Chapter Seven: The Brotherhood Attacks

And here's Chapter Seven!

Wow, 2018 is already coming to an end! I hope y'all had a good year and a good holiday! And for anyone that has a Twitter account and likes X-Men: Evolution, I recommend following Let's Talk X-Men: Evolution ( XMenEvoShow).

alxxman: Thank you so much for understanding! Like I said before, I can't wait to post The Last Stand! There's a particular scene there involving Rogue (being bad-ass) that surprised me – and I'm the one who wrote it!

ARey77: I'm glad you love it! Yeah, I can tolerate Scott and Jean (to a point), but even as a kid, I thought that Rogue shouldn't have ended up with Bobby. I couldn't understand it, but it just didn't sit right with me.

elisegobraugh: I'm happy you're enjoying this! Yeah, I feel really good about revamping this trilogy (even though it's currently going through edits and rewrites), but I'm the most proud of my Last Stand revamp. Again, can't wait to post it!

chiwi-luv: Thank you so much! With encouragement from readers like you, I'll definitely keep going till the whole trilogy is published!

Weee: Yeah, Evo Season 5 not only would have had them be together, but it also would've had Jean becoming the Phoenix! And judging from that flashforward to the future, Jean wasn't going to survive. I couldn't help but wonder if it was going to be something like The Last Stand. As I said before, I never read the comics or watched the original animated series, so I only have The Last Stand to envision.

Dusktodawn21: Thanks for your encouragement! When I first watched the movies as a kid (having only seen Evo at the time), I was completely weirded out by the idea of Jean and Logan, because Evo Jean was, like, 17. I didn't realize that Jean was actually an adult in the movies, XD. But watching them again as an adult, I can definitely see the attraction between them.

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"Hey, kid."

Rogue looked away from the window by her seat on the train to see Logan sit next to her.

"I'm sorry about last night," he said.

She got over her surprise to see him and answered, "Me, too."

"You running again?" he asked her.

She sighed. "I heard the professor was mad at me," she mumbled.

"Well, who told you that?"

"A boy at school."

Logan shook his head. Wheels was far from angry with her. And Pretty Boy was getting his panties in a twist.

But neither of them knew that someone was using Bobby Drake's appearance to convince Rogue to leave, as well as infiltrate Cerebro. This mutant was known as Mystique, a shape-shifter and Magneto's most trusted ally. Her normal appearance was that of a dark blue-skinned woman with slick red hair and bright yellow eyes. She was also delicately covered in scales, so she felt completely comfortable not wearing any clothes over her true skin. However, because of her mutation, she had been shunned by nearly everyone she met, until she met Erik Lehnsherr, who convinced her that humanity would never accept them, and that mutants will always remain superior. From there, she remained by his side, in his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

She was also responsible for the kidnapping of Senator Robert Kelly, a man who didn't keep his anti-mutant views quiet at all, and whom Magneto wanted as the test subject for his machine to trigger mutation in humans.

When she found the door to Cerebro, she knelt before the scanner and shifted into Charles Xavier, granting her access. She walked in, shifting back to her real self, and went to work sabotaging the machine.

Rogue stared at Logan. "You think I should go back."

"No, I think you should follow your instincts," he countered.

She sighed again. "The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. And it's the same with you."

He didn't know what to say to that. When he saw tears falling down her face, he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, and held her close as she began crying. Then he said, "There's not many people that'll understand what you're going through, but I think this guy Xavier's one of them. He seems to genuinely wanna help you. And that's a rare thing, for people like us."

Rogue sat up as the train began moving.

"So, what do you say?" Logan asked her. "Give these geeks one more shot? Come on, I'll take care of you."

She smiled a bit. "You promise?"

He smiled back. "Yeah. Yeah, I promise. Especially if things don't work out with you and Summers."

Rogue let out a small gasp. "H-How did you know – ?"

"I can just tell. Although I just don't know what you see in him, kid."

She got over her shock and said rather slyly, "Well, it's not just about attraction, like with you and Dr. Grey."

"Excuse me?" Logan raised an eyebrow, but she just winked at him, a small smirk on her lips. He shook his head, chuckling, and pulled her in for another hug.

In the train station, Scott and Ororo were trying to find Rogue, not knowing that Logan beat them to her, with Scott's motorcycle, no less. Scott read the lists of departures and arrivals next to a woman with two young sons, one of whom looked up at him in awe. He looked down at him, and the boy smiled, causing him to smile back. The boys' mother saw this and ushered them away from him. He sighed.

Meanwhile, Ororo was ahead of the line and talking to the ticket agent. "She's about seventeen, my height, has brown hair, and she –"

Behind her, Sabertooth, the wild mutant that attacked Logan in Laughlin City, had marched up and tossed a man to the side. Ororo heard him growling and turned around, only to be immediately held up by the throat.

"Scream for me," he whispered menacingly. She only let out choked whimpers, so he forcefully pushed her forward, her head cracking the glass window.

By now, people were staring, and most certainly frightened. Scott edged his way through the crowd to get to Sabertooth. He didn't notice the slimy green mutant, Toad, crawling up the wall and sticking his long, disgusting tongue out towards him. His visor was knocked off of his face, and two bright optic blasts shot out at the glass ceiling. He quickly closed his eyes, but the damage was done. Glass and debris were falling onto the people who were attempting to hide or run. Sabertooth had been momentarily distracted by this, so Ororo began to summon lightning, her eyes glowing white. Sabertooth roared at the sky, static in his hair, as lightning struck down on him, shattering the window and sending him flying away from her.

He left with Toad, who was holding Scott's visor.

As Rogue and Logan sat in silence, the train suddenly skidded to an immediate halt, sending the passengers flying forward from their seats. The lights began flickering as the two mutants stood up. Metal luggage cases were moving around and a metal vent was shaking violently. Logan looked toward the end of the train, watching it be torn apart by an invisible force. All the other passengers screamed as it ripped up, lights falling from the torn fixtures.

The smoke cleared away to reveal an old man floating inside the train, his cape flowing behind him and an odd looking helmet covering his whole head, except for his face.

This was clearly Magneto.

Rogue hid in her seat, but Logan stood his ground as Magneto landed and walked towards him. He extended his claws, but the evil mutant didn't so much as flinch.

"You must be Wolverine," he said inquisitively, as if he were meeting him at a social gathering. He held up his hand, and Logan found himself being lifted a foot into the air, unable to move. "That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?" He spread his fingers, and Logan's arms were now held up. His claws were slowly bending outwards, causing him to grunt in pain.

"STOP! STOP IT!" Rogue screamed desperately. Magneto only smirked.

"What the hell do you want with me?" Logan bit out.

Magneto's eyebrows raised. "You? My dear boy!" he laughed. "Whoever said I wanted you?"

Logan's eyes widened. He slowly turned his head to look at Rogue, who sat back in her seat, terrified. Before Logan could attempt anything, Magneto pointed his finger, sending him flying backwards, his claws nearly decapitating passengers who were smart enough to duck. Rogue got up and ran after him, but Magneto sent a metal tranquilizer flying towards her, and she was out. He shook his head.

"Young people."

And there's Chapter Seven! Just another "recap scene", as I call it: a chapter that mostly recreates a scene from the movie, with one or two changes. In the next chapter, I'm just skipping to when the X-Men are back at the mansion. If you've seen the movie, you know what happens next. I'm just doing the scenes I feel need to be done for this story.

I kept on wanting to refer to Magneto as "the older mutant", but then I had to remind myself that Logan is older than all of them, XD.