~~~~It had finally come. The war Magneto had promised had come to pass and it arrived with the force of a F5 tornado ripping apart everything in it's path. Magneto had been ready for it. Fortunately, so had Xavier. The X-men fought both against and with the Brotherhood. They fought both against and with the pure humans who alternately despised and depended upon them but in the end the pure humans turned against them altogether and the Mutants who could went into hiding. Those unlucky enough to be unable to hide what they were we rounded up and like the Jews before them, placed in camps. Then the rest of the world went to hell. The U.S Government collapsed and it was left to the individual states to decide how they felt about Mutants. Needless to say, most of them felt as they had before and the Mutants stayed in the camps.~~~
Wolverine nodded to Rogue who passed the gesture down the line. They were strung out at forty foot intervals in front of an enormous chain link fence. The internment camp guard shift was about to change over. They had been planning this raid for months, every detail was planned to the nth degree. Wolverine suddenly made a chopping motion and the raid was on.
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Less than an hour later Logan and his rescue team were huddled in an underground complex tending to the survivors of their carefully planned raid. It had been a success. All forty seven inmates had been retrieved. Logan looked over at Rogue who was tending to a few of the injured. Then his gaze shifted to Donella. She was currently filling water bottles using her mutation, effectively creating pure water from her own body. He cast his mind back to happier days when she hadn't looked so solemn, so torn apart. She looked up at him and he flinched inwardly at her dead blue eyes. She'd never been the same since the FOH came and took Xavier from her by force. She was vehement that Xavier was still alive, that she could feel him in her mind but they hadn't been able to find him in the six years since he'd been captured.
"Ok everyone. We're going to be moving out in half an hour. Be ready." He spoke up.
"Where?" A small voice asked from the huddled group of rescued mutants.
"I'll tell ya when we get closer. We can't chance anyone listening in or following us." He replied.
Rogue finished with the people she was helping and sat next to him. He saw the faint glitter of her suppressant collar under her shirt collar. She had found it in one of the internment camps and after some tinkering Kurt and Hank had managed to tune it specifically to her mutation. She wore it when she had to deal with larger groups of people to prevent accidents. Logan hated it but it made it possible for Rogue to work with people when her gloves tore or the liquid latex ran out.
She leaned against him companionably and he slung an arm around her shoulders. "It went off without a hitch." She said.
"It did." He agreed.
They sat in silence for a a while just enjoying the small joy they'd earned. After a while the stood and started marshaling the demoralized refugees into groups. "Your group will be your traveling companions until we get to our destination." Logan said. "You will be responsible for yourself and your group mates. You will work together and keep each other safe until we get to our destination. I cannot stress this enough people. Your group is your family until we get home. Don't let each other down. If your group is separated from the rest of the groups go to ground and take care of each other until we can come get you."
There were muttered affirmations and a few grumbles but they were quickly suppressed by those refugees who wished to survive. Rogue, Kurt and Storm took the lead. Logan, Hank and Donella brought up the rear to make sure no one got lost. They left the complex and started making their way under cover of darkness North.
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Story Notes:
A somewhat more somber story than my last one but its been nagging to be told. My OC Donella is back. Rated for future content. Set in an Alternate Universe after X3 which I try to pretend never happened cause Jean and Xavier are still as we know them. See the description on Competition.
Author's Chapter Notes:
Sorry if the opening section sounds a tad political. Its supposed to be based of someones memoirs...sorta.
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