Notes: So, while Volume 14 of the 714 is going on with its time travel shenanigans, we sort of have two different stories. The main one is in the volume itself, but concurrently, Jubilee and Noh are having their own time travel adventures, and we wanted to tell that story too.

And since they're happening at the same time, well… we figured we'd present this one to you in its own little side story.

So, this first chapter starts out a little ahead of the timeline, to establish the events that Jubilee and Noh are walking into for their time travel shenanigans. So don't get confused by the suddenly Kindergarten-age babies ;)

I think that just about covers it, and we're pretty excited to bring you moar X-Men Lost in Time...

Chapter 1: "Where's Sying?"

The Marvel touched down on the hidden atoll that Kurt and Kate liked to use for vacations, and Jubilee and Noh came out with two little ones leading the way — both Krissy and Sying were with them, since Krissy had insisted on coming.

"But it's my papa's favorite," she'd argued, and she was so insistent about it — and Sying was so on board with having his favorite friend along — that they really couldn't say no.

"Come on, come on," Sying said, pulling on Krissy's hand, since she was just so much slower than he was. "We can go swimming!"

Krissy's little tail was switching behind her as she scrunched up her whole face. "No fair running."

"I'm not," he said, though he had, actually, been going a little too fast out of pure excitement. Their last day of first grade for the kids was just last week, and they were thrilled about the summer vacation plans they already had.

Both of them rushed off to start playing in the waves as Noh wrapped an arm around Jubilee's shoulders. "Those two have enough energy to keep my ship powered for another decade," he teased her lightly.

"She loves it," Jubilee countered as she popped up on her toes to kiss his cheek. "And so do you."

He swept her up off her feet and kissed her properly. "Of course," he said with a grin before he kissed her all over again, letting his feet find the path down the beach for a moment until they caught up with the two playing kids — though he didn't let up too terribly much on the kisses once they were there.

And meanwhile, Krissy and Sying played in the waves for a good long time, giggling and teasing each other the whole time, while Jubilee and Noh could hear them shouting at each other.

"No splashing!" Krissy called out.

"You're splashing!"

"You're not supposed to splash me back!"

"That's just not fair!" Sying replied.

"I am part demon!" Krissy replied in exactly the tone of voice that Kurt used all the time that had Jubilee giggling when she heard it.

But eventually, the kids got tired of playing in the waves, and while Sying came running over to get some food, snuggles, and listen to Noh's music while he ate, Krissy stayed out on the beach building sand castles.

"Can I keep this?" Sying asked Noh, holding out the music player. "Just for a little bit. I wanna run, and Krissy's not fast enough, so I want to listen to music."

Noh grinned and reached over to ruffle Sying's long white hair. "Of course. Just make sure to bring it back when you're done. It can stand up to water and sand, but all the same—"

"Yeah, thanks, got it, Dad!" He said with a grin, putting both headphones in his ears before he took off at a run to explore the island.

Noh watched him go with a look of both pride and affection as Jubilee leaned into him. "He gets that from you," she pointed out.

"Oh, absolutely," he agreed as he leaned down to kiss her deeply.

While Sying was gone, Krissy had finished making one whole wall of her castle and rushed over to show Jubilee and invite her to play as well, showing her where she could help as she sang little Disney songs while they both worked. At one point, she got overexcited and accidentally knocked over one of the parapets with her tail, and she sighed in frustration as she took her tail in one hand.

"Stop that," she told her tail firmly before she released it again, which had Jubilee smiling to herself.

Eventually, Krissy did get hungry, and Jubilee took her back to where she and Noh had set out towels and a picnic basket. Noh had fallen asleep in the warm sun, but Jubilee looked around with a little frown. "Where's Sying?" she asked as she nudged Noh awake.

He raised his head a bit and looked around, his sedate, tired smile shifting into a frown when he realized that he couldn't see the little boy. Trying not to look too alarmed in front of Krissy, who was a bit wide-eyed, he jumped to his feet quickly. "I'm sure he's just lost track of time," he said. "I will find him." He took off at a run to do just that, combing the beach and the jungle further in the island.

He was a few miles into the jungle when he found the little music player, fallen next to a downed tree in an inland stream. The headphones were tangled in the branches, and Noh's concern turned to panic as he raced around the stream, the trees, combing the area for any sign of the little boy, now calling his name — since without the music player, maybe he could hear Noh calling. He certainly should have been able to, given his advanced hearing.

But there was no sign of him — not in the stream or the jungle or anywhere — and when Noh finally had to admit that he simply wasn't there, he made his way back to the beach in a state near panic, half hoping that maybe Sying had found his way back to the girls on his own.

