Summary: A week passes, most of the X-Men are on vacation, Bobby leaves this night as a black out occurs.

A/N: And the plot begins, this story might end up having many plots, for I think I'll do it for the whole X-Men Summer.

Chapter Three


Black Out and Knocked Out

A week later, summer had officially begun. Tabby was out relaxing by the pool with Amara besides her. Bobby was floating around on the raft, it was his last day at the institute, for he was going back to his parents house. Ray and Sam were in the pool talking and swimming. Jamie had went home the day before and Roberto had left this morning, so most of the students who were leaving were gone. Kitty had left as well as Jean for a month. Tabby peaked over her sunglasses and at Sam and Ray in the pool, she smiled as a figure loomed above her.

"Huh?" Tabby said as she turned her head to see who was blocking the sun from her, she smiled seeing Piotr.

"Hey Petey, what's up?" The blonde asked as he smiled.

"Is this what you do around here?" Piotr said slowly in his Russian accent.

"Oh there's plenty of things ta do. We Newer Recruits like tha pool though, Scott is over there though, if ya want ta ask him what ta do." Piotr grinned at Tabby and then walked over to Scott.

"Hey Tab, I wonder how quiet it's going to get when Bobby leaves." Amara said watching him ice up part of the water, annoying Sam and Ray.

"Not too quiet, I'll be here remember?" Amara smiled at her.

"Yeah you're right." Amara said as she turned over so her back could tan. Tabby got off her chair and walked over to the diving board, passing Rogue and Kurt. She climbed the ladder and stood on the top as Ray and Sam whistled and made other cat-like calls.

"You go girl!" Ray yelled as he whistled, Tabby smiled brightly as she stepped further out.

"Move it Icycle, or I'll land on ya." Tabby said waiting for Bobby to move his raft. While Tabitha's eyes were on Bobby, Remy climbed up the ladder behind her.

"C'mon my Grandma moves faster than that!" Tabby called out at him as she watched him move his raft, she grinned when he finally was almost out of the diving area. By that time, Remy had made it all of the way up the ladder, Rogue looked over watching him.

"Whaht is he gonna do?" She asked Kurt. Kurt shrugged, he had no idea.

"So petite, what kinda dive are y' goin' t' do?" Remy asked startling Tabitha. Tabby jumped in the air a bit, as she turned around to see Remy behind her. Her left foot landed on the board and her ankle gave out; she began to fall backwards off of the board. Remy, thinking quickly, grabbed her hand as she was half off of the board, he pulled her back up quickly.

"Are y' alright?" Tabby looked up at him.

"Fine, fine." Tabby said to the Cajun. "Jus' lost my balance." Tabby said then she thought quickly, "What are ya doin' up here anyways?"

"Jus' like de view dat Remy gets." Remy said looking at Rogue then smiling. Tabby rolled her eyes as she moved to the edge of the board again.

"I'm outta here, tata, Cutie." Tabby said as she dove off the board.

"Cutie?" Remy said to himself as he sat down on the diving board watching the rest of Tabitha's dive then turning his attention to Rogue.

Tabitha hit the water and welcomed the coolness against her skin. She came above the water with her hair plastered down. She swam over to Sam and Ray.

"Hey boys." Tabby said as she entered the shallow end and stood up.

"Hiya Tab." Sam said as Ray waved.

"What are ya all upta?"

"Nothing, just talking." Ray said.

"Oh okay...." Tabby said as she headed out of the pool.

Later that evening, Bobby left after saying goodbye to everyone. The only ones left at the institute now were, Ray, Sam, Amara, Tabitha, Scott, Rogue, Kurt, Piotr, Remy, Logan, Xavier, and Hank, Ororo was with her sister. Everyone was in the parlor hanging out talking to everyone when the professor wheeled in, and began to talk to Hank and Logan.

"Hey I wonder what they're whispering about." Tabby said to Amara who nodded her head in agreement.

"It can't be too good." Ray said coming up behind Amara and scaring her. Tabby giggled at this as Amara pouted.

"Tabitha, would you come here." She heard Xavier saying.

"Uh oh, guess I got in trouble." Tabby said waving to the rest of them as she walked over to Xavier and the rest of the adults, she was then walked out of the room, Remy was with them.

