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The X-men and the Acolytes were still fighting.

A giant metal ball zoomed from the building and landed on the ground. Opening, Magneto walked out, carrying Kieran's limp body covered in her own blood which had spilled from her body.

Everyone stopped fighting and looked at him.

He took a couple of steps towards everyone and set Kieran's body on the ground.

"We are in deep trouble," he warned.

Virginia looked at Kieran's body, walking towards it.

"You better think you are," Cyclops said.

"How dare you do this to one of our members, and then shove it…," Jean began.

"You foolish children do not understand me," Magneto cut in, "I did not do this to her. She just fell over in blood. But that is not the problem." Magneto looked around the lot, "Apocalypse is back."

"What did you do?" Cyclops moaned.

"He didn't," Virginia said. She looked up at the building, then back down at Kieran, "She did."

"How?" Shadowcat asked.

"Kieran?" Virginia mumbled, tears almost in her eyes, "Kieran, can you hear me?"

Kieran opened her mouth, but only more blood drooled out.

"Don't," Virginia shook her head.

She looked up at the others. She took a deep breath.

"What did you do?" she thought to her.

"I'm sorry…I…I didn't mean to…I…I don't …I don't want to…to die," Kieran thought.

"Did you do what I think you did?" she thought sternly, "You used your powers?"

Kieran looked down at the ground. She closed her eyes for a moment, before opening them.

"I…I had to," she thought, "And now…he's back."

Virginia stood up.

"Apocalypse is back," she stated.

"How?" Rogue asked.

She looked down at Kieran.

She sighed, "Through a rip in the space time continuum."

"Like can you repeat that?" Shadowcat asked, confused.

Virginia bit her tongue and shook her head.

Taking a deep breath to compose herself, she explained, "Time travel. He traveled here through the rip we caused when we came here."

"But we didn't…," Nick began to argue.

Julien hit him in the gut and mumbled, "Shut up."

"Oh," Nick nodded, picking up on Virginia's plan.

"Now we have to stop him," Virginia continued, "You did it once, how did you do it?"

"Mah," Rogue stepped forward, "Ba we need Leech for that."

"And, we don't have Apocalypse's machine," Cyclops added.

"Don't you know how to stop them?" Jean asked Virginia.

Virginia let out a slight laugh, "Hah…Give me a band of sentinels, no problem. Phoenix, piece of cake. But Apocalypse...he never actually came back in my time. We've never actually fought him."

"So what now?" Iceman asked.

"Get Nightcrawler, Jean. Now," Virginia instructed.

Jean nodded.

"Nightcrawler?" she thought telepathically, "Get back here."

"Ves?" Nightcrawler thought back.

Nightcrawler appeared in front of the group.

"Vhat's going on?" he asked.

"Apocalypse is back," Jean stated.

"Now, everyone we need to use everything we've got to stop him," Virginia said, "And if that doesn't work, we need a healer."

Everyone looked at her.

"Isn't LoAna a healer?" Jamie replied.

Virginia shook her head.

"LoAna can't heal Kieran," Virginia said, "It's something we learned a while ago. Her…powers won't allow for it."

"Virginia, the only other healers we know aren't like going to be born anytime soon," Nick said.

"Ange…Apocalypse, duh, never mind. Sinister's at his right hand…Shoot," Virginia mumbled, thinking out loud, "Just do something for her. Or…or she's gonna die."

"So we just go fight?" Amara asked, "Ambush?"

"No," Virginia stated, "we're not just going to go in and fight him till he kills us all off. There's no sense in that, and it's not going to happen either. I won't let it. I need only a couple of you to come help me. Everyone else just keep still and stay safe and out of the way…My group, Rogue, Nightcrawler…Jean, come here."

They walked to her.

"Nightcrawler, somewhere private if you could?" Virginia motioned away from everyone, "Closer to the real fight."

"Vot it," Nightcrawler nodded. He grabbed a hold of everyone's hand and teleported them all out.

Nightcrawler teleported the group into an empty room in the building.

"What did you need us for?" Jean asked.

Virginia took a deep breath.

"We're gonna stop Apocalypse," she stated firmly.

"Ah thought ya said ya never fought 'em?" Rogue said, "How are we gonna stop 'em if ya don't know how?"

