I am redoing this story so it's better. Sorry, but trust me, this will soon be full of Romy.
Summary- What is life without love? Is danger really the solution? If love is the answer, can you repeat the question? If love is meant to be Spring, then why am I cold? Can you love with no touch? Can Remy find out? Pure Romy.
NOTE- THIS IS MY OWN VERSION OF ROGUE AND REMY, I DO NOT OWN ROGUE, REMY OR ANY CHARACTERS WHICH I USE WHICH WERE CREATED BY MARVEL.
Also I want to say thank you to the people who reviewed.
Demon eyes VS emeralds
Chapter 6 Essence Part Three Sepulchre
Rogue could always remember the day they went to Apocalypses tomb. It wasn't like any ordinary days, obviously. Rogue hated that place, as did much people, but being used for his return, was not a nice thought.
Remy had fallen to sleep, looking over Rogue. She smiled as she knew he was dreaming of her because he kept smiling and saying her name. The bombs had stopped, but the fires had just begun.
"Oh Remy…" Rogue cried. She new this would probably be her last time looking upon his face, but her body, the energy she had absorbed was keeping her alive, keeping her awake….
"Are we there yet?" asked Jubilee. Bobby had his hands on his ears. He knew Jubilee was annoying sometimes but this was just too much.
"No we're not here yet." said Logan calmly.
"How can you b carm when she's asking you 'are we there yet' every second!" mimicked Bobby.
"Oh I can cope with her." said Logan with a smile.
"Is Remy okay?" asked Rogue as she looked in her mirror to see the back of the car. Jean had Scott on her lap, unconscious still, and then there was Jubilee Bobby and Sam, with Remy laid across them.
"Yeah, but it's very uncomfortable." replied Jubilee. "Mind you I don't mind having a cute Cajun laid across me." Bobby sighed.
"Why can' we put you're boyfriend in the boot?" asked Sam.
"Number one, no ya can' do that he'll suffocate ya idiot, an' number two he is not mah boyfriend!" shouted Rogue.
"Yeah he may not be you're boyfriend, but you so like him." said Jubilee.
"Ya know what Jubilee, ah'm jus' gonna drop you off 'ere an' let the spirit drain ya." Jubilee gulped.
"Look, stop you're fighting. We're here." said Logan. Rogue pulled up at the air craft station, SHEILD.
Logan got out of the car and walked towards a man he knew as Nick Fury. He shook hands with him.
"I'm aware you know of our…situation?" said Fury.
"Trust me bub, it's not just you're situation. This thing never gets tired." said Logan.
"I know, but I also know that if we don't stop it in time, we can be in deep shit"
"What kind? The one we can handle or the one that is going to be as hard as ever?" asked Logan.
"I think you know. We got you're call and have gave you and the X Men out best jet. But you will also be taking 3 of my men, Johnny, Hutch and Starlight." explained Fury.
"No way, we can handle it." said Logan going to the car. Fury put his hand on Logan's shoulder.
"Logan, don't be stubborn, we need them to go with you." Logan sighed.
"Fine, but they better bbe good fighters."
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Rogue fastened her seat belt and sat securely in her seat. Remy sat behind her and kept whispering jokes to her, which made her laugh. Logan came on the jet with three people behind him.
"Team, these are Shields' top agents. Johnny Storm, Dian Starlight and Alan Hutch." said Logan. Bobby got up and looked and Johnny.
"You're Johnny, the human torch from the fantastic four aren't you?" asked Bobby. Johnny smiled and shook the shocked but privileged Bobby's hand.
"Why yes, yes I am."
"You're totally awesome dude, and you're sister is hot." Johnny's smile disappeared and Bobby slowly backed away into his seat. "I took that too far didn't I?" asked Bobby to Jubilee who was in front of him.
"Oh yeah." she said as she turned back to her seat. Johnny walked past Rogue and then noticed that she was beautiful.
"Why hello there beautiful, I'm Johnny, Johnny Storm." he said taking his hand out.
"Oh so you're James Bond's double? Hi, ah'm Rogue, Rogue." joked Rogure. Johnny smiled.
"A girl with attitude, I like that."
"One o' a kind sugah, one o' a kind." Johnny smiled and went to take his seat. Rogue looked to Jubilee and she put two thumbs up, Rogue rolled her eyes.
