Charles Xavier and Tony Stark brought together the X-men as a way to save a world that hates and fears mutants. Their most recent challenges have included not only fighting back against Senator Edward Kelly trying to register them under the government, but also a mysterious thief known as the Shadow King, a group of underground mutants known as the Morlocks, and Charles Xavier's abusive older step-brother, Cain Marko – who is now known as the Unstoppable Juggernaut.

Unfortunately, their fight with the Juggernaut distracted the X-men from the real problem at hand. Magneto had released the Juggernaut as means to distract so that Mystique would be able to liberate the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In order to do this, Mystique had her adoptive daughter, Anna-Marie "Rogue" D'Ancanto attack Carol "Ms. Marvel" Danvers – Wolverine's girlfriend and the personal trainer for the X-men.

The agents of SHIELD decide to take Carol into their custody and care, and while the X-men are on the SHIELD quinjet, revelations about Scott's past come to him when he learns that his late mother – Katherine Summers – hadn't been an ordinary military scientist, but rather one of SHIELD's top researchers and agents.

Now, Carol remains comatose, with Jean Grey and Charles Xavier preparing to perform a psychic intervention on her in order to find out what had happened to her. As this is happening, Anna-Marie D'Ancanto is facing the consequences of her actions.

Issue 33: Save Me Now

The Brotherhood House – Anna-Marie's Room

Nobody could ever imagine having the feeling of having one-hundred voices screaming at you inside your head, telling you nearly a million things at once. For Anna-Marie D'Ancanto, as she sat up in her bedroom in the Brotherhood House, she now suddenly realized the feeling of being schizophrenic.

As she continued to sit there – or rather floating there on top of her bed, Anna-Marie couldn't help but feel the intense amount of guilt for what she had just done to Carol "Ms. Marvel" Danvers only short of an hour ago. She kept her face burrowed deeply in her knees as the tears streaming down and silent sobs shook her whole body. She was trembling softly.

Needing to feel Carol's memories, as well as the memories of her first crush, Cody, as well as Warren Worthington, Jr. inside her head made her feel as though she were losing her mind. She didn't know how, but, somehow, she had gotten Ms. Marvel's powers permanently.

'Why? Why did Ah have ta hold on like that?' she asked herself. 'Why? Ah-Ah coulda've killed her . . . and it's all mah fault . . .'

That was when she heard another voice inside her head. "It is all your fault! You stole my powers . . . my life!" It was a voice that sounded an awful lot like Carol. "I am like this because of you!"

'Ah'm sorry! Ah'm sorry! Ah-Ah didn't mean to!'

"Shut up! You know what you meant to do!"

Anna-Marie's body shook harder. She was finding it difficult to control her new ability of flight. However, she couldn't organize her mind due to the fact that she had several voices shouting at her inside her head. Suddenly, that was when she could hear Cody.

"It's all your fault, you stupid mutie freak! You did this to meh!"

'It was an accident . . . Ah didn't mean to hurt anybody! Why-Why meh? Why can't Ah be normal?' Anna-Marie turned her face up to look at the ceiling above her, finding it difficult to keep her emotions in check as she continued to cry silent tears. She didn't understand why this all had to happen to her. She used to be a normal teenage girl, with friends and an active social life. Now, she didn't know what she was anymore.

Anna-Marie attempted to wipe the tears out of her eyes, but, it was useless because only more flowed down her face. She felt sick to her stomach over what she had done. However, the only person in the Brotherhood House who had even offered her any concern was Wanda Maximoff – Scarlet Witch, who had come in to check on her just a few minutes ago to make sure that she was okay. However, the seventeen-year-old mutant was barely holding it together.

As Anna-Marie continued to weep out of pure fear of what it was that she was becoming, she knew that she couldn't stay with the Brotherhood. She had stayed as a favor to Mystique for saving her, but, now, she knew that if this was the kind of life that she was going to be living, then she couldn't take anymore.

Trying to gather her mind, she made the attempt to land herself down onto her bed. She managed to succeed a little bit. Grabbing a duffle bag, she packed up as many clothes as she could fit inside as well as a blanket. Opening up the window of her bedroom, Anna-Marie proceeded to fly out, leaving the one place that she used to call home.

Flying in the air towards no particular destination, Anna-Marie "Rogue" D'Ancanto knew that she didn't have too many options. Now that she was officially on the run again, she knew that she had to find some sort of shelter somewhere.

She knew that her actions that she had committed would have grave consequences. As she continued to fly off towards nowhere in particular, the young woman felt the sense of loneliness coming over her, especially as the voices grew louder, screaming inside her head at once. She didn't know where she could go. There weren't too many people out there who were kind towards mutants. Finally, she found a secluded, wooded area in the town of Bayville, New York, where she could sit down and try to gather her mind together as best as she possibly could.

