Kurt looked around the dark room carefully, his yellow eyes glistening in the darkness. With one last glance around the area, he teleported away.

"Nothing, there." He said quickly.

Tabitha nodded, "C'mon, lets try somevhere else." She signaled to pyro.

But a large concrete wall stopped them from going any further.

Kurt groaned, "Now vut?"

But Pyro just smiled, "Ah'm beginnin to think that you've fergotten why ah'm called Pyro."

"John, don't. We can't afford any mistakes." Tabitha hissed. But a load explosion stopped her from finishing. She looked over at Pyro.

Pyro shrugged, "Wazn't me."

Tabitha eyed him but noticed that something was smoking in the distance. She looked over at Kurt, "Can you get us there?"

"I can try."

"Good enough."

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The darkness surged through the room as the door was shut quietly behind the stranger. As he approached the final door, his piercing red eyes grew brighter still. He put his hand over the smooth metal doorknob and turned it slightly. But the door began to open without the man moving it. A bright light immediately flooded into the room, forcing him to cover his eyes with his arm.

He looked around at the bright room. The floors and walls were covered in white tiling and wallpaper and several computers and other technical devises lined the walls and what little desktop there was around the room.

But much to the stranger's surprise, a few people were sitting in the chairs typing on the computers. Had they not noticed him? Beside them was a sink filled with a silvery substance. It was giving off a steamy essence that was constantly emerging from the sink.

But at the front of the room, a tall silver chair was facing the opposite direction. The chair slowly turned towards the stranger revealing the thief himself.

Mesmero.

Mesmero eyed the stranger slyly the got up from his chair, "Gambit. I was beginning that you'd never come."

"Save yer breath fer when yeh need it. Where's Rogue?" He snarled.

Mesmero smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Do you honestly think I'm just going to tell you where she is?"

Gambit shrugged, "Well, it was worth a try."

Mesmero laughed softly.

"So what's with yer friends. I assume dey're human?"

Mesmero laughed again, "Yes, they would appear to be as such. But you know, mutants aren't all that bad. As long as you know how to control them."

Gambit spat on the white floor. His voice was burning with disgust, "Where's Rogue?"

The two people had gotten up from their chairs and were staring at Gambit.

"You'll never get to her in time." He said sickeningly, "You'll be too busy." And with that, Mesmero disappeared.

Gambit froze, "That wasen't Mesmero. That was just another one his images." He looked around at the people walking towards him, "I'll bet you're not real either." He said, withdrawing his staff.

But one of them changed into Gambit to try to fool him.

Gambit grabbed it's head and slammed him into the sink, "I think I finally know what this stuff is." He pulled the person back out and his face was coated in a silver liquid-like substance. Everything was: it's eyes, mouth, hair…everything.

Gambit grinned and slammed the person's head on the counter next to him. The skin and everything on it shattered to pieces and fell to the floor and the counter top, leaving nothing but blood and carnage to spill out of what was left of the head.

"Liquid nitrogen."

He threw the body to the ground and it disappeared just as Mesmero did.

"I love this stuff."

The other person lunged at him but Gambit was too quick. He held out his staff and jammed it into the person's skull.

Gambit heard the sickening sound of the bone cracking then blood shooting out from the other end.

The person fell to the ground and Gambit yanked the staff out the person's head. But much to his surprise, the person didn't disappear.

Gambit sighed and smashed his boot into the person's skull, crushing it to the size of a pancake. Then the person disappeared.

"It took ya long enough." Gambit brushed himself off then looked around, "Now, where'd Mesmero get to?"

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This chapter is very short. Duh. I would have added more onto it but I wanted to get another chapter up quickly so that no one would think I forgot about the story. I've been having computer problems and I haven't been able to go anywhere on the Internet. Yea, my computer's a piece of crap. So the next chapter will be short as well but I'll post it soon. Sorry again for how long it took me to update. Please review.