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Morganist waited in his chamber with the four captured X-Men. Logan tried as hard as he could to break the glass of his tube, but the substance he was in still managed to render him weak. All four of them began to believe that all was lost.

Then Borack, Ganshy, and Clase entered the room. Borack said to Morganist, "the worriers doused in blood have arrived my lord. They have brought the four remaining mutants. Two guards saw them enter the catacombs earlier."

Morganist smiled at this good news. He commanded, "assemble all the troops in the main chamber. I do not wish to give our enemies any chance of escape this time."

Two guards waited near the entrance of the catacombs. They did not pay much attention to it since there seemed to be no worry. They talked to each other in their ancient tongue as the door to the catacombs began to open. The guards readied their guns as they walked over to see if there was any cause of alarm.

As soon as they entered Robert and Troy grabbed the two guards and stabbed them each in the chest. The two creatures struggled for a few seconds and then were suddenly still. The two boys let them drop to the ground and then began checking the guards for weapons.

The four young X-men came out from hiding. They all gasped at the dead guards on the ground. Kurt asked, "what are you doing?"

Robert looked up at him and said, "we're taking the weapons. Each one of Morganist's men is required to carry at least two handguns. I'm hoping these two have something a little more powerful like a shotgun." After looking through every thing Robert said angrily, "Damn it, all they have are hand guns."

Troy quickly picked up the guns and gave each of his brothers one. Evan stepped forward and said, "how come you guys get guns and we don't?"

John held up his gun and said, "have you ever used one of these before?" Evan said nothing. He just shook his head and John said, "I thought so. Look we'll give you some weapons as soon as we get some more, but right now my brothers and I will handle the killing."

Robert quieted his brother after he heard the sound of many voices. Soon all of them heard it. They followed the sound until they were lead to a large hole. When they looked they saw this huge circular room. All of Morganist's men were there. They were chanting in their language and beating their chests.

Then Kurt looked up and saw Morganist up in a balcony. He pointed him out to his friends and the four brothers.

With Morganist were the three other mutants that they met in the woods, and behind them were the four captured X-Men.

After his men chanted for a long time Morganist silenced them. He yelled out, "men, tonight you will be hunting for the worriers doused in blood in this very castle. With them are the four remaining mutants we need to please Amoonie. Remember you do not fear pain or death. Bring all eight of them to me. You may kill the four brothers if you must, but I want the mutants alive."

Then all of his men yelled out, "Praise Amoonie, praise the dark one that has no name!"

Phil said, "well I'll be a son of a bitch. He knows we're here."

Robert said, "that's why there weren't any guards looking for us in the woods, he knew we were coming."

They all backed away from the hole. Rogue looked at the four brothers and said, "what do we do now?"

Robert thought for a while. "We'll have to split up. My brothers and I will split up into two groups and two of you will go with each group. That way Morganist can't get you all at once, I hope John and I will take the west part of the castle and Troy and Phil will take the east. You four will have to choose who you'd rather go with."

The four mutants thought about this. Rogue walked over to Robert and John. "I'll go with you guys."

"Me to," said Kurt.

Robert said, "alright, Troy how many men does Morganist have out there?"

Troy looked and said, "I think about fifty, maybe more."

Robert said, "perfect, just what we need Ok we'd better get going now." Robert took out two walkie-talkies that he took from the guards. "Here you guys take this. If any of us get into any trouble we'll call each other."

They all nodded to each other and went their separate ways.

Robert and John lead the way as Rogue and Kurt followed closely behind. Rogue actually felt more comfortable with the two brothers in front because they said that Morganist's men would have to be killed and she never killed any one before. Robert and his brothers seemed to be experts at it.

They moved stealthily until Robert stopped them. They all heard voices of two of Morganist's foot soldiers from around a corner. Robert and John readied their guns. Robert looked back at the two mutants and said, "get ready for anything."

They waited until the foot soldiers were very close. Then Robert and John turned the corner with their guns aimed. Rogue and Kurt waited. Strangely no gunfire was heard. Rogue and Kurt moved slowly around the corner. When they did they saw Robert and John with the foot soldier's guns in their faces and the foot soldiers had Robert and John's guns in their faces.

The foot soldier that was facing Robert said, "put down your gun."

Robert said, "I'm not gonna put it down, you'll just have to shoot me." There was a long pause. Rogue looked from the brothers to the soldiers. She had no idea what to do. She had never been trained for this situation.

Then Robert spoke to the soldier again. "Come on shoot me. That's what you want is it? Shoot!"

Then John spoke to the soldier facing him, "yeah, shoot, you'll be doing us a favor."

Then one soldier said, "very well."

He readied the trigger and just as he did Robert shot him dead in the face. The soldier that faced John was so surprised by what had happened he took his attention off John. Before he knew what happened he was on the ground with a bullet hole in his head.

