"Stryker!" Raven yelled out.

But just like the last couple of times she yelled to get his attention, Stryker ignored it. Her heart sank to the ground as Stryker walked out of the room, not even giving his hostages a glance. Everyone in the cell groaned as Rebecca ran a hand through her hair and kicked a metal beam. She yelped and hissed at the sudden pain she felt, Rebecca wasn't used to feeling pain due to her super strength. With her powers, the metal beam would've easily caved in due to her gift.

"Hey! Stay where you are!" a guard could be heard yelling.

Everyone looked up, trying their best to see what was happening until they heard gunshots. Rebecca gasped and cupped her mouth as she thought by the rounds of bullets that were heard from the other room it made it sound like the person they were firing was for sure dead. Instead, they saw a ray of splattered blood and a man get thrown to the window. Rebecca and everyone else quickly ran over to the window to stand directly under it and completely out of view.

"What the hell was that?!" Moira whispered.

"Don't know" Peter was the first to say, "But I don't want to find out"

"For sure I thought that thing was dead" Hank said from beside her.

Raven shook his head, "Who was that up there?"

"I don't know" Rebecca shook her head, "But I don't like how quiet it sounds up there"

"Stryker's men are dead" Moira questioned more than said that last statement.

The group all looked at each other before slowly they walked out to the center to peek out at the room above. The alarm was still blaring but nothing else seemed to be up there, except a shadow slowly coming into view. Rebecca reached out and gripped onto Hank as she walked closer to him.

"Who is that?" Rebecca stammered.

A blue teenager with a red jacket peered down to them as Hank loosened up, "Kurt"

He pointed to something on the side and said something but no one could hear him as they all let out, "What?"

"We can't hear you" Rebecca said as she pointed to her ear.

He looked down and pressed the button but his voice came in distorted, "Stay away from the-"

"The what?"

"The do-" Kurt made a square motion, "Stay away from the-"

"Get away from the door!" Raven yelled out.

"On three" Kurt said, "One… two…"

A blast shattered the doors, making Rebecca scream out as she cupped her head to protect herself. When the debris cleared, she ran out of the opening to see Scott putting on his glasses and Jean holding onto Serena; the second she saw her daughter, Rebecca raced toward Jean and pulled her out of her arms.

"Mommy!" Serena yelled out as she held onto her, "I was so scared, I didn't know what to do! Then Jean came with her friends and took me away from the bad men"

Rebecca looked over to Jean as she said, "Thank you, Jean. Thank you for finding her"

"It was nothing" Jean blushed.

Rebecca reached out and held onto Jean's hand as she gave it a comforting squeeze. A tear rolled down the side of her cheek as she gave her a nod.

"You did everything I couldn't" Rebecca praised.

"We know where the Professor is" Jean told Rebecca.

Scott turned to her, "I think we might have a way out of here"

"Well, you've been busy"

"We had a little help" Scott said before he turned down the corridor, "Let's go!"

They started running down the hallway before Scott narrowly missed a puff of blue smoke, "Ah! Jesus!"

"Oh, sorry!" Kurt apologized as he materialized.

"This way!" Scott turned right.

Scott stopped and pressed a button on a console, making the metal doors lift up to reveal a jet plane, Hank whispered, "Nice"

"Hey, Hank, do you think you can fly this thing?" Rebecca asked.

"Yeah, I can figure it out" Hank shrugged.

"Hey, guys" Scott said from the side, "Flight suits"

Raven turned to Hank, "You got your warplane, let's go to war"

Everyone was quiet on the plane as they headed to Cairo, Rebecca kept her arm around Serena throughout the flight, not knowing what to do with her daughter the second they landed until Jean asked Raven, "Were you scared? That day in DC, were you scared?"

"No" Raven said quickly before she hesitated, "But I was scared on my first mission, I was on a plane like this with my friends, about your age. We called ourselves the X-Men"

Raven leaned over to look at Scott, "Your brother was there. We used to call him Havok, he was a real handful but when it came down to it, he was very brave"

Kurt asked, "What happened to the rest of the kids who went with you? The X-men?"

Raven hesitated before she said, "Hank and I are the only ones left, I couldn't save the rest of them. I told you, I'm not a hero"

"Well, you're a hero to us" Jean turned to her, "Seeing you that day on TV changed my life"

"Mine, too" Kurt spoke up.

"Mine, too" Peter told her before correcting himself, "I still live in my mom's basement but, you know… everything else is, uh… oh, it's pretty much the same. I'm a total loser"

Everyone let out a easy laugh from Peter's crack at himself as if gave him some sort of fuel to get everyone to lighten up.

"Not anymore" Rebecca turned to him, "After today, you'll be known as a hero, Peter"


"This was meant to be the center of the universe before I was betrayed" Apocalypse mused, "Now… it will be"

Charles watched as Apocalypse lifted up his hands as a sandstorm seemed to go through the city of Cairo. He saw a pyramid being built right before his eyes, heard the screaming of people, and even felt their panic from where he was sitting. He tried to block out what was going on but the mass was too great as he looked away. His mind drifted to Rebecca and Serena, wondering if they were safe and what they were doing. He knew his wife more than anything in the world, she loved him so much that she would be willing to challenge Apocalypse head-on if it meant to bring Charles back to her. After what he's seen and felt from this mutant, he prayed that she did the opposite and stayed home. This was a fight he knew she would have to pay with her life.