Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of X-men: Evolution. I merely own the plot. Also, the content of this story is not meant to offend anyone as it is written purely for your enjoyment....so please enjoy it! Also please pardon the handwriting and if different scenes are really close to eachother because I'm having a lot of trouble with the format! Thanks!
The five, shocked teens screamed before jumping away from the attempt that Logan had made on their lives. Being very much confused Jean slowed down for a moment to place her hands to her temples as to aid her in taking a look into her instructor's mind. Looking for answers....why would he attack them? She intended to find out.
After a moment or two she gasped fearfully and only Pietro took notice of her fear, yet misunderstood it for her being in danger, so in a swift movement he rushed forward and pulled her away from the suddenly violent man, and she gave no protest.
"Guys," Pietro yelled frantically to his friends, "I know he's your bud and all....but he is trying to fucking kill us so I think a little retaliation would be in order!"
Nodding Lance stood next to Pietro, "I agree." He told the others and in no more than a second he was gone from sight. The only thing to see him by was the light footprints etched into the snow.
"Ohhhhh," Kitty squealed worriedly, "I don't know!" She told them unsure. She looked at Jean, who had fallen onto the ground in shock and couldn't seem to understand what was going on around her.
"Well you better know soon!" Pietro snapped as he helped Jean stand and checked her condition. "Jean! Are you okay?" he whispered urgently to her not used to seeing her lose her cool. Whatever it was it must not have been good.
"Jean what is it? What's wrong?" he asked her as he watched Logan fight an invisible force from the corner of his eye. She shook her head as if to clear out any nonsense before turning back to him.
"I read his mind, Pietro." She told him as he looked to tell her to move on, "And his thoughts....he really wants to see us all dead. Especially you. But the thoughts seemed too forced, like they weren't his own, but at the same time..." she sighed. "Oh God Pietro, I don't know what to think." She informed the younger mutant as he nodded his head.
"You thought he was under some type of control at first but after reading his thoughts you're not so sure?" He asked her and she nodded, having would been surprised at how accurate he was if she had any shock left in her.
"Can you do this?" he asked her and much to his surprised she nodded, proving to him that she was not down for the count. He smiled at her and simply said, "Okay then." As he watched Lance mess with Logan's head as he practically lead him around in circles.
That didn't last too long, however, because soon Logan caught Lance's arm and blood began to seep into the air. "Ow!" Lance said, "It's just a little cut but still...ow." Kitty however wasn't to pleased and shoved into Logan, sending them both flying headfirst into a tree. However upon contact Kitty phased through leaving Logan groaning in pain.
As he jumped up again however, a small bump on the head hardly doing much damage, he flipped forward kicking Lance in the shin and then swiping at him only to miss.
"Someone has to do something about those claws!" Avalanche informed them as he backed away, not being able to do much other than play the offensive as there was nothing to blow up and he had sworn not to cause an earthquake.
At this statement Bobby nodded and tried to freeze his hands together. And it worked surprisingly as Logan tried desperately to move out of the way of a tree branch being hurled his way. They almost thought they had him beat, that is until a stream of fire came out of nowhere and melted the ice around his hands and he cut through the branch Jean had telekinetically hurled at him easily.
"Nice try." Came the somewhat irritating voice that they had heard once before in a battle that had left Kitty boiling in anger. Turning only momentarily they looked up to see Sabertooth, Pyro, Gambit and Colossus. "Ugh, it's you." Kitty spat distastefully at Pyro, whom she had not particularly liked since he had tried to kill Lance. He cocked his head to the side with and obviously fake smile on.
"'Fraid so, Darling-" he began but was cut off as Pietro tried something new and threw his hand out, sending Pyro flying into a tree roughly. He stared at his hand. "Whoa." He stated, obviously not knowing he could somehow control a human's body too. And Jean watched on, knowing all the while just what Pietro was capable of, though the others stared in awe.
"The Hell!" Pyro demanded as he sat up groggily and Jean used her powers to take a blow at Logan's mind and knock him out in his weakened state. "That was a cheap shot!" he accused pointing at Pietro who raised his eyebrow.
"There are rules now?" Pietro asked disbelievingly. Gambit smirked and pulled out a hand of kinetically charged cards.
