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Chapter Five – Extreme enemies, Extreme measures!

When the X-Men finally arrived, Shadowcat and Angel were immediately to the infirmary. Charles Xavier saw Beast carrying one of the Lightening People in his arms, and he told him he was dead, but maybe he could tell them something about these Lightening People.

"Hey, Charles!" called Logan from the airship.

"It's Rogue, I can't reach her." Said Jean.

Charles saw Rogue sitting in the corner, her head between her kneels. She was moving her body front and forward and murmuring something.

"Rogue, child, what's wrong with you?"

"Professor? Help me, please, I don't know who I am; it's too confusing." She begged.

"Let me enter in your mind. I'll do everything I can to help you." Charles saw memories of everyone Rogue have touched; he saw a boy called Cody and his crush for Rogue; he saw a drunk man who tried to touch Rogue, when she was hitch-hiking; he saw Logan and his dreams, he felt Logan's pain; he saw Magneto and his hate; he saw Ororo as a little girl; he saw Bobby; he saw John and part of his childhood; he saw the entire life of a blond guy. It was this last memory that was confusing Rogue. Charles tried to push those memories away, but he only could hide part of them with the others.

The professor opened his eyes and he saw the girl sleeping in the floor. He stared at her for some moments, till Logan broke his thoughts.

"Is she alright?" he asked.

"She…I'm not sure." He started and Logan catch Rogue from the floor. "She will never be completely well, because she has the memories of everyone she touched."

"Does she still have my…"

"…Dreams? Yes, Logan, she does. It's not something frequently, but Rogue will have many personalities inside of her forever; and, no, I can't do anything about that, I'm afraid I'll erase her own memories if I try to just clear the foreign personalities from her mind."

"Is Rogue alright?" asked Mystique from behind them.

"What do you care?" asked Logan with Rogue in his arms.

"Logan, please! Yes, Mystique, she is just sleeping." Charles said.

"Give her to me; I'll take her to her room." Mystique said.

"Dream on, girl!" was Logan's response.

"Well, she's not going to sleep in that tied uniform and I'm not letting you the job of taking off her clothes!" With that, Logan passed the girl reluctantly. "I think I have to do some changes in these uniforms, Charles. They're not…fashion at all!"

"I don't trust her!"

"I know Logan, but she's just trying to be helpful."

"Right!"

Later that night, Warren was already up and well; Kitty was still in the infirmary, with Bobby beside her.

"You know, Bobby, I really will be fine if you go away from my bedside. You've been here all day, I was just dehydrated. Dr. McCoy told me he just wants me here for the night, because we never know what else she could have done to me. But I'm OK, really." Told him Kitty.

"Can't I be worried with my girlfriend?"

"Sure! And I love that, Bobby, but I can't sleep with you eyes staring at me like that!"

"I think you're right. Sorry!" said Bobby with a smile. "Good Night, then." He kissed her softly and went to bed.

Ororo was looking for Logan to tell him she was going to sleep and she was hoping he would go with her, but when she found him sitting next to Jean, their heads close to each other, Ororo just turned away and went to her room alone. Maybe she was being childish with this behaviour, but she just couldn't stand seeing them together, she just couldn't ignore how frightened she felt. Ororo said a prayer to the goddess and slip into her sheets. Two hours past and she was still awake, she couldn't sleep without knowing where Logan was, without feeling his warm body against her. She felt cold and sad.

Logan entered the room at last. She heard him taking his cloths off; she felt him lying next to her; she heard his breath beside him, but she pretended to be asleep, with tears already crawling in her face, wetting her pillow.

Jean was leaning in the door of her bedroom. She felt sadness when she saw Logan entering in Ororo's room, their room now. Jean was feeling empty, like something was missing there. Then, she looked to one photo next o her bed. It was Scott and she.

"Oh, Scott, if you were here… I'm so sorry for what I did to you! I Love you." Jean started crying hard. She had killed the man she loves and now she was alone to pay for what she had done.

Maybe, there is something I can do. Maybe Phoenix has the power to bring Scott to life! and that was the only thought she had all night.

In the next morning, Rogue woke up with a hell of a headache…well, as usually! Those headaches were already part of her life, and so were the pills Hank gives her. With her eyes still shut down, Rogue swallowed two pills and then opened her eyes.

"Shit!" she said when she saw it was already 2pm. That had to stop, waking up at this time of the day. She was surprised no one had called her for lunch. She turned on the radio. "That I would be good", from Alanis Morissette was on the air and she decided to listen the music before she get up; and she remembered what happened yesterday, the fight with the Lightening People, the memories of a blond guy, Joe's his name. She had killed him.

