Breakdown

"I don't understand it!" Forge walked into the infirmary. "There was nothing in the equipment that went wrong! Nothing faulty! Not even a dim light bulb! Trinity, Arcade and I must have made at least a half dozen checks even before this happened and still…"

"Forge, I'm not so sure it was the equipment that caused Rogue to have a seizure like that," Xavier reassured him. He was in the infirmary with Lifeline, Jean, Kurt and Remy. Everyone else had been exiled upstairs. Rogue was lying on the hospital bed knocked out.

"What you saying Airtight had something to do with this?" Lifeline asked. "I know he's batty but still…"

"No, I mean perhaps Rogue had a psychic overload," Xavier interrupted him. "No matter how many times I help her purge and contain the personalities of the people she absorbs, somehow a small part of them remains imbedded in her psyche. Airtight could have been simply one psyche too many."

"It has happened before," Scott frowned.

"But she hasn't absorbed anybody in a while," Kurt said.

"That we know of…" Remy frowned.

"The problem is somehow I'm being blocked," Xavier frowned. "I can't get a fix on her thoughts. It's almost like someone else is shielding her mind but…"

"Ohhh…" Rogue moaned.

"She's waking up," Jean said. "Rogue? Rogue are you okay?" Rogue opened her eyes and sat up. "Take it easy Rogue, you've had a nasty shock."

"Who…Who the hell are you people?" Rogue asked in a northern accent. "Where am I?"

"Rogue, it's us," Scott said.

"Chere don't you remember me?" Remy asked reaching out to her.

"I've never seen any of you people in my life!" Rogue snapped brushing his hand away. "What the hell is going on here? And what the hell is that?" Her eyes widened when she saw Kurt.

"Rogue it's me! Kurt! Your brother," Kurt was shocked.

"Oh no, there is no way on earth that I am related to you!" Rogue got out of the bed. "Who are you people and why am I here?"

"Professor what's wrong? Why doesn't Rogue remember us?" Jean asked.

"In the first place kid, my name isn't Rogue it's…" Rogue looked around and caught a glimpse of herself in a mirror on the wall. "What the hell…?" She walked over to it. "This isn't my face! What did you people do to me?"

"You're her aren't you…" Remy realized something. "You're the one been stuck in Rogue's head."

"Stuck in…" Rogue looked at him. "Get me out of here! Now!"

"Rogue please," Lifeline went to comfort her. "You have to calm down!"

"My name is Carol!" Rogue screamed. "Carol Danvers!" She grabbed Lifeline and tossed him against the wall.

"Rogue! No! Don't do this!" Kurt teleported and tried to hold onto her only to be thrown away like a rag doll.

"I don't know who or what you people are but I'm getting outta this nuthouse! HEY!" Rogue shouted as she was restrained by Jean's telekinesis.

"Sorry, Rogue but until you calm down…" Jean put her hands to her head in order to hold her.

"LET GO OF ME!" Rogue screamed as she struggled.

"Rogue focus on my…" Xavier began to probe her thoughts. "She's blocking me! I can't get through!"

"RRRRAAAHGHHHHHH!" Rogue made a huge effort and shattered the force of Jean's telekinesis, creating a huge backlash that sent the X-Men sprawling.

"She broke through my telekinesis!" Jean shouted.

"Look out!" Scott warned as Rogue flew rapidly towards the ceiling.

Then she flew through it.

"ROGUE!" Scott screamed as the rubble from the falling ceiling fell on them. Jean was able to erect a telekinetic shield to protect them from the falling debris.

"Rogue come back!" Remy screamed. But it was too late, she had taken off.

Jean let down the shields as the last of the rubble fell and used her telekinesis to clear the debris off of them. "I…I can't sense her anymore! She flew away too fast!"

"Not that it would do much good," Xavier said. "For some reason her mind was blocked off to me!"

"What is going on here?" Lance shouted as the Misfits ran in. "And what happened to your roof?"

"Rogue, she went nuts…" Kurt groaned. "For no reason!"

"So what else is new?" Pietro quipped.

"No I mean she really went nuts!" Kurt glared at him. "She didn't even recognize us!"

"She thinks she's someone else named Carol," Jean said. Then she looked at Remy. "And somehow Gambit knew about it."

"Sort of…" Remy sighed.

"Okay Gambit, you know something so spill it!" Logan growled at him.

"Rogue didn't want anyone to know," Remy sighed. "She's been having dreams, memory flashes. Of someone she absorbed on Asteroid M when we were captured."

"You'd better start at the beginning," Xavier told him.

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Rogue/Carol flew as fast as she could in the sky, glad to be away from that weird place. "What did they do to me? What happened? Wait…I was on a mission…And that girl…Of course, they tried to stop me! But their plan backfired! Well I'm going to teach them a lesson. Don't mess with Ms. Marvel!"

She flew to her destination with nothing but revenge on her mind.

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"And that's all Remy knows," Remy finished his tale to the X-Men and Misfits.

"So she thinks she's this Carol Danvers chick?" Todd asked.

"That's very odd," Xavier frowned. "I have been working with Rogue and her psyches regularly. And not once have I encountered a personality like the one you described."

"Maybe it was so traumatic it just got buried along with the others?" Jean suggested. "I mean it's possible."

"And from what you described of Rogue's dreams it seems she did not do this of her own free will," Hank thought. "Is it possible that somehow Magneto happened to bury this extra personality using another telepath?"

"Anything's possible," Xavier said. "I'm not infallible. I couldn't sense Lucas before he took over David's body. What we need to do is find out who this Carol Danvers actually is and what she is or was capable of."

"I know who she is," Logan frowned. "But I haven't heard from her in years. She used to work for SHEILD."

"Oh goody," Pietro groaned. "We get to go play with those guys again! This should be fun."