Title: This Can't Be It
Author: Gambit'sLady
Rating: Mature for language and scenes a little later on in the story
Summary: It's been three months since the 'deaths' of three dear friends and now Rogue questions whether or not they're really dead. The X-Men make some new friends as some old ones return. Romy, Jonda, and many more! Slightly AU from the movies
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters Marvel Comics and Fox does! I just came up with the plot and the story. Although I wish I owned the charries but I don't
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The girls were all quiet as they changed into their uniforms. They had taken it upon themselves to spice up their uniforms. Wanda had on a red corset that had black threading running in a pattern on it and tight black leather pants. She had on a dark red trench coat (think X-Men evolution) on that went down to her ankles.
Next was Kitty. She had a pair of black hip huggers and a blue spaghetti strapped shirt. She put on a pair of black high heeled boots and had her hair up in her usual high ponytail. It looked as if she was going to go out to a club but Wanda and Rogue knew better and they knew exactly why she had that outfit on.
Finally there was Rogue. She had on a tight leather skirt that went mid thigh with a pair of fishnet stockings, a forest green corset with black embroidery, black high heeled boots that cut off at the op of her ankle, a matching green coat that had a hood that went down to her ankles, and black gloves that went about three inches past her wrist.
"Do you think they're ready yet?" Wanda asked her friends.
"They better be" Kitty replied. "We have to leave soon, before anyone catches us. Besides, it's not like they have to be hiding from their roommates since they got stuck together"
"Come on you two, let's jus' go an' get the boys an' leave" Rogue butted in. both girls nodded and walked over to the boys' room.
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Remy rolled her eyes at his room mates. They had been arguing the whole time and it was getting quite old.
"You-better-not-have-touched-my-sister" Pietro warned.
"Hey! I haven't done anything she wasn't willing to do" John said, just wanting to get him mad.
"Enough boys. Da femmes be meetin' wit' us any time now. Don't wan' them tah hear yah two arguin' non?" Remy asked. The two sighed and nodded.
A light rapping on their door let them know the girls were there. Pietro speed towards the door and opened it. "Your-late" he said.
Wanda rolled her eyes and pushed past her twin to go over to John. She looked at his uniform and grinned. "I like it" she said. John was wearing a pair of flame retardant black dickies (haha, I love dickies!)and a black button downed shirt with the first two undone.
"I'm glad you like it" he said with a grin as he leaned in and kissed her.
Pietro stared at Kitty with his mouth slightly open. "Wow. You look good" he said, smiling at her.
"Wow, you actually spoke normally for once" Wanda teased.
"Wow, you aren't actually glued to John's face" he shot back. He turned back to Kitty and grinned. "Sorry about that" he said.
"Oh don't worry about it" Kitty said as a blush crept up her face. "You look…wow" she said breathlessly. Pietro was in a pair of tight black pants and a silver button downed shirt and like John, had the top two unbuttoned, showing of his muscular chest.
Remy looked at Rogue and smirked. "Yah look good cher" he said in his deep Cajun drawl.
Rogue rolled her eyes but smiled none-the-less. "Thank yah sugah" she said.
"Sugah?" he asked with a smirk.
Rogue blushed and looked away. "Ah-Ah meant Swa-"
Remy silenced her by placing a finger on her lips. "Chéri, Remy jus' givin' yah a hard time"
Rogue blushed a little more and tried to avoid looking at him. Remy smirked and turned her face towards his. "Cher" he whispered to her. "Come out wit' Remy dis Saturday"
Rogue shook her head and pulled away. "No" was all she said.
"Non? Why not cher?" Remy asked, completely baffled at how she could reject him that easily and a little hurt at the same time.
"Coz, Ah don' wanna" she lied.
Remy felt a wave of guilt and sadness hit him and knew it was hers. He smirked and moved closer to her. "Lie" he whispered in her ear. "Remy knows dat's not da reason why y' won' give 'im a chance"
"Leave meh alone! Gawd! Ah said no an' that's final!" Rogue snapped, pushing past him. "Hey enough flirting" she said, trying to ignore the burning gaze on her. "We have a mission tah do"
Wanda and John sighed as they pulled away, Kitty blushed at her 'flirting' comment, Pietro smirked and Remy just kept his gaze on the beautiful leader who had easily turned him down.
