Logan coughed as he threw a boulder off and him and stood up. He retracted his claws and coughed again as he stood up. He felt as if his lungs were on fire as he panted. Looking around, he found the man and Jean were gone, but he smelled their scent, so he knew they were around. He looked around circumspectly, and extended his claws. He didn't want to fight right away; he needed time to heal up his injuries. Maybe Jean knows that and that's why she's still not attacking me, he thought hopefully. Yeah, fat chance Wolverine retorted. "Come on," he sneered. "Show yourselves."

"Wolverine," came a voice. He turned towards it and saw Sinister walking up to him. "Amazing that you survived that. It's the very reason why I want you."

"What do ya want from me?"

Sinister stopped a few feet from him, perhaps to keep out of ills way. "I've been watching you," he said. "Your skills are remarkable. No where near Phoenix's, but close. With your powers, skills, and aggression…imagine what I could accomplish."

"You?"

Sinister laughed. "Why yes. By taking your DNA and genes…focusing on your immortal strength, no one, not even my enemies, could destroy me."

Logan shook his head and saw Jean in the far corner, watching. "What'd ya do to Jean?"

Sinister shrugged. "I did nothing."

"Bullshit."

"It's true," he replied. "I have no idea who this 'Jean' character is."

Logan frowned. "What're ya playin' at, bub?"

"Her name is not Jean," came another voice, walking up beside Sinister.

Logan narrowed his eyes. "Who the fuck are you?"

"My name is Mastermind and the Jean you know…and love…no longer exists. She was killed three years ago." Jean watched Logan closely, feeling the pain in his heart and hearing his thoughts, No, it's not possible.

"I just saw her," he growled, his temper rising within him.

Mastermind shook his head. "No. You saw Dark Phoenix."

"Quit playing games, bub, or I swear, I'll slice you into chop liver!"

Mastermind grinned. "As I told you, Jean Grey is dead. Her daughter however…"

Logan's eyes widened. Their daughter was alive? After all these years? "Where?"

Jean frowned. Why would Jason tell these X-Men about their child?

'What are you doing?' she demanded.

'I've got this love.'

Jean neither said nor projected nothing further. She had no reason to doubt him…yet. Before Mastermind could answer Logan, lightning struck the cave, going right through, and in between Logan and Mastermind. The light and blast was so concentrated, it knocked all tree men to their feet. Logan lowered his arm, from covering his eyes, and saw the other X-Men rush into the cave. Ororo's white eyes found Sinister and she lashed out another attack, hitting him square in the chest with a lightning bolt, knocking him against the rocky wall. Remy took out his card and threw it at Masterminds feet, knocking him back to the ground as well. As Scott stepped forward, hand on his visor, he used his powers as well. But Jean stepped from the shadows and stopped the blast using her telekinesis and sending it back at the X-Men, who all dived out of the way.

Hank came by Logan and helped him up. "You okay?"

Logan glared at him, dusting himself off. "I had this."

"We didn't know," Hank explained. "We saw the blast…"

"Jean's here, but something's wrong," he told the older man.

Hank only nodded and watched how both Sinister and Mastermind came beside Jean, who glared daggers at the X-Men. "Jean," Kitty said, releasing they were in a stand-off.

Jean frowned, her black eyes becoming clouded. "Why does everyone keep calling me Jean?" she demanded.

Sinister and Mastermind exchanged glances as Ororo replied, "Because that's your name."

Jean shook her head. "It is not.

"Remy tink we should get outta here now," Remy said.

Hank nodded his head. "I agree."

Just as they turned, Scott hit a force field and thrown to the ground, landing on his back, groaning. They turned around to see Sinister smiling. "You're not going anywhere."

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Emma looked at the map and then crumpled it up. Betsy took her eyes off the road for a second to glare at Emma. "What're you doing?"

"This map isn't helping us!" Emma snapped. "We've been going around in circles for the past three hours!"

Betsy laughed. "Calm down. I'm taking the route that the Professor told us to take."

