Disclaimer:I don't own X-Men:Evolution, just myself (Called Molly Callum in 'fics.)
and any original characters/background characters that might pop up from time to time.

The four of them kept walking, to find that the dark and frightening place was starting to brighten up, but Remy had a feeling that they weren't out of trouble yet. His instincts were right because a few seconds later he was laying face down in the gravel with the wind knocked out of him. He struggled to turn himself around, to try to escape or fight off whatever had attacked him. When he could look up again he was facing an absolutely massive tiger. Easily the size of a bus from head to end, with a huge tail waving around like an oversized whip.
It was snarling fiercly and hissing, its breath blowing Remys hair back and making his face moist. Mollys favorite morph was guarding the last of her subconscious from anything. It stood to reason. Now they just had to convince it they weren't here to do any harm.

"Remy...?" Kitty said worriedly as the rest of them looked on.

"I'm fine," Remy said, "We just need to get it to relax so it'll let us through."

"Relax, right," Kurt said with a roll of his eyes.

Remy slowly pulled himself out from underneath the tiger, careful not to make any sudden moves. The tiger was eyeing all of them with intense focus, but hadn't made any move to hurt anyone yet, even when Remy moved. It was odd. "I think it knows we're Mollys friends," Jean said.

The tiger sat down and just stared at them.
"I think you might be right," Remy smiled. He calmly walked up to the tiger.
"It's a nice kitty," Remy reached out to pet it.

The tiger swiped at Remy's arm and Remy pulled back a bloody stump.
"AAA-" Kitty started to scream, but Kurt quickly clamped a hand over her mouth.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Jean reassured them, "He's fine. That didn't _really_ happen."
Remys de-tatched hand on the ground disappeared into nothingness.

"Good, because that would've ruined my whole day," Remy tore off some of his shirt and wrapped up his injured arm. Not that he was _really_ bleeding or anything, he realized as he rolled his eyes silently at the ridiculousness of it all, but the imagined blood dripping was gross.

"Okay, so what are we going to _do_?" Kurt asked, "We have to be getting close if this is what's in our way."

The kids suddenly felt useless without their powers. Snakes had been one thing, but this was completely different.
They stood around and thought about it as the tiger watched them, not moving from its spot. It would have been comical if the situation hadn't been serious.

"Hey," Kitty said, "technically we're dreaming, right?"

"Yes," Jean said.

"So doesn't that mean we can create things since were aware of what's going on? Like in a lucid dream where you know you're dreaming?" Kitty started looking excited.

Remy, frustrated, ran his good hand over his face, "Kitty, why didn't you realize that earlier?"

"I'm a genius, but I don't know everything about everything," Kitty shot back.

"I'm sorry, okay," Remy said, "It feels like we've been in here for hours. It's getting old."

"Well anyway, Kitty's right. So we could imagine something to distract it," Jean said in a hushed voice.

"Like a big, tempting antelope," Kurt said. He closed his eyes and concentrated and slowly an antelope big enough for the tiger to hunt appeared. The antelope took one look at the tiger and started running as fast as its legs would carry it. The tiger gave into its instincts and gave chase to the prey animal, not giving the kids a second thought.
"That was a little too easy," Jean observed.

"We'll worry about that later," Remy said, "We're almost there."

They walked, soon completely out of the forest, and reached another door. It was unmarked. Just a big brown,
oval shaped door with a golden colored doorknob. Ordinary looking. Jean opened it and they walked inside. "Okay," Kurt said, "I'm sure to have some weird dreams after this."
They were surrounded by pictures and video screens of Remy. Not just floor to ceiling, but also _on_ the floor and ceiling. To the nearest right there was a door with a white, hot light shining out of it from a small window. Straight ahead there was another wooden door without a window.
"I wonder what's in there?" Remy was inexpiably drawn to the room with the window. He looked inside, but the light was blinding and harsh. If there was anything inside it, he couldn't see it. Best to forget about it and move on. His curiosity wasn't going to completely overtake him again when they were so close to rescuing Molly.

They walked, trying very hard not to run, to the last door. Remy flung it open with his good hand and they found Molly in a black steel cage.
the room was completely devoid of light, so much that not even a floor could be seen. No one cared, they just made their way over. Molly was asleep. Not too surprising. "Molly! We're here, wake up!" Remy said loudly. "Oh," Molly yawned, "I was so worried, then I guess I just fell asleep. Thanks for coming to save me guys."

"There's no lock?" Jean said of the cage.

"Nope. It's weird," Molly said. She open the cage door and stepped out.
"It's the door I had to worry about, really. That locked from the inside for me. I was just staying in the cage in case anything bad happened."

Molly then stared at Remys injured arm.
"Your hand is...it's gone!"

"It's okay. It's not really gone. We're inside your head, so nothing that happens here is real," Remy reassured her.
"I _guess_ that makes me feel better," Molly said, furrowing her brow and gritting her teeth while avoiding eye contact and just staring at Remys severed hand.

The door was still wide open. "Okay, lets go," Remy said.
The second the words were out of his mouth, the tiger came rushing out of the darkness, roaring loudly enough to make everyone cover their ears.

"I don't think we're leaving just yet!" Kurt quipped.

"Wait," Molly said, "This is _my_ head, so it has to listen to me."

"Uh, Cherie, don't get ahead of yourself. It took off my hand, and you know how you feel about me," Remy said.

"Yeah, but that's different. I should be its master," Molly went up to the tiger bravely-or stupidly, depending on how one saw the situation. "Now you'd better listen to me," Molly said sternly, shoving a finger into its chest, "You're part of _me_, so there's no good reason for you to protect my head right now. My friends are here trying to save me and all you did was hurt them.
Bad! That's _Bad_!"

The tiger ignored the tongue lashing and instead reacted like any animal would-reached out and tried to attack with one long swipe of it's enormous paw. Molly backed up at light speed with only a hairs width of a scratch on her uniform.

"Okay, I was wrong. Run!" Molly ordered. They ran as fast as possible with the tiger in hot pursuit,
running for their lives, slamming the door behind them the second they got through it. White as sheets,
they were relived to have a secure barrier between themselves and the monstrous beast.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that, um, I'm ready to go home now," Molly took Remy and Kittys hands. They all joined hands.
Moments later, Remy found himself waking up back in the infirmary. He was whole again. He quickly ripped off his electrodes and ran into the next room where Molly was awake and waiting for him. He grabbed her and kissed her with a thousand volts of emotion. "I'm _fine_. It was a mental thing, not physical," Molly protested. "I know, but I'm just happy to have you back," Remy said.

"Can we get a hug in too?" Kitty stood on the other side of the bed with Jean and Kurt. "Yeah, thanks. I'm glad everyone helped out," Molly said as they all hugged.

Scott came in, "Glad you're awake Molly, but we really need you now."

"No way," Remy protested, "She's been through a lot. A couple days rest won't hurt."

"Sorry, but we don't have a couple of days. Magneto is meeting up with his special client today. It can't wait," Scott said.

Remy was about to argue with Scott when Molly broke in.
"I told you I'm fine. I can rest later. This is really important, okay Remy?"

"...Alright, but I'm going as backup," Remy said.