Chapter Sixteen

Wolverine woke up in the empty shed two hours later, on the floor, passed out. "Shit." He muttered and put his head back down against the cold wood.

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Rogue was fully healed now from Wolverine's healing factor which was good because she thought she had an infection in her leg. Now Rogue was up, had 'borrowed' clothes off a washing line and was hiding in plan sight, again, up to her old tricks of getting money and getting by. And by getting by, she was heading as fast as she could to a hidden base that was somewhat close to where she was. Rogue had learnt from Wolverine's memory that Magneto had been captured and was being experimented on by Sinister. Rogue slowed down on her motorbike as she got closer to the base. She was dressed in black, merging with the darkness, and walked through the forest to where the abandoned run down wearhouse was. Rogue found the man hole Sinister knew off and used this to get inside the underground base. The wearhouse was just a front.

Rogue slipped down the ladders, stopping as she heard and watched someone pass. Rogue jumped down on her tip toes and kept close to the walls as she quickly tip toed around. Rogue peeked around a corner and saw a guard woman was coming towards her. Rogue ducked down, waiting for when the woman came and then took her out. Rogue didn't find a place to find the woman, so left her there after dressing herself up in the uniform. She had a feeling people knew she was here.

Rogue moved coodrinatedly, making she went under all the camera's blind spot. She used the woman's card and ID to get deeper down into the base. Using all she could and knocking out a few people along the way, Rogue got the the prison cells, just as the alarms went off. In the cells, Rogue ran, breaking all the cameras, so no one could see what she was doing. They were on red alert. Rogue moved swiftly, looking through all the peep holes to see who was in which cell. She felt bad for leaving them, but she was there for one man only.

Rogue's heart fluttered harder when she found and had to abandon a beaten up Pyro. Two more cells down from him and there she found Magneto. He was lay out on the floor, stripped into a hospital gown and looked weaker than he'd ever been i such a long time. Rogue opened the door, watching his body stiffen as he heard it open. Magneto even attempted to get up into a fighting position as he got up onto his hands and knees. Rogue got on her knees in front of him, and he attempted to punch her. His punch was so weak. "Magneto." Rogue hissed, telling him off for trying to hurt her.

He looked up, his dull grey eyes wide with shock and suprize. "Rogue." Magneto could no longer hold his body weight and colpased in her lap. "Kill me. Please." He begged. Rogue felt that tight snapping of sympathy within her. She knew how hard it was in these cells. It was almost like reliving the holicaust again, only worse. They didn't kill you, they kept you alive and tortured you.

"No. We're gettin' outta here Erik." Rogue tried pulling Magneto up and successed getting him up, but was struggling with his weight. "Please Erik. You gotta help me and I can help you out too."

Magneto tried stepping forwards. It was a little help, but not that good. Rogue dragged Magneto a little down the hallway and then openned another cell. She let him lean on the wall, but he just collapsed down it. In the end Rogue dragged him inside, placing him in the blindspot of the cell where they couldn't be seen through the peep hole or the camera in the room. Rogue closed and locked the cell door behind her, just as she began hearing the soliders coming. She too hid in the eye hole's blind spot, taking Magneto's head and placing it in her lap. She whispered to him to not move and to be quiet. He obeyed her.

Rogue looked around the cell and saw a little girl no older than five sat in the other corner of the room, shivering. She had green skin, blue hair and red eyes. She looked terrified. It broke Rogue's heart seeing the girl wrapped up in bangages, but hurt even more as she knew she couldn't help her.

The peep hole opened and in peeked the guard. He saw the little girl and nothing else. He closed the peep hole and moved on. Rogue made both herself and Magneto wait in that cell for about half an hour. Rogue's heart was ponding and she was terried. But in that time, Rogue managed to slip out a small decieve and undo Magneto's power neglatar collar.

Magneto had trusted Rogue completely and let the beat of her heart calm him down. He heard that she was scared, but somehow just hearing she was alive and there and had a plan to get them out comforted him a lot.

"OK Erik, I got the collar off, but don't go doing anything yet. You gotta be honest and truthful with yaself. Your not yourself at the moment. Your not strong and powerful. You weak and hurt and if you try to take down this base, it's gonna backfire and your gonna be stuck in these cells for longer. Now listen to me. There's gonna be a few guards outside and we're gonna haveta take em out before they call tell the other people they've been knocked out OK. So, this is what I need ya to do and I need ya to do excasly what I say. I need you to rip off this metal door and the one opposite us and send each of the doors hurrdling down the corridors, one going down one way, the other going down the other and slam all those guards inta the wall, K. Do it now!"