"Guess not." He said with a smile before he let the cards fly at his opponents from his hand.
Rouge groaned slightly as she came to from her position on the ground. She could faintly remember being too quick to move while climbing down the rocks and falling, before Scott or the others had a chance to catch her.
Standing up she found herself a little sore but otherwise in good condition. Looking around she found herself in a cave of some sort and came to the startling conclusion that it was indeed, not where she had landed. But who knew?
As she walked slowly around, hands on the wall like surface surrounding her, something else gave her that idea. She walked slowly before tripping over another body in the ground. Putting her hands on it she felt the warm and fuzzy texture.
"Kurt?" she asked cautiously not quite knowing what exactly was going and deciding to be a bit careful. The body moved and Rouge's legs slid off of it slowly.
"Yah. Rouge? Is that you?" Kurt's easily identifiable voice asked in the darkness. Rouge sighed, pleased that her suspicions were accurate.
"Yeah Kurt it's me. How did we get here?" she asked him confused. A 'Hold on.' Was sent her way before at scratching sound was heard and a light burst into the darkness revealing Kurt's face.
Smiling at her he held up a box. "Matches." He stated simply of the tools in their packs. Rouge nodded and followed his example grabbing her own matches and lighting one, adding to the brightness.
"Well," Kurt told her standing up and offering her a hand, "From what I can see, and remember, I bamfed to catch you before you hit the ground and succeeded, that is until I needed to take us to safety and I saw a patch of grass that was a little above the ground and figured it was secure." He paused and pointed upward, when Rogue looked she was partially amused to se a large hole in some grass that they must have fallen through and that landed them in here.
"So we should go back at that way I suppose." Kurt told her before shoving up his pack and teleporting to the top of the broken grass, having found a steady footing. He reached his hand down to her but realized she was slow in taking it.
"Rouge? What is wrong?" he asked her as he watched use her hand to cup her right ear. "Do you here something?" he teleported back to her as she kept listening.
"You could say that." She told him wondering why she hadn't heard it before. "Someone's screaming." She told him and realized they could have been screaming for quite sometime, which is why it had died down so much. "It sounds like a woman."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Kurt demanded as he began to rush to the sound. However Rouge grabbed his elbow in an effort to stop him. "Only fools rush in Kurt." She told him straight faced as she recited the Elvis Presley lyrics.
"Haven't you noticed how suspicious this all seems?" she asked him in a whisper. When she received a blank stare she continued. "You know, the way that the grass was so perfectly placed above the break on the cave when in reality it probably would have already broken through due to the snow right now." She told him.
"What are you saying Rouge?" he asked her worriedly. She looked around at her surroundings, looking as if something might jump out and grab her.
"I'm saying, Kurt....that this looks a hell of a lot like some sort of trap." She consented to the curious mutant.
Suddenly a feminine voice ruined their suspicious thoughts, "And you'd be right." It said in an amused tone. Rouge, not even knowing who it was shoved Kurt flying straight into a jagged edge wall screaming "Kurt go now!"
And while Kurt didn't exactly want to abandon his 'sister' he also didn't want to be slammed into this wall and quickly teleported away as he realized Rouge's plan to get him out of harms way.
Suddenly Kurt found himself on cold snow, surrounded by trees, and right in the middle of an extremely hectic battle zone. He screamed as a ball of fire flew directly past him only to be frozen by...... "Bobby, thank God!" he yelled teleporting over to the younger boy, who was busy battling the infamous Pyro.
Looking around he saw the other's of Pietro's team battling the Acolytes or....at least the original Acolytes. He gasped when he saw Logan unconscious on the ground and began to rush over to help him.
Halfway there, however, a swoosh was heard and he was back where he had been. Kurt looked at Pietro angrily, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, he attacked us." Pietro said bringing Nightcrawler up to speed.
Kurt looked at how emotionless Pietro had said that and instead of being upset he reasoned that Pietro didn't know Logan as well as they all did. But....why would Logan attack them.... 'I don't have time for this!' he thought impatiently.
"Look," he said to the boy who seemed to simply be playing with Gambit by making his cards explode before they left his hands. "Can you spare anyone?" he asked Quicksilver who stopped messing with Gambit to look at him.
