Rogue
leaves Gambit
Rogue
and Gambit were escaping from the US army. The government wanted
every mutant to be dead. The University was destroyed by authorities.
One
night when she was sleeping on his chest, in an abandon car on a
junkyard she though:
-
What Am I doing? Gambit is an idiot gambler. It's just a matter of
time before he finds a tramp to please all his needs and then I will
be all alone again. What keeps me here?
Nothing,
nothing was the answeared pulsating in her mind.
She
remembered that once Gambit told her that if she wanted she could
just leave him. Indeed he had really said that just a few days before
that night.
So
with her bitter heart our beautiful and deadly heroine decided to
abandon Gambit. It would probably be for the best.
Rogue's
sweet escape
Rogue
lift out Gambit's arm and said whispering;
-
Goodbye Gambit, it's time for me to face my destiny.
After
that she disappeared in the cold breeze of the dark night.
As
Rogue started to walk rain began to fall. She did not care, things
could not be worse, half of her friends were dead, the university was
destroyed and she had no place to go back, nobody to hug (without
killing) and no one to trust.
Suddenly
she had this crazy idea:
-
I have to go somewhere of hard localization and unlikely they would
seek for me, some place cold. I have to go to Oymyakon on Siberia,
the coldest and yet the hottest place on earth, a small town with
just 1000 habitants.
I'll hide in this city, I'll be a shadow during the day and like a
vixen in the night.
She
knew that this would be a long and dangerous trip due the fact that
she were in NY and all the airports and harbors where being
controlled by
authorities but
she had already made of her mind. She took a flight from NY to Fin,
another one to Tallin and then finally arrived on Russia.
She
took the Transiberian in Tallin passed Moscow and got to Novosibirsky
in two days.
from
there she took an airplane to Yakutsk and then caught a
caravan
to Oymyakon.
Despite the long trip she knew it that there she would be safe, at
least for a while.
Rogue’s
liberation
Now
she was alone and eventually let all her anger and pain take control
of her. In the next nine months of winter she started to eat whatever
she could find, in some cases she even killed small animals and
raindeers as well to feed herself.
Finally
Rogue could extravasate
all her pain and anguish
without injuring anyone. This helped her to overcome all the
suffering of the last events.
Now she was able to control her feelings, her powers and be calm.
Nonetheless she wasn’t feeling secure and comfortable yet. The
professor’s death had shaken her too much, now she tried to put all
his training
in practice.
He would be so proud of her improvements.
In
the next weeks she built herself a small hut using her powers.
Rogue
had embraced her dark side, her inner demon and now was capable to
move on with her life. More than builting a hut she was builting her
character. It was a rough winter.
One
year later...hunting in the snow.
One
afternoon Rogue was hunting on the foot of mountain when she heard a
blast,
she realized what was happening but in just a few seconds she was
buried
in the
pure snow.
Suddenly
a blue hand showed up from nowhere and pulled her cold and faint body
from the frozen white snow. The strong
man
carried her to his frost fortress. When Rogue woke up she was in a
frost office that had a huge wall full of books. Upon a beautiful
writing desk there was a plaque with a name: Dr. Manhattan. She was
on the secret fortress of the famous Dr. Manhattan, he showed up to
see if she was fine:
- Are
you feeling well?
- Yes
I’m grateful for taking care of me. But I’m leaving now.
- I‘m
glad your had recovered well. I noticed that you are fond of good
literature, so you are welcome to come to the library whenever you
feel like.
After
that Rogue left the ice fortress.
Rogue’s
visits were more and more frequent until one night Dr. Manhattam told
her:
-
Why don’t you came and live here? It’s logically safer then your
hut.
And
then Dr. Manhattam went doing his activities.
Rogue
toke some weeks to give him an answer but ended up agreeing with the
idea. Although sometimes she liked to be alone and do whatever she
wanted (just like Wolverine did) eventually she missed her friends
and the professor’s advices. After all hunting was a fun activity
but she felt the need to occupy her mind with something more
productive.
Who
could imagine?
Indeed
they weren’t so different one from another. Both were
misunderstood, powerful introspective and lonely beings. In a short
period of time Rogue was already comfortable with the idea of sharing
the bed with him. Differently from the rest of Rogue’s partners He
wasn’t annoying or made demands, nor was a jealous person. He was
just a calm and quiet man. Plus one of his clones always stood on
the fortress and Rogue felt that now she had a place to come back, a
shelter, a friend.
Who
could believe this two characters would had such a simple and yet
pleasant acquaintance together? Both were powerful beings and came
from a problematic backgrond. Despite of all odds, Rogue felt living
a normal life or at least closer to have one. Of course that living
closer to radiation and having the capability of control any
substance on the universe made Rogue absorb her new parter powers and
in a short time the earth soon would have not one but two people with
tremendous power, but this is another story.
