Please note that i didn't know about Racheal Grey until i was half way finish with this story. Please also note that this is my first fanfic so please comment if i made any mistake.

I hope you enjoy it.


Chapter 1:

It was 24 February 2040. It has been 15 years since the day my parents brought me to this world, the day the sentinel went rogue and attacked all of mankind and the year my parents left this world.

Like every morning I wake up in my room. My mattress laying on the right corner of my square room, no windows, just a mattress, a doorway that is covered with a black curtain, a table next to my mattress, a light candle and a photo of my mom and dad just after my mom gave birth to me.

This was the only thing I have to remind me of them. I was just a few days old when they died. I never knew them. I have heard a lot of stories about their heroic adventure with the X-men. Fighting alongside some of the most famous mutants in history.

The earth was shaking, from the fight between the mutants and the sentinels. I went to my bathroom; well you can't really call it a bathroom. It was just broken glass and a bowl of water on a table at the other corner of my room. I washed my face with the bowl of water. Then look at myself in the mirror. There isn't much you can say about me. I got my dad's brown hair and my mom's face and my dad's eyes. Which is weird since no one can see his eyes.

"Beth, can I come in?" asked TJ from the other side of the curtain. TJ (short for Talia Josephine) is my only family in this dead world. Her, her father (Kurt Wagner) and Logan have raised me, ever since my parent died.

Kurt and Logan were the last two remaining members of the X-men. Most of them died in battle or have been taken away by the sentinels 15 years ago.

"Sure, come in." I replied as I turned around. Then she moved the curtain to the side and came in. Her skin colour is just like her father's, blue, and so was her hair. She is taller then me by 15 cm and 3 years older. She was wearing her usual clothes, tank top and jeans. "What's up?"

"Are you still going?" she asked, and I could tell that she was worried.

"Of course I am still going! It's the day. Even though I don't know them, I still have to go once in a while."

"Yeah, but don't you feel that the others are still fighting. You can't go now!"

"Every battle has to end, even this one. " then she looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "Look I know I am acting like a know- it- all, but I have to go. And by my calculation, the battle will stop in 3…2…1…" The shaking slowly stoped. "It's the same every morning they find us. They fight and it ends after a few hours. Now can I go?" I asked while I was tying my hair.

"Fine. You win. I am coming with you, ok?"

"Ok. But move fast or else the sentinels will get you." I took my bag and walked out.


"Tell me why again you running so fast?" asked TJ catching her breath. "Why can't you make a earth dome and move the dome as we walk?"

"Because the sentinels will detect us with their heat vision eyes. We need to move quickly when they are not looking." Once one of the sentinels looked away, TJ and I quickly dashed to the next ruin. "Besides you get more exercise this way." Then I looked to check if the cost was clear. But all I could see is ruins of the once called 'The Big Apple'. There is nothing left of the building. They are all crushed. Everywhere you look is brown with sand. The red sun was boiling hot and there was no life on this planet. "Come on." I said to TJ, and then we ran to our last stop. The gate of the old 'Xavier Institute'

The gate has been broken for years. There is no security system guarding the place.

"From here on we should be safe to walk" I looked back at her. She was tired. Very tired. You could tell she was relieved that we could stop running.

We started to walk. As we walked we could see what was left of the institute. If you have ever seen a burnt building, then you know what the ruin looked like. The only weird thing is that the staircase was still standing after all these years After all it had been through.

The institute was located at a cliff side, so we could see the desert. Kurt said once the desert was covered with water and between the gate and the building, everything was green and happy. But it is hard to imagine something like that now. The trees were dry and the ground was dry. Everything you saw was lifeless. Not a single drop of life could be seen.

We walked to the back of the ruin. There you could see some headstones. The mutants that die during or after the battle were buried here. Even some of the humans that helped us.

My parents' headstone was at the front, so I didn't have to walk that far. Even though it was dusty, I could still read what it said:

Jean & Scott Summer

1977-2025

1977-2025

'Beloved Parents and members of the X-men'

"Hey mom, hey dad. How are ya?" I knelt down on both knee and started to wipe of the dust on their headstone with my hand, "It has been a year and nothing has changed, this world is still a waste land." When the dust finally came off ,I stood up again, and looked around for TJ. She wasn't far but I knew whose headstone she was standing in front of.

