A/N: Hellooo! Sorry for the wait but I had some writers block and have been busy. I also went to comic con this past weekend and met Tom Kenny for a second time since 2015 and I cosplayed as X-men Evolution Rogue for fun! Lot of people loved my cosplay so that was fun.

Anyway! Here is chapter 14, Mindbender. I always thought this episode was interesting when I watched it. I am excited for the next episode, I'm going to make it wholesome for ya'll.

Also I have some other stories besides marvel ones like a My Hero Academia story and some Fairy Tail stories, so if anyone wants to read those I might upload them or just lemme know if you want me to upload them so you can read them.

Enjoy this chapter and I do NOT own X-men Evolution!

Chapter 14: Mindbender

It was a stormy night as Jean tossed and turned in her bed, the rain following her into her dreams as she walks through the carnival in her pj's. Her bare feet step in puddles of mud while the cuffs of her pajama pants get soak with the rain and mud mixture from the puddles as her hands rub her bare arms from the rain. Glancing around she found no one but herself at the carnival, calling out Scott's name and even some others.

Straightening, Jean hears rumbling behind her, seeing some clowns advance on her, her powers rendered useless in her dream as they gained in on her. Jean gasps awake, sitting up in her bed as lightning flashed outside-her hand touching her sweaty forehead. She noticed a box on her nightside table, curiously picking it up and winding the lever.

The box winds up, Jean's brows furrowed im confusion as the box lit up with a musical tune-the music stopping when she couldn't wind it up anymore. A figure pops out of the box, Jean screaming in surprise but also shock-thunder rumbling and shaking the house.

It was still raining when everyone got up to get ready for school, Kitty grinning from ear to ear as she bounced down the hall with a raincoat on. "Someone's happy." Rogue comments as she exited her room in a hoodie and leggings with combat boots.

Kitty giggles, feeling like she was on cloud nine. "Oh my gosh, you will, like, not believe what happened!"

"Spill." Rogue raises a brow as they walked down the hall.

Kitty squeals, unable to contain it any longer. "Piotr and I are going out!!!" She happily expels.

"Realleh?!" Rogue looks at her in surprise, then smiles. "Ah'm happeh fer ya Kit."

Deep down though, she kinda wished she could have that giddiness again; the butterflies in her stomach, her heart pounding while she was being serenaded, the blush that would dust her cheeks every time she was whispered sweet nothings, the late night calls or sneak outs, the dates, joyrides home, stargazing with hands entangled together, kissing… All things she could not have ever again. All because she was a mutant, a mutant who couldn't touch without draining someone's life, thoughts, memories, feelings and abilities. She has now kept her feelings all to herself, but she wasn't fooling one person in particular.

Remy glanced up from his cereal, noticing Kitty and Rogue walking into the kitchen for breakfast-Kitty looking like she was going to bounce off the walls while Rogue looked happy but she was masking her own longing and sadness which made him swallow hard. Piotr looks up from his coffee and smiles softly, Remy automatically knowing how both the tall Russian and smaller valley girl felt towards each other. "Peeeete!" Kitty throws her arms around him in joy.

"Good morning, Katya." Piotr smiles.

Kitty plants a kiss on his cheek, blushing as she shyly looked away as she pulled back. "Lemme guess, y' t' are t'get'er." Remy says after swallowing.

"Yuuup!" Kitty grins.

"Da, we are." Piotr nods.

Remy grins. "Congrats, mon ami. Dat why Lance left?"

Kitty shakes her head. "No. He left because he knew he wasn't going to, like, measure up to the duties of an x-man. And we were also on, like, different levels or something so it wouldn't have worked out. Besides, I have already made up my mind after Rogue and I talked."

Remy's gaze went to Rogue who was off by herself pouring some coffee into a mug. He gets up, excusing himself, feeling her strong emotions coming off stronger and stronger the closer he got to her. He wasn't used to feeling such immense emotions from others but Rogue's stood out like a sore thumb. "I see de chat's out of de bag-literally." He comments as she poured some creamer in her mug.

