----- Mansion -----

"What's going on?" Scott said as he staggered to regain his footing.

"I don't know." Jean said as she too was doing the same. "Oh God look!" She yelled as she pointed to the other side of the room. The place where the entrance use to be was now replaced by broken furniture and the remains of the hall.

"What the hell is going on?!" Scott said as they both heard a sound. Which was followed by a foul odor.

"Scott look out!" Jean shouted.

Hearing this he ducked under as a figure was soaring over his head, and that figure had came to a landing on the other side of the room. Only to disappeared in a cloud of smoke while leaving the same foul smell again, but not before they caught a somewhat good look at their attacker. An attacker that had a tail with only added to it's demonic feature.

"Jean we need to get out...JEAN!" Scott yelled out as he saw the figure knocked out the red head. "You bastard!" He shouted as he started to take aim and blast the figure. Only the figure disappeared again before the energy blast from his eyes could make contact. "Damn it wher.." He started when he fell to the ground from the blow he receive to his head.

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"Are you all right my dear?" The worry filled voice of her boyfriend came as he entered the kitchen. "I saw Scott leaving here."

(Sigh) "Yes Henry we had a talk about what had happened over in Japan, and in the Blackbird." She said as she took the dirty plates that he had brought. "It's just I still feel like a heel for not saying the truth to her."

"It is understandable." He said as he started to take the dishes to dry them. "But I think he did make the choice don't you?"

"Yeah."

"I sense that there is something else that is on your mind?" He said as placed the first stack of dishes away.

"I mean doesn't it make you angry that Scott came back with open arms?" She asked.

"I am afraid I don't follow?" The ponytailed man said.

"Well Scott did jump ship to the Brotherhood, and took the Blackbird with him. Which caused the trouble we had in D.C. And here he is with us again like nothing ever happened." She said as she handed him the last of clean but wet dishes.

"Well so much has indeed happened but..." He said when the light went out. "How odd?"

"Did we blow a fuse?" She asked when the sound of wood being snapped and the mansion trembling. It continued as the sounds was coming close and it was getting closer too. When the wall broke revealing as large form running straight at them.

"Look out!" Hank yelled as they both narrowly dodged the running form. As it plowed through everything. Tearing right though the kitchen counter, and headed straight for the refrigerator breaking it as if it was made out of paper. And continued its course making a new hole in the wall paralleled to the one it had just made while entering. Leaving the broken remains of what once was the kitchen.

(cough cough) "What was that." Storm said as she started to get up.

"The beginning of the end frail." The gruff voice sounded as the owner walked in.

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"I thought Bobby would never leave." Peter thought to himself as he started to dry off. No longer in his organic metal form. "He is just a kid after all, but one shouldn't distract tract someone when they are bench pressing." He thought as he recalled who Bobby was started to get on his nerves. "Huh?" He said as the lights went out. Which was also followed by the sounds of something breaking through the walls. Which indeed was the case as the wall to the gym broke. There stood a towering form of a man that had made the hole in the wall. The body was covered with a black metal helmet. That ran along his stomach which met his camouflage pants, and boots.

"Who the hell are you?" Peter said as he started to bring forth his metal skin.

"The answer to you commie." The helmet covered man said.

"I see you can break though walls let see you try to break though me!" The steel covered mutant yelled as he started to closed the distant between them. And fired his arm to land a blow right in the middle of the towering man. Only the blow was caught with the man's left hand.

"Nice try but let me show you how its done." He said as he nailed the metal covered mutant hard in the face. And he was sent several feet away crashing into the equipment in the gym. "And now it's time to bring the pain!" As he started to run towards where Colossus started to raise where he had fallen. Grabbing him and held him as he sent both of them though the wall.

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"Who are you." Storm said before being hit in the face. Which caused her to knocked out.

(Heh heh) "You new boss." He said with a sadistic smirk which quickly left.

"Get away from her!" Yelled the enraged man known as Beast.

"You should stop all those midnight snacks cause I can sense you a mile away." He said as he rammed his fist into Hank's gut. Then he grabbed his head in his hand and slammed the X-man's body to the ground knocking him out as well. "Now to find my real target."

---- Outside the Mansion -----

"This turning out just great." Wraith said as he watched his men bring out the bodies as he smoked his cigar.

"Col. Wraith. Wolverine isn't here." The voice sounded from his radio.

"This has to be the dumbest joke I have ever heard Sabertooth." Wraith said not hiding his disbelief, and his anger of being informed of this.

"I can't get a descent sent he is long gone." Sabertooth said as he was reporting from the mansion's interior. "Sir someone is manipulating the environment."

"What are you...." he said as he noticed that his cigar was covered in ice.

"I don't care who you are leave my friends and get out." The youthful Bobby Drake said as he stood only few feet away.

"Well if it isn't the walking 'mutie' popcicle." Wraith said with a smirk. "You know cigars don't come cheap 'mutie'."

"I am warning you." Bobby said with his arm raise at Wraith.

With the same smirk on his face Wraith responded. "Rogue."

"I am way ahead of you." The voice of the mutant known as Rogue caught Bobby's attention.

"What where am I?" He said as he soon found himself on a strapped onto a table. A complete one-eighty from where he was originally.

"We are still in front of that little school of yours, but in your mind that is an entirely different matter." The same voice he had heard said as he locked eye with the girl with a white streak of hair. Who was dressed in green scrubs.

"What do you mean?!"

"I am simply using your friends mutant power that I just so happened to borrowed." She said with a smirk, and it grew when she saw his eyes grew in size. "You see in your mind you are reliving that appendix operation you had a while back." She said as a sweet smile. "Of course without being numbed the neck down of course. Have fun and do remember to thank Jean for getting better with her power." She said as she left his mind when he started to scream.

"Is he out?" The voice of the man that had capture her fell on her ears.

"In a way I just made his mind overload." Rogue said as she started to walk away.

"Where the hell do you think you are going?" Wraith said as he saw her walking away.

"To pay my respect." She said as she continued to walk.

"What the fuck are you?" He started when he heard a thud. Which drew his attention to his feet. There on the ground was the body of Charles Xavier. Also sporting a number eight spray painted on his head as he was dead to the world.

"Oh God you guy are even worst then me." Wraith said as he started to laugh out loud.

----- Near the Mansion -----

"So I guess you really are dead." She said most to herself as she stood before the head stone.

"Rogue?" She heard but said nothing. "What are you doing if one of Wraith men sees you just standing..." Juggernaut said as he held the unconscious body of Colossus.

"Look." She said as she made a head gesture to the stone before she took his advice and left. Leaving Juggernaut to see what she was looking at so intently. Which he did look at the stone that she had been reading.

"Hey come on move your 'mutie' ass." He heard as he saw two soldiers coming towards him.

"Yeah yeah." He said as he walked away.

"What do you think he was looking at?" One said.

"Just that hunk of rock that had great news on it." The other said with a smirk.

"And what's that?"

"That a 'mutie' is dead." The other said as he started laughing as he walked on ahead. While the moved his head side to side in disgust.