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Scott ran as fast as he could, not being able to see what direction he was going in, but he could hear the men catching up with him. "Come on Scott remember your training, you don't need your eyes. Just concentrate and you'll know where to shoot" he muttered to himself.

"He's down this way I can see the foot prints" he heard one of the soldiers calling out.

Scott listened and heard footsteps, but he couldn't tell whether they were from behind him, on his right or on his left. "Wait a minute of course" Scott said as he realized what they were doing. He stopped running, turned around and opened his eyes. A large uncontrollable blast of light emitted from his eyes and hit the soldier who had been behind him.

"There he is" another soldier yelled and he as well as an additional soldier prepared to fire.

"Oh crap" Scott frowned after he had shut his eyes again and hit the ground immediately after hearing shots fire. His quick action paid off as the two soldiers shot each other. "That was close." He continued to run deeper into the woods as he heard more guards coming. His blind path resulted in his running toward a high ridge in the forest and falling. Luckily he landed his shoulder on a rock, rather then his head "Ahhh!" he yelled in pain. Scott felt around his right arm and realized it could be broken and there was definitely a serious wound, but this concern was interrupted by the sound of foot steps ahead of him.

"They couldn't have gotten ahead of me?" he questioned when he heard howling. "Oh great chased by wild animals and now wolves" he frowned and froze not knowing what to do. He decided to go out fighting and prepared to open his eyes when suddenly he felt himself being picked up and he could feel the wind against his body. "What's going on?"

"Just saving your life monsieur," the familiar French-Canadian accent of Jean Paul said as he soared over the treetops. "And boy did you need it, now we must be getting you back to the mansion, you look beat up."

"Wait no" Scott said. "Those soldiers, they're after the others at the high school, we have to go and help."

"Yes I know" Jean Paul sighed. "Unfortunately we are much too late for that, at the very least we can get you back to the mansion for medical treatment" he said then tabbed his communicator. "Storm, I have him now get out of there."

Meanwhile back at the high school it hadn't taken long for Storm to create a small hurricane to fight off the troops. She had most of them in whirlwinds while she blasted their vehicles with lightning. "I hear you NorthStar, but I think I might be able to rescue the children.".

Down on the ground the commanding military officer turned to Lady Mastermind. "She's been running our troops ragged, we can't let her get away, find a way to bring her down."

"You'll never be able to control her," the female mutant explained to him.

"Maybe not but better to have her confined then to have her out there as a threat to us" he said. "Now do something."

Lady Mastermind probed Storm's mind and created the illusion of walls closing in around her.

"No stop it" Storm cried as she stopped her attacks.

"Fire" the commanding officer yelled.

After several tactical dodges Storm was blasted out of the sky. "Now move out, we have other things to take care of."

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Meanwhile Jean Paul had raced Scott to the safety of the Mansion. "We are here professor" Jean Paul called out.

"Good" Xavier mentally told them. He was down in the main control room of the mansion. "Computer initiate Mansion lockdown" he ordered.

"Authorization granted" the computer's voice said.

Immediately around the mansion, all the windows were covered with strong metal doors, and laser cannons popped out of the ground and out of the walls around the mansion.

Xavier sighed and wheeled himself out of the control room where he found Northstar, Cyclops, and Moonstar.

"Professor why did you lock down the mansion, we need to go out and save the others" Scott frowned.

"I am sorry Scott, but for the time being our resources are drained, they have even been able to take down Storm. Till I can find a way out of this situation, we are staying put. I have a responsibility to protect the remaining students.

"Well who are these people anyway was it the government or something" Dani asked.

"Quite possibility, so I must immediately get in contact with my Washington resources, but if this is a secret project, they might not even know who these people are, or who they answer to. Till then our friends are on their own, we can only hope they find a way out."

"Who cares who they are," Scott frowned. "If we wait it will be too, arrggh," he frowned as he grabbed his arm with pain.

"Your in no condition to do anything Scott," the Professor said sternly. "Report to the med bay immediately and I'll treat you."

Scott begrudgingly nodded and turned toward the door.

