Chapter Seven: Dangerous Mutants/Air Attack

And here's Chapter Seven! I skipped Bobby's "coming out" scene, because it makes me feel really uncomfortable. But like before, just because I'm skipping it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Also, I'm so glad April Fool's Day is tomorrow and not today (or at least in my timezone). Personally, I'm not a big fan of the holiday, and I wouldn't have wanted you guys to think this was a joke chapter (which, thank God, it's not).

Cellorules: I wish all the chapters were longer, too. However, like I said before, it all depends on what the original scenes give me, and the ideas that pop out of my head to change them accordingly. But thank you for your feedback!

0001234: I'm so glad you understand! And don't worry, Bobby and Rogue's friendship won't be lost! It'll be a short while before we see them patch things up, but they'll be fine.

thewriternextdoo:

1) Thank you for your feedback! Like I told Cellorules above, the length of the chapters depend on what the original scenes give me, and what ideas spring out. That's why I try to combine scenes, but it doesn't always mean longer chapters.

2) Yes, Rogue and Kitty did become good friends in Evo, what with them being roommates and all. Unfortunately, I didn't find too many opportunities in the next story to suggest that they're friends in this version, but I left a couple hints. It was really hard to focus on developing most of the side characters when I put Rogue's character first. Let's just say that Rogue is definitely supportive of Bobby and Kitty's relationship.

Weeee: First of all, I realized that I spelled your name wrong last chapter, so sorry about that! Second, thank you so much! Knowing that people are actually looking forward to new chapters makes me feel rather giddy!

Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men.

"No one's left, Jean. Soldiers came," Logan told Jean on the emergency phone.

"What about some of the children?" Storm asked at once.

"Some of them escaped," said Logan. "I'm not sure about the rest."

"We haven't been able to reach the professor or Scott, either," said Jean. "We're coming, Logan."

"Wait, we're –" Logan tried to tell her where they were when Jean interrupted him.

"Rogue managed to contact me," she said. "She told me where you are. We're on our way."

Logan, getting over his confusion, quickly said, "Make it fast," for he was sensing trouble.

Though Storm and Jean arrived as quickly as they could, policemen had tried to arrest them. Bobby's brother had called them out of fear, saying that the mutants were holding the Drake family hostage. Though Logan, Rogue, and Bobby were willing to comply with the cops, John had opened fire – literally. With one little flame from his lighter, he blasted cops away and set their cars ablaze. Rogue, acting fast, took some of his power to put the fires out. When the X-Jet finally landed, John shot a look of disgust at her. Bobby, however, was heartbroken. His family was afraid of him. From the way they stared after him as they ran to the Jet, they did not want to see him ever again.

When they arrived on the Jet, they were quite surprised to see that Jean and Storm weren't alone.

"Guten tag," the blue man with yellow eyes greeted them, gently waving a three-fingered hand.

Though the others were shocked by his appearance, Rogue couldn't shake off the feeling that she should know this man.

"Who the hell is this?" Logan asked as they strapped in.

"Kurt Wagner," he introduced himself. "But in the Munich circus, I was known as 'the Incredible Nightcrawler' –"

"Yeah, save it," Logan cut him off, causing Kurt to look down. "Storm?"

"We're outta here," she announced.

When they were high up in the air, they had unfastened their seat belts. Logan got up to stand beside Jean's chair. "How far are we?"

"We're actually coming up to the mansion now," said Jean. She shared a long glance with Logan. She was so glad that he was all right, and she could sense he felt the same. They shared a quick kiss.

"I've got two signals approaching," said Storm suddenly, interrupting their moment. "Coming in fast."

"Unidentified aircraft," said a woman's voice on their radio, "you are ordered to descend to 20,000 feet. Return with our escort to Hanscom Air Force Base. You have 10 seconds to comply."

"Wow," Storm noted. "Somebody's angry."

"I wonder why," said Logan, glaring at John.

"We are coming up alongside you to escort you to Hanscom Air Force Base," the woman's voice ordered. "Lower your altitude now."

They looked through the windows to see two smaller fighter planes on either side of the X-Jet. One pilot, presumably the woman speaking to them, glared at them, firmly pointing her finger downwards.

