Late at night, in a hotel room on Muir Island, Storm lies asleep on one bed, wearing a nightgown and covered over by a blanket. Logan lies asleep on another bed, shirtless and wearing sweat pants. Logan tosses onto one side on his bed, tensing.

LOGAN: (in dream) "Come on, you guys! Let's move it or we'll blow this mission!"

Logan dreams of the past, in a security center of some sort of military compound. Logan runs down the hall, holding a laser gun in his hands. Two other soldiers run down the nearby hall and join him. Logan and the soldiers are wearing black leather uniforms with golden security badges and helmets. Logan looks at one of the soldiers, a YOUNG CAROL DANVERS, now early-20s.

LOGAN: "Come on, rookies! Tell me you've taken care of the security systems!"

CAROL: "The systems are down and the Guards have been dealt with. However, we've lost track of our back-up team."

OMEGA RED: "Do you mean them?"

Logan, Carol and the other soldier turn around and look down the far end of the hall. Omega Red stands before an open doorway, with two soldiers wrapped in each of his coils and dangling lifelessly.

OMEGA RED: "They were just the appetizers. I want the main course."

LOGAN: "You want us? You're gonna have to get us, squid lips."

Omega Red's coils unwrap from the soldiers and they fall to the floor, dead. Omega Red sneers at Logan, his coils writhing with a life of their own.

OMEGA RED: "As you wish, little man."

Logan glares and he throws his gun away.

SOLDIER: "What're you doing?!? Are you crazy?!?"

LOGAN: "Guns don't hurt this guy, kid. But I can."

Logan runs down the hall in anger and Carol steps forward.

CAROL: "Logan, wait!"

Omega Red lashes his coils forward and they extend out in length, reaching for Logan. Logan rolls under the coils, missing them and Logan leaps at Omega Red as he ROARS with a berserker rage.

STORM: "Logan?"

Back in the hotel room, now at dawn, Logan's eyes shoot open and he wakes up in his bed. Logan turns and sees Storm standing by his bed, wearing a robe over her nightgown.

STORM: "Are you all right?"

LOGAN: "What is it?"

STORM: "It's time to get up. We need to pick up the Professor from the hospital, remember?"

Logan pauses a moment and nods, gruffly taking his blanket off of him.

LOGAN: "Right."

At dawn, in the storage room of Essex's hideout, Scott tosses against his restraints in his sleep. Scott turns his head aside, tensing.

CHRISTOPHER: (in dream) "I know you're scared, Scott. It's all right to be scared. But I need you to be brave for me, son. For your sake and your brother's."

Scott's dream flashes back to the past, at night over a series of mountains. Young Scott, now 13, stands in the back of an airplane and wearing a parachute over his winter clothes. YOUNG ALEX, now 11, has his arms around Scott and he is fastened to Scott by duct tape wrapped around their waists. Standing before them is their late-30s father, CHRISTOPHER SUMMERS. Christopher wipes the tears from Scott's eyes and then wipes the tears from Alex's eyes. KATHERINE SUMMERS - late-30s with brunette hair - stands before her boys and sadly smiles, fighting back tears.

CHRISTOPHER: "You're going to have to be there for each other, Scott. I'm sorry we have to say goodbye like this, but we'll always be with you." (smiles) "I've always been so proud of you both."

KATHERINE: "We love you both so much. I wish we had more time."

CHRISTOPHER: (sighs) "You have to jump now, Scott. You have to go away."

Young Scott shakes his head, tears forming in his eyes. Young Alex holds onto Scott tightly, sobbing.

YOUNG SCOTT: "Dad..."

CHRISTOPHER: "Don't be sad, son. You'll be okay."

Christopher walks with his sons to the open doorway of the plane. Christopher puts his hand on Scott's shoulder and Scott shakes his head.

YOUNG SCOTT: (voice breaks up) "Don't do this."

Christopher forces a sad smile.

CHRISTOPHER: "Goodbye."

Young Scott looks in sad realization and Christopher sadly nudges Scott out, watching him and Alex descend out of the airplane. Katherine stands next to Christopher and drapes her arm around her husband, silently sobbing. The two watch as the parachute opens and then they look in horror.

KATHERINE: "Oh, God!"

Outside, young Scott and Alex parachute down and away from the burning airplane in the sky. Scott looks down at his brother sadly, forcing his best brave face.

YOUNG SCOTT: "Hold on tight, Alex. I have you."

YOUNG ALEX: (sniffs) "Scott... what's that smell?"

Young Scott looks up and sees smoke rising from the parachute. The parachute is slowly being eaten through by fire.

YOUNG SCOTT: "Oh, God! Oh, no! NO!!"

YOUNG ALEX: "FIRE!!"

Young Scott looks ahead and tries to steer them to a nearby mountain.

YOUNG SCOTT: "Hold on, Alex! If I can just reach the mountain..."

Young Scott tries to keep the parachute steady, as it nears the mountain. The two get closer to the mountain than either expects and Scott struggles to keep control. The two boys are only a few dozen feet above the ground, when Scott turns away as they near the mountainside. Shielding Alex away, Scott collides against the mountain instead and SCOTT GRUNTS as his head hits against the mountain... hard.

YOUNG ALEX: "Scott!!"

Young Scott and Alex lower down and Scott starts to pass out. As young Scott narrows his eyes, losing consciousness...

The dream flashes to another point in the past, but this time it's just mere weeks ago -- at Alkali Lake.

Scott stands on the rocky ground, unshaven and without his ruby glasses. His eyes are blue and completely normal. JEAN GREY - 30 years old with red hair and wearing an X-Men uniform - stands before Scott and they kiss. After a few seconds, Jean's expression changes, getting colder, as if snapped into a different persona. As Jean kisses Scott, his normal eyes open wide in shock as dark veins rise on his face and Jean's face. Scott's body shivers in shock from the kiss as a fiery aura shines around Jean. The kiss blisters the skin around Scott's lower face and his lips, slowly singing it. The fire singes his face and the heat from Jean's lips burns his lips. SCOTT SCREAMS, startled, as the heat of the kiss burns into his mouth and down within his throat. Scott's SCREAM makes Jean blink and open her eyes wide, startled, as if waking from a dream. Jean realizes what's happening just as Scott's eyes glow with red energy again. Jean has only a split second to put up a telekinetic shield, just as the red energy beam flows uncontrollably from Scott's eyes.

BOOM!!! The collision knocks both of them backwards, with Jean slammed backwards as if struck by the force of a freight train. Jean falls down onto the rocky floor and is rendered unconscious. As Jean is knocked down, Scott eyes shut tight and Jean's telekinesis still shoves him away from Jean, sending him flying backwards into the woods.

Scott is sent flying backwards farther and farther from the lake, with his eyes still shut tight. Scott is sent flying a few miles away from the lake, when the telekinesis finally reaches its limit in reach and Scott is knocked backwards. He is sent falling onto the rocky ground and lands hard on his back. His clothes are a bit cut and burned from the heat of Jean's fiery aura and blood trickles from his mouth. Scott is barely conscious and dim smoke rises from his chest and face.

SCOTT: (weakly) "Jean..."

Scott loses consciousness and everything fades to BLACK.

SCOTT GASPS as he awakens, startled from the nightmare of his past memories. He's still restrained on the table in Essex's storage room. Scott pauses for a moment, calming down. There is a beat, all is quiet. His breathing returns to normal. After a few moments, Scott sadly looks away and again starts to cry.