ah'm a person!"
"You're a versatile mutant who can take whatever you want from someone! Their talents, personalities, their powers! You're just afraid!" Magneto bellowed into the night.
"Why wouldn't Ah be?! Ah can't touch people without harming them! You have no idea how it feels?!"
"But maybe Gambit does," whispered Magneto with a sly grin. Rogue gasped as any harsh comments faded from her voice. "If you joined me, you two would be teammates. You're relationship would be stronger, and you'd grow closer."
Rogue was speechless for a few moments.
"No, you're bad, and Remy's good! Ah know that! You're using something against him, otherwise he wouldn't want anything to do with a scumbag like you!!"
The master of magnetism was taken back, as he glared angrily at Rogue. With a growl, he summoned a magnetic pulse between himself and Rogue.
"You are not doing that again to meh!" Rogue stated, as she created a TK shield to shoulder the attack. "It's your turn to be knocked on your ass!!"
With a blast of telekinesis, Magneto's magnetic pulse was deflected, and he was hit with a fury of TK. Magneto plummeted backwards through the air, and smashed through a wall.
"This ain't over yet," whispered Rogue, as she took off after him. Just as Magneto started to stand up back on the balcony, Rogue halted to floating in the air, and drew her hands back. Magneto was dragged up a few feet into the air, only a foot away from Rogue. "Ah want answers!!"
Rogue thrusted her hands onto Magneto's face and into his helmet. The absorption commenced, as both mutants glowed in the night.
It was only a split second into it that Rogue realized she'd fallen into a trap. Now it was too late.
Magneto cringed through the pain and smirked, gripping Rogue's wrists so she couldn't pry her bare palms off his face. Rogue cried out as a flood of thoughts and memories swept over her.
She couldn't organize anything. Magneto's mind was too chaotic to search for anything. He had his thoughts well guard. Everything poured in, but it was like deciphering a code. Rogue couldn't access anything.
But it was overwhelming her. And Magneto was not letting go. The absorption was too much, as Rogue herself started to feel the effects. But then new memories flooded her mind. Memories of how the X-men treated her so badly. Scott and Jean were yelling at her. Kitty was treating her like dirt. Kurt was chasing her. Wolverine was attacking her. Rogue tried to fight it, being sure that the memories were a façade of fake images. But as the seconds passed, Rogue grew more and more possessed by the memories. To her, they were the truth.
The lone enhancements that had somehow stay with Magneto from somewhere clashed with Rogue's power. Every person she'd ever absorbed were speaking in her mind, fighting to take control. Their powers, emotions, and control surfaced.
Rogue was losing her own control.
Now she was self possessed, trapped by each part of everyone she'd touched. Magneto had passed out now, enabling Rogue to finally break free.
Magneto slumped onto the balcony, while all the scattered objects that had been spiraling around Rogue, due to her TK and her emotions, dropped onto the balcony as well.
Rogue knew Magneto had planned it all. He had purposely done it all to overload her powers and to alter her memories somehow. The truth was enshrouded in the shadows of Rogue's mind, as she turned and gazed down at the X-men.
With all the powers at her disposal, Rogue was ready to use her formidable force against the people she used to consider friends. Now she was lost to them. The false memories fueled her, as Rogue floated down toward the mutants below her.
Back in the midst of her mind, Rogue cried out helplessly. Now that she was as equal as all the people that occupied her mind, there was no control.
It was up to the X-men to save their friend now.
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Jean Grey looked up into the nighttime sky as a lone figure floated towards her. Lightning cracked above in the newly formed thunderstorm clouds. A bright red glow appeared on the shadowed figure's face.
And then Jean felt herself being lifted into the air.
All the metal objects that had been scattered around the lot started to vibrate, as the X-men looked around in confusion.
One by one, each of the mutants were suddenly dragged into the air by an unseen force. They were floating as a group, all facing an emotionless Rogue. None of them could break free, as they were in her hands now.
Once Rogue's eyes filled with ruby colored energy, everyone was alert. Jean, the closest, gasped and thrusted out her wrist together and palms out, giving Rogue a forceful push to divert the optic blast that launched from her eyes. It narrowly missed everyone, destroying the roof of a warehouse.
Angered, Rogue simply swept her hand through the air in a horizontal motion, and all the X-men were casted onto the ground roughly. They quickly scrambled to get up as the wind picked up around Rogue. A very thin twister shot from her hands and descended down a few feet to the ground. Sand was brushed into the air, and the X-men became trapped inside the vortex of a sandstorm. Kurt and Kitty escaped with their powers, while Jean put up a shield to block the sand. Most of the others just shielded their faces.
"Something's wrong with her!" Kitty shouted as she phased up out of the ground a few good feet from the sandy whirlwind.
"No kidding!" Jean retorted, as she widened her shield to deflect debris.
"We'll have to take her down! Something's happened to her and she's attacking us spitefully!" Scott added in his leader tone, as the X-men prepared themselves to stop Rogue.
But she was not going to have any of it.
