Chapter Eighteen
Rogue sat besides Magneto in the X-Jet. Wolverine sat in a chair opposite Rogue. He hadn't stopped watching her. Rogue had meet his eyes, but looked away. Magneto watched this extract play out. He felt the discomfort of Rogue besides him. She might have been sat next to him, but there was a little gap between them, showing her annoance with him. She was annoiced he'd convinced her to work with the X-Men to take down Sinister. There was just one pre stop they were making before they got back to the mansion.
The jet shuck as it came to land. Rogue took off her seat belt at the same time as Magneto and stood up with him. He was still using her for support. Slowly, they left the plane to come and stand in front of a large white mansion (not as big as Xavier's mansion). The gates opened and they all walked towards the front doors, that opened when they got close enough. From behind the doors came a woman with blond hair, cold blue eyes and was dressed from head to toe in revealing white clothes.
"Hello Erik. Charles. What can I do for you?" Asked the woman.
"You know what's going on with Sinister and the Sentials." Said Magneto.
"Of course."
"Emma, we need your help. We need everyone who we can find to help us take down Sinister or else the world in which we live in is going to become a hell for mutants." Said the Professor.
"I was wondering when you was going to ask for my help." Emma looked between all of them, taking in more spesifically, Jean and Scott and Magneto stood very close next to the girl with the white strip in her hair and a very furry man stood close to her. "What exscally do you have in mind?" She asked looking back at Magneto.
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Emma had accepted the job to be a mediator between the X-Men, Rogue and Magneto. And the three of them were having a private conversation (psychically) on the X-Jet as they filled Emma Frost up on what had happened between Rogue and the X-Men. She seemed pritty suprized by this. She told Rogue that she understood why she was fearful and agreed that if he was to try and wipe anyone's mind, she would stop it as she didn't want her mind wiped. Rogue could believe it from her stuck up royal attitude.
Wolverine had been watching them carefully as, in little movements and twitches of their faces, they gave away signs of their suprize and shock. He guessed and knew they were privatlly communicating. He didn't like it.
Gasps from the other X-Men brought the four of them back to reality. They looked out the windows and saw the saw thing the others saw.
"The mansion." Scott gasped.
"It's distroyed." Said Jean.
And as it was, the mansion was a pile of rubble. The X-Jet landed and the X-Men searched the grounds, finding dead mutant bodies and finding that some were missing. "Who could have done this?" Asked Storm.
Rogue had to roll her eyes at the stupid question.
"Sinister." Said Magneto. "He waited until the time was right and then he attacked the mansion. Most likely looking for new mutants to lock up and experiment on."
"Some of the children might have got away. They could be safe." Jean tried.
Rogue shuck her head. "No one is safe. Not even us. And we defeatly ain't safe standing around here. So, anywhere else we can go for breifing and action plan?" Rogue said.
The X-Men looked at Rogue and Magneto, hurt by how cold and distant they seemed while over half of the mutant children and X-Men were either dead or missing. With the X-Men in an upset, and Magneto and Rogue with stone faces, they all moved onto the X-Men all took to the skies.
They had agreed to go back to Emma Frost's mansion, but by the time they got there everyone was shocked to see three sentinals ripping down the mansion in search for Emma.
"Get us out of her!" Rogue yelled to Scott who was driving. "Go now before they spot us."
But it was too late. They had been spotted. Scott turned the jet around with the sentianals hot on their tails. Rogue looked out the window, towards the sentianals. "We've gotta destory em before they can send signals to other sentainals, or worse, Sinister telling them where we are. Magneto, do ya think you could-"
Rogue's head shot up as one of the three sentinals had combusted and fell down towards earth. Magneto breathed heavily though, looking tired already. Rogue, making sure her seat beat was on, turned to face Cyclopse. "Haven't you upgraded this thing with weapons yet?"
"We're peaceful Rogue. We don't-" Scott tried explaining.
"Oh yeah, 'cause peacefuls defeatly gonna stop them from ripping out your eyes just to see how your powers work Cyclopse. You need to blast them down, outta the sky and ya need ta do it now. Storm, create a thunder storm or something. Jean, Emma, disable their engines or something. Make them stop!"
None of the X-Men seemed to like Rogue giving orders, but they followed them. Cyclopse gave the controls to the Professor while he and Wolverine walked towards the back of the jet and opened the enterence. Wolverine had been tied to the inside of the X-Jet by strong rope around his waist along with Scott and they both hung outside of the Jet. Wolverine held onto Cyclopse to pull him back just encase his rope snapped and Cyclopse tried blasting the Sentinals out of the sky, but kept missing.
