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Chapter 8: Search
The X-men split up to start their search. Logan, Hank, Ororo, Jean and Kurt started back tracking the imposters smell. Remy, Scott, Kitty and Carol begin their search by visiting the cure clinics that where popping up everywhere.
Seven months had passed and they have not been able to find anything much on their own. The only information they could fine is that all the mutants that got the cure seemed different to the people that know them best. Everyone else had given up hope of finding Rogue now with the exception of Remy's small team of Scott, Kitty, Carol, and Logan. They decided it was time to visit Emma Frost.
Emma was very worried when Remy called her letting her know they were coming out. Remy didn't tell her why they were coming though, he wanted to see her reaction. Once they all were in Emma's office, Remy told Emma what had happened. Emma was genuinely surprised by the attack, but Remy could tell that the Rogue not being Rogue part was not completely surprising. Remy watched Emma closely, not entirely trusting her at the moment because of that. Then Emma surprised Remy with her words, "She seemed ok, but I thought something was wrong because she would not allow me to enter her mind. She constantly had a mental block up. I should have called you about it Remy. I'm sorry."
And that Remy believed. He could tell by her eyes. "It's ok, petit. How where ya ta know. If it was her she may just have not wanted ya knowing how she felt after getting the cure."
"I know that but still I should have let you of all people know. When you were here on that date with her, you two drowned out everyone else in my mind with your love for each other." Emma slams her fist into the table. "I should never have let her go down there. This is my fault." Emma slumps back in her chair as tears form in her eyes.
Scott walks over to her and gently places his hand on her shoulder, "It's not your fault Ms. Frost. Rogue would have found a way no matter what you did."
Emma calmed down and places her hand over Scott's, "Thank you dear."
Scott blushes slightly as he removes his hand. Emma then asks, "How can I help? Or let me restate that, I'm coming with you." Emma stands up and walks to the door to her office, "I'll be packed in a few minutes but need a little time to get the institute settled. Please help yourselves to whatever you like, I'll be back in thirty minutes." And with that she was out the doors.
Remy stood up and began to make his way to the door. Scott spoke up first, "Where are you going?" Remy knows the Scott never really fully trusted him, but he didn't care at this moment.
"Remy is going to take a look around. Remy'll be back, but don't come looking for him. Contact ya later." Remy slips out the door and is gone before anyone could even see which way he went.
It was night time by the time he arrived at the cure hospital. There was a line outside of it still, and many protesters too. Security has their hands full, so it made it easy for Remy to slip in unnoticed. He immediately found an open computer terminal where her hacked his way in and found where Dr. Essex's office was.
Picking the lock was an easy task for the master thief. Before long, Remy was searching through all the files on Essex's computer and in his filing cabinet. He found all kinds information on different mutants. Names, code names, powers and little side notes he had made about test subjects. As he is searching through the computer, he hits the jackpot. The cure is not real. He samples the DNA and creates a clone that takes the place of the person who get the cure. And all of the names are listed as test subjects. Rogue's name was the last name on the list and also had a additional note with it of 'key?'
Remy wondered what that was about as his anger grew. This bastard has Rogue somewhere. All of the 'test subjects' where listed as moved to a place called ground zero. Remy ran off a copy of all the information he found. He gathers it all up and into one of the inner jacket pockets and starts to make his way out. The door to the office opens up as Remy goes to open it. The woman who opened it was Mystique.
Remy jumps back and has a card charging up as she speaks, "Calm down. I want to help Rogue."
Remy could see the truth in Mystique's eyes. "What is going on here?"
"I don't have time for fifty questions boy. Just listen to …" Mystique yells out in pain as she falls forward. Remy sees something that looks like it is implanted into her neck. Remy backs up to on of the windows.
Remy then hears a calm but malicious voice speak, "Now now Mystique, you should know better then that. Now then Gambit, it's time for you to leave that information here and leave." The man the voice belongs to steps out of the shadows and has a wicked smile on his face.
Remy smiles back, "Au contraire, Monsieur. Gambit will be on his way."
An explosion goes off right at the man's feet where Remy had tossed a charged card to. The window behind Remy explodes a split second later as he rolls out the window. Outside the window on this side of the building, it was a six story drop to the top of a parking garage. Nothing he could not handle though. As he falls, he throws three more cards back up towards the window, planning on destroying the office. Right before they hit the wall, it explodes outwards. Remy hits the ground on his feet and rolls with the impact so he takes no damage, then doges pieces of the wall that are falling on top of him.
Remy looks up through the dust and sees a thin woman standing in the middle of a hole in the wall where he had jumped from. She was a smaller woman but had a look of pure hate on her face. She pointed her hands towards him, and the ground began to shack and move. Remy jumps back as rubble falls from the tower next to him. Car alarms begin to go off all around him in the parking lot as rubble hits all around him. A large man lands in front of him, leaving a small crater where he lands.
The ground begins to shake out from under Remy, causing him to lose his footing. Then before Remy can react or regain his footing, the big guy backhands him across the top of the parking garage through a large chunk of debris and into a parked car, leaving Remy in a crater in the car.
Remy stands slowly, wiping the blood from his mouth, "You'll need to do better than that to beat Gambit." He throws 3 more cards at the big guy, all 3 hitting but not slowing him. They guy grabs Remy by the head and picks him up off his feet. Remy can barely hear the first man's voice through the big guy's hand that was crushing his head. "Crush him, Blockbuster."
Remy then feels himself getting slammed into the ground. He tries to roll out of it to take less damage, but the force in which he hits the ground brakes his left arm and some of his ribs. He is finding it hard to breathe now and cannot stand up. He choughs up blood and knows that he is in bad shape. Blockbuster picks up an SUV and walks over to Remy raising it high above his head. Remy looks up just in time to see a red blast hit that man high in his chest, toppling him over.
"Kitty get him out of here. Ms. Frost can you incapacitate the big guy?" Remy heard Scott shouting out orders. He rolls over and can see Carol fighting with the woman that blasted out the wall. He feels Kitty grab a hold of him and begins to drag him back out of harm's way.
"I tried to Scott but he has some kind of mental block up." She jumps to the side as her body turns to diamond.
"What do you weight like a ton?" Kitty complains as she drags him.
"What petit, is Remy too much for you?" He laughs slightly and stops fast as it hurt too much.
"Leave it to you to joke around now." Kitty smiles as she continues to drag him.
Scott comes running over with Emma hot on his heels, "Kitty phase us fast!"
Remy sees the big guy back up in the hole with Carol draped over his shoulder just before he lost sight of it from the building collapsing over on top of them. Remy's vision starts to go black as a strange sensation runs through him and he sinks through the ground.