Fan Fiction ❯ The Rogue Phoenix: Twin Souls ❯ Mission ( Chapter 1 )

A Rouge Phoenix

The Professor calls all available X-Men to the war room. The X-Men walk in dressed in their pajamas and grumbling from being woken up so late. Only Gambit has just come home and Rogue is still out on an undisclosed mission. The Professor tells the X-Men that he does not know what, but an event of immense importance is about to transpire in space, and the X-Men must be ready. For this reason, he tells them to stow aboard a space shuttle that will be launching the next day. He tells Storm to help the others board the shuttle, but that he would like her to remain on Earth.

The X-Men fly in the Blackbird to the Eagle Rock Space Station. Storm uses her powers to create a dense fog to allow hem to enter unseen. Jean, Cyclops, Gambit, Jubilee, Wolverine and Beast enter the Space Station. Jubilee stays behind half-way, as she is their scapegoat. They intend the Security officers to catch her, so that they will not find the other X-Men aboard the shuttle. The X-Men walk in on the shuttle crew suiting up, Cyclops takes them out with his optic blasts, and they put the shuttle crew in a holding cell with plenty of food and water.

They are still suiting up when Dr. Corbeau, the intended pilot of the mission walks in. He panics momentarily as, as he does not recognise the faces he sees. Jean uses her telepathy to make him believe that they are his normal shuttle crew.

"Hey professor where is everyone" asked Rouge walking into the mansion.

"They are boarding a space shuttle, one in which you need to be on"

"A space shuttle, but why?" she asked

Giving a shake of his head he said, "An event of great importance is about to transpire, and all I foresee is that you all need to be there"

"Ok professor, I'll fly over there now hopefully I can catch up with them" said Rouge taking flight.

"Ok I think it's time we get this moving," said Scott closing the shuttle door

"Wait Scott" said Jean "Rouge is on her way over here we must wait for her"

"We'll give her ten minutes but she better hurry"

"I made it," panted Rouge approaching the shuttle door

"You made it chere, Gambit knew you'll not let him go to space alone".

"Can it Cajun. Can't you see I'm tired" snapped Rouge putting on her space suit, turning to Cyclops she said " I'm Sorry about that Cyclops we can go now"

Half an hour later

"Scott something doesn't feel right about this," stated Jean

"Can you tell what" asked Scott

"No, not exactly it just feels like a trap, I think maybe we should return to the shuttle"

"I don't know Jean"

"Please Scott, there is something going on"

"Ok then, everyone lets go back to the shuttle," commanded Scott.

Before they can comply, green mist is pumped into the room. The team try to use their powers, but they pass out before they can. Later the X-Men begin to wake up and Jean tells the others that Dr. Corbeau has been abducted. Unaware to the x-men they are slowly drifting toward a wormhole, which is some sort of portal between destinations and worlds.

"Scott I sense a very strong disturbance in the atmosphere, one of immense power"

"Do you know where it is coming from?" he asked

"No" she replied shaking her head

"Well, let me aid you with that, by telling you to look in front of you" said Beast

In front of them they saw a big black swirling hole, the wormhole.

"What is that?" asked Wolverine

"It seem to be a wormhole, which is not a good thing," said Beast

"Cyclops can't you, fly us away from it" asked Rouge

"I'm trying to, but the remote is not working"

"What?" said Gambit

"It seems that whoevr knocked us out, also managed to damage our ship"

"So what do we do?" asked Rouge

"Our best bet is for all of us to get inside the solar probe, its shielding should protect us from the radiation" responded Beast

"However" said Wolverine looking at Beast hesitant face

"However someone needs to pilot the ship," said Beast

"Who" asked Scott

"I'll do it," said Jean "with my telekinetic shield I should be able to protect my self"

"No way" said Scoot & Logan together

"Well if not me then who" asked Jean

"I can do it," whispered Rouge everyone turned to stare at her "I can take more of a beating than the rest of you, with of course the expectation of Logan and I can also absorb Jean psychic ability and create the shield around myself"

"No way kiddo, we don't want you blowing up the ship with Jean powers," said Logan

"I won't, me and the professor have been working on my powers, I can also absorb the information needed to use you powers"

"No way chere it is to dangerous," said Gambit

"Look we don't have time for this," snapped Rouge "So I'm sorry about this" she continued. Touching everyone in the room and knocking them out cold she dragged them into the space pod.

Back in the cockpit, everything starts out all right for Rouge however, once the ship enters the radiation storm, the strain of trying to maintain the shield against the radiation's effects starts to get to her, and she screams loudly as the ship continues to plunge through the storm.

"Someone give me strength……….Gambit help" screamed Rouge

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