Disclaimer: Oh honestly now, if I owned X-men evolution and all its franchises, where's my money? Are you holding out on me Mr. Lee? Where's my paycheck!!!!! Must buy Ritz stock before moving to school…
The excitement and confusion of the early morning intrusion had carried on past the sunrise to the breakfast table, each swiping tales of what had taken place. While the new and old students alike exchanged tales of seeing a dark figure run off with Rogue on his shoulder, and Kurt attempted to fill in the details to the other students of the gallant rescue of Rogue and the capture of the intruder. Meanwhile, Scott had remained quiet the entire time, staring out the window to the bleak scene outside to upturn dirt and grass in addition to the charred remains of trees and shrubs from the early morning scuffle. Jean had also remained subdued during the entire fiasco. She had not reached the scene on time to aide in the rescue attempt or witness any of it, however, she could tell by Scott's expression that he was greatly affected by it. She stared at him, attempting to read his features to his inner struggle.
He looked back at her feeling her eyes studying him and flashed her a smile, an effort to ease her worried expression. I'm fine, Jean, don't worry, he projected as he picked up his car keys. "Come on guys, we're going to be late for school."
"You cannot by serious," Kitty said in disbelief. "Like, how can we sit through class after what happened this morning? It would be like totally hard to concentrate."
"You heard him," Logan replied as he stepped into the dining area. Instantly, all of the chatter came to a screeching halt, as he made his way by carrying a cup of black coffee in his hands. Their eyes followed him as he took his accustomed seat by the window. He looked back up at the teenagers with an eyebrow raised. "What are you waiting for? Get ready. That is of course unless you want an extra five hour Danger Room session. Either way you're gonna learn something, so take your pick." With that said the students quickly stood up and made a mad rush to the door.
He silently sipped from his cup as he watched them make their way out, keeping a particular eye on their sullen leader. Gonna have to have a talk with the boy, he thought to himself as he brought out a brown paper bag from a hidden compartment by the window. He opened the top and poured out a liquid into his coffee from a bottle in the simple bag.
"Ahem."
Logan quickly looked up to see an angry weather-witch staring down at him. Ororo had her arms crossed over her chest as she eyed the brown bag in his hands.
"What? It's cream," he said in defense as he took another sip from his new concoction.
The white-haired woman merely sighed as she grabbed the bag from him. Alcohol had been prohibited from being on the school grounds, but that was something she would have a talk with him later, although the attempt was quite futile. Didn't work the others times she caught him. They had more pressing matters to attend to at the moment, however. "The professor wants us to meet up in the lab with Hank to discuss what we're going to do at this point. Would you care to join us, or do you want more time alone with your 'coffee'?"
"I'm coming, I'm coming," Logan replied as he stood from his seat.
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"So what exactly happened last night?" Logan injected as soon as Xavier had finished his speech on security measures.
"Well, as much as I can gather from meeting with the young man and the CD that he had on him, it merely seems that Magneto had planned to deliver a message to me," Charles Xavier answered as he held up the CD in question. "It contains a program encryption for the Danger Room. However, I don't know exactly what was on it at this point to due to something damage that came to it during the escape attempt by our new houseguest. He claims to not know any specifics about what was Magneto's attempt, and at this point we really have no choice but take his word. I've been having difficulty getting into his mind. He seems to have some mental shielding to protect…"
"Don't mean to interrupt, Charles, but that's not exactly what I wanted to know," Logan continued as he looked at the telepath. "What's wrong with Rogue?"
Xavier let out a sigh as he handed the CD back to Dr McCoy. "She's another that I am having difficulty to get through to. Her mind is a mess right now. It seems as if the psyches of the people she has absorbed in her past are still present in her mind. From what I can tell, I believe it's getting to be too much for her to handle at this point. She's young, and her powers are still new and out of her control, so it's no surprise to me that she's having difficulty controlling these psyches. I can't say that I expected them to react that way, but it seems as if they're fighting for control of her body at this point. I've had a feeling that this has been building up for some time now…"
Logan's mind began to wander as he thought back to the racket lodged into the wall of the racketball area the night before. He had been meaning to have a talk with the girl about it the next day, but he had been sent on a wild goose chase the night before. He took another large sip on his coffee as he let his mind drift away from the incident. The past was the past, whether he remembered it or not. All that they had at this point was the present and the future, and at the present he was concerned about Rogue. The young woman reminded him of himself, a loner confused about herself and her powers, feeling isolated from the world and everyone else, at times not seeing who her true allies and friends.
