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Chapter 33: Own Home, Own Enemy
Outside the mansion…
"Toad is escaping," yelled Scott.
Toad managed to escape somehow and was hopping as high and as far as he could.
"It's too late Scott," said Kurt as they watched the weird amphibious mutant escape.
"Look at the door!" yelled Rogue as she pointed at the door.
It was covered in steel and had guns pointed at them. It started to shoot lasers at them and they started dodging.
Scott shot three guns off. Rogue flew up into the air and shot two. Nightcrawler teleported one gun off its stand.
"Something is going on," said Scott.
Then Jubilee, Amara, and Bobby walked over.
"The mansion has its defenses on and it thinks we are enemies," said Amara, "As we found out."
"Okay we have to get everyone out of the mansion, Nightcrawler teleport us in," said Scott.
"I can't Scott, remember there is people all around the mansion. I might teleport into a person or furniture or a wall or-" said Kurt as he was interrupted.
"We get the picture, fuzzy," said Bobby.
"Okay then, can we bust in?" asked Jubilee.
"Not an option, the metal is too strong for any sort of energy," said Scott.
"Wait a second, wasn't it Toad, and Quicksilver's fault this happened?" asked Bobby, "Everything was fine until they were here."
"It was?" asked Scott as he thought for a second, "It was…"
"Let's go after them then!" yelled Rogue.
She lifted off the ground and headed in his direction.
"Well fine then," said Scott, "Jubilee, Amara, and I will stay here, rest of you after Toad."
Iceman, Rogue, and Nightcrawler all went in the same direction after Toad. While, the rest stood behind the front gate for cover.
Inside the institute…
Several lasers were being fired at John and Kevin. Kevin kept morphing out of the way so the lasers would go through him while John was ripping them from the stands.
Soon the room was cleared.
"Is your house always this hostile?" asked Thunderbird.
"Well…only on occasions," replied Morph.
Then Bishop walked in.
"Something is wrong with the mansion kids, and also why are my guns in pieces," said Bishop angrily, "If this is your idea of a prank Sidney, then your grounded!"
He was holding hunks of metal, which you could barely tell was a pistol.
"Sounds like a good one but it wasn't me," said Kevin.
"Well let's go help the others what are you two waiting for?" asked Bishop.
In one of the various hallways…
Jonothan or as he preferred to be called 'Jono.' Was unleashing the psionic energy from his body crushing the laser guns. There with him was Piotr and Kitty. Doing away with the lasers in their own way.
Soon the hallway was cleared. Then Jono asked telepathically, 'What's with the defense system around here it is haywire. It isn't exactly the way I want to be introduced to the mansion.'
"No it's not usually like this," said Piotr.
Then Multiple walked in, "What's going on guys?"
"Not much besides the mansion turned on us!" yelled Kitty at him.
"Jeez, sorry I had to ask," said Jamie.
Then Berserker ran into him making Jamie produce two dupes.
"The mansion is going nuts!" yelled Ray.
"WE KNOW!" yelled everyone who was there at him.
"You know like what we have to do right?" asked Kitty.
Everyone else looked at each other and then shrugged.
"Shut down the main computer," said Kitty.
"Yeah, I was going to say that," said Ray unconvincingly.
In Xavier's office…
Professor Xavier was laying under his desk as the lasers shot by then he contacted Logan, 'Logan I need your assistance in my office.'
Then Logan thought back, 'Coming right up Chuck.'
Several minutes later…
Logan, Emma, and Shiro busted into the office. Logan clawed down four lasers. While Shiro shot down three lasers. Emma ripped the last one from the side of the door.
"Good thing you all came, I don't know how much longer that desk would hold up," said Professor Xavier, "You didn't have to bring them too."
"Wasn't his choice Charles," said Emma with a smile, "Shiro and I came with him after he helped us take down some security."
"Couldn't get them to stay put Chuck," said Logan.
"You are our mentor after all," said Shiro with a bow.
"Thank you all for coming," said the Professor, "Kitty is already gathering a group and heading for the core. I would like you and Shiro to take as many students as you can find to the Danger Room."
"Sure thing," said Logan as he headed off with Shiro.
"Emma would you escort me to the cerebro room so I can track down our prisoners?" asked Xavier.
"Of course Charles," she helped him into his wheelchair and they headed off.
Where the group after Toad was…
"Frostboy you tried catching me before it didn't work remember," yelled Toad back to Iceman.
"This time is different!" he yelled back at Toad.
All of a sudden Nightcrawler appeared in front of Toad.
"Surprise!" he exclaimed then kicked Toad in the stomach.
Toad then flipped over with his feet pointed to the ground. He landed on a grocery store and started bouncing away.
Soon Rogue flew next to Toad, "Hi sugar!"
She shot some flames at Toad. As Toad managed to dodge it only to connect with Rogue's fist. Toad fell to the ground and used his tongue to lash around Rogue. He pulled her down to the ground slamming her into the concrete.
The Iceman slid over on an ice trail.
"I'm to good for you X-men," said Toad.
"Not really," said Iceman, "Look at your feet."
Toad looked down at his feet and saw they were frozen to the ground.
"That's not funny yo!" said Toad as he tried to free himself.
"Okay fine you can go," sighed Iceman.
"Now that's more like it," he jumped again and found he was still frozen.
