Running down the dark hallway, Logan dodged the windows, hoping not to be seen from the outside. As he reached Ororo's room, he entered it quietly, hoping not to alarm Ororo, whom he knew was probably already getting suited up. "Ororo!"

"In here!" Ororo yelled from the other room.

He ran into the room where he heard Ororo, and saw her already suited up, placing an earpiece on her ear. "Is everyone up?"
Ororo nodded. "Pretty much... the kids are being guided into the tunnels."

"Alright... I'm gonna go and try to fight off the rest of the soldiers. You gonna be okay?" Logan asked her.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Ororo told him.

"Bobby!" Rogue yelled through the hallways, still in her pajamas. "Where are you?"

Hearing footsteps from behind her, she immediately stopped running and glanced at her surroundings, beginning to feel fear run through her veins.

"Bobby." She whispered to herself.

Suddenly, the mysterious figure appeared from the darkness, revealing Bobby. "Rogue!"

"What's going on?" She asked him.

Bobby sighed. "There were these soldiers that attacked me and Logan in the kitchen. They tried to shoot us, but we fought them off. We should try and get all of the kids into the tunnels. Who knows how many soldiers are roaming the hallways right now."

The warning bells rang through Jean's ears as she was jolted awake by the screaming telepathic message that Ororo had sent her about the soldiers. As she and Scott woke up the other students, they heard footsteps from outside. Peeking through the hole, Jean could tell that they weren't students.

They were soldiers.

"Scott." She whispered. "There are soldiers outside."

Scott nodded, and immediately opened the door, blasting his visor at the mysterious soldiers, sending them into unconsciousness. Motioning Jean and the students outside, he led them downstairs.

"Take them to the tunnels... I'm going to get some other students." Scott said to Jean, who nodded and led the kids away.

Walking through the hallways silently, he glanced around many times.

"Scott!" He heard someone yell from behind him, and he turned around to see Ororo running up to him.

"Ororo, are you okay?" He asked her.

She nodded. "Yeah. Are all of the kids okay?"

"Well, me and Jean got probably half of them out... but I can't find the others." Scott said.

"Peter, Bobby and Rogue are helping with the kids. They might've gotten them out already." Ororo suggested.

Scott sighed. "What the hell is going on?"

Bobby and Rogue entered the main hallway, looking around to see two soldiers standing in front of them, armed with rifles.

"Oh god." Rogue whispered fearfully.

As the soldiers were about to shoot, a figure came at them from above, pouncing on them, killing them in an instant. Standing up, panting heavily, Logan stared at them, his fury immediately going away. "You okay?"

Bobby nodded. "Yeah... we're fine."

"Let's go... there are more coming, I can smell them." Logan told them, and led the way through the hallways. As they approached the entrance to the tunnels, Bobby immediately opened it, stepping inside with Rogue following him, along with the children that were following them.

"Logan, aren't you coming?" Rogue asked him, noticing that he wasn't following them.

Logan shook his head. "The soldiers are close... I'll come in a sec, as long as I know that everyone's out." Suddenly, he heard running from the hallway and saw a bright light come out of nowhere.

A figure stepped in front of the light, allowing him to see clearly. "Wolverine... my, my, you haven't changed a bit, have you?"

The man stepped closer to Logan, revealing himself. Logan looked at him, confused. "Who the hell are you?"

He grinned. "What... you don't recognize me, Mr. Wolverine? The one who made you who you are today?"

"What the-" Logan stopped himself as he finally realized what was going on. "Stryker."

"The one and only." Stryker said, grinning.

Logan growled, stepping closer and closer to Stryker. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I don't really think that that's any of your business, now is it?" Stryker asked him.

Logan noticed a syringe on the ground, and picked it up, smelling it. "Tranquilizer darts."

Stryker nodded. "They do come in handy with all of you people."

Suddenly, Logan saw a soldier in the back of Stryker, with a woman unconscious in his arms. As soon as he saw the face of the woman, his anger came rushing back. "Put her down before I make you, bub."

Stryker scoffed as the soldier backed off a little. "Do you really think that it would be that easy, Wolverine? She's the only one that I came for... you can't always expect it to be you."

"Give her back." Logan said ferociously, his adamantium claws whipping out of his knuckles.

"It's always the same with you, Wolverine... always solving things with violence." Stryker said.

Suddenly, an ice wall began to form inbetween them, seperating each of them from each other.

As the ice wall finished forming, completely cutting him off from Logan, Stryker sighed in frustration. "Let's go... take the girl with. She's all that we came for, anyways."

"NO!" Logan yelled, pounding a fist on the rock hard wall.

"Logan, come on, let's go!" Rogue called out to him, still in the entryway with Bobby.

He shook his head. "No... I'm not leaving her behind!"

"Who are you talking about?" Rogue asked him, confused.

Logan sighed. "Ororo... Stryker's got Ororo."