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X-Mansion: Danger Room Panic

Everyone looked at the professor in surprise; none of them were expecting that that's what the professor had meant. The room remained silent for a while, the only noise coming from the orange electricity jolting around the danger room.

Kurt was the one who spoke up first, though he didn't really have anything to say that the rest of them wouldn't have said. "What do you mean, professor? It's hard to imagine that a person could just turn into ashes right in front of our faces."

Xavier nodded in understanding, slowly wheeling his chair away from Patrick. "I understand that it's hard to believe. But you see that orange electricity as well as I do. Soon he'll get to the point where the electricity won't be able to destroy enough objects and will turn on him and destroy him, instead."

Rogue looked at the professor in surprise, just managing to avoid a bolt of electricity. "You make it sound like the electricity itself is alive or something."

Everyone turned to look at the professor, waiting for him to reply to Rogue. All of them had had the same thought, and they were hoping that the professor had just phrased his statement in the wrong way.

Logan made sure to keep the sparks of electricity from hitting the professor. "That's because it is, in a way. It searches on its own for a target. That's how it gets so close to hitting us, it locks on to heat waves, and then attacks." Xavier explained, the electricity already proving his point as it kept attacking areas where either he, Logan, or Rogue had been located only a moment ago.

Rogue was watching the orange electricity in surprise, a small bit of confusion on her face. "No, it's not completely uncontrollable." She muttered to herself, though it wasn't low enough that Logan and Charles didn't hear what she said.

"What do you mean, Rogue?" Charles asked, obviously more confused than he wanted to be in a situation such as that.

Rogue looked at the professor in surprise, usually the professor didn't read their thoughts unless he knew that they were ok with it. But then she saw the look on Logan's face and realized that she must have spoken her thoughts out loud. "Well, I just feel like I've seen this before, some're." She said, though she was obviously still unsure of herself. "Only problem is, I can't really remember it."

Xavier was still watching Rogue in confusion, but Logan seemed to just shove aside what she was saying as he moved the professor out of the way of another attack. "Charles, I don't think now is the time to be worrying about things like this." Logan said, obviously not pleased that the professor was taking what Rogue said so seriously to the point that he was distracted while they were still in danger.

Xavier shook his head, turning his attention to both Logan and Rogue. "No, I don't think it's the best time to avoid this. Whatever Rogue is remembering has something to do with what's going on right now. I think Rogue's the only one who will be able to stop Patrick before he kills himself and possibly the rest of us as well."

Both Logan and the professor looked at Rogue in expectancy, everyone in the observation deck seemed to be forgotten at the moment. Rogue looked at Logan and Charles in surprise, worrying coating her face. "Why are you both lookin' at me like that? You s'pect me to know how to help 'im?"

Xavier spoke up first, though Logan looked like he wanted to say something reassuring. "Well, you're the one who seems to know anything about him, so I was hoping you'd know some way to get through to him."

Rogue was about to disagree with the professor's statement, but then she realized that he wasn't referring to her knowing his name, "But I don' know what I could do t' help him."

Logan spoke up first this time, still working to keep the orange electricity from hitting Charles. "You gotta do sumthin' kid. Just talk to him, maybe he'll hear you."

Rogue looked at the professor and he nodded his agreement. "I dun' know." Rogue said, obviously doubting that it would work. Although she did take a few steps closer to Patrick, narrowly missing getting hit by an attack.

"Now just speak your mind to him Rogue, try to calm him down, I'm sure I can handle whatever's left." Xavier said, making sure to keep tabs on what he could get from Patrick's mind that made sense.

Rogue glanced back at the professor before turning her attention back to Patrick. Everyone in the observation deck watched her with apprehension as she moved closer to Patrick. "Patrick, can ya hear me?" She asked cautiously.

Xavier spoke up behind Rogue after Patrick didn't say anything, "He can hear you Rogue, keep going."

Rogue kept her attention on Patrick, who had curled up into a ball in mid air and had this strong orange glow surrounding him, which is where the orange electricity was coming from. "Patrick, ya need to talk to me. What's going on? I just wanna help," Rogue said, her voice as desperate as she felt. She took a few steps closer to him when she saw that the orange energy surrounding him had died down just a tad bit.

Xavier spoke up behind Rogue again, Logan standing next to him in case anything happened. "Keep going, you're getting through to him."

Rogue nodded in acknowledgment, "Patrick, please. Lemme help you. I don' wanna see you actin' like this."

Xavier was about to speak up in response, but Patrick spoke instead. "Rogue? W'as goin' on? It burns."

Everyone looked at Patrick in surprise, it was the most he'd said since he had begun that breakdown.

Xavier was the first person to speak up. "Rogue, you need to get him to calm down more. He's burning himself out already."

Rogue glanced back at the professor, a small frown on her face. She didn't really need his input, she could already tell that herself. Rogue did the best thing that she could think of. She jumped and grabbed a hold of Patrick, dragging him to the ground.

He struggled at first, but a part of his mind seemed to register the fact that she was only trying to calm him down. Although he panicked even more when he saw her glove drop to the floor. He wasn't ready for them to witness what was about to happen. But it was too late, Rogue had already placed her hand on his cheek, and the worst happened. Nothing.

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