One Big Battle Coming Up

"THIS WAS MY PLAN! MINE!" Lucas screamed.

"Oh, who are you kidding?" Blackjack shifted back. "Besides I would have let you play with Ms. Grey if you behaved yourself like a good little boy. But since you didn't Cyndi gets her turn."

"Yeah now shut up and let me have some fun!" Cyndi snapped as she changed back. "I've earned it!"

"Oh no you don't!" Lucas shifted back.

"Man no matter who wins, Cyclops loses," Lance casually remarked.

"Avalanche!" Jean glared at him.

"What? You would prefer it if you were out there?" Lance asked.

Jean thought a minute. "You have a point."

"Oh thanks a lot!" Scott snapped. "Lucas! Fight Cyndi! You gotta fight Cyndi!"

"What do you think I'm trying to do here? Compete in a bake off?" Lucas shouted at him. "Believe me I don't want any part of me touching you except for my fist!"

Just then Rogue flew in through the window. "Rogue!" Scott called out.

"The name's Carol," Rogue glared at him as she floated down.

"Ah impeccable timing my dear," Lucas grinned. "I'll take that data disk if you don't mind."

"What data disk?" Jean asked.

Just then the door broke open. "The one this jerk stole from SHEILD!" Carol Danvers shouted as she flew in.

"Oh crap…" Lucas grunted. "I forgot about you!"

"You forgot a lot of things," Carol snapped. "But you won't after today! Brainwashing someone's bad enough but making her think she's me? Oh you are really gonna pay!"

"Right," Lucas decided to send a psychic attack at her. "What? Nothing's happening?"

"Let's just say I've prepared for someone like you," Carol snarled."A little mental block your old man gave me before you sent her to trash SHEILD!"

"Destroy her!" Lucas ordered Rogue.

"With pleasure!" Rogue flew towards Carol and they started to fight again.

"Snap out of it Rogue!" Jean shouted.

"She can't hear you," Lucas laughed as he watched the fight. "She'll only listen to me!"

"You're gonna pay imposter!" Rogue shouted.

"Listen girl, you're the one whose brain has been scrambled here!" Carol snapped as she punched back.

Cyndi shifted back. "Get her! Get her! Tear her head off!"

Carol saw the shift. "What the…?"

That was when Rogue saw her opportunity and gave her a right hook into the wall. "Okay…Now that hurt!" Carol shouted as she wobbly sat up.

Rogue tackled her. "Now you're going to pay!"

"Oh yeah…" Carol started to say as she grabbed Rogue by the face. However her gloves had been torn and she made skin contact with Rogue. "AAHHHHHHH!"

"AAGGGGHHH!" Rogue screamed as Carol's life force and powers flowed into her.

"HA!" Lucas shifted back. "That was easy!"

Rogue lowered the unconscious Carol onto the ground. "Wait…That's me…But it wasn't me before…" Suddenly Carol's memories rushed into Rogue's head. "Wait if this is Carol then I'm…." She glared at Lucas. "YOU!"

"Uh oh," Lucas gulped. "Carol dear, you're confused. Here let me…"

To this he was met with Rogue's fist to his face. "You messed with my mind!" She screamed. "You used me!"

"You screwed up Lucas!" Cyndi shifted back.

"Me? This was Blackjack's idea!" Lucas shifted back.

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP! I CAN'T CONCENTRATE!" Blackjack shouted.

"GOOD!" Rogue took advantage of the situation and tackled him.

"Now this is what I call a big finish," Fred grinned.

"We have to stop her before she kills him!" Jean shouted.

"And that's bad, why?" Pietro folded his arms.

"They're in here!" Logan ran in with the rest of the X-Men. "Holy…"

"What's going on?" Kurt asked.

"Long story short Lucas is more than one brick shy of a full load," Fred told them as they were freed from their cells. "I mean that wheelbarrow is nearly empty!"

"Huh?" Kitty asked.

"He means Cyndi and Blackjack are also personalities of Legion!" Scott told them as Logan cut his bonds.

"Yeah it looks like Rogue ain't the only one having an identity crisis!" Todd said.

"You used me!" Rogue screamed as she threw Lucas to the side of a wall.

Blackjack shifted. "Time to retreat!"

"NO KIDDING! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" A very battered Lucas screamed as he flew away. He changed into Cyndi who shouted. "OH SHUT UP!"

Jean used her telekinesis to grab Rogue. "LET GO OF ME!" She screamed. She grabbed her head. "No…No…All these memories…Too many of them…"

Xavier entered the room and used his telepathy to help Rogue. Rogue! Fight them! Let me help you contain those personalities! You've done it before! You can do it again!

