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Real name:Remy LeBeau
Codename:ambit
Alliance:(the brotherhood,xmen etc)Team X
Age:15
History:Remy LeBeau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was kidnapped from the hospital where he was raised by the LeBeau Clan Thieves' Guild, and given to the Antiquary as a tribute.

They referred to the child as "Le Diable Blanc" ("the white devil") and believed he was prophesied to unite the warring Thieves and Assassins Guilds. Soon after, Remy was placed in the care of Fagan's Mob, a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery. After living as an orphan on the streets, a 10 year-old Remy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then patriarch of the Thieves Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy off the streets and adopted him into his own family.

Remy's bio-kinetic charging abilities manifested early in his teens, although he kept his powers secret from his family and friends, practicing his powers away from prying eyes. When he was 15, he accompanied his cousin Etienne Marceaux on his "Tithing", the ritual initiation test of the Thieves Guild. However, it went awry as they were assigned to steal from the powerful immortal mutant Candra, who quickly captured them. Candra recognized Remy from an encounter that had taken place in her past but in his future (due to a time travel mission to the 19th Century Remy would take as an adult) and sold them to the deformed, mutant gangster and child slave trader known as the Pig, who planned to sell them and others their age to HYDRA as boy soldiers. Remy used his powers to escape their holding pen, but the physically enhanced Pig quickly caught up to them. Remy discovered his signature attack when he picked up a playing card that Etienne had dropped, charged it and threw it in the Pig's face, taking out his eye. Finally escaping his cliff top headquarters by diving into the sea, Remy was ultimately rescued by the Guild; Etienne drowned.

In an attempt to reconcile the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, Remy married Bella Donna Boudreaux, granddaughter of the head Assassin, whom he met at age 8. Unfortunately, he was challenged by her brother Julien to a duel after the wedding. In the duel, Gambit killed Julien, and he was exiled from the city, ending his relationship with Bella Donna. then he made the team X

Appearnce:Avi
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Gambit is a mutant whose primary ability is the manipulation of energy. He uses the bio-kinetic energy his body produces to convert the potential energy of non-organic matter into kinetic energy. The conversion process, referred to as charging, often results in a violent and powerful explosion. The explosion is proportional to the size of the object. With the first demonstration of his powers, he charges an object using his mind rather than through physical contact.[4] Because energy charges his body, Gambit has greater strength, stamina and agility than any non-powered human.

At his full power, Gambit is able to charge any organic or non-organic matter within his line of sight through thought. The failure to control his abilities in his youth forced him to turn to Mister Sinister, who excised the portion of his brain stem responsible for his full abilities. Later, while he is trapped in Victorian England, he returns to Sinister to have his grey matter reimplanted, restoring his abilities to their full potential. He uses his powers to return to present-day by transforming himself into living energy which joins with the kinetic flow of the timestream. With access to his full power, Gambit is able to manipulate the potency of his bio-kinetic energy to burn, cause molecular discomfort, incinerate and create timed detonations. However, he burns out his powers after fighting New Sun. He regains them with Sage's help. Gambit is also able to heal himself by stimulating his cellular activity, although this ability has only been demonstrated once.

He also possesses a hypnotic charm that allows him to exert a subtle influence over sentient beings, leading them to believe what he says and agree with his suggestions. This charm is so powerful if given a chance, Gambit could charm the Shadow King.[4] However, the charm does not work on those who know about it.[33]

During combat, Gambit customarily wears a suit of highly articulated light body armor and uses a telescopic metal staff. He is extensively trained in martial arts, particularly French kick-boxing or savate. He is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing street-fighting techniques and acrobatics. Gambit is a skilled card-thrower, and throws charged playing cards with great accuracy at opponents. He also excels in all aspects of thievery, as he was adopted by the patriarch of a Thieves' Guild

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Real name: Anna Marie
Codename: Rogue
Alliance:(the brotherhood,xmen etc) X-Men
Age: 15
History: Rogue's history begins in Caldecott County, Mississippi. Her parents, Owen and Priscilla, married early in their relationship and lived in a back-to-nature hippie commune. Although the marriage seems to have been an unsteady one, both Priscilla and her younger sister Carrie doted on Priscilla's infant daughter Anna Marie.

