Professor Charles Xavier floats down the hallway, the sterile and bare alien walls staring back at him until the Shi'ar guards lead him to the cell he is looking for. He looks in at all the sheepish grins and ill looks and says in a stern and disapproving voice, "Well I hope you are all proud of yourselves. I just convinced Lilandra not to deport Logan and Kurt to a prision planet for the moral character of the universe." A muttered thank God comes out in German and Xavier looks over where Kurt looks slightly greenish and Logan is leaning against the forcefield,his hat pulled down over his eyes. "It wasn't that bad Professor. It could have been worse..." Hank's voice trails off as Xavier looks over at him and gives him "the look". It is the look the old team knew quite well, it was the "beware I am royally ticked off and am going to give a pop quiz at two o'clock in the morning in retaliation" look. "Hank they had to pull in the Shiar consistancy of the National Guard into this little 'incident!' What would you call this...not that bad?!" Hank looks at him and then looks down at the floor muttering to himself about how he feels 18 again. Logan finally moves when Xavier says, "Will someone please tell me what happened here? I was in a meeting the whole time, and I personally can't see how you could have gotten all out of control." Deadpool just laughs and says,"I haven't had this much fun in ages...I'll tell you one thing Red...you X-Men sure do know how to throw a party!" Terry looks sheepish but keeps her mouth shut as Logan strolls over and puts his hat to the back of his head. "Well Chuck you want an explanation you got one. It was like this..." "Wade and I thought it would be a cool idea to go check out the old Weapon X HQ. He figured it might jog my memory as to my origin. I mean who would seriously believe that I was alive during the Spanish-American War or that I was raised by a pack of wolverines?" Wade interrupts and points to everyone in the room . Gambit chuckles lightly and tosses a chraged card at Deadpool, who immediately teleports to another part of the room. Phoenix catchs the card telekinetically. Logan continues,"As I was saying. Wade and I went up to Canada, while there we met up with Puck and Sasquatch. They were busy with Aurora.'Get away, you dolts!' she had told them in her petite french accent. 'I have eyes only for Nate Grey!' For unlike you, he is a REAL man,one who really knows how to show a girl a party.' Looking sheepishly around, Puck and Sasquatch wandered off into the woods,perhaps to be alone. For there, in the Canadian nighttime sky was a different aurora, a borealis of some type. Logan then paused. He cast Deadpool a stern look, then popped his claws. "I can't tell him what happened next!" he raged. Deapdpool only smiled, a curious little smile, daring Logan to use him as a scratching post. Professor X noticing the air of hostility between the two of them and said, "Alright boys, I can see that this little conversation is getting out of hand." He then, turning to Kurt declared , "Nightcrawler, I want to hear your perspective on what happened." Nightcrawler, noticeably startled as all eyes turned upon him. "Mein Gott!!" he drawled. "It wasn't my fault..." Stammering he pointed at Cable and bellowed, "Ask the future boy what he happened! He knows!" Gambit looks over at the professor. "If you please they're drunk right now and aren't really up to the task of storytelling so if I may be so bold, it started like this..." He smiles at the professor who seems extremely irate at the moment from the barrage of lame excuses he's gotten. "After the Shiar defeated Deathbird's forces Wolverine, and I decided to have a walk away from the festivities looking for a little fun,if you know what I mean." Rogue glares at him. "Well we started down the street when the beautiful Hepsebhah I think her name is attached herself to us,which of course we didn't mind and suggested we go to the freeflight dance dome for a little dancing. well I didn't want to disappoint the feline, so we went." Rogue at this point bends the cot she was sitting on into a ribbon and smiles at Gambit. "I think you're in for it, gumbo." Logan mutters to himself. Gambit smiles but a trickle of sweat betrays his mounting discomfort. "Well as