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Jean Grey slowly opened her eyes as she awoke; to find herself in a dimly lighted room. "Where am I?" she muttered, she felt as if she had been asleep for hours.

"Thought you'd never get up," said a voice she knew all too well.

She turned her head and saw Bobby sitting at the foot of her bed, looking quite relieved. She sat up and hugged him. "Oh thank god your alright, but where are we?"

"Beats me" he shrugged. "I woke up about a half hour ago and I find you and me in here and in these weird suits," he said as he pointed out both of them were wearing black body suits. "Last thing I remember is that these creeps nabbed Kit and well you know me."

"Yeah I do" Jean frowned. "You threw common sense aside and tried to be the unstoppable hero" she retorted. "Last thing I remember was coming into the school with Rogue, being surrounded and then the little witch drained me" she growled.

"Huh what, Rogue sided with them" Bobby asked, obviously confused. "Come on are you sure, I mean why would she do that?"

"Cause she's nuts and can't be trusted" Jean snapped back. "She turned on us just like that."

Bobby sighed, he knew Jean wasn't lying to him, but he really beginning to trust Rogue. "Poor Kurt" he muttered. "Well anyway we need get the hell out of here, but they're blocking our powers some how" he said as he started to feel up the walls looking for something, anything.

"And what are you doing" Jean chuckled. "Going to find the secret passage huh Indy?"

"Well I don't know" he shrugged. "But I'm getting us out of here, so we can find Kit, and before they can force us to participate in any sick experiments."

"And what kind of experiments would that be, we weren't abducted by aliens" Jean retorted.

"Yeah but if you think about it, we're practically aliens to them since we're mutants, they might want to see how react to things, or observe us, or…" he paused and gave a sick face. "They might want us to mate or something weird like that" he shuddered. "No offense but that would be so wrong, you know me and you."

"Mate?" Jean rolled her eyes. "You've been watching too much Discovery Channel, just because they stick us in a room doesn't mean they expect us to well… do anything" she retorted then put a hand on his shoulder. "Now I know why you're acting this way, don't worry we're going to get out of this, and we'll find her" she assured him.

Bobby nodded. "Thanks" he sighed, and then began to grin. "Well we better, what is Indy if he doesn't save the day" he grinned.

"Oh how touching to see such a close friendship" a voice said as the metal door opened.

Bobby and Jean both looked as if they seen a ghost. "You" Bobby snarled.

"But it just can't be" Jean gasped. "You couldn't of…"

"Survived" the man said as he came closer. "Despite your attempts, William Stryker lives" the man said as he looked into their eyes. "And now you belong to me."

"Wow you got fat" Bobby smirked. "And fat chance Powderpuff, there's no way we'll cooperate."

"Oh I think you will, considering all the mutants I have penned up in my detention camp, being students of Xavier you'll never risk their lives. The only reason you haven't joined them is I remember you from the last time your experienced, I know I can use you, the others have to prove themselves. They also serve as good collateral for your cooperation"

"Quite flattering" Jean's voice rang with sarcasm. "But unfortunately he has a point Bobby."

"But how do we know he's even telling the truth about those mutants" Bobby pleaded.

"Oh did I mention that one of these mutants I'm holding walks through walls and another is a blue teleporter, not to mention your weather changing friend. Some thing tells me those three are significant collateral"

Bobby sighed. "Never mind."

"That's what I thought" Stryker chuckled. "Do good work and I'll let you two continue to share a cell, do a really good job and we'll let you see your friends and, though I'd hate to do this, provide you with some very nice benefits" he said. "Now come along we have a job for you."

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Meanwhile in the same complex but far into the depths Kitty Pryde was practically walking on the walls. "Isn't there anyway out of here" she frowned.

"Gambit say he couldn't find one, and this be Gambit we talking about" Gambit said.

Kitty glared at him. When she had awoken after what seemed like an eternity of sleep, she had been happy to seen him. "Well maybe Gambit just stinks" she snapped at him, yet his lack of help since then was becoming more and more irritating. "You might want to give up on trying to escape but not me."

