As We Were
Disclamier: I have so, many strong, reservations!
Review Response:
RikaTabithaStarr--
Actually, I don't know. He possibly is a bit too stupid at the moment,
what with his life just being threatened. Or he just wanted to get off
by having some X-Chick in tight spandex fly him down. His life long
dream.
IvyZoe-- Remy's an ass currently. Yep, she's the reason they're all psycho. Hopefully, everything'll be explained in the next few chapters.
PomegranateQueen-- Yeah, she's stupid. I don't know Danvers' persality, because all the comics I've read are sans Carol. Naturally, if Rogue's flying and killing things.
xpoisonedxangelx-- Oo. This summer's been fall all summer! And now it's officially fall, as I'm off to school in 20 minutes! Feel free to write that parody, I can see Logan afraid of bunnies. Can I smack Remy in a kinky way?
Dreamcatcher89-- Carol Danvers, also known as Miss Marvel. In the comics, Rogue got into a fight with her apparently, when Rogue was still with the Brotherhood... I think... and wound up obsorbing her all the way, leaving Danvers brain dead and Rogue with her powers, flight, super strength, and invulnerablity. Torture them. It's funner. And I don't care if that's not a word. Speaking of going back to school, guess where I'm going in 19 minutes? I hope I cleared up your confusion.
TheDreamerLady-- Yeah, it is rather scary. I lurve Lorna. Yeah, if I was Carol, I'd enjoy kicking their asses while using Rogue's body. And screwing Remy. Okay, that was a tad bit fangirly, but who cares, right?
Actually, I am no longer worth of a BF party, as I broke up with him. I wanna get the movie X-Books, becasue that would be groovy! I used to have the X2 official comic, and that was kick ass! Very funny. Then I cut it up and put it on my shoes. Don't ask about my X-Men shoes, but they're cool!
Star-of-Chaos-- Ickarus is Jay Guthrie, Sam and Paige's little brother. He's got wings and healing powers. I read She Lies With Angels, (It was in Uncanny X-Men) while I was working on the first few chapters of this and really liked the character. That may possibly be why Remy's not helping... OOer.
Sweety8587-- Oh, yeah, I remember you now! I think... My mind's going out the window. Damn school.
enchantedlight-- Yeah, Remy's stupid.
Evil-Bunny-Leader-- I don't really like Chuck either. Something about old bald men wanting teenagers to dress in skin tight spandex/leather just irks me.
SickmindedSucker-- That mean's Carol's still in charge in Rogue's body, yes. Oui, Betsy was forced into it. I was wielding a fiery knife of DOOM!
DemonRogue13-- No, they have to do with Carol being in Rogue's body and in charge of her mind.
Chuckles123-- Yeah, when one reffers only to the characters in their codenames in epic battle sequences, it tends to confuse people.
ishandahalf-- M wants to know exactly what an ish is so he can find out what an ishandahalf is. The Xavier Instituite For Pervy Men, god, that's a scary thought. I'm really short on words and trying to hurry through these responses, so I'm not gonna say much, but, she's only here for a few chapters, so it's more like a cameo. At the moment.
psycho88-- Thanks. Short on words. Gotta go!
Totally Obsessed47-- I have pure skill.
Leafee LeBeau-- Thanks mucho!
"What was that?" Wanda looked up from her horror book. The room was darkened, except for a few candles. The curtains were drawn, in green pen, by John. Actually, he was sitting, also reading.
"What was what?" John asked, turning a page in his book, Queen Of The Damned He was making the candles perform scenes from the book as he read them. He did it on numerous occasions. Once, his fellow Brotherhoodies had come into his room to see an entire battle of The Pelinor Fields from Lord of the Rings.
"That!" Wanda said, pointing out the window where a loud crash of lightning and thunder could be heard, and seen.
"A snowplow," John replied.
"No, John, it's the fall, there are no snowplows out this early!" she said as she smacked John on the head with her book. John gingerly rubbed the spot.