we approached the dance hall we were ambushed by a bunch of Brood warriors. They wanted to us me and Hepzibah as hosts and they wanted to kill Logan because of all the times he has messed up dere plans." Rogue infuriated tosses the cot-turned-ribbon at Gambit , who easily dodges it. Scott ahems at this display. "Calm down, Rogue." he gives her a leader like look and she backdowns and marchs into the corner, sulking. Scott looks to the Professoer and then to Gambit. "I'll continue with the story. Gambit, Logan, and Hepzibah were doing their best against the Brood,but were just not enough. Jean having received a telepathic message from Logan. She, myself, and the Blue Team quickly got their and annihilated the remaining Brood. One however, managed to get Psylocke." He looks over to Psylocke. Warren and Ororo sit next to Psylocke who cradles her arms over her stomach. She is in tears. The Professor moves over to her and rubs her knee, "What happened, my child?" Betsy in tears responds, "They..." "Th...the... they made me put on clothes!" She said before she burst into tears. With his eybrows going up another notch,the Professor turned back to the rest of the group. "Well, that explains about one fourth of the damage done. Would anyone like to tell me about the rest?" Everyone once again looked down at thier shoes. When the silence had gone on for too long to be comfortable, Shadowcat finally spoke up. "It's like this Professor. After destroying the Brood and getting Betsy out of all those clothes," snickers were heard around the room, but were quickly silenced by Brian and Archangel's glares, "we decided to go catch up with each other. My 'wonderful' other half decided what better place to do this than in a pub." She said sarcastically. "Hey now, love. I wasn't the only one with the idea. It was Gambit that mentioned playing quarters!" As everyone suddenly remembers how the nights drinking binge started they all turn on Gambit. Realizing his making it out of the cell with all body parts intact was sorley in doubt he started talking. "Hey it was Wolverine that challenged that platoon of soldiers to a drinking contest." They all then turned to Wolverine. "Hey, I thought with Moira and Terry on our side it was in the bag." The ladies in question turn bright pink. "This is not getting us any further in answering Charles' question." *translated from an awful scotish brogue* "Huh?" "Wha she say?" "I wouldn't pick on her to much Logan, she is a mean drunk." "Bloody h***, mean isn't the word for it. I didn't know you could stick a tube up THAT." Wisdom said quietly to himself. The Professor cleared his throat to get the groups attention before speaking again, "So, I assume that this is what caused the brawl that took out 30 city blocks?" Everyone once again looked at their toes. "Well...er...not exactly" muttered Hank, "See there was also the fact that that stripper threw a pass at Pete and Kitty didn't take it well." Kitty glares over at Hank and says, "Well excuuuuse me! I figured the little slut got what she deserved!" Charles gives Kitty a look and she shuts up temporarily as Charles switches his attention back to Hank. "Continue Hank." He says in a barly calm tone. Hank glances uneasily at him and says, "Well see we didn't know that the stripper belonged to a harem from another galaxy. The leader of the harem didn't take it well. They were determined to get revenge on Kitty for messing up the looks of one of the girls. Anyhow he decided that Kitty would make a great new harem member to replace the other one until she was healed up enough. PETE didn't take THAT well at all!" Charles looks over at Hank and actually flinches, "What did he do Hank?" Hank looks at him and opens his mouth to answer only to be interupted by Pete. "You want to know ya bleedin git, I'll tell ya! I..." Kitty quickly moves and covers his mouth. Brian stands up, "I'll continue." He turns around to see if anyone objects. No one does. He smiles smugly and then an idea comes to him. He looks around, "Artie? Artie come here please." Little Artie Maddicks steps forward from behind Ice-Man. He walks over to Brian. Brian says, "Scan my mind, child, and then show Proffessor Xavier, and everyone one else what just happened." Artie nods. He begins to scan Brian's mind and