Khan would find Rogue extremely willing to do whatever it took to make certain she didn't end up strapped to another lab table. She had hundreds of psyches in her mind who had died in the agony of her touch and she would rather be killed herself than be forced to murder innocent people again.

"I wish it were that simple," she said with a sigh, scrubbing a hand over her eyes. "When I touch someone, I absorb their life force, memories, skills - it's like I have a copy of them permanently stored in my mind. With other mutants, I borrow their mutations for a little while." Crossing her arms again, she wore a somber but serious expression as she met his eyes. "It only takes about ten seconds to kill a baseline human. With someone enhanced, it's a bit longer, but not much."