Codename: Scarlet Witch, a.k.a Wanda Maximoff, TJ's mom. She died a few years after the incident. Unlike me, TJ remembered her mom very well. She was there at her mom's dying moment.

I walked up to her and stood next to her.

"You ok?" I asked.

"Yeah I am fine. I just I miss her so much." Then I saw tears running down her cheeks, "that night, I was there, she was protecting me." I put my hand around her, trying to cheer her up.

"I know, I know. But you were only 5 years old. It wasn't your fault."

"I know but still…" she wiped her face then looked up at the sky, "It's getting late. We better get back."

"Not yet. There is one more place, I want to check out."

"I don't know Beth. My dad will be worried sick if we don't go home quickly"

"Come on, please? I promise you that it is no where dangerous."

There was a long silence. "Alright, alright. You can go, but of course I am coming with you."

"Thanks" then I ran to the standing staircase.

"Hey wait!" shouted TJ, but I had already reached the staircase. "You said you are not going anywhere dangerous."

"These stairs are not dangerous. It has been standing for years. I doubt it will collapse on me now." I put my hand on the stairs. 'How can you be standing here after everything that has happened? There must be a reason' I thought to myself. Then I knelt down to see the bottom bit. TJ had already carefully walked through the ruin to catch up with me.

"Beth I don't think it such a good idea. We should not touch it or else it might fall on us."

"I highly doubt it." I was feeling the surface of the staircase when I noticed the wall on the right hand side was different to the rest of the walls. I looked closely and saw one of the pieces were poking out. I pushed it in and then the staircase started to shake.

"Beth look out!" TJ pushed me aside but the thing didn't fall. It just kept on shaking. Then on the side, one of the wooden walls slid down and a room opened up. I walked up to TJ and lent her my hand, so she could stand up. Then we walked over to the open room. "WOW!" we both exclaimed with amazement. For some reason the lights were on in the room. All electrical equipment stopped working about 10 years ago. Master Mood used all the power supplies to make and charge the sentinels. After a few years the supplies ran out. But the sentinels were still up and running.

"What do you think it is used for?" I asked, but TJ was still amazed.

"I…I don't know. Whatever it is, we should just close it and walk away."

"Are you kidding me? We found a secret room and you say we have to leave!" I turned to the entrance. "I am going in." TJ grabbed my arm.

"Oh no your not! This room has been kept a secret for a reason and I doubt the reason is for us to explore it."

"But TJ, we have to check it out. This room might be the answer to all our problems. It might even lead us to more food supplies. Or maybe it will tell us how to control those stupid sentinels." TJ stared at me with those determined eyes of hers. "Come on! Don't tell me you are not even curious about what is in there?"

"I am curious! But my dad will freak if we don't get back before dark. You know how protective he is of me."

"TJ..…Please?" We kept on staring into each other's eyes. "I am determined to find out what is in that entrance. Even if it means eating my own arm off. " There was long, awkward silence.

"Ok, ok. You can go. And… you don't have to eat your own arm off." TJ said breaking the silence.

I smiled, knowing that she was still worried about her dad and my safety. I went into the small room. TJ stayed outside. The room walls were made of meal, but it wasn't rusted. It still seemed as good as new. Then, next to the doorway there was a line of buttons. It had a letter written on them. I felt them with my fingers, until I decided to press one of them. I pressed the one with the letter 'C'. The slide door closed suddenly.

"BETH!" I could hear TJ shouting from the other side. "BETH! WHAT HAPPENED? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" but her voice kept getting softer and softer.

"TJ I am alright!" I tried shouting back, but I doubt she could hear me. All of a sudden there was a loud shout in my head. 'Beth! Beth! Are you all right?' It was TJ!

'I am fine TJ. Don't worry about me.'

'How could I not worry!' she exclaimed. 'The door just closed on you. Your trapped in there.'

'No I am n-' the door opened and a hall appeared. It was as bright as the little room.

'Beth, you ok? ...Stay there I will get my dad and Logan.'

"Wait TJ!" but she already left. I step out of the room and started walking. The hall was made out of metal as well. The lights were on too. 'What a stranger place?'

"Hello anyone here?" I called, no one answered. I started walking. After awhile I came across a door, it has a circle in the middle of it with the letter 'X' on it. 'Probably, mean X-man.' I came closer and knelt down and look at it.

The door suddenly slides open. I fall over, because of the surprise.

