Rogue felt the water slap against her thighs and groggily wondered
where in the heck she was. She became fully conscious when a wave
slapped her in the face, awakining her rudely. She sat up in the sand
that had been her bed coughing up some sea water. After the little fit
had passed she looked around herself in shock. She seemed to be on
some sort of desert island. Memory returned with a rush of the trip she
and Gambit had took to "get more in touch" with their relationship.
The storm had come out of no where knocking both of them overboard when
the seas got too rough. She looked around herself frequently and saw
where a body had washed up on shore. Something had pulled it toward a
stand of trees a couple meters away from Rogue's current position. She
shakily got to her feet and ran a hand through her tangled mass of
hair.She started toward the trees where something had dragged Gambit
she was almost positive, swearing to herself that she would NEVER
agree to go on a vacation in the tropics again!
Meanwhile back at the mansion...
Charles Xavier paced back and forth on that floating chair of his
looking at the rollex watch he had not worn since that speech he gave
at Central Park. "Why hadn't Scott and Jean checked in yet?" he
wondered. They should have been home an hour ago he thought. Suddenly
Scott rushed into the house his clothing dishevelled and without Jean
at his side."What is it, Scott?" Charles asked concern on his face.
Scott stopped on the stairs and looked down at his mentor. "Jean,
dumped me forsome punk biker named Logan, Professor!"
The Professor blinked at Scott's statement, "What did you say?
A punk biker named Logan?"
The Professor gazes into Scott's eyes and does a gentle psi-scan. He
gapes and shouts, "Farouk!"
Meanwhile,
Jean squeals with glee as she is on the back of a Harley moving
well past the speed limit. Logan in the front stears the bike heading
for a little hideaway just outside of Salem Center.
They reach a secluded cabin. He smiles, "I hope Warren and Betsy
don't mind me using their cabin." He kisses Jean passionately, "Now,
Ms. Grey, It's time for a lovin', you'll never forget."
Elswhere,
Bishop and Bobby pull up to the Massachusetts Academy. They step
out of the car and are greeted by Emma and Jubilee.Emma nods to Bishop
and she kisses Bobby."What was that for?" He asks.
At the cabin...
While Logan takes a shower to get the bug-guts off, Jean thinks back to
earlier in the evening when her and Logan first met...
"So what's a good lookin' girl like you doin' in a place like this?"
the aforementioned punk biker called Logan asked.
"Not too cliche a question, handsome?" asked the red-head next to him.
Logan took a long pull off his bottle of beer, setting it down onto the
bar and asking the bartender for another all in one act.
"Well, it was a rhetorical question anyway, Darlin', since I asked you
here." He took a minute to consider how to phrase his next question.
"I'm heading out West on my Harley tonight. I was wonderin' is you
might have an interest in tourin with a vertically challenged Canuck."
Jean smiled at him, "As long as its you Logan, I'm definitely
interested!"
He grinned back, "Well, here's my hotel and room number. I'll meet you
out front at 9. Pack light."
"I will."
"See ya then, Red."
She smiled as he left her on the sidewalk, walking her out of the bar
and jumping on his bike. As she watched him speed away, Jean asked
herself how she was going to tell Scott and the Professor that she was
leaving. Looking back on it, she realized she should have at least
have explained things to Scott. She looks at the phone and picks it up
.She dials and says, "Hi, Professor, this is Jean, I wanted to say..."
but her voice is cut off as a hand comes over her mouth dragging her
from the cabin.
Meanwhile back at the mansion...
Warren hears a strange noise. What...? No reason to worry! The
whole of Generation X showed up for a visit. All of them come
in arguing, Bishop grimicing at the back of Drake's head. They seem to
be arguing about things having to do with Emma kissing Bobby when Hank
walks up.
"Missed me, little?"
"Actually...not!"
"Hi Hank, won't you say hello to the rest of us?"
"Well, hi, Emma..."
Where's everybody else, Hank?"
"Hey Irish! Well, Rogue and Gambit are on vacation, Storm and Cable
went to Washington on a very boring "suits" talk with Val Cooper, and
the others. Warren is reading and the rest are shopping in Manhattan.