When he got there, though, Sying wasn't there, and when Jubilee saw that Noh didn't have Sying, he could see the same panic start to grip her as well.

Sying had gone for his run to the jungle, enjoying the chance to go as fast as he wanted without having to worry about Krissy accusing him of cheating. It was even more fun in the jungle, too, because it wasn't all level ground, so he could go fast and get some fun jumps and twists and obstacles in there. Which was so, so much better than playing on the boring playground at school.

But there were some things that were worth stopping for, too — and taking his time. He found a pretty stream and paused to find rocks to skip across the surface where some of the water had pooled, though he was still working on getting the precision right when he threw the rocks, and they just sank to the bottom of the pool instead of skipping. This, of course, did absolutely nothing to temper his enthusiasm and efforts, and the pool had about six different flat-sided rocks in it when Sying saw the trees and undergrowth part a little further off.

Curious, he pulled out the headphones and set the player down as he climbed up on a taller rock to try and see if it was his mom or his dad coming to play. If it was Dad, they could race and play games, but if it was Mom… he was going to jump out and scare her. It would be really funny, and then she'd tickle him.

But the person who came through the trees wasn't his mom or dad — but a man he didn't recognize in a blue uniform that he did recognize as being from SHIELD. Which was weird, because he thought that nobody, not even SHIELD, knew where this island was.

He quickly slid down behind the rock to hide, watching the man warily, then jumped in surprise when he heard another person coming out of the undergrowth. They probably thought they were being sneaky, but Sying had very good hearing.

He wasn't as hidden ducked down behind the rock like he wanted to be, so he peeked out to try and spot a different place to hide, and that's when one of the uniformed guys spotted him and rushed over, clearly meaning to snatch Sying up.

The guy likely didn't expect for the little boy to clock him one right in the mouth. And when he did, Sying stuck his tongue out and put his hands up by his ears to wiggle his fingers and turned to run off.

But to Sying's surprise, he couldn't put the distance between himself and the guys in uniform that he expected to be able to, and he let out a little squeak of surprise when the second uniformed guy made another rush for him. And while Sying hit him right in the throat ... it wasn't as powerful as he should have been and didn't knock the guy back like it should have.

So it was all the more distressing when the blue-clad man simply readjusted his grip on the little guy and started to carry him off, though a second man came over and slapped a piece of duct tape over his mouth too. "Can't have anyone with super hearing catch that." He actually gave Sying a little smile. "Just play nice, kiddo. We're not gonna hurt you."

Sying glared and wriggled and squirmed and did everything in his six-year-old power to make it hard for the men to hold on to him. Which was actually rough for the guys who thought it was smart to snatch him, since he could wriggle and squirm and kick them — flexible enough to reach anything exposed, even if it wasn't as strong of a hit as he wanted. Grammy K and Grampa Wolvie had made sure he knew where to hit people, too. The guy holding Sying dropped him three times before they even made it to the other side of the island, where Sying was surprised to see a rope ladder seemingly hanging out of nowhere.

At the top of the ladder, though, to Sying's surprise ... there was a whole ship. A whole entire invisible ship just sitting above the beach on the other side of the island from where his parents were. He wriggled and squirmed some more, but it was a little more half-hearted now that he saw the the invisible ship as, despite himself, he was curious. Terrified, but also curious.

How did the ship even get there? How long had it been there? Why was it at the island? Was their tech as cool as Tony's? It couldn't possibly be as cool as his dad's, of course…

But then when the hatch closed behind them, Sying fell back into being scared again as they carried him deeper into the ship, away from distracting and fascinating things like invisibility panels — so that all he could think about was the fact that he didn't know what was happening or what was going on, but it was definitely bad. Good guys didn't grab little kids. They just didn't.

Kurt and his small army had teleported K and Logan right to the island when they'd gotten the distress call from the worried parents. They both tried to listen to what was going on for as long as they could as they walked toward the forest — with Jubilee talking a mile a minute to Logan, and Noh explaining what he'd found and starting to lead K toward where he'd been when he picked up the music player — but as soon as the two of them hit the edge of the jungle, they simply took off at a dead run, trying to run down the scent trail.

They made it in a beeline almost directly across the island before the scent trail went cold, but the presence of so many other scents belonging to other people on this previously undiscovered island had both of them growling as they backtracked to the treeline, shared a look, and split in opposite directions.

