Forgiveness

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Chapter 12: Operation Satellite

Remy yawned loudly and dragged his feet as he followed Derek to the Planning Room.

SIX IN THE FUCKING MORNING! It was six in the fucking morning. You'd think Mr. Stick up his ass jr. would have at least let them sleep in this morning after his little drill at THREE O"CLOCK IN THE MORNING! This drill, was the enemy drill. They had to learn what to do if an enemy broke in. Garret had drilled them till five, then let them sleep. Remy had just gotten to sleep when a pissed off Derek who was also suffering from sleep lack had woken him up.

"Get your lazy ass up Cajun, we have a meeting remember?" He yelled through the door slamming his fist on the door.

"Uuuh…"

The stupid ass hole Garret was going to get it, if not by Remy, then by one of the other two dozen sleepless people he had made get up.

Derek and Remy walked into the Planning Room to find a majority of people there already.

Scott and Jean, no surprise in that. They looked perfect as always not a hair out of place.

There was also Mirage and Black fire. Mirage who was nodding off in a chair, Black flame's hands were flying across the key board of her lab top at an unearthly like speed.

Xa was in the upper right corner of the room, seemingly having a quiet conversation with some thing on the wall.

Remy rolled his eyes at this.

The X-men had gotten used to Xa's weird habits by now. It wasn't unnatural to find her having a long talk with people who weren't there and sometimes in animate objects.

One time Remy and Pyro tried to listen but stopped after her long speech, to a piece of toast, about why poodles should be pink.

Near the left corner stood Mariandra inspecting her nails, not even acknowledging them. Marene must be out, Remy thought as she threw a arrogant look his way. Remy shuddered; hopefully she was a morning person. Yeah right.

On the other side of the room stood Kitty who had huge bags under her eyes and was practically being held up by Piotr, who was of course standing stiffly, as he always was. He didn't seem to be affected by the sleep loss.

Nightcrawler was snoring on the floor near their feet.

Remy took a seat next to him and lay back his head against the wall zoning out, but was slightly awoken by the sound of the door opening.

In walked Rogue and Alex (Radiae/Radiation girl.) Behind them cowered a pale looking Gravitate. Ooo he must have gotten on their bad side not a good thing.

(A/n no one knew about Rogue's little trip to the infirmary, it was kept quiet by Rogue and Garret. Rogue begged Beast no to tell and he reluctantly agreed.)

Garret was the next to walk in, with a huge pile of papers in his hands.

"OK people, I have a special mission for you," He set the pile on the table in the center of the room. He then flipped through the stack and pulled out some papers, to set on the table.

He glanced around and his eyes narrowed in annoyance. "Where is Lance and Aurora?"

They all looked around realized that not every one was here.

"Well knowing Alvers he's probably catching up on his sleep." Scott snorted.

"Who knows where Aurora is…" BlackFlame stated. Then put her lab top away.

Nightcrawler who was still sleeping, gave a large snort then turned over in his sleep muttering something in German.

Remy gave him a kick. That woke him up in a jolt.

"Vhat-vhat ?"

Then he figured out he had fell asleep and he gave them a sheepish grin.

"Sorry."

"Can you send them a telepathic message?" Garret asked Rogue. Rogue nodded.

"Oh feel free to make it as persuasive as you want." Garret added.

Rogue grinned then closed her eyes to concentrate.

"As I was saying I have a special mission for you."

He was about to explain more but a ear splitting screams echoed through the building, waking up those who were sleeping and scaring every one else.

Garret gave Rogue an annoyed look.

"What you said I could be as persuasive as I wanted to be." Rogue said defensivly.

"Yes I did but I didn't want you to go and wake up the whole facility."

"If you make us get up at six in the morning, then every one else sure as hell ain't sleepin' in." Rogue stated matter of factly.

Garret glared at her but was distracted when Lance only in his boxers. (Which were red hearted. Lance- no they aren't. Yes they are this is my story so SHUT UP!-TL.Lance cowers in a corner from the raving insane author.) ran screaming into the room.