Rogue looks up, faking a smile but behind her eyes he knew there was something more. "Yeah, ah'm happeh fer Kitty. She deserves it. They look happeh tagethah."

She was about to go sit down with just coffee, but he caught her arm gently. "Y' not gon' jus' 'ave coffee, are y'?"

Rogue snaps her head at him in surprised shock. "A-Ah'm not realleh hungreh."

Lies. Remy narrows his eyes, his brown contacts scanning her face. "But chère, ev'rybody knows breakfast is de most impo'tant t'ing o' de day." His lips moved into a grin, masking his own emotions.

Rogue rolls her eyes, trying to tug her arm from him but he was stronger than her and larger. "Ah'm fahne with just mah coffee."

"Non. Le's find y' somet'in' dat fuel y' fo' dose mornin' classes." Remy brings her towards the counter where breakfast was laid out.

Rogue huffs, noticing Kitty watching her with a smug smile, her cheeks reddening a bit as a couple other students looked in their direction as they were making breakfast. Remy hands her a plate for her other hand and puts an apple and bagel on it.

Rogue sticks her tongue at him while he smugly looks at her. They go to the table, Rogue's eyes catching Kitty snuggling up to Piotr as she ate. They were practically joined at the hip. It made Rogue's heart sink slightly, her mind wandering. Remy noticed, lightly pushing her plate towards her, making her snap out of her thoughts and look up at him. She recognized he was helping her, even if she didn't want help but she gave a half smile before she started eating.

Scott enters the kitchen confused as he was scratching the back of his head. "Hey, is Jean up and down here?" He asks.

"No, haven't seen her." Kurt shakes his head as he sits.

"You sure she isn't still in bed sleeping?" Evan asks.

"I just checked, her bed is empty. Weird how the toy she won at the carnival was on the floor…" Scott shakes his head.

"That's very uncharacteristic of Jean to not be here…" Warren ponders aloud.

"What's going on?" Logan asks gruffly as he stepped into the kitchen with the other mentors-Xavier included.

"Jean's missing." Scott answers.

"Are you sure?" Charles asks.

"Yeah, she wasn't in her room and she isn't around the mansion. The toy she won at the carnival is on the floor opened."

"Show me." Logan growls.

"Yes, let's take a look at Jean's room, perhaps we could find clues." The Professor nods in agreement.

While the others ate breakfast, the Professor, Scott, Logan, Storm and Hank go upstairs to Jean's room. Logan opens the door, immediately sniffing the area and looking around. The others step in, Logan picking up the jack in the box with a look of disdain, his brows furrowed as he snarls. "This the toy?" He asks gruffly.

"Yeah, Jean won that at the carnival." Scott scratches the back of his head.

Logan grunts after he sniffs it, tossing it to the side. The Professor knew what he was thinking, his hands pressing together as a serious look crossed his face. "Mesmero must have highjacked Jean's mind. Scott, I need you and the others to search for Jean today. I'll contact the school."

"I'll go alert the others." Scott nods.

Once word got out around the mansion that Jean was missing, everyone went into search mode as they split up and search all over Bayville. Scott drives his car around, calling Jean's friends as he goes. "Hey, Duncan, you haven't seen Jean have you?…. No, nothing to be worried about….. Alright thanks." He sighs as he wonders where she could possibly be.

Kurt teleports all over as he searched high and low, Kitty and Piotr walking around town while Rogue and Remy went to the city to search with a few others. While they searched, Jean broke into a house as the rain drizzled down. She uses her powers to steal a small jewel and retreat back to the shadows.

The x-teens arrive back home with no luck, Logan coming back too with no luck as he rubs his temple. "Well, wherever she went, Mesmero made sure to cover their tracks."

"We'll keep searching. She used her powers earlier, however, Mesmero kept me from finding her. Whatever he is up to cannot be good."

Logan grunts. The evening went on like normal, everyone getting ready for bed and falling asleep. Scott exits the bathroom and starts walking back to his room when his eyes catch a glimpse of movement and red hair. "Jean?" He calls out.

