Disclaimer: See all these scrapes and bleeding wounds? I can't control metal because if I did then I would've been able to stop all the metal stakes with sharp edges coming towards me! Hmm… maybe I'm… Iceman? Yeah, I can so do anything I want with ice!

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Chapter 23: Danger Room Siege- Part 7- Conclusion and Departure

Southern Portion of the Danger Room, Xavier Institute, Bayville, NY- May 15, 12:59 AM

Everyone soon saw Xavier give and slump out of his wheelchair onto the floor, and watched as Erik and Jason smirked. While Jason closed his eyes to make sure that he hadn't caused any permanent mind damage to Xavier (per Erik's orders), Erik floated and landed in front of Xavier.

Erik still had Forge, now unconscious, floating behind him. He then used his own psychic abilities to put Xavier back into his wheelchair, lifted the metal wheelchair up, and carried him to the cage with the rest of the unconscious X-Men team. He opened the door, threw Forge in, watched as the inventor hit the back of the cage, and saw a big blue and red bruise began to form on the back of his head. Erik then gently put Xavier in, making sure to put a mental control device on him so that if Xavier woke up he would be unable to use his powers, and closed the door. He then took a mental count to make sure that he had every student he could think of in the cages. No one failed to notice that Kitty was nowhere to be found.

After a moment Erik motioned to both the Brotherhood and Acolytes to gather around him, and then said, "Well done, my mutants. Now, get into your pods and we will return to Asteroid Evolution to start part two of my plan to rule the world. But first…" said Erik as he looked at each of his soldiers in turn, and then turned to the eastern wall, which was located at the back of the Danger Room. Erik narrowed his eyes and, holding out his right hand, used his powers, opened it, and saw Cerebro at the end of a platform.

"Just as I remember it…" murmured Erik as he stared at the machine that he and Xavier had built together so long ago. He then walked over to the machine, and stopping in front of it, used his powers to search for the schematics, telling how the machine was made. He hoped that they were where he had hidden them before leaving the mansion all those years ago.

Cerebro is a machine built by Xavier and Erik and improved by Xavier over the years. It consists of a large console, with the keyboard on top of it. The hard drive is connected directly underneath the console and keyboard. There is no monitor, as the circular room in which Cerebro is stored acts as a monitor that has been expanded to encompass the whole room.

There is one helmet on the keyboard, that when put on by either Xavier or Jean allows Cerebro to be operated. The machine itself is mounted on a section of walkway that extends from the door to the machine, which is about halfway out into the room. The walkway is wide enough for Xavier's wheelchair and for one person to walk beside him. The wall is made of panels of metal that react to Cerebro's hum and either Xavier or Jean view all of the mutants and humans on Earth, the mutants represented by red flashes of light and the humans by white flashes of light.

After a few minutes, Erik smiled as he found a hidden metal drawer, located under the keyboard of Cerebro. He punched in the code (Revenge), and with a click the drawer opened to reveal five dark blue scrolls tied up with silver string. Erik smiled, grabbed them, and then strode back to the near destroyed Danger Room and his teams.

He spoke to them, saying, "Now, we must leave. Gambit, I want you to travel with Rogue, so in case she wakes up, she can be knocked out again; understood?" Erik looked at Remy, who nodded, and began to walk towards Rogue's cage. He suddenly stopped, turned around and went to Erik. Remy and Erik talked quietly, with the others looking at them curiously, and after a few minutes, at Erik's nod, Remy went back into the smaller cage and knelt by the unconscious Rogue.

When he thought no one was looking, he brushed a glove-covered hand across Rogue's face, as if in a caress, and didn't notice Wanda watching him, sadness present in her eyes. She didn't notice both John and Todd staring at her, John's eyes filled with understanding at her pain; Todd's filled with the desire to be her man and her man only, with John out of the picture. The rest of the mutants were busy finding the pods amid the rubble of the Danger Room and assigning a guard for the other three cages to make sure the other mutants didn't wake up.

After a few minutes, with Piotr in the X-Men's cage, Jason in X-Factor's cage, Raven in X-Sword's cage, Remy in Rogue's cage, and the remainder of the mutants in the pods, Erik rose into the air. He had the schematics for Cerebro clutched in one hand and the other facing the assembly of metal cages and pods. With an upward motion of his arm, Erik used his powers to lift the metal containment devices into the air.

Erik guided himself and the containment devices through the opening made by Hank and Piotr's battle earlier. When Erik and company reached the foyer Erik took the liberty of making another hole in the ceiling and floating his "ensemble" behind him.

The Brotherhood and Acolytes left behind nothing but destruction, broken machinery, and, unbeknownst to them, Lance and Kitty.