The members of the commune became interested in Native American mysticism, and convinced a shaman to try to help them gain access to a mystical place called the "Far Banks" where they believed dreams would come true. However, the ritual they attempted resulted in Priscilla's disappearance, and Owen brought Anna Marie to Carrie to raise.

Carrie, in her grief at the loss of her sister, was a strict and authoritarian guardian. Anna Marie was a rebellious child and having an equally poor relationship with her father, prompted her to run away from home as a young teenager and to begin using the name "Rogue." Not long after, she was approached by Mystique, who sought her out on the advice of her precognitive partner Destiny and took her in as a daughter. At some point, Rogue grew close to a boy named Cody Robbins. During their flirtation, she impulsively kissed Cody, at which point her latent mutant power to absorb the life energy and psyche of others with skin-to-skin contact emerged. Rogue was traumatized by the experience, and Cody was left in a coma from which he would not awaken. She began to wear clothing that limited the possibility of accidental skin contact. She prefers to wear only haltered tops with shorts or swimsuits under acceptable circumstances or when completely alone, wishing she did "not have to cover up so much around folks, to protect them from me." she was a half sister to nightcrlawer because of mystique

As she grew older Mystique entrusted Rogue with more information about Mystique's true nature, including grooming her for an eventual spot in the reconstituted Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. At the same time, Mystique tried to protect Rogue as best she could from harm, and so carefully picked and chose the missions she allowed Rogue to accompany the team on. However, she could not completely protect Rogue. Mystique sent Rogue to effect the release of Blob, Pyro and Avalanche from prison, their incarceration coming after the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Senator Robert Kelly. During the mission, Rogue entered into an emnity with Ms. Marvel, one of the Avengers. Deciding to settle scores with her, Rogue, having stolen super strength, ambushed Ms. Marvel at her San Francisco apartment. The fight continued to the Golden Gate Bridge, where by accident, Rogue's bare skin contacted Ms. Marvel's. The contact went haywire, comletely transferring Ms. Marvel's psyche into Rogue's mind, where it would remain resident. She at this time also permanently acquired Ms. Marvel's powers of flight and super-strength (though, with the exception of very brief periods when Carol Danvers was in control, not her precognitive seventh sense or the ability to psionically change from civillian clothes into her costume).

A non-canonical story, written by Chris Claremont in 1979 and intended for (the never-published) issue 25 of Ms. Marvel depicts a somewhat different chain of events. In it, Ms. Marvel first encounters the Brotherhood as she investigates an arms dealer named Peter Coleho. Rogue is carefully sheltered from involvement by Mystique, but overhears Destiny's predictions of harm coming to Mystique due to Ms. Marvel's presence and therefore takes it upon herself to attack the superheroine. The rest of the story plays out much like the canonical story in Avengers Annual 10.

For a time, Rogue seemed to suffer no ill effects from the combat, and she continued working alongside the Brotherhood on various missions. In one such encounter, Mystique, Destiny and Rogue encoutered ROM, the Space Knight and a rare male Dire Wraith known as Hybrid. After having absorbed its powers, Rogue understood the threat that Hybrid posed to humanity, and aided ROM in dispatching it. She would also come into conflict with the X-Men at the Pentagon, nearly destroying the building when she absorbed Storm's powers for a brief period. Around this time, she also engaged in a brief and vicious feud with Dazzler, fueled largely by Rogue's intense jealousy of Dazzler -- Dazzler could have the life, the friends, the lovers that Rogue couldn't.

However, the constant conflict between her own psyche, Carol Danvers' mind, and the residual psychic echoes of all the other beings she'd absorbed began to wear on her mind, driving her close to insanity. Around this same time, Mastermind, seeking revenge for previous slights at the hands of Mystique, also exerted a subtle influence on Rogue's mind. The two forces acting on her fragile psyche finally compelled her to leave Mystique and seek help from an old adversary of her adoptive mother -- Charles Xavier.

Rogue's sudden appearance at the Xavier School was at first a cause for shock and alarm to the X-Men, who uniformly discounted as a false-flag ruse or dismissed as a fitting punishment her claims of near mental breakdown due to the minds inside her. Professor Xavier, however, overruled his students, who were prepared to leave en masse should Rogue be admitted as a student and member of the X-Men. He argued that Rogue had every right to seek and attempt redemption in the same manner as Wolverine, and that to cast her out merely because of her past history was an abhorrent act. The X-Men, chastened, prepared to work alongside, though not accept, their new teammate.