Jean turns around, her face emotionless as she uses her powers to put him to sleep and carry him back to bed. She exits his room and goes into Kurt's room first, Mesmero using her powers to wake him up and enter his mind. They make their way slowly to a few more bedrooms, getting Evan, then Kitty then pausing outside of Remy's room. Of course Mesmero knew having an actual thief steal for him solely would be best but as he tried to get into his mind he found it locked. He knew if he tried to forcefully pry into his mind it would alert the others.

Mesmero recalls Jean and the others she gathered for now, the group disappearing into the night. Scott wakes up the next morning, groaning as he felt like he slept weirdly. He lets out a gasp and rushes out of his room to go to the Professor and the other teachers. "Professor! Jean was here last night!" Scott shoves the Professor's study room doors open, alerting the adults in the room, but Xavier knew he would come.

"Yes and it would seem she took Kitty, Kurt and Evan with her." The Professor acknowledges.

"What do we do?" Scott asks.

"I'm going to be tracking them down." Logan grunts.

"Let me come."

"No, you'll remain here with the others on standby if Cerebro catches anything." The Professor shakes his head.

Scott sighs, but nods in understanding. He exits the room to head down for breakfast, noticing everyone else was up but the mood was dampened. "Scott, did you hear?" Warren asks as he entered the kitchen.

"Yeah. I saw Jean last night but she knocked me unconscious." Scott rubs his face a bit.

Piotr was quiet as he ate his breakfast, concerned for Kitty, his feelings coming out strong to Remy who had to wince a bit. He made a mental note to himself to keep working on his empathic abilities as it was a bit draining on him to know what the whole room was feeling at the moment. Scott glanced over towards Remy and raised a brow. "Wonder why they didn't think to take you with them." He questions out loud.

"Pardon moi?" Remy looks up baffled at his questions.

"Well, you're a thief, right? Maybe Mesmero's having Jean and the others do some shady things." Scott shrugs.

Now Remy was a bit offended. Rogue looked up from her coffee to see Scott had hit a nerve of some kind. "An' y' t'ink jus' cause what I did befo' comin' heah meant I did shady t'ings?" Remy interrogates.

"No-I just mean that if he were having Jean steal, he probably knew you were one but decided not to take you with the others." Scott was just digging a bigger hole.

Remy snorts, his red on black eyes looking up through his bags that fell over his eyes as a small, dangerous smile appeared. "Tch. So y' sayin' I should be wit' dem brainwashed an' helpin' commit any crimes?"

The tension grew in the room, Piotr pausing from eating his breakfast, as well as the other X-teens to stare at the two boys. "No-that's not what I meant-"

"I t'ink y' do." Remy shoves his chair back to stand as he glowered at Scott. "I got mental shields up from telepaths 'cept de Professo' so dey can't read m' mind o' get int' it. If I didn' have dem den I would be a mindless lackey helpin' Mesmero wit' 'is biddin'."

Remy exits the kitchen, the others looking at Scott. "Scott ya gotta go apologize." Rogue says firmly.

"I was just saying that if Jean had taken him last night, it could aid Mesmero in whatever he is doing due to his expertise." Scott sighs.

"Yeah, but Remy doesn't realleh lahke talkin' 'bout his lahfe back home." Rogue gets up now.

She exits the kitchen to go search for the Cajun, wondering where he could have wandered off to. Remy lets out a sigh as he sat outside on the fountain. He was relieved he had built his mental shields to withstand against Jean's and even Mesmero's, he would hate to be someone's puppet again. He already was Jean Luc's puppet as the adoptive father found his powers and skills quite useful for the guild. He was deep in thought when he heard a soft, familiar voice break through it. "There ya are. Scott can be such an ass sometahmes." Rogue sighs as she walks to sit next to him.

"'S fine." Remy lied with a smile.

Rogue narrows her eyes. "Ah fahnd that's bullshit, Remy Lebeau."

He looks at her a bit surprised, though deep down he knew he couldn't hide certain things from her. After getting acquainted with each other, they both knew what were touchy subjects and what was okay to bring up. Remy didn't like talking much about home, even when he was telling Rogue where he grew up and what his life was like before he became an X-man. His red on black eyes gazed at her, a bit stubborn to even get the words out of his mouth as he watched her cock her hip to the side with her arms crossed. "Ah know ya don't lahke talkin' 'bout home… An' Scott shouldn't have let that even slip past his tongue, but sometahmes ah noticed he just lets the intrusive thoughts win. Now why don't we head back inside and see if he'll apologize-or ah'll make 'im." Rogue sighs.