"Everyone seated?" asked Logan from the controllers seat.
"Yes." mosrt of the people said.
By the time they got to Egypt, the X Men and SHIELD had already devised a plan pn what they were going to do.
"So, we go to the tomb, see if there is any connection there. Rogue, Bobby, Jubilee, Hutch and Starlight will read the inscriptions, check if anything says the return of doom or something." explained Logan. "Rogue I know you studied Egyptian. Remy, Sam, Jean and Johnny, come with me to the tomb."
The teams nodded and entered the caves of doom as some people called them.
Team A- Rogue, Hutch, Jubilee, Starlight and Iceman
Rogue entered the inscription cave first. There were cobwebs all over the place.
"Yuck, ah hate cobwebs." said Rogue.
"Don't we all, Bobby freeze them or something!" shouted Jubilee as she backed away from the cobweb in front of her. Bobby sighed.
"How I've lived with you I'll never know." said Bobby, Jubilee gave him a dead eye.
"Anyone gotta torch on 'em?" asked Rogue.
"Yeah I have." said Hutch as he came forward. He turned the torch on and wlaked beside Rogue. He then moved the torch light over to the walls. Most of them gasped.
"I didn't know they had a room like this." said Starlight. "And SHEILD covered all the rooms."
"I'd hardly call this a room." said Hutch. Rogue walked forward and looked at the inscriptions and the drawings. She touched the wall lightly.
"These aren't stories o' the past, ah don' know how but…these inscriptions are from the future." said Rogue. Jubilee stepped forward.
"But how could that be, did thy have a future reader back then?" asked Jubilee.
"Ah don' know Jubes."
"So what do they say?" asked Hutch. Rogue took the torch from Hutch and moved the light across the inscriptions she was reading out.
"It says that the future holds death but hope still remains."
"Well that's comforting, but what's the juice on old Apocalypse?" asked Jubilee.
"Let me find it first." growled Rogue.
"I thought you did Egyptian Starlight?" asked Hutch.
"No I didn't, what gave you that idea?"
"Because you kept coming down here all the time, you tolf Fury it was because you were doing research."
"Oh yeah, I was, but I can't read it." hesitated Starlight.
"So how could you do research?" asked Hutch.
"Um…because I…"
"Ya'll…ah've found a piece on Apocalypse." said Rogue .
"What does it say?" asked Bobby.
"He who has destroyed En Sabah Nur, shall be the ultimate life force, to bring back the captured time traveller that shall destroy all." Rogue gulped. "Well ah sent 'im away, maybe that's me?"
"Yeha but it says he, so maybe it's Wolverine since he was the only guy there." pointed out Jubilee.
"What eslse does it say?" asked Starlight.
"It says that this deed shall b' fulfilled, but the process shall not b' easy. Wars will gain control o' the world, an' En Sabah Nur shall bring darkness t' the world. Only one thing might b' able t' stop it…something called…" Rogue looked at the inscription. It looked like a bird, with flames… "…Phoenix?"
"So let me get this straight, En Sabah Nur…Apocalypse, will come back and create wars that shall destroy our planet, then we have to sit around and get our ass's kicked and killed by Apocalypse, while we wait for some…bird?" shouted Bobby.
"Pretty much." said Rogue.
"Well then, we'll have to fin a way to stop it." said Hutch.
"And how do you claim we do that Mr Brainiac?" asked Rogue.
"Well, it must say somewhere how we can stop this." said Hutch as he looked at the walls. "So find it." Rogue growled.
"One thang ya should learn 'bout me, is never push me around!"
"And one thing you should learn about me, never shout in my face!" Rogue rolled her eyes and looked to the walls.
"It says that 'f the last source is destroyed, then En Sabah Nur can never return in this dimension." said Rogue.
"Well then I guess that means you Rogue." said Jubilee.
"What, no, that's not me ya idiot, that's that spirit suckin' thang." said Rogue offended.
"Yeah but last time Mesmero couldn't find the spirit, so he used you, 'coz you're similar to the thing." pointed out Jubilee.
"So we can't destroy Rogue." said Bobby. "Jubilee you're brain is smaller than mine, and that says something."
"And you're just an ice cube who thinks he's better than everyone else." said Jubilee.