Except for Phoenix and Cyke...they went out on their own little erand."
"They went shopping and didn't invite me?!"
"Nobody knew you were coming, Jubes! What are you guys doing here
anyway, you were supposed to stay up at the Academy for the weekend?"
Emma looks at him sheepishly, "Well to tell you the truth McCoy there
is no more academy, you see it is like this..."
In Manhattan...
Betsy and her brother's fiance Meggan sit in a posh Greenwich Village
cafe` discussing personal matters."Oh, Meggan, it is so good to see
you. I've missed you so much. How is Brian? I feel bad that he and I
never really talk. It's such a shame that he still hasn't gotten over
our parent's death and Jamie's institutionalization."
Meggan grimaces slightly, "He's fine, Betsy. He seems to spend all his
time on that damn Midnight Runner, that he never even notices me. I
think he is trying to avoid setting a marriage date."
Betsy chuckles slightly, "Just pin him down. You're good for him,
Meggan. I appreciate you flying down here to visit me on such short
notice."
Meggan looks sympathetically, "What's wrong, Betsy? Is it Warren?"
Betsy tries her best, but cannot keep from crying. She breaks down,
"Ever...ever since my experience with the Crimson Dawn. He...He won't
touch me." She looks up and stares into Meggan's eyes, "He says I've
changed. He called me a heartless bitch. What should I do, Meggan?"
Meggan gently brushed her hand over Betsy's and pats it, "Don't worry
about Warren. He still loves you. he is just. Well, he's... I don't
know. He's a man. All men suck." She grabs Betsy's hand, "You know what
you need...." Her statement is cut short with the appearance of Yukio.
Meanwhile back on the island.
Rogue had followed the tracks for ever and was almost certain she would
never find Gambit. And she hadn't even told him how he felt. She liked
Joseph and all, but she never felt the same with him as she did with
the Cajun. Finally the tracks ended. That's it. They just ended. There
wasn't any trace of movement beyond that point. Unless Gambit had flown
into the air, but Rogue was pretty sure Gambit could not fly. She
walked forward a little bit, and was surprised to fall into a tunnel
leading downward. She was caught so off guard that she couldn't even
fly back up, and soon landed in a strange chamber where she saw Gambit
tied up with metal strands."Metal, that can only mean..."
"Yes Rogue, it's me..."
"Joseph, why?"
"Because Rogue, I love you..."
"Oh Joseph... It can never be! Ah love Remy!"
"But Rogue... In another time, in another place, I see us together,
married with a child named Charles..."
"But that just a fantasy... Your fantasy... Ah've been with the Cajun
through thick and thin. Ah just can't leave him. Ah love him..."
"Well you won't love him as much as soon as I tell you his, deep, dark
secret..."
Cut to Washington...
Cable, Storm and Val are at a table in the Pentagon...
"No! I won't acccept it!! It can't be!!!" says Cable.
"I know it's hard to beleive, but it's true." says Val, "The truth is,
that your evil clone from the future has come back in time!"
"No!! It's a lie! I bet next you'll tell me that I have a double from
another dimension thet can fly, or that my biological mother,
whom happens to be a clone has returned from the dead! You are lying!"
"Ummm, Nathan..." says Val. "I have proof."
Meanwhile,
in a strange dark room a figure sits in a chair and muses to himself.
Their is a knock on his door and the mysterious man says "You may enter
!"The door opens to reveal the shrouded figure of what seems to be a
man."Ah, I was expecting you," says the mystery man. His face is
unrevealed to his guest but the two have known each other for quite
some time. The guest doesn't say anything but just stands in front of
his host as if he were nothing but an effigy."We have big plans, you
and I, but first I must seize control over my most prized lackeys,"
says the mysterious man.
Meanwhile, back at the cabin.
Jean struggles to break free from her unknown assailant. Her efforts
are futile as she eventually passes out onto the floor.The assailant
injected her with a tranquilizer.Logan is still taking a shower and
doesn't here a peep, however, his sense of smell catches on to the
familiar odor. He knows this smell like its the back of his hand.
