I'm happy, I finally got to do one of the things I've always wanted to do in a X-Men fic :) Destroy the mansion
Disclaimer: I own nothing, I wish I owned X-Men, but I don't see it happening in this lifetime or the next.
Remy yawned as he walked out of his room. He finally finished the schedule for the students training session next week. There was nothing else for him to do that night since he already tucked Sarah into bed earlier.
"Hey Gumbo." He heard coming from the opposite end of the hallway. Logan had an unlit cigar in his mouth and was walking towards him.
Remy sighed. He knew Logan didn't trust him. The only reason why he left the Cajun go after Rogue was to get her away from Bobby. It didn't help two months ago either when Logan found the knife in the alley with Gambit's blood on it. He had questioned the younger man, but knew that he wasn't telling the whole truth on how he survived.
"I wanted ta talk ta ya." Logan requested.
"About what?" Remy asked him suspiciously.
"Rogue." The Canadian answered as he leaned against the wall. "I saw ya when she was in the Med. Lab. Gotta say I'm kinda impressed that ya actually stayed up so long ta see if she was gonna be okay."
"Doctors lie all de time. Rather, see it for myself dat she was fine." Remy told the older mutant.
Logan nodded and looked at the ceiling. "What I wanna say is that I trust ya with her." He said quickly.
Remy raised an eyebrow. Of all the things he had expected Logan to say to him, that was no where near the top of the list. "Merci homme, dat means a lot."
The Canadian looked at the younger man and raised a finger to point at him. "But if ya hurt her in any way, I swear I'll-" Logan began to threaten.
"-Gambit knows. Y'll slice moi into thousands of little parts so dat no one could identify Gambit's body. Think y'r runnin' out of threats. Y've used dat one already." Remy teased.
"And I'll keep usin' the threats as long as ya get it through y'r head not ta hurt her." Logan told the younger man.
"And I would never do dat to her. She means more to moi dan life itself." Remy said truthfully. "Speakin' of de chere, I was about to go find her. Y' know where she is?" He asked.
"Last I saw of her was downstairs." Logan answered.
Outside the Mansion
Legion hovered in the air staring at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. "So, this is the place that he left me for?" He growled as he observed the mansion and it's surroundings.
He clenched his hand into a fist. "You can be there for every child in the world, except for your own. Well guess what old man, there is a price to be paid for that." A small smirk came across his face as he raised his right arm.
"Say goodbye to your precious little school." He laughed as parts of the school began to shake and started on fire.
Inside the Mansion- Rec. Room
Wanda, John, Bobby, and Lorna all met in the same room to discuss a peace treaty between the couples. "I don't care if you don't want it to get out of hand, NOBODY dyes my hair pink!" Wanda yelled at the group.
"But you got most of it out." Bobby pointed out, looking at Wanda's now brown tinted red hair.
"Only because I used a different dye. Now my hair is brown, and I have to wait a while until I can get it back to being black." Wanda sighed.
"I think your hair looks good like that." Lorna commented. John wrapped an around Wanda and kissed her cheek.
"I think your hair looks good no matter what." He whispered in her ear, just as the rooms began to shake. "Okay, I take it back. Your hair looks good only black."
"I didn't do that." Wanda told him as the side wall caught on fire. "But right now, I wish I was." She said as she backed up with the rest of the group.
"John, can you get rid of that?" Bobby pointed to the flames that were blocking their exit. He hit Lorna behind him to protect her.
"Yeah, no problem." John raised his hand and pushed the flames away from the door. "Let's get out of here." He told th group, just as parts of the ceiling fell on them.
Lorna held up her hands and used a magnetic shield to protect the four of them. "I can't hold it that much longer, let's go!" She ordered as they all ran for the exit.
Girl's Dorm
"Oh my god, like what is going on?" Kitty demanded as she and Piotr moved quickly through the hallway, holding each other's hand. They saw Rogue run past them. "Rogue, wait." She begged her friend.
"Ah gotta check on somethin', Ah'll meetcha outside." The southern girl told them as she flew down the hall.
"You better be outside. I don't want to be the one to tell Gambit you were still in here when-" She was cut off when the ceiling caved it and blocked the path Rogue took. Parts of the walls phased right through Kitty and Pete.
"We need to get out of here, and fast." Piotr told her as he metaled up. "As soon as you are safe, I will come back in here and find the others." He instructed to her.
"But we can't leave Rogue in here. She's one of my best friends." Kitty said, her eyes all watery.
"Rogue knows how to take care of herself. Besides, of we stay here any longer we might end up trapped." Piotr told her.
Kitty took one last glance at the covered up debris where Rogue had flown off to. 'You better be alright.' She thought to herself before she turned to her boyfriend. "Okay, let's go." She sighed as they dashed off towards the stairs.
Sarah's Room
Sarah curled up in her bed, hugging her cat, Dirge, in her arms. "What's going on?" She whimpered into the cat's fur.
