Rogue has visions of Mystique attacking her and Ben. She wakes up, but gets relief when seeing Ben is sleeping beside her. She mentioned her dream to Xavier.
"It's okay, just don't think about this dream," Xavier assured her.
On the way to school Rogue ends up running into Gambit. He drugs her with some sleeping gas before she can fight back. She wakes up later on a train all tied up. "You need to do something for me, then I will release you," Gambit tells her.
After school, Kurt realizes that Rogue is missing, and raises the alarm. Logan goes around sniffing and catches Gambit's scent.
While Ben also wakes up, and knowing the Rogue is missing, he goes to the place where Kurt has seen Rogue last time.
Ben started using time powers, to see what happened to Rogue, and find Gambit has catched her. He was really angry at him.
At the Acolytes base, Pyro is sitting alone watching a tape of Magneto imploding over and over as he laughs like a maniac. Logan shows up and they fight.
"Where is Gambit?" Logan asked him.
After getting beaten, Pyro finally tells, "The Acolytes have pretty much broken up. Colossus has gone back to Russia and he doesn't know where Sabretooth or Gambit are."
Back to Gambit and Rogue. "Okay, I will help you," Rogue agrees, but when he does she jumps him and they fight.
He tells her, "You can absorb my memories and you'll find out that I don't mean any harm." But she pulls away saying she doesn't want him in her head.
Xavier tracks the two heading south and Ben takes off to follow them. Rogue and Gambit make it to New Orleans' and it happens to be during Mardi Gras. They eat in a little jazz club where they run into some of Gambit's old acquaintances.
They get into a fight and Rogue ends up absorbing Julien. She finds out that Gambit is a member of the Thieves Guild and that Julien is a member of a rival gang called The Rippers. The Rippers have kidnapped Gambit's father and are holding him in their base in Bloodmoon Bayou.
Rogue offers to help Gambit, saying she can show him where they're holding his father. They go by boat, and on the way, they talk about what lousy parents they had, and how much they have in common.
As they're sneaking up to the house, Gambit accidentally touches Rogue and realizes that he's been using her all along.
"You are using me all the time, your father is a bad person, but you said he is a good guy," She got mad and just got ready to go away.
"Please help me, although he is not a nice guy, but still he is my father," Gambit pleads to her, causing Rogue to return to help him after all.
With the memories she absorbed from some more Rippers, she leads them out of the house, where they meet up with Ben.
Ben was looking angrily at Gambit, before Gambit said anything, he paused him completely by Time Pause.
"Ben, I will explain to you," Rogue wanted to explain, but he didn't hear her, before starting thrashing Gambit.
"You know, I am today going to kill you," Ben shouted and he just wanted to rip apart the Gambit.
Rogue comes and hugged him from behind, "Calm down Ben, calm down. We are X-Men, we didn't kill anyone." She tries to calm him.
"How dare he kidnap you?" Although Ben calmed down, but still looking angrily at Gambit.
"He needs my help to release his father from his enemy," Rogue explained the whole situation.
After saving the Gambit father, Logan meets them, he is also going to dice up Gambit.
But Rogue stops him while going back with Ben and Logan. Gambit gives her his lucky Queen of Hearts card and leaves with his father.
Ben asks Rogue if she's okay, and she nodded as he leads her back to Xavier's Mansion.
In their room, "So Ben, now you still need some rest, or you are recovered." Rogue asked him, because he didn't show any sign of collapsing on the way.
"No, I feel good, I have recovered all," He explained to Rogue.
"It's okay, I am here for you, even if you don't have any powers, I will always be here for you," Rogue caressed his face, while promising to always be with him.
While Rogue explained all the events to him, when he was asleep, she felt now Ben had completely recovered.
"So Ben, why not do some baby making, since you have completely recovered," Rogue asked while giving him a mischievous smile.
Ben nodded as he flipped her on bed, and in some minutes, she was lying nude under Ben. As she started enjoying the sex session.
After enjoying her fill, he found Jean, Kitty and Storm had also come, looking at both of them.
"Ben, since you completely recovered, why not we decide it by checking ourselves," Jean, Kitty and Storm asked together.
"Why not." Ben agreed, and just in a few hours all of the girls lying nude beside Ben, while their holes represent they have taken Ben's Dragon Tonic to their fill. Ben didn't even forget to visit Wanda.
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While the X-Men were busy in training, Apocalypse created a new sphere in Egypt.