"Katzchen you must relax, going crazy vill not help our situation" Kurt tried to calm her. "I am sure the others vill come for us."

"Not if they're already captured" Kitty frowned. "I mean think about it, we got nabbed by the same people as Paige and Jubilee, but Logan isn't down here, and he must have been caught since we haven't heard from him since they disappeared. So if they caught Bobby or anyone else they might be holding them somewhere else."

"That's a big might there," the woman known as Sabre muttered.

Kitty glared at her.

"Maybe, but the lass has a point" Sean spoke up. "They take the most powerful mutants into special quarters, to try and get them under control" he explained. "It's easy to take us down if we disobey when they let us use our powers, but if yee friends be as powerful as yee say, they

might have a special interest in them" he explained. "That would also explain Logan's absence."

"Thank you" Kitty said. "Finally someone else sees that this is a bad situation."

"Well duh we all know that" Jubilee spoke up.

Kitty glared darkly at her. "You know this is all your fault, if you and Paige hadn't of come up with the brilliant idea to tag along with Logan, he wouldn't of had to worry about you and would of freed Sean here before the guards could get him, cause Logan is that good."

"Oh don't ya go putting all of this on us Ms. Mighty X-Girl" Paige frowned. "Maybe if you actually knew what you were doing you wouldn't have been caught in the first place, it's not our fault you can get taken down so easily."

Then Kitty just snapped. "You want to go farmer's daughter, let's go."

Paige glared at her and got up. "My father was a miner, just for that, we'll go" she said and lunged at Kitty but Kurt got between them.

"Ladies please ve can't fight amongst ourselves" Kurt pleaded as he tried to hold them back.

"Let them fight kid we haven't had this much entertainment in quite a while" Scalphunter said as he pushed Kurt to the ground.

"Easy there" Remy said as he helped Kurt up. "No need for fighting."

"Oh yeah" Scalphunter asked and shoved Remy, knocking him down off the side of his cot as Paige tackled Kitty.

Remy picked himself up and in anger socked the large mutant in the jaw, which Scalphunter responded to by starting to wail on the young Cajun. Kurt, Sean, and Jubilee intervened to help Gambit, so Arclight helped Scalphunter. A few misdirected punches and thrown objects later, the entire prison barracks had descended into a chaotic brawl.

Several guards rushed in and quickly began to beat down the mutants and stop it, as alarms rang throughout the facility. With the guards distracted Kitty saw an opportunity to sneak out. She hesitated to see if she could get the others before realizing it was now or never.

Only Jubilee saw her escape. "Smart, well she's not getting away without me" she said and snuck away as well. She looked into the hallway and noticed it was empty, except one air duct. Jubilee climbed into it and closed it just as more guards came to quell the riot.

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William Stryker stormed into the main command center of the facility, with his guests in tow, where the main alarm could still be heard. "What is going on here."

"A minor riot broke out in the detention area, but the guards say they have everyone under control," a soldier sitting at a consul explained without looking up from his monitor.

"Riot," Bobby muttered and instantly thoughts of worry for Kitty and Kurt filled his head. "Was anyone hurt," he called out with thinking.

"Quiet," the commando guarding him sneered, and jammed a night stick into his chest, sending Bobby to his knees in pain.

Jean rushed to help him up, just challenging a guard to stop her.

"You see my boy you shouldn't interrupt the adults when they are talking," Stryker mused then turned back to his operative. "But for point of record were their any serious injuries."

"Initial reports indicate a few of the prisoners have cuts and bruises but nothing serious," the solider explained. "Our guards are doing the head count and sticking everyone into personal cells."

"Good," Stryker said with a satisfying smile "Keeping them contained for a few hours should send a message, and tell our guests those arrangements will become permanent if they persist in such insubordination. But also I want those mutants I ear-marked for this afternoons operation prepped for travel."

"Yes sir," the soldier saluted and headed back to work.

"Stryker turned to Jean and Bobby, both very well contained. "So as you can see here I am master of all things, escape is impossible, resistance futile." He crept over and stared directly into Jean's eyes. "Don't think so? Well if you don't believe me, why don't you ask your friend, I picked up along the way." He tapped a device on his wrist. "Bring him in."

