Hey peeps! I know, I'm a bad girl! I've been taking so long. However, I've been so friggerdiggin busy! And, I really need to update my other stories... grr-dangit. Oh well, those will come later. However, today I have a half-day of school (sorta) so I have time! Yay! And when I read the reviews for this story, I just couldn't help but decide to revamp this one even though my Lord of the Ring's story is in need of desperate updating! Anyway, here is my response to one of the reviews, then my next chapter! Enjoy!
X2P3: Thank you so much for your kind review! Now, on to answering your questions. How distressing, I thought I had put the ages on! Heh, naughty me . It would take up too much room to list all their ages, so let me group them up. Rogue, Wanda, Amalie, and the older X-girls (i.e. Jean and Tabitha, etc.) are juniors in high school, making them seventeen. Kitty is fifteen (she's a freshman). Pretty much all of the guys are seniors, which would make them eighteen. If you want a specific age of a different character, don't hesitate to ask! Moving on, Rogue and Amalie are not related (for now, at least). I am planning something shocking in a later chapter regarding their relation. But as of this point, all they know is that both were adopted by Mystique when they were younger. They had met before that, however, because they were both at the same orphanage, so it wasn't like Mystique went to two different places to get them. You'll find out all about their past later! (ooh, secret ). Next, yes, Rogue has the powers of all the mutants she's absorbed within her. Normally, she can only access them with great difficulty, except Carol's (because she completely absorbed Carol). However, when she was being controlled by IT, she, or, more accurately, IT, was able to access every power she had ever absorbed without difficulty. That, too, will be explained either in this chapter or in the next one. Okay, then, thank you for the review! I'll gladly answer any other questions you may have! Sparky
Tooty: Yes, Rogue will get with the X-men very soon! Not this chapter or the next, but believe you me, it is coming up! Not to completely give it away, but she has a little run in with Magneto and some of the memories of those whom she has absorbed to give her something to think about. Thanks for the review! Sparky
azycat: Hi! Your review made me laugh, too! That would be hilarious. I hope you don't mind if I use that! I can just see it, the Rajun' Cajun' charges a card and almost forgets to let it go because Rogue distracted him, and through it in the general direction of Scott! Heh, sorry, I was just having too much fun...... xp. Anyhoo, yes, I know what the author alert is. I'm not exactly sure why you asked about it, though. But I believe that the author alert is something that you put a certain author you like on and when you log in to , it will show you if that author has updated. I think that's what it is, anyway. Don't quote me . Sparky
Okay everybody! My next chapter! Whoo hoo! I'm so happy! Anyway, I was looking around at Gambit and Rogue sites, and I found this one that had quotes from the two of them. They were so sweet and gave me so many ideas for my story! Anyhoo, at some point later on in the story, it might get a little sappy, just warning you! In fact, it might get a little sappy in this chapter . Okay then, moving on.........
Chapter Ten (I believe or it might be nine)
Rogue walked began walking over to the school. She could hear the X-Men talking about her. She hated the fact that it hurt as badly as it did. What they said about her shouldn't matter as much; she should be able to brush it off. But, for some odd reason, she couldn't, and it was damn annoying.
She was lost in her own thoughts, the psyches she carried being blessedly silent, when a rumbling in the earth drew her attention back to her surroundings. Her emerald eyes narrowed, and she looked up and around her. That rumbling was just a bit too familiar, and it didn't belong to Lance. No, whatever was shaking the ground was big, very big.
Her suspicions were confirmed not moments later when screaming erupted on the campus, and people began to run around like chickens with their head cut off. Out of the forest beside the school came thundering the big robot that Bolivar Trask used to take mutants that had once captured her as well: the Sentinel. The sun glinted off the red metal, blinding the eyes momentarily, and quite a few of the students couldn't remove their horrified eyes from the great guns that made up its arms. Rogue practically sneered at the pathetic little mob of teenagers running around, screaming and practically peeing in their pants. But then again, she was now strong enough to take a Sentinel down, when it was alone. Of course, there would have to be two more moving right behind the approaching Sentinel. Her crappy luck was playing its hand.
This was something she had to fight with the X-Men to defeat, as much as she hated to admit it. There was no way that she could successfully take down three, fully functioning Sentinels by herself, invulnerably strong as she may be. Sighing in annoyance, she called on Nightcrawler's power to take her back to the X-Men.
