A/N: Ok, here's the deal, I have a lot of work so I won't be updating soon. Sorry! I really need to work, some stuff is slipping. That's why this is really short. Still, please r&r. Thankies and sorry again!

Can't Stay

I punched in the code for the door. The large, soild metal doors slid open. Before I entered the hall, I used Eric's magnetic forces to shut down any cameras. I hovered into the hall, ready to strike in case Magneto had felt the disturbance. No one was in view as the door closed behind me. I sealed the door behind me again with magentic force. As I waited for my enemy if they knew I was here, I got the lay out of the land. At the end of some twisting halls came a large circular room with four doors leading off it.

The door to my left and right led to sleeping and eating areas, etc. The other one to the left led to places to work on whatever plans the enemy works on. The last one was the one I wanted. It led to a cliff, and across that was the holding cells and where Magneto worked. Calling Eric to the forefront of my mind, I sealed the other three doors, and once I was through the fourth one, I sealed it too. I flew down the hall, across the cliff, and to the cells. I had to act quick, Magneto was just waiting for his time to stike, he had to have felt the magnetic disturbance I had caused.

"Jubes? Kitty?" I called into the only cell with dim lights on. Both were sitting against the wall, eyes closed. I prayed they weren't unconcious. Kitty opened her eyes slightly. She pointed to a collar around her neck that was blocking her powers. I quickly cut some of the bars and cut the collars from a tired Kitty and uncouncious Jubilee. I picked both of them up.

"Come on, lets get out of here." Almost as soon as I had set foot in the hallway back towards the exit, the metal doors started to creak and bend. Magneto was about to get through! I laid the girls in the office of Magneto, that was the only place out of the way. As the doors burst open, I crouched into a fighting stance. I would protect my friends until the end.

"So we meet again Rogue," said Magneto as he came throught the doors. Pyro, Toad, and Sabretooth were with him.

"You really thought you could get your friends out of here alive," he laughed. "You are mistaken, and with you here in person it will make my revenge all the more sweet."

I got ready for anything.