begins to show images from it. The first one shows Betsy in much less than her usual costume sighing and moaning and urging Brian to continue. Betsy and Warren gasp. Everyone else in the room flinches out of disgust and Meggan flies towards Brian, who looks up at her in shock, "Don't look at me love that isn't my thought!" Everyone looks at Artie who looks sheepishly down at the ground."Ah teenage boys! Got to love them sometimes! Playing practical jokes AND at the same time letting hormones rule them." Kitty laughs, "Good one Artie you got us all with that one!" Artie looks proud until he meets Emma's freezing gaze then he quickly hurries to the back of the cell. "Okay, to get on with this fiasco...Pete decided he was going to just go off and kill the harem leader. Problem was when he actually nailed the guy out with one shot to the jaw,he then found out due to their laws that he then owned the harem. Anyhow, Kurt and Logan weren't overly broken up about that let me tell you!" Kitty finishes the little speech and glares over at all three males under discussion. "But Katchein, we were only trying to show them some Earthlike hospitality!" "That and it was your bleedin fault we got into the situation to begin with." Pete adds in. "MY FAULT!?!" As Kitty shouts a lot of X-men grab their heads and shoot her pained glares, but Kitty ignores them as she looks at the object of her anger, "Who was it letting the trollop ooze all over them like chocolate sauce over ice cream? Who was it that insisted that we go to that damn pub in the first place ?" As the cell quickly erupts into a shouting match between all the X-men arguing who was at fault for the whole thing, a voice rings out with leadership-like authority,"ENOUGH!!! WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THE PROFESSOR'S QUESTION BY ARGUING HERE!!" Everyone looks over at Cyclops as they fall silent in mid-shout. "Thank you, now Bobby, why don't you tell the Professor what you ALL (he shoots them all a condescending glare) did with the harem that Pete now owned!" Bobby looks over at him sheepishly and says, "Well we let the booze and stuff go to our heads, and Logan came up with a great idea (or at least it seemed like one at the time). We took the harem and had quite a time!" "There were some very nice young red heads professor, you should 'ave been dere!" laughs Gambit. The professor, Scott and Jean are not amused. "You what!?" screamed Shadowcat at Wisdom. "I hope you caught a desese." she said coldly. "Oh, really?" he smirked. "Then where would you be, hmmm?" "Seems to me that you'd catch it quite quick yourself." he grins. "Like hell, you b@stard!" that's the last time you so much as even touch me!" "goodness knows where you got your name, Mr. Wisdom,'cause wisdom is something you cirtainaly lack!" Kitty concludes. The Professor growing very impatient resorts to threats of violence. "If someone does not tell me what happened this instant,I will mess up your mind so much that what I did to Magneto will look like swiss cheese !" He looks around the room. His eyes stop on Lockheed. "Okay, dragon tell me what happened." Lockheed flies forward a bit and sticks its tongue out at Wisdom. It then proceeds to utilize Shi'ar technology to paint a vivid picture for Xavier. "SCOTT ?!?" proclaims an astonished Xavier "You are to blame for the bulk of this mess?!?" "Sir! I...I Don't know what to say!" Stammeres Cyclops "I've clearly been framed!" "Oh, realy? Then would you care to explaine all this?" Xaver inqpires jesturing toward the display screen where lockheeds rendition of the events flash by repeatedly. "Well, uh...um..you see, it's like this.... Jean, Rogue and me were too tired of all that confusion , and as no one would listen to us, we decided to just leave the place.What wouldn't have been problem at all, if GAMBIT, hadn't followed us to get away with the jewels he got from the women!" Again, everyone looks at Gambit. "I didn't notice I had the jewels... habits, you know... I just wanted to tell Rogue I was sorry..." "Oh, shut up, Remy, that's a big lie of yours!" "Let me continue, chere! Than Scott gave that BIG alert that I was stealing something! Admit it, Cyke, you overreacted!" "Did I? Then why don't you tell everybody about your little deal with our friend