AN: Here's the sequel!

Fifty years into the future (around 2023), during the war with the Sentinels

The future, a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, and loss. On both sides, mutants and humans the ones who dared to help them. Fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path? Destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change our fate? Is the future truly set?

Everyone watched in silence as a large plane descended, landing near the temple. Warpath jumped down from his perch, Bishop stood in front of everyone.

"Professor," Bobby called.

"Bobby," Storm grinned as he made his way over, giving her a hug.

"Hi, Storm,"

"Hey, kid," Logan greeted.

Bobby looked over to Logan and gave him a nod before stepping back.

"Professor," Kitty called, walking with Colossus and Sunspot. "You made it,"

Charles smiled at her and nodded and everyone moved into the temple.

"Whenever the Sentinels attack, Warpath spots them. And I send Bishop back to warn us of the attack before it happens. Blink scouts the next sight. And then we leave before they ever know we were there," Kitty finished.

"Because, we never were," Warpath added sitting down.

"What do you mean you were never there?" Logan asked.

"She projects Bishop back in time a few days to warn the others of the coming attack," Charles explained.

"She sends Bishop back in time-"

"No, just his consciousness. She sends his mind back to his younger self, his younger body,"

"Wow,"

"This just might work, Charles," Erik said.

Kitty looked between them. "What might work?"

"The Sentinel program was originally conceived by Dr. Bolivar Trask. In the early seventies he was one of the world's leading weapons designer. But covertly he had begun experimenting on mutants. Using their gifts to fuel his own research. There was one mutant who had discovered what he was doing," Charles said gravely.

"A mutant, with the ability to transform herself into anyone," Erik commented.

"Mystique," Colossus named.

"I knew her as Raven. We met when were children, grew up together. She was like a sister to me. I tried to help her but only succeeded in driving her away. She hunted Trask across the world and at the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 after the Vietnam War. She found Trask and killed him. It was the first time she killed," Charles stated.

"It wasn't her last," Logan added grimly.

"But killing Trask did not have the outcome she expected," Charles continued.

"It only persuaded the government of the need for his program. They captured her that day, tortured her, experimented on her. In her DNA they discovered the secrets to her powers of transformation. It gave them the key they needed to create weapons that could adapt to any mutant power. And in less than 50 years the machines that destroyed so many of our kind were created,"

"And it all started on that day in 1973. The day she first killed. They day she truly became Mystique," Charles finished.

"You wanna go back there," Kitty stated.

"If I can get to her. Stop the assassination , keep her out of their hands. Then we can stop the Sentinels from ever being born," Charles said.

"And end this war before it ever begins," Erik said.

"I can send someone back a couple weeks, maybe even a month... But you're talking about going back decades," Kitty said. "You have the most powerful brain in the world, Professor. But the mind can only stretch so far before it snaps. It would rip you apart."

"What if someone's mind has a way of snapping back? What if someone can heal as fast as their ripped apart?" Logan asked.

Everyone looked at each other in silent agreement. This was their last chance, the only thing that they could do to change what was happening. Many of the mutants left to take protective spots outside of the temple, the only ones remaining being Bobby, Kitty, Logan, Erik, and Charles.

"So I wake up in my younger body, God's no where, then what?"

"You'll need to go to my house, and find me," Charles said. "Convince me of... All of this."

"Wouldn't you be able to just read my mind?"

"I didn't have my powers in 1973 Logan, you're going to have to do for me what I once did for you. Lead me. Guide me. I was a very different man then. You'll have to be patient with me."

He scoffed. "Patience isn't my strongest suit,"

"You'll need me as well," Erik joined.

"What?"

"After Mystique left Charles, she came with me and I set her on a dangerous path... A darker path. It's going to take the two of us. Side by side at a time when we couldn't be further apart,"

"Great,"

"And..."

Logan raised an eyebrow. "And?"

"And there is someone else you'll need to find. Adele. You will need to find Adele,"

He sighed. "Where do I find you?" Logan asked Erik.

"Well... It's complicated,"

"Where do I find this Adele?" Logan asked.

"I don't know, after the Cuba incident she just simply vanished," Charles said with a hint of bitterness in his voice.

"Great," Logan said sarcastically.

"Once you find Adele you will need to convince her as well," Charles stated. "Though I highly doubt she'd be agreeable to work with us,"

Logan laid onto the stone table.

"Basically your body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as your back there past and present won't continue to coexist. But once you wake up whatever you done will take hold and become history, and for the rest us it will be the only history we know it'll be like the last 50 years never happened. This world, this war, the only person who will remember it, is you," Kitty said.

"Alright Logan I need you to clear your head and stay as calm as possible," Kitty instructed.

"What? What do you mean?" Logan asked.

"If your mind gets rocky it will be harder for me to hold you. You could slip between past and future," Kitty answered.

"What if I need to get a little rocky?" Logan asked.

"Think peaceful thoughts," Kitty replied.

"Peaceful thoughts...You have any good news?" Logan asked again.

"Well, you really don't age so you'll look the same," Kitty said.

"You won't have much time in the past. The Sentinels will find us. They always do," Bobby said grimly.

"And this time we won't have anywhere to run. We'll have no escape. This is our last chance, " Kitty added gravely.

"Are you sure this will work?" Erik asked.

Charles nodded. "I have faith in him,"

"It's not him I'm worried about, it's us. We were young. We didn't know any better,"

"We will now,"

Kitty placed her hands on either side of Logan's head. "This might sting a little," she warned.

Logan took a sharp breath, readying himself for whatever was to come. Logan screamed before entering into a state of unconsciousness.

AN:It's about to get real!