The doors slid open as four commandos entered pulling a cart with a figure strapped down.

"My god, Logan," Jean gasped and motioned to go over him, only to be held back at gun point. "Logan are you alright," she called out.

Bobby took a glimpse and saw though not a sleep Logan was surely not in his right mind. "What you do to him?"

"We picked him up 2 days ago, it took a series of drugs in high concentrations to keep him incapacitated, so don't try talking to him," he explained. "If we can keep him down, imagine what we could do to anyone else."

Jean tried to keep a straight face despite her fear for Logan's life. "So you said you picked him up, was he alone?" She immediately thought of Paige and Jubilee.

"I do recall two girls, one blond with an accent, another black hair Asian ethnicity," he said and examined their faces. "I take it you know them as well, just more reason to keep you in line. Of course if you were willing to behave yourselves and serve as loyal foot soldiers, their stay here, as well as your own, could be much more comfortable, like your friend here," he said.

"The man makes a fair point ya'll," Rogue said as she appeared into the room, dressed in a black commando outfit.

"You traitor," Jean snapped as she lost control of her emotions but was held back by her captors.

"Oh Jean nice to see you to, Bobby," she nodded to him. "Now as you can see I can walk free as opposed to you, plus you should see my accommodations anything you wish to eat and the bed is so comfortable."

"You betrayed us for a nice bed and food," Bobby's eye brow rose.

"Lets just say I saw which way the wind was blowing, and to be fair ya'll never really included me in yah group, especially this witch, besides he's actually interested in giving me the control I need, not stupid words by a cripple," she said cooly.

"You spoiled little bi-" Jean began but was slapped by Rogue.

"Show some respect," the white streaked mutant sneered. "Well anyway I must be going, I have training to do. But remember think over his offer," she said as she began to walk away.

"Wait," Bobby called out. "What about Kurt, your brother, remember him."

Rogue stopped dead in her tracks and was quiet for a moment. "Well with any hope my brother will do the smart thing and realize a good thing when he sees it, well anyway later," she said and exited.

Well anyway I think I've made my point," Stryker said turning away from the two young mutants. "Take them down to the air strip with the others."

"What about Logan," Jean managed to get out as the soldiers began to usher them out.

"I could never control him in the open field, to much of a risk, same for the weather mutant," Stryker explained and turned to the operatives guarding the feral mutant. "Take him to the testing field, and get the other one out of the box we put her in. They will be suitable in testing our new weapons technology."

"What are you going do to them," Jean demanded as she was being pushed out the door.

"I'm sorry my dear, but my patience with your probing has run out," Stryker said. "And remember don't fail me, the lives of your friends depend on it." With that both of the young X-Men were ushered off, as was Logan, for what awaited them.

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Else where crawling among the air duct, Kitty had allowed herself to crawl far from the prison cell. She had found a spot near a vent that gave off enough light for her to get to work on her collar. "Almost got it, maybe, ahh," she stopped herself and bit her lip to prevent her from screaming, after shocking herself yet again. "This would be easier if I could get a better look at this thing," she thought to herself as she went back to fiddling around. "What I would do for a hair clip."

But her thoughts would be interrupted by a clanging coming from down the duct. She glanced down but saw nothing coming from the darkness. She went back to work but soon again more noise came and it sounded as if it were coming closer. Kitty put herself in the best defensive position she could, considering the limited space in the duct. As the noise came closer some sort of figure became visible. Kitty prepared to lift a fist to fight.

"Hey hold up," the familiar voice of Jubilee gasped.

"Oh its you," Kitty frowned. "You nearly scared me half to death, why didn't you say anything."

"Oh cause I could see you any better then you could see me," she glared at her. "So anyway what's the plan."

"Plan? Look all I know is we find a way out of this place, maybe find Logan and the others, but first I got to get this damn collar off," she frowned as she grasped it.

"Yeah tell me about so not the fashion statement I want to make," Jubilee nodded.

Kitty paused and took a look at Jubilee's glowing collar. "You wouldn't happen to have a hair pin?"