Dirge rubbed his face close to hers and purred. "What's all that noise?" Marrow whispered as she heard a loud thud come from a few dorms down. She was about to get out of her bed to see what was going on when Rogue opened her door.
"We gotta get outta here, sugah." The southern girl told the young girl as she walked over to the bed.
"What's going on?" Sarah asked her, still hugging Dirge close to her.
"Ah don't know. Only thing Ah know is we gotta get outta here before this place blows." Rogue answered her the best she could. She picked up the small girl, being careful not to get poked by one of the bones.
"Why is our home going to blow up? Why can't it stay in one piece?" Sarah asked as she began to cry. When Remy first brought her to the mansion, she was scared. She was afraid of what people might think when they see her and judge her. However, they all accepted her like she was a normal girl and didn't have bone spikes coming out of her arms, shoulders, and parts of her face.
"Ah don't know, sweetie. But we gotta getcha outta here and then go find the bad person tryin' ta ruin our home." Rogue whispered to her as she walked Sarah and Dirge back into the hallway, only to find it blocked and the ceiling was about to come down on both of them. "Sugah, hang on tight. We're goin' ta have ta go through the window." She whispered to Marrow.
"But won't we get hurt if we do?" Sarah asked her.
"Ah'ma knock the window out first." Rogue told the younger girl a she set her down on the bed and grabbed a chair and threw it at the window. Glass shattered outward from the broken window. The southern girl returned to the young Morlock and cat and picked them up in her arms.
"What about Daddy and the others?" Sarah asked her.
"Don't worry. We'll find them." Rogue reassured her.
"I already lost one mommy and daddy. I don't want to lose another." Marrow stated as tears formed in her eyes.
"Don't worry, sugah." Rogue told her as they flew out the window. "Remy is a hard one ta get rid of, he'll be fine." She gave the small girl a smile. 'At least he better be if he knows what's good for him.' She thought to herself as she landed on the ground.
Kitchen
"Oh shit. What's going on?" Jubilee cursed as Jono picked her up in his arms.
"Jubilee, please do not use that language." Scott told the younger girl.
"Can you think of better language? Besides, there are no little kids around. And Wolvie swears even when there are kids around." Jubilee pointed out to him.
"She has a point. But we will settle this once we are all safe." Jean said to the group as the back and right side of the kitchen started on fire and parts of the ceiling started to collapse.
Please tell me that this is another one of those things that happens every so often. Jono telepathically sent to Jubilee.
"No, this is a first time for it being destroyed. Usually there are only kidnapings here, or people attempting to destroy it. No one has actually succeeded, until now." Jubilee told him as Jean used a telekinetic shield to protect the group from the flames.
"Jean, can you contact the others and find out where they are and if they are safe?" Scott asked his fiancé.
"I'll try." She told him as they began moving slowly towards the flames blocking the exit.
"Thank god the children aren't all here." Scott mused to himself. It was going to be hard enough finding all sixteen people in the mansion, compared to over sixty.
"What are we going to do now?" Jubilee asked Scott as they entered the hallway and were working their way to the back door. "We'll have no place to sleep or do anything."
"No, I know the bottom half of the mansion is almost like a bomb shelter. Even if the top half of it goes, the lower half will be fine. We may have to send some of the kids home until the Professor is able to have the mansion rebuilt or relocated." Scott answered her as they made it to the backyard, where they met up with Lorna, Bobby, Wanda, and John.
"Thank god you guys are alright." Lorna was the first to speak as Jono put Jubilee down and let her steady herself on his shoulder.
"Jean, have you located the others?" Scott asked.
"Yes, I got a hold of Rogue. She has Sarah. Kitty and Piotr are on the side of the house. He was going to go back inside, I told him to wait. I'm having a hard time picking up Pietro, X-23, Remy and Logan." She told them.
"What? Pietro's still inside!" Wanda glanced over at the red-haired telepath. "I'm going back inside. That idiot won't be able to make it out without someone else's help." She said as was about to head for the entrance, when the top half of the mansion collapsed and blocked the door. "PIETRO!" Wanda yelled as she ran to towards the burning debris, but John grabbed her before she touched any of it.
"Wanda, you can't go in there." He told her. She tried to push him off of her.
"Get away from me. I have to go in there. He won't know what to do, I gotta save him." Wanda yelled, tears were forming in her eyes.
"Wanda, Pietro knows how to take care of himself. I've seen the guy get out of stickier things than this." Lorna placed a hand on Wanda's arm to try and calm her friend down.
"No he doesn't! Please, you have to let me go back in there. He's the only family I have left." Wanda fell to her knees and did the one thing she hadn't done in years: cried.
Living Room
X-23 dodged out of the falling pieces of the ceiling as it came down on her. She unsheathed her claws and smashed a piece of wood that almost hit her. She heard a soft moan of someone in pain and made her way towards it. She smelled in the air and knew exactly who it was: Pietro.
