X-Men Story My Version
Chapter Ten: Captured
Rogue is sitting down in one of the seats on the train. She planned to run again. She felt guilty for hurting Logan. She hadn't met to but he had stabbed her in the chest so thinking quickly she used his healing abilities to heal herself. She blamed herself and Bobby did as well. How could he tell her to leave? Didn't he like her? Maybe he didn't like her. Logan must be pissed at her. She didn't blame him. She was mad at herself. She would always be cursed with never being able to touch someone without hurting them. Running away seemed to be the right thing to do so she didn't hurt anyone else. Little did she know that Logan was looking for her. Rogue sits, hooded. She looks ruefully at a mother and child, who touch freely. Logan walks up and sits next to her. She hadn't been expecting him.
"Hey." Logan said looking at her. Rogue stared at him. She didn't think he'd come looking for her. "I'm sorry about last night."
"Me too." She said to him.
"You runnin' again?" Logan asked.
"I heard the Professor was mad at me." Rogue told him.
"Who told you that?" Logan asked her.
"A boy at school." Rogue told him.
Back at the mansion, Bobby, John, and another boy walk through the halls of the mansion.
"When's the last time you saw her?" John asked.
"She was supposed to meet me for lunch." Bobby said to him as they walk past. The elevator opens... and another "Bobby" walks out. "Bobby" (Mystique) walks over to the door to Cerebro. His/her eyes morph into the Professor's just in time for the retinal scan.
"Welcome, Professor." The computer said. Mystique sabotages Cerebro.
Back at the train station, Storm and Cyclops arrive at the train station. Both decide to separate.
"You look around. I'll ask the cashier." Storm said to Cyclops who nods.
On train, Rogue and Logan continue their conversation.
"You think I should go back." Rogue asked.
"I think you should follow your instincts." Logan told her.
"The first boy I kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. And it's the same with you." Rogue explained. Rogue begins to dissolve into tears. Logan puts his hand around her hood. She sags against him.
"There's not a lot of people who would understand what you're goin' through. But I think this Xavier guy's one of 'em. He seems to genuinely want to help you. And that's a rare thing. For people like us." Logan told her. Train begins to move. "So what do you say? Want to go back? Give these geeks one more shot? Come on. I'll take care of you." Logan told her. He's come to care about the young brunette teen as if she was own. How the hell did that happen in such a short time? Logan chalked it to the fact that she's a teenager and needed guidance.
"You promise?" Rogue asked.
"Yuh. Yeah, I promise." Logan said to her. Rogue smiled as she leaned into him again.
"You think Ms. Monroe is a geek?" Rogue asked teasingly. She could sense how much he liked her. She looked up at him smiling.
"No." Logan said. "She's the exception." Rogue chuckled into his arm. Logan smiled. He hadn't heard her laugh like that. It was endearing to him.
At the train station, Cyclops is looking around. A little boy looks up at his visor like it's the coolest thing on Earth. He smiles at the kid who smiles back in admiration. His mom pulls him away.
"Come on." The boy's mother says.
Meanwhile, Storm is talking to the cashier.
"She's about 17... my height... brown hair..." Storm says to the cashier who looks he's trying to remember the young teen's description. Suddenly, Sabretooth is behind her, knocking a teenager out of line. Just as she turns, he grabs her neck and lifts her up. He roars in her face, choking her.
"Scream for me." Sabretooth says to her.
Cyclops sees Sabretooth, but doesn't see Toad, who scrabbles up the ceiling. Toad sticks out his tongue and grabs Cyclops' visor with it. Reflexively, Cyclops looks up, blasting a huge hole in the ceiling and blasting Toad, too. Cyclops turns away, squeezing his eyes tight shut.
Sabretooth continues to choke Storm. Her eyes white out. Sabretooth's hair stands on end. He sees a thunderhead in the sky, throws back his head and roars. Lightning strikes him, knocking him away from Storm and through the wall. Toad leaps down and nearly on top of Sabretooth.
"Quit playin' around." Toad tells him before leaping away. Sabretooth growls at him.
The train stops, loses power, and everything metal in it (except Logan) begins to shake. Finally the door bows outward, and Magneto levitates himself in. Logan extends his claws. The people in the seats look utterly terrified. Rogue looked scared as well. He didn't care about the humans. All he cared about was making sure Rogue was safe. Whoever this was destroying the train from the back was powerful. Logan would kill them if they weren't careful.
