Hey, I know it's been a while, but this whole week has been difficult. With work and babysitting my sister, and then yesterday one of my kittens died horribly and he was one of my favorites so I'm pretty emotional right now.

So now we move on to Days of Future Past. I've altered a lot of details. I added Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris into this because I told Arianna Le Fay that they would be playing an important role in this fic, and I replaced Sunspot with Eclipse from the Gifted because I liked him and the relationship he had with Lorna. I also gave Wanda the ability to send someone back in time. In the original script Rachel Summers was the one who did and since she, Jean Grey, and Wanda have similar powers I thought of giving that task to Wanda.

Thank you all for waiting so patiently. I hope you all enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter 10

The future, a dark, desolate world. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants and the humans who dared to help them. Fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path? Destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves? Change our fate? Is the future truly set?

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Moscow

They were in the bunker when they attacked.

Scarlet Witch had been talking to her sister Polaris when Warpath and Blink appeared through one of the latter's portals.

"Time's up!" Blink shouted.

"Sentinels!"

Nobody wasted any time, dropping what they were doing, and prepared to defend themselves. Shadowcat hurried to Scarlet Witch's side just like they've always done.

The Scarlet Witch shared a look with her sister. Even though everyone knew what was happening, the fear and worry was still there. Scarlet Witch then turned her gaze to her sister's boyfriend Eclipse as he powered Bishop up with his power. He nodded, silently promising her that he would protect her little sister to the best of his abilities.

"Let's go!" Shadowcat said. The two women ran.

Everyone else gathered in a circle, waiting for the attack to come. The silence was heavy and tense until they heard the drilling above their heads. Polaris looked up, and saw a drill pierce through the cemented ceiling. The Sentinels were made out of a nonmetal alloy, but the room she was in contained enough metal not to render Polaris defenseless. She stood between Eclipse and her best friend Blink, preparing to use the metal to defend herself and her friends, and to buy her sister and Shadowcat more time. She heard Colossus shift into his metal form, and Eclipse powering the solar energy in his hands.

The Sentinel came down and landed in front of them. The sight reminded her of the monsters she read as a child, sending a shrill of terror through her, but she wasted no time, making the metal shelves in the room shift and tie themselves around the Sentinel while Eclipse torched the machine. Another Sentinel landed behind the group. Colossus ran to it, but it easily overpowered him, punching him down to the ground. Warpath ran to his aid, Blink creating a portal that allowed him to attack the Sentinel from behind. The distraction allowed Colossus to be able to fight back, punching its head into the ground.

The Scarlet Witch and Shadowcat ran down the paths through their hideout, the younger women phasing them through any objects in their way when a Sentinel dropped in their way. Scarlet Witch used her energy to blast it, but it recovered from it. A silver blur brushed past her, flinging her auburn locks in the way for a moment before she saw Quicksilver, carrying Bishop who blasted the Sentinel. A portal appeared behind them, and Scarlet Witch and Shadowcat immediately took advantage of Bishop and Quicksilver's distraction, and Blink's escape route.

The two of them continued their run, hearing the Sentinel chasing after them. Another portal opened in front of them, and out came Iceman, creating an icy slide, passing the two women as they ran past him, him and Shadowcat sharing one quick look before he shifted into ice, beginning to freeze the Sentinel chasing after them.

It was a losing battle.

Colossus was tossed into a shelf filled with supplies. Getting up, he turned to face the Sentinel, aiming a punch at it, but the Sentinel caught it, twisting his arm painfully. Then the Sentinel's body shifted into the same type of metal as he was.

Polaris struggled to keep the metal wrapped around the Sentinel as Eclipse tried to burn it. It tore out of the metal restraints and shifted into an icy form before it lunged at them.

Iceman covered his Sentinel in ice. Then it turned to a fiery red, breaking out of the ice and grabbing him by the throat.

Shadowcat phased herself and the Scarlet Witch through a big metal door. There was a slab in it, and Shadowcat immediately laid herself down on it. Scarlet Witch put her hands around the younger woman's head, and a red energer went inside it. As this happened, the Scarlet Witch tried not to feel the deaths of her friends and comrades. She felt Colossus's head be smashed inside, Eclipse and Iceman choked to death, and Polaris burned till she could no longer feel their life forces. Tears fell down her face as she focused on her task with Shadowcat.

Outside the room, a Sentinel approached it. A portal opened behind it and Warpath jumped onto its head, stabbing its neck. It didn't faze it as it grabbed and threw him off across the room. Its arm shifted, ready to stab and end his life when Blink jumped out of one of her portals, quickly making another one in front of it in time to save Warpath's life and get it away from them. But Blink was unable to close the portal quick enough as she tried to help Warpath back up. The Sentinel turned and plunged its arm into her just before her portal closed. She gasped and collapsed next to Warpath.