Wisdom?" "The deal was that I wouldn't tell Rogue if he didn't tell Pryde what I did! Turns out that didn't work to well did it?" As Pete finishes, Kitty once again bores holes through his head with her eyes. "Professor, " Scott stammers "That's not the issue here is it." The professor nods and wolverine says under his breath , "Nice save Slim." "Anyway, at that point a group of Shi'ar soldiers recognized the jewels in Gambit's hand as belonging to the Imperial treasury which had been robbed during the Assault on the Empire,and they called in the Imperial guard." At that everyone looks at Gambit who is now looking quite ill... Gambit in his usual manner responded saying, "Hey I didn't even know they were real." Rogue, looking totally disgusted picked up a rock and pegged Gambit in the head with it. She then said "For once in your existence could you tell the truth you cajun dog."The Professor then interrupts telling Scott to continue. Scott agreed and continued. "At that point Gladiator and the rest of the Imperial guard arrived, they threatened the three people closest to them; Gambit,Pete and Logan with force. Gladiator than threw Remy into a wall. Logan and Pete in turn responded by joining in on the Gambit bashing.Nobody liked that cocky cajun anyways. The Professor then nodded his head, "Yes, there's no arguing with that." Soon everyone would have jumped in on the Gambit bashing if something incredible hadn't happened. But Kitty interupts before they can get the full scoop on that score, "That is when the Kree rebels showed up.They figured since we were guests of Lilandra 's that we were all easy pickings for hostages. Unfourtunately, a band of pirates was after Corsair and the Starjammers at the same time!Guess who got caught in the middle of this when this mess went down? Needless to say,when little Kree (Crog's friend) came shooting into the room and dove for cover as we were all being held on gun point by the Shair troops we should have figured something was wrong. Then Cable of course had to go and over react when the others pulled out bigger guns then the Shi'ar. So Cable whose guns WERE bigger???" Cable looks over at Kitty from his place sitting next to Dom on a cot and grins outlandishly, "Why MINE of course! Was there ever any doubt???" Kitty snorts and shares a look with Dom who then states , "MEN! Why do they always say it is the size of the gun that counts...it is really how you use it that matters!" Cable looks over at her and starts laughing. Kitty irritably glares at Dom for that little comment (although amusement is dancing in her hazel eyes) and turns back to Prof. X. "Okay, anyway that little fire fight obliterated about two city blocks.The Kree rebels and the Shiar were shooting at each other and the X-men, we were fireing at pretty much anything that moved.None of them were prepared for X-Force being armed to the teeth. Geez, what were you guys planning to do, take over a third world country?" Cable then interupts again to say,"Well we have an opening next week in our scedule...what do you kids think?" They look over at him and nod in agreement, Fearing where this conversation might lead Kitty continues,"Anyhow, they were fighting it out having a grand old time and then the pirates showed up and crashed through a whole other block with their huge spaceliner,seems that they had been having a bit of a party for themeselves too. But they were concious enough to hold their weapons. Unfortunately identifying a target and so countless rounds of amunition were sent into civilain buildings causing major damage. Corsair and co. retaliated and cut down 'bout half 'o the priates because they were simply too drunk to move .But the Shi'ar were issuing their versions of arrests for all parties involved so they soon became the target of all fire." Cable grinned satisfactoraly, "yep we showed 'em there. " Kitty glances at Logan unsure what to confess next. "And?" Xavier asks. "Well chuck" Logan begins, "we were all pretty pi§§ed at the Shiar killjoys so..." Cyke interrupts, "in our alcohol induced states well, the idea of random untamed vandalism of Shi'ar property sounded good.That sir, involved a lot of destruction, but I wouldn't have been so bad if Colossus hadn't decided to..." "Wait a minute!" said Colossus. "It