Scott fired of two optic beams, which Rogue evaded easily. She countered with a lightning bolt, striking the ground as Scott leapt away.
Flying above, Warren tried to sneak in on Rogue. But it was almost impossible to, as Rogue's telepathy told her where everyone was. She looked up, and released and optic beam.
Warren was slammed into the chest. The winged mutant flipped through the air a bit, but tried to recover. Until Rogue blasted him again, this time pinning him to a pillar. The scarlet beam washed over Warren as he was pinned, aimed at his chest. The front of his uniform shirt torn apart into shreds from the intensity of the beam, as did his sleeves. The beam wasn't burning or bruising him, as the crimson ray covered his bare chest.
Warren tried to escape with strong flaps of his wings, as Jean tried to snatch Rogue with her TK.
As Rogue was yanked downwards by Jean, Warren took off into the air, only to collapse onto the ground. Rogue retaliated and whipped Jean off her feet with a strong gust of wind.
The rest of the X-men separated, as Rogue fired off a powerful optic blast that tore right through the ground, revealing that it was hollow. Nobody paid attention to what was down beneath them though.
Rogue however knew exactly what she was going to do.
With barely any concentration, the whole area started to shake from her quake. She focused the energy right on the group of X-men, causing the ground beneath them to break up and collapse. Everyone was dropped into the underground level beneath them. Rogue smirked with delight as she hid in the shadows to see what awaited her enemies.
A deep vibrating sound shot through the room beneath. Most of the X-men were in the dark shadows, except for the small cascades of lights from around the warehouse. They could feel the ground as it shuddered beneath something massive.
Around them were tall pillar like constructions, like climbing towers. The room had a high ceiling and was shaped like more of a rectangle. They could find the sides, but the front and back of the room was enshrouded in the shadows. Piles of crates were situated near the towers, while the middle area of the room was bare, except for the rocky ground that had broken in.
The footsteps grew louder, as a few floodlights came on that were attached to the towers. But there were also glowing lights in the middle of the room. The figure they were attached to was an extremely large silhouette. As it stepped into the light, the X-men stared in a stunned manner.
Standing before them was a mechanic monstrosity, a massive weapon. Clad in armor and filled with multiple energy cannons and blasters, the robotic fighter stared down at the X-men. It's cold and glowing gaze shifted on them.
"Mutant signatures detected. Elimination, commence now." A computer like voice stated deeply. The X-men started to back up away from the towering behemoth, only to find themselves stuck.
"Operatives, move out!" A man shouted from the balconies above. The X-men finally noticed a large number of men with guns around them. But they vanished into the shadows, as a lone man stood staring with utter glee.
The Sentinel was ready.
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Above the underground level, Rogue watched silently. All the voices nagged at her as she did, and it was getting hard to stay in one spot. She needed to clear her head before she lost any amount of control she had left.
The X-men had started fighting the Sentinel now, but they were fighting a losing battle. There wasn't enough room to move much due to the Sentinel's size. Those who could fly did, and some hid for sneak attacks. But then Sentinel could easily attack multiple mutants at one time.
Now though, as the robotic destroyer started to suffer more obstacles and attacks, it resorted to firing off greenish goops. The first goop hit Kitty, but she phased through it as it hardened around her. Todd and Scott weren't as lucky, as they became caught by the goop.
Warren and Tabitha were hit as well, lessening the X-men strength more. It soon became more and more evident that they needed to retreat. Even without all their teammates.
The X-jet appeared over them in the nighttime sky, but before it could descend closer, Ororo, Hank, and Fred were caught as well.
Rogue gazed up at the X-jet, seeing the Professor maneuvering it. He might've been able to stop her, so Rogue quickly took off into the air.
She didn't even bother looking back, as she shot through the clouds.
None of the X-men were going to stop her. Rogue had gone rogue on them.
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A few rooms next to the underground level with the Sentinel, the mutant known as Wolverine was slowly regenerating, almost completely healed from his own duel with the robot hunter.
He was awake and his senses were on alert in the room he was in. Trapped by restraints, he didn't bother to struggle. Even though the room was casted in shadows, it didn't mean Wolverine couldn't know what was happening.
But an odd scent piqued his interests suddenly. He wasn't alone anymore.
Waiting in the shadows close by, a girl watched. Adamantium claws poked out from her gloved knuckles, as she clenched her fists.
"You're the reason," the girl whispered. Wolverine snarled and struggled against his restraints to find the mysterious hiding person.
In a lone ray of florescent light, a gleam shot off against two adamantium claws as they moved closer toward Wolverine.
"Weapon X..." The voice trailed off in a whispered filled with anger and hatred. Wolverine watched as another set of adamantium claws appeared above him, ready to pierce into him.
Wolverine had no idea there was some like him. But whoever it was, they had a score to settle with him.
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And that's the end of the three part. Rogue's lost it, kind off an earlier Self Possessed but she hates the X-men. I changed around the mutants who got captured as well. And because of all this, mutants have yet to been revealed to Bayville. Expect that soon though. Only a few chapters to go. Please review!