Betrayal Game II #46: The Rogue Identity

Havok saw his on again off again girlfriend running down the hallway, tears streaming her face. “Lorna, what is it, what’s wrong?” Sobbing and gasping for air, Polaris tried to answer. “It’s happening again. I keep seeing the ghost, she’s there and then she’s gone; I don’t know what to do.” Alex held Lorna close to him, trying his best to reassure her. Northstar witnessed the couples embrace. He envied Polaris, despite her distraught emotional state. Before he could be caught spying, Northstar sped off to find his fellow X-Men.  He found a small group in the TV room. Psylocke was discussing the strange events she has witnessed recently. “I swear, sometimes when I walk into rooms, it looks exactly like the mansion was back when I joined. But when I leave and try to show someone else, it changes back to the present version.” Shadowcat nodded her head, obviously believing Psylockes claims. “Every now I and then I see an image of Emma Frost wondering the halls, as if she was looking for someone. I even followed her through a wall once before she simply vanished. The massive Juggernaut was leaning against the wall. His metal helmet was off and his thick, meaty fingers were rubbing his eyes. “Cain are you OK?” “Yeah Johnny, my eyes are just bothering me.” “Well we must be in bigger trouble then I thought if the mighty Juggernaut is suffering along with all of us lesser beings.” Northstar thought a joke would lighten the mood, he quickly found out he was wrong. “Don’t insult me Northstar. I’m doing my best here.” Grabbing his helmet, the Juggernaut stormed off. “What was that about?” Northstar asked aloud. Iceman chimed in with his observations.  “It’s not Marko’s fault really. He’s used to be the strong guy, and now he has all these muscle bound Avengers running around, making him look puny.

Rogue found herself being ostracized by the other prisoners. She felt as though they all blamed her for them being there.  She wasn’t sure why, however she really didn’t want to think about, in case it truly is her fault.

Jean Grey decided to separate herself from the other prisoners. She had an idea to free everyone, but knew that it could be dangerous to bystanders. In the lowest level of the mansion, she sat alone. Tapping into her innermost abilities she reached out to break through the barrier that was trapping them all inside. Objects swirled around her and reality itself seemed to quake. Then in an instant, she broke through the barrier and saw the other side. Opening her eyes, she realized exactly where she was. She wanted to rush and tell the others, but found she was too weak to move. Unfortunately, that was when the mysterious killer chose to strike. Jean found herself unable to breath; something was wrapped around her neck. As she felt the life force drained from her body, she hoped that Emma would be able to set things right.

SUSPECTS:

Sabertooth rolled his eyes at the histrionics of Polaris. There weren't many people here who could pull off the murder of Jean Grey, but Lorna was certainly a good candidate. He turned away from the scene that he was certain was nothing but a display of crocodile tears, an attempt to shift blame away from her and onto someone else, and began to speak to Mystique.

"Say, Raven... in all the time we were forced to work with X-Factor, did ya ever think you'd see the big green meanie break down like that? I'm no fancy shrink or mind-reader, but I know predators when I see them, and right now Lorna's just reeling in more prey..."

If Thor and Loki agreed on anything, it was probably that the killer was a bad guy, like Sabretooth and Mystique. 

Cecilia took a closer look at Jean's body, especially the even circular mark around her neck. It seemed that the redhead had been choked to death with some piece of fabric or jewelry. Other than that, the killer had once again left no evidence. She wondered who of those present would mean the kind X-woman harm.... and who would be capable to hide their malicious intentions from all present. "It's certainly not Iceman or Polaris, as both are clearly shaken by the death of their close friend", she thought.

Off all the people to be killed within the group, Jean seemed like too obvious of a choice. The Phoenix and rebirth and all that. Cain actually watched the body for a moment expecting fire and brimstone and some unearthly voice or something with her rising once again. When it didn't come he actually felt disappointed. Mystique was still high on his list, as her actions as of late towards the team were highly suspicious. That and the woman turned sides quicker than one could keep track of where she stood.

Alison stood over by the wall and shook her head. "What a shame, they took out Jean when they could have gone for someone like Lorna." There was just something about the green haired woman Alison didn't like. Probably didn't help that the green haired wench held the heart of Alex Summers. Being on the arm of a Summers would be nice. Maybe Scott was ready to trade up.

im done....