"And you're an annoying little spoilt brat who thinks the world revels around her!"
"Look who's taking Mr I am the best I have such cool ice powers!"
"Ah swear you too are in love!" shouted Rogue, breaking them up. "Look, we need t' find a way t' destroy that Spirit."
"And I have just the idea." said Hutch.
"What?"
"Well at SHEILD, we have this devise and it can trap molecules into this small devise I'm on about. If we modified some of the information and memory, then maybe it can capture this Spirit." explained Hutch.
"That's a good plan sugah, but how'd ya know 'f it'd work?" asked Rogue, not impressed.
"Well we can try it on a few things…" said Hutch.
"But we can' exactly capture a spirit can we?" said Rogue. "SO even if we test it on thangs, it could still not work on this thang, right?"
"…Yes, but it's worth the try." said Hutch. "It could work."
"Ah'm all fo' trying and ideas, but ah always have t' have a back up plan."
"Well we can think of one." said Jubilee.
"Or not." said Starlight. She held out her hands and zapped everyone. They all fell on the ground.
"I can't move!" said Hutch. "Starlight, what are you doing!"
"I'm sorry Hutch, but I can't let you getthat devise. Don't you see, all along I've been helping Mesmero, all along when I worked for Sheild, I was helping Mesmero, telling him what they were planning. When we couldn't find the Spirit, I panicked, but when he found little Rogue here, I was happy as anything. But when things got bad and Rogue sent En Sabah Nur into time, I got angry. Eversince I have been trying to find a way to help his return, and now that the stupid Remy LeBeau found it and opened it, you can't stop it!" explained Starlight. "Noneof you have known, but I have been in these walls all along, I've always been in the story. I was the one who told Jean-Luc that if he found the stone to fortune, which was really the Spirit, then he would have riches un told." Starlight walked over to the walls. "t says here, a betrayal shall change the lives of those who which have powers of Gods….that's me."
"I thought you couldn't read Egyptian!" said Hutch.
"I lied, and I'm going to make sure you don't get hat devise." Starlight was about to walk out when she looked to Rogue. "Oh yes, what was it you said, he who has destroyed En Sabah Nur, shall be the ultimate life force, to bring back the captured time traveller that shall destroy all." Rogue growled. "Well little missy, looks like you'll be helping us once again." Starlight was about to get her when she heard a slicing sound.
"Do that and you're dead."
Team B- Wolverine, Human Torch, Gambit, Jean Grey and Cannonball
Logan and the rest of his team walked down the path in the cave. He looked back to Rogue and the other team who were entering a room.
"Becareful Rogue!" Logan shouted.
"Ah always am!" she shouted back.
Logan turned back round and started walking forwards.
"So where is dis tomb anyway?" asked Remy.
"It's just a bit futher, you should know Gambit, you were here when we chased after Rogue." said Logan.
"Yeah Wolverine, unlike you I've slept since den."
"Why does he have to be here anyway, he didn't help us fight Apocalypse, he ran back home with his daddy." said Sam to Logan about Gambit.
"Boy you got some nerves!" shouted Gambit. "I would o' been der, but se face t was I wasn't, but I would o' been…"
"But like you said, you weren't Gumbo!" shouted Logan, sniffing the room. "Over here!"
They team followed Logan. hey entered the same room Rogue was absorbed by Apocalypse himself. Memories flooded back, the look on her face, she was so scared.
"Ur, Logan, you here?" asked Jean.
"Huh? Oh yeah sorry."
"Going into day dream world now?" asked Johnny.
"Shut it flame balls." said Logan as he walked towards the tomb.
"Boy he got an attitude problem." said Johnny to Gambit.
"Yah tellin' moi, he's so over protective over Rogue, I smiled at her once and he nearly killed moi." said Gambit.
"What he loves her or something?" asked Johnny.
"Yeha but not in de way you t'ink. He loves her like a daughter."
Oh…boy though she is gorgeous, I wouldn't mind taking her out for the night." said Johnny in day dream land.
"Hey, don' do dat!" shouted Remy.
"Do what?" Johnny asked.
"Go into daydream land wit' mah chere!"
"One, huh? And two, chere?"
"Forget it!" said Gambit walking forwards, but Johnny stepped in front of him.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. You don't want me to think about her do you, because you love her!" joked Johnny. Gambit growled, he was angry.
