Chapter nineteen: The End.
THe grate dropped to the ground, causing a loud metallic noise to fill the empty corridor. Logan dropped down, followed by Misty and Jenz. "Alright." Jenz said. "I'm eavesdropping on some radio frequencies, and it sounds like..." He tapped his headpiece. Then looked at Logan. "Your friends are coming."
Logan raised an eyebrow. "What?!"
"Yeah." He went quite. "One of them is here. Captive..." He glanced at Misty. "Rogue?"
Misty glanced at Logan, smirking. "Hey. You might get a chance to play hero for your girl."
Logan growled a bit. "Where is she?"
"They don't know." Jenz said, starting down the hallway. "They have their mission, we have ours. Come on!"
Misty began following him, Logan didn't. He sniffed the air. Her scent was there, but it was weak. And he smelled blood.
"Logan?" She glanced back at him. "Come on."
"She's hurt." Logan said, walking off towards the scent. "Stay with Jenz, I'll find her and meet up with you guys."
Misty said nothing, glancing at Jenz, then back at Logan as he turned a corner. Her eyes flashed yellow, and she smirked.
Elsewhere, the X-men had just landed. The acolytes left to find them. Magneto was in what looked like an operating room, and Rogue was on a table, out cold. Magneto filled a syringe with the virus, and turned back to her.
He stuck the needle in her arm, injecting the virus. "Bring him back." He said, laughing.
Jenz moved through the halls slowly, firing a bolt of lightning at cameras as he came upon them. Misty followed behind him. "We're almost there." He told her.
She smiled, her eyes flashing yellow again. "Jenz." She said, slowly drawing a knife from it's sheath on her ankle. He turned around, and she swiped at his neck.
The camera that still functioned caught this whole thing on tape.
Logan moved through the halls slowly, wondering where the acolytes were. Unaware that they were fighting the X-men outside. He saw a shadow at the end of the hallway and stopped.
SNIKT!
His claws popped out. "Who are ya..?" He asked in a low growl.
The figure laughed. "Heya, shrimp." The tall blonde stepped away from the wall and uncrossed his arms. "Yer too late, Magneto just sent Rogue off to find Thomas."
Logan snarled. "Where is she, Creed?!"
"What's it to you? She ain't your girlfriend, an' you know it!"
Logan took a step towards him. "Yeah, but I still gotta get her outta here an' stop Magneto!"
Creed just laughed. "So, now you're here T'play hero, huh? You came all this way T'save the world, Runt?"
Logan's lips turned to a cruel sneer. "Yeah. I did."
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Rogue looked around the area, infront of her was a glass tube, part of the glass was shattered. A soldier was on the ground, holding his face in pain. The room was dark, and had a strange smell to it.
The soldier's hair was white, but she couldn't see his face. She stepped towards him cautiously. "...Hay... Are you alright?" She asked, keeping her defenses up.
The soldier moved his hands, three long cuts across his face could be seen, seeping blood slowly. "What the hell do you think?!" He asked, snarling. "That bastard!"
"Who did this?" She asked.
"Weapon X! He escaped!" The soldier said, she helped him up, but had the feeling she wasn't in control of her actions. "Who the hell are you, and how did you get down here?!"
"Mah nahme's Rogue." She said. "Ahm... Ahm not sure how I got down here."
The soldier touched his wounds again, scrambling for his medical supplies. "I'm Thomas McLeish."
The PA system rang to life: "WARNING! WEAPON X AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS HAVE ESCAPED!"
He glanced from the PA, back to her. "It isn't safe here, Rogue." He said, flinching as he applied the disinfectant. He put some strange looking bandage on it, then began to head for the door. "We gotta get out of here."
She felt herself following down torn up corridors, claw marks everywhere and a few dead bodies. Suddenly, they heard a growling. "Shit!" Thomas exclaimed.
He reached for his handgun, at the end of the hallway, a large, naked, blonde man held a barely clothed woman by the neck, grinning and muttering something to her.
"That's "Sabertooth"!" He warned here, firing off some shots at them. The man just looked over, laughing and gripping the woman more. She screamed.