Rogue's first real "misson" with the X-Men was to accompany them to Japan, where they were to be guests of honor at Wolverine's wedding to Mariko Yashida. At first Wolverine reacted with rage at Rogue's presence on his doorstep. Yet Mariko demanded she be treated with hospitality. Soon, the X-Men were embroiled in a plot to kill Mariko fomented by Viper and Silver Samurai. With only Wolverine, Rogue and Storm completely unaffected by a poisoning attempt, Wolverine and Rogue were forced to learn to work together to solve the mystery. The relationship started out strained, as Wolverine thought Rogue a brash neophyte and impediment who relied too much on her invulnerability to keep her out of trouble. He also had problems with her sense of humor, once threatening to kill her after she, in jest, suggested kissing him. Having returned to the hospital that the X-Men were being treated at, they were confronted by Viper and Silver Samurai. As the Samurai badly wounded Wolverine before being defeated, Viper pulled out a laser pistol, intending to shoot Mariko. Rogue entered, and took the full force of the laser blast, nearly being killed in the process. Wolverine, impressed with Rogue's willingness to give her life for them, immediately counted her as a full teammate and friend, even risking his own life by allowing Rogue to absorb his rapid healing ability.

At first, her time with the X-Men was marked by a lack of confidence in her own abilities and her fears that the team did not fully trust her, which was a fair assessment. Meanwhile, Mystique, laboring under the misapprehension that Charles Xavier was to blame for Rogue's defection, schemed to regain Rogue. The Brotherhood attacked Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Amanda Sefton while the foursome were on a double-date in Manhattan, also drawing away Storm and Wolverine to the scene of the battle, leaving Rogue alone with Xavier, or so they thought. Mystique had snuck into the mansion, and disguised as Rogue, attempted to kill Xavier, an attempt that was thwarted by Rogue herself, who explained to Mystique that she had not been mind-controlled by Xavier. Reluctantly, Mystique agreed to allow Rogue to stay, though the incident strained relations between the two, and did nothing to improve the relations between the X-Men and Brotherhood. At the same time, Colossus had been greivously injured in battle with Pyro and Avalanche (he had been heated to near-melting, then immediately bathed in liquid nitrogen), and Rogue volunteerd to absorb his powers, reverting him back to normal, and thereby allowing the Morlock Healer to tend to the gaping wounds caused by the ordeal. Rogue was bound up in the melted, frozen steel form in agony for the duration of the treatment. With that act, once again potentially sacrificing her life for those who distrusted and feared her, she had finally gained the full trust and confidence of the X-Men.

There was little time to enjoy her newfound status, as soon, the X-Men were pulled away from Earth, along with numerous other heroes and villains, and sent to a planet created by an extradimensional entity known only as the Beyonder, there to fight for his amusement and education. There, she and the X-Men formed a thrid bloc of fighters alongside Magneto, but ultimately rejoinign with the heroes once thee was a clear path off the world. When being returned to Earth by the Beyonder, the X-Men were not sent back to Central Park, but instead ended up in Japan. Professor Xavier dispatched Rogue back to New York and the mansion to check up on Kitty (who had not accompanied the rest of the team). However, Rogue had never flown such a long distance before in one go, and was physically and mentally exhausted upon her arrival. When checking phone messages on the mansions system, she heard a call for help from Michael Rossi, a government agent and former lover of Carol Danvers. In her weakened state, her mind was not able to resist Danvers' taking over, and Rogue/Carol flew to the SHIELD Helicarrier, where Rossi was being held by a group of rogue SHIELD agents working as moles for the Hellfire Club. Rogue managed to rescue Rossi from their grasp, but not before one of the agents shot the other with his gun, claiming later to Nick Fury that Rogue had killed the agent in cold blood. Fury declared Rogue a wanted woman, subject to arrest and trial for murder. Meanwhile, Rogue/Carol took Rossi back to Carol's parents vacation house in Massachusetts, where Rogue finally had to confront the enormity of her confrontation with Danvers. She had a complete mental breakdown, finally unsure where her mind ended and Carol Danvers' began.

The next few weeks following her return to the mansion were tough for Rogue, as she believed herself to be descending further and further into madness. Finally unable to bear it anymore, she fled the mansion, and returned to Caldecott County to find some measure of solace in familiar childhood suroundings.

