Everyone ran out of the mansion, all thoughts of their 'guest' were put on hold as they went out into battle.

There stood Sinister, his white face with that diamond of doom upon his forehead, with all his Marauders behind him.

"What do you want?" demanded Scott taking his position as team leader.

A small smile spread over Sinister's face. "I guess I'm stuck with the usual bad guy phrase. I want you dead. You have caused me enough trouble and enough is enough already!"

Bobby gave a snicker, which everyone heard. He turned around to face al the stares. "Hey! The feeling is mutual!!!"

The smile on Sinister's face slowly drew into a sneer as he softly said, "Attack, and capture Summers and Miss Lee."

Alarms sounded through Jubilee. What could he want with her?

The insane glares of the Marauders watched the determined stances of the X-men.

All hell broke loose.

Vertigo attacked Warren with no notice. Before he could take off into the air, he was caught within her vertigo. Before the X-men knew it, he was down. It had taken Hank off balance. From behind, Malice slashed his back. He now lay in a pools; a pool of his own blood.

Jubilee looked around frantically. It was only minutes into the battle and two of them were already down. She didn't know what to do.

"Look out Logan!" screamed Ororo frantically trying to strike down a harpoon that was heading for him, with lightning.

Logan whirled and had almost jumped out of the way, but it struck him squarely in the chest.

"Oh my God... Logan!" screamed Jubilee. Rogue was in gridlock with Archlight. Scott and Jean were caught in Riptide's trap with no visible way out. Bishop was knocked out cold next to Beast, because of Prism and Scrambler. All in all, the battle was going pretty badly.

Remy lurked in the shadows outside the manor. He had followed them all outside and winced at Scott's old fashioned words. Sinister. There was a man that he hated with a passion. Since the age of 12, he had been pestering his family. In fact, at one time, he had tried to kidnap him. His family, the Guild, showed him the error of his ways. He hadn't seen the man again, until now. The wasn't done, quickly. Sinister would walk off with what he wanted... Jubilee.

 Jubilee looked around. She was petrified. The thieves instincts had taken over. What she had mistaken for standing still was a steady line of dodging, flipping, and sliding, avoiding energy projectiles. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.

She shot off a couple of fireworks. Although, they didn't explode. In the slow motion frame of mind that Jubilee was experiencing, they looked like duds. They hadn't exploded! Instead, they were hanging in the air.

Scalphunter and Blockbuster came forward to snatch Jube, but they made an unfortunate mistake. They had triggered her floating mine by touching it. Everyone who had been standing in the general vicinity of it, were knocked down and out cold.

Everyone, but Jubilee.

"Oh my God. Oh my God. What did I do?!" cried Jubilee in panic. Not only were the bad guys out, but so were all the good guys. She started to jump up and down. The once thieves instinct had come and gone now that she was relatively out of danger.

Before she knew it, she was on the ground. Sabertooth had woken up and knocked her down from behind. Those stupid Marauders always did things sneaky. They had no scruples.

Remy decided that this had gone on for too long. Stepping out of the shadows Remy walked up to where Sinister standing.

He was going to protect his quarry.

"Sinister!" bellowed Remy.

Sinister swung around to see just who was addressing him in such a disobedient tone.

"LeBeau!" remarked Sinister. "I told you we would meet again."

"Too soon f'me homme." said Remy dryly, his eyes glowing red.

"I told you that if you worked for me. I'd give you what you desired the most. the offer still stands." smiled Sinister.

"Not t'day." said Remy angrily as he charged the air under Sinister and his Marauders. He then proceeded to charge a card and throw it at him for old times sake. The air around them proceeded to throw them high into the air like a canon ball.

 "Gong riddance t'bad rubbish." muttered to no one in particular.

Kitty Pryde had arrived to find no one to greet her after so long. In fact, she discovered that the whole mansion was on 'red alert'. She went to Cerebro to find out just what the hell was going on. Looking at the screen, she most of the X-men down.

Her first instinct was to rush out and help them. Yet, another figure caught her attention.

"Cerebro, please sector in an figure in grid 3D." asked Kitty anxiously. It was him. She had heard of him. Some of it good. Some of it bad. You didn't went to get this guy pissed off, or get in his way. Obviously, Sinister had got in his way. (She felt the back of her neck) and decided to throw on her turtle neck before going outside. But then she saw Sinister and his Marauders being catapulted high into the air. Sinister promptly teleported them away before they hit this ground.

"Drat." grumbled Kitty. She had wanted to see them go SPLAT! She left to go join everyone.

Remy ran over to Jubilee and checked for a pulse. He found it. "Merci Dieu." He cradled her on his lap; alone in thoughts.

Clearly, he did not realize that the X-men had recovered. They had heard his conversation, seen his powers. Damn careless o'me! thought Remy, being very harsh on himself. They were looking at him, also clearly, pissed.

Jubilee started groan and it made Remy aware that he only had a limited time to talk to her before shit hit the propeller.

" 'tite, I 'ave t'talk t'you." said Remy with a hint of urgency in his voice. "I promise not t'rat or you. I just need to tell y'something."

"Talk fast." murmured Jubilee looking behind Remy at all the X-men, who were now up and mad.

"D'accord. Let's start again. I be Remy LeBeau o'de T'ieves Guild. We are recruiting an' we want you, Jubilation Lee t'join. De money was just a ploy t'see 'ow good y'really are." said Remy quickly. He noticed how her face had blanched. Was it because of what he had said, or was something happening behind him? He stretched out with his kinesthetic sense to see what was happening. What he saw, he didn't like. He may of been an extremely good thief, but there was a whole tea, of pissed off mutants behind him.

"Hi everyone! What's up?" asked a smiling Kitty, coming out of the manor. She cheerfully walked into the middle of the group. "Rogue! Long time no see!" Walking around the group, she skillfully drew the attention to herself. "Remy, my man!

What are you doing here?"

Remy looked at the girl. Had he seen her before? At the moment, he didn't care. She was doing him a big service by making light of the situation and giving credibility to his character by pretending to know him. Should he light up a card?

"Saving dere butts." smiled Remy finally getting up off the ground, also helping up Jubilee.

Jubilee looked around and noticed that Scott had left. Her gaze swung up to Xavier's study window. There he was talking to Charles. His beet red face and his waving hands gave off the impression that he was extremely pissed off. Plus, some of the telepaths were cringing. Obviously, Xavier had watched the fight from his study. Had she heard the guy right? It was all a test!?!?! And what the hell was a Thieves Guild? A bunch of too happy, go-go's with nothing better to do??? And now that she thought about it, how did Kitty know him?

"Well, you certainly saved mine. Thanks Remy." smiled Jubilee at Remy. She wanted him alive so that they could talk about what he just said to her.

"Not a problem, petite." grinned Remy.

Scott was now storming out of the house, with Xavier trailing behind him.

The moment Remy sensed Scott coming out of the house. He charged a couple of cards and waited for the confrontation.

"I think I've just figured out something out Beavis. This sucks! This sucks more than anything that has sucked before. We must find this butt-hole that took our TV."

Beavis and Butt-head Do America.  

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