Magneto sat up a little more, getting comfier. He tried to focus on what Rogue was saying. Tried to focus on finding the right metal he wanted to bend to his will. It took a few moments longer than when Rogue told him, but he did it and the doors were ripped off.

"OK, we gotta get up!" Rogue said, dragging him back up to his feet. Magneto tried to help, putting a lot of his weiht against Rogue as he lend against her, and tripping as they walked. "Make us an exit!" Rogue comanded.

Magneto looked forwards, confused at first, then molded a door way into the large metal door. They ducked under it and started to run down the corridor. They came across a few guards but they knocked them out with Rogue's instructions. Again, Rogue hid under them under the blind spots and slowly got them out of there, getting out the way she got in.

"There they are!" Rogue heard someone scream. Rogue knew they'd be out searching the forests. Finally, and seeing how exsorsed he was, Rogue touched Magneto's check, taking in all his pain he'd suffered and his powers. Using his powers of flight, Rogue dragged him up into the trees and began dragging him along through the trees. When they started shooting and Rogue felt one just miss her side, Rogue went higher into the sky and flew faster. They were soon out of reach of the guns. Rogue let out a sigh of relieve.

But then the Sentinals came. They shot at Rogue and Magneto, hitting both on the edge of the leg or shoulder. Rogue was feeling tired and weak, but she reached out with Magneto's powers and ripped the first Sentinal robot apart. One down, five more to go. Rogue noticed that they'd gone lower in height too from that use of power. But she did it again, and again, and again, and again, until there were two left and she was flying next to the ground, breathing heavily. She couldn't last much longer like this. She was becoming slower and weaker.

Twisting awake, Magneto scened Rogue's fear and the danger and he used up some of his last remaining strengh to take out another sentinal robot. Rogue was greatful, but after that one take out, Magneto was out cold. Rogue had passed the forst, and a few roads and fields to come to another road where she saw a truck with a lot of hay in the back. Rogue couldn't take the weight of Magneto much longer, so came to follow and hover over the truck, till they dropped into the hay. The sentianal still hot on their trail.

Rogue's breath was heavy and she held on tight to Magneto and the truck as the driver began to swirve in his fright. Finally coming to a stop. Rogue looked up, out of the hay and saw the sentianal was only inchies away from her. The sentianal reached down, grabbing Rogue by her chest, it's whole hand fitting around her body and pulled her out of the hay.

"Mutant. Identified. Rogue. V.P. V.P."

The sentianal then started to fly away, raising higher and higher into the sky with Rogue kicking and scratching at it's hand. Rogue had lost Magneto's powers now and was tired from all the fighting. Magneto was out cold and she knew it. One thing she didn't count on though was the man in the truck aiming and shutting down the Sentianal. The farmer shot it once, twice, three times, four times, five times, with a big gun until finally the sentaial fell, Rogue in hand. It was a hard landing, but Rogue would rather have hit her face off the concret Road then had to have gone back to her cell.

Slowly she got up, still weakened. "You alright there miss?" Asked the farmer."

Rogue looked up at the farmer and he saw the fear and hurt look in her eyes. She looked to the gun, to the man. "Oh, I ain't gonna shot ya. I know your a mutant. My daughter's a mutant too, but... Well they've got my daughter, the filth." Rogue watched the farmer look down at the robot in disguest. Rogue felt for him, really she did. Rogue got to her feet and said, "I'm sorry."

The farmer nodded, saying it wasn't her fault and if she needed a lift.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Rogue and the farmer were besides his truck now and Rogue reached in and began to pull Magneto out of the hay. "We've just escaped from a prison near by here. Best you don't know that though. But they're gonna b looking for us, stopping any car or truck that passes. You're life's in danger. We're gonna leave now, and not gonna trouble ya anymore. Thank ya for all your help."

Rogue had almost fully pulled Magneto out when she felt a hand clapse on her shoulder. "Now, I think that's my choice if I decide ta risk it. And I've chosen ta help you folks out. Besides." The farmer looked to the robot. "I already in trouble." He looked back to Rogue. "Now you just go get back in that hay and hid. I'll hide ya's both, but you gotta do as I say."

Rogue was scared to trust the man, but for some reason she nodded her head and climbed back into the hay where she cuddled besides Magneto and fell asleep. She felt the truck rattle as he began to drive.