"Sabertooth," Wolverine growls. He breaks down the door to the shower
coming out buck naked with his bone claws ready. When he enters the
room Sabertooth and Jean are gone. However, there is a note left on the
bed which reads:
"If you ever want to see your little frail again, bring you and your
box to the alley between 4th Street and Park Avenue. P.S. No cops.
P.S.S. And no X-Men, just you and your damn box."
Wolverine rips up the note and charges out the door.
At the Pentagon...
Valerie holds in her hand a VHS tape labeled "Stryfe's Strike File:
Pt. 2: Atonement."
Cable still doesn't beleive this is true. He won't beleive it no matter
what she shows him, Cable keeps saying to himself. Valerie pops the
tape into the VCR and the tape plays on a large view screen. Their is
some static on the screen and the sounds are inaudible at first but
Valerie adjusts the tracking and fast forwards the tape to the good
part. Cable sees the image of Stryfe's face on the screen.
"Ah, dear brother," Stryfe says. "It is so nice to see you again. You
thought you killed me on the moon but you are totally wrong. You see, I
discovered that I had latent chronological manipulation powers. Once,
I realized that my M.L.F. was losing and that my little charade had me
mired up to my ears. I set myself an escape route. I had a haven
already built for me in the future which I used once I travelled
through time to heal myself from the viscious wounds you gave me in our
last encounter. Now, Dayspring, I am stronger than I ever was before
and when the time is right, I will destroy you!"
The tape ends.
Cable is a little shaken up at what he saw and for the moment is
speechless.
Back in the mysterious room with the mysterious man.
He sits in the darkness laughing loudly as he watches through a screen
the events which just transpired in the Pentagon. "Zero," the
mysterious man calls to his servant. Zero steps behind his master with
his arms folded. "Now that Cable knows of my existance, he will come
looking for me but he will not find me, I will find him," Stryfe
laughs."And he will be dead before this day ends."
Zero, if he could utter a sound, would probably be shuddering by now.
"Zero, I have a proposition for you, I want you to . . .
Back at the island..
"Joe, just stop it! Ah don't want you to tell me anything, please, stop
messing with our lives! Now, is he alright?"
"Well... what if I tell you that I found a way to bring our son from
the other reality?"
"It's just insane! It's your fantasy, and even... it's something that
shouldn't exist! Don't you get it? Yeas ago ah thought ah loved Magneto
a lot, now ah have strong feelings for you, but mah heart is Remy's!"
"What about little Charlie, than?"
"What's your point, Joseph? You didn't bring him over, did you?"
Joseph smiles. "As a matter of fact I did."
"How could you? That is so cruel! Maybe I loved Magneto in another
reality but this is MY reality and you aren't Magneto and I DON'T love
you." Rogue cries angerly.
"I had to bring him over. The other reality, Charlies reality ended and
with it what you and I had together.But we can STILL be together! Our
child can LIVE and have a family in US! You didn't need Remy in the
other reality, and you don't need him here. Charlie needs you and you
need him and I."
A little child enters the room. "Momma?" he asks uncertainly.
Rogue starts to cry in sadness and frustration.
"Enough!" yells Gambit, throwing a dozen cards at the distracted
Magneto.Rogue frees Remy from his bonds.
"Why did you hurt my daddy?" asks Charlie looking at the unconcious
Joseph.
"He's not your daddy little one," says Remy.
"What are we gonna do?" asks Rogue. "We are gonna take the kid and get
outta here chere. If we can get outta here before Joseph wakes up, you
an I can raise the petit ange together, non?"
Rogue kisses Remy. "Ok, my love."
Remy falls unconscious from the kiss. As Rogue stands over the
unconscious bodies of Gambit and Joseph, little Charles begins to laugh
loudly and his body begins to change shape and grow until the fat
Egyptian body of Amoul Farouk."Thank you, Rogue, for taking care of
these two. And now my sweet, sleep."The Shadow King telepathically
forces her to unconsciousness.
Meanwhile back in NYC...
Yukio and Betsy walk down a street. "So, you see, Betsy. Kwannon and I
were lovers. She never really loved Matsu'o. It was her responsibility
to her master that made her think she was in love with him."