"We didn't stop him, but there was a time when it almost happened. I wasn't there for it, but I've heard the stories. He had his horsemen and everything awaiting him. Sinister, his right hand man, probably already has assigned the jobs, and he's waiting for them to join him," Virginia said, "but I have a plan to stop them. But, you aren't gonna like it."

"Vhat is it?" Nightcrawler asked.

"It's a suicide mission. That's what this is," Virginia stated, emotionlessly, "I could lie to you and try to cover it up, but I'm not going to because you all deserve to know the truth about what you're getting yourself into. We're gonna do everything we can, but one if not all of us won't make it out alive. For my plan to work, each and every one of you has to be willing to risk your life to save the world from Apocalypse, so if you aren't willing to risk it, just get out of my way, now. I have work to do."

Her eyes moved around to each of the people in the group.

"You all know the risks," she stated.

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"So what is the plan?" Jean asked, "How are we gonna defeat him?"

"We aren't," Virginia said, "We're gonna send him back in time, but to do that we need to do some time traveling and without Kieran, we have to make do. The Phoenix Force can time travel. That's what Jean and LoAna are for. Both have their connections to it. More so with Jean but it still runs through LoAna's veins, so we'll use it. Rogue, you've been up close with Apocalypse, so that's an advantage. Julien, keep him and his horseman busy. Nick, keep him from hurting any of us while we're doing our jobs. Keep everything you can intangible…Now, Nightcrawler, teleport us in."

Nightcrawler nodded and once again grabbed everyone's hands and teleported out the room.

The X-men and Acolytes were still on the lot.

Four figures came crashing from the building's windows onto the lot: a pale blue skinned man with blonde hair and metallic wings, a teenage girl with green hair, a Japanese man who was on fire, and a birdlike woman with wings and talons.

The metal winged man flew straight at the X-men. He turned one of his wings in and shot metallic feathers from it.

The X-men jumped out the way, avoiding them.

Cyclops looked up at the man and gasped.

"Warren?" he asked, "Is that you, Angel?"

He turned sharply and glared at Scott.

"I am no longer Angel," He replied, "I am Archangel, Death."

"Archangel, what kind of name is that?" Iceman mocked.

Archangel turned back around and shot his metallic feathers towards Iceman.

"Sorry dude, I wasn't trying to offend you," Iceman replied, "I mean, yeah, go Archangel. It's a heck of a lot manlier than Angel. Now, that was girly."

Archangel turned his wing in again and shot his metallic feathers at Iceman and the New Mutants, once again. Iceman froze them in the air before they hit him or the others.

"Do me a favor, Iceman," Magma said, "Shut up!"

He quickly nodded.

Archangel circled back around and continued to shoot metal feathers every so often.

The woman who resembled a bird flew towards Cyclops. She landed right in front of him.

"I am Deathbird, War," she said, shaking her head, "You are so not worthy of yourself."

Cyclops looked up at her, confused.

She circled around him as he followed her with his eyes.

"So much like your brother," she replied, "but so much not. He is far more…mature…better."

"Alex?" Cyclops asked, "How do you know him?"

"Alex? Who's Alex…oh the other one, no, no, no," she said and then smiled, "Your other brother."

"Other brother?" Cyclops repeated, "What other brother?"

"You don't know, do you?" she smirked, "What a shame."

"What don't I know?" Cyclops asked getting anxious, "Who's my other brother?"

"Vulcan, the Shi'ar Majestor," Deathbird answered, "My husband."

"Vulcan?" Cyclops repeated, not believing it, "I can't have another brother."

"Yes, the great Vulcan, Gabriel Summers, your younger brother," Deathbird said, "Born from your mother's so…sorrowful death. Too bad your father's still alive. It's a pity, really."

"Dad's alive?"

"Cyclops, stop. She's like totally trying to psych you out," Shadowcat said, "she's like the horseman of war or something. She's trying to cause a fuss."

Cyclops blinked and shook his head.

"You're lying," he said.

"Am I?" Deathbird asked.

She shrugged and shook her head.

"Well, enough small talk, war's are won by action, not words," she started to encircle him closer and closer.

The flaming man flew towards the Acolytes.

Pyro stuck out his hands, cackling. He started to control the fire coming from the man.

"Ha! Ha! you're my kind of mutant, mate," Pyro laughed as he shrunk the fire around the man.

"No one weakens Sunfire. I am famine, famine weakens everyone," Sunfire said as he his flames began to grow even bigger than before.