"Carol…" Rogue gasped. "Get outta my head!" She screamed and collapsed onto the ground.

"Rogue!" Remy ran to her. "She's out cold."

"Iceman, call the mansion and let them know what's happened," Xavier ordered.

"Got it," Bobby nodded and ran to the Blackbird.

"The Blackbird's outside," Logan told them as he picked up Carol. "We can take it from here."

"Man, what a freaky trip," Todd remarked as they went outside. "Cyclops nearly had a tongue sandwich from Legion."

"What?" Kurt blinked.

"I swear if you people say one word to anyone about what happened to me…" Scott fumed.

"Hey compared to what nearly happened to you, you got off easy," Lance said.

"Do I wanna know what happened?" Logan looked at Scott.

"No," Scott frowned. "You don't!"

"Nobody does!" Jean snapped.

"Come on Summers it ain't your fault Legion's girl side has the hots for you," Todd remarked. "You are one sexy dude."

"SHUT UP!" Scott shouted at him reaching for his shirt but missing. Todd hopped away cackling.

"Xavier your kid needs some serious help," Lance told him.

"And this is coming from a guy who occasionally has hallucinations about a talking coyote," Toad nodded.

"Didn't somebody tell you to shut up?" Lance whirled on him.

"Your tongue is gonna end up in a knot if you don't quit it!" Scott snapped.

"Listen, we can only focus on one mental case at a time," Kurt snapped at Todd, Lance and Scott. "So can we please focus on Rogue? We can deal with all of your mental problems later!"

"Is she gonna be okay?" Remy asked as he held Rogue.

"I don't know," Jean told him. "But I think our Rogue is in control again."

"Legion got away," Fred told them.

"Well he can't get away from himself," Althea said. "He's getting a taste of his own medicine as we speak!"

"No wonder he was able to create a false personality in Rogue," Scott grumbled. "I mean look at what he did to himself!"

"I fear that Legion may be too powerful for his own good," Xavier shook his head.

"Guys I hate to cut this touching scene short, but we gotta move!" Bobby shouted from the Blackbird. "The Mansion's under attack!"

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Warren barely had time to shut down the mansion and lock it on Defcon 4 before the rest of the invaders made it inside. "It's a good thing I have some of those over ride codes in the computer upstairs…" Warren muttered.

"Why can't we just fight them?" Ray asked.

"You may get your chance," Warren winced as something strong pounded on the steel doors, creating dents. "I managed to send a mayday signal to the Blackbird but something tells me they won't hear it in time!"

"But how did they shut down the outside defenses in the first place?" Sam asked.

"Someone's in the mansion…In the lower levels…" Betsy rubbed her head. "I sense some unfamiliar minds…"

"Cerebro!" Warren growled. "Damn it! They must have some kind of teleporter! Okay here's what we'll do; Sunspot, Forge, Bedlam and Psylocke come with me. We're gonna ferret out whoever's in here. The rest of you try to keep the other intruders from getting into the mansion. Cannonball, you're in charge."

"Why him?" Tim asked.

"Because I said so that's why!" Warren snapped as he took his team downstairs.

"All right, everybody take defensive positions," Sam ordered as the walls started to crumble and the dents in the doors and windows grew bigger. "Looks like those doors won't hold them forever. Get ready…"

"Where's Penny?" Danielle looked around.

"Last I saw she was headed…Outside…" Jamie remembered.

"Oh crap…" Sam moaned.

"Come on, put your backs into it!" Cortez snapped to the other invading mutants. "For the glory of Magneto you…" He heard something come at him. "AGGGHHH!"

Everyone saw Cortez being hit hard by something pink and black. Penny easily knocked him out cold. "Ow…" Cortez muttered before he passed out.

"Cortez is the first one down five minutes in the battle," Sabertooth noticed. "Now there's a shock!"

"Bigger shock. He was taken down by a little pink girl," Horns snickered.

"Hssssss!" Penny arched her back and tackled Horns.

"YEOW! GET HER OFFA ME!" Horns screamed. "OW!"

"I got her!" A telekinetic tossed her off of Horns and held her in the air. "Sheesh! She's heavier than she looks!"

Suddenly the armor plating began to pull back into the mansion. "Finally! Took Milan long enough to break through those codes!" Sabertooth grinned. The Acolytes poured into the mansion where the fighting began

"Guess who's back?" Feral laughed with glee as she kicked Everett aside and charged towards the other New Mutants.

"Feral?" Jubilee gasped. "Somebody let the cat out of prison!"

"We're gonna put her back!" Amara shouted.

"You and what army?" Feral snarled.

"Funny you should mention that," Jubilee indicated Jamie and his fifty clones.