Rest in peace Mom, I'll see you in the White Hot room"

Rachel knew that she would see Jean again, and she knew that Jean dying had a purpose... she now had a good idea of who the killer was. Lorna had always wanted to be the leading Summers wife, and she was sure that Lorna would make sure that jean was out of the way so that her and Alex could be the leading X-Couple.

Rachel joined the others *hic*

Iceman put a hand on her shoulder. “I promise, we will find whoever did this to Jean.”

"Dont worry Bobby boy.. Mom's up there, in the White Hot room watching over us. *hic*

"Are you drunk Rach?"

"Noooooooooo.. but someone should tell Logan to hid his Sapporo stash better"

---10 min later after the murder of Iceman and Mystique---

"Oh No! Bobby!"Lorna Dane cried!

"Oh Yaye! Bobby!" Havok exclamed!

"Hey Rougie! are you alright? Didnt you and bobby have a little thing going on a few years back? wink wink. Well look at it like this now, all you have left is the ragin cajun."

Longshot stood as far away from his former friend Rogue, preferring the company of non-X-Men, Spider-Man and The Thing. She-Hulk walked up behind the debating men and offered her usual frisky green opinions.

"More dead mutants. Do I have to say I told you so?"

Thing raised his rocky eyebrow and retorted, "Sounds more like you're braggin about a perfect score than a sad statistic on hero extermination, Shulkie."

"I don't feel the need to explain my disposition. If you ask me, it takes a mutant to want to kill a mutant. Nobody else would want to be painted as such a bigot! If I were you Longshot, I'd stay as far away from that 2nd rate green haired wannabe Polaris! Plus, I heard Mr. Sinister going on earlier about splicing Magneto's DNA with the Summers clan. Considering Havok is among us, I'd beware his beautiful blonde mug, as well as his girlfriend!"

Edited by GenEriK Lemons - 02-Apr-2011 at 1:39am

Cecilia was used to seeing dead bodies. She remained calm, even though the latest victim was Iceman, whom she had known a bit better than the rest of the crowd. This time a weapon had been used to perform the murder - a weapon made of metal.  

Edited by Peter Luzifer - 02-Apr-2011 at 8:22am

OOC: By my count Polaris only needs one more vote to a revelation, so I will push the next round back to Monday night to give more people a chance to vote.

"Can I get you anything Alison. Water or something." Cain hovered over the pop star, as she sat to the side watching the goings on of the newest murders. "I could probably find something like that around here. Keep the mind off the bad things."

"Cain thanks but I don't need a nursemaid." Waving the man off, Alison wandered over towards the others. Standing beside Lorna she tilted her head somewhat. "Shame about your boyfriend. He was one of the good one's. Havok seems to still be available. I'm sure he can fill the void."

Cain frowned at all that was happening. Another two were dead now. Alison was ignoring him and treating him like a nusence. He just wanted her to notice him was all. Oh well, there were other things to worry about at the moment. Storm had been quiet since he had seen her last. Perhaps he'd seek her out. Either her or maybe She-Hulk. They had that fling after all.

While Polaris revealed her innocence to the others, Havok only became more conflicted. Now he definitely thought she would need reassurance after everyone else seemed to be turning on her. But once again he feared she would think he was overbearing if he rushed to defend her. He continued his quest to find someone else to test the waters and she if she needed comforted. He wasn't getting much help from a now drunk Rachel so he decided to move on to someone else, steering clear of the alien among them. Since most of the X-Men now had let it be known they thought Polaris was the killer, he would really have to go to someone radical to talk to her. He walked up to Spiral and asked if she could do him a favor....

It was bad enough that Polaris had to defend her innocence in front of everyone, now Havok was showing he had no standards whatsoever by flirting with that maniac Spiral! She was furious! How could he not come talk to her after such a traumatic experience?! Clearly he had not been phased by her hitting on Longshot. But she was running out of options. Pretty much the only guy left to flirt with was Thor, and he was a little too scary to approach. She wasn't even sure how to go about picking up a Norse god. So instead she ran and put her arms around Juggernaut, crying about how he could relate to being wrongly accused of villainy...

Z'Cann
Thor



Edited by Cable - 04-Apr-2011 at 1:25pm