"MOMMY!" He cried.

There was a very unpleasant (unpleasant for Lance because he relized he was in a room with a bunch with nothing but his Boxers, unpleasant for every one else because they had to witness it.) silence.

Then

"Eeew" -Jean

"God Lance put something on." -Scott

"No one wants to see that this early in the morning"-Derek

"No one wants to see that ever" -Blackflame

"Kitty tell me you never did any thing with him that involves him with out any thing on." -Mirage

"Hey he ain't that bad" -Kitty

"KITTY!" -Piotr

"Sorry Piotr, you are sooo much better." -Kitty

"Hey!" -Lance

"Sorry Lance but it's true." -Kitty

"She does have a point man. Piotr is sooo whats the word I'm looking for…. And your just …. Again there's no words to describe it." –Gravitate

"Vhat is that thing growing on your back?" –Nightcrawler

"Ickk dat be gross man." –Remy

"Some how ah regret doing what I just did. Yuck…" -Rogue

"Hey you guys are so mean, he isn't that bad." –Andrya (Mari andra)

"That's enough!" Jean said and Lance went flying out of the room.

"Thank you Jean, I love you." Scott said planting a kiss on her cheek. Jean blushed.

"Well now that that's over-." Garret said and again was cut off by Aurora appearing through the door looking like a pale blob. (A/n hey I didn't know what disgust would look like but I think that comes close.)

"I never want to see something like that again…" She stated in disgust.

"Hey he wasn't that gross, I mean have you seen Toad with out his shirt and…" Andrya said.

Every one stared wide eyed at her.

"What?"

Every one was silent.

"Eeew! Not like that." Andrya said making a face. "WE accidentally walked in on him when he was taking a shower."

"We?" Kitty asked.

"Me and Marene. You keep on forgetting we're both here." Andrya said with a sweet smile.

"Oh right sorry." Kitty said with smile in return.

"It's all right, but I swear I saw fungus growing on his chest. It was icky."

"And your eyes still vork after that?" Kurt questioned, his mouth was almost touching the floor.

Andrya giggled.

Garret took a deep breath and was about to say something when a scarlet shaded Lance reappeared with his clothes on.

Every one wanted to talk at once but Lance silented them with a glare that could have gave Rogue's a run for her money.

"So Alvers let's not repeat that again." Scott snorted.

And that ruined the whole effect of the glare and the room bursted again into chaos.

"SHUT UP!" Garret who had been getting very frustrated with the whole situation finally burstde. "NOW I'M GOING TO GET MY BREIF SPEECH DONE IF IT THE LAST THING YOU HEAR SO BE IT!"

Every one shut upped after light fragments started to dance above their heads.

"Thank you now as I was saying I have a mission for you…." Garret stopped and winced as if dreading the interruption that he knew was going to come.

But none came and Garret sighed in relief.

"Well thank god for that." Garret pressed on a side of the table and it slowly turned around to reveal a small keyboard and a disc slot.

Garret took an envelope from his inner shirt pocket and opened it to pull out a small computer disc.

He placed it in the disc slot and a projection spurted from the table to create a 3'd image of what looked to be a satellite.

"This satellite will be launched at exactly four o'clock sharp tomorrow morning."

"OH NO I AM NOT GETTING UP AGAIN AT FOUR O"CLOCK IN THE MORNING. I-! " Lance started.

"You won't have to, will you let me finish." Garret snapped coldly cutting him off.

"The satellite has an almost all seeing eye placed in it for government purposes only. We need to sneak in and place one of are computer chips into it. This computer chip will allow us to see any where. We will be able to shut Essex down for good."

"But how will we get in they will have maximum security on that baby." Gravitate stated

"We're mutants remember." Garret said with a smirk.

Gravitate returned that smile knowingly.

"We are going to divide into groups of three or four. Here are the groups.

They first group will consist of Mariandra, Arora, Scott, and Piotr.

The second group will be Blackflame, Nightcrawler, Xa, Remy, and Lance.

