The 6 mutants walked around the magnificent room together looking at the valuable items within glass boxes. The museum was huge to say the least and contained some of the worlds most important discoveries and valuable finds. The room they were in contained some beautiful artefacts found in Egypt years ago, golden statues of previous Pharaohs, necklaces full of the most exquisite gem anyone has ever seen.

This wasn't a trip for fun however, like the brotherhood would ever enjoyed going to the museum as a source of entertainment. Mystique had phoned the day before with a mission for them, to steal one of the artefacts from the museum. The piece in question was a ornament, a golden scarab encrusted with ruby's and emeralds on its back. she had said something about it holding great power and it was important that she got it before anyone else did, so the team were scoping out the rooms and finding their way around, looking out for guard stations and cameras to make their night easier.

Fortunately the room was on the top floor and had 6 great windows around the outside wall, making access into the room an easy task. Getting the scarab however was not going to be so easy. This room alone had 15 cameras looking at everything and every direction and there was two 24 hour guard stations.

"okay. So the plan is set, this place closes early next Wednesday. That's when we'll break in and take it. Should be real easy if its just a get in get out job." Lance stated to the group, taking his usual role as leader.

"Ah don't think its gonna be that easy Lance. Mystique said herself that other people were after it. Ah'm willing to bet that we're gonna have some company. I saw 2 of the X geeks in there today looking around, maybe their thinking the same as us" Rogue said from her arm chair looking up at the rest of the team. It was more than likely that the two she saw, Scott and Jean, were there purely for the fun of looking at the crap in cabinets but if she had learnt anything over the last few years its that you could never be too careful when it came to the X Men, they were always one step ahead.

"hmm maybe your right. We should only have one of us go in and steal it. The rest of us should station ourselves around the building to keep an eye out for unwanted visitors. Wanda you should stay around this area," he pointed to an area on a large map of the museum and the small areas of the city around it, that was spread across the livingroom floor. He was pointing to the main entrance of the museum that ran along side the busy road, " if we get any trouble you'll be the best to take out the vehicles. Todd and Fred, you can stay here around the warehouses to the back, Pietro here along side of the building, if anything goes down we will need you to run to the others to let them know. Ill sit on the rooftops keeping an eye out from above. That only leaves Rogue to go in and steal it." he finished his statement with a triumphant look, happy with his plan of action.

Everyone else however did not. Almost at once there was an uproar of protest.

"What do you mean the alley way! Nothing will ever happen there. Im always the messenger boy! Why can I be the one to go in and get the damn thing, ill be faster than everyone else!"

"no way yo! I don't want to be in the middle of the battle field, I'd rather be the one on the rooftops watching it all happen, besides there lots of bugs up there to keep me happy yo! I don't want to fight I always get my ass kicked"

"why do ah have to be the one to steal it!? Ah ain't gonna be able to get in an get out without getting sommat wrong and screwing up! Can' ah be out the back in the action? Ah'd rather be kicking butt and ah'd be better at it"

"I don't want to be at the back with boxes. I want to be at the front with the cars. I like to smash cars. They go crunch and all the people scream. I like it when they scream."

"no way am I even being part of this mission. I got a date on wednesday and I plan on getting my sexy freak on! Sorry guys but I got a life to keep up with."

Lance blinked as everyone voiced their complaints. This was a good plan, it was his plan and it was going to work this way wherever they liked it or not.

"I don't care what you all think that is how its going to happen. Now you got just under a week before this happens so I suggest you spend your time training for it." he said and got up and left the room, followed by the guys of the group who all went in their different directions mumbling their moans under their breath. Rogue and Wanda were left in the room alone.

"So, I guess I'm going to have to reschedule my date for Wednesday. Damn and this guy is really good in bed." Wanda stated disappointment written all over her face.

"don't worry too much about it sugar, at least you get to spend the night with me" Rogue said wiggling her eyebrows at her friend in a teasing way.

"I swear Rogue, sometimes I really think you're in love with me. I wouldn't be surprised though I mean look at me. And in case you were wondering, I wouldn't say no either..." she replied, giving her most seductive look to Rogue across the room.

"eugh, too far." she laughed and shook her head. "come on, if ah'm gonna do this ah'm gonna need a new outfit to get around in. the only stuff I got upstairs is big and clumpy, not best for sneaking into museums and stealing stuff." she said as she got up and left for the door.

"oh great! I'm thinking skin tight leather? Or spandex, those X Men pull it off all right, but we'll make you look a lot more sexy" Wanda said grinning as she followed her friend to her car to leave for the mall.

The four men sat around a large glass table looking at files and maps, not saying a word to each other. They had blue prints of the city's museum in front of them showing floor by floor diagrams of the inside. They had spent the last couple of days studying these now that there were pretty confident that they knew what they were doing. After a few hours of silence apart from the odd grunt from Sabertooth, they threw in the last of the paper work and look at each other.

"so I guess its pretty usual stuff them. Me, Tin man and fire freak over there will check out the surroundings for trouble while Gambit goes in and does his thing."

the men nodded in agreement and all got up and left the table. Piotr left for his room to quietly continue reading the book he started the other night believing now was a good time to catch on his "own time". John went straight to the big TV where he would sit for hours playing computer games where he could blow things up and not get in trouble for it. Victor went off to wherever it is he goes to sulk or drink or sniff out wolverine for a fight. Which left Remy alone to ponder his thoughts. He had a week before he had to complete the mission. That was a week that he could use scoping out this Rogue. He had heard the two girls talking in the café about school so he figured that she went to Bayville high still. That would be the first place for him to go tomorrow morning and make his first move.

As he listened to the two girls the previous day he couldn't understand what was so special about this girl. Yeah she had an unusual power but didn't every mutant? He had been considered a powerful mutant that's why everyone wanted to use him. His father and Magneto, both used his powers to get their own way, for their own personal gain.

"Remy, yo' gonna give yo'self a headache if you keep thinking about that crap." he said to himself as he looked in the mirror in his bedroom. He had decided that he would go out tonight and pick up a few women at a local bar, maybe play some pool or poker. Either way he would come home richer than when he left and would satisfy a few women on the way. He would devise his plan for Rogue in the morning after settling some personal needs first.

sorry this has taken soo long to update! but i lost all my files on my computer and silly me didnt back them up :( so iv re-written the story and think it may have come out better than before :)

please review as i do love to read the feedback and it helps if i need to tweak the outcome at all!

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