"Professor! Rogue's gone!" Tabitha cried out.

Xavier turned his head around, "What?" He breathed, "How is that possible?"

"I dunno, she's just, gone!" Tabitha gasped, tried to catch her breath.

Xavier put raised his hand to his head and tried to find Rogue's location with his telepathy. But something was blocking him from her. He couldn't break through, "Rogue…where are you?"

"Can you find her?" Tabitha asked hopefully.

"I…no. Something's blocking me."

"Where's Jean and Kitty. Are they still in Russia?" Tabitha began.

"Yes, why?"

"We gotta go find Rogue!" She exclaimed.

"This might be a trap."

"Well, how are we supposed to know if we don't check?"

Xavier sighed, "I guess…"

Suddenly, Pyro walked into the room, "Wa's goin on?"

"Tabitha, you and John go look for her. I'll check Ceribro and contact Jean and Kitty."

"Huh?" Pyro blinked.

"Where do you want us to look?" Tabitha asked.

Xavier thought for a moment, "I say you go visit Gambit and see if he as any answers."

"You think he kidnapped her?"

"I don't know. He might have. Though I can't see his reason."

Pyro laughed, "I could!"

Everyone starred at him.

"Uh…yea, so, wut's goin?" He asked awkwardly.

Tabitha sighed, "C'mon, I'll explain it to you on the way."

Pyro shrugged, "Ahkay."

Tabitha grabbed his hand and led him out the door.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Kurt had been watching them for a while and he was concerned.

He tapped twice on Scott's door and waiting for an answer. Kurt was about to walked way and forget that he ever knocked but the door opened.

"Kurt? Hey, what's up?"

Kurt bit his lip, "Uh, can I talk to you?"

"Um, sure. C'mon in. I'm just finishin' up some homework." He said kindly.

Kurt went inside his room and shut the door behind him, "It'z about Tabitha and zat Pyro guy."

"Yeah, what about 'em?"

"Vell, I just sink zat Tabitha shouldn't be hanging avound vith him. Zhat's all."

"I dunno. He seems like a nice guy." Scott stopped, "Well, other than the whole 'pyromaniac' thing he's got goin."

"Yea, vell so he's helpink us to defeat Apocalypse. But he is still ze bad guy and I'm jus vorried for Tabitha's sake." Kurt said, "You see ze vay she acts avound him. She likes him. And I'm jus vorried."

"You're worried that she'll fall in love with him and forget about you ya mean." Scott stated.

"Huh?"

"C'mon Kurt. You like Tabitha and you're worried she doesn't."

Kurt sighed, "Yea, I guess so."

"Then just tell Tabitha how you feel and tell her that you don't want this Pyro guy to get in the way of your friendship." Scott explained.

"But vut if she doesn't feel ze same vay about me?"

"Then so what? You can still be friends."

"Ya, I guess."

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Tabitha and Pyro had made it to the base safely. He knew everything there was to know about that place… accept where Gambit hid the fireworks.

Gambit had been searching for him but eventually gave up. He thought is was a little odd that his insane friend would just disappear like that. But tot ell you the truth, he almost didn't care. But of course, the only place Gambit didn't look was at the Institute. He figured that Pyro would never join that place. But alas, he was wrong.

Gambit had been sitting in the dark, playing Monte' Carlo for a while. But it was pretty hard the play with the shadows. After the little 'explosion incident' Pyro no longer wanted to play cards with Gambit. Go figure.

But when he was in the middle of his seventh game in a row, he heard something behind him. Gambit figured it was Pyro and thought he got lost or something. But it wasn't Pyro.

"Whatda want John?" Gambit calle dout, not taking his eyes away from his game.

"Huh, funny. My name's not John." The voice answered back.

Gambit turned around and saw Tabitha leaning up against the wall. He jumped up and extented his metal staff.

"So, what game ya playin?"

"Sorreh chere', youh're not welcome here." Gambit eyes gleamed red in the darkness.

Tabitha rolled her eyes, "C'mon Cajun. I mean you no harm." She said smoothly.

Gambit declined his staff and eyed her, "Whatdya' whant?"

