[Miranda_]

Louise didn't find the explanation at all useful. "Why is it coming after me?" she said. "Is it mall security or something?" She gasped as Storm's lightning hit the robot in the chest and it staggered back. Most of the other people in the immediate vincinity had already run away, screaming. The Sentinel still came forward but it was obvious that Storm's electricity had damaged its circuits, including the ones controlling its voice. Louise stepped back, holding out her hands protectively. Ten white pieces of bone shot from her fingertips and punched into the robot's leg. It lost its already precarious balance and fell over, crushing a nearby shop front.

"I'll come too, if you like," Rogue said, laying her magazine down. "I'm bored, and it would be something to do. I doubt he's really gone off on his own; he wouldn't be that stupid."