"It's about Rogue...." He began. Then it seemed that something dawned on Pietro because he pointed and let his mouth drop a little, "What the hell are you doing here?" he asked as Kurt rolled his eyes.
"It's complicated." He said but explained the best he could, "To make a long story short, Scott and Evan are still on the mountain and Rouge is in trouble. She's in some cave where a woman is screaming...or something and I think that Magneto might be there." Pietro nodded.
"Which way is it?" he asked as Kitty phased through Remy's jacket and took his pole, then proceeded to knock him out with it, "Because I am as of now officially off duty." He said as he saw the unconscious Gambit.
The moment that Kurt was out of danger Rouge through a wild kick at the intruder only to have an arm grab her lag and twist her around, where she landed painfully on her now hurt right leg. She winced as she tried to slip her hands into her bag. "Um...I don't think so." Said a female voice and before Rouge new it she was screaming in pain.
Trying to fight the pain that was soaring through her head she kicked the persons feet out from under them and threw her match in their face. "Damnit!" the voice cursed as Rouge made a break for it down the cave knowing that without Kurt she wouldn't be able to get through the opening up top.
Pulling out another match Rouge lit only to find a dead end in front if her. Growling she kicked the wall fiercely with uninjured leg and was shocked to see it crumble in front of her eyes. There....was something on the other side.
When she leaned through the opening the first thing she noticed was the giant house she had unmeaningly stumbled into. She knew it was Magneto's little 'hide out'. She smiled softly, "Woo Hoo Scott, we won!" she muttered softly thinking about how Scott wanted to see the look on Magneto's face when they found the place. But Scott wasn't here and neither it seemed was Magneto.
After landing gracefully on the ground, with a slight wince due to her injured leg, she realized that the stone had been real...and she had somehow caused it to crumble easily. But as much as she wanted to investigate the strange matter she thought that this would be the perfect time to look around.
Not bothering to stand up just yet she crawled over to a metal table that had been set up in the room and crouched down behind it. Straightening up onto her feet she peered over the edge to make sure that neither Magneto nor his goons were anywhere in sight.
When she found that they were not she allowed herself to stand. She let her eyes take in the vast amounts of chemicals that were lined up on various tables in a number of different beakers. There were tools surrounding a stack of strange, thick metal circles and there was a table turned upright with the back to her. But when she noticed the wires attached to it, she realized that it was certainly no table. This was confirmed by a muffled scream, the same one she had heard with Kurt earlier.
She began to rush over to the table but than remembered her words to Kurt and looked over her shoulder to make sure the woman that had been attacking her was not sneaking up on her. When she was done she reached over to the table and picked up a stray hammer and lifted it to her chest, not quite sure who, or what she would see. After taking a deep breath she crept to face the front of the table. What she saw was enough to make the hammer fall in a clatter to the ground. "Mystique?"
By this time Pietro and Kurt had found themselves on the top of the area that Kurt had claimed he and Rouge fell through. They were just about to teleport in when someone called out to them.
"Pietro! Kurt!" yelled a voice they knew. With a worried look they turned to see an equally worried looking Scott and Evan sliding down a small hill to rush over to them. 'Their climb must've lead them here.' Kurt thought wondering what to tell Scott about Rogue.
"Kurt are you alright?" their frantic leader asked him as he came over to the two of them, "Where is Rouge? Is she okay?" he continued and looked to Nightcrawler for his answers. However any hopes of getting answers were put on hold when the crunching of the snow was heard behind them. Pietro was the first to whip around.
Now in front of them stood a young woman with shoulder length blond hair and a silver bathing suit looking outfit and a cape to boot. Kurt smirked as he noticed that her hair was slightly singed and her blue eyes held a look of annoyance.
"Who are you?" Scott asked on his guard. Kurt added his questions, "And where is Rouge? It's obvious that she did some damage, I did, after all, leave her with a match."
At this accusation the girl growled, "If I have anything to do with it you won't be getting your little friend back anytime soon. And as for my name...you can all me the White Queen." And they were all shocked when Evan fell to the ground unconscious. Looking up they saw the smile on the woman's face. "Who's next?" she asked.