"It seems that you two today had an accident?" Xavier said raising his eyebrow.

"Yeah, I slipped off the board and Rem caught me." Tabby lied trying not to get Remy in trouble.

"That's not what I saw Chuck." Logan said, Tabby shot him a glare.

"Remy sorry professor, he went up de ladder t' ask de fille what kind o' jump she was goin' t' do an' he startled 'er an' she lost 'er balance." Remy said as Xavier nodded his head, and proceeded in punishing Remy.

"Oh c'mon prof, he didn't mean ta startle me." Tabby argued, she eventually argued Remy's punishment down and returned to the living room, noticing a few people gone.

"Hey what happened to-" Tabby was about to finish her sentence when the power went out. "Oh great..." She said instead, and whipped out one of her bombs producing a bit of light. A second later she saw a charged playing card, Amara with a lava ball in her hand, and Ray with electricity revolving around his hands.

"Wow, we produce lots of light." Tabby said laughing as Amara left the room with Scott to find candles.

"In de black-outs at de base we had, Johnny lit up de area." Remy said to Piotr.

"Da." He said agreeing.

"Hey so where is everyone else?" Tabby asked as everyone arrived back in the room, including the two who were missing before. Scott set up candles around the room, lighting them with matches as everyone sat down as Logan spoke.

"Well I'm goin' ta check tha fuse box, one of y' come wit' me." Logan said looking at everyone with some form of light, no one spoke, no one wanted to go with him.

"Oh c'mon I'll go." Tabby said standing up and walking over to Logan.

"Be careful, don't need you two hurt somewhere." Hank said to them as they left the room. They continue until they reached the stairs and walked down them.

"So where is the fuse box?"

"Sub-basement." Logan said continuing to walk down the stairs. "Hey shine some light down the stairs will y'?" Logan asked as Tabby rolled her eyes and flicked a bomb down the stairs.

"Watch it, we don't need tha place explodin'."

"Relax it will only go off on my command." Tabby said rolling her eyes, as another bomb appeared in her hand. Once they got down to the fuse box Logan opened it and began to examine the wires. Tabby, bored, looked around where they were.

"Hey Logan." Tabby said as she watched some kind of movement across the room.

"Not now kid." Logan said as he began to work on the wires, a few of them were cut.

"Logan.." Tabby said, seeing another figure move.

"What is it." Logan said turning around to look at Tabitha's face.

"I just saw someone move over there." She whispered to him barely audible but with Logan's senses he picked it up and looked over to where Tabby's eyes were looking. Logan heard a movement and his claws came out with a small snikt. Tabby took a step backwards, as Logan smelled the air.

"Watch out kid." Lgoan said lowly as he took a step towards the figure, Tabby made a bomb bigger so that the figure could be seen. However, it ducked away and she felt a punch to her back, making her drop the bomb as she fell to the ground. The bomb slipped away and Tabby tried to reabsorb it, but it was too late and an explosion went off.

"Boom-Boom!" Logan yelled out as he turned around to see a figure bent over her, he lunged forward and knocked the figure to the wall, he began to fight until it vanished.

"What tha-" Logan said as he felt a blow to the back of the head, he turned around and swung his claws into something, a box. A second later he picked up a new smell, sleeping gas, and he was knocked out.

Upstairs, Amara began to pace around nervously.

"They've been gone too long." She said worridely.

"No just relax Amara, Logan is probably cursing off at the fuse box." Scott said to her as he looked at the professor, "Professor, you think you could check on them?" Scott asked.

"Very well." Xavier said and began to sense where Logan and Tabitha were. He wasn't picking up anything and so he concentrated harder, and still nothing.

"Scott, I can't sense them, they must be unconscious."

"Tabitha..." Amara said as Scott grinded his teeth together.

"Kurt, Rogue, come with me, we'll be back professor." Scott said as they followed him out of the room holding a candle ahead of them.

"Scott?" Amara said.

"Yeah?" He said turning around.

"Let me go with you, I can light the path." Amara said turning into her Lava girl form. Scott hesitated then said,

"Alright." And the four of them headed down.