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Planning a Rescue

That night Rogue dreamed something similar to what she had dreamt during Mr. Summers class. It was a little different this time.

She was at Alkali Lake, in the same spot she had arrived at during the first dream. Only instead of walking towards an orange glow coming from under the ice, there was a big beam of orange reaching up towards the sky, past the clouds.

Rogue attentively walked towards the beam. Once there she stuck a hand through the beam and pulled it back. Nothing had happened to he hand so she assumed it was safe to walk into the beam.
As Rogue stepped into the orange light she was over come with a sensation she'd never felt before. It was warm, unlike the cold winter night of Alkali Lake. As soon as Rogue had entered the beam she realized she wasn't alone. Standing right across from her was a red head looking down at the ground.

"Jean?" Rogue asked carefully. "Is that you?"

The red head looked up. "Yes." Jean spoke. She sounded different. Almost as if, there were two voices speaking at the same time. "Yes." She repeated. "It is me."

Just then she felt someone grab her shoulders and shake her.

"No, wait! Jean! Help me!" Rogue screamed out for her fading friend. "No! Don't leave!" Her surroundings slowly disappeared.

Just then her eyes snapped open to see Kitty shaking her. Early morning light was filling the room, through the window Jubilee was opening.

"Get up! Breakfast is in like ten minutes. Like, get up or you, like won't get anything." From across the room Jubilee threw a pillow at her.

"And try to keep it down in the morning when were waking you up, Chica! You'd think we were trying to kill you or something."

"Sorry" Rogue mumbled as she got out of bed. "And take your stupid pillow back." She said as she threw the pillow back to her Chinese friend. Jubilee caught it easily and threw it back onto her bed.
"Do you like, want us to wait for you?" Kitty asked looking at the clock. Only eight more minutes left before breakfast started.

"You can wait, you can go. I don't really care" Rogue answered getting some clothes out of her dresser and going into the bathroom.

When she emerged a few minutes later dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a black tank top and a dark jean jacket top, she was sort of happy that her friends had waited for her.

"Ready?" Jubilee asked. Rogue nodded. "Then let's go get breakfast." Jubilee and Kitty jumped up from the bed they were sitting on, and walked out of the room.

On Rogue's way out she grabbed a pair of black gloves that went to her wrists. As she walked out of her room and walked down the hall while putting on her gloves. as she walked behind her friends down to the kitchen, she began to think of ways to get down to Alkali Lake, and when she got there, how would she actually save Jean.

When she got in the kitchen, she was pleased to notice they were the first ones their. They quickly loaded there plates with food then chose a table to sit at. Soon Bobby and his room mate Piotr/Peter (Colossus) came into the kitchen. They grabbed some food then sat at the same table as the girls.
A few moments later, all the other kids came into the kitchen. Soon the kitchen was crowded, even though some of the students left to go eat outside or in the cafeteria.

"Hey, Pete! Hi Bobby!" Kitty said cheerfully to the two boys.

"Hey Kitty. What's up?" Peter asked.

"Not much." Kitty replied.

"Did you guys finish the history homework?" Bobby asked.

"Yes." All three girls answered.

"Could I copy it?" Bobby asked with a puppy dog look on his face.

"No!" All three girls yelled. "How are you supposed to learn anything if you always copy our work?" Jubilee asked.

"I forgot about it" Bobby replied lamely.

Just then the bell rang announcing the students had ten minutes to get to their first class. The girls put there dishes in the sink and ran up to their room to grab their bags. Kitty and Jubilee reached the room first. They grabbed there bags and on their way out, yelled to Rogue to remember to lock the door.

Lately somebody had been going into their room while they were in class and taking there stuff. They just assumed it was the younger students who were doing it as a joke, or something, so they had started locking their door.

Rogue grabbed her school bag, and went over to her night stand to grab the key. When her hand was an inch away from the key, it flew into her hand. Startled she jumped back and dropped the key. Rogue looked at her hand, then at the key. Quickly she picked up the key, and ran out of the room. She locked the door, and hurried of to her next class.

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Rogue couldn't concentrate during first period, which was history with Dr. McCoy. As Hank rambled on about the causes of World War I, Rogue let her mind drift to Jean who was at Alkali Lake.

She didn't have any idea how she was supposed to get to Alkali Lake and save Jean, but she had promised her she would get there. She let her mind think of all the possibilities of getting there.
She could try to take the blackbird. She immediately, cast that idea away. Last time she'd flown the blackbird somebody had died. Well sort of. Besides, you needed at least two people to actually fly the Blackbird properly, and she didn't want to get anybody else involved in this.

She could always take one of the smaller jets. She could probably figure out how to fly one them. Then again, she shouldn't take it. They would probably track the jet at Alkali Lake, then come get her. And there was the fact she didn't know how to fly any of the jets and she could crash it too.
The bell ringing, to announce the end of class, stopped her train of thought. She gathered her stuff and walked out of the room to her next class. German with Mr. Wagner. Kurt would have no problem getting to Alkali Lake. He could just teleport himself there, grab Jean and teleport himself home.

Teleport? That's it!

Rogue had found the answer. She would teleport herself to Alkali Lake. She didn't want Kurt involved, so she would just absorb him. When she absorbed someone she had their powers for a while, so she could absorb enough to teleport herself their. She wouldn't risk trying to get herself enough time to teleport there and back. Besides Jean would probably find a way to get back.
The only question left was when she was going to absorb Kurt, and how she would be able to leave without making too big of a commotion.

Rogue spent the whole day trying to figure out the entire rescue mission, and by the end of the day, she had it all figured out.