A Blast from the Past

This is my fourth fan fic using the Elder Brothers, but it's set in an alternate universe and I don't own any of the Marvel X-Men characters. No profit is being made on this fan fiction and I don't own anything anyway. In my movie verse, Victor and James never worked for Stryker. Scott, Jean, Deathstrike, John Wraith, and the Professor are all alive and well. This is the sequel to The Hunter and the Hunted

I would also like to give a special thanks to GypsyWitchBaby for letting me borrow her Lupa character. She is a bit different here, but it's the same Lupa you'll all know and love from The Feral and The Dreaming Animal.

The Marvel and OC role call for this story. All of the OC characters, Packs, and Clans are creations of my crazy little mind.

The Elders: Sabertooth (AKA: Victor) – Mated to Wolf Girl (AKA: Lupa), Wolverine (AKA: James) – Mated to Deathstrike (AKA: Yuriko) , Black Bear – Mated to White Bear (AKA: Pinky) , Dragon Fly (AKA: Helena) – Mated to TBD, T-Rex (AKA: Rex) – Mated to Portal (AKA – Odessa), Medusa (AKA: Snakes – a Split Beast) – Mated to Fang, Tigress (AKA: Aria), Witch Doctor (AKA: Haggar – a Split Beast) – Mated to TBD, Seer (AKA: Mahvep), Wild Thing (AKA: Hannock) – Mated to TBD, Hammer Head (AKA: Hanse) – Mated to TBD, Grizzly (AKA: Gary) – Mated to TBD, and Mad Dog (AKA: Banger) – Mated to Shimmer (AKA: Luna)

The Hunters in this story: Taz and Jaz (identical twins and jokesters), Ghost, Scanner, Fire Fox, and Gateway

The Lost Ones: Wind Runner, Crock, Blaster, Tantor, Grey Back all in Canada - A TBD person in Africa - Another TBD person in Europe. Two are dead: Gaza and Jack (AKA: Jack the Ripper)

Other Ferals at the School: Crawler (AKA: Charlotte) - Mated to Beast (AKA: Hank), Oracle (AKA: Narcissi – Charlotte's older Sister and the only tri-animal Split Beast around), Merlin – former Elder now deceased (Witch Doctor leads this Pack now) – Mated to Mirror – also deceased, Falcona – former Elder, Traitor, and deceased (Seer now leads this Pack) – Mated to Hawk, Tabitha or Tabby (11 year feral rescued from Stryker's facility now a member of Black Bear's Pack), Battering Ram: (AKA: Murdock – 14 year old male feral from Hammer Head's), Lion-o: (AKA: Cedric – 13 year old male feral from Hammer Head's Pack). Three more Feral children are at the school. They are all TBD at the moment.

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I'm in the process of finding a beta reader. This is does not have a beta reader. There will be spelling, grammatical, and context errors. I'm writing these stories for pure pleasure and my own brand of therapy from the real world. I am Dyslexic and truly can't "see" some of the glaring errors that offend some readers. If you can't stand spelling mistakes, grammatical error, and words used in the wrong context – my stories might not be for you. If you are interested in being a beta reader, please let me know.

Summary: The Elder Brothers have disappeared. The Clans and the X-Men are looking for them, but two little boys seem to hold the key. Will they find them in time?

Chapter 9: The Truth and Confessions

At the Mansion – Short Time ago in the Past

Hammer Head, Colossus, Seer were searching the exterior of Mansion looking for breaches. Scanner and Iceman were reviewing the security footage. Jean, Rogue, and Jubilee were checking the student's quarters for anything strange. Fire Fox was checking the grounds for foreign scents. Kurt was checking odds and ends in Mansion such as the roofs. The Mansion had come up clean. Xavier had a made an announcement during meal time that the Mansion had a security breach and requested that anyone knowing anything see either himself, Kurt or Hammer Head.

It had been a long day with little results to show for their effort. Since it was raining, Fire Fox had elected to stay indoors tonight. She had declines both the cabins and adult wing previously in favor of the outdoors. She loved the grounds on Xavier's. Hammer Head was walking to back to the guest wing with Fire Fox and Seer when the Hunter stopped. Fire Fox started to sniff and the other two Ferals stopped as well. There noses were not as strong as the Hunter's. Hanse spoke "Jessie – want do you smell? And where?"

Jessie changed into her fox form and sniffed again. She turned to the Elders saying "I smell that children were in the hallway." She looked at the other two and continued."The issue is the scents are different from those assigned to the housekeeping section for this area and the scents are only went to Haggar's door and left from the room. They are also two days old. They are the scents of two males and one female. " All of the Ferals followed Jessie's nose to game room. She began to wander through the room and quickly knew which three students had been in Haggar's room: Mary Reynolds, Jason Dayfield, and Marcus Smith. It was the same three students that were at the Farm with Victor and James where they were children.