"I still find that funny," stated Iceman smugly.
"Let's get him back to the mansion already!" said Rogue.
She lifted Toad off the ground and slung him over her shoulder. Then took off of the ground.
Ten minutes later on school grounds…
Rogue landed on the ground with Toad, soon Nightcrawler appeared in front of her and Iceman slid to the ground.
"Well ah couldn't get Pietro he is too fast," said Rogue, "But Toad here is just clumsy and slow enough."
"Hey I resent that yo!" responded Toad in protest.
"So Toad why is the mansion attacking us?" asked Cyclops.
"Cause of this," said Toad, he pulled the remote control like device out of his pocket, "There is nothing you can do about it though."
He crushed the device in his hand.
"You slimy little-" said Rogue.
"That's Mr. Toynbee," said Toad.
Than Iceman smacked him on the back of the head with an iced-up fist. Toad fell unconscious.
Then Cyclops looked at him.
"What? I know you wanted to," said Iceman.
"Too bad none of us are telepaths," said Jubilee, "Then we could see if everyone is ok."
In Cerebro…
"Well Emma Quicksilver is too far away to get to come back here," said Xavier, "And most of the senior X-men are outside. Good News is Toad has been apprehended yet again."
"Well Toad is not very impressive," said Emma.
"But my dear Emma, he has caused this whole mess I don't believe we shall underestimate an enemy again," said Xavier.
In the Danger Room…
"Okay role call," said Logan.
All the people there were Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Bishop, Morph, Thunderbird, Banshee, Dazzler, Boom Boom, Cannonball, Husk, Angel, Sunfire, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Moonstar, and Gambit.
"So Logan where is my chere Rogue?" asked Gambit.
"She is outside so is Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Jubilee, and Magma," said Wolverine.
"Gambit only wanted to know where his chere was," said Gambit.
"Right," said Logan as he walked off.
At the main computer's door…
"Okay everyone this room has like the highest security," said Kitty, "It even has some Danger Room tech guarding it so be on your guard."
"No worries Kitty, I can distract the system," said Jamie.
"Jamie and I got it handled my little Kitten," said Piotr.
"Okay if you say so," said Kitty, "Ray you back them up, Jono you back me up. Ready?"
The team nodded. Then Piotr turned metal and bashed the door open. Jamie started clapping making dupes fly into the room. There were now forty Jamies dodging lasers and such. Ray started zapping lasers and laughing.
Piotr ran forward and tackled a Danger room robot, "These mean nothing to us go Kitty."
When they rebuilt the mansion the main computer room had gotten marginally bigger than before.
So Kitty and Chamber were running forward phasing through robots and any defenses. They finally arrived at the computer and Kitty started typing.
Jono unleashed bursts of energy at the robots and lasers. Then a few dupes ran over and started helping them. Kitty typed for at least a few minutes by now.
'I can't use this much energy at a time I am starting to get tired,' said Jono to Kitty.
"Hold on a little longer please Jono," said Kitty, "I know you're new but you have to do this for me."
'Okay I can only do it for a bit though,' he thought back.
The original Jamie was running around collecting dupes and then he ran over to the computer.
"I can draw fire watch," said Jamie.
He used his trick to simulate accelerated speed to draw fire by making a dupe and then absorbing it into himself in a line. He then snapped his fingers four or five times and had his army out again. Nearly all guns were point at him he then repeated the process to get to the other side of the room.
Ray picked off the guns firing at him.
Piotr battled a wave of Danger Room Robots.
Then all of a sudden Kitty exclaimed, "I got it!"
The guns and robots then powered down and fell to the floor.
"Now to reprogram the security," said Kitty happily.
Outside…
"Hey the door opened!" yelled Amara.
The steel from the door went receded into the sides.
"They did it," smiled Jubilee.
Then the X-men ran inside…
Back in the Main Computer Room…
Ray grinned at Multiple, "Nice job their Jamie."
"No problem," said Jamie, "After all I am a one man army."
"Done the security is running like it normally should," said Kitty.
"Good thing too I have to admit punching every robot that was produced is tiresome," said Piotr, "But not difficult."
"Glad to hear it," said Kitty.
Then a thought went through everyone's heads, 'I would like the senior X-men to come to my office.'
Later in Xavier's office…
The X-men assembled before him were Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Bishop, Banshee, Cyclops, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Gambit, Angel, Iceman, and Sunfire.
"I would like to thank you all for your bravery and leadership. Even helping some of the younger classmates," said Xavier, "The mansion wouldn't be running normally if it weren't for you."
"Like I have said dozens of times Chuck, no problem," said Wolverine.
"Good job X-men," said Xavier.
In the corner Toad could be seen bound in chains, "Yo you guys should let me go!"
"Not for a long time though," said Rogue, "Maybe when you are a senior citizen we might think about it."
"Not funny yo!" he yelled again.
Later on outside…
Gambit and Rogue were standing outside.
"I was worried about you chere," said Gambit.
"It was nothing to be worried about," said Rogue.
Then Gambit grabbed her and kissed her for a few split seconds.
"Wow," said Rogue.
"I'm not afraid of contact chere," said Gambit
"You shouldn't do that though," she said still in shock.
"Just thought that might be good for now," said Gambit.
"Thank you," she smiled at Gambit.
Next Chapter: Mansion Recovery
Author Note: I suck at romantic scenes.