"I do not love 'er, I like 'er, but dat obvious t' a lot o' people." Gambit said.
"Does she know?"
"Look, out o' everyone in de world, you'd b' de last person I wanna share mah problems wit'!"
"And why's that?" Johhny asked.
"Because you're obsessed wit' fame, yes I do read de paper, an' you're a ladies man…well so am I but dat don' count. You're just full o' yourself!" said Gambit.
"And you're not?"
"Dat aint de point, jus' leave Rogue alone, D'accord?"
" Um, I can see her now. She's so sexy when she has only a bikini on, but what if I took it off…" joked Johnny as he closed his eyes. Gambit growled even more. "Wow she's even more hotter than I thought…umm Rogue come here girl…that's right, I like that…" the next thing Johnny new was he had a fist in his face. Johnny fell to the ground.
Logan, Sam and Jean looked from the tomb they were studying, over to Johnny who was on the floor holding his nose, and Gambit who had his fist out.
"Don' talk about her like dat again or I swear…"
"Break it up people!" shouted Jean. "I don't know what this is about but stop it!"
"He was talkin' 'bout Rogue!" shouted Gambit.
"Hey I can do what I want you French twat!" Gambit groaned and picked Johnny up by the collar and came in close to his face.
"Gambit aint French he b' Cajun!" Suddenly Gambit was pushed back by a force unseen and held back. Jean had her hands out.
"Enough!" she shouted.
"Yeah, we're here to see the truth, not for romantic fights!" shouted Logan.
"AH was routing on you." said Sam helping Johnny up. Gambit rolled his eyes and got up. He wlaked over to the tomb.
"Well der b' not'in in 'ere."
"We know that Einstein, we're just looking for clues." said Logan.
"Find any?" asked Johnny.
"No." said Jean. "But I have a strange feeling…"
"What is it red?"
"Something bad is going to happen." said Jean as she looked to Logan. Logan looked back to the tomb.
"Wait a second." he said as he saw a little hole in the tomb. He ripped it and underneath was a key imprint. "So where's the key?"
"Wait…Rogue earlier said to me that the key to the unlocking of the spirit was never found, yet there a pictures of it in imprints in the Egyptian times…Let me see if I can remember what it looks like." Jean searched through her mind. "Yes, it has a symbol of a spider web on it."
"A spiderweb..." said Gambit to himself.
"But if that key is the one that open the Spirit's release then that means…" they all looked to Gambit. He waved his hands nervously.
"Cajun you are dead!" shouted Logan as he got his claws out.
"Wait, listen mon ami, my father was given dat key, he didn't find it. He was told dat we would get riches untold 'f we used de key." explained Gambit.
"Wait a minute then that explains it…the key was un findable, but who else could find it than the King of thieves Jean-Luc LeBeau. Who ever gave you're father that key, wanted Apocalypse to come back!" said Jean.
"But the question is, who gave Jean-Luc they key?" asked Sam.
"Come on we better find the others and tell them." said Johnny. They nodded and walked out of the tomb.
As Logan entered the room which he saw Rogue go into he saw Starlight talking over the paralyzed team.
"Oh yes, what was it you said, he who has destroyed En Sabah Nur, shall be the ultimate life force, to bring back the captured time traveller that shall destroy all." Rogue growled. "Well little missy, looks like you'll be helping us once again." Starlight was about to get her when she heard a slicing sound.
"Do that and you're dead." said Logan. Starlight turned around and laughed.
"And you, I better take you just in case these fools were right about it being the only man who witnessed it."
"You be taking any of them!" shouted Johnny. "I thought you were the good one Dian."
"Good…all good ever gave me was bad. Bad is just the way I can cope." said Starlight. "I'll be back X Men, mark my word!" Starlight then transported somewhere.
"Come on, lets go back to the mansion, the spirit will be gone by now." said Logan.
Xavier Mansion
"Hey Rogue." said Remy as he joined Rogue on the roof of the Xavier mansion.
"Huh? Oh hey Remy, how'd you know ah was up here?" she asked him.
"Well I jus' t'ought where would a girl like Rogue be…"
"Whatever…"
"When I was 'watching' over you before I took you t' new Orleans, I saw you come up 'ere." said Remy truthfully. Rogue smiled.