"I understand what you're saying, Yukio. But I am not, nor have I ever
been, a lesbian. I cannot have a relationship with you just because
the previous owner of this body did. I'm happy with Warren now."
Yukio grabs Betsy, "Are you really?"
Betsy ponders this for a moment. Before she can react, Yukio kisses her
passionately. As they kiss a voice roars, "Well now, Yukio, I knew,
but Psylocke I never thought you had it in ya. While I am enjoying
wataching this, I told Logan to come alone. Now you wenches are gonna
have to pay." He jumps out and slashes at Yukio and Psylocke.
Meanwhile in a nearby abanadoned building...
Jean Grey remains collared and unconscious. Logan, having found her
scent and having avoided Creed moves towards the body.
He pops out his claws and goes to remove the collar when he stops and
sniffs. Logan shouts, "Well, Slim, so I guess we fight over Red."
Scott remains silent. He stares at the unconscious Jean and then looks
over to Logan.
"That's not Jean."
Logan stares at Scott in astonishment.
"What're you talkin' about!" Logan yells. "I know Jean's Peach Hyacinth
scent like the back of my hand."
"Yeah, well I share a psi-link with Jean and that isn't her."
"Liar!" Wolverine shouts. "Ya just want Jean to yerself!"
"I wouldn't lie about this Logan," Scott says. "I want to find Jean as
much as you do but this is an imposter. I mean come on, do think Jean
would be this easy to find?"
Wolverine, despite his anger, thinks for a few moments. Something does
seem fishy here. He looks at Jean Grey's unconscious body and notices
her breathing patern is not that of an unconscious person.
Instinctively Wolverine takes out his claws and points them at her
breasts. The prisoner jumps away from Logan quickly with a startled
look.
"Logan," she says in a sultry voice. "You came to rescue me like I knew
you would."
"Who are you?" Wolverine asks stoically.
"Don't be silly Wolverine, its me, Jean." she says with an
uncomfortable smile.
Wolverine walks over to her and pops two of his claws around her face.
"Don't make me pop the third one." Wolverine says in a stern tone.'Jean
Grey' laughs and her shape quickly changes into the form of Mystique.
"I'm getting better and better everyday at what I do," Mystique scoffs.
"I even fooled your ugly little nose by mimicking Jean's insipid Peach
Hyacinth perfume."
Logan tightens his grip on Mystique as he still has his claws around
her face. "Where's Jean?" Wolverine asks.
Mystique laughs again as she pisses off Wolverine even more. "Jean is
being taken care of." Mystique replies.
Wolverine is ready to pop his claws on Mystique but he hears the sound
of a wall being knocked down behind him. He looks around to see the
vague forms of an army of hounds. While Wolverine was busy with
Mystique, Scott got a telepathic distress call from Jean, leaving
Wolverine and Mystique to find her.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion...
a moniter flares to life infront of Xavier, "What do you want, Trish?"
he asks.
"I want all the shares you own of the beauty product consotium Max
Revellyne. With them I will control funding for R&D and will ensure
that my true love Hank will get a natural looking hair dye that will
not cause mass dandruff. You, Professor, have waited too long!"
Prof. X stares at her searching for words, "I..."
"Too long, and neglected Hanks needs in your sick amusement of his
constant skin irritations just because YOU are bald! The consortuim
have spent millions researching a cure for your baldness and come up
with nothing."
Xavier grimaces at the memories of all those lotions and treatments.
"Never! They are too close to discovering their goal. I will never
give you the shares!"
"HA!" Trilby gloats, "maybe this video footage of you wearing the toupé
Forge designed for you!"
"NO! I thought I had erased every evidence of that pieces of roadkill!"
Xavier gasps.
"What will the world say if this footage acciedentaly makes it to prime
time news?" Trish asks.
*then the animal rights legislation I was pushing for will be seen as
the fraud it is - to supply Max Revellyne with all the test subjects it
needs for my hair needs for free.* thinks Xavier to himself.
"Well Trish it would seem you had me against the wall, if it wasn't for
this little something I was keeping safe just for a situation like
this." Xavier opens his desk drawer.