"LOGAN!" She shrieked, as if calling for help. Rogue's breath left her, as she felt a hand around her neck, squeezing the life out of her, and found herself looking at Creed, as Thomas fired at them from the other end of the hallway.
"LOGAN!" She shrieked, calling for help. Why would he leave me? We finally escape, and he leaves me to be killed by Him!
Sabertooth drops her, running down the hall at Thomas, who fires, but it has no effect. Rogue watches as Thomas is cut down.
Light. Cold. She was outside now, and all she could see was trees and snow. An explosion behind her as a man runs out of the Weapon X compound, snarling and growling.
She ran after him, and soon the man collapsed. "Logan...!" She said, kneeling by him and turning him onto his back. He was barely alive. "Logan...!" She leaned down, pressing her ear against his chest.
His heart wasn't beating.
She leaned up, slapping his cheek to try and stir him. "Logan, for gahd's sake, don't do this T'me...." She said, on the verge of tears. "Logan!"
A hand touched her left shoulder, wearing a white glove. Another touched her right shoulder, wearing a black glove. She looked over her left shoulder, and saw a woman. On her right, Thomas.
She looked down at Logan to find nothing more than an adamantium skeleton. "It's too late, Rogue." Thomas said. The cuts on his face nothing more than scars now. "Logan's already dying."
The woman nodded slowly. "He was looking for you in the compound, but Sabertooth intercepted him... It's over.."
Rogue bit her lip. "What the hell's goin' on here?!"
"Magneto used the SHIVA virus to send you here, to get me." Thomas said.
"Why?"
Silver Fox stepped away. "The spirit test showed that the dead could effect the living. If Thomas were to enter the living world now, he could summon the dead, and use their energy for anything. He could alter the flow of time. Take people into or out of existence." She looked at Rogue. "Anything."
"What's this got T'do with Logan?" She asked.
"Logan has had an effect on more people than you can imagine..." Thomas said. Slowly, people started to appear around them. A red-headed irish girl, Logan's mom, dad, the workers at the Mine Logan had fled to with Rose, among many others.
"He's had more of an effect on you in the few months he's been at the institute than he has had on anyone else in his long life." Thomas finished, Rogue watched as the snow dissipated, white flowers surrounding them all now.
"Why am I here..." Rogue said.
"I'm supposed to use you to come back to the world of the living." Thomas said. "Wait..." He looked at Silver Fox. "Something's happening..."
Back at Magneto's citadel, Sabertooth threw Logan through the doorway into Magneto's operating room. Logan crashed onto the floor. Magneto looked over as Logan stood up, but Sabertooth wasn't in the hall anymore.
Logan turned, looking at Magneto, and Rogue on the table. "What the fuck did you do to her?!"
"Ah, Logan." Magneto said, flicking his wrist. Logan froze. "What an.. Unpleasant surprised."
Logan growled. "Let 'er go, Magneto."
"Or what, you'll swear at me?" Magneto said. "Once she's found him, she won't be needed anymore." Magneto held up two fingers, and it felt as though Logan's skeleton was trying to split apart Logan winced, screaming. Magneto laughed. "The man of Adamantium thought he could finish the man of Magnetism? What a fool..."
Sabertooth strolled in, glancing at Logan like he didn't know Logan had infiltrated the citadel. "What's the runt doin' here?"
Mangeto smirked. "He came to stop us."
"I found a body in one of the corridors. It was that Jenz guy that's been fucking with us for the past year." Sabertooth said.
"Oh? Who killed him?"
"Dunno." He said. Logan flinched. Jenz was dead? "The camera was out of action. Electrical overload."
"Damn." Magneto said, looking at Logan again. His skeleton once again tried to escape. Sabertooth merely raised an eyebrow. "What about the X-men?"
"The acolytes are fighting them. They won't be held back too long." Sabertooth said.
"That doesn't matter." Magneto said, putting his helmet on. "We'll have Thomas soon enough."
Magneto turned to leave, Logan fell to the ground. "Don't worry, bub." Sabertooth crooned. "It takes a psychic T'bring the kid back, not a gal like her." he finished, smirking and turning to leave.
"Where the hell do you think you're goin'?" Logan asked, snarling.