Rogue found Mystique in the kitchen. Incredibly, the blue woman was preparing something to eat.

"Hey." Said Rogue.

"Rogue! Here, I cooked something for you. How're you feeling, today?"

Rogue stared at the food for a moment and then asked, "Why?"

"Well, because you're the only one who hasn't eaten yet."

"It's not that! Why are you being so…nice with me?"

"I'm not being nice, girl. Something I never am is"nice"." Told her Mystique, coldly.

"That's a relief. So, where's everyone else?"

Mystique looked out of the window, "Those three are talking about something there.". Rogue looked and saw Jean, Logan and Ororo talking; they seemed to be arguing. "Well, the others are full recovered, doing whatever they like. I'm surprise you're OK, you were all messed up, yesterday."

"I'm fine."

"So…Bobby and Kitty are dating. I thought he was your boyfriend."

"You're right, he was. We broke up a little after I took the cure."

"Right, the cure. That was a stupid thing to do, huh? I can't believe it!"

"Look, Raven, you know nothing about me, so mind your own business and don't judge me, OK?" with that, Rogue walk out the door. In the hallway, she found a very upset Jean.

"Jean! Is everything al…" She couldn't finish the question, because the young woman ran up the stairs. Next, she saw, Logan and Ororo, "Hey, is everything alright?" The girl asked walking next to them.

"Rogue, darling! How're you feeling?" asked Ororo.

"Fine."

"Good, I'm giving a class in the danger room. I want you there with the others in 15 minutes." Said Logan.

On Charles office, Logan asked him to warn the students about the class in the danger room.

"Ok, it's done, Logan" told him Xavier, "But what's bugging you so much?"

"Everything is, Charles!"

"Calm down, Logan" Ororo said.

"First, we have enemies we can't win, our team is too weak; Rogue almost died; we have Mystique between us; and Jean…."

"What about her?"

"I think you should talk to her, Charles," warn him Ororo. "She's with this dangerous idea in her head. She wants to bring Scott to life, using Phoenix."

The Brotherhood of Mutants

Magneto was calm, watching from the top of a building his team fighting those who called themselves the Lightening People. They couldn't win those people, they were few and they didn't work as a team, they didn't trust each other. Magneto saw his team running away and fallowed them.

"Pathetic! You were pathetic!"

"They were much more than us." Excuse them Toad.

"Maybe, but that is not an excuse. You are weak, and you have to learn how to work as a team!"

"Why should we want to defeat them anyway?" asked Toad.

"Because they think they're better than us, and they want to defeat us, you moron!" said Pyro.

An hour had past and Magneto called the brotherhood to him. He was worried about these new enemies, he knew he had to defeat them, other way, he would never be the strongest, he would never prove that the mutant species is the ultimate species and all others (humans) should pay them respect. Magneto believed he was meant to be a chief, a lieder, the mutant, and since he was "cured" he was far from it.

Magneto had thought in only one solution. Not that he was trilled with it, but it was the only one he could think about. And, maybe, he could try to take profit from it.

"I've been thinking and now I know what we should do. There's only one way we can possibly defeat these people who think that are greater than us, witch is joining the X-Men!"

The members of his team looked at each other, confused with this decision. "What? Are you nuts? I will not join those people!" said Saberthoot.

"You will do what I say. All of you! That's the only way we can win; besides, after that, we will be on a good position to win the X-Men too. I mean, Saberthoot, X-23, Wolverine will be right there; Juggernaut, I promise you'll find information between the x-men; and, Pyro, aren't you happy to prove to your old friends you are stronger?" magneto smiled. "My son and daughter are almost arriving, and then we go.

The Danger Room

They were all there, even Charles. Wolverine actually gave a very good lecture about the importance of the team work and the importance of his session on the Danger Room.

"Now, I'll divide the team in four teams:

Team A » Beast; Jubilee; Storm.

Team B » Jean; Iceman; Shadowcat.

Team C » Angel, Nightcrawler; Colossus.

Team D » Wolverine; Rogue; Mystique.

There will be twenty minutes for the team A and B fight each other, and then it's twenty minutes for team C and D." explained Wolverine.

Team A and B were ready to fight. Wolverine explained that he wanted to find groups, because that way would be easily to fight others, as a team.

"Charles, where did you found these uniforms?" asked Mystique, "Don't worry, I already began to draw new uniforms."

"That's not necessary, Raven."

"Yes, it is Charles! Tell me Warren, do you like light blue, like the sky?"

"Huh… Blue, like the sky?" asked Angel, confused.

"Yes, I think it will be very good on you, Angel!" said Mystique.