"NOOooooo!" Trish screams.
"Oh yes," Xavier says in a more sinister tone as he reveals pictures of
Trish Tilby lip locking with another man that doesn't look too much
like Hank. "You see, I had you followed, you stupid woman. Your little
horizontal hoochie coo with your lawyer was being caught on film frame
by frame by Peter Parker. So, I suggest you back off or I'll go to Hank
and show him what a brazen slut his little pet girlfriend really is."
"You wouldn't," Trish says.
"Try me," Xavier says undaunted.
"But I'll show the pictures of the wig," Trish threatens.
"I can hand those media hounds," Xavier says. "They'll just bother me
for a few days but it'll blow over once they find a more juicier story.
In the meantime, you will lose your precious Hank forever. I'm pretty
sure he sets high standards for you and if your lip locked with
another man it's gonna be A-B-C-ya!"
"Oh! you pompous, arrogant, manipulative, jerk!" Trish screams.
"Oh sticks and stones," Xavier says amusedly.
"Let's call this a draw," Trish offers. "What do you say?"
Back at the island...
The Shadowking laughs a deep haughty laugh. "I did so enjoy your little
show here, Quite like a soap opera I must say!"
then, kneeling beside the unconcious Rogue, lifting her chin with his
gloved hand. "You know, that gives me an idea. In the tradition of
soapoperic scandals, seeing as I AM using your son's body, and you ARE
quite attractive, I believe I shall make you my consort!" As the
Shadowking reaches deep into the jumbled mess of Rogue's mind and
begins to pull a few mental strings here, push a few mental buttons
there... "Hmm... Maybe not..." says the Shadow King, "That would be
sicker than what Nate Grey and Madelyne did. Joseph on the other hand,
he can safely touch those big, succulent..."
"Dat's enough!" says Gambit, "I'm the only one who gets to touch those! You'll never score with a woman of that calliber!"
"Oh, really?" says Shadow King who has now posessed Joeseph, "At least
I don't go unconscious halfway to first base!"
"Dat's it!" says Remy, "Now you're gettin' personal! Let's have a fight
... No mutant powers... No tricks... Just a down home bayou-style fist
fight..."
"You're on, pretty boy!"
Smack!Bam! Crack! Zoink! Ka-Bam! Kink! Oooof! Wham! Bonk!
"Ha, Ha, Ha!" says Shadow King, "I am victorious... I just kicked your
butt like you stole something! Who's Bad? I'm bad! Call me daddy cuz I
just beat you like you was a stepchild!! Can't stop my fist of...
Ooook!"
Rogue stands over Joseph/Shadow King who is on the floor grimacing in
pain...
"That... was a low-blow."
"Well, us women know exactly how to put a man in his place!"
The Shadow King flees from Joseph's body, screaming like a school girl.
"Remy, your nose!" says Rogue.
"It's allright chere." says a bruised and bloody Gambit. "I love you...
And I must be with you..."
"Ah'm sorry, but you were posessed..." says a guilty Rogue.
"Well, if you're really sorry you must choose!"
"Choose what?"
"Choose between me and Remy! You can only have one! I will not play
second fiddle!"
"Ummm... Ah want to be with..."
Rogue looks between the two. She sighs and looks to the floor. "If I
can't have bolth of you, then I won't have either of
you!" She flies up and smashes through the wall. She heads for some
time on her own.
Joseph goes to fly after her, but Remy stops him.
"Leave her be. If you love her like I do, you will leave her alone and
let her have some time to herself. She did this before. She will be
okay."
Joseph sighs accepting Gambit's wisdom.
Back at the mansion,
Scott boards the Blackbird following Jean's psi-signature.
While back at the cabbin...
Mystique morphs into Wolverine when he had admantium and begins
slashing at the hounds.
"This is when you were best, Logan!"
Logan snarls reaching berzerker rage. And leaps upon the hounds
attacking with fierce animosity. Bone and admantium claws slash at the
hounds, who begin to outnumber them drastically.
Outside,
a very bloodied Psylocke kicks at Sabretooth's mindless body. Having
no choice, she had to unleash the full force of her mind reaching into
his mind, shuting it off.
