One by One the Souls Will Take You Over
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. The title is a line from a song called 'And Don't Forget To Breathe' by A Static Lullaby.
Summary: This is a different story that is set in a parallel universe-mainly focusing on Rogue and Gambit, set after the end of the second season. Rogue never joined the x-men, in fact she has never has meet them instead she joined the Acolytes. Romyness eventually. Note: Rogue has a different past in this story. It will be explained as the story continues.
Author's Note: Hey everyone! I am currently in the middle of taking all my finals! Ah …the fun…. Okay not really, but I am trying to update as soon as possible!
Important: I am changing Kitty's power around I bit. Not only can she make her molecules go really fast so she can walk through things (i.e. walls) she can also slow them down so that she can walk on air. However she hasn't mastered the last part yet. Also, since Rogue isn't on the X-men and I needed someone else to fill her shoes, Bobby is a full-Fledged X-Men and not a new recruit.
(Translations)
{Pietro's fast talk}
Chapter Nine: Combat
"Like why do the bad guys always have to like fight in warehouses?" A perky brown-haired girl said.
"Ja, vhy?"
"Stop talking elf." A feral looking man said as he rounded some crates. Red, you see any of them?
No, I can't sense them either.
"Vhy are we here?" the blue 'elf' asked his friend Kitty.
"The professor like said that he sensed the Acolytes here. Like, not to mention some like unknown person. And the professor is like afraid Magneto and Mystique might like be getting back together, or something like that."
"Vhy? Mien mutter hates Magneto."
"I know, but like who else is there that the professor can't like sense with cerebro?"
"Half-pint!" growled a very grumpy looking Wolverine. The girl named Kitty, paled, and covered her mouth with her hand.
Wolverine, I sense one of them by the west entryway, and another towards the north.
You and one-eye go west, I'll be in the north.
Okay
"Come on, half-pint." Logan said slowly getting up from his crouching position. He then silently beckoned Nightcrawler and Shadowcat to follow him. Suddenly a shrill scream was heard. "JEAN!" Logan said, running towards where he had heard the scream, with Nightcrawler and Shadowcat trailing behind him.
%%%%One minute earlier%%%%%
Jean, are you sure you sensed one of them here? Scott asked, looking around. They were standing in what appeared to be a courtyard in between a couple of warehouses.
I am positive Scott. They have to bee around here somewhere. Jean said turning back to face Scott just in time to see a metal fist connect with his head. She was barely able to scream before a bare hand clamped itself over her mouth. She was out even before she hit the ground.
%%%%Present Time%%%%%
By the time Logan had reached Jean, her and Scott were already unconscious. "Scott!" squeaked Kitty, before rushing to his side.
Logan bent down to check Jean's pulse. "They're fine, just knocked out." He looked up to see the shadowy figures of Evan and Bobby running towards. It was then that he saw another figure following them from the roof. "Move!" he roared as he recognized the form.
A snarled erupted as Sabertooth jumped down onto the two boys, immediately cutting Bobby with his claws.
Logan took off, in an effort to protect the boys. But he didn't make it very far, before a leg shot out, tripping him.
"Tsk, Tsk, Wolvie, ya should know bettah than ta interrupt a cat at play." Logan looked up to where the southern drawl was coming from. A girl, who looked no more than eighteen stepped out form the shadows. She had auburn hair, with two white streaks framing her face; he glanced into her emerald eyes and was surprised to find them full of hatred.
"I don't have time for this!" the Wolverine growled, standing up to revealing a huge dent on the ground. He turned his back on the girl and once again began making his way towards Sabertooth, who was having a gay old time beating the crap out of Evan and Bobby.
"Then ya'll will have ta make time!" she said grabbing his arm, and smashing her own into his outstretch elbow. A resounding crack was heard, as the Wolverine swung around, cradling his broken arm, for all of the five seconds it took before it healed itself.
He growled at the girl. "I don't care if you're a kid, no one does that to the Wolverine!" he said lounging at the girl, sending a kick towards her face. However she caught it within a foot of her face with what looked like no effort at all. She smirked at him before kicking the legs out from underneath him.
He looked up at her, as she taunted, "Is that all the big bad Wolvie's got?" The Wolverine just growled in return, and flipped up, causing the girl to step back. He then smiled at her, and unleashed his claws. He looked at her hoping to see fear in her eyes. He was denied this when, yet again she smirked at him, "Ah was wondahing when ya were gonna bring those things out."
The Wolverine lounged at her again, claws outstretched, but she caught them in her hands, causing her arms to be crossed. (Okay that means her right arm grabbed his right arm and her left arm grabbed his left, which her arms are crossed in an X if no one got that) The Wolverine leered at her, thinking he finally won.
The however, seemed to have something else on her mind, as she pulled her arms away, causing his own claws to cut his wrists. He howled in agony, as the girl lifted her foot and kicked him away from her. "Bored now." she said. Her voice was hollow; he noticed that she wasn't even angry with him anymore.
She brought her hands up to into a defensive position and uncurling one hand, beckoned him.
%%%%%switching to Rogue's perspective now%%%%%
Rogue smirked as she glanced at her right hand. The tip of the glove on her index finger was missing, exposing some bare skin. She glanced up to see the Wolverine, charging at her, claws ready, yet again. She leaned backwards, watching his clawed hand barely missing her right shoulder. She reached up, wrapping her fingers around his bare arm, and using his own momentum, flipped him backward into the brick wall, feeling a part of him drain into her.