The third group will be made up of Kitty, Gravitate, Jean and myelf.

And the last group is Rogue, Radiae, and Derek.

Now Hack can't get a strait reading on where they're keeping the satellite so I'm sending each group to inspect four different sections of the building.

Each will have a computer chip to place into the satellite if they find it."

Again Garret typed something into the computer. This time a computer chip materialized in thin air next to the satellite.

"You take this a chip out that says ARMS and place ours in there instead."

The virtual pictures played his words out and Garret turned off the hologram table.

"We want a slip in slip out kind of job no mess ups understand?"

Every one nodded and Garret started to hand out papers.

"We are going to go over the procedure today in the Training Room2. So meet there at 6:30 and we can get ready, you will be taking orders from your team leader, either Blackflame, Rogue, Mariandra, or myself."

Scott looked like he was about to protest but Jean elbowed him in the ribs.

"You are dismissed take a map of your section with you study it carefully." (Goddess I made him sound like a teacher. But oh well)

"Hey Derek, mon ami, yeh wanna swit wit Remy?"

Derek raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "Why would yeh wanna do something like that?"

"Cause Yeh want to beh with yah girl and Remy want to beh with some hot femme's."

Derek shrugged. "Alright but we'll have to switch when Garret's not there to watch our backs 'kay?"

"Oui."

Later

"Explain to me how again you got on our team?" Rogue asked glaring for about the fifteenth time that day at, of course, Remy, who was now sitting across from her in the jet.

Radiae was beside her staring out the window, but now she turned her head ready for another bickering duel.

"Well mon chere, Remy-."

"Ah ain't nobody's deahr. Got it Cajun?" She snapped.

Remy rolled his eyes "Dat's not what Remy hears…" he muttered under his breathe

"And what have yeh heard Swamp rat and who from, so Ah can set them strait, the good old fashioned way." She said cracking her knuckles.

"Who eveh said any one had teh tell Remy, it's pretty obvious, any one with two eyes can tell, Garret's got a ting for yeh and yeh'all don' seem teh beh pointin' him in any other direction."

Rogue mouth dropped and she stared in shock at Remy.

Then she slapped him.

Hard.

"Ahh…." Remy exclaimed as he rubbed cheek which was now bright red and stinging god can dat femme slap, it almost hurt as much as when she punched Remy.

Almost.

Her eyes flashed dangerously.

"Donchya eveh make assumptions lahke that again or the next slap yeh receive might end up with yeh smashin' through a wall. Got it!"

She swirled around and made her way into the cockpit were the computerized plane was flying itself, slamming the door as she went.

"Ooo, ouch, looks like she didn't take that very well." Alex said grinning.

Remy glared at her.

She only rolled her eyes at him and he focused on staring out the window still rubbing his burning cheek.

"If you must know you were close in your assumptions."

Remy's head spun around to inspect Alex with a curious eye.

She gave him a mischievous smirk then fiddled with a thread on her corset, purposely ignoring him.

Remy caught on fast. "What yeh gonna make poor ole Remy beg?" He said giving her the puppy dog eye treatment.

"Maybe." She said trying to hold back her laughter.

Remy raised an eyebrow. "Pertty please wit sugar on top?"

She just shook her head. "nope."

"Maybe deh fille want somtin' else den sugar on top o' dat please." He said seductively, he added a little nudge with his empathy.

She stared at him her mouth falling slightly open. But she seemed to fall out of his trance quickly and gave him a suspicious look, but it soon turned firm.

"Mr. LeBeau, don't try those petty seductive tricks with me because I can guarantee you they won't work, I have a girlfriend."

Remy's eyes widened.

"But I am also one of Rogue's good friends and I want to see her happy and I guess for some odd reason I think your just the man to handle a job like that so I'm going to slip you some information." Her eyes seemed to be trying to look into his very soul.

"Though if you hurt her I will permanently dismantle your cute ass. If it's even there after the rest of Rogue's many best friends get done with you. Got it player boy?" She said her eyes frigid.