Yukio lyes on the ground dying from the wounds inflicted by Sabretooth. Yukio looks to her,
"Well, Kwannon. One last time?"
Betsy crying looks at Yukio. She smiles and kisses her passionately.
Psylocke thinks to herself. ^What is there left to live for? WIth the
Crimson Dawn constantly tugging at my soul. I know how Jean felt
trying to keep sane with the Phoenix Force.^
She sends one last thought to Warren. ^I love you^
She enters Yukio's mind as she dies. Psylocke's mind goes blank
suffering mental death as Yukio suffers physical death.
At the mansion,
Warren runs into the Ready Room, where Prof. X and Bishop are
discussing how to locate Rogue, Remy, and Joseph and if the Shadow King
is really gone. He bursts forth, "Professor! It's Betsy. I can't feel
her anymore!"
Professor X sighs "Warren, Betsy's dead. I'm sorry."
"WHAT!!?" Warren yells in disbeleif. Warren begins to have a nervous
breakdown. Prof. X tries to to shed some sympathy but all he can think
about are those Max Revellyne shares.
Bishop ushers Warren out of the room. While Prof. X chides himself for
not thinking about Warren's feelings. Trish Tilby pops up on the view
screen."You hung up on me Charles," Trish says. "I want an answer,
will you call this a draw?"
"Leave me alone woman!" Charles shouts.
Trish is surprised at the manner in which Charles is acting. She can
tell that something is wrong.
"Is something wrong?" Trish asks.
"Yes, Betsy's dead," Xavier says solemnly. "And I don't even seem to
care. All I care about is power, money and prestige. Is something
wrong with me?"
Trish gasps in horror as she learns of Betsy's death.
"How did she die?" Trish says crying.
"It was at the hands of Sabertooth," Xavier says. "It was so quick, so
calculated. In her dying moments, I felt her psionic presence dim from
the world, then I felt the pain of her death."
Trish tears stream down her face as she tries to picture in her mind
the pain that Psylocke faced. "You can have my shares of the company,"
Trish says, trying to console him. "I insist."
"No, you keep them," Xavier says. "They're yours, you've earned them."
"I- I have to go," Trish says, half crying.
Xavier doesn't offer any response but simply exits the room.
Meanwhile,
Sabertooth healing factor kicks in and he gets up slowly. He sees the
dead bodies of Psylocke and Yukio sitting next to him. He thinks about
feasting on their remains but before he does so, a dark figure walks
up behind him and grabs him by the nape of his neck dangling him about
a foot above the ground.
"Urrk, get offa me!" Sabertooth says.
"Shut up fool," the dark figure says.
"Fancy meetin' you here Sinister," Sabertooth says sullenly.
"That's MR. SINISTER, to you," Sinister says coldly.
"Whaddaya want?"
"Do you have Jean Grey ready for me?" Sinister asks, it was more like a
command than a question.
"Yeah, but knowing her werabouts will cost ya." Sabertooth teases.
"If you don't tell me it will cost you." Sinister says as his grip
around Sabertooth's neck tightens.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell ya, Jean is in the hands of STRYFE."
Elsewhere...
Stryfe carries Jean's unconscious body into his cell room. He drops her
onto the floor uncerimoniously. "When the day is over, Jean Grey, I
will have the pleasure of watching you kill your own son!" Stryfe says
as if she could answer back.
Meanwhile,
Cable is busy loading up his guns with bullets. As he prepares to hunt
for his clone, he has a flashback to the moment he thought he killed
Stryfe. He remembered seeing the fear, pain and terror in Stryfe's eyes
before they were separated. "It can't be," Cable muses.
Cable charges out of the door with his guns loaded as he heads to the
Xavier's Mansion. He plans to use Cerebro to track down Stryfe.
Sinister's grip on Sabertooth's neck tightens as he is indignant at
what he just heard.
"You fool?" Sinister asks.
"I offered her to the highest bidder," Sabertooth says with a foolish
grin. "Stryfe was willing to pay me what I deserve, unlike you!"
