Rogue stood outside the gates of the Mansion. It had been years since she had seen it whole, by her timeline it would be destroyed in two months. She could feel all the mutants in the house moving about. They were concerned about their fallen teammates. She could smell that in the air.

As Rogue stood there, she debated with herself. She shouldn't be here. But it was home. The only home she really ever knew. Back in Caldecott she was an outsider. Never truly comfortable. Eileen bless her heart, hadn't been much of a mother. She was really a kid person, you know.

Behind Rogue, John walked up. "We need to go."

"Don't you ever miss home, John?"

"Yeah, but I'm strong. You're strong. This won't last much longer. Then everything will be fine. And our futures will be free."

Rogue nodded. "But is it worth it?" Rogue gripped the bars of the gate hard enough to leave imprints. "It is truly worth it?"

John walked over and placed his hands over hers. "Think of your daughter Rogue. DO it for her. It's all for her."

With those words Rogue's resolve returned. She was doing this for her daughter and nothing else matters.

(Flashback)

Rogue is lying alone in a cell. It's clean and well lit. The guards don't want the prisoner to be able to do any funny stuff. Rouge is cradling her swollen belly, the only remainders of her short-lived marriage. The day she had been captured she had watched as her husband and the love of her life had been short down by shoulders. She had never even had a chance to tell him of her miracle.

Feeling her child inside her made her smile. That scared the guards. To be able to smile after all the things they'd done to her. They had started to beat her more frequently. This last time they'd almost caused her to lose the baby. That was unforgivable. So she decided to leave.

Unknown to the scientists and the guards Rogue had begun to call up the powers she had absorbed. Rogue smiled as she stood and walked to the bars of her cell.

"Sit back down mutie!" The lone guard shouted from behind his magazine.

Rogue just smiled. And raised her hand at the same time she released Alex's, Scott's brother, powers.

Walking away from the building that had held her for six months, Rogue smiled and laughed. The guards were dead. The scientists…dead. Everyone was dead and what mutants had been there were free. She on the other hand would never be free. Her husband taken just months after her family was lost. Someone would pay.

"Hey, you!" Rogue turned to see a black haired female mutant coming towards her. "My name is Sage, and my boss is Sebastian Shaw. I'm a telepath and I overheard you thoughts. I think we can all help each other."

(End flashback)

That had been the beginning of her transformation. What transformation you ask? The transformation from X-Man to badass mutant. Sebastian molded her to his will and taught her to control everything about herself and the world around her. Then he unleashed her on the world.

(Flashback)

Rogue, three months after the escape from prison and a year and a half before she goes back in time, walks toward a lone building in the middle of the desert. Behind her, in a white leather mini and corset, is Emma Frost, the White Queen.

"Why did Sebastian call us here?"

Rogue turned to look at Emma. "I don't know. He said he's done something phenomenal. I think it has something to do with the Black Queen."

Emma turned to look at Rogue. "Why would he deal with Selene? She took over the New York Hellfire Club and forced him into Japan."

"I don't know that's why I'm worried." Emma walked over to the tall mutant and petted her white streaks.

"Don't worry, Black Knight. We'll protect each other. We always do." Together the two mutants walked towards the building and entered. In the center of a vast room stood an iron box, six feet high, by six feet wide, by six feet deep.

Rogue cocked her head. "666? Is this a joke? 'Bastion? Have you summoned a demon again?"

"'Bastion" walked from a curtain across the room. "No, lesson was learned that time. I've actually found a friend of yours Rogue. Well two actually." He gestured toward the box.

Cautiously Rogue walked to the iron box and looked through the small window. She gasped, "Kitty!"

Rogue turned around and looked for an opening. "What happened to her? The last time I saw her was… at the party. That was almost a year ago though!" Rogue began to beat on the box. Sebastian walked over and grasped her hands.

"She's in there willingly. We found her in a Trask facility in Genosha. They had experimented on her. The best our scientists can understand is that they overloaded her power and caused her to lose control. She hasn't been able to reconstitute herself in corporeal form since. We've tried electricity, magnetism, hydropower…Nothing doing."

"How long?"

"We've had her here for two months. We told her you were here and she wanted to see you. But, Rogue, be careful. She killed every person in that facility. Just floated through them and stopped all brain functions. She's dangerous."

Rogue laughed. "She could never be dangerous to me! She's like a sister. Now open the door."

(end Flashback)

"Rogue!"

"Sorry, what?"

John shook his head. "Pay attention! Now our first task is to find Apocalypse's lieutenants. Once they're out of the way, we head for his allies. They're less important since they only come into play later. First up, we take out Archangel."

Whoa! Gonna kill people!

Cool.