"It's raining." A light girl voice stated morosely.

"That's a duh statement if I've ever heard one. It's been raining all day," A throatier Southern female voice answered wryly.

Inside the room, two teenage girls sat side by side, one stared out the window trying to avoid doing the homework, while the other didn't even look out of the window and appeared to be studying. The two were opposites of each. One was 'preppy' looking, her light brown hair held up in a high ponytail. Her clothing was a nice match of pastel colors. The other girl had deep mahogany brown hair lose around her shoulders; her bangs were the purest of white. Emerald-colored eyes noticed everything that happened around her. Clothed in dark colors with nearly every part of skin covered.

The residents of Xavier's School of Gifted Youngsters didn't know much about the second girl. She arrived at the school a month ago; she arrived alone. No one even knew her real name, she answered to Rogue. She knew the answer to all the questions that the teachers would ask in class, and the X-Men had yet to test her abilities in the Danger Room. Rogue wouldn't share anything of her childhood or any mention of her past. It was like the girl didn't exist before her time at Xavier's.

"Kitty, Rogue, do you two want to watch movie with us?" Bobby Drake called into the room. Both girls looked up, Kitty nodded and bounded out of the room with Rogue following sedately. Bobby Drake, also known as Iceman, was also a student at Xavier's. With his sandy blonde hair and crystal clear blue eyes, he was the epitome of the 'All-American Boy'. He had been there before both of the girls and was training to become one of the X-Men.

The entertainment room was already full of various other members of Xavier's, including Peter Rasputin, John Allerdryce, Kurt Wagner, and Jubilation "Jubliee" Lee. As the teenagers settled down the television cut out.

"This is a Streaming Freedom Video. It cannot be traced. Ten years ago in the winter of 2009, ten children escaped from a Government-run lab, these children were not your average children; they had been genetically engineered to be the perfect soldier. The only way to recognize one of these special children is by the bar code on the back of their necks. The government is looking for these children. I have been instructed by X5-452 to let the others know that it was time to scatter. Manticore is close."

After the Eye's Only cable hack ended the teenagers all started wildly talking about it… the government created mutants way before the mutant scare happened. None noticed that Rogue had silently slipped away. None noticed that Rogue had silently slipped away.

Life was going just to good to be true. Rogue should have known that something was going to happen, the last ten years had been to good for her. Always living in fear that Manticore would find her, always wondering if her brothers and sisters had escaped and were living their lives freely. But she knew that they were in hiding just like she was. Now she knows that something terrible has befallen Max- X5-452.

She was watching were she was going and run into Scott Summers, the leader of the X-Men also known as Cyclops. "Whoa Rogue, where's the fire?"

"Mister Summers, I'm sorry. My mind is just preoccupied with other things." Rogue mumbled. Without waiting for Cyclops could respond Rogue was already around the corner.