They rounded up Scanner and all four of them headed to see Xavier. Xavier called the three students to his office. They entered to find Jean, Kurt, Piotr, Rogue, Jubilee, Bobby and the Professor plus the some of the visiting Ferals in the office waiting for them. Xavier got right to the point and asked if they had entered any of the guest's room two days ago. The two boys quickly shook their heads no, but at Fire Fox's low growl at the lie she smelled on them, they decided to change their answer and told the truth.

They confessed to making wishes on the Whispering Conk to see the Elder Brothers as children and they had been really disappointed when it didn't happen. Mary confessed to wanting a good grade in Dr. McCoy's class. The teachers and old students were very disappointed they would do something like that. The Ferals were incredulous that a child would ever violate an Elder's personal space. Feral children would never do such a thing. The children apologized and were really sorry for causing any trouble.

Hammer Head spoke. "We need to know exactly what you wished for word for word. It is the only way to undo the Magic you have released. Do you consent to allow Scanner to show us your words so we may fix the trouble you have caused in the last three days?" They kids agreed and so did Xavier. Scanner's eyes lost focus and he read all of their thoughts from the time they entered Haggar's room to the time they left. He showed it to the group.

*FLASH – Three days ago*

"I don't think we should be doing this! You really want to anger a Feral woman with fangs that grow out of her mouth like a snake?" said the one girl in the group.

The boys just laughed at her. "Come on – what can it harm. It's not like we're gonna ask for a million dollars or something. It would just be cool to meet them as kids. You've heard the stories about the Elder Brothers. Besides if our request isn't 'pure' the Conk won't allow it right?" One of the boys removed the Conk from Witch Doctor's bag. He held up the object. "I, Marcus Smith, would like to meet the Elder Brothers as Boys; just as they were when they ran for their lives. I want to talk to them and work with them side by side in today's time period."

"Hey stop hogging it..I want a turn too." The other boy snatched the Conk away Marcus. "I, Jason Dayfield, want to see how the Younger Elder Brother would be as a kid without his older Brother always telling him what to do. After meeting both of them of course in the flesh and seeing them work together right here in Westchester New York." Jason was holding it out to Mary. "Last chance Mary – do you want to make a wish?"

Mary picked up the object. "I, Mary Reynolds, would like to pass Doctor Hank McCoy's Chemistry class exam in three weeks. Please give me the knowledge to pass this exam."

The Conk started to hiss and spin just as it had before showing the class the history lesson. It made a popping sound and Mary dropped it on the desk. At the sound of footsteps passing the guest room, the students quickly shoved the Conk back into its pouch and ran from the room. They all had work

*End of Flash*

Xavier grounded the students and told them they could leave the room. They were to go straight to bed. They would have extra work assignments as well in the coming weeks.

Hanse was thoughtful as the regarded the group. The gills on the side of his neck were opening and closing slightly as he was thinking. He believed he did have a solution to the problem. He shared it with the group. "The way the Whispering Conk works is does grant the requester his or her wish in the order they were given. These children have already had the first part of the wish granted and didn't even know it. They did met and work with The Elder Brothers as they were as Boys when they ran from their home in present times. The next part of the wish is to meet James' as a Boy without Victor. Now Victor is going to 'pop' out of the present request and time in his childhood body. He should be restored to his adulthood body when the second part of the request is being fulfilled. The problem is James' is going to be very upset at the sudden disappearance of him Brother. Depending on which mutations he has active, the other Elders, Hunters, and X-Men are going to have a hard time with him."

"What do you mean" Jean inquired.

"Simple Dr. Summers – if James is distraught all of the animals he can talk to will come to his aid. The teams might find themselves facing all of his woodland protectors and if they harm any of them. James will not trust them. He will go feral and command the animals to attack in full with intent to kill." Replied Hanse thoughtfully.

Rogue wanted to know. "How do we get James back to an adult? Do we just have those three make a counter wish? Or reverse it so it never happened?"

Seer answered that question. "The Whispering Conk was cursed by Merlin to prevent any reverse wishes. The wishes must be completed. In this case, those three students must meet and work with James' without a childhood Victor around. Then both of The Elder Brothers should be restored to their adult forms. The last wish will not be granted. The Conk hissed at it."

Bobby wanted to know. "Why would Merlin want to prevent a person from reversing a wish or making it never happen? That doesn't make sense to me."

