Chapter IX

The Danger Room

Logan looked around to make sure that no one was coming.

"Alright kid, follow me," he said walking down a corridor.

We passed by a bunch of classrooms, until we stopped at a section of the wall. The section of wall slid open and we stepped inside. Logan pressed the down button. A few minutes later the door slid open again. We were back in the subbasement. Logan led the way to the end of the corridor and then he stopped at a door. The door slid open and we walked in. It looked like some kind of control room. There was a huge window behind the control panel. It looked down upon a huge, empty room.

"This is the Danger Room control center," Logan said walking over to the panel and pressing some buttons. "OK, lets go," he said moving towards an elevator.

The elevator took us down into the empty room. We stood in the center of the room for a while. Then the room went dark.

It started to change. The floor became softer and the air was cooler. The room lighted up a little to display a forest. I could hear a waterfall flowing somewhere, but I couldn't see where. It was still pretty dark and I could barely see anything.

"Ya scarred kid?" Logan's voice echoed around me.

"AH!" I was hit from behind and fell to the ground.

I could hear, and kind of see, people running all around me.

But, that can't be right. Logan and me are the only ones in here. Right?

I got up and stumbled through the forest, lost and confused and a little scarred.

Why is he doing this? He can't still be mad about that whole 'Jean thing.' Can he?

I could hear the waterfall and knew that a river must be close by.

The last thing that I need is to fall into a river and get soaking wet.

I was hit again and I found the river.

GREAT! Now, I'm lost AND wet!

I got up once again to see Logan standing right in front of me.

"Ya scarred yet?" he asked, smirking at me.

"No," I lied.

"Well, we're just gonna have to fix that then," he said with his claws coming out.

"You're just messing around. You wouldn't really hurt me," I said in a shaky, nervous laugh.

He smiled and swung at my left arm. I felt a sharp pain and grabbed my shoulder. There was blood flowing through my fingers. I looked at him, his eyes flashed yellow and then he came at me again. I dodged his claws and ran as fast I could(which isn't very fast in soaking wet clothes) in the direction that I thought the door might be located.

''Jean HELP!'' I yelled inside my head, hoping that she would hear it.

''Jen, what's wrong? Where are you?'' I heard Jean's voice slide into my head.

''In the Danger Room with Logan, but he's lost it!'' I thought back, still running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

''OK, I'll be right there,'' she thought to me and then her presence was gone and I started to run faster.

I was still running through the never ending forest, when the room started to change again. This time it went back to being the huge, empty room. I kept running until I ran straight into Jean. The room was back to normal now and Logan was gone.

"Come on, lets get you out of here," Jean said, rapping an arm around my wet shoulders, avoiding the still bleeding wound that was covered by my right hand, and leading me back to elevator.

When we entered the control room there was an old man in a cape and a helmet waiting for us.

"Jean, who's that," I whispered turning to Jean, but she wasn't there.

In her place was a blue-scaled woman with short red hair. I backed away from them.

"Who are you people?" I asked, but before I got an answer I was hit in the of the head with something hard.

I fell to the floor and everything went black.

Oh great, here we go again!