wasn't my idea to knock down all those buildings and to use that Shi'ar officer as a battering ram!" "Then whose idea was it?" asked the Professor, irritated. "Well... that was Rogue's idea" said Cannonball. "Well I wasn't the one who took over the Shiar troops minds and had them blow up their own buildings!" said Rogue sullenly. Everyone turned to look at Emma Frost. "I wasn't the one blasting around into people houses looking for more booze."she said glaring at Cannonball. "Oh yeah? Well..." Acusations flew around wildly as the professor wondered if these could possibly be the same people he knew. "Cyclops and Jean were doing was worse than anything else we've mentioned so far." said Bobby. "They were... " Proffessor Xavier interupts Bobby before he can continue to ask a question that just popped into his mind, "Gambit, why did you steal those jewels to begin with, wouldn't it have saved a lot of trouble if you had simply returned them?" Gambit in his usual manner saying, "Hey, I didn't even know they were real." Rogue, looking totally disgusted picked up a rock and pegged Gambit in the head with it. She then said, "For once in your existance could you tell the truth you Cajun dog." The Professor then interupts telling Scott to continue. Scott agreed and continued saying, "At that point, Gladiator and the rest of the Imperial Guard arrived, they threatened the three people closest to them Gambit , Pete, and Logan with force. Gladiator then threw Remy into a wall.Logan and Pete responded by laughing at Gambit. Logan and Pete were pretty well -uh- sauced by that time. They kept making fun of Gambit until Gladiator decided they were next. At this point, things began to get very nasty very quickly. Because Wolverine was drunk, even past his healing factor, he immediately lunged at Gladiator and extended two claws up the side of his face, threatening to extend the third. Pete quickly prepared some heat knives for Gladiator, Who responded to all of this with a light chuckle. He then grabed Wolverine by his costume and threw him at Gambit just when he was getting up, knocking both of them unconscious. Pete glared at Gladiator with his burning intent and with fingers blazing sent an assault of hot knives so streaming that it propeled Pete 20 feet backwards onto his back. Stunned by the sudden propulsive energy barreling towards him like a Staranian bull-horse, Gladiator rappidly came to his sences and just stood there letting the blades of energy claimed to be'hot as the heart of the sun' bounce harmlessly off him. "An just what did you hope to accomplish with that?" mocked Gladiator as he picked Wisdom up off the ground throwing him several miles before he skipped to a sinking halt in a lake. "The poor devil didn't know how to swim, It was fortunate for him I was there to pull him out." chips in Rogue."Mah gloves were destroid in battle," She shudders "And ah thought Remy was a slimy pice of..." "AHEMM!" "That will be quite enough, people." states the Professor. "you realize, of course, I SHOULD simply leave you all here to rott. But that wouldn't be constructive." Xavier does a casual mental check on the alcoholic states of the X-Men and is appalled at their loopiness."Come my X-Men, we must retreat before the rest of the Imperial Guard reaches u..." Just then Cyclops trips over a rock and everyone starts rolling in the ground bursting in laughter. "Oh you think that's funny do you, well how about this! !" Scott releases an optic blast that levels Cable onto the dirt."Your're grounded, son" Everyone groans at Scott's repartee and in response releases a fury of blasts. "Stop that Scott!! I will not have this type of behavior within my team!!" "Yes, Professor." Cable wakes up from his unconscious sleep holding his head... "Now, we need to leave this place." States Xavier . "It would seem the most expediant method would be teliportation."he says looking at Nightcrawler. "OH no, herr Professor. the strain of one is tremendous and you want me to take us all home?!" excalimes Kurt. "No, Kurt, simply to the docking bay will be suficiant. " corrects Charles. "There are enough telepaths here to augment your power enought to get us safely there." "Very well," concedes Nightcrawler. "Let's do it." "Everyone, hold hands." Wisdom convienentaly positions himself between Kitty and Emma (Who's typicaly revealing atire he "happens" to look down. *Kitty,* Comunicates Emma telipathicaly, *is it realy neccicary that I hold the hand of this...this THING?!