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I am so, so sorry about the long delay! But hope action works, I'm not good at it. Also it seems that I can't get my e-mail to work that soon so... ;(

A/N: All the X-Men did not go to the mission. Those who did go are Cyclops, Phoenix, Storm, Angel, Psylocke,

Iceman, Rogue, Marrow and Gambit.

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4.

"What the hell is going on!" Rogue yelled stepping into the war-room Joseph following close behind her.

"Professor just found one, maybe two new mutants. They are sowhere in New York." Cyclops said in firm tone.

" We have to find them and bring them here to safety now that the sentinels are in test use in town-area. And we have to take care that all the damages stay in minimum." He glared towards Gambit, Rogue and Marrow. "And I mean it."

"Okay, Scotty-boy! Relax a bit! We'll try to be nice and all." Rogue answered in mock-offended tone.

"Yeah, Cyke, who's the baddie this time?" Bobby added, allmost enthusiacticly.

"There is no known villains of the X-Men known to be active in the area the mission is going to tke it's place if everything goes as planned. However, we have to be cautios like always."

"Now, visor-boy, that you have hade your talk, can we, please go to the action part?" Marrow aksed in sarcastic voice.

After few minutes of heated conversation between Cyclops and Marrow, the mission was explained to the X-Men. In the South-west part of New York City had been seen a mutant girl, about twelve-years-old. She had had pearlywhite skin, darkgray eyes and jetblack hair. When Professor Xavier had been searching for more informotion about her and whereabouts, he had also found another mind that seemed to be a mutant. More specificly a very young male. And they both seemed to be in the same area. So, the mission should be quite easy, no mayor problems.

Ride in the Blackbird went quite well, exception was the heave rain Storm unconsonsly made, but other than that, everything went well. Gambit kept shufling his cards, Marrow seemed almost angry and shot daggers at Rogue. Warren seemed to be unpleased to be on the same mission with Gambit, so did Rogue, Betsy and Scott.

Finally the jet landed on the emty looking yard of a metal storagebuilding. They decided to split up, so that there would be to teams since there was two children to look for. Team one consisted Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, Psylocke and Marrow. Team number two consisted Phoenix, Angel, Gambit and Rogue. It had been decided that Phoenix would act as a leader of the second team instead of Storm since she seemed a little nervour and it was safer for the to have a telepath with them anyway.

It rainin a bit and Gambit wrapped his trench coat tighter around himself. Jeannie was okay, but why they made him go with Rogue and Ange? Where they crazy! Cyke haden't let even Sarah or Stormy come with him, and Cyke knew how Rogue and Ange hated him.

"Are you coming or what, Swamp-Rat!" Rogues yelling shook him from his thouhts.

"Oui, Gambit be there in no tim…" Before he could run to the others they all heared a growl, like some very big predator had been there, on the alley, after them.

Gambit heared Jean take a deep, a little bit shaky breath.

'It's Sabertooth! And I think Toad, Scarlet Witch, Avalance and Pyro are somewhere near.'

For a tiniest moment every-one was quiet.

"Oh shit.." Rogue muttered to no-one inparticular. So Brotherhood was apparently after those stupid brads as well. Why couldn't they just let those idiots do what they wanted to? Oh no, of course they couldn't, because Xavier just, had to get all new mutant under his wachfull eyes.

"Have you told Cyclops all ready?" Warren asked, not sounding too conserned about the Brotherhood.

"Yes. He said they haven't found the other child yet, so they keep looking for him."

Now they had reached the spot where the alley split up into three every-ono of them going to complitely different directions. The main one, kept contuning seemingly with out ending, the one at right seemed narrow and it was very dark. The last one smelled like inhabitants of the area had used it as they dungheap. And now the growls and other sounds had come much closer.

"Rogue you will take the alley on the left, even if it stinks pretty awfull. Angel you and I will take the alley right ahead of us. Gambit you will take the alley on the right. Is that understood?" Jean said firmly.

Every-one but Warren nodded, thouht Rogue seemed less than pleased and muttered something like stinks pretty awfull, huh?

