At the institute,
"All the humans are still alive," Jean said. "But we must hurry or Mystique will kill them like she did in the past. I think we should keep the same team as we had before. Except Kitty."
"What!" Kitty demanded.
"Kitty, I really don't think- - -,"
"I'm not going to kill Mystique again!" Kitty said. "I-I just want to help. I also want to help protect Kurt this time."
"Okay," Jean nodded. "Let's go."
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Mystique's hideout,
"This time there will be no bloodshed," Kitty said. "At least not by my hands." She looked over at Wanda, John, and Logan. They had revenge written all over their face. "But…….maybe things will be easier if they were dead. Mystique will escape no matter what kind of prison she would be in, Lance, Pietro, Sabretooth, and Toad would eventually escape too." She looked down and frowned. "I wish this would all end and we could live peacefully."
"Let's move," Jean said and they ran to the building.
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"They're here!" Mystique said. "Avalanche, Toad, Quicksilver, make sure they don't find Xavier, Danielle, and Forge!"
"I'll take care of Logan," Sabretooth said with a growl walking out of the room.
She put a hand on her hip and sighed. "Yes, I know you will."
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Everyone remembered the previous plan. Tabitha and Piotr went up the stairs to find Danielle, Rogue, Wanda, and Remy went to the basement to find Xavier, Logan and Storm went to find Mystique, Jean, Kitty, Kurt, and Pyro went to look for Forge.
Tabitha and Piotr climbed up the stairs to get Danielle. They were glad that they knew for sure where she would be this time. They just hoped they did not run into Toad again. Although Tabitha could not help but laugh when she walked into Toad's room that time.
"I'm gonna 'accidentally' walk in on Toad again," she smirked to Piotr.
"We don't have time for that though," Piotr replied.
"Hey, we can't let the Brotherhood get away with this!" she said. "We need to capture any Brotherhood member we can find and then throw 'em in jail!"
"Okay," Piotr said. "Do you remember which room it was in?"
"Yeah!" she said. "This one!" She ran to a door on the right and opened it up. "Hey, To- - - - aww crap no!" She slammed the door shut again followed by the feeling of the floor shaking. "That's not Toad," she said.
"What are you doing here!" Lance demanded running out of his room to face the other two X-Men.
"Chill, Lance," Tabitha said. "We just wanted to come visit you guys!"
"Yeah right!" he said. "You're trying to find Moonstar! Well you'll have to get by me first!" He held out his hands and his eyes rolled back. He slammed his foot into the floor causes it to shake violently.
Piotr stood his ground because he was so heavy from his metal armor. He grabbed Tabitha's shoulders to help get her up. She glared at Avalanche and threw several explosives at him. He jumped out of the way and ran towards them.
"You gotta be kidding!" Tabitha said jumping aside throwing more explosives.
Piotr ran to him and with one swift blow he hit him on the back and knocked him unconscious.
"Heh, that was easy," she said.
Piotr picked up Lance's limp body and slung him over his shoulder. "Let's go," he said.
"Danielle is in the room at the end of this hall," she said. "Be ready."
The two walked down and hall and slowly opened the door that led to Danielle's room. Inside she was sitting at a desk reading a book. She quickly turned around when she heard her door open. Tabitha formed an explosive and threw it at a shelf above her head. The shelf fell and hit Danielle's head causing her to lose consciousness.
"Quick thinking," Piotr said collecting another body to carry around.
"I had to," Tabitha replied. "I couldn't let her act first."
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Rogue, Remy, and Wanda made their way into the basement. It was very dark so Wanda again used her powers to force the lights on. "Okay, Pietro! Come out!" she growled.
Instead of Pietro's sissy "Ahh! Wanda!" cry, they heard a girly shriek coming from behind a pile of boxes.
Gambit laughed and charged a card. "Come on out, monsieur Toad," he taunted. "We ain't gonna hurt y'."
Wanda stuck out her hand and caused the boxes to move aside which made him shriek louder if that was possible.
"Wow," Rogue said.
Toad was frozen from terror. "W-W-W-W-Wanda!"
"You all here will pay for sending me to that other world!" she snarled.
"No! Don't kill him!" Rogue said.
"Why!" Wanda snapped back.
"Because it's not the rahght thang ta do!" Rogue answered.
"Really!" Wanda replied. "Well was it the right thing for him to side with Mystique while she killed billions of people including your brother!"
"But we're not evil!" Rogue said. "We can't stoop as low as them!"