* *I'll deal with him.* Kitty thinks back. *go ahead and let go.* *THank you. I owe you for this.* *Perhapse a fassion make-over when we return?* thanks the White Queen. Kitty gives Wisdom a quick glance. *It's a deal, Miss. Frost.* *Call me Emma. I feel we're going to become good friends in the future.* *Shure thing, Emma.* "Ok, everybody, on the count of three..." starts Nightcrawler. "ONE... TWO...." On two, Kitty quickly phases free of Wisdom's grasp, breaking his connection with the group. "THREE!" BAMF!!!!! Desperately, Wisdom looks around. He was totally alone. "But who could have done... Kitty! I shouldn't have made her that angry. I wonder If I'm the only one in a diffiult situation..." The Hanger Bay... "Remy LeBeu, you are truthly troubled!!!" says Rogue, looking at him angrily. Actually, all the other X-Men look at him angrily. "Er... calm down people. Have you noticed... someone is not with us???" "What do you mean..." asks Jean "Wisdom!!! Hey, when was the last time we saw him?" "Ah don't know, Jean, but I'm pretty sure we're much better without him... and it would be even better if someone had dissapeared too!"replies Rogue, sarcasticaly. Quickly, Xavier stares her with a look of dissaprovement. "Sorry." He says ok and than looks at Kitty. "Who else could have tried something like this, Katherine Pryde?" "Chuck," interrupts Wolverine, "Look over there! Seems like our problems are getting bigger than that." Everyone stares at an aproaching cloud of energy. Rogue catches something out of the corner of her eye. Kree. She speeds over to a small group of them. "What are you?" they ask (translated from Kree which Rogue is surprised she understands clearly) "You share part of us." "Yes, ah do folks, but that's not important now, we need to get of this rock and back to our home planet. FAST!" She says pointing to the approaching cloud. "No good" they reply, "all vessels are dissabled, and jumpoints have been tempoarily shut down to prevent our escape." "I see." Rogue replies, "Is there any other way?" "The crystal, the crystal be our only hope now - erase what has happened TOO MUCH death for us - must change!" Rogue holds her head in trying to concentrate through the blur of a hangover. "Well you rebels don't have a chance to get the crystal without us - shall we say truce?" The Kree make funny expressions on their blue faces. "Yes must make truce." "Then welcome to the party people!" Rogue cheers leading a small band of 6 rebels back to the X-MEN. Xavier shouts, "Beware my X-MEN that cloud contains fragments of radioactive isotopes discharged over the year by starcraft that have passed through this sector! " "And what's more, they have become animated by a quasi psionic force which is visable as that glowing nucleus Professor." Beast interupts. "Why thank you Beast for illuminating us." Charles Xavier replies. Gambit looking on at the glowing mass starts to instinctively look for a way to save his skin. "What's sommatter Cajun?" Wolverine snears, "Scared?" With that Wolverine pops his claws and without waiting for the others Begins to charge the Energy construct. Instinctively , Jean grabs Logan in a telekenitic bubble and pulls him back. "Don't be a damn fool just because your a little tanked . Stop and think for a second or else you won't be drunk enough." Wolverine answers," Alright, Red, but only cause it's you askin'." Gambit then gives a glance and a smirk Wolverines way and exclaims "Who's scared now furball?" "Shut up!" interupts the Professor. "Right now we have to get out of here!""Hank what do you think is best course of action?" "Well Professor I think we should..." "Take that ship!" Kitty points over at an intergalatic cruisor, apperentaly still functioning. The X-men quickly run for the ship and board, with Cyclops and Cable taking the helm.Cable looks over at Scott as they take off, "Damn! You're not going to believe this!" Scott gives him a questioning look and Cable announces, "This little frate is carrying a couple tons of..." His sentence is inturupted by a triumphant and love filled German