Logan was headed down the beach — toward where there was a small pond and some wild growing edibles that he hoped Sying had stumbled upon when he was exploring. It was a quiet little spot, and the water was warm and shallow, and he hoped he would be able to pick up a new scent trail. But once he got there, it was clear that no one had visited that spot in quite some time.

On the other hand, K's path had taken her closer to the rocky outcrop that was this island's equivalent of a mountain — though not nearly tall enough to qualify by any stretch of the imagination. She was frustrated on the winding path, since there were simply no scents that shouldn't have been on the ridge, let alone that of the sweet little boy that had seemed to flat disappear.

Both ferals had a bamf on their shoulder, though the little guys that travelled with them knew better than to teleport willy nilly around looking for the little sparkling maple leaf — lest their smoke clouds obscure some fine scent from the ferals' noses, but they too were trying to help, looking overly concerned as they peered into the forest.

Kurt meanwhile was trying to calm Krissy down, as she was very concerned that her best little alien friend might have actually gotten into real trouble, or hurt. Or worse. He was just about to send one of the bamfs to ask for a report back on how things were going with the ferals or Noh — who had taken to simply trying to comb the island on a grid search pattern — when the bamf that had been travelling with K returned with a confused look on his face.

She'd found Sying.

K had found the little boy sitting on top of the ridge, and she had simply settled down beside him while she tried to get the story out of him — away from his parents so that he could remember everything without the outpouring of worry and hugs that was bound to follow.

He had a blue raspberry lollipop in one hand that he hadn't unwrapped yet, though he held it tightly in one fist as he all but climbed into her lap and simply hugged her for a while, clearly still upset, beyond even his usual excitable, chatty self.

"Where were you?" K asked as she stroked his hair and snuggled him.

"I was in an invisible spaceship," he told her, his eyes wide and serious.

"Is that where you got the lollipops?" she asked before she gave him a little kiss on the forehead.

He glanced down at the lollipop and nodded. "There was a nice woman on the spaceship. She gave me five."

"That's a lot," she replied.

"Well, she said I was really, really good," Sying tried to explain as he pulled out a handful of lollipops to show her. "But I really wasn't, because I hit everybody I could."

"If they took you without talking to your mom and dad, they were asking for it," K promised. "They're very lucky that your grampa hasn't found them yet."

"Is Grampa Wolvie here too?" he asked, picking his head up with a strange sort of expression.

"Yep," she said with a nod. "Your mom and dad got worried and asked us to come look for you."

He nodded with very wide eyes. "Because of the bad guys," he agreed. "People who pick up little kids are bad guys."

"That's right," K agreed before she pulled him close for another hug. "Do you want to go see your mom and dad now?"

He nodded with a little sniff, though he paused and added, "But... we gotta see Grampa Wolvie first. I'm 'pposed to see both of you."

She frowned at that but nodded. "Why is that, sweetheart?" she asked soothingly.

He looked up at her for a moment, biting his lip. "Well ... I don't really know why. I'm just 'pposed to tell both of you the lines I memorized."

She paused, lips parted just a bit as she drew in a slow breath through both her nose and mouth, though she simply still couldn't figure out why the little boy's scent was off. "Okay," she said, then turned to the bamf nearby. "Can you take us to Logan, please?"

The little bamf in the tree nodded enthusiastically, then teleported over to them. He booped Sying's nose after he perched on K's shoulder, and in a plume of indigo smoke, the whole group reappeared not twenty yards from Logan and the bamf that was working with him.

When he saw Sying, he let out a sigh of pure relief. "Where was he?" Logan asked as he came over and took Sying out of her arms to wrap him up in a hug.

"That's the fun part," K said. "But I'll let him explain it." She gave Sying an encouraging little nod before the three of them found a little spot to sit down in the shade.

"Alright kiddo, what's the story?" Logan asked, though he wrinkled up his nose as he caught scent of the boy properly.

Sying looked between both of them for a moment and took a very deep breath. "There were some bad guys, and they found me and used I think maybe a damp-ner because I couldn't run very fast, and then they took me up to an invisible spaceship and took me to go see a doctor even though she wasn't Dr. Fuzzy," he said in a rush of breath.

The two ferals shared a look, and Logan encouraged him to continue, though one of the bamfs appeared near Sying with a bottle of cold water.

Sying patted the little guy on the head with a little 'thank you' before he glanced back at Logan. "Well, I didn't really get to look, but it felt like getting a shot, so that's probably why I got a lollipop from this lady who wasn't the doctor but she was kind of upset and looked like she needed a hug." He shook his head. "She wasn't even there, so she doesn't know if I was good or not, but I hit everyone I could just like you taught me," he added in a proud, confidential whisper.

