Rogue and Ben were in intimate moments, since Ben has now completely recovered, she wants to release all the stock of lust, which she had kept when he was in coma.
Ben noticed she was in some tension, "What happened, why are you looking at some problem?" He asked her.
"Everything is okay, but I still miss you," Rogue replied as she continued kissing him, she didn't want to share her problem.
"Tell me," Ben again asked. "It's nothing, I'm fine," Rogue tried to act cheerful, but suddenly she clutched her head and started shaking uncontrollably.
"One last time, I am asking, tell me what happened to you?" Ben asked, as he gently placed a blanket over her.
Rogue didn't know what had happened; she started sweating profusely. "I don't know, it felt like my head was on fire, I was seeing different scenes, and hearing different voices. It's like many people have entered my mind."
"It's okay, I am here for you," Ben said as he gave her some kisses to comfort her.
"Ben, don't use your powers, I don't want you to fall into a coma again," She thought Ben was going to use his powers, so she stopped him, also her headache was relieved.
He took her in his arms, and they both fell asleep.
—
Meanwhile, in a different place, a brown cat jumps into the house. The cat morphs into Mystique and addresses the other person as Destiny, the blind mutant who can see visions of the future.
Destiny tells her that she has always foreseen that Rogue might not live up to her destiny.
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Next morning, Rogue brushed her hair in front of the mirror. She looked at her hands briefly before pulling her gloves on.
Just as she was about to leave, Logan knocked on her door. Rogue opened it and got a fright to see him standing there.
Logan asked, "I was wondering if something was wrong."
Rogue didn't respond; instead, she said she was late for school.
At school, Rogue walks symbolically alone through a corridor full of chatting groups of teens.
She goes to enter a girls' bathroom, only to get a flash of touching Kitty, and phases through the door instead. She is greeted enthusiastically by Risty.
Rogue asked Risty, "Where you been, you disappeared totally some days ago?"
Risty replies, "I was sent to England by my parents because of the outbreak of the mutant epidemic."
Rogue goes to take a drink from a fountain, but sees a dream of touching Storm, causing lightning to strike the fountain and water to spray everywhere. Rogue runs away.
Risty finds Rogue sitting alone on the tables outside, and asks tentatively if that was Rogue's mutant power.
"It's like my head is getting 'a little crowded' with all the personalities I have absorbed. And with Ben going into a coma, something has triggered it." Rogue explained to Risty.
Risty glossed over the seriousness of this and suggested playfully that they go to the concert to have some fun at the expense of the people there.
At the concert, there were a great many teens present, including Kurt and Amanda, Tabitha, Kitty, Scott, Jamie and of course Jean.
Rogue and Risty come up a few feet away from them. Rogue gets a flash of Scott and her eyes turn red.
She takes them closer to the stage, but Rogue is becoming more distressed every minute, saying she doesn't like crowds.
Risty points out that she is covered up, but it is not that Rogue is worried about. She holds her head with both hands, groaning and getting bumped around by the concert-goers.
Rogue is panicking and disoriented, until she finally staggers back into Risty, both of them screaming as the transfer kicks in and Risty morphs into Mystique.
Rogue gets a flash of grabbing Mystique's arm, and as Mystique falls to the ground, unconscious.
Rogue morphs into Risty, then back into herself as she sees Mystique's prone form on the floor.
She stops a few feet from Mystique, has a flash of Sabretooth, and falls on all fours, morphing into the animal itself.
Mystique awakens in time to witness the transformation and calls out to Rogue, who is too far gone to hear.
Rogue/Sabretooth explodes out of the crowd and storms the stage, leaping onto a huge stack of speakers and knocking them towards the crowd.
She tears down light rigging and causes general havoc, causing the crowd and band to flee and the X-Men to step in to protect the people from falling and flying speakers.
Jamie valiantly attempts to tackle Rogue/Sabretooth, but his contact with the Rogue/Sabretooth skin knocks him out; several duplicates fall from him in the process.
Scott blasted Rogue/Sabretooth into a wall; underneath the resulting pile of rubble, Rogue caught a glimpse of herself clinging to the falling Juggernaut, while Kurt prematurely announced that he was out of the fight.
Rogue/Juggernaut burst up out of the rubble. He charges through a wall of the venue, escaping, followed closely by Mystique.
The X-Men are surprised to see. They think there are three of their enemies in one place and decide to regroup at the mansion; Kitty half-carries a dazed Jamie.
Rogue steps out onto the street, only to have a police car come up behind her. Rogue gets a flash of touching Magneto, and she turns into Magneto herself.
Rogue/Magneto used her magnetic powers to throw back the car. Then she dreams of Pietro. Rogue/Pietro zooming off down the street, but get cut off by another police car.
Rogue had a flash of Arcade, the computer playing kid, and morphed into the shifty-looking but ordinary form as the car drove past.
She ran into an alley, where she turned back into herself and sank to the ground, hugging her knees and shivering.
Mystique comes there, "Please listen, I know I hurt you. But I can only take care of you by being with you as a friend."
She expresses her concern for Rogue and wants to explain, but Rogue is furiously angry and hurt; she morphs into Mystique herself and fights her.
"You only used me to break the X-Men," She shouted, though Mystique insists she only wanted to be near her, saying that if Rogue searches Mystique's own memories, she will see why.