Wolverine and Colossus were watching the teams fighting each other, and so was Rogue. She watched Kitty and Bobby intensely, they were good and Jubilee was improving as well. She should be the weaker member, she always has been. Wolverine wouldn't allow her to use her mutation. Rogue step closer to listen Wolverine and Colossus' conversation.

"The kids are improving." Said Colossus.

"Yes, I know, and that's making difficult to choose on witch team I put Rogue. She's on mine for now, because I can protect her."

"I understand. But in a real battle it will be difficult to protect her. I'll try to go easy on her."

Rogue couldn't avoid the tears on her eyes; she felt she was a burden.

"Is everything ok?" asked Mystique.

"Yes, Raven." Said Rogue, putting her hair up; she would show them she wasn't weak. "It's our time to fight, let's go."

The Danger Room changed into a destroyed train station and Rogue saw Nightcrawler and Colossus charging against Wolverine, while Angel and Mystique were fighting, She was left behind, just watching them; Rogue saw Colossus throwing a big piece of metal, witch belonged to a destroyed train, to Wolverine, but he dodge it. Rogue walk next to the metal piece, thinking in a way to join the fight, but she didn't know what to do, they wouldn't fight her. Rogue approached them.

"Rogue, get out of here!" Wolverine yelled. Hurt, she turned her back to the fight and started to walk away.

The fight was over and Wolverine's team had won. "Storm, you'll change with Nightcrawler and I think the teams are good now." Wolverine said.

"What about me?" Rogue asked behind them. She was walking to the door when she heard Wolverine's words and stopped.

"You're in my team."

"But I don't fight in your team, Logan!"

"You're not ready, kid. In my team can protect you."

"I don't need you're protection." Rogue said angrily, "And I'm not a KID!" with that she gave a punch in the wall and walked out the door. What she didn't see was the big dent she made in the wall. However, everyone else saw it.

"Oh my," said Beast, "I think she really doesn't need your protection, Logan."

Logan ran after Rogue, calling her name. "Rogue!"

"Leave me alone, Logan.."

"Rogue, wait.." Wolverine grabbed her, but when she pushed him, he went flying.

"Oh, boy…" Rogue said, "Are you ok? I'm sorry!"

"Damn! How long do you have that strength?"

"Since today, I guess. It must be from Joe, but I thought it would have disappeared by now."

"Rogue, you pulled too much energy from Joe, "said Charles, "You may have killed him."

"I…"

"Don't blame yourself, Rogue. I'm not sure of it, but you never took so much energy and power from someone, and we don't know how your ability responds to that."

"I didn't mean to…kill him."

"You don't know that" said Bobby.

"Right. I need a bath."

After dinner, more surprises came. «X-Men! Come to the garden immediately!» ordered Charles telepathically.

"What's the matter, Professor?" asked Angel.

"They're coming."

"Who is?" asked Kitty.

"The Brotherhood of Mutants!"

They were there, in front of the X-Men; the tension was strong, a word from Magneto or Xavier and they would fight each other all night. Charles finally spoke up, "Eric, what can I do for you?"

"I came here not to fight, but to negotiate."

"Since when do you negotiate?" asked Wolverine, coldly.

"We have a stronger enemy; we should forget our differences and join forces against this enemy."

"The Lightening People." Said Charles, and Eric nodded.

"Don't do anything stupid, Charles." This time was Mystique speaking.

"You know I have to talk with the X-Men about this, first. You will wait in the living room if you don't mind."

"Not at all."

In Charles' office, the X-Men were discussing this situation. Not one would trust Magneto, however, there were those who trusted in Charles' decision no matter what they thought about it.

"I think we're done with this conversation, than."

"Oh, please Charles. We don't need their help!" Said Ororo.

"We already have Mystique here!" said Kurt now.

"I think you all know we can't win The LP without help. But, with the Brotherhood, we have a nice opportunity."

"Chuck's right." Said Logan, surprisingly. "Anyway, we need to be extra carefully here."

Later that night, with everyone on their rooms, Charles and Eric were talking in Charles' office.

"It's your dream, isn't it?" asked Eric. "Having the X-Men and the Brotherhood fighting together, side by side."

"Well, it's a start. Maybe, in the end, you'll understand that you and I, we belong together."

Eric laugh, "Oh, Charles!" he approached Charles and leaned his head to Charles'. "We do belong together, my dear, but…"

"But we won't be together, because you will not change your ideas for love." Continued Charles.

"You know me too well, Charles. And so you also know, that tonight we will not talk about…business." And Eric deeply kissed him.

Next chap.: they have to hang out together xD… that must be difficult.