Jubilee rose an eyebrow. "Don't see why your thinking about your hair, but yeah sure," she said as she pulled one out and handed it to Kitty.

" I need it to work on the collars." Kitty immediately started picking at Jubilee's collar, which from that vantage point was much easier to work with. "Stand still," she said.

After several minutes of not moving at all Jubilee was getting annoyed. "Maybe I should try yours, since your not getting anywhere."

"Shh," Kitty whispered to her then suddenly a quick snap noise was heard. "Got it," she smirked.

"It's off?"

"No the covering is snapped off, that was the hard part, all I have to do is de-program it," she explained.

"Yeah cause that's not hard, I mean its just probably a super complex program made by professional-"

"Done," Kitty shrugged. "First times the charm, good thing I picked the right code, otherwise we wouldn't be talking right now."

Jubilee's face dropped. "You mean you could of killed me?"

Kitty gave her a very serious glance then broke into a grin. "Just kidding, now spark me open."

Jubilee glared at her. "You better of been," she muttered as she created a small spark to help bust the collar open. "You think that was funny, no wonder your dating Drake."

"Whatever now just stay here for a second" she said as she began to crawl away with an annoyed Jubilee nodded folding her arms.

Kitty stuck her head through the wall into the corridor when she heard some feet coming. She tactfully repositioned herself with only her eyes phasing through at the top of the wall. She could see a large group of commandoes coming through the corridor, when she spotted two familiar faces in the crowd, Jean and Bobby. Behind them she saw the drugged Logan attached to the gurney and did her best not to gasp, she saw Logan being pulled into a different direction then phased back to Jubilee.

"So what did you see," the other girl asked.

"Bobby and Jean are being taken somewhere and Logan's all knocked out, it looked like they were about to go to different places. Come on we have to keep up with Bobby and Jean," Kitty said.

Jubilee frowned. "What about Logan," she asked.

"Look if we get them free its two more people to help us, plus Logan didn't look in any position to help anyone, I don't like leaving him either but getting them first makes more sense."

Jubilee nodded and let Kitty start crawling away pretending to follow, but then sneaking down a different duct headed toward Logan.

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Scott awoke with a stir and realized he was in the med bay. Slowly he remembered all that had happened. Luckily he hadn't of broken anything serious but the Professor had give him some pain killers, and with Dani's help treated any wounds he had sustained. The only reason he agreed to the sedatives was to heel himself faster. He had to admit he felt great. "Arrg," he groaned. Well not great, but good enough to fight.

"I was wondering when you'd wake up," a familiar voice said, but it was hardly one he wished to see.

"Hi Jean Paul," Scott nodded as he sat up. "How long have I been out."

"About 10 hours," the Canadian mutant explained. "Oh and your welcome."

"Damn it that long," he frowned then paused to think, quickly realizing Jean Paul had gotten him out of a rough spot. "Oh yeah nice work," Scott said quickly to get it over with.

"All in the days work, I think that about covers paying my dues huh?"

Scott nodded. "It seems so," he said as he got up and found some clothes by the bed. He quickly put them on over the bandage covering his shoulder. "So where's the Professor, I want to see the progress we've made."

"I'm right here Scott," the voice of Charles Xavier rang out as he entered the room. "And I don't think you'll be pleased. Jean Paul if you'd leave us." The young mutant nodded and complied. "None of my contacts have any leads on the organization that has taken the others, but they are working as hard as they can to find them and retrieve them."

Scott rose an eyebrow. "Okay but what about us, what will we do?"

The Professor signed and shook his head. "Scott we cannot leave the lockdown, I can't risk losing anymore of the students, and these students are young and defenseless without us, we must stay and protect them."

"But if we don't find the others we'll be no match for who ever these people are when they come looking for us."

"The lock down should provide ample shelter till my friends in the government find out and shut things down, but just in case we need to be here to protect the children."

"And what if they can't shut it down, heck what if they don't want to, how do you even know you can trust these people, it was military who did this," he snapped.

"I trust these people we have worked for years on different projects."

