Aaron: I'm glad you liked all the OCs and I got no sparing matches in this story arc maybe in another. I haven't thought of any other name for the Protectors of Town X.
ViciousAssassin: Glad you liked it all and there will be a little in the beginning but you know how it will end.
Mattb3671: Unfortunately took off the fic Sparky was from (which sucks that they did that) I have no idea what the 'joanie luvs chachi' remark was about.
Gulogirl: I know what you mean that's why I try to make him interesting, did I say WW1 I mean WW2. I'll try and fix that thanks for pointing that out. Yeah more RoLo later on, in fact I plan on those two hooking up.
LadyDeathStrike1: Glad you liked the campfire thing, and I'm also glad no one seems to mind Vincent and Rogue getting intimate.
Erich: Nice thought but they're on a mission maybe later on when they return to the town. And you have no idea how right you were with that stuff you sent me and don't worry I will let them enjoy it.
Ruby631: Well I didn't just want them to jump in the sack at the first opportunity, I wanted them to have a meaningful relationship first.
TheLegendaryManHimself: Yeah might as well have it now before the town gets trashed and Sinister and the Acolytes show up.
Winblades: He's just a guy of honor and you'll have to ask Slickboy444 since it's his character. Only Scott can hurt him for some reason.
Tidal wave: Geez a little harsh, if you don't like my stories then fine don't read them then.
Slickboy444: I'm glad you liked that scene I wasn't sure at first, and for the Sarah/Logan scene I'm happy you enjoyed it so much. Believe me the big battle coming is going to be something. I also hope no one things I went a little to far on the scene with Rogue and Vince at the end, I know it could have gone farther but this is only a PG-13 story.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah Sinister has a knack for ruining things.
Sparky Genocide: Actually I hope you don't mind me changing a few things, like Gambit not being related to Sinister, the eyes are just a coincidence but when Sinister comes to town lets say it's a reunion that he won't like. It's going to be a mixed team that goes to the town.
Thanks to: fireinu, Ranndie Mazda, ldypebsaby, X00001, Red Witch
ADJUSTMENTS
NEXT UP CHAPTER 34: SOMETHING SINISTER THIS WAY COMES
She felt something warm against her face and that was the first sensation she had felt, then someone brushing her bangs out of her face and she felt and heard breathing. She slowly opened her eyes and found that she was on someone bare chest and not just anyone's either. She saw the morning daylight coming in through the large glass door that led to the small balcony and then saw a pair of light blue eyes looking at her. "Morning."
Rogue smiled and hugged him closer. "Mornin'...what tahme is it?"
"Almost eight in the morning...how are you feeling?" He asked her.
She stretched a little. "A little sore in a few places...but nice though. God ah can't believe we actually did that." She smiled to herself resting her head on his chest.
"Second thoughts?"
"Hell no." She said looking up at him. "Last night was perfect." She kissed him on the lips to show him that and he kissed back. After last night's...activities, Vincent had offered her his T-shirt to sleep in then just her bra and panties for the night. He was only in his cotton pants but she had slept well anyway, in fact she slept great. "How long have ya been up?"
"About an hour, I didn't want to wake you." He said his smile still on his face.
She looked at him for a minute. "Ya tellin' meh ya have been awake just lookin' at me for an hour? Ah thought ya had a photographic memory?"
He just shrugged a little. "What can I say? You just looked so peaceful and beautiful I couldn't stop looking." She rested her head back on his chest, he could be so sweet sometimes she knew and sighed just listening to her breath. He stroked her hair and breathed in the scent of it, he loved the smell of her hair, hell he loved a LOT of things about her.
Then Rogue pushed off the bed a little. "Oh hell ah forgot about that." She said mainly to herself as a certain thought hit her.
"We did use protection Rogue remember?" He told her.
"No not that. Kitty! Oh god when she wakes up and sees that she's there with Piotr and ah'm not there..." She let him fill in the rest.
"Ah crap." He muttered. "Well...we'll get dressed and tell her you took the other bed, hopefully she'll buy that."
She laid back down on the bed on her back to his left and looked up at the ceiling. "Ah hope so." She really didn't want Kitty to know about last night, there was no way she would keep her mouth shut with that kind of gossip, then again she figured she could use the fact that she and Piotr sleep in each other's arms against her. Sure those two didn't have sex, but then again that was almost as bad.
Vincent got up and kissed her forehead. "I'm going for a shower."
She grinned to herself. "Want some company?"
