What do you get when you mix a busy summer with writers block? Sorry I know that's no excuse so here's my update.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men evolution.
Remy was starting to adjusting to life at the institute and was happy to see Rogue was too. Of course she was still isolating herself from everyone else as much as possible but luckily she and Remy were closer than ever. He was now lounging by the pool watching some of the others play around in the water. He smiled. Another great thing about the institute; all the girls were smokin' hot. Rogue was more than enough for him, though it never hurt to look. The untouchable one was sitting only a few feet from Remy, under the shade of a giant tree. Even on this scorching summer day she was covered from head to toe in material, and not just any material, she was clad in her daily uniform of gothic black layers. Remy wondered how she survived. Rogue was quietly reading, trying hard to ignore the laughter from everyone else, but occasionally stealing jealous glances at everyone else and glaring at Remy who was shamelessly watching the skin the other girl's were flaunting.
"Rogue!" Rogue looked up to see Kitty Pryde's barbie smile. "Like, it's sooo hot, while you're out here, you know, you can dress in summer clothes, no one would touch you." Her answer was the same whenever someone pointed this out.
"Accidents happen." And indeed several accidents had already happened. So far, Jean's telekinesis, Scott's optical blasts, Kurt's teleportation, Kitty's phasing and Bobby's ice was added to her crowded supply of psyches in her head.
A look of pity flashed across Kitty's face for a second but it was instantly replaced by another smile. "Ok, like, if that's how you want it. If you look on the bright side, it keeps your skin in, like, perfect condition!" Kitty jealously compared Rogue's porcelain white skin to her own tan skin and some sun made freckles across her nose.
"Ah guess." She answered despite their obvious differences, Rogue found Kitty's valley girl accent and sweet-natured personality growing on her.
"Hey so, like, are you and Remy a couple? 'Cause you two are so totally cute together!!" Rogue's piercing green eyes stared into Kitty's twinkling. She didn't know if she could confide in Kitty yet but those green windows to her soul betrayed her.
"Ah dunno." She answered but Kitty squealed in delight.
"You are!!! You soo are! I knew it! You guys are an even cuter couple than Jean and Scott!" Rogue suppressed a laugh.
"If ya could even call them a couple." She drawled sarcastically. Kitty's complete disregard of her skin mutation made her feel more comfortable. Kitty giggled.
"I knooooow!" She agreed. "It's like, go out already. Seriously I didn't think the 'make googoo eyes at each other' stage of a relationship could last so long!!"
Remy looked back at the sound of giggling and smiled, glad to see Rogue making a friend.
Rogue, Remy, I want both of you at the training room tomorrow morning at six o'clock. Your uniforms will be brought up to your room shortly, the professor's telepathic voice announced to them both after dinner while they were playing cards.
"Y' here dat p'tite?" Remy looked up at her.
"Yeah," Rogue muttered without looking up. "Our first trainin' session. Aintcha excited?" She added sarcastically.
Remy laid down a royal flush then stood up, smirking while Rogue scowled. "See ya bright 'n' early chere!" He called as he casually left the room smirking at some of the other girls. Rogue looked exasperated at the giggling girls then went up to her room. On the bed was her new uniform. She picked it up and studied it. It looked perfectly her size made of solid black spandex. There was an emerald green plate over the bust and pads on the shoulders with the yellow 'X' logo. Black combat boots, a belt and black gloves laid next to it. It wasn't so bad, she decided. Besides black, green was one of her favorite colors to wear.
"Ooooh! You're starting training tomorrow!" Kitty squealed from the doorway. Rogue looked up as her roommate bounced into the room.
"It's no big deal." Rogue started to say but Kitty continued talking.
"This will be soo much fun! We'll, like, be teammates! Sometimes Logan makes it really difficult but it's really helpful, too. We've been in some tight spots in battle. Scott's the team leader and he makes good choices even though he acts like he's got a stick up his ass." They both laughed again.
Even though she would never admit it to anyone, Rogue actually was kind of excited to start training. Being part of a team would make her feel accepted.
Remy almost fell out of bed when the alarm clock beeped loudly at 5:30 am. Before he starting cursing everything that moved for disturbing his sleep Bobby reminded him of the danger room session.
"Woah, boy easy, you don't want to pull a muscle before the session do you?" Twisted in his sheets, Remy glared at his roommate then proceeded to get ready mumbling something about not being meant to wake up so early. When he got down, most of the team was already assembled, including Rogue. Remy struggled to catch his breath. Her spandex uniform hugged her curves and showed off her body.
Damn he thought as he walked over. She smiled at him and willed herself not to look at his rock hard muscles showing through his uniform. He was wearing his trench coat like always.
"Dieu, how 'bout we ditch dis and go up to my room." Remy whispered in her ear. Rogue stomped on his foot hard. Just then Logan came in.
"Gumbo, Stripes, get up here." They walked up. "Ok, first we're going to do an exercise to see what level you're at and to see how well you can work as a team. Everyone else, just watch."
They went into the danger room and the simulation started. First a series of small machines came out of the wall and shot lasers at them. Remy pulled out playing cards from inside his trench coat and through the little explosives accurately at some lasers while Rogue flipped up and kicked the rest of them down. The simulation ended and a harder one began. This time the room became a dangerous obstacle course with not only lasers, but flame throwers and metal balls flying through the air. This time Remy took out his bo staff and Rogue took out her nunchaks. The other students watched, stunned, as the two somersaulted, flipped, and spun away from each attack, then turned around and destroyed whatever was trying to harm them. The simulations got a harder and they were getting very tired.
"Rogue!" Remy yelled. Rogue spun around but it was to late, the claw swung at her. . .and went right through her.
"End simulation!" Logan called out. Everything disappeared as Remy rushed over to Rogue. She was staring blankly at her stomach where the claw passed through.
"What happened?" Logan asked.
Rogue still stared down at her completely intact uniform . "Ah think Ah phased through it."
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