Remy gulped but then he pulled himself together. "Mademoiselle I have no plans teh hurt such a belle femme such as Rogue she is an amazing' fille. She is deh only belle dat didn' fall at my feet, like most do. Yeh mistaken if yeh tink I'd just trow a gal lahke dat away wit out even a second tought."

What had made him say dat?

Dis fille is really doin' a number on yeh LeBeau. Be careful or yeh might just fall too deep in to crawl out.

Dat was one of his cardinal rules don't get into something yeh can't get out of.

He made that mistake with Magneto he wasn't gonna do it again.

But no use tryin' to take his words back now. He gazed up into Alex eyes.

Alex looked into his eyes carefully, then gave him a genuine smile. "Alright Cajun I'll give yeh a chance."

She leaned back into her chair and said "A year after we saved Rogue, Garret developed a little crush on her but she only saw him as a big brother she was oblivious to his feelings.

One day Rogue almost died saving a little girl from a mutant terrorist, she was in a coma for three weeks none of us were sure she'd make it, the mutant she drained was also in a coma.

Well one day she just woke up got dressed and met us in training.

We were all shocked but Garret most of all he had been in a terrible mood ever since Rogue went down he blamed himself of course. He ran up to her and kissed her, she then finally realized maybe she had more feelings for him then she knew of and blah, blah all the romantic shit happened going on a date blah boyfriend and girlfriend.

They were together for five months but then IT happened.

We were after a mutant who smuggled goods through to Mexico, he had a tip off that we were coming so he set a trap, kidnapping Rogue and using her for bait.

He almost killed us and he got Roadrage, a old member of our squad, paralyzed from waist down.

Rogue was horrified thinking she had been the cause.

Well unfortunately Garret was thinking the same thing, he brought her out on a walk through the park two weeks later and broke up with her.

He left her crying on one of the park benches that night. A few hours after, she went to a bar and got drunk. I'm not sure what happened next Rogue told me she didn't remember."

Alex gave a sorrowful look.

"But I doubt she'd tell me the truth even if she knew it.

At 2 in the morning I got a call from a pay phone, it was Rogue she was sobbing, and disoriented. She said she didn't know where she was.

It turned out she was in two hour drive from the bar she had thought she had walked into. I took my motorcycle and raced down to where I tracked the pay phone too. She was laying there unconscious by the phone.

She had bruises and scratches all over her. It didn't look like she was raped which was the first thing I looked for, but she was bruised up pretty bad. She must have been stumbling around so they might have been from that but I don't really know.

We kept it to our selves but Garret was still worried."

Alex scoffed.

"Any way from what I've seen Rogue only thinks of him as a friend now, but Garret still cares for her, he never really stopped. But it's not a good idea bringing that subject with her it bring back bad memories."

Remy sifted through all she had told him, trying to process it. That bastard how could he have left Rogue alone he could have at least drove her back.

Some how sub consciously he knew he would never hurt her like Garret. He just couldn't.

Later

"Group four entering building. Over." Rogue whispered into her com link and Remy and Alex followed.

"We'all need the stick close. Contact meh telepathically if there's trouble or if you found it."

They both nodded.

Then Rogue listened to something in her com link.

"Okay this is our chance Hack's paused the cameras. Let's head in."

They slipped slowly towards the West side entrance that they were assigned to.

Remy was surprised on how well Alex and Rogue snuck in, they were almost as good as Remy.

Not that any one was as good as the Prince of Tieves but dey weren't half bad.

Rogue phased them through the wall and they found themselves in a freezer, where scientists stored chemicals.

Rogue then phased them through that door and into the main hallway. Rogue signaled them to search the rooms.

But they found nothing that looked to be the satellite.

"Now if Remy were a satellite where would he beh hiddin'" Remy said quietly.

Rogue rolled her eyes and they turned down another hallway. That's when they saw Garret standing outside of a vault door.

"Garret what are you doing here and where's your group?" Rogue asked.

Remy held back the urge to smash the boys face in. How could that pompous brat do that to Rogue.