"Like mah own guardian devil?" Remy laughed and so did Rogue. They both looked to the stars. "Remy…do you believe in destiny?" Remy looked to Rogue who still had her attention on the stars.
"I don' wan' to." he said truthfully.
"But you can't escape it, can you? Even if you don't know what it is yet?"
"Rogue is der something you're not tellin' moi?" he asked getting suspicious.
"No, no…jus' a mere thought." Remy nodded and looked back to the stars.
"I wonder where the spirits gone?" asked Remy.
"Hopefully back t' hell where it belongs." said Rogue. "Ah know ah have the same power in a way, but id' never use it fo' evil." Remy smiled.
"Dat b' a good t'ing chere."
"Obviously." said Rogue laughing.
"I love de way you laugh." Remy wished he didn't say that in a way, because he new it might lead somewhere. But he also didn't care if it did.
"Thank you, it makes a change t' being angry all the time." said Rogue.
"But you don' have t' b' angry."
"You're right, ah don'. But like ah said, in order fo' people t' know t' back off, ah have t'."
"But you're not as angry t' moi." pointed out Remy.
"That's 'coz ah like you Remy." Rogue admitted. Remy's face lit up. Rogue laughed. "As a friend." Remy's face dimmed down. He slid closer to Rogue and looked her in the eyes, serious face.
"You know dat aint true, one bit." he said. Rogue could feel his breath on her red rose lips, his face inches away from her. She coughed as though she was uncomfortable, a signal for Remy to move, but he didn't.
"Ah um…ah…think you're…wrong." she said.
"Well I don't." he said. Now there lips were so close you would mistake them for pecking each other on the lips.
"Well ah…ah do." she said. Remy moved his hand and moved a piece of stray white hair which was in her face.
"Like I said, we much much more den friends." then Remy kissed her. Rogue wanted to pull away, she did, but she wante dit so bad. But no, she could feel his energy running into him. She pulled him away. He fell back, nearly falling off the roof.
"Wow dey were right when they said that people can have sparks together. Wow I've never felt so great in mah life." Rogue stood up angrily.
"You've never felt more great in you're life! Cajun ah jus' absorbed you an' you sound as though you have all the energy in the world!"
"I have." he said getting up. Then he fell backwards and tumbled off the roof. He had one hand holding on to the railing.
"Remy!" Rogue shouted. She grabbed his loose hand but then it started to glow pink. "What the…"
"Rogue, you're using mah powers!" shouted Gambit. "An' Remy no where near ready t' die!"
"How do ah turn it off?" asked Rogue.
"Well number one, don' let moi go or I won't b' able to decharge. Number two, de reason why you're charging moi up is 'coz you're angry at me…"
"Ya got that right."
"So jus' t'ink about what you like about me." Rogue kept thinking.
"Nope there aint nothin'!" said Rogue angrily. Remy growled. She rolled her eyes and de charged him andlifted him back up with her super strength. "Why did ah have t' think what ah liked aobut you anyway?"
"No reason I jus' t'ought it'd b' a good time t' t'ink 'bout me." smiled Remy. Rogue gave him the dead eye and punched him, no not slapped punched him in the belly. He fell to the ground in pain.
"Hope that'll teach ya, ya no good pervert swamp rat Cajun!" with that Rogue stormed off back into the house.
"Worth it chere, you'll always b; worth it." said Remy to himself, still in pain.
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Logan laid in his bed thinking about everything that had been going on. It wasn't unusual that the X Men was in a spot of trouble, but it weird that a 'Spirit' was draining life force from people. He was confused on how it all happened.
He knew that it was Starlight who set it all up. That she worked for SHIELD but at the same time was giving information to Mesmero about them and what they were doing about Apocalypse. She then gave the King of thieves, Jean-Luc LeBeau the key to the Spirit's realise, but she told him that it was just money. The reason why she gave him the key is because she couldn't find the spirit so who better to find it than a thief. Jean-Luc found it and realised the spirit. Then Starlight wanted to know if Apocalypse would return and if so, what could stop him.
It was all confusing.
"Logan?" said a voice. Jubilee entered the room. "Hey, how are you holding up?" she said as she sat on the bed next to Logan.