She found him buried under a few pieces of wood and metal and began to remove them. A pipe had cut through his left leg. "X? What are you doing here?" He whispered as he leaned his head back.
"What does it look like? I'm getting you out of here." She growled as she finally removed all the debris off him.
"What's the point? I'm going to die." He yelped in pain when she removed the pipe from his leg.
"Stop acting like a drama queen." She snarled and helped him up with one of his arms around her shoulder. "We're going to get out of here, and then I'm going to kick how's ever ass it is who is bringing this place down on us." She vowed as they walked as quickly as possible for an exit.
"X, I don't say this to a lot of girls, even though I have dated millions of them." Pietro joked lightly. X-23 rolled her eyes as she kicked down a door to the outside. "But I like you, a lot." He whispered.
"I like you a lot too, Pie. Now shut up." She ordered him as the others came racing towards them.
"Oh my god, Pietro!" They heard Wanda yell as she pushed the others out of the way to get to her twin brother. "Thank god you're alive, you moron." She hugged him.
"He was whining about a cut in his leg and acted like he was going to die." X-23 told her. Jean was heading for them to check on Pietro's leg, while Scott talked Kitty, Piotr, and Sarah.
"Yep, that's him." Wanda let go of her brother. Rogue flew down next to them.
"Didja guys see Remy or Logan in there?" She asked in a worried voice.
"No, barely made it out of there." X-23 told the southern girl, who looked like she was going to be sick. She glanced back at the mansion and watched the rest of it crumple to the ground.
"Hey, I'm sure they made it out of there." Bobby came up behind her and told her.
Teacher's Dorm
"Fuck, what the hell!" Logan cursed as he and Remy ran the opposite way the building was coming down.
"So, what's your brilliant plan of gettin' out of dis one? Jump through de window?" Remy asked as they stopped at end of the hallway, next to a large window.
"Blow the window out. We're going through it." Logan ordered as the walls began to cave it. Remy took out a playing card from his pocket and quickly charged it. He threw it at the window, causing it to explode. Logan grabbed the Cajun mutant by the collar of his jacket and jumped out the window towards the waiting water of the pool. They barely made it out as the mansion collapsed.
Logan swam to the top of the frozen water, still holding onto the collar of Remy's coat and dragged the Cajun over to the edge of the pool. He pushed Gambit onto the cement before getting out of the pool himself.
Seconds later, Remy's eyes snapped open and he began coughing up water from his lungs. "Well, there's one problem solved." Logan stated as he got to his feet.
"Which is?" Remy asked as he stood up as well, but still coughing up some water.
"You won't be needed mouth ta mouth." Logan told him as he looked back at the destroyed mansion.
"Merci Dieu." Remy murmured as he began to shiver from the cold.
In Front of the Mansion
A purple car pulled up along side the drive way. Xavier stared in horror as the mansion collapsed. 'My God, they're all still in there.' He thought to himself as he exited out of the car with the help of Gabrielle.
He turned to see a figure floating in the air, laughing at the site before him. "Stop this now, David!" Xavier yelled at his estranged son.
"Oh no father, I don't think so. I see you care more about these X-Men, than your own flesh and blood." Legion growled at the bald man in a wheel chair before him. "Well guess what daddy, it is time to pay for abandoning Davie all those years ago." Legion smirked as he glanced at the fallen mansion. "And, you're next."
End of Chapter 10
Loneraven: haha, don't worry, it'll be back being black by the next story. As for Joseph, I can't kill him, though I want to give him a death worse than Vipers and Maddies put together. Haha, and yeah Alison is gonna be a bit of a problem, but she doesn't cause as much damage as some other people do. Thanks for reviewing
AngelofMercy86: haha, glad ya liked the pink hair park :) Thanks for reviewing
jacx: Jean and everyone else ended up being fine... for this chapter. Though in the next, somebody won't be fine. And there will be more of the creepy little voice in Jean's head. Thanks for reviewing
Chica De Los Ojos Café: haha, well I'll give ya hints to who she is so it doesn't drawl attention. Her name starts with a p and ends with a x and she has red hair and likes to destroy things. As for Joseph, he is up to a lot of trouble, I was kinda tempted to bump him off, but can't do that, sadly. I'll update as quickly as possible :) Thanks for reviewing
enchantedlight: glad ya enjoyed the chapter. :) Thanks for reviewing
Roguechere: haha Pie is very protective of his white hair. It makes him special. As for Joey, yeah Remy and him are not going to be friends at all. Joey might even break them two of them up (winkwink). Thanks for reviewing
Crystalwish: I don't like him either, he is evil and stuff. Alison is a bit of a problem, but not as big of a problem as some other couples will have it later on. Thanks for reviewing
firestorm13: lol , I got a cloning machine. So ya can kill him and I can just reclone him again for when I need him. I agree, I hate the guy too. Almost made myself sick when I had him hug Rogue. Thanks for reviewing.
Next Chapter: Death- battle against Legion, and a major good guy character will be going bye bye.