As she continued to sit there, Anna-Marie shivered, suddenly remembering how it had felt when she had been on the run in Mississippi. The tears continued to roll down her face as she finally allowed herself to sob out loud in the solitude of the woods.

'What am Ah gonna do . . . what the fuck am Ah gonna do?' she asked herself as the sickness in her stomach grew worse. She wrapped her arms around her body to try and comfort herself, rocking back and forth as shudders and shivers ran throughout.

SHIELD Quinjet – Infirmary

For the next hour or so, Jean Grey and Professor Charles Xavier continued to try and look for any source of Carol's mind anywhere. Their eyes were closed in concentration as they looked deeper and deeper in the effort to find some answers. Maybe these answers could lead as to why the Brotherhood and Juggernaut had escaped custody of Alpha Flight.

As Jean and Professor Xavier continued to work, Logan Howlett sat at the side of his girlfriend, holding her hand tight in his as Scott Summers, Bobby Drake, Ororo Munroe, Hank McCoy and John and James Proudstar sat around, waiting for answers as well. Tony Stark was awaiting answers too as he paced back and forth in the infirmary. Scott was shaking his leg slightly; his eyes clenched shut behind his ruby-quartz glasses. However, everyone was also worried about Warren back at home, who was reported to have several fractures in his wings and that he wouldn't be flying around anywhere for a week. The whole entire situation sucked for Warren, who loved flying and the freedom that it gave him.

'C'mon, Ms. Danvers, where are you?' Jean wondered to herself as she continued to try and perform the psychic intervention. She and the professor were not even sure if they would be able to wake Carol up from her coma. Whoever had done this had clearly drained her of all of her energy, which was a complete shock to everyone due to how powerful she was.

Logan continued sitting there, squeezing Carol's hand hard in both of his. 'C'mon, pull through, darlin'. You know I can't train the X-men on my own. I can't do this without you . . .' He closed his eyes, trying to keep the tears from coming to his eyes. He rarely ever cried. Nobody ever saw him cry. He couldn't afford to make himself look vulnerable in front of his students. He had to keep the "Wolverine" bit going, mostly because if he went soft, there was no way Bobby Drake or Warren Worthington III would ever take him seriously.

Just when Jean and the professor were about to lose all hope of finding some sort of presence of Carol's mind anywhere, they suddenly could hear the blonde, former Air Force pilot's mind somewhere else. But, her mind sounded so far away, and it was mixed with a few other angry thoughts, as well as the thoughts of somebody who was highly anxious and scared.

'This is all your fault . . . you did this to me! You stole my life!'

'Please! Please! Ah didn't mean to Ah didn't mean to! Ah didn't wanna do it!'

'SHUT UP, Anna-Marie . . . you know this is your fault! God if Ah knew you were a mutie freak, Ah wouldn't have kissed ya!'

'You nearly killed me!'

'Please! Stop! God what is happenin' to meh? What am Ah gonna do?'

'I'll tell you what is happening to you! You stole my powers . . . my life . . . everything . . . I am in a coma all because of you!'

That was the moment Jean and the professor pulled out of Carol's mind. Jean gasped as she pulled out, her eyes flying open.

"Did you find anything?" asked Logan.

"We did manage to find something . . . it's almost as though her mind was taken out by somebody else. This mutant seems to have the ability to syphon energy out of others, and with mutants, or this case, Ms. Danvers, she can absorb their powers as well. As far as I can tell, her name is Anna-Marie," Jean whispered, closing her eyes. "She's scared to death more than anything else. I don't think I have ever heard anyone more terrified in my entire life."

"Well, she should be." Logan popped a single claw out.

"No, Logan. I get it, I know you're angered over what happened to Ms. Danvers, but, best I can tell just from reading this girl's thoughts, she didn't want to do this to Ms. Danvers. She didn't want to hurt anybody," Jean said.

"I don't give a flying shit, Jeannie!" Logan growled. "Fact is, she did, and there are consequences to it!"

"Come on, for the love of God, Logan! You were used by Weapon X! Did you do everything right in life? I thought you out of all people would have compassion for a person going through something like this," Jean pointed out.

"You were used as a weapon. You had had everything taken away from you . . . your freedom, your memories; any humanity you may have had. If it hadn't been for Professor Xavier, if it hadn't been for Alpha Flight, and Nick Fury, you wouldn't be here. I think you of all people should be willing to give this girl a second chance, if that is what she desires. Based on what I've picked up on her thoughts, she didn't mean any of it. She didn't want any of this. Why she did this, we won't know until we hear from her. Just be willing to hear her out," she continued to say.

