Tabitha's thoughts drifted off away from Beast. She couldn't stop thinking about Pyro. She turned her head slightly towards him and sighed. He was leaning up against the wall with his head down; his fiery red hair fell loosely over his eyes.

He had been acting so different lately. It was like he had suddenly be come a whole different person. Something was wrong and Tabitha knew it. Ever sense that night when he thought he saw Magneto, Pyro had been acting unusually quiet. He no longer had the glint of insanity in his eyes, nor the lust for destruction in his actions.

John may have always been outgoing and sort of…destructive…but the more Tabitha thought about it, the more she began to realize that there was always something wrong. He never liked to talk about himself or about where he came from, though Tabitha now knew why, but his psychotic behavior always seemed to be covering something up. Like his attitude towards things acted like a mask, separating Pyro from the rest of the world.

Maybe that was his intentions. Maybe Pyro purposely put up that mask to hide himself from everyone. But why?

Tabitha shook herself mentally and looked over at the computer screen where Beast was watching something.

"Did you find anything?" Tabitha asked eagerly.

Beast sighed, "No, I'm sorry Tabitha," He said, looking through the tapes, "If Magneto was truly out there the security camera's would have spotted him." Beast turned towards Pyro, "Are you sure you saw Magneto?"

"Yes, I'm positive." He said rather impassively. He shoved his hand into his pockets and leaned against the wall, "It's okay, I can't expect you to believe me."

"I believe you Pyro, it's just that if he was out there, the camera would have picked him up. I'm sorry."

"That's okay, thanks anyway Mr. McCoy." Tabitha said, looking over at Pyro, "C'mon, we should go get ready for the training session."

Pyro nodded slowly and followed.

"I do believe you Pyro. I really do." Beast whispered.

But Beast had forgotten to turn off the tape. When he looked back at the screen, something else was happening. Everything went blurry and something darted across the field. A faint light could be seen in the distance then, the tape went black.

"Pyro, wait a minute."

Pyro turned back towards Beast.

"Take a look at this…"

Pyro starred at the screen in confusion.

Had something gone wrong and it ran out of tape? Or did something disable it?

"What the…?" Tabitha breathed, "That couldn't have been him, right?"

Then Beast began to think about something. "If Magneto was really there, and that was him, then he would have surly disabled the tape…"

"Which he did." Tabitha stated.

"But he couldn't have been the one to disable it because Magneto uses electric currents, which would cause the tape to turn into static. But it didn't. It just blacked out."

"So, wazzat mean?"

"It means that was someone else." Beast rewound he tape and studied it carefully.

" But what was the bright light?" Tabitha asked.

"I don't know. But what ever it is, what ever just ran across the area, that was not Magneto." Beast explained.

Tabitha thought for a minute, "What if it was Mesmero? He could have made an image that looked like Magneto and that could have been him!"

Beast shook his head, "Mesmero's dead."

Pyro took one last look at the tape then started to head out.

"So was Magneto."

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Gambit had finally been let out of the hospital and was willing to take a chance with the X-Men. The main reason was that he to be closer to Rogue. The fact that Pyro also had joined seemed to help his decision.

Gambit had been walking around the Institute with Rogue on a small tour just to get acquainted with the surroundings. But as they got further into the Institute, Gambit realized something wasn't right.

"Rogue…" Gambit whispered.

She turned and looked at him in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Gambit's eyes darted around the area and came across something at the end of the hallway hidden away in the shadows. It was so dark, Gambit couldn't see what was there.

"Rogue, weh're not alone." He said softly.

"Whut?"

Gambit walked closer to the end of the hallway were it turned on a ninety degree angle into another part of the Institute.

All of a sudden, a small, square object rolled out from behind the corner.

"Whut is it?" Rogue asked no one in particular.

Gambit studied it carefully, "It's a…jack in the box?"

It was exactly that. But there was one thing different about it. It was moving on it's own. Suddenly, the knob started turning its self.

Gambit and Rogue looked at it, perplexed. But with out warning it popped open and a bright light exploded from inside.

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Beast, who had been in the security room, noticed that all of the cameras around that area had been completely blacked out. He immediately sent a signal to Xavier then began to search for the closest camera to the area that hadn't been shut down. Then he saw him.

Magneto.

He was just standing there in front of the camera. He turned his head slightly then just disappeared into thin air.

"John wasn't kidding. He is alive!" Beast gasped, "Or is he?"

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Gambit couldn't see a thing. Rogue had been standing right next to him and he couldn't even see her. Suddenly, a sharp pain shot up Gambit's side then everything went black.

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Gambit slowly opened his eyes and found only that he couldn't see a thing. As eyes began to adjust to the dark light, he tried to get up but something was holding him back. A metal bar to be exact. He tried as hard as he could to brake free but it was too strong. He rested his head on the cold, hard metal floor and looked around. He was definitely not in the Institute any more.

His eyes began to glow red as he noticed Rogue was no longer with him. His trench coat was gone too. Which meant he didn't have his staff or card deck. His eyes darted around the dark room, scanning every inch of the dark room but Rogue wasn't there.

Gambit slid his arm up as far as he could and grabbed the metal bar with his hand. It began to glow and sparkle, then exploded. The metal bar snapped in half and Gambit reached for the other one. But before he could charge it again, a door swung open and a man with a long purple cape on walked inside. His hood was up so Gambit couldn't see his face, but he looked incredibly familiar.

Even though Gambit couldn't see the man's eyes, he could still feel the person glaring at him.

The man approached Gambit and he seemed to have a limp in his leg. He was hunched over and his cape dragged across the floor.

Gambit looked up at him, about to charge the other bar restraining him to the floor, "Magneto?" He breathed.

A smile tugged on his lips, "Not quite."

Gambit sighed. He was too short to be Magneto anyway.

"Where's Rogue?" he demanded.

"Rogue's with me my dear friend. Don't you worry about her. You'll be reunited in no time." He smiled.

Gambit grabbed the bar with his free hand and it exploded within seconds, filling the room with smoke.

Gambit jumped to his feet and tackled the man to the ground. But he kicked Gambit in the chest, right where he had been stabbed, and sent him flying into a wall. Gambit fell to the ground in pain.

'How did he kno?' He thought weakly as he got back up. But as he looked around, he noticed the man was gone. Though it was clearing fast, Gambit could barely see anything in the thick smoke, 'Great plan.' He mocked himself.

But the man leaped out of the smoke and threw Gambit to a wall. As he hit the hard metal, he recognized the man's attacks. He continued to dodge them but soon enough, the man had pressed a button on the wall and something grabbed gambit and pulled is back up against the wall.

"What do ya want with meh?" Gambit yelled.

"Revenge."

"Whut? Whut did Ah ever do to you?"

"Don't you dare pretend that you don't know!" He spat, "You humiliated me, ruined my plans, and did something far worse than you ever meant to do."

Gambit just starred at him in confusion. He didn't even know the man, what could he have done to make him so mad?

"But now, I'm going tot do the same thing to you. Starting with her." He outstretched his arm and pointed to a wall. Parts of it slowly moved to the side revealing Rogue tied to a wall. She wasn't moving.

"What the fuck did you do to her?" Gambit screamed.

"Oh, I have yet to do my worst." His voice became dark and eerie.

"Who are you?"

The man gave a sickening grin and slowly pulled back his hood. Gambit looked up at the man's face in horror.

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Bum bum BUM!!! Who could it beee? Who?! Only way to find out! Review! Or just read the next chapter but that's really not the point. Sorry bouts how long it's taken me to update… Writer's block sux. Badly. Anyhoo, please review!