Vincent stopped in his tracks and considered that. "Maybe another time, we already used up both of my condoms last night."
"Why did ya carry two anyway? I little ambitious ain't ya?" She said smiling playfully at him.
"Hey I didn't hear you complain." He joked and she had to laugh at that, it was true she didn't complain. "Besides...the other one was a spare just in case."
After awhile in the next room Kitty was slowly waking up. She felt warm and a feeling of peace for some strange reason. She remembered how she and Piotr were talking then...her eyes widened as she felt an arm around her waist and looked up into the peaceful face of Piotr. She gasped and shot up the sudden movement and gaps cause Colossus to wake up with a start and he too realized that he was in Kitty's bed and that it was morning.
Both teens blushed and Kitty noticed Rogue wasn't there. "Oh no...where's Rogue?" She asked Piotr and he looked over at the empty bed.
"Maybe she is with Vincent?"
Kitty nodded and got up but stopped herself. It didn't really hit her fully that she and Piotr had just spent the night together like that. It had been nice. She leaned over him and kissed him lightly. "For last night." She said blushing a little. "Thanks for staying with me...it was nice...and uh...I promise I won't say anything, you know how some people might think if we said we spent the night in the same bed."
He nodded his head. "Da, and Logan would love to see if could skin me with his claws when I am in my metallic form." Kitty giggled at that.
"Well I'm going to see if Rogue slept in Vincent's room." She told him and she phased through the wall. She saw the same generic room as hers as Rogue getting up from the bed. "Like there you are." She saw Rogue jump and Kitty realized that Rogue was in her underwear and in a shirt a little large for her. It also was definitely not Rogue's since it said Toronto Maple Leafs on it.
"What was that?" She heard Vince say and walk out of the bathroom in just a towel. She gasped when she saw him covered her eyes and he ducked back in. "Kitty! Don't you ever use a door?" He yelled from the small room.
"I am so totally sorry." Kitty said removing her hand and then she noticed only one of the beds were slept in and then looked at Rogue. She seemed both pissed and...embarrassed. "Oh...my...god. Oh man I am like so totally sorry guys. I'll uh, I'll leave you two alone." She said blushing madly and ran back through the wall before Rogue could say anything.
Rogue sighed and sat down on the bed. "Well that's it...Kitty will most likely is talking to Piotr about this." She said to Vincent.
He came back out and scratched the back of his head. "So...now what?"
"Ah don't know." Rogue huffed and stalked to the shower. "Ah'm goin' ta take a shower, can ya get my bag from Kitty's room?"
"Sure thing." He told her as he got dressed in new clothing. By the time he was going out the door she was already in the shower and for a minute a part of him thought about taking a little look, but he pushed that aside. He already got a good look at her and besides he had other things to do. He walked over to the next room and knocked. He really wasn't looking forward to this, he knew this was going to be awkward. Piotr opened the door and both teens just looked at each other. "Uh...hey."
"Uh....good morning."
'Oh yeah, awkward.' Vincent thought to himself, both of them knew exactly what each of them did and both knew that Logan wouldn't be pleased. "Tell you what, I won't way anything if you don't and Logan won't skin us alive for 'taking advantage' of the girls. Deal?"
"Da, that is a good idea." He let him in and Vince looked to see Kitty there on the bed with a huge grin on her face, he palmed his face and sighed.
"So...you and Rogue huh?" She said in a happy go lucky tone.
"Kitty..." Vincent sighed out then looked at her.
"Oh don't worry I'm not like going to say anything, if I did Rogue would say that, well, that you know." She said blushing at what had happened with her.
Vince nodded. "Yeah okay, by the way Rogue wants her clothing to change into while she's showering."
"Oh right." She got up and picked up a travel bag. "I'll give it to her." He was about to giver her his room key when she went through the wall.
"Right...you'd think I would remember that." He said to himself then she popped her head out the wall.
"Oh don't wait up, me and Rogue are going to have breakfast and talk, you boys go on without us." Then she pulled her head back.
'Oh god...' He thought and hung his head. 'She's going to talk Rogue's ear off...and I know enough to know I don't want to know what they're going to talk about...what else could happen?' He snapped his head up. 'Well...that was a dumb thing to even think about, now of course it will get worse.'
-Savage Land-
Sinister had just finished talking with Magneto and he had agreed that sending a team was a wise choice. Sinister was walking the metallic halls with the Acolytes. Currently Juggernaut, Omega Red, Sabertooth, Morbius and Psi-co were in this group as well as Lance in a new uniform. It was like his old one only with black and red colors on it. Toad was also in a new uniform with a brown trench coat, combat boots dark jeans and a dark green shirt. Blob was wearing a pair of black baggy pants a red shirt and dark jean jacket like his older one.