"So what's the plan?" Kitty asked.
"We're goin to get the professor and Scott back" Rogue told them.
"Can't we just leave Scott in the woods?" John complained.
"No, as much as yah dislike him and as much as we all think he has a stick up his ass, we will not leave him there" Rogue said, cutting John's complaining short.
John groaned but kept his mouth shut but this time Kitty decided to speak up. "Rogue, what exactly is the plan?"
Rogue grinned and looked around. "We will separate into two teams. Thah first team will be composed of me, Pyro, and Gambit. The second will be Shadowcat, Scarlet Witch, and Quicksilver" she said, making sure to use everyone's codename so they knew not to use their real names. "Thah first team will be the one to locate Scott and get him safely on the X-Jet. Team two will be dropped off at Muir Island and find thah professor. Once found, they will make sure that nothing happens tah him. Ah'm warnin' y'all that Forge has built thah top-o'-thah-line defense robots and they're protectin' thah place so be careful. Kitty, you'll be in charge of team two while Ah'll be in charge of team one" she told them.
All five other mutants agreed and prepared themselves for what was to come.
"Kitty," Rogue said quietly, "are yah ready?"
Kitty nodded and put her bare hand on Rogue's face for about a minute before pulling away lightheaded. "Wow, that was not exactly how I expected it to feel" she commented, shaking her head a little.
Rogue smiled apologetically and turned to the group. "Alright, let's go 'fore Logan comes back an' notices we're gone" she said as she stood up and looked at the others.
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The X-Jet landed on the outskirts of Muir Island as three mutants walked off the jet. Before they were out of hearing range Rogue told them, "We'll be here as soon as we get Scott" And with that the X-Jet took off.
"Don't do anything unless I tell you to" Kitty said looking directly at Pietro.
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Rogue landed the jet safely out of anyone's view and quickly looked at the other two. "Gambit, Pyro, we need to get in an' out. NO messing around of any kind. Not only does Scott's lahfe depend on i' but ours do as well" she said, her southern accent dominating her voice.
They both nod at her and she looks around, making sure everything was right before she stood up and walked off the jet with the two men following her.
Right when they stepped off of the jet a blinding light flashed and they all covered up their eyes.
"Put your hands up and don't retaliate" a man's voice bellowed.
The two men smirked as Rogue seemed the epitome of calm.
"I repeat, put your hands up!" he said more forcefully.
Rogue looked at the two men around her and noticed the similar looks on their faces. She knew that there was no way they would be able to find Scott without a fight so she sighed and nodded.
The two men grinned as Gambit took out a deck of cards (minus the queen and king of hearts) and smirked.
Pyro withdrew his lighter from his pocket and flicked the lid open. He grinned maniacally as he manipulated the fire from the lighter to move to his hand and grew in size.
Rogue turned back to the men and looked the epitome of calm as they heard the man's voice once again.
"Come quietly and we won't hurt you!"
"Sorry sug, we need tah find our friend an' yoah in our way" she told him.
Once those words left her mouth Gambit threw three charged cards and Pyro threw a ball of fire at one.
Getting into a fighting stance Rogue watched as the men kept their weapons pointed at them still. "Now Ah can' have y'all havin' thah advantage now can Ah?" she asked with a smirk. With a wave of her hand and the use of Magneto's powers she easily removed the weapons and made them unusable. "There we go"
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"Oh fuck!"
"I didn't think you had that sorta mouth on you Shadowcat" Scarlet Witch said with a smirk.
Shadowcat rolled her eyes in response and looked at the thirty high-tech defensive robots surrounding them.
"What-are-we-going-to-do?" Quicksilver asked her.
"The thing we are good at, fight" she said with a grin.
The other two nodded and had identical smirks on their faces.
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"I bet you five bucks Rogue takes him down in two minutes" Pyro said with a sadistic smile as he flipped his lighter open and closed.