"I meant, that ol' Stormy must be up ta somethin'," John said, casting Wanda a wary look.
"Oh..." Wanda turned another page in her book, then looked up. "Shit."
"What? Where?" John looked around wildly.
"I told Rogue to go talk to Baldie about why they didn't tell her about her powers," Wanda began. John nodded for her to continue. "And something tells me that it may have gotten out of hand."
"Are you psychic or somethin', Shiela?"
"No, but I think we should go check it out," Wanda said, marking the page in her book and setting it down.
"Why? We're not welcome there!" John said, slightly annoyed.
"I've been aloud there on numerous occasions, like... A few nights ago. Come on, John, let's go!" Wanda said, grabbing her red trench coat and hexing out the candles, leaving John in total blackness.
"YOU RUINED MY FUN!" John yelled angrily, following Wanda.
The X-Men gently carried Rogue into the hospital wing and laid her on the white bed nearest Hank's equipment.
"Her Alpha Powers aren't back yet," Hank said, referring to her absorption powers. "So, Jean, Tessa, we're safe." The two mentioned nodded. Jean was working hard a college to eventually become and genetic specialist, hoping she could help the institute.
"What exactly happened?" Jean asked, turning to Tessa.
"Hank and I were down here and then all of the sudden, we looked at Rogue's DNA scan that we took earlier, compared it to her x-gene negative DNA strand, and noticed that the negative strand was mutating," Tessa explained. "So we ran up stairs, just in time to save Charles from becoming the next head on Carol's proverbial wall."
"Do we know why Carol came back and took over Rogue's mind?" Jean asked, feeling stupid for the time being.
"No, we don't, we were hoping you could find out for us," Hank said, looking at the red-headed telepath. "Phoenix."
"I don't know if I can," Jean said. "I don't want to go into Carol's mind and wind up killing off Rogue. That was why Charles couldn't originally get Carol out of Rogue's mind."
"But you're Phoenix!" Hank protested. "I hate to sound clich' but use the Force. The Phoenix Force!" Phoenix, after taking over Jean's body left her psychic powers amplified. She was still not as strong as a Telepath as Xavier, but her Telepathy had gone to another level, as had her Telekenisis. Jean gave Hank a half smile and raised an eyebrow. "Sorry, but last time you had a Girls Night Out, me and some of the men had a good ol' fashioned Sci Fi movie marathon."
"Did it by any chance include Star Trek?" Jean asked, getting off topic.
"Why, yes, I do believe it did," Hank grinned toothily. [1]
"I'll try my best," Jean said. "I just hope insurance covers this," with that, Jean placed her hands on Rogue's temples, and dove in.
Jean's psychic, what else but a Phoenix entity, what else but a Phoenix, felt like it was drowning. Waves upon waves of memories and thoughts hit her, never relenting. She felt like she was struggling to breath.
Help!" She heard a far off voice yell. "Help!" Jean recognized the voice instantly and attempted to make her way towards it.
Floating along Rogue's mindscape, Jean soon realized that the walls were lined with cages, and in each cage, some sort of animal. There was a duck with a ice-blue aura, a panther with red, a kangaroo with orange, a wolf with green, wolverine with orange, a tabby with yellowish orange, a butterfly with purple, a star-fish with light blue, a Siamese cat with a bluish-white aura, and even a phoenix, possessing an light green glowing aura. [2] Many more caged animals were stacked even farther along a seemingly endless hallway. Jean followed it, never slowing, never tiring, but still gasping for breath from the waves of memories flooding from cages.
An elephant with grey aura, rhinoceros with dark brown, a monkey with blue, a even larger monkey with a darker blue, a snake with blue, a cheetah with silver, an armadillo with brown, a toad with green, a pig with yellow, and many, many more.