Gambit lit one of his cards and threw it at him. The card just evaporated into the fire. Colossus picked up a large metal object off the ground and swung it at Sunfire knocking him to the ground.

"Now that's out cold, Mate," Pyro cackled.

The green haired teen flew towards Magneto. She stopped several feet away and tilted her head to the side.

"It's been forever," she said.

"Do I know you?" Magneto asked.

Magneto raised his hands and a piece of metal came flying from behind the teen, hurtling towards her.

"You should," she replied smiling.

All of a sudden, it stopped in mid flight as the girl raised her hands. Her smiled grew. She raised her hands above her head and the metal raised, too. She flicked her hands, sending the metal safely over her head towards Magneto who stopped it inches from his head.

"Hello father," she replied.

"Fa…father?" Magneto repeated.

"Yes, daddy, long time never see. It's sure taken me a long time to track you down, but I've finally done it. Each time I almost found you, you'd left, but I've finally done it," she stated, "Me. Lorna Dane…No I am Polaris…yes from now on I am to be only known as Polaris, Pestilence."

Magneto's eyes widened.

"Dane?" he repeated, "As in Suzanna Dane?"

Polaris smiled, "Yep. She was." Her eyes lowered, "She's dead, now."

Magneto studied Polaris for a moment, and she stared at him back. She shook her head.

"Now, dear Daddy, I believe it's time for the fighting to begin," she announced.

A helicopter appeared above in the sky and landed on the lot. Avalanche, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Toad, and Blob piled out of it.

"What are you doing here?" Cyclops asked.

"Helping," Avalanche replied, "It's part of the job."

"And, we came to collect, Pyro, yo," Toad added in, "Fury's fuming."

Everyone looked at Pyro.

"Tell Fury to hold his horses," Pyro laughed, "Ah'll be coming back after da fight."

Avalanche gave him a look.

"Unless, ah get a better offer with da x-men...Sheila?" Pyro asked smiling at Magma.

"Nope, never," she turned towards him, "Not gonna happen."

"Then, Ah'll be back first thing in the morn," Pyro decided, "It's a shame, though, that Shiela's a keeper. Pretty darn hot. Literally. Ya see 'er fighting? Mazing."

Magma turned back towards her fight, smiling a half smile.

"He is kinda cute though," she thought, "…you know if he wasn't mentally insane…"

Shadowcat looked over at Colossus and smiled, then ran over to Avalanche and kissed him on the check. He rubbed his check.

"What was that for?" he asked.

She smiled, "Nothing. You're just gonna make a great dad one day."

"Huh?" he asked. He looked down at her stomach. "You aren't..."

"No!" she blushed, "That's not what I was like implying."

"Oh okay. Good," he raised an eyebrow, "Then, i repeat huh?"

"Don't ask," Cyclops advised as he ducked Deathbird, "It'll just give you a headache."

Avalanche shrugged.

Deathbird stopped on the ground and cocked a smile.

"Ready to give up and serve your master, Apocalypse?" she asked.

Avalanche raised his hand and sent a shaking through the ground, causing Deathbird to fall down.

Quicksilver sped over towards Magneto. Scarlet Witch ran behind him.

"Dad?" Quicksilver asked, "Are you okay? You look…distracted."

Magneto was shaking his head at Polaris as they threw metal back and forth.

"Yes, I am fine," Magneto replied.

Scarlet Witch arrived next to Quicksilver.

She raised her hand to hex Polaris' powers.

"Don't," Magneto said, "I mean…don't hurt her."

Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver gave him a look.

"Why not, father, you have never said to hold back before," Scarlet Witch questioned.

"Because," Polaris interrupted, "he's my father, too."

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch gasped, looking at her and their father.

"Her?" Quicksilver pointed at Polaris, "She's our sister."

"Half-sister," muttered Magneto softly.

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch shook their heads.

"Well, this is…unexpected," Quicksilver laughed.

"Really," Scarlet Witch smirked.

Kieran who had been lying motionless not too far from Magneto stirred a bit. She slowly opened her eyes. Raising her arm to her chest, she began to breath in and out quickly but hesitantly. She started to cough and leaned over to her side and spit out a mouth full of blood.

Scarlet Witch shaking her head at her newly found sister turned, hearing Kieran's coughing and looked at her.

