"What the hell is going on, Logan?" Rogue asked him.
Shut up, you disgusting mutant! All of you, down on the ground!" A nearby policeman yelled.
He could tell that they were getting angry. "I'm going to say it one more time. Put... down... the knives."
No answer came from Logan, and seconds later, a shot resounded from the gun that was pointed at Logan. Logan's body crumpled to the ground, right next to Rogue and Bobby.
"Logan!" Rogue cried out.
Jean could feel the winds beginning to pick up and she could see the skies begin to darken. "Ororo... where are you?"
Stryker nodded and turned to Ororo. "Mystique is my new assistant."
Noticing that he was gone, Mystique took the syringe out of Ororo's arm and took a ring of keys out. "We need to get you out of here."
"What are you doing?" Ororo asked her, confused.
Mystique placed one of the keys in the lock and turned it, unlocking her cell. "Stryker is going to steal your powers and kill every mutant on the planet."
Ororo nodded. "Yeah, I kind of figured that out already... what did you put in me?"
"Nothing." Mystique held up the syring and the liquid squirted out of it. "It's water. I had to trick Stryker."
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked suspiciously.
"Shut up." Mystique ordered. "I'm just taking her to a different room. Stryker's orders."
The guard nodded and walked the other way and out of the room. When he finally left, Mystique and Ororo began making their way out of the room.
"We have to get out of here, quick." Mystique said.
Rogue and Bobby laid on the ground, panic evident in their eyes. Logan's body lay next to Rogue's, the bullet edged in the middle of his forehead. Tiny drips of crimson blood ran down his forehead, a pool of it gathering right next to him.
"Logan." Rogue whispered in his ear, hoping he would wake up.
But there was no answer.
"We have to do something." Bobby said quietly to Rogue.
Rogue was about to say something, but immediately closed her mouth when she saw one of the policemen glaring at her. She suddenly saw the Blackbird flying overhead, landing slowly down onto the ground. The policemen stared at it incredulously, not knowing what to do. Some raised their guns up, pointing to the aircraft and fired, but the bullets just bounced off like rubber.
"Come on, let's go." Bobby told Rogue, about to get up, but she immediately stopped him.
She shook her head. "We can't leave Logan! And besides... they'll shoot us if we even move."
They suddenly heard a clatter, and they saw a bullet laying out right in front of Logan's face. They soon discovered that it was the one from his forehead that fell. They stared at the wound etched in his head begin to shrink, the blood evaporating into thin air. As the wound completely disappeared, Logan's eyes slowly opened and he groaned in pain.
"Logan, you're okay!" Rogue whispered, her eyes lighting up.
Logan nodded, and looked around, scanning his surroundings. He then noticed the jet standing in the field, and asked, "What is the blackbird doing here?"
"Jean's coming to save us. But we're trying to figure out how we can get from here to the jet without being killed." Bobby told him.
Logan sighed, trying to think. "I don't know."
Before anyone else could say anything, a blue form made from smoke appeared out of nowhere right next to them. The smoke soon formed together into a human figure.
"Who are you?" Logan asked the mysterious blue figure.
His yellow eyes pierced Logan's. "Kurt... otherwise known as Nightcrawler. Jean sent me over here to transport you to the jet."
"And how exactly are you going to do that when there are policemen with guns surrounding us?" Rogue hissed.
Kurt looked around and noticed that the policemen were staring at them, not knowing what to do. He looked back down. "Each of you, grab onto me."
They did as he said, and seconds later, they were gone, vanished into thin air. The policemen stared at the spot, confused but then shrugged, knowing there was not much more that they could do besides let them go.
Back in the jet, Jean sat in the pilot seat, waiting for the others to arrive. She heard a loud thump and turned around to see all of them back inside the safety of the jet. "Everyone alright back there?"
"Yeah, we're good." Logan looked over at Kurt. "Now where the hell did you come from?"
Instead of Kurt, Jean spoke. "I just picked him up at a church near here." She pressed a few buttons, and the jet engines began to power up. "Alright, everyone, fasten your seatbelts."
Everyone did as they were told, and in moments, the blackbird was off the ground, an invisible shield now covering the entire thing.
Rogue leaned over enough so she could whisper into Bobby's ear so the others wouldn't hear. "When we were back down... there, did you happen to feel... o-or see, the winds changing?"
"Are you saying that Ororo was doing that?" Bobby asked, and Rogue replied by nodding her head. "That's crazy, Rogue."
"No, she could be right." Logan said, and both Bobby and Rogue looked at him, confused.
Rogue's nose crinkled in confusion. "How did you-"
Logan scoffed. "Kid, I'm Wolverine. You honestly didn't think that I couldn't hear you back there when I can smell something from miles away, did you? And anyways... if you could feel Ororo's powers at work, then she may be closer than we think."
"I felt it too." Jean cut in, and everybody looked at her. "While I was outside, I could tell it was her... I can always tell when it's her."
"Well what do we do now?" Bobby wondered.
Jean sighed, thinking about their options. "We could go back and talk to the Professor... maybe he has some ideas."
As the blackbird approached the ground, everybody gasped at what had become of the school. Glass was shattered everywhere from the now destroyed windows, with all of the bushes and flowers trampled on by the soldiers. Clumps of bricks were scattered across the fields, along with tranquilizer darts from the guns.
"Is the Professor still here?" Logan asked, and Jean nodded.
"He's here with Scott and the remaining students." She explained and led the way to the front door, which was still left ajar.
Making their way through the empty hallways, Jean and the others approached the door that led to the Professor's office and she knocked on it lightly.
"Come in, Jean." Said the Professor softly.
Opening the door, they made their way into the room. The Professor and Scott were the only ones there.
"Glad to see that all of you are alright." The Professor said to them.
"We have to go find Ororo." Logan said right away. "Do you think that you could locate her, Professor? With Cerebro?"
The Professor nodded, and made his way out the door, with the others following right behind him. "She shouldn't be that hard to track. But first I have to find out who was responsible for-"
"Stryker." Logan interrupted him, and they all stopped walking immediately, turning to look at him in surprise.
The Professor looked up at Logan with curious eyes. "And how do you know this Stryker fellow, Logan?"
"It's a long story." Logan mumbled, but with the look that he got from the Professor, it didn't matter how long it was. He needed to know about it. Now. "Look... all that I know is that he's the one that made me... what I am. I don't really remember much of what happened... but he does experiments on mutants. And he wants to kill every mutant on the planet, and will do whatever it takes to do it."
"So what does Stryker want with Ororo?" Scott wondered.
"He may be trying to use her powers to generate some sort of creation to destroy all mutants." Jean suggested.
The Professor nodded in agreement. "You may be right, Jean... but I wonder how he's going to have the power to actually go through with this."
"What is he even planning to do?" Bobby asked. "Don't we need to find that out?"
Logan nodded. "Yeah, but first we need to find out if Ororo is okay... much less alive."
Author's Note: You guys don't know how long I have been waiting to write some of this story, and I apologize for having to make you guys wait for so long!! It's just that I have school and after-school activities so I don't get home until late. And then I have to do homework, so I never have time for the computer anymore. But I am going to try and do this as fast as I can! Please R&R! Thanks for all of the support, you guys are awesome!