Remy gives her a half smile and snorts a bit. "Can never get anyt'in' past y' anymo', huh, Roguey."

"Nope." She smiles at him.

She extends her hand out to him to take, Remy getting up after taking it and watches her lead him back inside. They pause when they see everyone from the kitchen rush through the hallway. "What the-?!" Rogue watches their teammates run past.

"Suit up! They just stole from a museum and are heading to where the carnival was held!" Scott instructs.

"Guess I won' be gettin' dat apology." Remy shrugs as he goes to get his suit on.

They get into the blackbird, the Professor joining them as Logan and Storm put it in drive to take off. The blackbird zooms out of the hanger, taking the skies at a fast speed to get to their destination in time. Rain started to pour down, Jean and the others who were under Mesmero's control entering the fairs grounds. The jet lands nearby, the X-men getting out and rushing to the scene to catch Jean handing Mesmero a small, velvet bag. "Jean!" Scott calls out, making Mesmero order Jean, Evan, Kurt and Kitty to get into position.

"Mesmero, stop this now!" Charles demands.

"I do not think so. Get them!" Mesmero motions to the X-men, Kurt teleporting and punching Bobby, then teleports to fight Warren.

Jean uses her powers to fling objects but Piotr uses his powers to block and catch them. Evan tosses some spikes, Remy and Scott blasting them away, while Kitty phases up through the ground to try to get Rogue and Logan. Storm uses her powers to summon gusts of wind, Warren helping after her got Kurt off of him. "I don't want to hurt you half-pint." Logan steps back from Kitty but she kicks him in the shin, making him howl in pain.

Rogue tried to tackle Kitty, but she goes right through her as the girl phases, causing the southern belle to fall in the mud. Bobby freezes Evan to the ground when he got a clear shot, Scott hesitant to use his powers on Jean while Remy narrows his eyes and throws a card. "Are you insane?! You can hurt her!" Scott scolds him.

"Y' got any ot'er ideas?!" Remy growls back.

Scott shut his mouth. The Professor uses his powers to pry into Mesmero's mind, shutting his eyes while Storm and Rogue protected him from the others. Mesmero cries out, releasing his mental holds on the teens who looked around dazed and confused. Charles dug deeper into his mind, gasping as he falls to side and onto the ground from the shock. Mesmero retreats into his tent, the bag still in hand. Rogue goes after him but finds it empty. "Professor, are you okay?" Storm asks, concerned.

"Yes, I am fine. Mesmero, however, is planning for something. Something that is bigger than any of us could imagine." The Professor nods as she helps him back into his wheelchair.

"He got away." Rogue huffs as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"We'll get him next time, Rogue." The Professor reassures her, but he himself wasn't too sure of it.

Scott helps Jean stand, asking if she was okay. Piotr hugs Kitty and makes sure she was fine, to which the petite girl said she doesn't remember much that had happened. Bobby and Remy help Evan out of the ice while Warren made sure Kurt was okay. Once everyone was fine and filled in on what had occurred, the Professor was deep in thought as he sorted through what he had seen in Mesmero's mind. "I fear Mesmero is plotting to unleash something, but it is unclear what he is trying to unleash. We'll be prepared for when that time comes. I would also like everyone to work on their mental shields so that this won't happen again."

Everyone nods, then starts to head back to the blackbird, Remy glancing down at Mesmero's flyer that was soaked with rain as he walked. While they were going back home, Mesmero was walking up a tall staircase to a temple, taking the jewels out of their bags and assembling them onto a small key he had. Inserting the key into the keyhole, the door shudders open slowly, rubble moving aside as he stood back to watch in awe. A small grin appears on his lips as he looked on. "The first door has be opened, two more to go."

A/N: We all know who is trying to unleash, but that won't be till later ;)

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Until next time!