As We Were
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Totally Obsessed47-- Yay for jumping up and down. I also should be jumping up and down right now, as Remy's lost his girlfriend, I've gained a boyfriend! Oh yes, I have. Just to let you know, from me to you, there is going to be no resolvation in this fic. I'm going to leave it very open ended.
ishandahalf-- I found out who died early because I wanted to see the pictures at the top of the chapters! So I cried then, and then I cried when he officially died. Vindictivity is very fun, I do believe, oh psycotic one. Logan knows not what lies beneath the sink. He should have known better, the loser. I think he's interested in what's going on because he's a pervy man, like Chuck, and wants to make up for his lack of love life. DEATH TO THE UBER WENCHES FROM THE PITS OF HELL!!! Maybe you'll get the slow and tortuous deaths... If you're lucky. She doesn't push the weelchair down the stairs, but maybe our special guest star of the chapter might. Lemme check... Nope, she doesn't, but she does bitch out Chuck a bit. A gene can appear and dissapear because I say it can. I love being omnipitent. That's the type of power I want, man, to be able to kill UBER WENCHES FROM THE PITS OF HELL!
silky black-- I bet the majority of the male portion of the institute has kinky thoughts about Rogue. Involving leather bodysuits. ::grin:: Things I come up with when I have nothing better to do with my time.
IvyZoe-- Okay, quick re-cap, Rogue's powers dissapeared, and now the gene's coming back some how. We don't know how, and neither do I. Oh, no, wait, yes, I do. I KNOW ALL! Rogue will most likely apologize for it soonish, well... Actually... Yeah, she will! Thanks so much for inspiration to keep writing again! I was reaching writers block/lazyness. ::mad grin:: I'll give you a teaser: "I had no idea what it actually felt like," Rogue sobbed gently, hugging the man in front of her. Don't expect that EXACT paragraph to be in there, but look for something close to it. Don't worry, we've got a fight scene in this chapter! But not against Betsy, against another Uber Bitch.
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TheDreamerLady-- Good to know that I'm not a bitch. Actually, I am. I enjoy being evil too! ::Evil sexy smirk/smile:: Actually, wanna know a piece of ASGT trivia? I told my self I'd never write a Romy last year when I first started liking X-Men, because they plagued me. But, thanks to a dream I had, which was the basic plot for Card Shark, ::Shameless plugging:: so, I wrote it down, and BAM! Hooked on Romy! I am an adoring Reviwer Reviwer! Damn, Amanda, I want a gift. No double chappie, I'm not that fast at typing! Well, I'm pretty fast, but I'm too lazy to go upload them from my laptop to the main computer.
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SickmindedSucker-- No, Rogue was currently wearing the chastiy belt... Oh, wait, no, that didn't work. Nope, it didn't. She lent it to Jean. Hope you like this chapter too! Also, I'm short on words again, it's late, and I'm tired.
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Rogue knocked angrily on Xavier's wooden oak doors outside of his office.
Come in, Rogue, he said sending shivers up Rogue's spine. She never got over people talking in her head. She pushed open the heavy doors with no problem.
"Please, have a seat," he said as Rogue stepped in front of his desk.
"Ah'd ratha stand," she said, sounding very cliché.
"What is it you wish to speak me about?" He asked, steepling his hands.
"Ah've been lied too," Rogue said sharply. "You know how Ah git when Ah've been lied to. An' ya'll know what Ah'm talkin' about."
"Rogue, listen, I had to keep you from knowing for your own good!" Charles said.
"Mah own good!" The thought was laughable. "Let's face it, Charles, ya were afraid. Afraid of what this could mean. One o' tha most, don' deny it, most powerful mutants was loosin' her X-Gene. What could this mean fer tha rest of you? Were you an' Magneto not too far behind? Was mutation jus' some short lil' spike that's dyin' out?
"Was somethin' Ah ate a cure to mutation? What so called 'normal people,' had been searchin' for?"
"No, not at all, Rogue," Xavier said patiently. "We were concerned about your reaction to it. Right now I'm believing that I did the right thing."
"If Ah had known, an' not been force fed tha lie that Ah was havin' irregular brain waves, Ah woulda been a helluva lot happier! Loosin' mah X-Gene should have been on o' tha best things evah to happen ta me!"