Logan appeared to Mesmero and started to chase him.
Jean catched him with Telekinesis, "Hello Mesmero," she said.
"You are too late, evolution is upon us, and there's nothing you can do to stop it!" Mesmero said to them, while Logan and Jean brought him back to the mansion.
At the mansion, "Look like Apocalypse abandoned him," Jean said while noticing the sad expression of Mesmero.
Mesomoro tried to deny, "No, he will return back for me."
"You have discarded Mesmero," Charles said.
"So, please tell me what Apocalypse is planning." While noticing Mesmero didn't cooperate, he continued, "Or I can take knowledge by force, if you prefer."
"Apocalypse will trigger the dormant X-Gene in the Normal population. So most will transform into mutants." Mesomoro finally replied.
"What do you mean most?" Storm asked him.
"Many will not survive," Mesmero tells, while everyone has a shocked expression.
"How will it be accomplished? What does it have to do with pyramids?" Beast asked.
"I have said most of them," Mesmero does not want to say.
"He will not be your primary concern, not at this moment," Xavier touched Mesmero and started reading his mind.
"He has three pyramids and they are powered by the Sphinx and Apocalypse," Xavier found from Mesmero.
"And, he is now ready." While saying that he goes towards the X-Jet, which Storm was preparing.
"Professor," Jean stood in front of Xavier. "You are going to confront the Apocalypse," She asked.
"Yes, I am," Professor agreed. "What happened to Magneto, the same could happen to you." Jean tries to change his decision.
"Magneto attacks him, I simply hope to communicate with him," Professor explained to her.
Which Jean discarded by saying. "I seriously doubt the Apocalypse is interested in our point of view."
"But opening his dialogues is the first step of peaceful resolution," Xavier tells her.
Jean tries to go with him so the two Telepathic might have a better chance to get through to Apocalypse.
But Professor denied her "Jean, If something should go wrong, I need you here along with the X-Men."
Professor X wants to try to communicate with Apocalypse, taking Storm with him, towards Apocalypse. While he was busy adjusting the pyramid and some machines.
"We are entering Egypt," Storm informed, she continues, "Charles it is not too late to find another way."
"I am afraid it is, the longer we wait, the hardest will be destructive," Charles said while commanding Storm to be returned back if something happens to him.
"I am not leaving without you too. So do not ask me to," Storm denied him. While Charles activated Cerebro with help of Beast from the mansion.
With informing to keep the chamber close so the rest of X-Men didn't see him.
"I'm afraid we are a little late for that," Beast replied, because in the back side, Kurt, Rogue, Kitty, Jean, Ben and Cyclops were seeing him through the Cerebro technology.
"We are not gonna lay you through this professor alone," Jean said, while everyone agreed.
"Thank you all. Now let's see if I'm gonna get Apocalypse's attention." Xavier connected to Apocalypse, the rest of the group watches.
As the Apocalypse gets out of the pyramids and stands in front of Charles.
"I am Charles Xavier, " Charles introduced himself.
"I know who you are." Apocalypse nodded.
"Then you know, I've merely come to talk. To discuss what you are planning and…" Charles was cut by Apocalypse.
"I have nothing planned. I am but an instrument of destiny," Apocalypse replied.
"But it is the destiny of destruction," Xavier argued with him.
"The future came to me in that craft. I have embraced it and merged it with its technology, so that I may lead the evolution of the human race." Apocalypse explained his motive.
"But the human race didn't need your help!" Xavier again argued with him.
"Since when has mankind ever known what it needs?" Apocalypse disdained humans.
"You have to know that somehow you will be stopped!" Charles said in an angry mood.
"What I know is," Apocalypse removes Xavier Cerebro helmet, "It will not be by you," With the Telekinesis he floats Charles in the mid-air.
Storm released the thunder on Apocalypse, and shouted, "Leave him alone."
Instead of replying to her, Apocalypse smirk sends them both away in the same way Magneto was.
The X-Men are mortified by seeing the scene from Cerebro room.
"I knew this will happened, I should have stopped him," Jean started crying.
"Professor is gonna do what he thinks is right, regardless of risk." Ben consoles her while hugging her, he wipes her tears.
"But since I am here, if even not something good will happen, I will reverse the time before Professor gone," He silenced her by kissing.
"No, you don't do this, you will die." Rogue came to them, and she denied Ben for reversing time.
Before Professor left the Academy, one hour passed, so it was very risky for Ben to reverse the time for one hour.