"CHAAAAARRRRRGGEEE!" The Multiple army attacked. Several clones grabbing whatever Acolyte closest to them at a time. They bit, kicked and tried to drag down as many as they could.

"GET 'EM OFF! GET 'EM OFF!"Feral screamed. "STOP PULLING MY TAIL!"

"YOU LITTLE PERVERT!" Joanna Cargil screamed. "HE FELT ME UP! STOP THAT!"

"SPIDERS! SPIDERS!" One mutant was suffering from Danielle's attack. Another was burned in the behind by Amara. Lockeheed was darting in and out blasting any intruder he could find with his fire. Tim and Ray were happily blasting away anyone they could find. Even though the New Mutants were outnumbered, they were still easily holding their own. After all, they usually had bigger fights with the Misfits nearly every day. Even the new recruits seemed to get into the spirit as well with very little problems.

"How are you holding up Synch?" Dead Girl asked as she kicked one invader down.

"Quite well actually. A lot of powers for me to choose from," Everett grinned as he demonstrated his ability to mimic telekinesis.

"Time to die!" Gargouille grabbed Dead Girl and held her in the air. Another Acolyte blasted her with energy and she dropped the body pieces on the ground. "Pathetic." She landed to gloat.

"I'm already dead genius!" Dead Girl reformed and tackled Gargouille. "No matter how many times I get blasted I pull myself together. Let's see if you do the same!"

With a swift movement she managed to grab onto Gargouille's left wing and broke it. "AGGGGHH!" Gargouille screamed in agony.

"Now who's pathetic?" Dead Girl grinned.

"RARRRRR!" Penny charged throught he Acolyltes slashing away.

"YEOW! THAT HURTS!" Joanna Cargil screamed.

Down below in the lower chambers the four X-Men could hear the explosions and felt the foundation shake. "And I thought Avalanche could really shake the place up," Jesse muttered.

"We're just gonna have to hope they can hold out until the others get here," Warren said as he approached the door to Cerebro.

"There's only two of them and they're in there…" Betsy pointed out. "I can sense them…"

"And of course the door is somehow locked," Warren grumbled. "Great. I gotta try and over ride the system."

"How's it coming Milan?" Amelia asked on the other side of the door.

Milan was holding a laptop computer and using his mutant powers to link up with Cerebro. "I have downloaded 15 percent of the data in Cerebro," He said. "Accessing mutant files now. Also there are some X-Men on the other side of the door attempting to get in. I have to divert 25 percent of my concentration in order to keep them out."

"I think we may need to even the odds a little," Amelia prepared to teleport. "I'll get some reinforcements." She teleported upstairs.

Warren and Roberto were working on the control panel. "Almost there…" Roberto said.

"Okay get ready for anything," Warren warned them.

"Hold it, one of them has left the room…" Betsy blinked. "They definitely have a teleporter there."

"Then that means…" Warren began when he heard an odd hissing sound.

Behind them they saw Voight reappear with Sabertooth and two unknown mutants. "Sabertooth, Scanner! Senyaka! Stop them!" Voight shouted. "I'm going to help Milan download the rest of Cerebro's files!" She disappeared back into Cerebro's chamber.

"Dibs on Wings!" The blond female Acolyte named Scanner shouted as she charged.

The Acolyte Senyaka, completely covered in red and black body armor and a cowl created two psyonic whips with his arms and snapped them at Roberto and Jesse. "Yikes!" Jesse narrowly missed getting hit.

"I guess that leaves the frail to me!" Sabertooth laughed as he charged at Betsy.

"This week is getting better and better…" Betsy groaned as she did some back flips in order to avoid Sabertooth's claws.

"Okay lady why don't you just…" Warren flew towards her. She disappeared. "Where did she go?" He stopped and landed looking around. Then he was kicked from behind. "Invisibility?"

"Gee what was your first clue?" Scanner laughed as she reappeared.

"Let's see you laugh when I get through with you lady!" Warren flew right at her.

Then he flew right through her. "Let's see if you touch me first!" She laughed.

"Oh great, someone who can phase as well as become invisible!" Warren groaned.

Jesse dodged Senyaka's whip, which cut a large hole in the wall. "I don't know what exactly those things are made of but something tells me I don't wanna find out what it'll do to me!"

"Eat sunblasts!" Roberto shouted as he powered up and blasted his energy at Senyaka. Senyaka merely whirled his whips around in a defensive mode and made a small shield with the energy he created so that the ray blast bounced harmlessly off. "Oh boy…"

Meanwhile Sabertooth had managed to corner Betsy. "Scream for me…" He grinned.