"Non" Gambit said as he leaned against a tree and shuffled another deck of cards he had taken out of one of the many pockets in his trench coat. "Gambit t'ink cher have fun wit' dis one"
Rogue stood in her fighting stance and smirked at the 'leader' of the group. "Y' sure yah wanna fight meh sugah?"
"I aint gonna lose ta a mutie like you" the man snarled.
"Oh well, can' say Ah didn't warn yah" she said with a shrug.
With that the man threw a right hook at the two-toned girl which she easily dodged by dropping to the ground and sweeping the man's legs out from under him. The man groaned as he pushed himself up.
"Your gonna regret that girlie" he growled.
Rogue smirked and watched as he man threw poorly aimed punches and kicks that she easily dodged. Seeing an opening Rogue took the opportunity and hit him hard in the side knocking the wind out of him.
Gambit watched the two fight in interest. Their fighting techniques were so different. Rogue's was precise and flowed from one movement to the next while the man's was, to say the least, disastrous.
"Do yah give up yet sugah?" Rogue asked as she pinned him to the ground.
"Not to a freak like you! Never!" he snapped. He spat in the girl's face and snarled at her.
Rogue glared at the man as she wiped the spit off of her face. "Okay that's it!" she growled. She punched the man in the jaw and broke it.
The man groaned in pain before he passed out from the excruciating pain shooting through his jaw.
"Come on" Rogue growled to the two men. They both nodded and followed her into the forest.
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"That's the last one" Shadowcat said as she phased through the robot, short-circuiting it.
"Good-job-Shadowcat" Quicksilver said with a smile.
Shadowcat blushed and Scarlet Witch rolled her eyes. "Aren't we on a mission?" she asked.
"Right" Shadowcat said, switching to leader role. "Let's go and find the Prof"
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"Are you sure you know where to find him" Pyro asked.
"Ah know what Ah saw Pyro" Rogue said.
They were walking through the forest when she heard a whimper. She signaled for the two men to stop and be quiet as she walked over to where she heard the whimper come from. She saw a little boy around the age of 11 hiding in the bushes. "Hey sugah" she said softly.
The boy whimpered and drew back from her in fear. "P-please don't tell him I'm here" he pleaded. "I-I don't wanna be hit no more"
"Shh… sugah" Rogue consoled him. She signaled for Gambit to come over and he knelt down beside her. "We'll protect yah darlin'. No one will hurt yah no more"
"Cher's right p'tite" Gambit said as he allowed the boy to feel safe around the two with the use of his empathy. "No one'll hurt y' wit Remy an' Roguey"
The boy looked hesitantly at the two adults before him. "Ya promise ya won't tell him where I am?" he asked.
Rogue smiled and nodded. "We won't let anyone hurt yah hun" she told him. She held out her gloved hand to the boy which he took and smiled. "So sweetie, why don' yah tell meh yoah name?"
"Jamie" he said as he looked at the two.
Gambit grinned at the boy and picked him up. "Well Jamie, seems like y', Roguey an Remy, jus' have t' make sure not'in happens t' y' oui?"
Jamie nodded and smiled as he still held Rogue's gloved hand. "Jamie, honey, we're goin' tah look for a friend, is that okay with yah?" she asked. The boy nodded and they went off to find Scott.
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"Professor!" Shadowcat exclaimed as she ran to the man in the wheel chair and hugged him.
"It's nice to see you too Katherine" he said with a genuine smile. He turned to the other two teens and smiled. "And you too Mr. and Miss Maximoff" he said.
The two teens stared in wonder at how he knew them. The professor chuckled and looked at them. "I knew you two when you were younger" he told them.
"Professor the others will be ecstatic to see you" Shadowcat said. "Everyone has been mourning your death a long with Scott and Jean but they're not dead!" she said excitedly. "Rogue tapped into yours and Jean's powers and used Cerebro to locate you, Scott and Jean. Her, Gambit and Pyro are getting Scott right now"
"As well as another student for us"Charles said knowingly.
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There was a startled gasp as the three teens and little boy looked at the bloody body of Scott. "Pyro, pick him up and carry him to the X-Jet" Rogue told him.