"I don't know anything," Rogue shouted, while she transformed back into Rogue.
"Admit the truth, Rogue. I adopted you when you were four. Search your memories. You are my daughter. Rogue."
Mystique tries to explain. Rogue is deeply distressed and confused. She refuses to listen and runs away.
She uses Kurt's power to get up onto a rooftop and conceal herself there, crying.
She hears Wolverine's Harley Davidson and morphs back into Sabretooth.
As Wolverine rides past, Sabretooth/Rogue jumps off the roof and tackles him off his bike. She is looking for a fight, but Logan smells her, and says "Wait a minute, you are not Sabretooth?"
"Fight me," Rogue/Sabretooth shouted, while Wolverine refused to fight.
However, Scott, Kurt, and some of the new mutants arrive in the X-Van, and Scott doesn't listen to Logan's warning before he blasts Rogue/Sabretooth through another wall.
Logan informs him that "Sabretooth" is really Rogue, and they enter the building to find her while the others wait outside.
Rogue shifts back into herself and struggles, "Logan, there's too many of them! No. No! No!" She cries out and holds her head as she gets flashes of Scott, finally morphing into him.
As Scott calls out to her, "Rogue, are you here, we are here to help you." But then Rogue saw the touching of Scott and turned into Scott herself.
"Hey bigshot, better help yourself," Rogue/Scott said as she fired his Optic beam on Scott.
She blasted him with his own power, and he surmised that it hurt more than he had thought.
While Logan concluded that Rogue was shapeshifting, she shapeshifted into Avalanche and caused a shelf to topple onto Logan and Scott before shifting back into herself again.
"Help me!" Desperate and scared, she pleaded for their assistance.
"We will, just stay calm," Logan promised.
Scott says to her, "Yes, we're your friends."
Rogue gets flashes of Risty, "No, I have no friends.
She morphs into Storm and throws the boys out onto the street as a lightning storm rages within the warehouse.
Lightning blasted the roof off the building, and Rogue flew up into the air, changing back into herself and simultaneously using Scott and Storm's powers. As the X-Jet came towards her, she threw it out of the air with Magneto's power.
Beast was knocked unconscious. Rogue continued tearing up the street and scattering the X-Men with Scott's power, and Storm got permission from Charles Xavier to intervene.
Jean used the telekinesis to stop her, but Rogue used Telekinesis to defeat her. Scott used Optic Beam, she returned it back with her thunder.
Kurt carries her away, but she returns alone and Kurt lands with a tumble on the ground.
Storm joins Rogue in the sky and tries to take her down with a lightning bolt, but Rogue takes it and gives it back threefold, and Storm plummets to the ground, unconscious; she's saved just before hitting the ground by Jean.
"Everyone fall back, I can take the beating better than anyone can," Wolverine said, as he commanded Bobby to ice him up to Rogue's level.
She is still struggling with the chaos in her head and hugs her knees in mid-air, giving Logan the opportunity to tackle her down.
They land on a car, Logan underneath, and Rogue produces several duplicates, ready to fight. Logan tries to talk her out; she uses Magneto's and Scott's powers on him respectively, sending him flying into the van.
Then she noticed Ben coming toward them. The duplicates surrounded him, while he paused her on the ground with his time-stopping power, preventing her from using any of her own abilities. Then he used the Time Reverse Powers to recover everyone back.
Ben then held her and hugged her, then he released the Time Pause; as he fell unconscious.
Rogue looked scared when she noticed Ben had once again fallen unconscious. She retracted the duplicates, crying out while hugging Ben.
She screams, transforming into Cody Robbins, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Storm, Cyclops, Blob, Mystique, Risty Wilde, Shadowcat, Sabretooth, Avalanche, Arcade, Magneto, Jean Grey, Todd, Beast, and Juggernaut.
All of them scream, gasp, or grunt in their own voices until Rogue finally morphs back into herself and collapses into Ben's arms.
Logan demands of Xavier whether she's going to be okay, and Xavier, looking anguished, says that he doesn't know.
The other X-Men approach and Logan carries Ben and Rogue to the van. High above, on a rooftop, Mystique watches sadly.
A new day. Rogue is looking down at the unconscious Ben in the infirmary. Logan is in a chair by her side, and Xavier is watching from outside the glass doors.
"It was all my fault; he just woke up a few days ago, but because of me, he's become unconscious again," she said while still holding onto Ben.
"It's not your fault, Rogue, and Ben will wake up in a few days. All of us are here to help him." Logan soothed her, noting that Ben was still unconscious.
Rogue nodded, but she still cried. Just the previous day, they had been talking about it, and she planned to travel with him for one whole day. But then he had been confined to his bed.
Scott approached Xavier, "How long has Rogue and Logan been here?"
"Rogue hasn't left his side, although she is very fragile from having the personalities forced out of her; she still takes care of Ben. While Logan stands there to take control of Rogue if she becomes unstable," Xavier explained the situation.
The limo pulls up outside the institute gates. Mystique and Destiny are once again in the backseat.
"What your vision tells me now Destiny," Mystique asked Destiny.
"An ancient mutant will rise to once again walk the Earth. Your faiths, both yours and Rogue's, are in his hands… " Destiny explained to Rogue.