"Repeat, lower your altitude to 20,000 feet," she said. "This is your last warning."

Eventually, the aircrafts pulled back.

"They're falling back," Storm observed. Then they heard beeping. "They're marking us."

"What?" Logan asked.

"They're gonna fire," said Storm. "Hang on!"

Logan quickly got back into his seat, and everyone hurried to fasten their seat belts. However, as the Jet sped up, Logan was knocked around before he scrambled to his seat. Kurt silently crossed himself, and Rogue was hurriedly trying to fasten hers, but found it had broken.

"I gotta shake 'em," said Storm. She spun the Jet into a loop.

When the Jet steadied, most of the passengers were feeling a bit queasy.

"Please don't do that again," mumbled John.

"I agree," Logan grunted. "Don't we have any weapons in this heap?"

Instead of answering him, Storm's eyes glowed white, and they could all see the sky instantly darken. Tornadoes came down, trying to catch the planes. One of the pilots fired two missiles at the Jet before ejecting themselves out of their plane. All the while, Jean and Storm swerved through the tornadoes.

Soon, Storm exhausted her energy, and the sky returned to normal.

"Everybody okay back there?" Jean asked behind her.

"No," said Logan dryly.

Then the radio alerted them of the missiles.

"Oh, my God," said Storm in a panic. "There's two of them."

Jean focused her powers on the missiles, her eyes slowly growing a fiery red. One missile began spinning out of control before it exploded. Logan looked at Jean in awe as she calmed down.

"There's one more," said Storm. "Jean..."

Jean tried to eliminate the other missile, but she had exhausted her energy. "Oh, God!"

She just barely forced the missile to move out of the way. The Jet still took damage; a large hole was left in the back, and Rogue, who could barely hold onto the arm rests of her seat, was sucked out through the hole.

"ROGUE!" Bobby screamed as the Jet began to descend. No, he couldn't lose her! It didn't matter that she was secretly dating one of their teachers, he couldn't lose his friend!

"No!" Logan shouted in equal despair. He saw Jean looking at the hole, highly distressed as well.

Kurt quickly saw where Rogue was flailing and teleported out of the Jet. He instantly appeared right above her, grabbed onto her, and teleported them back into the Jet. Everyone else sighed in relief as they landed right in between Jean and Storm's seats. While they tried to steady the Jet, Rogue held onto Kurt tightly, whimpering, "Scott..." into his ear. Though he was confused, he kept his hold on her. Something was telling him that this girl was important to him, but he wasn't sure why.

When Storm's attempts to steady the Jet seemed futile, everyone else closed their eyes, waiting for the crash. Then they heard some static and metal moving around. They looked back to see the giant hole close itself up, and felt the Jet fall more gracefully.

"Jean?!" Storm shouted.

"It's not me!" Jean yelled.

Then the Jet abruptly stopped in mid air, several feet above the ground. They looked through the windshield to see Magneto holding his hand up, Mystique standing beside him.

Because Magneto had been held prisoner in that plastic cell, Mystique had to be clever in helping him escape. She caught one of his guards at a bar and, disguised as a beautiful blonde woman named Grace, seduced him. After she put sleepers in his beer and he passed out, she pumped his blood full of iron. And when he returned to Magneto's cell, the evil mutant painfully extracted the bloody puffs of iron, turning them into iron balls, and used them to escape.

"When will these people learn how to fly?" Magneto asked. He and Mystique smirked at each other.

And there's Chapter Seven! Yes, thanks to two reviewers, I'm having Kurt, Rogue, and Mystique be family, so stay tuned for that! The way I explain it next chapter might not make much sense, but I did the best I could! Also, according to the X-Men movie Wiki, Anna Paquin (Rogue) did the stunt for when Rogue was sucked out of the Jet rather than have a double. If that's true, then good for Paquin!

Seeing how Logan reacted to the Jet jerking around, I can't help but remember how in Rise of the Guardians, Bunny (voiced by Hugh Jackman) didn't take lightly to riding in the sleigh at first. Coincidence? XD