Meanwhile, Henry Gyrich and Val Cooper, tasked with hunting Rogue down and bringing her to justice, had obtained a powers neutralizer (intended for confrontations with the Dire Wraiths) from the mutant inventor Forge. They set off, with a mutant-signature scanner, in pursuit.

Storm had finally discovered Rogue's location, and went to console the young woman. At first Rogue was skeptical and despondent, but Storm showed her a measure of trust -- allowing Rogue to absorb her briefly. Unlike her other uses of this power, the transfer was peaceful, and she retained her own mind, while also being able to commune with Storm's to learn the proper use of Storm's weather-control powers. At that point, Gyrich and Cooper and a large number of Federal agents and US troops appeared to apprehend Rogue. She and Storm fought them off, finally forcing them to retreat, but not without cost -- Storm was hit by a blast from the neutralizer intended for Rogue, stripping Storm of her weather control powers.

Soon, Rogue and the other X-Men were pulled into near-constant conflict with a variety of enemies. The team ...

Appearnce: Avi
Power: Rogue's main mutant ability is the near-instantaneous transfer through skin-to-skin contact of a person's mind and any superpowers the being may possess. This transfer is of limited duration (as a yardstick, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe's entry on Rogue suggests a 1:60 ratio -- for every second spent in contact, Rogue gains the powers, abilities and psyche for a minute), though under freak circumstances the transfer can become permanent. The transfer has often been acompanied by a small, non-harmful crackling of electrical energy around the contact point.

Rogue gains the full powers of her victim when the transfer occurs, including all knowledge of how to use the abilities. When the abilities include physical changes, she undergoes them as well, for instance taking on blue fur, yellow eyes and a tail when she absorbed Nightcrawler.

In an issue of What If?, it is even suggested that divine abilities may be taken, as she is seen to have drained Thor completely and gains the right to carry his Uru hammer Mjolnir.

At the same time, she also gains the full mind of the victim, including all knowledge that the victim possesses (though if the victim mind is resisting, she may not have immediate access to it). Often, when the transfer occurs, the absorbed mind becomes either dominant or co-equal with Rogue's own, with Rogue speaking in the voice of, and using the mannerism and personality of, the absorbed being, or an amalgam of the absorbed person's and her own (at times switching at random between her own persona and the victim's, rarely being a true melding, though it does happen when the transfer is peaceful and voluntary). Even though once the melding ends the victim's psyche returns to their own body, a small psychic echo remains in Rogue's mind, usually buried, though severe mental duress or fatigue can bring these echoes to the surface. Also resident for a large part of her life was the full mind of Carol Danvers, who in periods of mental fatigue for Rogue attempted to assert control (for much of Rogue's stay in Genosha, for instance, after Rogue was sexually assaulted by Genoshan guardsmen, Danvers' mind was firmly in control of Rogue.)

Although she can temporarily absorb powers, the only superpowers she retained permanently were those connected to Ms. Marvel, stemming from her battle with the superheroine in San Francisco. They included flight at supersonic speeds (though long journies, such as her flight from Japan to New York after returning from the Beyonder's world left her fatigued physically and mentally), enhanced strength (she has been known to lift in the vicinity of 50-70 tons at her peak) and near-invulnerability (though she can be injured or even killed by strong enough weapons). She did not gain, except at times that Carol Danvers' psyche was in control, Ms. Marvel's precognitive "seventh sense" nor her ability to immediately and psionically change into Ms. Marvel's costume (during a battle with Master Mold in New York, Rogue did end up changing to this costume under Danvers' influence, much to her chagrin). The presence of Danvers' mind, due to it being part Kree, as well as being a anomalous "second mind" within her, made Rogue partially immune to telepathic attack and probing.

Rogue has been bilingually fluent in both English and French since childhood.[2] Rogue also had access to Carol Danvers' espionage and special-services training.



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Stamia: 8
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bio continued: After her battle with Ms. Marvel, however, Rogue retained her opponent's powers of strength, flight, invulnerability, the ability to fly in space without protection, and a precognitive 7th sense, along with most of her psyche. The conflict of emotions and thoughts raged in her head, until Rogue was nearly insane. She left her home and sought out the X-Men, who didn't exactly greet her with open arms. However, Professor X saw that Rogue really needed help, and that she was sincere, so she was allowed to join the team. After saving Wolverine's life in Japan, and helping to defeat Mastermind, Rogue was pretty much accepted by all.