Sabertooth took out a strange looking thing that looked like a remote, pressing a button and tossing it out the corridors window. "Gotta get out of here. In fifteen minutes, the Semtex under the building goes up, and this place goes down." He grinned, then tossed a small glass to Logan.
"Give it T'the girl." He said, then left.
Logan glanced at the tiny bottle, then hurried to find a syringe and fill it. He walked to Rogue, tapping her arm, and then giving her the injection.
Nothing happened.
Rogue looked at Thomas. "Well?! What's happenin'!"
"Sabertooth is going to blow the place up." Thomas said, looking at Rogue. Breathing became hard for her. "What's wrong?" He asked. Silverfox moved towards her.
"An antidote..." Silverfox said, looking at Thomas. "She's going back this soon?"
Thomas nodded. "Rogue. The spirit project predicted many things. Here's another prediction. The man of admantium and the Untouchable woman will escape the Friends of Humanity." He winked. "Good luck, "Darlin'."."
Rogue's head went light, and she fell back onto the ground.
She woke up, gasping. Logan was carrying her as he ran down the hall. "Logan!" She said.
"Rogue?" He looked down at her, then sighed. "Good god, Y'scared me!"
"We gotta get out of here! Sabertooth...!" She said, but was cut off.
"Damn!" Logan said, the hallway was blocked off by several men in masks, their T-shirts read. F.O.H.
Rogue looked at them. The men started to laugh. "Cute mutie couple, hah?" One shouted. Logan growled.
"WOLVERINE!" A voice called out, the sound of a motorcycle echoed. The door behind the men flew open, a motorcycle crashed into them, knocking most down. The rider jumped off and dispatched the others.
Sabertooth.
Logan snarled. "What the hell are you doin'?!"
Sabertooth walked to Logan, getting right infront of him and looking down at him. He growled and his fangs could be seen. "Jus' think of it as a gift, Runt!"
He pushed Logan towards the bike, then ran off after one of the last Friends of Humanity.
Logan set Rogue down, glancing back at Sabertooth, who just smirked at him. Logan ran to the bike, Rogue got on behind him and tightened her arms around his waist.
He revved the bike, and rode out of there.
Outside, Hank had warned the others of the impending explosion. The acolytes had been defeated for the most part. They began fleeing to the X-jet.
The cycle broke through the door, Logan sped up, seeing the X-jet's ramp about to being closing. "Logan!" Rogue said in warning, holding him closer. In the Jet, Jean narrowed her eyes.
"What the...?" She said, Cyclops glanced out, seeing the bike.
"Holy shit!" Rogue exclaimed as the bike sped up the ramp, but cause them to spill off of it inside the X-jet.
The others jumped up, thinking they were from the F.O.H. at first. Hank picked Logan up, causing Logan to wince. "Dammit, Hank! Watch it!"
"Logan?!" Hank asked, then smiled. "It's Logan and Rogue!"
The others ran over, and the X-jet took off. The citadel behind them exploded. A kunoichi and a turncoat were the only others who had escaped.
Back at the Institute, Logan was admitted back to the X-men. There was a small party that evening after the mission, and a news announcing the F.O.H.'s demise.
Logan and Rogue stepped outside after the party. Logan glanced at Rogue, Rogue just smiled a him, leaning in and wrapping her arms around him. He slid his arms around her, and they looked out at the night sky.
Logan could swear he saw the outline of a woman, and the outline of a silver-haired soldier fade just as he looked up.
Logan smiled a bit, looking back at Rogue. She smirked, with one hand she lifted the collar of her sheer green overshirt and placed it over her lips, leaning in and kissing Logan.
The End.
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Aw...
--Ookami.
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The other end of the line picked up. "Hey. Just calling to tell you that everything went according to plan. Just as you said it would." Sabertooth said, nodding. "Yes. The citadel is wiped out, same goes for the Friends of Humanity." He cringed. "Yes. I'm sorry, that was a mistake."
"The Kunoichi got away. She did kill that electrical fellow. He could have come in handy, you know." He nodded slowly. "Alright. Mission complete. Goodbye, Professor." And he hung up.