accented shout, "BEER!!! YIPPPEEEE!! !" Scott looks over at Cable and flinches, "Don't tell me! !! Please don't tell me!!!" Cable looks over at him and nods, "Welcome to the U.S.S Drunkard...a liquor carrying frigate for the low life cut throats of the galaxy!" Deadpool looks over at him "Hmmmph...we preferred to be called the dregs of moral society thank you very much tin man!""But, this is a fellow cut throats ship... cool!!! Maybe we'll run into them and I can knock some of them off!It is good to knock off the competition and doubley good for the reputation if you know what I mean!" Cable gives him a disgusted look and turns to Scott, "I don't think these people are going to stay sober (well, semi-sober) very long. Just a hunch!" Scott sighs and fires up the engines, "Lovely just damn lovely! Well Nate, we have a hundred and six light years to Earth, a full tank of gas, we're both hung over, the Shiar are on our tails, and we have blood thirsty pirates and other people I don't even know who in the hell they are after our X-hides! What do you think we should do?" Cable looks over at him and slides a pair of sunglasses onto his nose, "HIT IT!!!" Scott looks at him and grins, "Hittiing it!!!" he says as they go into hyperspace (bare moments ahead of the cloud). From the back is heard Jubilee's triumphant shout of, "To infinity and beyond!" At the same time is heard numorous shouts of, "ROAD TRIP!!!" They are heading into hyperspace and the unknown when a small voice from the back of the ship comes to the ears of the X-Men. "Where's Mr. Wisdom?" As Everyone looks at Franklin they hear a terrible bellowing. "Dammit PRYDE, didn't your mother tell you to leave the party with your escort?" The X-Men look on in stund disbelief as Wisdom comes in the airlock. "How did you get out of the jail?" Kitty asked as he walked over. "What jail," Wisdom said as he looked back at the rubble that was the jail, "I don't see one." As Professor Xavier sighed heavily Scott called back to the rest "Last chance for a pit stoooopppp..." Before he could finish his sentence Cable hit the acclerator, flining everybody into the back of the ship .*GROANS ALL ROUND* "Thanks Summers." and more groans, Telekenetic energy flares and begins tearing open the limitless crates of every kind of alcoholic beverage in the known galaxy. "Here you go gentlemen." Jean smiles,"Girls." *plink plink* "that should do it!" Bobby calls as several cubes of ice form inside each bottle. The rebel Kree seem to have forgotten about their cause for the meantime, by their actions, the've pretty much forgotten about everthing except the holy grail of Kree recreational liquids. Everyone drinks deep and Kurt starts a round of 1000 bottles of beer on the wall in a terrible accent but is soon silenced by a mountain of bodies all wanting to be first to shut him up. As the festivities continue one lone figure can be seen standing alone against the viewport the streams of stars behind her,making her loveliness even more angelic. Gambit starts to slowly aproach her but keeps his distance as her eyes warn him that she's not at all pleased. "Om," Gambit begins stammering for the words or the courage to say them. "I'm Sorry Rogue about being...well, me." he spreads his hands and smiles, but not the conmans grin that she's so use to. This is sincere. "Remy," she starts "It's just that you take nothing serious, and it really angers me. You walk around here with your ego and secrets and act like you're on top of the world all the time." He starts to protest but she shuts him with a Look. "I can't take this anymore I need stability in my life." There is a long silence broken only by the distant sounds of celebration. "I understand..." Gambit says looking past her. He doesn't turn as she walks out. "...my love." he finishes to himself. Emma telepathically heard the whole conversation. She sighs and makes her over over to Gambit, "Remy... I'm..." She doesn't smile. "I'm sorry for you and Rogue." Remy looks to her and hiding his heart, "Hey, no prob. Get a new girl like..." Before he finished his sentence. Emma kisses him passionately. Rogue turns around. "Emma, you bitch!" She flies towards Emma. Wade watching this whole thing yells, "Catfight!" But before Rogue can strike, Emma reaches out, making skin-to-skin contact,leaving Rogue to absorb her telipathicaly dominant mind. *I said I felt Sorry for you, And I intend to do something about it.provoking you was the only way to get you to let me into your head.