If the situation hadn't been so dire, Rogue might have laughed at the look of the X-Men when she used one of their own members' powers. Did they think she didn't keep the powers she absorbed? It was difficult to use them after a long period of time, yes, but she could do it. Instead, she simply said, "Sentinels."
The X-Men stared at her blankly, and Rogue nearly growled in annoyance. Surely the X-Men had fought Sentinels before? The damn things were all over the place.
"Did ya'll not hear meh? Ah said, 'Sen-tin-els'! Ya know, big, scahry robahts who try ta take ya'll ta a lab? Haven' ya'll fought them befo'?" Rogue asked, staring at them incredulously.
Scott was the first to recover from her sudden appearance, "No, we haven't. Some trick of Magneto's?"
Rogue rolled her eyes and crossed her arms underneath her breasts, pushing them up a bit higher, much to Remy's delight.
"Hardly, sugah. Magneto wants us mutant's ta rule thah world, not make us lab rahts."
The screaming continued, and it seemed to spur the X-Men into action. Fortunately, the X-Men's true identities had been exposed several months earlier while fighting the Brotherhood, so they didn't need to worry about costumes to hide their identity. As a pack, they began running toward the attacking Sentinel, all preparing their attacks.
Rogue rose several feet off the ground and followed them, saying to Jean, "Ah can take on one, Mizz Gray. Ya'll get theh othah two."
The red head looked at her in surprise, "Are you sure you can handle one of them by yourself?"
"O' course, sugah. Ah'm invulnerahble, remembah?" Rogue said caustically, looking at Jean as if she was a child. There was something about the red head that nettled her to no end.
"Wait, ma chere. Remy don' t'ink dat dis be a good idea," Remy said, finally able to use his tongue after the shock of seeing the extremely sexy Rogue pop up right before them.
Rogue had to physically hold her lip to prevent from verbally kicking his ass. Taking deep breaths, Rogue turned to him, still gliding in the air, "Thank ya fo' ya concern, sugah. But ah'm a big girl, an' ah can take care o' mahself."
Without waiting for a response, Rogue launched herself at the nearest Sentinel, her fist before her face, ramming into its metal chest and coming out the other side. She floated in mid-air for a second, holding some of the wiring that had been in the Sentinel, and smiled triumphantly. The smile faded when the Sentinel turned around, still intact, and proceeded to aim one of its guns at her.
"Mutant. You will not win. Surrender now," the Sentinel said in its robotic voice, making Rogue grimace.
Shaking her head so violently that her hair flew around her like a short cape, Rogue glared at the Sentinel, "Not lahkely, sugah. Ya see, ah know where ya wanna take meh, an' ah don' wanna go back there."
The Sentinel fired at her, and she just barely missed the blast. This continued for the next few minutes; the Sentinel would fire and Rogue would dodge. Out of the corner of her eye, Rogue saw black and blue lights surrounding various parts of one of the Sentinels, alerting her that the Brotherhood and the Acolytes were present. Good, now she could say that she was fighting with her own team instead of the X-geeks.
After a while, Rogue got tired of playing cat and mouse with the Sentinel, and launched herself once more at the large robot. Several times, Rogue rammed her body into the Sentinel, causing a great amount of damage, but not enough to make it completely stop attacking her. Fortunately for Rogue, the only thing that could possibly hurt her was direct contact with a sharp object. As her skin was not invulnerable to such attacks, it would be wise for her to avoid the great swinging arm-guns that could potentially send her flying to the ground to be speared by a broken tree.
So, she kept on attacking, inflicting as many wounds as she could. Eventually, she landed on the shoulder of the Sentinel and began to rip into the metal covering. With a vicious snarl, she pulled out wires and chips, and the Sentinel began to twirl disjointedly. Finally, she was getting somewhere! Rogue moved over to the head of the robot and continued her work there. She didn't expect that the Sentinel would be able to reach her beside its great head, didn't even know until its arm came in contact with her body.
"Dam-oof!" She grunted as her body was flung none too gently away from the Sentinel, flying, flying away from the fight. She vaguely heard Remy scream something before darkness swamped her.
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Damn, Remy thought as he dodged another blast, dese Sentinel's be nasty bâtards. Wonder how de chere is doin'?