"Not good Jubilee, not good." Logan said.
"Well we've checked on the unconscious X Men, Jean is watching them. Apparently there heart rate is going down, it's like there brain dead." explained Jubilee.
"I know kid I know." Logan didn't want to be hearing this right now.
"I'm scared Logan, in case they don't wake up."
"They will Jubes, I promise you."
"I know you're only saying that because you think I'm just a worried kid, well sorry to say this Logan but you're wrong, I'm not just a kid!" shouted Jubilee.
"You're 15! Besides I'm just saying what we're all hoping Jubilee." said Logan looking up at the standing Jubilee.
"But we all know that the only way they will come back is if we get the spirit." said Jubilee as she calmed herself down.
"We will fight this thing Jubes, I promise you." Logan put his arm around her shoulders. "Come on, we better go downstairs with the others."
Logan and Jubilee smiled at one anoter and stood up. Jubilee put her hand on the door knob and turned it slightly and saw something. She closed the door.
"What?" asked Logan.
"The Spirit, I think it's back." whispered Jubilee.
"What! No it can't be, why?" asked Logan.
"How am I meant to know, like you said I'm only 15 and what are you like 100?" Logan smiled sarcastically. He opened the door slightly and sniffed and shut the door again.
"That aint no spirit…"
"Then what it is?" asked Jubilee.
"Well lets go find out." Logan opened the door and walked out. "Where did you see it go?"
"Down the stairs." replied Jubilee.
Rogue was in the living room on her own. Ever since the whole punching Remy thing, she had been ignoring everyone since she couldn't be bothered to have a convosation.
Bobby then came strutting into the room as on cue.
"Hey Rogue." he said as he jumped over the back of the sofa onto the sofa. Rogue growled to herself.
"Hiya Bobby, ah was jus' wondering 'f ah could have some alone time." said Rogue sweetly.
"Oh okay, shoot." he said.
"No Bobby ah mean on mah own." Bobby looked confused and then nodded.
"Sure thing, I just came from the dining room, what is being cleaned up as we speck, so you should go into the Professor's office." said Bobby. Rogue sighed.
"Speaking o' the Professor, has Jean able t' get inside Cerebro yet?" asked Rogue.
""Nope, but I don't think he's in there." said Bobby.
"Why not?"
"Because if he was then why doesn't he just come out with Beast?"
"Yeah but jus' remember that they might o' been drained." pointed out Rogue.
"But the Spirit can't get through Cerebro's doors can it?" pointed out also Bobby.
"What are you implying?"
"That the Prof and Beast either A) ran off, or B) kidnapped or something."
"Okay Bobby, A) they wouldn't run away and B) kidnapped? The professor? Hah!"
"Yeah yeah yeah laugh all you want I'm probably righ…" Bobby just froze where he was. Rogue was smiling then it turned to a frown.
"Bobby…" Roge used her gloved hand to poke him. His eyes moved and looked at her.
"I can't move…" he said. Rogue's eyes widened as she remembered…
"Starlight." she said to herself. Starlight rose from the sofa.
"Remember me?" she said.
"How could ah forget?" said Rogue as she got off from the couch and into fighting mode. "What d'ya wan'!"
"I thought that might be obvious…you and Wolverine." said Starlight.
"Well ah doubt you'll get any o' us sugah, so why don' you save yourself some time an' leave!" shouted Rogue.
"I think not." Starlight raised her hand and Rogue fell to the ground, paralyzed. Starlight smiled and transported her to her car outside. Then she transported back in and looked for Logan.
"Looking for me?" Starlgiht turned around and looked at the paralyzed Bobby and then around the living room. She smield.
"So you like to play hide and seek Logan?" asked Starlight.
"It's one of my favourite games." said Logan.
"And mine!" shouted Juibilee as she dove out from the curtains and pounced on the brunette. Logan then came out with his claws, but Starlight managed to transport from Jubilee to behind Logan and paralyzed him. She then quickly transported out, but Jubilee quickly touched her so she went with them. Starlgiht punched Jubilee and paralyzed her and went off in her car.
"I'm so sorry Logan…"
End of this chapter yey! Sorry it just took me forever but i'm on holiday whoo, i won't be updating fr a bit but if you review i just might! Anyhow REVIEW!