* Emma speaks within the confines of Rogue's mind. "Now," Emma/Rogue says, "all you telipaths come join me in her head by way of absorbtion, and we'll see if we can give her some control over her power. Even if it's only temporary." *how you can get away with dressing the way you do with your power out of control, It's a mirical people arn't passing out all over the place!* She scolds Rogue. Meanwhile on the hull of the ship as it travels through space, a coccoon opens, releasing it's Insectoid occupent.The alien creature clings to the hull and begins to create a bubble about it made of some secreted resin. It exudes a nitroxide mix compatable with the Air inside, and after equalizing the presure, begins to tear into the hull,the Ship's sensors not detecting the hull breach. It then Slips into the Ship unnoticed and Starts it's hunt. Lockheed spots the creature and tries to warn Kitty, but she is too engrossed in what's happening between Gambit and Rogue. Emma, with the help of the other telepaths, has managed to temporarily nullify Rogue's powers. Rogue is awed. She touches Gambit's cheek and smiles. "I can touch you ," she exclaimed. "I don't need for you to be able to touch me to have a relationship with you Rogue. I wish you could understand that." Suddenly they notice all the eyes on them. "Ummm... Let's talk in a little more privacy," suggests Gambit. Rogue takes his hand and walks with him to the back of the ship. "Ah alway's thought they belonged together. I hope they work something out." says Cannonball. Several others nod. Cannonball and Paige sit together on a pair of crates talking about how she's doing on Generation X not noticing the strange creature aproaching. The thing is about to bite Cannonball's leg when Paige yells,"Lookout Sam!" But it was too late.The creature grabs Sam and violently tosses him aside. Before Husk could react the creature was on top of her, his fangs an inch from her neck. Suddenly Paige sees parts of the aliens flesh and alot of it's blood fly into the air as it hissed in pain. As the alien fell to the ground Paige saw the figure of Logan standing confidently behind it with his claws extended and dripping with blood.He kneeled over the creature and put the cigar he had been smoking out in the hideous thing's eye. "Bub you mess with one X-Man, you mess with 'em all." At the sight of the squished alien there is much groaning. "EEEWWW, if thats how big roaches are in space I don't want to see the rats!" complained Jubilee. "What are you doing with that beer?" Asked the White Queen coldly. "Wolvie said it was ok." All eyes turned to wolverine. "I can't beilive your letting a minor drink." "How could you..." "What were you thinking.." As everyone started shouting at once Wolverine belowed "I WASN'T THE ONE THAT BROUGHT THE KIDS!" All eyes were then turned to Emma and Sean. "Well," the Professor said archly. "what do you have to say for yourselves?" Sean and Emma looked at each other then back at the Prof. "Another beer sir?" Banshee said as he handed him a beer. "Leech must go bathroom."A course of oh hells follow that statment. "Cable stop at the nearest planet." "Ok, Ma." "And don't call me 'Ma'!" "Ok, Ma!" The door shuts behind Rogue and Gambit, he steps up and embraces her. "How you feeling Chere?" he asks. "Strange Remy, different, like..." she pauses, "EMMA!" Rogue screams. "Wah?" Remy gasps. "She's still in my head! This whole thing was a cover! She wants to know my name to use it to get with you!" Rogue stammers. Psionic countertmeasures set by unseen hands long ago click into place inside Rogues mind. Meanwhile, Emma screams "Damn, how could she know?" People stare at her."AHHHhhhhh!" Emma collapses as the psionic weight of every mind ever absorbed by Rogue crash through her conciousness in a gamble to prevent the untimely exposure of Rogue's name. Jean yells, "Get back she's...And then something amazing happened. The real Jean Grey who died on the moon reappered bringing the Phoenix force with her. In .05 seconds Scott abandoned his wife who was probably a clone or from another