Remy looked over to where Rogue was single-handedly fighting a Sentinel, and doing a marvelous job of it, and felt a swelling of pride in his chest. His chere was so strong! Well, of course she was strong. Remy knew vaguely about what had happened at Area 51, knew that Rogue had been forced to completely absorb a woman named Carol Danvers. He felt sorry for both women, though more so for Rogue.
He barely had time to move out of the way as a blast of fire whooshed past him. Looking over, he nearly stumbled over his feet as the practically insane laughter of the Acolyte Pyro reverberated around.
"Well done, mate!" Pyro cackled, winking at Remy, who glared back at him. If it weren't for the fact that Remy knew that Tabitha was just about as insane as the flame-haired mutant, he would feel sorry for her.
"Watch out, Gambit!" Scott cried, shoving him out of the way just in time to avoid a particularly nasty looking blast from one of the Sentinel's.
Damn, he needed to be paying more attention to what he was doing. Giving Scott a nod of thanks, Remy charged up several cards and threw them in rapid succession at the nearest Sentinel, causing minimal damage. How could anybody bring one of these bad-asses down? They were seemingly invulnerable, despite all the blasts the collective mutants were firing at them.
Out of the corner of his red eyes, Remy noticed the red head, Amalie, get thrown several yards by a blast from the Sentinel. His good friend Piotr, fighting beside Remy, turned three shades paler when he noticed what had happened, and his dark eyes widened.
"Amalie!" Piotr screamed, running towards the fallen mutant.
Remy's eyebrows rose up in surprise. Well, well, well, wasn't this interesting! The Iron Giant had a crush on Rogue's sister. Who would have believed that the silent Piotr would ever fall for the enemy? Remy watched in interest as Piotr gently picked Amalie up in his huge hands, pulling her closely to him. Piotr wasn't the only one cradling a loved one, Remy noticed, as one by one, the collective mutants seemed to fall under the Sentinel blasts. Remy was holding his own well enough, but all ready a greater portion of the X-Men had taken near-fatal blasts from the big robots.
All around them was chaos. The school building was being blown to smithereens, and a mass destruction seemed to be taking place in the whole area. Though there were a large number of powerful mutants fighting merely three Sentinels, it looked as if the robots were winning the fight. Remy dodged another blast by a Sentinel and fired back with his own power. Nothing seemed to affect the two Sentinels that the X-Men, Acolytes, and Brotherhood were fighting.
That was when Remy decided to look and see how Rogue was doing. She and the Sentinel she single-handedly fought were battling to the end, and she was doing a far better job with her one Sentinel than the others had done with their two combined. Remy watched as Rogue repeatedly hurtled herself into the Sentinel and come out none the worse for wear, and he felt pride surging through him. That was when it happened.
As he watched Rogue, he felt his entire body go rigid with his shock. Rogue was flying towards the Sentinel with the intent to drive through it once again, when the big militant robot suddenly swung out at her. Instead of missing, the arm connected solidly with her middle. Though he was far away, Remy could see Rogue's eyes widen in shock and surprise before her body went plunging through the surrounding forest.
"Ma chere! Non!" Remy screamed, his hand reaching out for her, even though logically he knew that he wouldn't be able to prevent what would happen.
He felt his knees go weak, then fully collapse beneath him. His heart had practically stopped in his chest, and Remy felt as if he were plummeting to earth right along with his lovely Rogue. Everything inside of him seemed to be shattering, and he only dimly heard Scott and Jean calling out to him.
"...Remy! Remy! Move!" Jean shouted, the horror evident in her pretty voice.
As though in a dream, Remy turned his head toward Jean, his eyes glazed. Belatedly, he realized that the Sentinel was aiming at him and he better move, or he wouldn't be able to help Rogue. Rogue. That was enough to bring him out of his daze, and as agile as a cat, Remy leapt out of the way. It seemed that he was making a lot of narrow escapes in this battle, something he was unused to.
"La prise sur, mon amour, je viens," Remy murmured as he ran with a new determination in the direction he had seen Rogue falling, ignoring the cries of his comrades. He barely spared a glance at Evan who had tears streaming down his face as he held the Scarlet Witch. Later, it would come as a surprise, but the only person who occupied his thoughts was the green eyed girl who had ensnared his attention.