Kurt walked up to the brothers and said, "what is wrong with you? Why'd you tell them to shoot you?"

Robert looked at him and said, "it would have been better if they did." Kurt just looked at him as if he disagreed. Robert walked up to him and said, "maybe Rogue hasn't told you this yet, but I want to die and so do my brothers. We won't die here because we want to save your friends, but if we were killed it would be a hell of a lot better for every one else," and he walked to the bodies to take their weapons.

Kurt whispered to Rogue, "Rogue, your friends here are suicidal?"

Rogue said, "well, they have a lot of problems that they're not dealing with very well. I don't think they really want to kill themselves, but they think they're running out of options. Maybe they'll find some other way."

Kurt was about to speak again but before he could a large syringe with a strange liquid in it went into the back of his neck. He gave a quick painful shout and backed away only to see Morganist standing behind him. With him were five of his men all holding machine guns. Morganist said to Kurt, "that substance should render your powers helpless for a while."

Robert and John stood up and aimed their guns at Morganist. The dark mutant looked at them and said, "drop your guns or I'll have my men shoot you and I won't allow them to stop until I am convinced you're dead."

Robert looked at Morganist and then at Rogue and Kurt. He knew he couldn't help them or the other X-Men if he was dead. So he dropped his gun and his brother did the same.

"Smart choice," said Morganist. "Now you will come with us and please do not try to escape."

The Four captured X-Men waited in Morganist's chamber. Logan still kept trying to smash the glass of his tube even though it was hopeless. Suddenly the door swung open and Morganist came in. Ganshy and four of his foot soldiers followed him. Then they noticed that two of the soldiers were holding Rogue and Kurt. They were each tied by the hands and the soldiers lead them into the room. Behind them were John and Robert who were also held by Morganist's men.

The two boys were quickly tied to chairs as Morganist had Rogue and Kurt held so they faced him.

Scott called out, "Rogue Kurt, you guys are all right!"

"Silence," Morganist yelled to Scott. He turned back to the younger mutants and said, "well, well, well Two of the remaining mutants we need are now right here, and also two of our enemies," he said as looked to John and Robert. Robert struggled a little, but could not loosen his ropes.

Morganist looked back at Rogue. He saw a look of fear upon her face. He walked up to her and asked, "are you afraid of me?" Rogue just shook her head. Morganist smiled and said, "foolish child. I know you fear me. Why do you deny your feelings." Rogue said nothing and Morganist continued. "You want me to release your friends. It is not difficult to sense that. Why don't we see if you truly aren't afraid of me."

He looked at the soldier that held her and nodded. Rogue's hands were untied and the soldier released his grip on her. Then Morganist said, "we're now going to play a little game. If you can get passed me and touch one of the tubes of your captured comrades, then I will let you all go free. I will allow you two chances and only two."

Rogue thought about this. After what Robert had told her about this Morganist guy she wasn't quite sure if she should be fighting him. But she had fought very well before, she could take him on. But before she did she looked over at Robert and said, "should I do this?"

Robert nodded. He really didn't think she should fight Morganist, but it was a chance that they could end this whole thing right now.

Rogue looked at the dark mutant. Morganist said, "try when you are ready."

With that Rogue ran strait at him. She leaped into the air and kicked Morganist right in the stomach. Morganist knelt down a little from the blow. Rogue quickly ran towards Storm's tube, but as she reached out to touch it Morganist was soon upon her. He grabbed Rogue by the waist and hurled her across the room. She hit the floor hard, but she stood back up.

Morganist gave her an evil smile. Rogue took off one of her gloves and ran at Morganist once again. Unfortunately as she reached out to knock him out with her powers Morganist quickly grabbed her arms and pined her against the wall. He stared into Rogue's eyes and said, "you failed."

Morganist then unexpectedly let his long black snakelike tongue out of his mouth and liked Rogue's face. He must not have known about her powers because he soon drew away from her. He fell weakened to the floor and gasped for breath.

Ganshy yelled to one of Morganist's men, "restrain her and don't touch her flesh!"

Morganist stood back up. Rogue's power had really knocked a lot out of him. "Very impressive powers you have there child. But it won't be any use to you for much longer."

Ganshy walked over to the restrained Rogue and said, "how dare you do that to lord Morganist!"

Rogue said angrily, "I can't control my powers, you can't blame me for him licking my face."

Ganshy said, "oh yes I can." Then he hit Rogue hard in the face. It was a very quick punch so Rogue's powers didn't have much time to lay him out, but it still shook Ganshy up a little bit.

Robert struggled again, but still the ropes kept him down. "Leave her alone," he said in a voice that was full of rage.