"That's okay," Logan said. "Good guys don't grab kids."

Sying beamed and nodded enthusiastically. "That's what I told Grammy K!" he said. He was playing with the cap of the water bottle as he kept up with his story. "So then I went and I saw this lady on the other side of a window. She told me it was really, really, really important I memorize some lines to tell you, so I did — and then they took the invisible ship to the mountain and dropped me off with my lollipops," he finished before he took a long drink from the water bottle.

"What were the lines, sweetie?" K asked.

Sying drew himself up and took in all his breath as he scrunched his face in concentration. "She said ... she said: The nanites work on the same... " He paused. "... same principle as the band." He thought it over for a second, trying to remember the rest. "And they're remote control. And… and they're scale-graded. And… there's a number you gotta call. I can write it down for you," he offered.

But K simply handed him her phone instead so he could put it in, repeating the numbers to himself out loud as he did so before he glanced up at them both with a perfectly open expression.

As soon as he'd handed the phone back, she gave him a little smile and hit the button to hear what this mystery person had to say that was so important that they had to screw with the little half Kree angel. But she was disappointed to find that it was simply a string of numbers that equalled out to coordinates.

She made a note of the coordinates in her phone and then gave Sying as warm a smile as she could force. "Alright, sweetheart. I'm sure your mom and dad are missing you terribly."

"Mmhmm," he agreed, halfway melting into Logan now that he'd done what he was supposed to do.

Logan looked at the little bamfs nearby, and in a flash, the three of them were on the other side of the island — where Jubilee and Noh were holding their breath waiting for them. Logan handed him over to Jubilee and pulled Noh aside before he could get too comfortable. "He came back with a message about nanites," Logan said very softly. "Handful of suckers from a shot someone gave him and the details to share — they're scale-graded, remote-controlled, and on the same principles as that band."

Noh looked totally gobsmacked for a long moment, though that quickly started to turn into rage the longer he considered it. "They… can't…."

"I don't think it has a thing to do with you," Logan said. "He said the message was for me and K."

"Was there anything else?" Noh asked with real fury to his gaze.

"Yeah, and we'll take care of it," Logan replied. "If you were smart, you'd get that kid down to Stark to see if he can reverse it."

"I'll do more than that; I'll see if I can not only reverse it but work with Stark to trace its origin," Noh swore. "Though I already suspect who it is."

"I think once we head out to the coordinates we got from the phone number, we'll know for sure who it is," Logan said.

Noh nodded. "I can run him there myself — it'll be faster. But you must tell Jubilee. I promised her not to keep such secrets."

"Just take care of the little guy," Logan said. "And you can tell her — or he can for that matter. We're going to go. We'll find out what the deal is and get back to you."

Noh nodded, though he had to pause and put a hand on Logan's shoulder. "Thank you for finding him," he said earnestly.

"K found him," Logan said. "I'm just going to find who did this."

When they got back to the gathered kids and bamfs with the adults in a huddle, K had a bamf on each shoulder as she informed Kurt that she was borrowing them. "I'll bring them back fed and watered," she swore. "But we'll probably be late getting home."

"Send one back if you find trouble — more than the usual kind," Kurt said.

"That's why I've got two," she told him with a little smirk before she kissed both Krissy and Kurt on the cheek.

"No disappearing like Sying," Krissy told K sternly, pointing at her with the purple sucker Sying had given her for emphasis.

"That doesn't sound like something I'd do," K said with a fake frown and her fists on her hips.

Krissy giggled at her. "Yes it do-o-oes," she sang out.

"Nuh- uh," K replied with every bit of the same little kid sass Krissy was using.

"Ja!" Krissy insisted. "You and Logan disappear to the woods!"

"Well, only because you get grossed out by all the kissing," K replied with a grin.

The little elfling had to giggle at that. "Yeah. Ick. Ew. Cooties."

"You might want to record that, blueberry stud," K said with a finger pointed their way. "You're going to want to remember that in a few years."

"I'm certain of that," Kurt replied with a little smile as Krissy stuck her tongue out at both of them and went back to her purple lollipop.

When Logan got over to K, she pulled her phone out to give the coordinates to the bamfs as they looked over her shoulder and just started nodding. "Take care of the kids for us?" Logan asked as one of the bamfs crawled over to his shoulder. "Noh will fill you guys in. He knows everything we do right now."

"Of course," Kurt promised. "We'll meet you if there is trouble — or see you when you return."

With another swirl of indigo smoke, the two ferals disappeared.