"You must be Wolverine." Magneto said to him floating onto the train. Magneto puts up a hand, and Logan's hands move to his sides. "That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?" Magneto gestures, and Logan levitates off the ground, his claws and skeleton stretching on an invisible rack.
"Stop! Stop it!" Rogue screams out.
"What the hell do you want with me?" Logan asked struggling to get free of Magneto's grip.
"You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you?" Magneto asked him.
Logan realizes what he means, and looks at Rogue. With a final gesture, Magneto sends Wolverine into the far wall. Rogue gets up and levitates a metal syringe from his belt and fires it at Rogue. She falls, unconscious.
"Young people." Magneto said as Toad leaps forward and lifts Rogue up off the floor of the train. Then leaps away. Magneto makes his exit leaving the scared humans alone. He wasn't going to kill them. Not today anyway.
Magneto, Sabretooth, and Toad (carrying Rogue) walk through the debris and out the front door...And into a dozen police cars and twenty cops with guns. One addresses them with a bullhorn.
"All right, freeze. Hold it. Hold it right there. Put your hands over your head. Now!" Head cop said to them trio.
Magneto smiles. Lifts up his hands. And lifts up two police cars with he brings them crashing down again. A few cops prepare to fire. Magneto yanks every gun in the courtyard away and points them all back at their owners.
"You homo sapiens and your guns." Magento said hold his hand up.
Suddenly, Sabretooth grabs Magneto's throat.
"That's enough, Erik." Sabretooth said not in his normal voice. Magneto knew that wasn't Sabretooth speaking. Since when did he call Magneto by his birth name?
"Let them go." Toad said.
"Why don't you come out where I can see you, Charles?" Magneto told him.
Charles was in a car nearby automobile, having been chauffeured by Jean. Rion is with them. He could sense two other mutants there. He recognized the brain activities. One being Scott and the other on conscious brain belonging to Logan.
"What do you..." Xavier said speaking through both Sabretooth and Toad.
"...want with her, Erik?" Sabretooth.
"Can't you read my mind?" Magneto asked. "What now? Free the girl? You'll have to kill me, and what will that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead.
"It won't..." Sabretooth.
"...be that way." Professor Xavier said from the car.
"Then kill me and find out." Magneto said baiting Charles to do something. Professor Xavier doesn't respond. "Eh? Then release me." Toad begins to lope off, carrying Rogue with him. "Fine." The head cop's gun takes aim at him... and fires. The bullet spins on his forehead, but doesn't go in. More guns click, ready to fire. "Care to press your luck, Charles? I don't think I can stop them all!"
"AAAAA!" Head cop screams in pain as the bullet burns his forehead.
Sabretooth releases Magneto, recovering control of himself. Toad blinks and lopes back to Magneto.
"Still unwilling to make sacrifices. That's what makes you weak." Magneto asked. Unlike him Professor Xavier wasn't willing to sacrifice others for their cause. It wouldn't solve anything. A helicopter flies over the station. Mystique pilots it. It touches down, and the Brotherhood walks in. Magneto magnetically opens the door.
"Goodbye, Charles." Magneto said as he, Sabretooth along with Toad carrying an on conscious Rogue onto the helicopter. They make their escape.
Rion had climbed out of the car while Professor Xavier was distraction Magneto. He grabbed Scott and pulled him to the side near the side entrance of the train station. He could hear Ororo trying to wake Logan who was still out cold. He followed her brain activity until it was so loud she was practically in front of him.
"Sis." Rion said.
"What are you doing here?" Storm asked.
"I came with the professor and Jean." Rion told her. She glared at him but he ignored her glare and lifted Logan up. Logan begins to stir. "Come on Buddy. Up you go." He said lifting him. Logan attempts to stand on his feet. Rion Logan's around his shoulder while Ororo held his other arm. Both made their way to the side of the train entrance. Jean had pulled the car around to the side entrance of the train station.
"Scott." She said getting out of the driver's seat to help Scott into the back seat of the car. He was out of it. She closed the door. She then sees Rion coming towards the car with Ororo and Logan.
"Go get them out of here. I'm going to get Scott's bike." Rion told her. Jean nods. Ororo got in the car and scoots closer to Scott. Jean helps Logan into the back of the car the closes the door. She gets back into the driver's seat of the car and pulls off. Rion quickly runs towards the parking entrance of the train station, finds Scott's motorcycle, starts it and pulls off. He quickly catches up to Jean's car heading back to the mansion.