Over and over, Remy screamed her name, running like a mad-man through the debris in the forest. Trees had been toppled over, and some still burned or smoked from the blasts. He moved like a jungle cat, jumping over fallen longs with a grace he didn't feel. Adrenaline and fear pumped through his veins, and in his head was a litany of prayer that forbade her death. With that fear and adrenaline, a black rage seemed to be building, seemed to threaten to engulf him. Whoever had made those evil robots would pay; he would make sure of it.
Finally, Remy seemed to see a clearing in front of him, or at least a great crater that looking like something had smashed into it. With a burst of speed, Remy practically flew to the area, his tattered trench coat billowing out behind him. Frantically, and with a strength he didn't know he had, Remy looked through the fallen trees, sending pieces of them flying out of the way. A roar of rage ripped through him when he saw a limp hand amidst the collapsed wood, and he went into a frenzy trying to remove the remaining barriers.
Piece by piece, Remy revealed Rogue's tattered body. Her clothes were in sheds (though, disappointingly, still covering some places), and she was covered in small cuts. A wicked looking stake of wood jutted out of her left shoulder, and she seemed abnormally pale. It was obvious to Remy that her breathing was labored, and Remy's fear increased. He thought she was invulnerable, he thought nothing could hurt her!
As gently as he could, Remy picked up her lifeless and broken body in his arms, which now seemed equally as cut up as hers. Rogue's eyelashes formed crescents on the hollowness of her cheeks, and a little trickle of blood came from the corner of her full lips. Remy hadn't realized until now that he was shaking horribly, and he tried to control his emotions.
"Come, ma belle, you mus' open yo pretty eyes so dat Remy can see dat you be okay," Remy whispered haggardly, his trembling hands gently brushing her white bangs from her forehead. It didn't even occur to him to be glad that he was wearing gloves; her mutant powers were completely forgotten to him.
When Rogue didn't respond to him, Remy's fear began to swell within him, and he had to fight the urge to shake her in his panic, "Ya promis'd Remy dat not'in' would happen ta ya! Ya told Remy dat de chere would be okay! Did ya lie ta Remy, chere? Remy didn' know dat his chere be a liar!" When that didn't seem to work, Remy tried a different tactic, "Come on, chere, t'ink of all de fun you be missin'! De Sen'inels out der, dey be whoopin' up on ev'r'body, and dey don' have no Rogue ta teach 'em a lesson. Ya gotta wake up, chere, ya gotta kick de Sen'inels back ta where dey come from! Bu' most of all, chere, ya gotta come back ta Remy!"
He felt tears cloud his eyes and throat, and he buried his face into the crook of her neck. His chest was tight, and everything seemed to be in a haze of pain. How could someone have become so important to him so quickly? Rogue was on the other side, for God's sake! He shouldn't feel like this, he shouldn't be like this! But he would be devastated if she died.
"Vous devez me revenir, ma belle. Vous devez revenir et habitez," Remy whispered softly.
"Ah am... not ya.. beautiful... one..." a hoarse voice whispered back.
A cry of joy escaped Remy's lips, and he looked back up and at Rogue's face. Her eyes were glassy and unfocused, but she was alive, and she was awake. Delicately, she tried to move, and grimaced when her shoulder had a spasm of pain.
"Don' move, chere, you took a nasty fall," Remy said, securing his grip on her then standing up.
He wobbled unsteadily, but soon caught his balance. Rogue thought about arguing with him, Remy could see it in her eyes. But it was obvious to both that she was in a great deal of pain, so Rogue just snuggled closer to Remy and closed her eyes once more.
And that was how they were seen when they Remy walked out of the forest, Rogue cradled to his chest.
Okay? How did you like it? Sorry, really sappy, I know. But I was feeling really sappy, so get over it. Next chapter, a lot of things are going to happen. It won't have much action in it, except at the beginning, but it should satisfy all the curiosity of when Rogue is going to join the X-Men, or at least give you a clue of how much longer it will be.
Here are the translations:
Batards: kinda obvious, but it means bastards
La prise sur, mon amour, je viens: Hold on, my love, I am coming.
Ma belle: my beautiful one
Vous devez me revenir, ma belle. Vous devez revenir et habitez: You have to come back to me, my beautiful one. You have to come back and live.
Until next time! Sparky