Pietro couldn't have been found, off chasing some girl apparently, and Legion and Pyro were looking into some new recruits, with the a few other new Acolytes. "So where are we goin' yo?" Toad asked hopping along.
"Well I don't know about you but I tire of traveling in those damn spheres. So we're taking a new mode of transport." Sinister told him.
"Really? What?" Fred asked him. They came to a large steel door that opened for them and they saw a hanger with many large and impressive aircraft. He walked up to one that looked like a heavily modified stealth bomber.
"I call this...the Dark Wing." Sinister said proudly. "As you can see it's a modified B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, the stealth technology is even more advanced then the Air Force uses and can penetrate any known detection devices even by groups like SHIELD. It is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 60,000ft, that's actually 10, 000 more then the normal version, and with a range of more than 9,000nm unrefuelled and more than 13,000nm with one refueling, given the new power plant I put in it. It has the ability to fly to any point in the world within hours." He grinned at that.
The ship has the capacity to carry up to 40,000lb of weapons, including conventional and nuclear weapons, although the nukes aren't loaded...yet. It has a precision-guided munitions, gravity bombs and a range of maritime weapons and a few of my own 'special' ones too." He grinned. "Well all aboard then, Cain, Mr. Dukes, you will have to stay in the cargo area given your size."
Juggernaut just grunted. "Whatever." He simply said and walked up the ramp.
"Shotgun!" Toad shouted and jumped up the ramp before anyone else could.
-Town X-
Rogue had been dragged to a small café for breakfast as they sat outside waiting for their order to come. Rogue had changed into a black Linkin Park T-shirt and shorts while Kitty had gone back for her clothes when the guys had left and was now in a skirt and button shirt with no sleeves. "So...how was it?" Kitty asked with the biggest grin Rogue had ever seen on her. She palmed her face and groaned into it. "Oh come on Rogue, besides Jean you're like the only other girl to have sex...I mean I'm just curious...was he good?"
"Kitty!"
"I'm sorry." She laughed at her best friend's reaction. "I had to ask, I mean...doesn't it like hurt the first time and stuff?"
Rogue sighed and stirred her coffee with one of those little plastic sticks that she could never remember what they were called. "Well...at first a little...but it's not as bad as other people make it sound...plus...he was gentle."
"I bet he cuddled too." She giggled. "He's like so the type."
Rogue blushed. "Yeah he is, but ah lahked that part too. Ah still can't believe we finally gone that far."
"Yeah I wonder who won the pool." Kitty wondered.
"Pool?! Ya guys bet on when we would sleep together? Ah don't believe this...on second thought ah do." Rogue grumbled. "Remind meh ta start one about you and Piotr when we get back."
"Hey!"
"Serves ya right...now about you and Piotr." Rogue grinned turning the conversation back to her and she enjoyed watching Kitty squirm at the moment. "Exactly how close are you two?"
"Well...closer then I was with Lance...but not apparently as close as you two are...although..." Kitty drifted off. She had been having a few 'interesting' dreams lately like last night and to be honest if she was going to give up her virginity to someone she didn't have any problems with it being with Piotr, although he was too nice and shy to most likely start things so she would have to take it slow with him, she didn't want to scare him off or something. That and she wasn't sure if she was ready yet.
Rogue studied her for a moment. "Kitty if you are thinking about this let meh give ya some advice. First off, talk ta him about this and see how he feels about it. Secondly you both should be prepared, that means condoms for him and birth control for ya, I get mine from Hank as does Jean, considerin' that some mutants metabolisms are different then normal peoples."
She didn't like the idea of going to Hank with that, even though she knew he was kept Jean's use a secret but she knew Rogue made sense. "Yeah I like guess that we both should get ready I mean I like him and all but I don't want to get pregnant this young because I was like so totally stupid about it."
Rogue nodded her head. "That's smart."
Kitty smiled and took a sip of her own coffee. "Just out of curiosity...how long have you wanted to go all the way with him?"
Rogue sighed and considered it, she knew Kitty enough to know she never liked to let stuff like this go. "This stays between us, you tell no one, not Danielle not even Lockheed ya got that?" Kitty nodded and leaned in. Rogue blew out a breath. "Remember when ah first got control over mah powers? Well when ah was kissing him for hta first tahme there was nothing more then what ah wanted then ta have us rip each other's clothes off then and there."