"This is different from the shit that happened to me," the feral former living weapon snapped.

"Sure it is," Jean said, exasperated. She turned to the professor. "Professor, are you going to have to use Cerebro to find where this Anna-Marie girl happens to be?"

"Indeed, Jean. We should get back to X-Corporation now that we've got some idea of what had happened to Carol," the professor said. "But, I fear that if this mutant has Carol's abilities as well as her memories now, that I won't be able to separate Carol from Anna-Marie's mind, and I would only be able to quiet her at least until we find some way to get Carol to awaken by having her consciousness go back into her body."

Logan bared his teeth and let out an angered growl, shaking his head. "Well, when you find 'er, I wanna have five minutes with her! Just five minutes!"

Jean shook her head. "Logan, stop," she said as Scott got up from where he was sitting outside the infirmary, rejoining them.

"Any luck?" he asked.

"We found some potential answers," Jean said. "We'll find out even more soon."

"Good, good to know," Scott whispered, pulling Jean into a firm hug.

"Alright, well, we should get back home to X-Corporation Tower so that I can track down this mutant," the professor said.

"I'm comin' with ya. I wanna be with ya guys when you find this punk!" Logan growled, getting up to leave the infirmary, his claws unsheathed.

"What's with him?" Scott asked.

"You really do not want to know how angry he is. I'm worried that if he sees this mutant, he's going to just go into a berserker rage the minute he lays eyes on her. I understand that he's upset about it, but, this mutant, there's something about her when I read her mind. She just seems scared shitless," Jean said. "And you and I of all people know how that feels. You know where we were five months ago."

"Yeah, you've got a point there, Red," Scott said in agreement as Nick Fury came over to them.

"We're giving you guys a lift home. If you find anything let us know immediately, and as far as that mutant goes, we'll figure out exactly what punishment she should be given," Fury said.

"Well, Fury, to be quite honest, based on the thoughts that I had picked up from this girl, she's taken enough punishment in her life," Jean whispered around a heavy sigh. "If we end up finding her, I would want to talk to her."

"Why?" Scott asked.

"I've spent all these past years of my life locked up in a mental hospital Scott, with no family, completely alone. It's not like me to stand by and watch as others around me suffer," Jean explained.

"Good point. You know sometimes you've got too big of a heart, Jean," Scott said.

"Yeah, I know. I'm a softie, but can you blame me?"

"No, none of us can."

Woods of Bayville

'Why, M-Mamma?' Anna-Marie thought to herself as she stayed curled up on the grasses of woods in Bayville, New York. 'Why did ya make meh do that? Why did Ah have to hold on? Didn't Ah love ya enough? Y-You knew what would h-happen. And now . . . now Ah don't know what to do!'

Anna-Marie continued to weep as her body shook with fear for what would happen to her. She could feel the physical sickness in her stomach growing worse as it translated to actual nausea, and she leaned over, throwing up in the grass.

Anna-Marie felt as though she was vomiting for every time she had ever suffered. Having lost her mother had been one of the hardest things she'd ever gone through, and she never imagined she'd have to go through something worse than that.

Then, her mutation had developed.

If only she hadn't kissed Cody . . . if only she hadn't gone to that stupid party . . . if only she hadn't been so naïve to accept Mystique wanting to help her. No. Mystique hadn't been wanting to help her. She'd used her to do something terrible and hurt somebody else. Everything Anna-Marie had ever done with the Brotherhood felt as though it were all collapsing on top of her as she continued to throw up.

Retching until there was nothing left in her stomach to release, Anna-Marie took in shuttering breaths as tears continued to roll down her face.

"Why . . . Why did this h-have to h-happen to meh?" she asked. "Ah-Ah w-wish Ah w-were normal! Ah-Ah never wanted powers. If Ah never h-had these powers, Ms. Marvel w-wouldn't be hurt right now."

Continuing to sniffle, Rogue could continue to hear the voices in her head of all she had ever come into physical contact with. She felt as though she were a schizophrenic, hearing everyone talking to her at once inside her mind. They were a mixture of those blaming her for causing them harm.

"Ah-Ah'm sorry . . . Ah'm so sorry," she whimpered as she rocked her body back and forth.

"No, you are not! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!" shouted the voice of Carol in her mind.

"N-No, s-stop, stop, stop, stop!" Anna-Marie choked out as her eyes continued to well with tears of humiliation, fear and pain. She had never felt more alone in her life, once again.

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