Garret turned a look of surprise planted on his face.

"I umm… I'm waiting for Kitty she went inside to see what was in the vault. Jean and Gravitate took another hallway."

"But this isn't your area…" Alex said.

"Well we..were done with ours so we decided to help with this section." Garret said smoothly, but Remy heard a slight fault in Garret's little story. He narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Garret.

Garret noticed this and glared at him, then looked impatiently at the door. Just at that moment Kitty popped in.

"Wow hi guys what are you like doing here?" She asked

"Searching, this is our assined area." Alex said.

"Oh right." Kitty said looking sheepishly at the ground then looked at Garret. "Umm.. the satellites not in there just some weird computer stuff."

Garret nodded and through an arrogant look at Remy.

"Well did you search this hallway." Alex said as she pushed a giant machine on wheels away to reveal a hallway.

They all looked at it in shock.

Alex just rolled her eyes at them and turned down that hall, they all followed.

They traveled down the hallway for a while when finally they entered a giant lab room with a dome shaped ceiling.

It was gigantic, cluttered with tons of odd experiments and other objects that looked like they were out of some sci fi film.

They all split up looking through this maze of objects. Remy followed slowly behind Rogue.

"Rogue, I'm sorry about before I-."

She turned around slowly.

Mon deui, she was so belle. Her white bangs seemed to fall perfectly around her face and her bright emerald eyes seemed to glow brighter if that was even possible.

She was beautiful in body and soul.

She smiled at him and his heart jumped.

"Remy what am Ah gonna do with yeh, every tihme Ah think Ah have yeh figured out yeh turn around and surprise meh."

Remy smiled, not a smirk but a true smile. He hadn't had one of those in a while. It felt good, to be happy.

That's when he realized how close they were.

They had been inching closer and they didn't even know it.

He stepped closer yet, he could smell her fresh lily like smell. It smelled so sweet if only he could….. Stop LeBeau. Just stop wit dose toughts.

But he wasn't the only one who stepped closer he realized.

Rogue was now literally centimeters away.

He leaned down as she brought her head up.

Their heart beats started to quicken.

He could feel her breath on his lips and desire like he never felt hit him.

He could almost imagine the taste of her lips.

"HEY GUYS I THINK I FOUND IT!" Kitty yelled from the other side of the room.

They both seemed to snap out of it and jumped away from each other. But their eye's were still locked together as a look of shock played on both their faces.

That's when Alex walked out from behind a wall sized computer panel.

"Yo people Kitty thinks she…." Alex's words dropped off as she noticed the weird scene that was before her. She raised one eyebrow slowly. "yeh'all look like you've seen a ghost."

"Well Kitty shouldn't beh announcein' teh the world that we're here." Rogue said in an annoyed tone.

Remy just kept quiet thinkin' about what just almost happened.

"Suuuure…come on then." Alex said and led them through a bunch of twists and turns and they found Kitty standing by a small vault door. Garret was also there inspecting the key pad.

"It looks a little small to beh the vault there keepin' the satellite in." Alex stated.

Remy clutched his head with both his hands as a jolt of pain shot through his head.

"Uuuh…"

"Remy are yeh okay…" Rogue asked a look of concern flashing on her face.

Then as quickly as it came it was gone.

"Remy's fine." He said but then realized it was Rogue that asked that and grinned. "Why chere are yeh startin' teh care for dis ole Swamp rat."

Her face of concern quickly disappeared to be replaced with a scowl and a glare.

"Wait! How did you get here aren't you suppose to be with Blackflame's team?" Garret yelled.

Remy winced "and Remy here, had been tinkin' yeh wouldn't realize."

Garret's face flushed bright red and he opened his mouth to start an argument but Alex cut him off.

"Oh would you boys shut up with the male ego bashing, cause I'm through with it, we have a task to complete and if yeh boys don't stop I'm gonna smoke both your ass's now let's continue please." Alex snapped

Garret and Remy both gulped.