Ganshy looked at the boy and said, "don't bother protecting her. She won't be alive for much longer."

Robert then said, "damn you Ganshy."

Ganshy pulled out a handgun and pointed it directly at Robert's head. "No Robert," he said. "I here by damn you, and your brothers."

All the X-Men were silent. Rogue watch helplessly as Ganshy put his finger on the trigger, but before he could fire Morganist gently grabbed the hand that held the gun and lowered it. "Not yet Ganshy," he said. "We wait until we have all the mutants and the other two brothers. Then these X-Men will watch their hope quickly fade away."

Ganshy smiled at him. He looked over to Rogue and Kurt. "Shall I put them in their tubes?"

Morganist said, "no, leave them here with their human friends. It's the last time they'll ever see each other. I will send four other guards down to watch them closely."

They both laughed evilly. Rogue and Kurt were each tied to a chair which were placed next to John and Robert. The other four X-Men were wheeled out of the room and the two remaining foot soldiers stood guard outside the door, waiting for the other guards.

Robert struggled again with his ropes. "I can't believe we fell for that trap. I should have known Morganist would have used his men for bait." He looked over to Rogue, "are you ok?"

Rogue spat out a little blood from her mouth and said, "oh my god I'm bleeding."

Robert said, "I'm not surprised, that was a hard hit."

He struggled again. Then he looked as if he remembered something. He started bouncing his chair until it was right next to Kurt's chair. "Kurt could you try and reach my left arm sleeve."

Kurt said, "yeah sure, why?" Robert didn't answer. Kurt felt around Robert's sleeve until he felt something. "Robert, is that your switchblade?"

Robert said, "yeah, they never checked my arms, or John's for that matter. Try and cut through your ropes."

Kurt smiled and began to cut. As soon as he was free he began to try and cut Robert loose but before he could the boy said, "cut Rogue loose first."

Kurt obeyed him. As soon as he cut Rogue loose the Goth felt the inside of her mouth. She looked to Kurt and asked, "how bad am I bleeding?"

Before Kurt could answer her the two guards entered the room. They had heard Robert's chair banging around and they believed they should check it out.

The two guards took their handguns out, but before they had a chance to fire the two mutants attacked them. The guns dropped to the floor.

Robert yelled to Kurt, "come on man you have my switchblade use it!"

But Kurt did not have time. One of the soldiers grabbed his arm before Kurt could stab him. Of course Kurt could have teleported behind the soldier if it wasn't for that substance Morganist injected into his neck.

The second soldier went after Rogue. She dogged every one of his punches as best she could.

While this was going on Robert bounced his chair over to John. "John, let me try and get your switchblade. We got to get out of here before those other guards come." The boys struggled until Robert finally got John's switchblade.

While he tried to cut himself loose Rogue and Kurt kept battling with Morganist's guards. Rogue quickly kicked the monster she was fighting in the face and it fell to the floor. As it stood back up it puled out a long knife. "I will not kill you," it said. "I'm just going to cut off your legs." It swung the knife at her, but she dodged it and kicked the guard again.

Robert had freed himself and his brother. They Ran and picked up the guns that were on the floor. But before they could do anything the four guards that Morganist had sent entered the room. The two brothers quickly shot the first two, but the other two hid behind two pillars that were near the door. They shot at the two boys as Robert knocked over a table and hid behind it. The two boys and the two guards quickly got into a shoot out; just randomly firing their guns and hoping they'd hit their enemy.

Rogue saw this. She wanted to help them, but she was still fighting her guard. The shooting caused her to loose her attention from her foe. The guard kicked her and she fell to the floor. It held up it's knife and said, "you will feel much pain now, a small taste of what you will receive for your execution."

With those words Rogue took off one of her gloves. She jumped up and grabbed the guard before it could stab her. Rogue's powers immediately kicked in. She held onto the guard, she didn't want to let go until she was sure it was knocked out.

John saw this from behind the over turned table and said, "I think Rogue's got that guy taken care of."

Robert looked over as two bullets hit the other side of the table. Robert said, "lets not congratulate her now."

Then John quickly noticed something that he didn't before. The two guards behind the pillars were standing near some sort of strange oil lamp. These relatively big lamps were put all over the castle of Morganist, but John did not see them until now. He looked over at Robert and said, "Robert, shoot the lamp."

Robert looked up and saw the lamp. He looked over to his brother and nodded. They both stood up and shot at the oil lamp. It knocked over, spilling fire and hot oil behind the pillars. The two guards ran out engulfed in flames. They screamed in agony as they ran. The guard that fought Kurt saw this and turned away from the blue mutant. It didn't seem notice John and Robert come at him from the side. The two boys lifted the guard up and slammed him against the ground. They did that again and again until the guard stopped breathing. Blood dripped from its body.