Rogue looked back at him, but he was no longer visible, since the wall had collapsed under the force of the collision, causing his unconscious body to be buried by bricks.
Smirking, she turned back to see how the rest of the battle was going. The X-freak leader had woken up again, and him and Kurt seemed to be desperately trying to protect Jean's unconscious from the simultaneous attacks of Gambit, Pyro, and Colossus.
Looking towards her left she noticed the spiked boy trying to stop Sabertooth from attacking Bobby anymore by throwing spikes at him, which actually wasn't doing that much good. Bobby was lying on the ground, calling franticly into a communicator, screeching for back up, and a 'storm'.
That is when she noticed the brunette was missing, turning around, she saw the small girl trying to find the Wolverine, in the vast pile of bricks. In one step, Rogue was nearly on top of the girl, grabbing her wrist, and allowing her right hand to curl around the girl's neck. "Naughty kitty!" Rogue said to the girl, before she slipped into unconscious.
Smirking, she unceremoniously let the girl drop the ground in a heap, on top of the bricks.
"Kitty!" a German voice screeched into the night, followed by a resounding BAMF. Nightcrawler reappeared by Kitty a second latter, forgetting the fact that an extremely powerful mutant was right next to him. Rogue paused slightly to look down at her ripped glove before shrugging her shoulders, and grabbing Nightcrawler's tale. He yelped as she yanked it causing him to fly ten feet backwards on his head, but he was unconscious long before that.
Rogue's head gave a painful throb as the fourth personality of the day made her way into the depths of her mind. Pushing all the memories away, using years of practice, she glanced back up, and surveyed the battlefield.
"Pathetic… Acolytes, MOVE!" Rogue yelled in a commanding voice. Turning around the rest of the Acolytes, fell in line behind her, with Sabertooth giving one last kick towards Bobby.
Climbing into the metal transporter that Magneto had sent for them, she turned around in time to see Cyclops, falling down to his knees, in exhaustion and defeat, before the transporter sealed.
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Scott was beyond tried. He gathered Jean's unconscious body in his arms, and surveyed the scene before him. Logan, Kitty, and Kurt were knock out by a pile of bricks, in fact the only way he was able to tell that Logan was there, was his hand sticking up from where Kitty had managed to pull him up a little before she was taken down.
He looked towards, Bobby and Evan, knowing there was no way they could have taken Sabertooth on and have come out the better. The two of them were slowly making their way towards him, with Evan supporting a limping Iceman.
"Bobby called Auntie O, she should be here soon." Evan called to Scott, not even making it half way to him before he too collapsed on the ground unable to support Bobby any longer.
Scott felt the relief wash over him. His communicator had been broken, when he had finally come too. He suspected that a metal fist did it.
"Man, is it just me, or did they get better since the last time?" Evan asked, trying to stop the bleeding from on of the many claw marks on Bobby's arm.
"I am not sure they got better, but rather they just got a new teammate." Scott answered him.
"Damn strong one too. She took our three of us, SINGLE HANDEDLY!"
"Four. I think she took out Jean too." Before Evan could reply, the sound of the X-Jet reached their ears.
It landed right in front of them, in the middle of the courtyard. Ororo rushed out, "Evan!"
"I'm alright Auntie O, Bobby's pretty bad though." Evan said hurriedly, in an attempt to calm her down.
"Oh my stars and garters. What happened here?" Said what look light a big blue hairy ape, coming out of the jet.
"The Acolytes." Scott said through clenched teeth, as he used up the last of his strength to pick of Jean and carry her towards the X-Jet.
"My goddess, they did this?" Storm questioned.
"They got a new girl. She took out Jean, Kitty, Nightcrawler, and Logan." Evan replied.
"Where is Logan?" the mutant known as Beast asked, as he scanned the area.
"Under the pile of bricks." Scott answered, finally making it into the jet.
"Oh my."
%%%%%Back in the Acolytes Base%%%%%
Rogue had barely stepped out of her transporter when she was met by Magneto. "Excellent job. Though you should have taken them all out."
"But if ah did that, who would tell everyone else wha happened?" Rogue retorted.
"Well… I guess that is— "
{"Why wasn't I allowed to go again?"} the whinny voice of Pietro enter the mix.
"Shut up boy. Did ya get wha ah asked foah?" Rogue said, hopefully cutting him off before he was able to talk anymore.
{"Yeah."}, Pietro answered.
"Good, then arm up."
"Rogue, my dear- I mean…. the missions over." Magneto stated to Rogue.
Rogue glared at him for a second for daring to call her 'his dear'. "Who said tha fun is ovah?"
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Dun, dun, dun. Oh no, what does Rogue have planned? Bwahahahaha, as much as I hate reading cliffhangers, they are just so much fun to write! Hope you enjoyed the new chapter! I will try and update soon!
Oh, and no this will not be a kurtty just in case any of you were wondering, they will just be good friends. I also like Kitty with either Lance or Piotr. Don't know if I will put Kurt with anyone. Anyone got ideas? Oh and does anyone know how actually do Kurt's accent?
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