Although Rogue never learned to control her power, she did gain more control over her mind with Xavier's help. Carol's persona was submerged, but acted as a backup at times when Rogue's persona was suppresed. She remained with the X-Men through the Mutant Massacre, the team's death and rebirth in Dallas, and "Inferno," getting into a sometimes volatile love triangle with former adversary Dazzler and Longshot along the way. During a battle with the Master Mold/Nimrod, Rogue was grabbed by the giant robot, and told Dazzler to laser off its foot, so that it would fall into the Siege Perilous gateway. When Dazz did so, the robot was sucked into the portal, but it took Rogue with it.

Months later, Rogue popped back into existence in the Australian town the X-Men used as a base, now occupied again by the Reavers, and discovered that the powers and psyche she had absorbed from Ms. Marvel were gone. She absorbed a little of Gateway, the aborigine teleporter, to find out the last place he had sent the X-Men, and used his bull-roarer to teleport to the Savage Land. While there, she was mysteriously attacked by a horribly degenerated Ms. Marvel. This doppelganger was the part of Ms. Marvel that Rogue had absorbed, given form by the Siege Perilous, and not the real Carol Danvers, who had become Binary years before, and who was a member of the Starjammers. The two women shared one life force, however, so as one weakened and degenerated, the other grew stronger.

Eventually, they were both felled by Magneto, who sized up the situation and decided to save Rogue, transferring all of "Ms. Marvel's" energy and powers back to her. Strangely, Rogue's powers didn't work, even her own absorption ability, which had worked before the transfer. She joined Magnus is his conflict against Zaladane, and the two began a relationship the full extent of which is uncertain. They then teamed up with Ka-Zar and S.H.I.E.L.D. to defeat Zaladane, who had threatened to take over the world's magnetic field. During the battle, Rogue's powers returned. After Magneto killed Zaladane, Rogue went to Muir Island, where she fell under the Shadow King's influence, and eventually fought against her friends.

When the Shadow King was defeated, Rogue returned to the X-Men and became part of the Blue Team. She met the new X-Man Gambit and the sparks started to fly, until his wife Beladonna showed up. Bel almost died fighting the Brood, and when Gambit returned to New Orleans to find a way to heal her, Rogue went along, and once accidentally touched Belladonna, seemingly absorbing some of her mind. Although this was hinted at shortly afterwards, it was never really followed up. Just before the crystalization of Earth by the M'Kraan Crystal, Rogue finally kissed Gambit, figuring that the world was about to end anyway, so what the heck?

When Bishop stopped our timeline from being disrupted in the past, however, Earth was not destroyed, and Gambit wound up in a coma. Rogue, on the other hand, was found by Iceman down in Florida, wearing Gambit's coat and trying to steal things. She had absorbed some memories from Gambit that were so powerful that she blocked them out, and couldn't figure out what was happening to her. She felt she had to leave the X-Men for a while, and went on a road trip with Iceman, ending up in Seattle, where Gambit was waiting, having awoken from his coma and knowing where his memories would take her. They got into a small fight and broke up.

Rogue went on by herself to a small town, when she rented a room from a single mother and began work as a hostess in a restaurant. Rogue's civilian life was short-lived, however, as her landlady went to Humanity's Last Stand and turned her in, fearing that she might harm her and her boy. Rogue was captured and brought to the Stand's base. She was about to be tortured when one of the guards turned on the others, killed them and freed Rogue. The guard revealed himself to be Joseph, and after clearing up the obvious case of mistaken identity, the two of them stopped Humanity's Last Stand from killing its own supporters, and then left to rejoin the X-Men. They returned in time for Onslaught, and helped defeat the Sentinels that he unleashed. Afterwards, Rogue found herself somewhat torn between Gambit and Joseph, especially after Joseph reworked the circuitry from the psi-shielded Z'Nox chamber to allow her to touch another person while underneath it. Later that night, the X-Men were taken to the Shi'ar Empire to fight the Phalanx, and Rogue was infected with the Transmode Virus, whereupon she confessed that she still loved Gambit.

