Sorry it took so long to update, but the musical has taken over my life and I'm sick and a bunch of other crap's been happening. runs away before readers can stab me for taking so long to update

Chapter 15

Rogue had finally come out of her room, and it was not because of Piotr's coaxing or Magneto helping her with her powers. Magneto was having a meeting with all of the Acolytes. "As you all know I did not form the Acolytes just for you to play around. There is a war coming and you need to be prepared for it. You've been training for battle, and now you are going to battle. The x-men are blaming us for the 'death' of Rogue." John smirked and the others just looked confused. "Now Cyclops has chosen to attack us. He intends to strike tomorrow, and we cannot let him or they will discover that Rogue is not dead. So you are going to attack. It would be stupid for 5 of you to battle all of them. That's why you'll attack some homo-sapiens first. Charles will find out and try to stop you, which is when you'll go against the select x-men he will have chosen. Rogue will stay here. Sabretooth, I want you to deal with the Wolverine before you help the others. Pietro, this is your chance at showing you have leadership potential. You will choose the place to attack." With that, the meeting ended and the Acolytes, except for Rogue, went off to battle. Rogue was stuck staying in Magneto's office.

"Rogue, I want you to try using telekesis. Move that book," he pointed at 'The Once And Future King', "over to me." Rogue concentrated on the book. The shelf it was on moved from it's current position back to it's prior. In response to Magneto's raised eyebrows Rogue simply said, "You never said I couldn't move more than just the book."

Meanwhile….

The battle was not going well for the x-men. There were 9 of them and they were currently having their asses handed to them by 4 boys. Kitty, Storm, Kurt, 2 new recruits, Hank, and Jubilee were all unconscious. Scott was shooting beams at a mutant who's entire body was covered in metal and the beams were just reflected off of him. He was stalling, and anyone watching would know it. The metal man finally got within a foot of Scott. Damn it, this was going to hurt.

Piotr almost felt sorry for the man he was about to take out. Still, he'd been given a mission, and couldn't afford to disobey orders. Mercifully, he hit the young man with the visor once in the temple and immediately knocked him out. Now he looked over to find out the occupation of his teammates. And he suddenly realized why Rogue had locked herself in her room had something to do with Bobby. How did he know? Just by looking at what was going on closer to where a large building was burning.

Pyro was melting the shield of ice that Bobby put up, while Remy through cards at it. The shield was, Pietro decided, thin enough to shatter, so he ran into it at full speed. The ice shattered and immediately all 3 acolytes were on the ice boy. Pietro was the first, seeing as he was the one to shatter the ice, and was hitting the boy so fast Bobby couldn't even attempt to defend himself. He was about to freeze him, when Remy interfered. "Dat wouldn't be a smart move on yer part, boy. Y' see, we don' betray our teammates, belle femmes or even asses like him," he gestured at Pietro at the word 'asses'. The part about betrayal, though, distracted Bobby and as he figured out what Remy was talking about a pink card flew at him. Pietro got out of the way and Bobby's shoulder got hit. That would leave some bad burn marks. John decided that if Bobby was already going to have some it would be rude of him not to add to the collection.

Grinning insanely John asked his once best friend, "So, Bobby, how quickly do you think fire melts ice?" He opened his lighter, and watched as the beautiful flame came up. This was going to be fun. Well, at least it would be for John.

I'll try to update after 35 reviews. After next weekend the show's over and this week there's no rehearal (The show's 2 weekends) so I should actually be able to update and do a good job on the next chapter.