"Blink!" Warpath shouted. "No!" Warpath watched as his friend died next to him, sadness and anger filling him as he looked up. The Sentinel was joined by the other two Sentinels. Warpath felt a breeze wisp past him and realized Quicksilver and Bishop had joined him as well. It was three against three, but the mutants knew they didn't stand a chance. That wasn't their mission though. Their mission was to give Scarlet Witch and Shadowcat more time. The three of them lunged at the Sentinels even as energy bursted from the machines heads at the mutants.

Sobs escaped Scarlet Witch as she felt Warpath, Bishop, and Quicksilver's deaths. They were running out of time. She looked up and saw the metal door melting. Then the head of a Sentinel came through. Its head opened up, an energy powering up to destroy Scarlet Witch and Shadowcat. The mutant witch glared at it. "Too late, assholes!" she hissed.

The energy beamed out of the Sentinel and came to kill the last two mutants when all of a sudden they disappeared. The entire bunker was empty with no evidence of an attack, or even of anyone ever living in it. The mutants and Sentinels were gone as if they were never there.

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She could feel their fear, their pain, then deaths. The minds of fellow mutants had grown so few it filled the aged professor's heart with a heavy sadness. She finally found the minds she had been looking for. Her former students were hiding in Asia.

Professor?

"I've found them," she told her friends and allies.

Giving them the coordinates, the ship blasted through the dark sky, fast enough to avoid detection. They landed at an abandoned monastery hidden in one of the mountains on the Chinese border.

Storm was the first to come out, followed by Logan who lit a cigar as he descended down. Professor Charlotte Xavier came out in her hoverchair while Erik, her friend, paramour, enemy, or as many knew him, Magneto followed behind her.

Bishop, Eclipse, and Warpath were guarding the entrance. All three of them looked at the newcomers with tense suspicion.

"Professor." Bobby Drake came out, recognizing his teachers and friends. He hugged Storm and greeted Logan, happy to see them. He was joined by Kitty, Piotr, Wanda, Peter, and Lorna.

"Professor, you made it." Wanda smiled at her, and Charlotte returned it, happy to see them all. Lorna came over and hugged the professor. Peter and Wanda however, stood a little away from their biological father, but still shared a nod with him. Things had been tensed between the twins and their biological father for years, but in recent years had managed to push their differences aside to help one another and their fellow mutants. Inside, they were grateful and happy to see one another alive.

After greetings were exchanged, everyone gathered inside the monastery. They had been separated for months and had barely managed to survive the attacks since the school's destruction. Wanda explained how they managed to survive in the hopes of discovering a solution to their current situation. "Whenever the Sentinels attack, Warpath spots them, then I send Kitty back to warn us of the attack before it happens. Blink and Peter scout the next site, and then we leave before they ever know we were there."

"Because," Warpath spoke, sitting down. "We never were."

"What do you mean you were never there?" Logan asked, confused.

"She projects Kitty back in time a few days to warn the others of the coming attack," Charlotte explained to him.

"So she sends Kitty back in time," Logan said, looking at the witch like mutant. Her powers were boundless and scared him. Not unlike another woman he once knew…

Charlotte shook her head. "No, just her consciousness into her younger self. Her younger body."

"Wow." Still freaky in Logan's opinion.

Erik looked at Charlotte before turning to the others. "This might just work, Charlotte."

"What might work?" Lorna asked.

Charlotte explained to them all. "The Sentinel program was originally conceived by Doctor Bolivar Trask. In the early seventies, he was one of the world's leading weapons designers, but covertly, he had begun experimenting on mutants, using their gifts to fuel his own research. There was one mutant who had discovered what he was doing."

"A mutant," Erik said. "With the ability to transform herself into anyone."

"Mystique," Piotr realized.

"I knew her as Raven," Charlotte said, her eyes reminiscing on the girl she had loved and cared for for years as her own blood. "We met when we were children, grew up together. She was like a sister to me."

Erik looked at her with guilt and regret in his eyes.

Charlotte continued. "I tried to help her, but only succeeded in driving her away. She hunted Trask across the world, and at the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, after the Vietnam War, she found Trask, and killed him. It was the first time she killed."

"It wasn't her last," Logan murmured.

Charlotte glanced at him, but ignored his comment. "But killing Trask did not have the outcome she expected. It only persuaded the government of the need for his program. They captured her that day, tortured her, experimented on her. In her DNA, they discovered the secrets to her powers of transformation. It gave them the key they needed to create weapons that could adapt to any mutant power, and in less than fifty decades, the machines that have destroyed so many of our kind were created," Charlotte explained. "But it all started that day in 1973, the day she first killed. The day she truly became Mystique."

Silence descended on the group, all of them realizing what the professor's plan was.

"You want to go back there," Kitty stated, not questioned.

"If I can get to her, stop the assassination, keep her out of their hands, then we can stop the Sentinels from ever being born," Charlotte explained.

"And end this war before it ever begins," Erik finished.

Charlotte nodded.

