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Ch.9 The attack

That night Toby stayed with Wanda. He had fallen asleep by nine and Wanda had tucked him into bed in the back of her trailer. She was shuffling her tarot cards when Logan entered.

"You see anything suspicious get me or one of the others on security."

He checked on the kid then tested her windows, making sure they were locked.

"I understand."

He left and she continued to shuffle, pausing to light a scented candle.

After Logan left Wanda's he continued his rounds around the area. He stopped by all the booths and stands and told them the same thing he told Wanda. Before they opened that night he had his security team posted around the grounds. Beast and Pietro were watching the woods, Freddy was at the main gate with X-23 and Piotr was behind the tent with the performers. Logan himself was on patrolled.

Around midnight the crowds were starting to clear and Logan was drinking a beer while heading towards the main gate to check in with X and Freddy when his radio went off.

"Logan! Are you there!"

Beast's panic stricken voice caused Logan to stop in his tracks.

"What is it Hank?"

"We've got people coming in through the woods, their armed."

"How many?"

"I don't know, ten maybe fifteen."

He could hear shots being fired over the radio and in the distance. He quickly radioed all of his security team.

"Listen up, I want all security to report to the woods now! Do you copy!"

"Da, I'm heading over."

"Me and the big guy are on our way dad."

Logan got Lance and after he found Remy they headed to the woods. When he got there Beast was growling and throwing rocks at the attackers while Pietro was ran around and took their guns.

"About-time-you-slow-pokes-showed-up!"

Logan pulled Pietro to him and spoke quickly.

"We got this Speedy, go find your sister and tell the others to clear out any humans still around."

Pietro sped off leaving the others to fight. Logan tackled a man and knocked his gun out of his hands, he grabbed the man by the collar and pinned him to a tree.

"Who are you!"

"I don't have to answer to the likes of you!"

Logan pressed him into the tree harder.

"You got till the count of three, one, two…"

Logan's claws slid out, coming dangerously close to the man's throat.

"Ok, ok. I'm with the Friends of Humanity."

Logan knocked him out and called to the professor with his radio.

"Chuck, it's the FoH were dealing with."

"I'll alert the others."

Soon after reinforcements arrived. Bobby created a wall of ice giving them time to regroup. Logan started giving out orders as quickly as he could.

"Kitty, you and Rogue get the young ones somewhere safe, go now!"

Wanda caught Rogues arm before she left.

"Rogue, Toby's still in my trailer sleeping."

"Ah'll get him."

Rogue said as she and Kitty ran off, taking Jamie with them.

"Pietro how fast can you dismantle the place?"

"The-whole-place?"

"Yea."

"I-can-take-it-all-apart-in-about-an-hour,-but-I-can't-carry-the-heavy-stuff."

"Freddy, Piotr go with him, get the cars on the tracks and load everything onto them."

Bobby's ice was starting to crack as the men blasted away at it with their bullets. Pietro, Freddy and Piotr left and the others readied themselves. The ice broke and the fighting began again.

Wanda hexed some of them back and Tabitha threw her bombs. Jubilee and Ray combined their powers and sent three men flying at once. Amara powered up and sent John some fire, he in turn made a horse of fire and sent it galloping through the woods.

Logan and X-23 were fighting together against several large men, they easily won.

"Push them back!"

Logan yelled before taking on two more men.

ELSE WHERE-

Several of the cars were already on the tracks and Piotr was carrying another car towards the tracks. Pietro was currently taking down the big tent with the help of Fred while Rogue and Kitty were putting the younger mutants in the first car.

"What's going on?"

A young girl with bright orange hair was half asleep and Rogue was carrying her towards the train.

"We're leaving darlin. Go back ta sleep."

The tired girl rested her head on Rogues shoulder and soft snoring could be heard soon after. When Rogue reached the train Kitty took the girl and laid her down in an empty seat.

"How many more?"

"Ah don't know, Ah'm headen back out."

She paused to catch her breath.

"Is Jamie still awake?"

"Yea."

Jamie appeared behind Kitty.

"See if Piotr needs any help, ok."

Jamie smiled and ran off happy to be useful. Rogue took a quick head count then ran off to find more kids.

Rouge had gotten into a pattern, go to trailer, enter trailer, call out to see if anyone was there, do a quick search, if someone was there either tell them to go to train or if they were too young take them to the train herself. By doing this she had found all the kids and only had two trailers left. The first one had a young boy in it, he was old enough to make it on his own and she told him to tell Kitty she would be there soon and the last one was Wanda's.

"Toby? Toby where are ya?"

Toby came out from behind the curtain in batman PJ's rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Rogue ran to him and took him by the hand, she was about to leave when she head someone talking outside the window.

"Is this the one?"

The voice was a man's.

"Yes"

The second voice was a woman's.

Rogue crouched down with Toby and they waited for something to happen. Nothing did and Rogue cautiously stood up, suddenly a smoke bomb was thrown through a window and as the room filled with smoke some one started to beat on the door, Rogue ran to the door pressing against it to keep it shut as those outside tried to force their way in.

"Toby! Stay down and head towards the back!"

She started to cough and watched as Toby crawled to Wanda's bookshelf pulling out a thick book. Rogue managed to pull a book shelf in front of the door then she ran to Toby. Rogue picked him up, and carrying both him and the book to the back of the trailer. She could hear the bookshelf being pushed back and the door being thrown open. Rogue quickly kicked the window above Wanda's desk out not wanting to waist time opening it. She cleared away the broken glass and lowered Toby out the window before she herself jumped out. She picked Toby up again and ran, ducking behind anything she could in an attempt to keep out of sight.

"Rogue!"

Kitty ran to her friend and took Toby out of her arms and while balancing the boy on her hip she helped Rogue into the train car. She put Toby down and put a blanket around him, he still held the book tightly in his arms. Kitty turned to Rogue and made her sit down. Kitty looked at Rogue's bleeding leg and found three deep cuts.

"How did those happen?"

"Probably when Ah kicked out Wanda's window."

"What's happening out there?"

Kitty began to dress Rogues wound.

"We were attacked, Ah'll tell ya the rest when the kids aren't listening."

Some of the children who had been eavesdropping groaned and turned around in their seats.

"Are we almost done loadin up?"

Rogue asked as she looked around doing a head count.

"Like, I think so, the tent is down and packed, most of the stands are packed and only a few more trailers are left."

Rogue heard gunshots in the distance, she stood up and limped to the end of the train, she carefully climbed onto a seat and tried to get everyone's attention.

"Hey, could yall listen ta me for a moment?"

When nothing happened she let out a loud and piercing whistle, after the car was silent she spoke.

"Ah know yall are tired and scared, but we have to get this train loaded. Ah need ya to get out there and help Piotr, Freddy and Peitro."

The older ones went outside to help (the youngest were sleeping), Kitty went with them and soon the train was packed and ready to go.

IN THE WOODS-

Remy sent four charged cards at a man about to shoot Lance. They had been fighting for two hours now and things weren't getting better.

"Rogue? Kitty? Is anybody there?"

Logan was yelling into his radio.

"Logan, this is Rogue. We're all here, everyone's accounted for. Everythins packed and we're waiten for yall to finish, Ah sent Piotr and Freddy to help ya and Pietro is getting the train fired up."

An armored Piotr charged in followed by Freddy, with their help they were able to drive most the FoH back. When the last FoH member retreated Logan and the others started to head towards the train, the sun would be rising in half an hour and with it would bring more trouble. Suddenly the radio crackled to life and Kitty's voice could be heard loud and clear.

"Logan! Come in Logan! We're under attack, I repeat we're under atta…"

The transmission was cut short.

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