HELP JEAN! HELP!" The cries got louder, followed by a sharp crack of a whip and whimpering. Jean hurried forward, peeking around the edge of a cage. A woman with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a blue evening dress stood, holding a whip, looking with contempt at a young woman tied to a chair. The young woman was bound with a cord that glowed black, while a cougar sat lazily by.. The young woman seemed to bleed pink, and the woman dark, dark blue, same with the cougar. The whip cracked again, striking the young woman's face. Unfortunately, the woman had the girl turned so Jean could only see the captor's face, not the captives. But from what she noticed, the woman was defiantly Carol, leading her to believe that the captive was Rogue.
Jean heard muffled cries and soon realized what was going on. The cougar must have been released from it's mental caging, freeing Carol from the binds of Rogue's mind. Rogue had been in a weak mental state, just finding out that her powers had been gone missing, and Rogue lacked the powers to keep Carol at bay. She had been fighting for so long and this was the break that Carol needed to get free.
The cougar must have attacked Rogue's entity, allowing Carol to take over for the moment. Jean gasped, having figured it out. Carol spun around and looked straight at Jean. The cougar leaped and bound toward Jean.
PULL OUT!" Jean heard from far away, but the elephant in it's cage seemed to echo the voice.
GET THE HELL OUT JEAN!" Another voice joined the fray, the panther roaring in agreement. And so Jean did as she was told.
Jean released Rogue and fell to the floor, breathing heavily.
"What's going on?" A voice, Jean recognized it as the panther's. She focused her eyes, and noticed that Wanda, Tessa, John and Hank were all standing over her.
"Carol's taken Rogue hostage!" Jean gasped, sitting up. "She's got her guarded. The longer Carol says in there, the weaker Rogue's going to get. And if Rogue gives up, Carol's going to take over her body."
"Fuck," was the collective response. Silence fell. Even John was silent for once in his life.
"We'd need an army," Sage said, "to get Rogue out of there and take down Carol."
Hank looked at John and Wanda, "Pyro, Scarlet Witch, this is your chance, go get every telepath in the building, we need them to perform a rescue mission."
"Right-o!" John said, as he and Wanda took off running
.
"What de hell are y' t' doin' 'ere?" Remy asked, looking up from his game of solitaire to see John and Wanda run through the hall.
"Rousing every Telepath in the building to go on a rescue mission," Wanda said breathlessly.
"What dose it look like we're doing?" John asked.
"Rousin' every Telepath in de buildin' t' go on a rescue mission...?"
"Yes," Wanda said. "Danver's got Rogue being held hostage in her own mind."
"So dat's where everyone was headin' off t'," Remy said, picking up his game.
"What do you mean?" Wanda narrowed her eyes.
"Earlier, everyone came t'rough yellin' about havin' t' do somethin', mon guess is dat, from de sounds o' it, Carol took over Rogue's body n' mind an' had her go... well... rogue," Remy said, not sounding as if he cared too much.
"You sound as if you don't care," Wanda's eyes got narrower still.
"An I don', now if y'll excuse me, I'd like t' finish mon game."
"What the fuck is your problem, mate?" John asked, looking at Remy. "Ya best friend is in there, possibly dyin', an' you're not doin' a thing about it! This wasn't the Remy I sure knew!"
"Remy's changed," Remy said.
"In the past few hours since I last spoke ta him?" John raised an eyebrow. "Damn, Remy, you need to get your priorities straight. You told me just a few nights ago that you were in love with two women. Since you dumped one of those women, an' tha other one is currently in almost certain peril, I'd think ya'd be savin' Rogue by now."
"There's nothing I can do," Remy said. "I'm not a Telepath, an 'cides, I'm still pissed."
"We may not be Telepaths, but at least we care about out friend," John said coldly. "Come on, Wanda, we got a job ta do."
Don't you just want to strangle Remy's hot little ass?
1—Patrick Stuart, who plays Xavier in the movies was also Picard on Star Trek.
2—points to whoever can tell me whose psychic entities these are!