"No," Xavier said. "It was one of the worst."
"Lies."
"Listen to me, Rogue, you are one of the most powerful mutants in the world, you said so yourself, you helped bring Apocalypse, you helped defeat him! Without you, we would all have died! Are you going to deny all of that?"
"No," She said it quietly, but Xavier still caught it. "Ah'm not denyin' anythang, its ya'll who're denyin' meh a normal life. You kept meh under tha impression of fucking irregular brainwaves!"
"Please, mind your language."
"Ah'm twenty, Xavier, Ah can' say whateva tha hell Ah wanna say. An' Ah'm gonna do whatevah tha hell Ah wanna do. An' Ah wanna know why."
"I've told you!" Xavier said, beginning to loose his temper. He was in no mood today to deal with PMSing girls, excuse me, women. "We did it for your own good! Can't you just accept that?"
"Listen," Rogue said.
"I have been! But you just refuse to see the dark side of the situation!"
"Ah was denied tha life of a normal teenager. Ah had ta git up early an' fight fer a cause that Ah wasn't so sure was evah gonna come! Ah couldn't fucking touch, Xavier. An' when Ah git that ability, you don't tell me!"
"Rogue, calm down a moment. It was Logan who slipped and gave you the lie of irregular brain-waves."
"You fed him tha lie, didn't ya? Don' deny it, Ah know ya did. Xavier, fuck you," Rogue said, striding over to the man and slapping him across the face. His head snapped to the side, her blow was hard. Very hard. Grimacing, he rightened himself up. "You leave me no choice," He said, placing his hands to his temples.
"Don't ya dare!" Rogue yelled, balling up her fists, prepared to fight.
"PROFESSOR!" Sage yelled as she and Beast ran into the room. "WATCH OUT! SHE'S GOT MISS. MARVEL'S POWERS BACK!"
"Thank you for that," Rogue said, grinning evilly. She felt strange, as her accent faded away. Rogue floated up into the air and prepared to rush at Xavier.
"I'll be back," Beast said, bounding down the hall. "Try to hold her back!" He called after. Sage nodded.
"Rogue! You don't want to do this!" Rogue turned to look at her and stopped in mid-air.
"I'm not Rogue," She said. "I'm Carol Danvers."
"No..." Sage gasped, shaking her head terrified. "No!" Hurry Beast! Hurry! She thought nervously. Carol's back, and she's looking for a fight! "Don't do this!" Sage yelled. "Carol, let go of Rogue."
"No," She said smiling. "I don't think I will. I've waited for long enough to get a body back. And I rather like it," Carol laid lazily in the air, grinning wickedly at Sage and Xavier.
"Where de hell is everyone goin'?" Remy asked, looking up from where he was shuffling a pack of cards as a large pack of mutants ran past him in uniforms. "Emergency session or somet'ing?"
"Worse!" Illyanna yelled.
"Carol's got Rogue!" Kitty said, panicking. "She's trying to kill Professor Xavier!"
"You've gotta help us!" Jubilee begged.
"Naw," Remy said. "Dis job ain't fer me. Y' go an' have fun now," he waved the masses on. Asshole.
Carol had since grabbed Xavier out of his wheelchair and flew out the window, perching on top of the instituite.
"Carol, let go of Rogue," Xavier said, panicking slightly as he had a fear of heights.
"Haven't we been over this already, Charlie?" She giggled. "I like having a body. And it's gonna take a helluva lot more than your pathetic begging to get me to give it up."
"You're going to regret this, Carol," He said. The wind began blowing, blowing Rogue's long hair, and the sky darkened.
"Storm," She said, grinning. "I've missed the old bitch. I have a feeling I'm about to have a little bit of fun. Don't move," She said, taking to the sky again, then as an after thought she added, "Not like you can," a malicious giggle followed as she swooped down on the troupes assembled.
"All right, keep in mind that Carol just took over Rogue's body. We don't want to kill her," Pheonix said, surveying the troupes.
"Not like we could," Ickarus said, frowning.
