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X-Men Evolution: Back to the Future
Prologue: Year 2027
Mutants, a rare thing in the future and they were all running for their lives.
" We can't keep running," said the man in the front of the group. He was tired, dirty, and his white hairs showed his age.
"Sure we can. Would you rather die?" the girl behind him asked. She was just as dirty as he was, but way younger, only a teenager.
"No, we need to stop this now, at the source of the problem," said the man firmly.
"But that's in the past, I thought,… that's too much of a risk," said the girl.
"But we can take it, can you do it?" he asked to a girl in the shadows.
"If I concentrate but that'll only give us one shot, if we fail, I can't do a redo, I won't be able to survive it," she replied. Her skin was as blue as night and she had navy hair to match.
"One chance is all that we need. Let's do it," the man concluded.
The blue girl got ready. She took a couple of deep breaths and said, "Ready."
The man turned towards the group, "You all know the plan. The five of you will go to the past, while I stay here with the others and we fight here and now like there's no tomorrow because there might not be if anyone fails," he turned towards the group of five that would go, "you only change what you need to. If you change too much you could change your whole existence. And stay together and get the job done no matter what."
"I don't think she should go," said the girl who didn't even want to go as she pointed to the youngest of the group, "she's too young and vulnerable. She's going to get hurt. Why don't you see that?"
"I can handle myself," said the youngest of the group of mutants. She was short and the others, mostly teens, towered over her.
"She goes and there's no, no about it. There is a reason that I chose you five to go to the past,"
"You mean because if we mess up, it'll be like our own faults," said the boy to the side of him.
The man looked at the group and firmly said, " You go because you need to and there is nothing you can do that will change my mind. You are all X-men and know the dangers of being one. You look over your own shoulders, but also look over your team's. Now, go and remember what I told you. Don't forget, be careful what you change. I'll miss you, but I know you X-men can do it. Teens or not, you are apparently the future's best."
The blue girl held out her hands and the five got in a circle and joined hands. "Stand back everyone," she said. Then, she said a single concentrated low, but powerful word, "Past." And with that they disappeared into a blue light and were gone.
The man stood there for a second and said, "I have faith in you that you will save us." He turned towards the group of the rest of the mutants, "We have work to do, come on."
The group marched on down the unpaved road following the man towards uncertainty.