"Kitty can you phase through?" Rogue asked.

Kitty got this funny look on her face, the one she always had on while talking to Rogue.

It must beh hard on her having to pretend the girl she had known for years is a stranger.

"Uh…. Uh- I don't know if the satellite's near the wall I might phase through that as well and when ever I phase through something electrical I short circuit it."

"Remy guess dat, dat beh his cue non?"

"Non is right Cajun, we ain't gonna go an make mess that tells them that we were here." Rogue said.

"I could melt the door." Alex suggested.

"Again no, we can't have any one suspected we were here." Rogue said. " Ah suppose I could….let's see maybe I could use magnetic power and slowly force open the lock.."

"That would work." Garret said.

A confused look spread onto her face. "But where did Ah get that power?" She muttered under her breath.

Garret didn't hear it but Remy did.

Rogue just shook her head and focused on the lock, a few seconds later there was the screech of medal rubbing against medal.

Remy's head ache was back pounding.

The door made a hiss and vault door opened. In it laying on a specially designed rack sat the satellite it looked like any normal satellite but a tad smaller then anything that had been invented.

Remy clenched his teeth together to keep from crying out. The pain was starting to get intense.

"Who has the chip?" Rogue asked.

But then there was a loud thud and the room filled with smoke.

"What the hell happened!" Garret yelled

"Ooops I think that was my fault" Kitty yelled. "I bumped into something. But it wasn't my fault some one bumped me."

"We'll just-."

Boom!

Every one was sent flying away from the vault and into random objects.

A few minutes passed and the smoke cleared.

"Uuuh…"

"What happened hommes?"

"Any one hurt?"

"Who the Hell-….. oh shit." Remy saw Rogue through the smoke run up to the vault. "Oh shit yeh guys bettah come an see this."

They slowly walked up to the vault door to see the remains of what used to be the satellite.

"Oh shit." Alex swore.

"That's what I said." Rogue moaned shaking her head.

"Oh god this is all my fault if I hadn't bumped into that tank none of this would have happened now this whole mission is ruined this was our only chances of finding-."

"Kitty, stop!" Rogue snapped. "Relax it wasn't your fault you didn't cause the explosion some one in this room did." She glared around at everyone.

"Yes some one in this room including yourself. So don't go glaring at us." Garret said in an annoyed tone.

Then his gaze turned to Remy "but there is only one in our group that has explosive powers and he is standing right in front of us."

Remy's mouth fell open in shock but he brought it back up again and glared at Garret. "Oh soo your blamin' dis on Remy now are you? But maybe dat's what Garret wants yeh to tink because if Remy was the spy he wouldn't be stupid enough to use his own powers to destroy it in front of everyone. Remy'dd make look like someone else did it. Dat would be the smart ting to do."

"Oh so your blaming me the leader of the MPRS, the-."

"Exactly who would suspect the cherished leader of the MPRS." Remy said a smirk slowly forming on his lips.

"Oh yeah that would make sense" Garret mocked "if all this spy nonsense hadn't started when X-men came to the base." He sneered.

"Oh now your blaming the X-men!" Kitty exclaimed. "It couldn't possibly be a member of your precious MPRS squad, heaven forbid if they do anything wrong!"

"May be I did it." A voice called from the ceiling.

Every ones heads snapped upwards to find.

Xa?

She hung from one of the support beams staring down at them.

"Hi." She greeted with a wave of her fingers.

"What are you doing here you're suppose to be with Black flames group." Alex pointed out.

"So is he." She smiled and pointed at Remy.

"What do you mean maybe you did it?" Kitty asked suspiciously.

"I don't know it just seemed to be something to say at the time." She jumped from the support beam and fell to the ground landing on her feet gracefully. "It could be me or…"

She walked over to Rogue. "It could be her, she's almost as crazy as me. Passing out, having strange dreams."

She started circling her. "Maybe in those dreams he's giving you instructions telling you how to feed false information to your followers. I've seen you spying on your fellow team mates." She leered in Rogue face, but then she took a step back.