"From what I've gathered from Gambit on what happened in those last few minutes before he lost consciousness, Rogue had used her powers on him. I'm not going to know for certain what happened until Rogue wakes up, but I take it that this last psyche was the tipping point to which the psyche's managed to take over. Since his was the most recent absorption, I believe that is why she took his form most likely using Mystique power to manifest his image. The psyche must not have known that he was absorbed at that point and believed it was still on its mission. It's hard to say for sure what had happened. Rogue mind is jumbled up right, so it'll take some time for me to figure out how exactly this happened. As much as Rogue is not sure of how to control her powers, I was not sure on the extent to which the damage may have done on her own mind. I'm afraid we have not even begun to see where her powers might lead her."
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Rogue wandered around the dimly lit med lab. Her ankle made it difficult to walk around, but the pain did not compare to that caused by the massive headache she was experiencing. She slowly attempted to recollect what had happened after she kissed Gambit. She remembered him dropping down, and memories of Cody flashing through her mind. Her body exhausted and her mind buzzing with the sounds of screaming and yelling, her first instinct was to run. She had not gotten very far when she collapse and passed out. At least she thought she passed out. Then her nightmare started--she was bound somewhere dark, surrounded by everyone she had ever absorbed just staring down at her angrily. Wait, it wasn't everyone. Someone was missing, two people actually. Mystique and Gambit. Then she remembered hearing Logan threatening someone, then Scott. Then everything went black again until she woke up in the med lab.
But wat happened ta Gambit? she thought to herself as she looked into another room. Ah didn't kill him did Ah? Although he was her enemy, she hated the thought of hurting him or anyone with her powers. She continued her desperate search for someone, anyone who could give her answers to what had happened. When she came to another closed door. She slowly opened it and peeked in. Lying in the bed was the intruder--Gambit, or Remy, or whoever he was. She still had a few of his memories dancing around in her head. Remy Lebeau, prince of thieves as he referred to himself at times. Hired thug of Magneto. Rogue quietly crept into the room, shutting the door behind her. She nervously hid her hands behind her back as she walked to his bedside. "Oh, mah gawd, Ah killed him," she whispered as she desperately searched for a heart monitoring machine of some sorts.
"Umm.." Remy moaned as his eyes fluttered opened. His red irises locked onto the form looking over him. "Not quite, cherie," he replied as he sat up. "But Remy demand a rematch. Ya played dirty. Not dat Remy had any problem with dat, in fact Remy wouldn't mind you doing that more often."
Rogue angrily threw his pillow at him in response. " Well, Ah COULD making skin-to-skin contact again and snatch up your powers and -charmin- personality for an hour or two, BUT Ah rather just POUND your skull into pulp, swamp-rat."
"Awww," Remy cooed as he put the pillow behind his head and leaned back again it. "Remy think ya starting ta like me already."
Author Rant: I decided to put the author rant at the end of the chapter this time. I wrote up an explanation just to clear up some confusion about that last chapter, and I did my best to explain it in this chapter itself so I didn't want to spoil it. But just in case some are still confused…Yes, the psyches began their hostile take over when she absorbed Remy, and yes, that was Mystique's powers manifesting. The reason that's Remy psyche began to manifest was because it was the most recent and strongest psyche, in that it was the one that she held the longest thus far. My reasoning for this theory, well, in the concert scene of "Self-Possessed" she had more physical contact with Mystique than anyone up to that point, at least in my opinion, hence why her presence seemed more present. The other pysche's faded after awhile, but her powers were there constantly as seen through the shape-shifting. Keeping in mind that the events of "Self-Possessed" has not occurred up to this point, it is this author's argument that like Mystique's powers was present and the psyche's manifested through her powers, Mystique's powers manifested when Gambit was observed. Also keeping in mind that when she was possessed by the pysches she wasn't in full control of her body as if she was the person themselves as well as the fact that Gambit's psyche was fresh in her mind, when Rogue regained consciousness, the psyche thought it was still in it's own body. Does that make any sense? No, well, at least this chapter is longer… hahaha… Oh, and…
ROGUE KISSED GAMBIT ON SATURDAYS SHOW! Hehehe. She did the move my Rogue did! Hehehe..
[Rogue Warrior Spirit] I feel bad for both of them really. Although despite being knocked unconscious by Rogue, he's gonna try again. It's just a given.
[me] As confusing as the last chapter was, I'm glad that you're weren't disappointed.
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[Dragonet] I know, I have a problem with the short chapters, but hopefully I remedied that a bit with this chapter. Much longer than my last ones.
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[Yumiko] eep..Cap-lock.. Well, this one didn't take as long for me to write. The last one really motivated me to get this done. fill in the gaps of what happened for the confused ones.
[Destiny Phoenix] I'm glad you're enjoying the story, hopefully this chapter cleared a few things up though.
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