Disclaimer: no information Bunnies were harmed during the production of this chapter. Five escaped captivity however, but a search-and-rescue team has been sent out.

Chapter 6 – And Release

"Please hear me out," Magneto said after he had sat down opposite her behind his desk in the room. "I think you will like what I have to say.

"There is a man named Charles Xavier who has a school for mutants in New York. He used to be a friend of mine. I know there is a girl at his school named Marie. She has the same mutation you have. I want you to go into the school pretending to be her so you can get information for me."

"Why do you think I would do that?"

"It is very important to me. While you do this for me I will find you the people who killed your family so that you can avenge their deaths." When he said this Chelsea got a sly look in her eyes. Eric couldn't tell if she liked what he was saying or not, but his last comment got her attention and appeared to peak her interest. He decided to go on explaining.

"Rogue just got a new roommate named Sandy..."

"Rogue?"

"Rogue is Marie's mutant name." He paused to let that sink in. "Sandy, Rogue's new roommate is really Mystique."

"Why doesn't she just be your information bunny then?"

"She was originally going to be, but she can't get close enough to the professor and Marie doesn't tell her information."

"Wait a sec., Misty can change to look like anyone right?"

"Mystique, yes she can."

"Then why doesn't she just change into this Marie and do your dirty work?"

"Mystique can only take on another's appearance; she cannot clone their mutation as well, especially one as unique and powerful as Marie's, that is why I need you."

"Let's say I agree to this, how am I going to pull off looking like this chick...and where will she be while I'm her? Did you take her or something?"

"Mystique had guaranteed us she is on her way to visit her mom and dad in Mississippi. She won't be back for a while. As for looking like her we have developed this pill for you. It is designed as a stimulant between yourself and Mystique. Take this once a day, then touch Mystique for exactly five seconds and you will take on her power. The pill is designed to have her power will stay with you longer than normal, a day or two perhaps, enabling you to keep the appearance of Rogue. Mystique will also take pills which are designed to somewhat block your power from hurting her. Of course your mutation is so strong that nothing we can do would take away the pain completely, but it will dull the effects of your power for her."

"What exactly would I be doing at this school?" Chelsea said, seemingly more interested.

"You would pretend to be Marie. Take her classes; spend time with her friends and boyfriend..."

"I mean for you...and whoa, boyfriend?"

"His name is Bobby, I'll tell you about him later. What I need you to do for me is find information about Charles Xavier and his group of 'X-Men'. They all live at the school, and most are the teachers you will have for classes."

"That doesn't sound too hard"

"Hopefully it won't be, however you need to use caution, especially around Professor Xavier. He is psychic, but we have..."

"PSYCHIC?! Are you insane? I've heard that psychic mutants only have to look at you or think of you or something and they know what you are thinking! No way am I going in there. He'd know the second he saw me."

"That isn't exactly how psychics work." Magneto said. When he saw the disbelief on Chelsea's face he continued. "Let me explain. It's as though there is a door to your mind. A psychic has to open the door to read it. You can't simply walk by a psychic and they know everything, they have to willingly open the door to enter your thoughts. However we have created a pill..."

"More pills."

Magneto chuckled. "This is the last one. We thought you would rather have pills than shots, and this is just the raw materials, there would be no cherry flavor to a liquid."

"Pills it is." At this Magneto laughed.

"As I was saying, we have created a pill to 'lock' the door so that he cannot enter your mind."

"At all?"

"If he really wanted to he could, but that would be dangerous, and he wouldn't risk it."

"Riiight...And for all this information I get what, the names of the guys you say killed my family?"

"For helping me I will not only tell you who killed them and where you can find them, I will also give you a place to stay and call your own. If you prove yourself in doing this mission I welcome you to join me and work with me and mine in the brotherhood."

The unmoving look on her face told Magneto that she wasn't going to accept his offer that easily.

"For the past few years you have not found acceptance anywhere. You have been the proverbial square peg in societies round hole. I am offering you a place that will not only accept you, but also welcome you with open arms, here with us."

She sat and thought about this for a moment, staring at the gray metal desk. After a while she looked up at him and replied, "Okay, you have said your terms, now here are mine. First, when I'm at this school, if I don't like something, or it smells fishy, I'm out, with or without your information. Second, I don't want just names; I want you to bring me to the ones that killed 'em. I want to watch them die at my hands just as they watched my family die at theirs.

"If I do this for you, I'm gonna be the one in danger, so what I say goes. Anything suspicious, ANYTHING, and I'm gone. Got it?"

Magneto looked somewhat agitated, and a little uncomfortable with someone else ordering him. He sat there on the other side of his desk his elbow resting on the desk, his hand playing with what looked like two metal massage balls.

"Deal," he said as he stood and extended his hand to shake hers. The metal balls stayed hovering above the table, where his hand had been. They kept moving in a clockwise direction as they had when he had them in hand. She watched them for a second before looking at his hand.

"How do I know I can trust you?" she asked.

"My dear girl, trust no one." He took her extended hand and they shook. "Come, we will make the trip to the school. On the way I will tell you all you need to know to successfully be Marie. We must leave tonight."

He escorted her out of the room. As he did she looked back into the cold, empty office. She wasn't sure, but as she left she thought that either the walls of the room, or maybe the walls of her mind echoed Magneto's words, 'Trust no one.'

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