Stars: Rogue
Appears: Cyclops, Jean, Xavier, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Gambit, Magneto, Sabertooth, Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Pyro, Avalanche, Scarlet Witch, Blob, Toad, Quicksilver
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Summary

It's nighttime, and everybody should be asleep in the Institute.This person enters the professor's room, and moments later; a slight moan can be heard. Kitty is awoken by the moan, coming from Scott's room. She jumps out of her bed, but as she goes towards her door, somebody opens it. She hides behind the door, and phases through the wall. She never realizes it's Rogue who enters the room. As she tries to wake Scott, she notices he's out cold. It freaks her out, but next moment, she's down. Rogue had followed her, and has absorbed her powers.

Next morning, Kitty's awoken by her alarm clock. She's reluctant to wake up, suffering from a headache It isn't 'till she looks at her clock; she notices she's overslept. Much later,theX- kids outside school, running to be in time for their lessons. Rogue, however, suddenly hesitates and stops. She turns around and steps into a black limo that has just pulled over. As Scott and Jean are walking to their classes, they're talking about the fact it's their last day at Bayville High. While Jean thinks it's sad, Scott can't wait to get out of there. Principal Kelly stops them. He too thinks it's not a bad thing Scott and Jean are leaving, and firmly demands the graduation is not to be disturbed by any mutant.

Meanwhile, in the Brotherhood's house, Toad's fooling around and generally annoying the Blob, as he gets rid of the trash and Pietro gets the newspaper. Moments later, Rogue gets to the front door then rings the doorbell. As Wanda goes to open it, she's confused that the door is standing open. She looks around, but sees nobody. Going back indoors, Wanda's suddenly lifted into the air, and sees Rogue floating above her. Wanda gets touched. In the living room, Fred is having some cereal while watching television with Toad. Lance's having some breakfast too, 'till he notices Wanda lying on the floor. He's surprised, but next moment, Rogue got him too.

Later in the evening, it's begun to rain, and as Storm's looking outside, she says to Jean it won't rain on her Graduation. Jean's thankful for that. Xavier enters the room and takes up the subject on Jean's choices for the future. Jean confirms she's been accepted into several universities, and that's she's thinking of going into medicine or genetics. It seems a good choice to Xavier - who seems to have an ace up his sleeves.

Meanwhile, the limo arrives at a warehouse. Rogue points a window out to Mystique. Mystique nods as she reaches out her hand. Rogue touches it, steps out of the car and morphs into a hawk. She flies through the open window, and morphs back. Colossus is there, carrying a heavy crate. He doesn't even know what hit him. Moments later, as she drags Colossus from under the crate, she gets jumped by Sabertooth. Rogue, however, knocks Sabertooth out with her hand in Colossus-mode. As she does that, she notices a reflection of a flame on the metal surface: Pyro! As he calls her stupid for being there, he begins to torch her. Rogue, however, steps out of the flames in Colossus-mode, and Pyro bites the dust.

It's the next day and Graduation's about to begin. Jean and Scott are in robes, talking about the nice weather, when Jean's family arrives. Scott tells Jean he'll see her at the ceremony. When the ceremony begins, Kelly starts a speech. Present among the crowd is Pietro: he's watching Rogue. As Kelly's speech begins to go bad , he stops. He's just seen Magneto, the Acolytes and the Brotherhood entering the grounds.

People begin to panic, Kelly tries to calm them down, but nobody's listening anymore. Rogue flees but Pietro stops her and brings her to Magneto. He holds her in place by surrounding her with iron chairs. Mesmero's there too, looking on from under the stands. As Charles asks for an explanation, Magneto answers Rogue's attacked them under Mesmero's control. When Charles asks him to prove it, Magneto says his security-camera's recorded everything. Then, Rogue flies into the air and hurls the chairs against the mutants. Most chairs miss or get warded off, but Kitty and Kurt get knocked down. Rogue flies off.

Not much later, Charles and Magneto are walking through the corridors under the institute. Charles tells Magneto the odds: they'll have to find Rogue and stop her from getting the third key or, Magneto knows the alternative: finding the portal and defending it. He tells Charles that the only way to succeed is to form a team with their most experienced members. Charles tells Magneto he'll have to use a mental block to stop Mesmero from taking over anybody. As they arrive in the control-room, Beast says he hasn't found anything on Apocalypse in the Ancient Egypt. Magneto tells him to search under Apocalypse's real name: En-Sabah-Nur.

Meanwhile, in the Institute, Beast found files about Apocalypse. And as it seems he was at Giseh, some 5000 years ago, they assume his tomb's there. But they don't know exactly where. Magneto tells them Mesmero's the one who knows the answer, and Charles suggests he'll be able to read Mesmero's mind. Moments later, Charles thinks he's got it. Somewhat later, we see them in Cerebro. Charles tells them he'll use Cerebro to interpret the images from Mesmero's mind. Having attempted that, Charles thinks he knows where to find Apocalypse's tomb.

The X-Jet touches down next to the Great Sphinx, together with Magneto's spheres. Moments later, the team assembles  Beast prepares Kitty with an oxygen mask and a lamp, while Charles briefs Kitty: she's looking for an underground room. Kitty then phases halfway into the ground. She kind of dives into the ground and ends up in an underground room. She takes a fright from what she sees there, then radios she's there. Beast asks her to look for a lever. She finds and activates it. In front of the Sphinx, a large hole opens up in the ground, in which a stairway forms. While the team descends the stairs, Kitty takes off her mask and waits for them.

When they arrive in the room, Magneto orders Pyro to light the torches, which he does. While everybody looks around, Kurt approaches Kitty and tells her he finds the place interesting. Kitty snaps back that he wasn't down there alone. She walks away, and as she leaves Kurt, who's obviously surprised by Kitty's reaction, one of the statues behind him begins to stir. Kurt only notices that when small pebbles begin to fall to the ground. He screams, and the others notice that the statues are beginning to move. Then, behind them, the door starts to close. The team realizes they've walked straight into a trap. The torches die down.