Glances were exchanged among everyone in the group, all of them wondering if it was possible and worried about what this could mean. Wanda was worried and hesitant over this plans and the risks. "I can send someone back a couple weeks. Maybe a month, but you're talking about going back decades. You have the most powerful brain in the world, Professor… Mother… but the mind can only stretch so far before it snaps. It would rip you apart," she explained. Even with her powers that seemed boundless, there were consequences. She had known the kind professor since she was a child and had only found out about her being her birth mother only a few years prior to all this, and couldn't bear to lose her like so many loved ones she had already lost. "I'm sorry. No one could survive that trip."

"What if someone's mind had a way of snapping back," Logan spoke up. Everybody looked at him. He continued, "What if someone could heal as fast as their ripped apart?"

There was debate over this, considering the risks involved, someone dying or ceasing to exist. In the end it was agreed that Logan would go back in time and prevent this future, giving them the chance to start a better one.

The doors to the monastery were sealed. Storm, Warpath, Blink, Eclipse, Colossus, and Bishop spread out to guard it from any attack. Logan walked into the room where the slab was. Kitty, their medic was standing off to the side with Bobby, one of their last defense bodyguards. Wanda, Peter, and Lorna were standing a little ways as well, conversing before Lorna would join the others outside, and Peter remained to help guard and watch over Wanda. The possibility of Lorna not existing had struck the siblings hard. Even before they knew of their relation to one another, Logan knew that they had been friends for years and ared as if they had grown up together. He glanced at the professor and his former adversary, knowing the two of them could feel their children's pain, but decided to focus on the mission instead.

"So I wake up in my younger body, who knows where, then what?" Logan asked.

"You'll need to go to my house," Charlotte said to him. "And find me. Convince me of all of this."

"Won't you be able to just read my mind?"

Charlotte shook her head, remembering the difficult time she went through. "I didn't have my powers in 1973. Logan, you're going to have to do for me what I once did for you. Lead me, guide me. I was a very different person back then. You'll have to be patient with me."

Logan scoffed. "Patience isn't my strongest suit."

"You'll need me as well," Magneto added in.

"What?" Logan turned to look at him.

"After Mystique left Charlotte, she came with me, and I set her on a dangerous path. A darker path," he explained before looking at Charlotte who looked down mournfully. "It's going to take the two of us, side by side at a time we couldn't be further apart."

Logan glanced at the professor. In the years he had known her, he had learned about her and Magneto's past together. It was shocking to say the least, and to this day he still had trouble understanding their relationship that had lead to Wanda, Peter, and Lorna's existence. "Great. So where do I find you?" he asked.

"Well, it's complicated." Was all the man would provide. Well that sounded helpful.

He laid down on the slab, Wanda beside his head as she explained to him what would happen. "Basically, you body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as you're back there, past and present will continue to coexist, but once you wake up… whatever you've done will take hold and become history, and for the rest of us, it will be the only history that we know. It will be like the last fifty years never happened, and this world, this war… the only person who will remember it is you."

She took a deep breath. "Alright, Logan, I need you to clear your head and stay as calm as possible."

"What? What do you mean?" he asked.

"If your mind gets rocky, it will be harder for me to hold you, and you could start to slip between past and present," she explained.

"What if I need to get a little rocky?"

She shrugged. "Think peaceful thoughts?" she suggested.

"Peaceful thoughts," Logan mumbled. "Do you have any good moods?"

"Well, you don't really age, so you'll pretty much look the same," Wanda said.

"You won't have much time in the past," Peter warned him, standing by his sister's side. "Sentinels will find us."

"They always do," Bobby said.

"And this time we won't be able to run," Wanda told him. "We'll have no escape. This is our last chance."

Erik and Charlotte watched all this.

"You really think this will work?" Erik asked the professor.

"I have faith in him."

"It's not him I'm worried about, it's us," Erik clarified. "We were young, we didn't know any better."

Memories of choices and mistakes they'd made flashed in both of their minds, and the pain they had caused each other over the years. In 1973… they weren't the best people to be around with, but Charlotte had faith in themselves. "We will now."

Logan glanced at all his friends, preparing himself for the journey. "See you all soon."

"Just don't get killed, and don't let our parents kill each other before you fix this," Peter said, a small grin appearing on his face, the first one in years.

Logan grinned back. "No problem, kid."

"This might sting a little," Wanda warned him.

Scarlet energy came out of her hands and into his head. Logan roared in pain, his claws coming out of his knuckles as he felt his head split and burn as he was taken from the present he knew and into the past to an uncertain future.

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So what do you guys think? Originally, I was going to have the twins be raised by Charlotte and Erik finding out about them in DOFP but thought it wouldn't make much sense in Apocalypse, so I went with the idea that they were taken from Charlotte at birth. Instead of them being raised together like they are in the comics, I've decided to have them adopted by separate parents. Peter is still adopted by the Maximoffs, but Wanda is adopted by a different family. I reveal who as the series go by. Please review and let me know what you guys think.