"Come on Beth be brave, and check it out" I told myself. I got up and walked in. It was a huge cylinder room. I was standing on a platform stretching from the door to the middle where there was a helmet. The door closed. Now I was trap inside. I continue walking to the helmet.

It was an odd looking helmet wires attach to it and again with the letter 'X', I lifted the helmet it was pretty light. I know I shouldn't but something urge me to wear it.

I put it on, the whole cylinder change. The room turns all white. In front of me stood a man in a wheelchair showed up. He was in his mid-forties, bold and smiling.

"Hello there" he said. "What's your name?"

"Why should I tell you I don't even know you," I replied. I was not to trust suspicious people. "Where am I? Why did you brought me here?"

"You are in my mind, somehow your mind get connected to my mind. I didn't bring you here…to make it fair I shall give you my name. I am Professor Charles Xavier."

"I am B-… Wait the Charles Xavier! The man who started the X-men! But it can't be, you died 15 years ago." His smile quickly fades.

"When are you from?" he asked with a very serious tone.

"Today is 24 February 2040, 15 years since the fall of mankind."

"But at my time it is 24 February 2024…who are you, child?"

"I am Beth Summer, daughter of Jean and Scott Summer."

"You are Jean and Scott daughter…I see. What happen on that day? What happen on this day 15 years ago in your time?" I hesitated; but I end up explaining the night of m birth how my parents died and how everything was falling apart.

"The only remaining X-men are Kurt, Logan and TJ. We have been fighting ever since. We have to fight or else we will die." I hung my head. "I wish I could help but non of the mutant that have join the battle with us have any time travel ability."

"I understand how you feel, but the best thing you can do right now is help Kurt and Logan in this battle." He looked away. "For now you must go back to the others. We will talk later on. Good bye Beth." Then the room vanishes.

"Beth! Beth Wake up! Wake up!" I heard someone shouted. When I open my eyes my vision was blurry. After a minute or so my vision became clear again. I was on the floor and the person shouting my name was TJ. She was shouting repeatedly and shaking me as hard as she can.

"TJ can you please stop that. I am awake, I am awake." I said. "What happened?" I rubbed my head.

"We came to rescue you kid." Said a voice. I turn to the direction of the voice. It was Logan. "We came as fast as we could, and when we found you. You were already on the ground." He extended his hand and I took it. "We were hoping you would tell us." He pulls me up so I could stand.

"I don't remember much, I all I remember was I tried on this helmet and I was talking to Professor Charles Xavier and that is pretty much it." I said, I look at them and concern was written all over their faces. "I am not going crazy. He said something about how our mind got tied up together, and something about it was 24 February 2024 a year before the incident." There was silence but in know Logan was thinking of something, and so was TJ.

"Beth if it's true that your mind is tied together with the Professor, then we might be able to change history. We could win this war; we could make sure the sentinel doesn't go rouge. We could-"

"Bring back our parents." I finish her off. She nodded. I sighed, "I know how much you missed your mom; I want to know my parents as well, but if you want this to go on I would have to come here almost every day to talk to him. Change everything…my head still hurt from this one, you know!" I back away from her.

"But Beth we might have a chance to win this battle. We need you. Please?" I couldn't believe my ears so I ran out of the room. "Beth!" TJ shouted, but I just ran. Logan didn't stop me. I just ran to the room I was in and press on the top button. I lean against the wall. Trying to get my head together.

"Why, why wouldn't she listen?" I asked myself. "I need to find someone who could help me." The doors open. "And I doubt I can find them here." I walked to the City ruin as quick as I can I search for water and food. But I know that I have to go back and steal some from the storage room.

I sneak back making sure not could senses or see me. The storage room is near my room so it easy to get there. I took enough food supply for 10 days but that is the maximum.

Next stop my room I need to get some stuff. I found a bag big about three days ago never know why I brought it back until now (it has been hiding under my mattress). The bag is big enough to carry everything I needed. On the last minute I decided to bring the photo of my parents along, maybe it will give me strength.

As I sneak out, I decided to head west. In land, many said there is nothing there. I sneak around the places making sure not sentinels or mutants saw me.

When I reach the edge of the ruin. I looked back to the detraction of our hide out. Knowing that this might be the last time I would ever see it. "Good bye TJ, Logan, Kurt, Everyone. I hope I can see you again." I turn around and started walking.