Emma took the left Sentinal and Jean took the right. Both tried to find someway to block the Sentinals signal, or rip them apart from the inside, but they weren't strong enough. Storm's thunder cloud was doing just as much damage to the Sentinals as it was the X-Jet. The X-Jet rocked and Rogue's fear grew. Past memories of when she was last time in a Jet coming back to her. Rogue was suprized as Magneto undid his seat belt and moved towards Cyclopse and Wolverine. Rogue watched as Magneto grabbed a hold of Wolverine and seeing past Wolverine, used his powers to exploded another Sentinal.
The Jet rocked badly again as the explotion was close. The Jet was rocked so had that Magneto, Wolverine and Cyclopse were knocked back inside the Jet and into the other side of the Jet. "Erik." Rogue gasped as he hit the wall. He looked badly hurt.
"One Sentinal left." Called the Professor.
As the Jet began to steady out Rogue eyed all the other X-Men. None of them were getting up to see if they were alright. Rogue looked from them, to the three men layed out on the floor. Rogue undid her seatbelt and was going to move to close the door so nobody fell out.
"It's readying to fire."
The Professor guided the Jet to a swooping left. Rogue had to grab a hold of Emma's seat to stop herself from slamming into the wall. "What are you doing?" Cried Emma.
"Erik's not strapped in. He might fall out the Jet."
Emma looked back to where Magneto and the other two were and using her powers moved the ropes to tie the three of them down to that wall.
The Jet swurved left and Rogue fell back into her seat. Rogue moved to strap herself in again when the Professor yelled, "It's going to hit-"
And just as he said the words the wall besides Rogue blew up from the rocket the Sentinal had sent. There was screams, but none as loud as Rogue's who was thrown back and out of the Jet (again).
"Rogue." Wolverine yelled as the left side of the Jet began to rip apart. As it did though, it created some what of a window for the X-Men to watch the Sentinal abandon it's target of capturing them and went after Rogue who was spining as she fell down to earth. Rogue felt sick as she twisted and wind ran past her. Not again. She thought. Rogue kept her eyes firmly closed as she fell.
Rogue thought she'd hit the ground when she felt a thud and bump as she collided with something. The air still rushed past her though only this time, she didn't feel the window rushing up past her, but swushing down on her. Rogue opened her eyes, wondering why she was still alive when she saw him. This gorgous, baby faced angel. Literally, with Angel wings and dazeling blond hair. One thing that scared Rogue though was he was topless. Rogue wrapped her arms around his neck though and he looked down at her, giving her a soft and kind smile. Rogue wondered why he was saving her, but she smiled back at him.
They both turned their heads though as they looked up at the approaching Sentinal. "What is that thing?" Angel asked.
"Fly." Rogue yelled. Rogue searched the skies to try and find the X-Jet which was falling in reaped speed to earth. "That way!" Rogue yelled, pointing towards the Jet.
Angel listened to her and dived towards the Jet. Rogue looked back to the Sentinal. "Don't let it catch us!" Rogue yelled at Angel. Angel dipped and dived up and down and side to side with Rogue in arms. They missed multipule gun shots from the Sentinal and managed to get just inchies away from the Jet.
Angel dived down, falling along side the falling Jet. Rogue and Angel looked inside the wrecked part of the Jet. Magneto was slowly repairing the Jet, but he wasn't working fast enough.
"Rogue." Multipule X-Men shouted out at her.
"Inside!" Rogue told Angel. Angel did as she said and they landed inside, Angel on top of Rogue, pinning Rogue down to the floor for her safey. Rogue kicked Angel off of on top of her and crawled towards Magneto reaching forwards to grab hold of the chairs and use them to pull herself towards him. It was hard, but she did it. Wolverine reached out and grasped onto Rogue's arm with a steal tight grip. Rogue quickly bit her glove and pulled it off. Reached out and touched Magneto. Rogue cried out in pain as all of Magneto's resent suffereing and torture entered her mind. After a moment of refocusing herself, Rogue turned around in Logan's grip and sealed the side of the Jet just in time for the Professor to get them back up into the air.
Rogue then reached out, finding the Sentinal and ripped it apart from the inside. After there was a faint explotion, Rogue collpased back into Wolverine and passed out.