"I'm sorry professor, I understand your obligation to protect the others, but I can't stay here and do nothing my friends are out there and they need me, " Scott said and began to head to the door.

The Professor sighed and glanced over across the room where Carol Danvers lay comatose then turned back to Scott. "Please Scott, I can't bare losing you too, you are the closest thing I have to a son."

Scott glanced back and gave him a half smile. "I know," he nodded. "But I'll be back and not alone," he said and exited

In the hallway, Dani, Sam, and Jean Paul stood all waiting.

"So what's the plan," Dani asked.

"I'm going, your staying," Scott said defiantly. Dani motioned to protest but Scott shook his head. "Look after me your all the Professor has to help him, promise me you'll stay here and watch his back," he asked looking straight into her eyes.

Dani nodded. "I understand."

"And that goes for you to Northstar, you wanted to be part of the team, then start following orders." The young man simply nodded. Scott glanced over at Sam. "And not you either."

"But she's mah sister, ah can't abandon her," Sam pleaded.

Scott put a hand on his shoulder. "I promise I'll bring her back, your just going to have to trust me."

Sam reluctantly backed off and Scott gave them all a reassuring smile and headed off to do what he needed to do.

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At the brotherhood boarding house it was a typical day, Blob was sitting on the couch and Toad the arm of the couch watching TV together. Blob was stuffing his face with 2 day old pizza, while Toad's meal consisted of flying insect. Pietro and Pyro were playing cards with Pietro cheating of course. Havok was lounging in the chair not doing much of anything. Lance was fiddling with his guitar, while Emma was reading. The Hood house actually looked rather decent and clean, as if it was repaired lately.

"Will you stop that incessant racket," Emma frowned as she looked up from her book. "I don't even see why you bother, your rock star dreams will never get you anywhere."

Lance shrugged. "Hey if it bothers you I must be doing something right. But fine I guess I owe it to you after you gave us that hook up, that job the other day was quite fruitful."

Emma nodded was about to respond when their rare pleasant conversation was interrupted by the door of their house falling to the ground. The entire hood gathered in the hallway to see a determined Scott Summers standing there. Alex and him exchanged glances but said nothing.

"What do you want Summers," Alvers demanded. "And that was a new door, you better have the money to pay for it."

"I'm here to see Emma," Scott said as he pushed the others out of his way. "I need your help, I'm desperate."

Emma beamed. "I was wondering when you'd get here Scott," she smiled. "Whatever you need my darling, but there's a price agreed to now, explained later," she said.

Scott nodded. "Fine as long as my friends are safe and only if you deliver."

"Oh don't worry they will," she said as she took her phone out and began to dial.

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Jean and Bobby found themselves on a flight deck where there was a large military helicopters prepped and ready for take off.

"Where do you think they're taking us," he whispered as they were ushered toward the lead helicopter.

Jean glanced across to see another group of mutants wearing the same black suits they were wearing. "Looks like we're not alone," she said. "But no Kitty or Kurt," she sighed as they were put with the other mutants who were lining up to be placed in the air craft. She noticed a red headed man was with them and he had purposely positioned himself be right next to her.

"Hey who do you think she is," he asked as he pointed to a women who was standing ahead with the leader of the military unit. "She's not really one of them and she isn't held down like us."

"My name is Lady Mastermind, young Iceman," the woman said as she turned around and looked at all the gathered mutants. "And as long as you behave yourself I think we'll have a wonderful relationship."

"Yeah I've been hearing that all day, some how I doubt it."

"Bobby calm down," Jean advised.

"It is quite alright Marvel Girl," she smiled and turned back to Bobby. "That's unfortunate you feel that way, what may I do to put your concerns to rests?" she asked as Bobby was being helped into the helicopter.

"For starters you can tell me where we're going and what we're doing."

"Well I was going brief everyone en route, but I guess I can tell you now. We're going to liberate a person you know quite well, the Juggernaut."

Okay I know it's been a while since I updated this fic, but I recently found a way to reorganize it. This is now Book I, the next chapter will be the last part of that book with a surprise ending twist. Please read and review and tell me what you like and don't like.