While the women were arguing, Gambit walked over to Toad and grabbed his arm. "Y' be comin' wit' us," he said.
"S-Sure!" Toad replied.
Wanda glared at Toad and then at Rogue. "Fine!" she said. "He'll live for now!"
With a tense feeling in the air they finally continued. Remy had a tight grip on Toad's arm and Rogue and Wanda said nothing to each other as they walked through the basement.
"Y-Your professor is behind that door!" Toad said pointing a shaky finger to a door in front of them.
"Yeah, we know," Remy said.
Rogue ran to the door and quickly opened it. Xavier was sitting in an empty room unconscious with a device on his head that made it so he could not contact anyone telepathically. She ran to him and took the headpiece off.
"Professor?" she said. "Wake up!"
His eyes slowly fluttered open and he looked around at everyone in the room.
"Thank, God!" he said. "We have to hurry! Mystique is - - -"
"We know," she said. "Everyone's go it covered."
"How did you find me?" he asked.
"Jean," Remy answered. "She be alive!"
"What!" Xavier gasped.
Rogue proceeded to tell Xavier everything that had happened.
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"Ha! I knew you'd be here!"
Jean, Kitty, Kurt, and Pyro had found themselves face to face with Quicksilver. The fast mutant had a big smirk on his face when he found them trying to get to Forge's room.
"In case you, like, haven't noticed," Kitty said. "You're up against me, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, and Pyro!"
"I'm not scared!" he said. "I just wish Rogue was with you so I could kill her for killing my father!"
"Shut up!" Kurt spat. "Leave Rogue out of zis!"
"Ohhhh little brother to the rescue?" Pietro mocked.
Jean held out her hand and lifted him into the air.
"Hey! What the!" he gasped.
"Ya might have thrown us into a dimension, kill all the humans, and let us repeat from the past over again," Pyro said readying his flamethrowers. "But one thing we've learned is how to take down traitors like you quickly!" He shot a flame ball at Pietro making him to slam into a wall and lose consciousness.
"Seriously," Kitty said. "It's funny they don't know we have the advantage. We've down this before and know what to expect. Only difference is that this time around we've run into a different member of the Brotherhood."
"Wait here," Jean said. "I'll get Forge."
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"I hope I run into Sabretooth again," Logan said. "So we can finally finish this."
"Logan," Storm said. "Umm……..never mind."
They continued searching room after room trying to find Mystique, but no luck so far. How many rooms were in this blasted place anyway?
They walked in silence for the longest time. Ororo wanted to say something to Logan, but she could not get it out. She had fallen in love with him and wanted to know if he felt the same. Doubt it, she thought. She also wanted to know why he and Sabretooth always had to fight. She wanted it to end too, but she did not want it to end in bloodshed.
"Logan, there's something I want to ask you?" she began, but did not get to finish when Logan held his hand up and started sniffing the air.
"Sabretooth," he growled.
Ororo looked around nervously. She did not see him, but Logan smelt him and he was never wrong on his senses.
"Come out, you coward!" Wolverine said unleashing his claws.
"As you wish," Sabretooth appeared from one of the rooms and smiled at Logan and Ororo. "How did you get out, Wolverine?"
"I'm not telling you!" Wolverine said. "No time for talk! Let's finish this!"
"Fine by me!" Sabretooth agreed charging at the two.
Ororo flew into the air and sent a bolt of lightning down on Sabretooth. He staggered backwards, but quickly recovered. Logan stabbed him in the stomach with his claws. Sabretooth growled and pushed Wolverine back. Ororo summoned a blanket of ice on Sabretooth when he tried to go after Logan again. Sabretooth burst through the ice and glared at Storm.
"Got a girlfriend to defend you?" he asked.
Logan said nothing and just gave him an icy glare.
"I see," Sabretooth said. "I'll kill her in front of you then!"
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Mystique watched the monitors and saw that her team was being badly defeated.
"Xavier is free," she said. "I got to get out of here."
She opened a window and changed into a raven. She flapped her wings and flew away as fast as she could.
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Sabretooth was getting ready to strike again until he felt a sharp pain in his head. He grasped his head and fell to his knees.
"W-what?" Logan asked.
"Xavier!" Storm smiled. "They found him!"
Sabretooth gave one more glare at Logan before he too lost consciousness.
The Brotherhood had been captured and Mystique's plan to kill the humans had failed.
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Author's Note: The reason why the battles were rushed is because I didn't wanna draw them out since there was already a chapter similar to this one. Anyway, the next chapter will be happier after all the drama that's happened thus far!