Hanse laughed. Ah to be so young and naïve again. "The Conk is a trick and curse. When used properly it is a great tool to show history. If used incorrectly it will be a weapon of mass destruction. The more you seek to undo your mistakes. The more you will down the path you want to undo. It is easier to explain with a story. A woman once found the Conk. She wished that her child would be a famous and rich person. The child became rich but died in a famous murder. The woman's wishes came true, but not the way she wanted. She wished to undo her child's death. So she wished for her child's life to be spared instead of the wealth and fame. The hand of time was turned back and the child was alive again. The woman was very happy until she, her child and her husband were all killed in campaign that was very famous and provided a lot of people with wealth. The Conk will only bring the requestor pain if used for anything other showing the past. Put another way – Death will not be cheated. If you seek to undo a dead, she will come for both the person you wish to spare and yourself. That is why Merlin cursed it. It will no longer grant wishes that are self serving and you can no longer turn back the hands of time using the Conk. Many a man died trying to possess its power and a lot of innocent blood was spilled by greedy men. Merlin sought to render it useless to such men and protect the spilling of innocent blood." He turned to Bobby, "Please contact the Blackbird we need to let Lupa and the other know what we have found. They will need to bring James back here so we can schedule a work detail at the Farm with those three and James. That should fix this whole mess."

Bobby contacted the ship but no one answered, so Bobby beeped Storm and Cyclops directly. Just as Scanner said that Gateway had returned with Yuriko, James, Hank, Charlotte, Hank, and Witch Doctor, but something was gravely wrong everyone was upset. Yuriko was in pain and both she and James were unconscious. For one thing they were all in the Medical Lab, a place that James and Yuriko still didn't set foot in willing. Everyone ran to the lower levels.

As the group arrived on the lower levels, Victor and nine foot tarantula with a Scorpion tail popped into the lower level. The Medical Lab was a mess. Haggar sent Gateway to get Aria now. Tigress was a blood match for Yuriko. Haggar had matched all of the Clan Council and Hunters after their encounter with Stryker just to have the information on hand if needed. She then dispatched Gateway to get Nil from Rex's Pack. Nil was Rex's middle son of three. He could nullify a person's mutation. Gateway returned with Nil. Rex's Mate Odessa popped into the room just as Victor entered the doors and was told in no uncertain terms to get out with Charlotte, Narcissi, and take James with him. She didn't want the scent of this much Blood near the Boy when he woke. Narcissi bowed again to Victor and clicked something to Charlotte. She then popped out of the room. When the others entered the room, Witch Doctors turned silted eyes and elongated fangs and hissed at them all "get out!" All but Jean got out quick. She started scrubbing in to help with the surgery on Yuriko.

They left for the War Room. Since Odessa was there, she offered to bring the Blackbird back. Victor accepted her offer and then she was gone in portal.

At the Blackbird:

The Elders, Hunters and X-Men were greeted by Rex's Mate Odessa when they got to the ship. She greeted her Mate and explained that she had been with Nil when Gateway had fetched him and had followed to see what had the Hunter in such a rush he couldn't speak before teleporting. The X-Men thanked her but said they had to get the plane back to the Mansion so they would meet them back home.

Odessa smiled down at the group. She was very tall African American woman around 6'9'' but looked short next to Rex who was over 8 feet tall. She kept her zebra colored black and white hair under a head rap that a lot of Muslin women would wear, despite it was not her faith. It just allowed her to avoid question regarding her hair color which was part of Feral Mutation and she couldn't dye or hide it easily. She said. "Not to worry Scott, I came instead of Gateway because I can take all of you and the ship back to the Mansion. We didn't get into powers last time we met. I'm also called Portal. Everyone stand by the ship please?" After everyone had done so, she lifted her arms and a large black hole opened beneath them and everyone began to sink into it including the ship. They came out of another portal in the Blackbird's underground hanger at the Mansion a second later.

Odessa said everyone was in the War Room that wasn't in the Medical Lab. They all headed there immediately to get any updates. The smell of Blood was still in the air and several of the Ferals snarled when they smelled it. There was no word yet. Victor had put Jimmy in between two chairs which formed a makeshift bed for the sleeping Feral Boy. Piotr had offered to take the Boy upstairs and put him a spare bed and Victor declined saying "I don't want him outta my sight." James was curled on his side using Victor's coat as both a pillow and blanket. Jubilee, Hank, Piotr, Bobby, Rogue and Kitty were all against the floor watching the Feral Boy sleep. All of them except Kitty couldn't believe that this cute little boy had grown up to be James. Kitty on the other hand had seen and heard what James could do as a child and was pretty quiet as the others were talking.

While they waited, a question that both Scott and Ororo had on their mind came up. Scott asked Victor. "Narcissi is coming back here in 5 days. Everyone treads lightly around her. What was her crime against the Packs? And is she safe to be around this many children?"

Victor was in a very foul mood and turned Feral Black eyes on the Leader of the X-Men. He growled. "Narcissi - ain't no more dangerous than the rest of us Ferals here at the Mansion." He turned back to regarding the closed doors that lead to the Medical Lab.

Charlotte turned to Scott and said. "While we wait on news regarding Yuriko, I'll tell the story of myself and my Sister. People often judge her harshly but she did the best she could with what she had."

To Be Continued?

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