Kieran's eyes widened and she struggled to sit up, causing more blood to ooze from her sides. Her body had long slashes across her and down her sides that cut straight from her clothes through her skin and deeply into her body. The blood seemed to gush from the gashes. She slowly took a couple of deep breaths, blinking. She coughed again, spitting out another mouth full of blood.

"Are…are you okay?" Scarlet Witch asked.

Kieran continued to cough, more and more blood coming from her mouth.

Scarlet Witch looked up at Magneto.

"Is she okay?" she asked.

Magneto and Quicksilver turned away from Polaris and looked at her.

"I'm not sure," Magneto said solemnly, "She was with the x-men, I think?"

Quicksilver raised an eyebrow.

Magneto shook his head.

"Cyclops!" Magneto yelled.

Cyclops turned towards Magneto.

"What?" Cyclops asked.

"The girl?" Magneto asked, "If…if something's not done soon, she's gonna die."

Cyclops looked at Kieran and frowned sorrowfully.

"I'm not sure what to do. Virginia never said…She's…Virginia said to fight, so I'm fighting," Cyclops said, "I'm not sure what to do. I feel bad, but if we don't stop Apocalypse, then the future that we saved them from isn't gonna matter cause this one's gonna be worse. She would have came back from the future for nothing, if not just to die."

"Came back from the future?" Magneto asked.

Cyclops nodded, "Yeah, all five of them." He smiled and returned to his fight with Deathbird, "Virginia's mine," he called back to them.

Magneto's eyes widened as he, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch looked at each other.

"X-men," Quicksilver shook his head, "What weird things they do."

Scarlet Witch leaned down next to Kieran.

"I'm sorry we can't do anything ," she said solemnly, "I wish I could help."

Kieran took a deep breath, breaking away from her coughing. She slowly sat up a bit. She wrapped her arms around herself to try to stop the bleeding, but it continued to bleed all over her and her clothes which by now were already permanently stained red.

Kieran turned to her side and spit out blood. Her eyes had tears in them.

"I feel so bad for her," Scarlet Witch thought and tilted her head to the side. She stared into Kieran's eyes, "She looks a lot like Nightcrawler, huh…"

Scarlet Witch reached her hand out and moved a strand of Kieran's hair out of her mouth that was matted in blood and tucked it behind her ear. She smiled. Kieran looked up and smiled back at her.

Kieran's eyes began to get a bit hazy and she took another deep breath, forcing down blood. She moved one of her hands from across her stomach to her lungs and let out a deep breath. She started to cough again, as the blood continued down from her mouth. She tried to spit it all out, but she had too much dripping out. Tears fell from her face faster as her smile turned into a frown. She forced down her coughing and turned, refacing Scarlet Witch. Blood came dripping from her lips and started to pour a bit down the side of her face in a long red stream.

Kieran slowly opened her mouth to speak, pushing down the blood as best as she could, though it was filling up her lungs faster by the second, and slowly mumbled, "…Mom…!"

Scarlet Witch's eyes widened.

"Me?" she asked, astonished and confused at the same time.

Kieran slowly nodded the best she could.

"…I love you…forever…," she mumbled as the blood stream dripped down past her face, down her neck.

Scarlet Witch smiled and picked up one of Kieran's hand and held it, giving it a slight squeeze.

Kieran smiled.

Slowly Kieran's eyes wandered a few feet away from her. Archangel, who had been fighting the New Mutants, had been slammed to the ground by a fire blast delivered from Magma. Once on the ground unconscious, Iceman had thrown an ice dagger at him, causing him to bleed out from his side where the ice had cut straight through him.

Kieran's eyes widened.

"…I can do it…," she thought, "...I must..."

Kieran turned to her side, coughing more blood and dizzily began to stand up. She took a few steps, almost falling, trying to make her way towards Archangel. She left behind a trail of blood.

"What are you doing?" Scarlet Witch asked, standing up and looking distressed at Kieran.

Kieran ignored her, shaking her head. She managed to shakily, kneel down on the ground next the Archangel. She reached her hand out into his bleeding side and scooped up some up his blood. Slowly, she touched it to her bleeding out gash on her side, mixing their bloods in a similar way to how LoAna mixed her own blood with others to heal them. Her eyes widened a bit in pain as she coughed a bit, spitting out more blood. She stood up, slowly, and began walking towards the building, focused on the door as she tried not to fall down. She was still bleeding and had hardly been healed like she knew any other person from Archangel's healing powers would, but now at least she had been healed just enough to do what she needed to do.