This method of killing seemed very gruesome to Kurt, but he was happy that the monster was dead. He turned to Rogue. She was still holding the guard she fought with her ungloved hand.

Robert walked over to her and said, "Rogue calm down. I think he's had enough."

Rogue stopped. She let go of the guard and watched it fall to the floor. She turned to Robert and said, "sorry, I was just a little freaked out by this whole thing." She paused and looked down at the monster. She wondered why Robert, or John wasn't going in for the kill. "Aren't one of you guys gonna finish him off?"

John looked over to Rogue and then kneeled down and felt the guard's pulse. He stood back up and said to Rogue, "I think you killed him."

Rogue's eyes turned wide. She looked down at the guard's body. "What, how is that possible? I never killed any one with my powers before."

Robert said, "well, it's probably a good thing. That's one less of Morganist's men that we have to deal with."

Rogue looked at Robert angrily. "How could you say it's a good thing! I have been trying so hard not to hurt anybody with my power! Every time I knock some one out I'm glad I at least didn't kill them! And now look at what I just did! I'm a killer!"

Robert said, "just calm down Rogue."

Rogue yelled out, "DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" and then she ran out of the room. Tears ran down her cheeks. She couldn't believe that she had done what she tried so hard to avoid her entire life. She felt more inhuman than ever. She had just killed some one.

Rogue ran out of that room as quickly as she could. She didn't care if she was seen by any of Morganist's men. The thought of her killing that guard was stuck in her brain. She leaned against the wall and sat down crying. How could she live with herself now?

Robert was soon out of that room. He felt bad for Rogue, but he knew they couldn't deal with this now. He said, "alright Rogue get up."

Rogue looked up at him. She was mad that he didn't seem to care about what she just did. All she could say was, "I just killed some one."

"Who was going to take you to Morganist and you would be executed as soon as all the rest of your friends are captured.," said Robert rather angrily.

Rogue whipped a tear from her face and stood up. "Why don't you care about me killing that guy," she said coldly. "I never wanted to hurt any body with my powers, and now I just killed some one."

Robert said, "I'm well aware of what you just did, and I know it's hard for you, but do you know what Morganist would have done to you when he found out you tried to escape." Rogue just shook her had. Roberts said, "he would have tied you to a table and have your eye lids ripped off. And he wouldn't stop there. He'd start dripping boiling hot water into your eyes. Then he'd start sticking hot needles into your face. In your ears, your lips, your tongue, your eyes, and everywhere else."

Rogue began to shake. She was beginning to feel very afraid and that's exactly what Robert wanted her to feel. He wanted her to see that Morganist wasn't like those other enemies she had dealt with before. He was much more darker; more evil. He would have let a three-year-old girl boil in hot tar.

Rogue shook this feeling off and said, "yeah well you're not gonna have to live with this the rest of your life. You could never understand the guilt I feel every day for every person I've hurt."

This made Robert very angry. His face seemed to trance form. It was still Robert's face, but there was more of a terrifying nature to it. The boy put his face into Rogues face and said, "how dare you say that to me. How dare you think that your suffering is greater than any body else's pain."

Rogue backed into the wall, terrified. Robert then continued, "I have more skeletons in my closet than you, your friend Kurt, or any body in your god damn institute. I see things in my head. I have nightmares while I'm awake. You couldn't even imagine the visions I have. You couldn't even see them in your must horrible dreams. Have you ever looked through the eyes of a mad man."

Robert stopped. His face changed back into that kind and disturbed boy that Rogue met on the street. He turned away from her. Rogue walked up to him and said sympathetically, "what have you been through that's made you this way?"

Robert didn't answer her question. He just looked at her with his hollow eyes and said, "have you ever seen blood drip from an open wound. It's beautiful. If you look passed the red liquid and see what it really is Blood is a life force. With out it our hearts do not work. What I have been through has made me insane, but it has also opened my eyes to new things. Things I could never see when I was sane. But I don't like every thing I see. What I have been through in my past, I can not tell you. I don't think you would under stand."

Rogue was silent. She looked down at her hand that had killed the guard. Then Robert spoke again, "you didn't do anything wrong Rogue. You did kill some one, but it was an evil thing, and I don't think god will punish you for trying to save your life."

Rogue whipped away her tears and smiled at Robert. She was happy to know that Robert didn't seem to care if she could touch people or not. She walked up to him and held his hand with her gloved hand. She said, "Robert I" but the boy halted her as if showing he understood.

She looked behind Robert and saw John and Kurt. They had been their the whole time and they heard every word. Kurt walked up to Robert and gave him back his switchblade. Robert smiled and said, "I say we go save your friends."

Robert and John reloaded their gun barrels and began to walk through the hall. Rogue stood beside Robert as the four moved stealthily through the hall.