"GET LOST!" Betsy shouted, unleashing a full spectrum of her psychic energy at Sabertooth. In her hands psychic energy formed into a purple knife and she threw it at Sabertooth's head.

"YEAAARRHHHGGHH!" Sabertooth collapsed against the psychic backlash.

"How did I do that?" Betsy looked at her hands.

"Well could you do it again?" Roberto asked as he tried to fly away from Senyaka's whips. One cut him on the back. "AGGGHH!" He fell to the ground.

"SUNSPOT!" Warren shouted and tried to help him only to be hit hard with a psychic whip as well. He crumpled to the floor.

"Two down, two to go…" Scanner grinned at Betsy and Jesse. "This will be easy!"

"Oh no it won't!" Betsy put her hands to her head and unleashed a huge psychic wave.

"AGGHH!" Senyaka stumbled.

"Too…Powerful…" Scanner knelt to the ground.

"Man," Jesse blinked. "I'm glad you're on our side."

"You can disrupt machinery right?" Betsy panted. "Try it on the control panel."

"Worth a shot," Jesse focused his powers and the control panel sparked. The door to Cerebro slid open.

"What the…?" Amelia gasped.

"Get away from those files!" Betsy advanced on Amelia.

"Let me shut them down!" Jesse used his powers again, intending to attack the laptop. Unfortunately he also hit Cerebro and anyone connected to it.

"AIIAAAGGHHH!" Milan screamed and collapsed to the ground.

"Milan!" Amelia went towards him.

"Forget him!" Scanner had recovered and grabbed her by the arm. "We got all we can! Get us out of here before we end up like him!"

"For once I agree…" Sabertooth got to his feet as well as Senyaka. Voight teleported them out.

Meanwhile the battle upstairs was not going well for the Acolytes. "Oooh…" Cortez stood up battered and broken. "What hit me?"

"RETREAT!" Horns knocked him down as he ran out. "RETREAT!"

"Cortez! Come on!" Feral snarled as she ran past him. "We gotta get outta here! We're not powerful enough! These kids are too good!"

"We are the mighty Acolytes of Magneto! How can we be…" Cortez began. Then he saw thirty rampaging Jamie clones headed straight towards him. "Oh no…" Of course he was trampled by them. "RETREAT! RETREAT!"

"YEAH RUN! RUN YOU FREAKING COWARDS!" Tim laughed as he shot out energy blasts at the retreating Acolytes.

"Damnit! I was only able to retrieve a third of the files we needed!" Amelia swore. "Magneto will not be pleased!"

"Hey we were lucky to get out of there with our skins in tact," Horns snapped. "Those freaks are better than we thought!"

"Yeah and at least we sent a message to 'em to stay out of our way," Joanna told her.

"Some message," Gargouille held her broken wing. "We had the advantage and they still kicked our butts! And they got Milan!"

"What's left of him…" Sabertooth grunted.

"I just hope what we did get will be enough for Magneto to accept our losses," Voight thought as they fled.

"We beat 'em," A very tattered Tabitha whooped. "Ow…"

"Yeah and we wrecked our home doing it," Sam looked at the devastation.

"There goes the budget," Danielle sighed.

"So does stuff like this happen a lot around here?" Tim asked as he looked around.

"Unfortunately," Sam groaned.

"Really?" Tim looked a bit pleased with himself. "You know maybe this place isn't so bad after all."

"At least we won't get bored," Dead Girl said. "Hey! What happened to the others?"

"We'd better go find them," Sam said and they went downstairs. "Are you guys okay?" He asked when they found them.

"If by okay you mean a massive headache and several broken bones, yeah…" Roberto sat up stiffly.

"What happened to him?" Everett asked as he pointed to the unconscious Acolyte.

"I overheard that red head say his power is being able to link his brain with a computer," Betsy said. "He was trying to download files using his power. When Bedlam fried Cerebro's circuits he must have fried his brain too."

"Eww…" Tabitha winced. "Is he gonna be like a vegetable or something?"

"I am not changing his bedpan I am telling you that," Amara folded her arms.

"Too bad, he's kind of cute," Dead Girl said. "And him being in a coma is a plus. No boring conversation."

"Tell me you are not serious," Ray looked at her.

"Hey, I'm not exactly in a position to be picky ya know?" Dead Girl told them.

"I don't want to know any more," Everett groaned. "I definitely do not want to know any more!"

"Ohhhh…" Warren woke up. "What happened?"

"We won…" Betsy told him. "I think…" She looked around at the devastation.

That was when Several X-Men and Misfits teleported into the room. "We're here to…Help?" Althea looked around.

"What took you so long?" Dead Girl asked sarcastically.