After defeating the Phalanx, the X-Men were sent home, but their ship crashed and they were captured by Nanny. For one night, their powers were negated, and Rogue and Gambit were able to touch and fulfill their relationship. Unfortunately, the next morning Gambit was put on trial by Erik the Red (Magneto), and he revealed that he had assembled the Marauders and precipitated the Mutant Massacre. Rogue was horrified, and although she saved Gambit from the collapsing citadel when they escaped, she left him half-naked and alone in the Antarctic wliderness where they had been. Rogue returned to the X-Men but was having dreams of touching her friends and draining them dry. She found out about a Dr. Agee who claimed to be able to remove mutant powers, and was about to undergo the procedure when Mystique showed up and tried to force her out of it. After a struggle, Rogue finally realized that she couldn't go through with it, because of the implications for other mutants. She returned to the Mansion, and continued trying to come to terms with her desires and lack of control.

Then Gambit returned to the team, and the couple continued to pursue a very "on-again, off-again" relationship. Recently, Rogue was made field leader of one of the X-Men teams, being the most experienced member of her squad after Wolverine, who said he's not suited for leadership, and Nightcrawler, who refused the job, as he was studying to be a priest. Shortly thereafter, when Earth was turned into a prison planet by the Shi'ar, Rogue saved a girl from some attacking aliens. The girl turned out to be Z'Cann, a mutant Skrull who had left for outer space with Professor X after Cyclops sacrificed himself to stop Apocalypse's ascension to power. Z'Cann was badly wounded, so to get Xavier's message to Rogue she touched Rogue's bare skin, using her own telepathic powers to facilitate the memory transfer. However, due to Rogue's own powers, she absorbed not only Z'Cann's memories but also her Skrull shape-shifting power.

Rogue began uncontrollably manifesting the powers of various people that she had touched over the years, like "total recall" of those abilities. Though she eventually got most of those manifestations under control, she could not get rid of a measure of the healing factor and the bone claws she had once abosrbed from Wolverine. A few weeks later, Rogue also manifested Cyclops's optic blasts, forcing her to don a pair of ruby quartz glasses to control them. Rogue then left the X-Men with some of her teammates in search of Destiny's lost journals.

During an invasion of aliens from another dimension, Rogue begged Sage to use her jump-starting powers to evolve Rogue to a point where she could control all of the various powers inside of her. Sage agreed, and Rogue became a one-woman army, able to use the powers of anyone she had ever absorbed in the past, and exhibit multiple powers at once.

In that same invasion, Rogue was confronted by Vargas, who wanted to kill her to preserve his own life. Vargas showed her a page from one of Destiny's diaries that proved to him that Rogue would kill him. Rogue fought Vargas off and sped to rescue Gambit from the machine that was using him to power a trans-dimensional gate, but the power beam trapped her with him, and they were both stabbed by Vargas. Wounded but livid, Rogue pursued Vargas, ambushing him by replacing his statue of Psylocke and eventually using all her abilities to defeat him (and perhaps kill him, though the exact outcome of their fight is still uncertain). Both Remy and Rogue survived by a near margin, though Rogue was forced to enter the astral plane to force Gambit to live.

Following the repulsion of the invasion, Rogue realized that the Destiny Prophecies are just possibilities and that following them is more dangerous than ignoring them. She also found that she had inherited a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny, and the X-Men retired there to recuperate. Rogue soon left the team with Gambit, since they both emerged powerless from their ordeals, and they wanted to further explore their relationship.

She reconnected with the X-Men while living in Valle Soledas, California, a mixed human-mutant community. Still powerless, she was able to wear less than full coverage, but often kept a temporary skin art design on her arm, courtesy of Paint, as it made her less self-conscious. Rogue helped the X-Men prevent Marie D'Ancanto, a victim of mutant agression from blowing up a mixed club.

Sometime after rejoining the main X-Men team at the Mansion, Rogue regained her powers. She previously had convinced Sage to use her catalyst ability to jump start Gambit's powers, so it seems possible that Sage may then have done the same for Rogue. However, she does not seem to have regained the abilities she got from Ms. Marvel.