Sinister is truly upset at this fowl up. He wants Jean Grey alive so
that they can have a child together and rule the world by
establishing a powerful and wealthy mutant dynasty that will dominate
the entire world. But now, with Sabertooth giving Stryfe the goods,
Sinister must be forced to confront him. Sinister throws Sabertooth
into a wall and walks away. Sabertooth grins as he sees how ticked off
he made Sinister. Then suddenly . . . A tesseract opens before him and
he enters it. It disappears.
A window smashes and out drops Mystique's body. Her bones cracking upon
impact with the ground. Sabretooth looks over her body and can
instantly notes she is dead. The mixture of laser marks from hounds and
finally three claw marks through her chest reveal her heart has been
cut from her body. A large growl is heard and a very feral, animalistic
, and bestial Wolverine jumps from the window and onto Sabretooth.
As Cyclops flies the Blackbird closer to where Jean Grey is. A
tesseract appears and out steps Mr. Sinister. Cyclops quickly fires a
blast at him. SInister backs away saying, "I am here to help. Quickly!
Fly to the Antartic!"
"What?" shouts Cyclops.
Sinster's body remorphs to normal."Allies, Gambit is there with Magneto
. We will need their help in batteling Stryfe."
Cyclops gapes, "Stryfe." As he sets coordinates for the Antartic,
Cyclops radios Prof. X to warn him about Stryfe just as Cable enters
the Mansion.
Sinister and Scott arrive in the tropics, using a portable Cerebro unit
to find Joseph and Gambit. They quickly explain the situation and all
of them get on board the blackbird to go and save Jean.
Meanwhile: Cable loaded with guns steals a cerebro unit and tracks
Stryfe to his hide out. Zero attacks, but Cable is faster firing off
telekinetics as fast as he fires off his guns. Zero falls into a
puddle of mechanics and Cable resolutely steps over his form to go find
Stryfe, and he finds him. Stryfe is sitting in a chair with Jean tied
on the floor and is laughing at her attempts to curse him out.
Cable gets angry quickly and says coldly, "Hello brother...time to
play!!!" Stryfe looks over at Cable and sighs, "Actually you can take
her. I finally muzzled her because she was just getting so damned
annoying. You would think she is my mother or something...I mean I AM
the clone aren't I?" Cable looks at him in shocked amazement and asks
as he helps Jean to her feet, "Why are you just letting us go? You are
not the same man I once knew!" At that moment Sinister, Scott, Gambit
and Joseph come crashing through the wall ready to do some damage, but
Stryfe just sighs as he hits Sinister in the chest with some acid and
watches as he screams. "I owed him that for creating Maddie. That woman
is driving me insane you know. Two annoying red heads who think they
are my mother...God!!!" He then looks over at the rest of them standing
in shock and smiles, "I found someone who makes me complete and made
me realize what kind of good my powers can do if used correctly." They
look at him and ask as one, "WHO?" Stryfe smiles and puts a hand held
up to a woman standing behind them. They twirl around to find...Rogue?
!?
She smiles at Stryfe and puts her bare hand in his, "Ah went on that
trip with you Remy to get mah priorities straight and Ah did. Ah love
Stryfe...this here is a real man...not like you two!" Gambit and
Joseph look at each other sadness in their eyes and Gambit says, "So
Joe...want a drink? I need one bad!" Joseph just nods and they walk
off.
Cable looks at Stryfe as Scott makes sure Jean is okay and asks,
"So what are you two going to do now?"
Rogue looks at him and smiles, "We are going to Vegas and start our
own casino. Wha' do ya think of that?"
Cable looks at her and smiles, "Good luck then and have fun!"
While Sabertooth and Wolverine fight it out, they realize that
they just aren't getting anywhere this way and break off in mid swing.
"So Sabertooth, what do we do now?" Wolverine asks. Sabertooth looks
over at Logan and grins, "How about going to Disney Land...I always
wanted to see how that place looked?" Logan looked at him and nodded.
As they walked off they heard an unknown voice saying,
"And Disney World was never the same again."
It also turns out that the Academy got blown up by M and Husk in a
catfight over Chamber. Not a proud day for Emma and Sean.
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