Kitty was surprised by that revelation. "Wow...what stopped ya?"
"Common sense, that and...ah wasn't sure if mah powers were permanently under control, ah mean what if we were intimate and then ah no long had control? Ah didn't want mah first time with someone to end up killing them while...you know..." Rogue got a little quiet at that point as she looked into her coffee. "I still am afraid of the Kitty..." She flexed her ungloved hand and looked at it then to her friend fear and sadness in her eyes. "What if ah go back to that one day? Ah don't think ah'm strong enough ta go through that again, it was so hard to just date him for over a month not bein' able ta touch him, ah spent nearly three long years without bein' able to enjoy a single touch...ah don't want ta go through that again..."
Kitty took he friend's hand in hers. "That will like not happen Rogue, Hank said this was permanent and you have to believe that."
Rogue smiled a little. "Thanks Kitty."
"Like anytime, besides you deserve to be happy now after everything, I mean you are right? You've seemed to be a lot happier ever since you got your powers under control."
She nodded. "Yeah ah guess ah have...but can ya blame me?"
"No I can't and I'm happy that you're well...happy." Kitty said smiling then a grin formed on her face. "Especially after last night by the way you're glowing."
Rogue swatted her arm. "Ah am not! God can't we talk about something other then sex? I bet the boys aren't."
"Yeah right, I bet they're having the same conversation as we are." Kitty said rubbing where Rogue had hit her, ever since she got that new strength Kitty forgot she hit a lot harder now. A few black away in restaurant Colossus and Mayhem were talking over pancakes.
"So is paining hard or is it like drawing?" Vincent asked the slightly older Russian boy.
He shrugged. "It depends on the person but it can be difficult, you thinking of trying it?"
"Maybe, I might give it a try since you side you used to do that a little back home right?"
Piotr nodded. "Da...what do you think the girls are talking about?"
Vince nearly laughed. "Trust me you don't want to know."
-Later-
The four of them were in the Elder's hall again facing the three Elders of the town. Fiona was smiling as well as Callahan and Steward was scowling with his arm folded. They took this as a good sign. "Well we have deliberated and we agree there are benefits to expanding our contact on the outside work to Xavier. However we want to make clear that the location of this town be kept guarded as best you can."
"We understand." Rogue told her. "And we have a list made up of medical supplies we might beh able ta gather for ya too."
Callahan smiled. "That's wonderful I'm sure the doc will love to hear that." Just then Slayer barged his way into the meeting. "What's going on here? Slayer you better have a good reason for this."
He looked at the Elders. "They're here." He said seriously then turned to Steward. "Get he Protectors ready...evil has come to this town and they'll burn it to the grown if we don't stop them."
"We'll help too." Rogue said.
Fiona nodded. "We could use the help most of our Protectors haven't had actual combat experience, Steward?"
Steward had his eyes closed as he use telepathy to contact the Protectors, his eyes snapped open. "They're on their way...and I guess we could use them...just stay out of the way."
-Over Town X-
The Acolytes in the Dark Wing flew over the valley of the town. All the sensors said there was nothing there, well the normal sensors that this thing was equipped with. When he used the enhanced imaging system all he got was nothing and that's what got Sinister's interest. The sensors should have picked up something to say the least but all it read was nothing, like the entire area didn't exist. 'Well now that is interesting.' He mussed to himself.
"Alright I'm taking us down boys. Get ready." He told them.
"Ready for what?" Lance said looking out the window. "Hostile dessert lizards?" Then as they got closer they came threw the Shroud and the entire town was laid open to them. "Whoa." Lance said looking around the place. "Okay...I stand corrected."
"Indeed." Sinister said with a cruel grin on his face. He set the aircraft down in what looked like a drive in movie theatre, one of the few most likely still around in this world although it was in good shape. The hatch opened and they all walked out. Sinister walked out in front of the group and saw people start to scatter and run from them. "Well...let's introduce ourselves to the town folk." A few of the more bloodthirsty of the Acolytes grinned and couldn't wait for that as they marked into the streets.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 35: SHOWDOWN IN TOWN X
PLEASE: Also please read and review for You Can't Run On Ice by little miss tiny shoes it's a great story in the R section and deserves more attention. Also for you Star Wars fans I recommend A Shattered Galaxy An After NJO Saga by Tsavong-Lah, it takes place a few hundred years after the movies and books but trust me it's a great read. I also have to wonder what ever happened to xmanfan...oh well.