Pyro nodded and scooped the man up into his arms. It seemed as if the sudden movement woke the man and he frantically tried to look around but realized he didn't have his glasses.
"Who's there?" he asked.
"'S okay Scott, it's meh, Rogue" she said. "Pyro here will carry you to the jet and we have we other members with us" she told him.
"Gambit, a.k.a. Remy LeBeau" Gambit told him. "An' the p'tite garçon 's Jamie"
Scott nodded as he kept his eyes closed. "Is there anyone else?" he asked.
Rogue shifted in her place and took a deep breath knowing that he'd have a word with her later. "No"
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"We have guests" the Professor said.
The three teens as well as Forge and Moira turned to the screens and smiled. It seemed as if the other three's mission was successful.
The five of them walked in and Rogue nodded to Kitty in sign that everything went well. She smiled at the professor and walked over to him giving him a hug while making sure not to make any skin contact. "Good tah see yah Professor"
"And it's good to see you too Rogue. And you John and Scott" he said with a smile.
"Hey Prof' I'm sorry…for everything" John apologized.
"No need Mr. Allerdyce" Charles said with a smile. "Ah Mr. Summers, I do believe you would need these" he said as Moira handed him a pair of ruby-quartz sunglasses.
"Thank you" Scott said, putting the sunglasses on. he looked around the room and rose an eyebrow when he saw a little boy holding both Rogue's and Remy's hands. "Did I miss something?" he asked in a confused state.
Rogue and Remy laughed as Jamie gripped their hands tighter. "Non mon ami" Remy said. "De belle femme found him an' Remy an' chere promised no' t' le' anyone hurt de garçon" he explained.
"Well it seems that he is pretty attached to you two" Scott said.
The two teens smiled at the boy and Rogue picked him up, making sure he wouldn't touch any skin. She had told him about her powers and was surprised when he didn't back away from her. Instead he caught her completely off guard by grabbing her hand. She ran a hand through his hair and smiled. "Yeah, Ah'm pretty attached tah the lil' pup mahself" she said with a soft smile to the boy.
He simply smiled back and turned to look at the professor. "So we gonna go on the jet again?" he whispered to Rogue and Remy, causing them to laugh.
"Yeah sugah, jus' as soon as the others are ready" Rogue told him.
He nodded and yawned causing everyone to smile or grin. "Come on p'tite" Remy said as he took him from Rogue. "Le's ge' y' on de jet and tucked in oui?"
The boy nodded and gave a sleepy smile. "Can Roguey come too?" he asked.
"Sure sugah" she said with a smile. "We'll be on thah jet if yah need us" she told the others before walking with the two to the jet.
"I think they look cute" Kitty said with a smile.
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Rogue came back from the back room with a blanket and small pillow in her hands. "Ah found these in thah backroom" she said as she covered Jamie with the blanket.
"G'night Roguey…Remy" Jamie said in between a yawn.
Rogue smiled and ran her hand through the boy's hair. "Night baby" she whispered. She put her gloved hand on the his cheek and kissed the back of her hand.
"Bonne nuit Jamie" Remy said with a grin. He turned to Rogue as she sat down in the seat closest to Jamie's. "Y' be a good mere, chéri" he said as he sat down next to her.
"Thanks sugah" she said with a tired smile. "Ah jus' don' wanna see him get hurt again"
"Go t' sleep cher" Remy said. "I'll make sure dat not'in' happen t' de pup"
She smiled and closed her eyes as she laid her head on his chest. "Thank yah Remy"
Remy grinned as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "No problem mon amour"
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A/N Woohoo! Another chapter! Yay me! Hope you liked it! Thanks to all who reviewed. I'm glad y'all like it. I know it's a little rough but it gets better. I just had to bring Jamie into this! He's so cute in X-Men Evolution and because I have big plans for him in this story that deals with everyone's favorite Southern Belle and Cajun Snake Charmer...
I will also have the words translated into english for those who don't know starting in the next chapter.
Questions:
Sleepy26: I made it so that he could only sense her being and contact her because she's using cerebro to enhance her borrowed psychic abilities. I wanted to make it interesting so yeah... if you still need more explenation then just ask.