She seemed surprised when Pietro vanished from her sight, taking Evan with him, and Kurt took the opportunity to teleport Scott and himself into the cave. "Where did the brat's go?" she wondered out loud.
"Boo." Said a voice from behind her and she turned only to be greeted by a tree branch being slammed into the side of her head. She dropped to the ground, unconscious. Jean looked over to Pietro with a smile.
"How smart of you to come and get me, Blue Eyes." She teased at the fact that he hadn't wanted to 'hit' a 'girl' so asked her to instead. Not too long after, Bobby, Kitty, and Lance showed up and Lance took Evan off of Pietro's hands.
Pietro raised and eyebrow. "The Acolyte's?" he questioned them curiously. Lance shrugged. "Dispersed." He told them, "And when we turned to look Logan was gone too. Someone should have watched him so we could take him back with us. But..." Lance trailed off and they all knew what he was thinking....what if Logan hadn't wanted to go back?
Pietro was the first voice to break through their sad thoughts. "Kitty, Bobby?" he addressed the two youngest of the group he looked over at them. "Do you remember how to get back to the Jet?" he asked.
"I think I remember," Bobby began and Kitty nodded and gave a thumbs up confirming that she remembered accurately. Pietro motioned for Lance to give Evan to the two teens whose mouths dropped open when they realized what they would be doing.
"Don't argue." Pietro warned them and they both groaned, "I want you two to take Evan back to the X-Jet and stay there. Got it?" he asked them and they nodded glumly not wanted to be excluded from the 'mission' that had thus far gone completely wrong.
Pietro reached into his pack and pulled out his walkie-talkie. Pressing a button static was heard. "Storm, come in," he spoke to get the woman's attention directed to her communicator. "Storm this is Quicksilver, come in please." He said and breathed a sigh of relief when she answered.
"This is Storm, Quicksilver. Everything all right?" she asked softly yet curtly. "We're sending Kitty and Bobby back to you with an unconscious Evan. Can't say when the rest of us will be back. Kurt and Scott went to find a MIA Rouge and we encountered a woman who called herself the White Queen. Ever heard of her?" he asked in a very professional manner and it suddenly occurred to Lance how serious his best friend was about socking one to his father and his ideals.
"Can't say I have." Storm said sounding worried about the relayed information but she knew she could count on the kids to come back in one piece. But things were starting to become more complicated than she had thought. "Anything else I should know?" she asked afraid slightly of his answers.
"Yeah....the mission has been failed. Logan...attacked us and he escaped." He said not sounding too distressed over the fact. "Please contact us if something goes wrong, okay? And let me know when Kitty and Bobby get their safely with Evan. We'll try to find out more about what's going on and we'll continue to try and get inside his hideout. Quicksilver out." He said before cutting off their communication.
He looked over at the two mutants that now had Evan propped up between them, "The same goes for both of you. Let me know when you get there or if something goes wrong." He told them and they nodded. "We," he motioned between Lance, Jean and himself, "need to go after Scott and Kurt." They were about to set off but had to pause and wait while Lance said goodbye to Kitty.
"Be careful Kit-Kat." He said affectionately before leaning down and giving her a small kiss on the lips, pulling back with a smile on his face as the others waved them off and they left.
Suddenly Pietro remembered the White Queen and turned back. Hands stretched forward he caused two strong looking roots to pull out of the ground from a nearby tree and with a flick of his wrist he had them wrapped tightly around the woman's bare legs. Lance looked over at him as they dropped down into the cave. "You're getting good at this."
Rouge immediately tore the gag out of the blue woman's mouth, for some reason feeling a surge of trust towards her despite what she had done to her in the past. "Oh my God Mystique what are you doing here?" She demanded as she tried to unhook the straps that had Mystique tied down.
The shape shifter coughed the moment that gag was out of her mouth though she did seem a bit drowsy. "I was here to get Pietro some more information." She said slowly, "But a new addition to Magneto's team just happens to be a telepath that goes by the name of White Queen, and she detected me. Rouge stop!" she ordered to the girl that was trying to free her.