Shortly afterwards, Rogue was entangled in a strange set of events near her old hometown, which brought her to find out about her parents' pasts and specifically, what befell her mother. With the help of Campbell, who was in fact a mutant dream, she journeyed into a dream world and stopped her mother from breaching the barriers between that place and our world. Soon after, she saw a news photo of herself, Mystique and Sunfire of which she had no memory, and which was being used to impugn Sunfire's honor. However, Rogue thought that Sunfire was to blame and she traveled to Japan but was ambushed on the jet by Lady Deathstrike. Defeating Deathstrike, Rogue attacked Sunfire, but learned that he is innocent, and they both hunted down the Silver Samurai, whom they figure must be the villain. Rogue and Sunfire try to stop him, but Deathstrike crippled Sunfire and Rogue is captured. A woman named Blindspot then revealed her shared past with Rogue, dating from before the formation of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, when they were a team, and Blindspot was the only one who could touch Rogue, due to the similar nature of their powers. Sunfire then forced Rogue to take his remaining power to avenge his imminent death. Rogue defeated Deathstrike, but Blindspot excised her memories back to her days with the Brotherhood (hoping to get Rogue to stay with her) and she fought the X-Men. However, she deduced what her former friend did and conviced her to let her return to her current life. Rogue was left with Sunfire's power, perhaps permanently.

Returning to the Mansion, Rogue and Gambit began telepathic therapy sessions with Emma Frost to try and cure their touching problem, but nothing seemed to work. Then one of Gambit's students named Foxx tried to seduce him, and was revealed as being Mystique! Rogue was confused, but Mystique brought her protege Pulse to meet Rogue. Pulse could disrupt Rogue's power and touch her, and Mystique wanted to break up Rogue and Gambit so Rogue could finally have a fulfilling relationship. This backfired when Pulse didn't want to be used, and Rogue stayed with Gambit until the latter's transformation into Death IV. Rogue refused to believe her love was turned, but after Death tried to kill her a few times she started to let go. She still held on to the hope that he would eventually return, but that seemed a slim chance even to her.

Soon afterwards, Rogue worked with Cyclops and Emma to rescue mutants being experimented on by a clinic and afterwards was offered a role as a strike team leader by Cyclops. With the luxury to choose her own team, Rogue put together a motley crew of X-Men and former villains, including Mystique, to stop the Children of the Vault (advanced humans), who had attacked the Mansion. Then Rogue was captured by Pandemic, a former associate of Xavier's who used Rogue's genes to give himself similar powers but wanted more. He infected Rogue with Strain 88 of a virus, nearly killing her. The X-Men got Rogue to Cable's island base Providence to save her life. There she discovered that her touch now killed instead of merely incapacitating. Still weakened, Rogue left the hospital to fight the Shi'ar weapon Hecatomb, and absorbed the eight billion minds the device had stored in its memory. Shaken to her core and barely in control, Rogue was later shot by Mystique, who had infiltrated the X-Men but was working with a subset of Marauders. Mystique took Rogue to Sinister to get his help in curing her mental and physical problems.

However, Sinister's work was interrupted by the arrival of the "Messiah baby" and the subsequent scramble to find her. Eventually, Mystique betrayed and killed Sinister, and Rogue's mind was purged of external influences by the Messiah baby's touch. Unfortunately, Rogue then had to confront Mystique as well, and absorbed her foster mother's mind into her own, in a way almost similar to the Ms. Marvel transferrence. Afterwards, Rogue could "see" and converse with the embedded Mystique persona, and at times could allow the mental image to take control of her body, at which point she could use her shape-shifting abilities.

To clear her head and try to come to terms with all that had happened to her, Rogue traveled to the Australian Outback town once inhabited by the X-Men, hoping for some solitude. However, she was interrupted by a researcher from a university in Melbourne who turned out to be Danger. Danger hoped to use Rogue to either lure Xavier to her or kill Xavier herself, so she constructed a variety of holographic scenarios designed to push Rogue towards an acceptance and evolution of her powers. Danger had computed that Rogue's mind was partitioned due to the trauma of hurting Cody, and had devised a solution that forced Rogue to confront her past. They were interrupted by Xavier, Gambit, and a Shi'ar scavenger ship that had detected Danger's advanced Shi'ar technology. Danger was incapacitated by the Shi'ar, but Rogue managed to fight them off with their own ship. After the aliens' departure Professor X freed Danger from the last of his controls and together they psychically operated on Rogue to remove the mental blocks she had unconsciously set up with every power and memory transfer, in order to allow her powers to mature naturally. After a brief convalescence, Rogue awoke feeling tingly, and Xavier told her she would have to learn how to control herself. She meditated for a few days and finally tested her ability to touch by kissing Gambit, who had remained by her side the whole time. Nothing happened, which meant the process was successful. Rogue accepted Gambit's offer to return to civilization with her, though she asked that he not press her to restore their romance just yet.

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