Time Displaced
Prologue
Time is like an unending river. It flows from the beginning of all things until eternity ends. The timestream was not something to be taken lightly. More than a few people had gone mad from its dark currents.
The tale of Rachel Summers was a tragic tale to listen to. Born in a world where mutants were enslaved she was brainwashed into hunting her former friends and family. Though she did throw off the chains of her master Ahab, it was only to be thrown into the mutant camps with the very people she had helped to capture. Rachel's salvation from that world had been the Phoenix Force. Through it's awesome powers, Rachel had been sent to another reality in the past.
It took her time to settle into her new reality though Rachel had never been a woman to linger in the past. She lived in the moment. Despite the occasional disappointments and heartaches that she was forced to go through, Rachel finally thought she fit in. Jean Grey and Scott Summers had just wedded and Rachel was truly happy. The happiness did not last long.
Brian Braddock was another such person to have been caught in the timestream. Megan's love of him kept him anchored and eventually he started to take over Rachel's body. She did not want to leave this reality to start over again. Despite the best efforts of Excalibur, she had to say good-bye. She had tried to pull Brian out but she could not. The only way to save him was to trade places with him. She did so and was flung two thousand years into the future into the time of Apocalypse.
It was a dark future in which mutants ruled the world. There were small groups of rebels to the rule of Apocalypse and the only group he ever did fear was Clan Askani that Rachel formed while marooned in this era.
Rachel's first acolyte as Mother Askani had been Blaquesmith. He was also the only man in which the Clan Askani ever claimed as their own. It would be he who would teach Nathan Summers who would eventually become known as Cable. Like Rachel, Nathan was time displaced. He had been brought into the future where there was hope that his techno-organic virus could be cured. Rachel did save Nathan so that he could defeat Apocalypse but in that act he wiped out the entire Clan Askani timeline.
Rachel was again flung into the timestream. This time her containment was not for a mere two thousand years. Two billions years later, Rachel would finally emerge.
Time is like an unending river. It flows from the beginning of all things until eternity ends. The timestream was not something to be taken lightly. More than a few people had gone mad from its dark currents.
The tale of Rachel Summers was a tragic tale to listen to. Born in a world where mutants were enslaved she was brainwashed into hunting her former friends and family. Though she did throw off the chains of her master Ahab, it was only to be thrown into the mutant camps with the very people she had helped to capture. Rachel's salvation from that world had been the Phoenix Force. Through it's awesome powers, Rachel had been sent to another reality in the past.
It took her time to settle into her new reality though Rachel had never been a woman to linger in the past. She lived in the moment. Despite the occasional disappointments and heartaches that she was forced to go through, Rachel finally thought she fit in. Jean Grey and Scott Summers had just wedded and Rachel was truly happy. The happiness did not last long.
Brian Braddock was another such person to have been caught in the timestream. Megan's love of him kept him anchored and eventually he started to take over Rachel's body. She did not want to leave this reality to start over again. Despite the best efforts of Excalibur, she had to say good-bye. She had tried to pull Brian out but she could not. The only way to save him was to trade places with him. She did so and was flung two thousand years into the future into the time of Apocalypse.
It was a dark future in which mutants ruled the world. There were small groups of rebels to the rule of Apocalypse and the only group he ever did fear was Clan Askani that Rachel formed while marooned in this era.
Rachel's first acolyte as Mother Askani had been Blaquesmith. He was also the only man in which the Clan Askani ever claimed as their own. It would be he who would teach Nathan Summers who would eventually become known as Cable. Like Rachel, Nathan was time displaced. He had been brought into the future where there was hope that his techno-organic virus could be cured. Rachel did save Nathan so that he could defeat Apocalypse but in that act he wiped out the entire Clan Askani timeline.
Rachel was again flung into the timestream. This time her containment was not for a mere two thousand years. Two billions years later, Rachel would finally emerge.