"Of course it could also be her." She said taking a step towards Kitty. "She pretends to be all innocent and clumsy. A perfect spy, someone no one would suspect in a million years. No one would even have a thought crossing there minds that pretty little Kitty would have purposely knocked over that tank so she could plant a small bomb in the vault. Then pretend to be all frustrated and self pitying herself…Or it could be some one who doesn't stick out as much it could be… Alex."

Xa snapped around to face Alex. "You are just the average Joe in this group even if you stick out brightly." Xa said flicking a neon green spike of Alex's hair.

"You seem to get along with every one, your not a clumsy Kitty or Captain boy or Miss. Center of attention or player boy. You just the average rebel girl. It's funny that you didn't say anything at that little blame-a-thon, you were probably letting your handy work set it's course trying to break up the team. Or you could be totally innocent. The real culprit could be…" She turned to face Remy.

"Gambit even your name is that of a spy. He could go out flirt with any girl and no one would find that suspicious, but really that girl could be working for him and Remy could easily pass information through her. You pointed out you'd be too smart to do something as stupid as use your own powers to blow up the satellite and maybe your right, maybe someone's trying to frame you, but then again maybe your wrong, you could have had this explanation all planned. So we wouldn't suspect you… But who knows maybe your stories true… maybe the spy's…" She spun around and shoved her face inches from Garret's.

"Someone like our leader who has been acting strangely ever since the X-men have came here. He wouldn't tell us why he was on the phone, just that it was private business, then later when he was alone with Hack maybe he made up this cock and bull story that got Hack to feel sorry for him and let him off the hook. And as Remy pointed out so clearly no one would suspect our lovely leader."

"But maybe it was me…I mean I'm a crazy person, or am I? I was on the phone that time. I did move the tank towards the vault. I mean who would suspect a crazy person. I did follow you here. It could be possibly me." And Xa stared out of focus at the ceiling.

"Wait you moved the tank towards the vault door?" Kitty asked confused.

"Si Senorita, I did." Xa sat down on the floor playing with the tank that was still spewing a little smoke it seemed when it hit the floor the top had snapped off.

"I didn't like it on the left side of the room, it wasn't right." Then she burst out laughing at her own joke. But stopped abruptly after a few seconds.

"Or maybe the spy isn't even in this room maybe that's what there trying to do, turn us against each other. I mean if you were a spy why on earth would you stick around after you threw the bomb with the smoke, they could have easily gotten out using invisibility, teleporting, anything, they didn't even need a power it would have been so easy. It would take someone not in there right mind, to stay here." She started laughing this time she didn't stop.

"Maybe we should leave and get this all sorted out at the base because trying to think this out is starting to hurt my brain." Kitty complained.

"Or maybe that's just what you want us to think." Garret muttered.

Later

"WAIT YOUR TELLING US THAT WAS ALL FAKE! THE WHOLE MISSION!"

"Calm yourself Lance." Hack said in an annoyed voice. "Yes, I set up the mission made the satellite, got everything organized at the warehouse. It was a trap for the spy to show their face."

They were all in the planning room again and this time not only Kitty's head was hurting

But so was everyone else's.

"And it some what worked we now have some suspects and four of them in which were on the phone the last time such an incident occurred." Hack said giving the group a cold look. "I was watching the whole thing on the video cameras. Until Betsy gets here to search your minds you won't leave this room, you will be locked here and under video surveillance. Got it?"

The group nodded solemnly.

"Good a guard will be posted outside the door at all times, I'm going to turn on the power dampening shields around this room, no powers at all. The bathroom will be monitored but not inside the stall. If you take more then five minutes knock out gas will be pumped into the room."

"Hack umm… couldn't the professor or I probe their minds?" Jean asked.

"No offense or anything but I rather have one of our own do it." Hack responded.

"Oh." Jean looked a little hurt but seemed to push it away.

Hack turned back to there group and said "You are all under house arrest if any of you try to leave this room using powers or otherwise I will be forced to detain you under less peaceful means."

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