"Magneto sent her up there when you and Kurt fell through that trap. He sees everything that goes on in all of his hideouts. He'll be back soon, so stop wasting your time trying to free me." She watched as the girl stopped and continued speaking. "Now they are two envelopes in my left boot. One is a letter to Pietro, it's all of the information I have. Please see that he gets it before anyone else sees it, okay?" she and Rouge nodded. "The other one is some blue prints of the alarm and camera systems he's setting up in his other bases and the names and information of as many of his new recruits I could find, which aren't too many. Get those." She told the girl.
Rouge obliged, kneeling down and slipping her hand into Mystique's boot and carefully put both of the heavy envelopes into her pack. "Now," Mystique said, "Empty your pack of everything but what you think you have to have." She ordered and watched Rough throw out an extra pair of glove and some matches, in favor of keeping the first aid instead.
"Try to take as much of Magneto's things as possible, and quickly, make sure that they get to the Professor." She told the girl, who had grabbed one of the strange metal rings and various beakers and began to stuff them into the bag. When it was full she turned to the shape shifter once more.
"What about you?" she asked, not ever having known the woman he was apparently her adoptive mother and was once the girl she had considered her best friend. Mystique shook her head. "No time," she said sadly before motioning Rogue to come closer to her. When she did so Rouge was surprised to receive a kiss on the top of her head by Mystique, and it apparently didn't directly touch her skin because Mystique then said, "I want you to know that I will always love you like a daughter, no matter what happens and even if you care so little for me."
Rouge smiled at the woman sadly, "I'm so sorry." She said before turning to run. However she was stopped as a metal table flew towards her. "Logan!" she gasped as the man lunged for her, grabbing onto her shoulders as they flew into a wall of the house, breaking through it and sending them both tumbling outside.
Wasting no time to ponder why the man had attacked her she simply kicked his stomach and was surprised to see she had sent him flying ten feet away from her and into the cold snow. She gasped as he simply just lunged at her once more. Yet he was stopped mid-jump by a jagged ray of red light that him forcefully in the side.
Snapping her head to the side she smiled happily. "Scott!" she yelled to her boyfriend who spotted her and began to rush to her aid again. She, however, not wanting him to get hurt though she knew he could handle it, tossed him her pack. "Take care of it!" She shouted and then turned back to Logan.
He growled at her dangerously and she noticed one of the metal devices secured around his neck. 'It must be controlling him!' she reasoned to herself and thought of a way to get it off. However her planning was put on hold as Logan calmed down and stood straighter....and for a moment nobody breathed.
Than, Logan, amidst of the now falling snow and blowing winds lightly raised his hands to his neck, and somehow took the device off. He smiled at her somewhat regrettably, "How's that for shock factor?" he asked.
Eyes wide and fearful Rouge backed away slowly her mouth hanging open in shock. Scott didn't seem to notice the incident however and Logan used the girl's shock state to his advantage and before she could move, lunged forward and snapped the necklace onto her, careful not to touch her neck or pierce her with his claws. This, however, Scott noticed.
"Rouge!" he shouted to her frantically as her eyes became dull and lifeless. Everyone; Kurt, Mystique, Scott and even Logan were shocked when she rose into the air and flew at them viciously.
Scott stood there somewhat lifelessly, "Oh no..." he whispered and the girl would have barreled into him had a flash of silver not quickly moved him out of harms way.
"Do something!" yelled Pietro whom had just shown up with Lance and Jean and was in the process of unbinding Mystique. In moments she was free an all on battle against Rouge and Logan, one of the people someone that they had once trusted with their lives, and one who couldn't even help herself, raged on. Mystique wobbled on her legs and Pietro eased her safely onto the ground.
"Lay low, Kay?" he more of informed her more than asked as he rushed off to help the others. However the moment he got there the fight had turned as Rouge's ungloved hand connected with Lance's face and he weakly fell to the ground. The look on the girls face said it all and Pietro found himself screaming, "AVALANCHE!" as she used Lance's powers to cause a large shakes of the mountain and slide of snow.
Pietro rushed forward and grabbed Lance, practically tossing the larger boy through the broken wall. "Everyone get inside!" he shouted, assuming command along with Jean, seeing as Scott was busy trying to get Rouge to stay with them however she simply flew higher up into the air.
