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Squeal to 'death 'till we part'

Read 'death 'till we part' if you want to understand this (don't have to but I advise it).

This is one of versions of what happens next from the last series

The portal

A flash of light engulfs the room, fading as fast as it had came leaving behind a scorch mark in the floor with Jean in the middle. Looking around she realised she was in the Cerebro room, however the place looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years as cobwebs and dust littered the place as well as holes around the room with moonlight streaming through. Jean felt the wind whip around the room as she kept shivering from the cold.

'Someone skipped on the heating bill' she smiled to herself as she walked down the catwalk into the basement.

'Swish'

On opening the door Jean found herself facing 3 sentinel type machines, the same size as herself but the sentinels had minimum armour as the 'skeletons' could easily be seen. (Think Terminator like). On seeing Jean the sentinels raised their left arms which transformed into small guns. Before the sentinels could react Jean used her telekinesis to slice the sentinels in half, shoving back into the walls creating small explosions.

'Sentinels? What the hell is going on?'

Before she could answer these questions the elevator doors opened behind her which revealed an old man around his early 40s exited, pole in one hand the other arm was missing but replaced with a small robotic arm. He clothes were torn and ripped, it looked like he hadn't changed in years as well as his hair reaching the middle of his back.

"Oi, who in the hell is messing with…"

Stopping in mid-sentence, dropping the pole in his hand he stares at Jean like he has seen a ghost.

"J…Jean? Is it really you?" asked the old man.

"Do I know you?" totally ignoring his question.

Smiling to himself the old man takes a bow, "You don't recognise me? Well I suppose 20 years has changed me. My name is Forge."

"Forge? Wait, 20 years? What are you on about? I was just in Cerebro for 5 minutes."

"Yes 20 years, you disappeared leaving us to fall apart. Come with me."

Jean stepped into the lift with Forge, on the doors opening Jean gasped as what she saw was shocking. Most of the mansion had been levelled with few pillars and rooms on top still intact, in rough condition but standing, one part of the stairs was left standing, in the distance Bayville was a pile of rubble with smoke rising from the town.

"What happened?" asked Jean.

Turning to Forge, Jean noticed he had tears in his eyes.

"Apocalypse happened, 18 years ago he surfaced taking over the planet destroying anything or anyone in his path, he granted people 'freedom' to those that helped him, and he is now grand ruler of earth."

"What about the x-men? Didn't they stop him?"

"X-men? They don't exits. They fell apart ages ago."

"What are you…."

"When you ran off, Scott drove the team to madness as he made everyone train 24/7, he later went on a drinking binge, in his superior role he drove many x-men off. After Xavier's death the x-men formally ended. Everyone went their separate ways, by the time of Aployapse, he was able to take the earth without a decent fight."

"Forge I didn't run off, in was somehow teleported to the future by Cerebro. What if I could be sent back to stop this from happening?"

"Forget it Jean, go find someone that cares. Enough people have died for stupid reasons."

"But Forge…"

Several sentinel machines rose from behind him which signalled Jean had over stayed her welcome. She quickly ran towards the main gate, out down to the outskirts of Bayville. Walking around the deserted streets gazing around at the carnage and debris until she stumbled onto a newspaper with a familiar title. 'Bayville sirens return' with a picture of 5 blacked out girls on the front.

"Those girls gave a dam about the people." Turing around Jean found herself facing Forge. "Rouge, Kitty, Wanda, Jubilee and Amara took up the Bayville sirens old 'job' when the x-men collapsed to help the people. I was wrong, you need to get back to your time to stop this mess. Unfortunately, Cerebro no longer works as Aployapse stole and re-rebuilt Cerebro in his fortress. I can give you contact details of some x-men. I can point you in the right direction but after that you are on your own. Its about time Aployapse was brought down"

"Thank you Forge." Hugging Forge with tears in her eyes.

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