Tabitha smirked and without warning grabbed Gambit's trench coat and pinned him to the wall, "Where the Rogue?"

Gambit glared at her and drew a card up to his face, "Dunno," Flames surged through the card and Tabitha jumped back. Gambit shot the card across the room at her but she jumped and the card exploded into the wall, "Did meh chere' turn missin'?"

"Yea." Another voice said. Pyro stepped out of the darkness, "Thought maybeh ya might kno where she is."

"Oh?" A smirk tugged at his lips, "And why is dat?"

"Gee, dunno…lemme' think fer a minute." Pyro teased.

"Ah dunt kno where Rogue is. When did she disappear?"

"Just this morning," Tabitha clarified.

"Ah didn't kidnap'er" Gambit hissed.

Pyro sighed, "He's tellin the truth, mate."

Gambit starred at him, "Well ya."

"Then we've got a dead end." Tabitha looked over at Gambit's red piercing eyes, "Any idea where she is?"

Gambit withdrew his staff and tucked it away inside his coat, "Naw, sorreh."

Tabitha started to head out, "Then we'd better tell the Professor."

Gambit eyed Pyro, "Yer workin feh them now, eh mon ami?"

"No, well, jus fer now." He confessed.

"Magneto won't be pleahsed."

"Magneto's dead."

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Kurt sighed, "But Tabitha not the kind of person that would…"

Suddenly, Kurt and Scott heard the intercom crackle to life, "Nightcrawler, Spyke, Cyclopes, Berzerker and Jubilee report to the planning room immediately!" Xavier's voice echoes through out the hallways.

Scott got up and headed for the door, "C'mon Kurt, we'd better go see what the professor wanted. Ya know when he calls us by our code names it's a mission."

But Kurt didn't budge.

"Kurt? You okay?"

Kurt shook himself mentally and got up, "Yea, sorry."

The two headed down to the Planning Room in silence.

When they got there, Sypke and Berzerker were all ready there.

Scott looked around at everyone, "Wait a minute, where's Jubilee? Didn't Professor call her down too?"

Berzerker sighed, "She's probably doing her nails."

Just then, Jubilee and marching in, "I AM NOT!"

Berzerker shrugged.

Jubilee was about to make a comment when Xavier came in with Storm, Tabitha and Pyro.

"Good, everyone's here then?" Xavier scanned the area, "We've got a lot of ground t o cover. But let me start off by saying that I'm sure some of you have noticed Rogue absence this morning. I have received confirmation that she has been kidnapped."

A few gasped and 'no's were heard from around the room.

"We'll find her Professor," Scott said firmly, "Just give a where and we'll find her!"

Xavier smiled, "Good. Thank you Scott. Ceribro was able to find her current location, though it could not give us an exact spot. She is somewhere within a five-block radius of the new mall construction site. I've the X-Van ready just outside."

"Do you think its Gambit?" Berkerzer asked no one in particular.

Pyro smirked, "Well AH did!"

Tabitha elbowed him, "We already took care of that. He's innocent."

"But wait, not that I'm complaining for anything but…why are we here?" Jubilee motioned to Berkerzer.

"Because I need two of the younger students to fill in for Rogue. And sense you two have the most control over your powers, I picked you."

"What about Bobby?" Berkerzer questioned.

"Bobby is, well, not suited for this kind of mission. He, well…"

"Immature." Kurt finished for him.

"Hey! I am not immature! And I am SO suited for a rescue mission!" Bobby popped out from under the desk, but not before hitting his head, "Ow…"

Xavier sighed, "Bobby, what are you doing here?"

Bobby held his arms up, "I came here for the mission!"

"Fine, I guess it couldn't hurt."

A large smiled tugged at Bobby's lips. He threw his arms in the air, "Yes!"

"Then vut are ve vaiting for?" Kurt shouted. "Let's go get Rogue!"

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Figured that was good place to stop. Yea last time, what I meant by, the next few chapters and the next one was: the new few chapters after this chapter. For those of you who didn't understand. And I'm sorry about how long it took me to update. It usually doesn't take two days but I had some 'Log In' troubles. Please review!