Mystique weakly stood with a hammer and nails, quickly boarding a table to the break in the stone from Rouge's earlier ventures, along with Jean who was using her mind to hold it into place.
After Pietro saw Kurt force Scott into the house he used frantically used his powers to toss up and bind random logs to the other opening, forgetting entirely to go I himself. "Aw shit!" he cursed upon realizing his mistake.
Suddenly a slender hand shot through a crack in the logs. "Pietro!" Jean screamed out to him and he grabbed her hand. "Kurt will get you!" she shouted as slushy ice began to pour all around him.
Turning his head he watched as Rouge flew up and away into the air. Away from them, Scott and the avalanche. And, if he had his guess, probably off to Magneto.....why Rouge?
With his thoughts on his father he could only think of one possibly bigger asshole, and he was trying to run down the mountain. Pietro had other ideas,
"YOU BASTARD!" he screamed and use the metal substance of Logan's claws to pull him hard enough into the wall next to him that he was knocked out, and Pietro's hand grabbed his arms at the exact moment that Kurt popped out and teleported them both in.
Once inside Pietro first corrected the mistakes of the branches and then slumped next to the others in the sudden darkness the avalanche had caused by taking out the electricity.
The first thing he said was directed to Scott, "Rouge's gone, I think the thing on her neck sent her to find Magneto." He said icily. Scott sighed heavily and no one spoke.
"What about Logan?" Scott asked finally and his answer was Pietro's foot nudging the unconscious figure next to him. "We might get some unanswered questions...well answered." He said not really trying to be funny. He was too tired to be funny. Not to mention that he felt slightly bad that the 'White Queen' was still out tied to that tree....sort of.
Finally he relaxed to in the darkness and grasped the feminine and shaky hand next to him with his left one. He couldn't help but tease, "Aw, is Jean afraid of the dark? Don't worry I'll protect you." He joked perhaps not too tired.
"That's my hand Pietro." Mystiques said stonily. Pietro paused for a moment not letting go.
"Jean can have my right hand then." he joked once again only to receive both Mystique's and Jean's hands lightly punching his shoulders. Sighing in mock exasperation he scooted closer where Jean actually sat and smiled at her when she lit a match.
"Here." Kurt muttered silently and handed her some sort of metal can for her to put some matches in, in order to keep the room luminated. Jean, with a swipe of her hand, brought the table that had been tossed at Rouge over to them to lean back on as she watched Pietro move forward and melt down certain metal substances.
Amazingly enough he was going to use them to bound Logan but Mystique stopped him and hauled Logan over to the place she was strapped up in and did the same to him. And that was that.
Pietro walked back next to Jean and slumped, tired and out of breath, against the table. The silence was thick as everyone thought about Rouge and Logan. Especially Rouge. Pietro's little crack to lighten the mood hadn't gone unappreciated...it just hadn't helped. And he had his own things to worry about. Like what was Mystique doing there?
He turned to ask her but she anticipated his question. "I'll tell you later." She said to him knowing that it was not something she had time to write during the letter, no matter how important it was. She hadn't thought she'd live to get out of there at all. Noticing Kurt with his head down she surprised herself by moving over to him and wrapping her arms around his shoulders. But he surprised her even more when he hugged back. The silence reigned once more.
Suddenly there was static and Pietro reached over with his left hand, Jean's hand somehow finding the way into his right, and pulled his walkie- talkie to his lips.
"Yeah?" he asked. The answer was first static and then, "Hey it's Kitty." Said a bright perky voice, "Just wanted to let you know that we got back safe and sound!"
Pietro sighed as he slumped back down again and the communicator switched to let him talk. "Oh," he muttered, "That's good." And then it went off and no one spoke once more.
DigitalAngel4U: Okay hope I got the ball moving with that one and I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long! I've been taking a small break. After writing this chapter I was able to give the story more direction and I left more questions to be answered next time! Hopefully you guys like it and more things will be explained next time. Also, I did research on the White Queen and from what I know of she wasn't a bad guy! But I don't think that Wanda or Pietro were either so I kinda of fitted it to my needs! Hope you aren't too upset about that! And if you know anything useful about her let me know! And don't worry Reye (Pam) I'm working your character into the mix as we speak! Please Review I'd love to hear what you think!