Emma crossed her arms. "You just don't want to admit that we're lost." Betsy giggled. "I don't know why we agreed to come here separately," Emma muttered.

Betsy rolled her eyes as Emma spotted something. In the distance, a huge cloud of smoke covered the sky, and parts of the sky were blood red. "Is, Ororo doing that?"

Emma shook her head. "I don't think so," she said slowly, baffled. "Hurry up."

Without hesitating, Betsy pressed harder on the gas of the jeep and headed in the direction of the smoke, praying that nothing had happened to them.

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Jean glared at them through the force field as she paced around it. Ororo followed her movements, feeling nervous. Logan attempted to break the force field with is claws, but to no avail. Jean glanced at him curiously. "What are you doing?"

Logan looked at her, feeling his anger inside of him, but not being able to bring it to the surface. Jean looked so innocent when she wasn't using the powers of Phoenix; it killed him. "I'm trying to break the force field."

She tilted her head, as if she was learning for the very first time. "Why?"

Logan stared at her. "Because, those are some very, very bad men."

Jean continued to stare at him, and then looked at everyone else, until her gaze reached back to Logan. "If they're bad…then what does that make all of you?"

Logan frowned, caught off guard, and he turned to Ororo. "Jean…" Ororo began. "…we're your friends, your family. We're the good guys."

Jean looked at her, her eyes and heart void of all emotion. Ororo didn't know what was creepier; the empty look in her eyes, or the anger in them. "You try to kill my daughter and those that I do care about, and you're telling me that you're the good guys?"

"Jean, you're making no sense," Scott said, coming closer. "We never tried to kill anyone. We haven't even seen your daughter."

Hank's eyes widened as he saw the reaction on Jean's face; confusion. "They brainwashed her," he said quietly.

Logan turned to the blue mutant. "What did you say?"

Hank looked up at Logan. "They erased her memory and placed false ones to replace the voids."

"Why would they do that?" Kitty asked.

"So they could control Phoenix and her powers," Emma said.

Mastermind narrowed his eyes at her. "Emma."

Emma waved at him and gave him a fake grin. "Hi, Jase. Hope you don't mind that we crashed your little party, do you?"

Jean looked from Emma to Jason. "Who are they?" she demanded.

Jason looked at Jean, but said nothing. "Oh, he didn't tell you?" Emma asked, making Jean turn her attention back to her. "He's my ex-husband."

Jason's eyes grew wide as Jean whirled on him. "What?" she bellowed.

"Uh-oh," Kitty said.

Logan smirked, knowing how Emma was playing. "You never want to piss Jeannie off."

As Emma distracted Mastermind, Betsy crept further into the cave until she came upon the crystal. "Ah, here we go." As she reached out to grab it, she felt a sharp pain in her back.

"You didn't honestly think you'd make it out of here with that, did you?" Sinister asked. Betsy glared at him as he prepared to attack her again. "Say good-bye…"

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Jean glared at Jason. "What did she just say?"

"Nothing," he barked. "It's not important. She's lying."

Jean's gaze turned to Emma, who only met her stare, then turned back to Mastermind. "No…she's telling the truth." Jason backup up slightly and Jean followed suit, stepping up to him. Forgetting about the X-Men, and not caring about them, the shield fell and Scott step forward, and aimed at Sinister, knocking him off of Betsy. She sighed in relief and got up, grabbing the crystal.

Mastermind didn't know what had happened though as he stared into the eyes of the once Jean Grey. "Monica, I'm telling you…she's tricking you. I told you they'd do this."

Jean shook her head. He had warned her…but she wasn't sure who to believe; she was confused. She turned around to face the X-Men and found that they were gone. She growled in frustration and transformed into the Phoenix bird and flew away from everyone.

Mastermind watched and cursed himself. Looking back, he saw Sinister unconscious and the crystal gone. In anger and frustration, he screamed at the top of his lungs, silently cursing the X-Men.