"I am not going to let that traitor go all alone and run to his friends, he's coming with me!" Angel said glareing at Gambit hatered in his eyes.

"Okay then. Angel you and Gambit go alley right ahead of us, I will take the right one. And that's final. No arguing about that." Jean said.

Rogue was flying in the stinky allye. Rats, all she could hear was them running around the place. Rats where every where and the stinking waste. God she hated this mission. All for some brat she didn't even see any where near.

Jean walked down the alley, sometimes all most tripping on something in the dark. She felt a little nervous, they had wasted too much time arguing and Brotherhood was somewhere near. She hoped that they would find the child very soon.

Gambit was walking few meters ahead of Angel who was following closely every move of the Cajun. He didn't trust Gambit at all. They could have taken Nightcrawler with them istead of him. Or Colossus or Shadowcat. But not the Cajun!

Jean had reached the end of the narrowing alley. There was really dark, but behind few boxes she could still make out a pale, slim figure, that seemed to glow somehow. "Lucy, my name is Jean Grey-Summers. Please, don't be afraid. Me and my friends have come to help you." At this point the girl had stood up shakily and was looking at Jean with deep, all most bottomless darkgray eyes.

"How do you know my name?" she asked with voice like music, her words filled with such onesthy, Jean couldn't remember hearing for a long time, not since she had been a little-girl.

"I am a telepath. I am a mutant just like you are." She was quiet for a moment and then asked Lucy:

"Have you ever heared about X-Men?"

Lucy was just abot to answer when the ground and buildings as well begun shakeing violently. Small stones were raining on them and heared someone laugth behind them. When she turned around she saw Avlance standing at the end of the alley.

"It seems you X-Men aren't as tough as they say" he said grinning.

"There, you will find yourself complitely misteken." She said in calm tone and used her telekinesis to throw Avalance few meters away.

"Like that would stop me?" he said standing up from the ground.

"Oh, but this will!" Rogue said appearing behind him and grapping him from his arms so that he hung about two meters above from ground.

"Jean, I will take this one away from here. Can you contact Scott and find Warren and that Swamp-Rat?"

"Sure. Come on Lucy, we must get you to safety." And they begun to walk away from the shadows of the alley while Rogue flew away with furios Avalance.

Rogue heared sothing behind her. When she turned around she saw Toad few meters behind her. Darn. They both attaced towards each other all most at the same time. Toad kicked her, but of course it did not make any damage, she just flew a little bacwards. So, Frog-boy wanted to fight She had nothing against that. Rogue flew towards Toad and hit him hard. Toad flew good five meters away from her and stayd lying on the ground unconsius with broken jaw. Groun the buildings shook violently and Rogue heared a new voice moan:

"Oh, man, my head! Be more carefull mate, will ya!"

Great, just great! Fire-boy was hear as well! With Avalance, apparently.

Gambit walked to the fire escape with an unpleasant feeling that something bad was coming. He looked up and saw Scarlet Witch standing on the rooftop wicked smile on her lips.

"And of you go." she said

On the the same moment they heared a growl and saw Saberthooth come to the alley.

"I told you to wait for me, you moron!" Scarlet Witch yelled at him.

"I want the Cajun-brat!" Sabertoorh snarled back.

"Fine!"

Scarlet Witch threw a hex towards the winged man who just barely missed getting hit. Sabertooth charged at Gambit who swiftly jumped away from his way using his bo-staff and threw full pack of cards towards the growling ex-marauder. Asphalt exploded causing Sabertooth to lose his balance and fall backwards snarling furiosly. Suddently the fire escape darted towards Angel with great speed. Rigt on the moment when he thouht he was going to lose his wing again because of Gambit, some-one pushed him aside. He looked around and saw Gambit, partly under the crumbled fire escape. Sabertooth and Scarlet Witch seemed to have left. Angel bend down to the ground over Gambit's body.

"Gambit, can you… can you hear me?" he asked. He couldn't understant why the thief had saved him. Didn't that moron know how much he hated him?

"Gambit be good no time…" he whispered and then there was only darkness.

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