"Good point, thank you," Cyclops said, "She has invulnerability, so our best bet is to distract her and get her down! Got it?" The team nodded. "Let's do this!" He said, raising his hand to his visor. The team spilled on to the lawn, ready to do battle versus Miss. Marvel.
Cyclops always had an easy trigger finger, he shot a warning shot right by Carol's waist. She stopped and cackled.
"Cyclops! My friend! How long has it been? A year already?"
"Shut up, Carol," He said.
"Well, it seams like our dear friend Sergeant Cyclops hasn't gotten rid of that stick up his ass." Some of the X-Men couldn't help but laugh.
Pheonix, you and everyone who can, take to the skies. We'll distract her down here.
Gotcha, she replied, sending the message to those who could fly. Polaris, Archangel, Ickarus, Storm, and Shadowcat rose up. Well, Shadowcat was more thrown into the air, where she phased, allowing her to walk on air.
"Fun fun!" Carol giggled, flying past them. "I feel I could fly circles around you. But I probably couldn't. It's not like I'm Quicksilver or anything," She cast a look at Polaris. "Oo! Lookie, Baby Magneto! How cute!"
"It's Polaris, thank you very much," Lorna said, her hand encasing in a green glow. The metal chimney came to her call, knocking Carol in the back. As she did this, Storm hit Carol with a lightning bolt, hoping only to stun her. Carol let out a shriek, fell downwards, but swan dived back up, higher then them.
"Nice try," She smirked, going into a meditative pose.
Something tells me this isn't working! Shadowcat sent to Emma, still on the ground.
I've got a plan, Emma said. She sent the plan to all those involved, who nodded and prepared to attack.
On the ground, Magick created a teleportation disk. The Cuckoos, Husk, and Emma stood on it as they disappeared. Nightcrawler grabbed on to Sage and Psylocke disappeared with a 'bamf.'
Let me help, Chamber said, sending it only to Pheonix.
I think I know how you can help, she said with a soft smile. She told him of the plan.
Back on the ground, Havoc, Cyclops, Jubilee, Colosuss, Wolfsbane, Dazzler, Cannonball, Sunspot, Iceman, Multiple Man, Bezerker, Boom Boom, and Magma all lined up, readying their powers. Colossus armored up as Wolfsbane changed into half-wolf form. Cannonball grabbed her from behind, preparing to blast off. Archangel flew down and picked Wolverine up in much the same form as Ickarus did with Beast.
"GO!" Cyclops yelled, as he, Havoc, Jubilee, BoomBoom and Magma all threw their powers up at Carol, (Multiple Man was throwing BoomBoom's bombs at her as Colossus shot-put a large one up, much like they had during the battle of Apocalypse) still cackling madly. She dodged them with ease, floating now on her back. "Try again!" She called, smirking. They kept launching their attacks as Cannonball, Ickarus and Archangel flew up, their passengers swiping at Carol. Wolverine took a great leap of faith as he attempted to snatch Carol from mid air.
He missed, or more, Carol dodged out of his was as he plummeted towards the ground. Archangel soared down and rescued Wolverine from a fate not much worse than plummeting to Earth.
"NOW!" Cyclops yelled, as Archangel left Wolverine on the ground, picking up instead, Chamber.
Hello, he said, looking at Carol.
"Do I know you?" She asked
You do now, he said, shooting a blast of plasma at Carol, hitting her out of the sky. As she plummeted to earth, all the telepaths, who had appeared on the roof combined their powers, managing to subdue her mind, knocking her out.
Husk had previously changed from skin to Adamantium back to skin again. Polaris took the Adamantium and wrapped it around Carol to prevent her from breaking out. She fought for a few moments in her unconscious state. Everyone waited with battered breath, but she appeared to be subdued.
"Oh my gosh," Kitty said, looking down at Rogue's body. As the sky lightened up they noticed the change too. Rogue's white streaks had become blond. They were almost positive that her green-gray eyes had turned blue.
"What's gonna happen?" Illyanna asked, hugging Piotr and Jamie.
"I donna know," Rahne said, morphing back.
"Um... I'm so proud of you," Xavier said from the roof top. "But could someone please get me down? I'm afraid of heights!" In their rush to see if Rogue/Carol were okay, they had left Xavier up on the roof.