"Do you really think this can cure me?" Rogue asked.

I shrugged, "It should. Your powers are pretty modular given their origins, and this chemical has safely shut down powers in all the tissue samples I've tested. I still want to test it on a living mutant first, it should be reasonably safe, but I don't know if there's anyone willing. The one we will be testing in a moment will bring your powers back once they've been shut down."

"I guess so." She relents, "But if you just need to test it, what's all this for?" She asked, staring at the design drawn in glimmering dust.

I shrug, "An augury. A little magical thing that tells me what will happen if I do something. Since I've got the chemical and you as focuses, it should allow me to safely determine if it will cause you any harm or permanent changes."

"Magic? Really?" She asked, "Aren't you, you know… a scientist?"

I shrugged, "I've tested it extensively and I get repeatable results, as have all the practitioners on this planet for thousands of years, it's just as much a science as anything else, just one that doesn't play by normal laws of physics."

"So what does this do?" She asked.

I shrug, "I cast a spell and these tokens will either fall towards you, fall away from you, or remain standing up."

"Huh, that's cool I guess." She mentioned.

The spell was a relatively simple thing. Just a little biotic energy sacrificed and a strange shudder passing through the room before the dominoes wobbled.

"Let's see," I said as I looked at the tokens, "This will turn off your powers, it won't do anything other than that, and the other chemical will act as a counter agent."

She looked at me, "That sounds good! Can I try it?"

"Hold on a minute, we still have other tests to run!" I said.

It took a while to work through all the different questions, across both of the by the end of it everything was looking pretty good.

"Now, I'm going to suggest that you speak to Xavier and Hank about this to see if you want to do a test run with these formulations. We did find some room for tweaking, so I might be able to optimise this a little more, but if you want to start using that right away until I have the gland grown, then I'd suggest speaking to Hank." I said as I put the vials back in the container.

She grinned widely, "Thank you so much!"

"Go on, find out if it's okay." I said with a chuckle.

I barely managed to get the words out of my mouth before she was out of the room.

I turned to Scott and Kurt, "So, what do you think?"

"That was pretty fast." Kurt said, "and it just works?"

"I've been able to suppress basically any mutation from occurring with this stuff. I guess it's not too surprising." I said with a shrug.

Scott stared at me, "That's it?"

"Yeah, what were you expecting?" I said with a shrug, "Me injecting her with untested chemicals and causing random disfigurements? Maybe cut her open so that I can shove something in her?"

"That's what I see when we go check out other 'mutant cures'. He said with a shrug.

I shook my head, "Nah, that's if you are either malicious or if you lack resources. I am neither so I'm not."

He looked at me disbeivingly, "And Hank has tested these too?"

"Yep, he synthesized these batches, actually." I said with a shrug.

He looked at me, examining me as I turned to Kurt, "By the way, do you want me to take a look at your physiology?"

"I guess so," He said with a shrug, "will it even work though? If my dad and all the Neyaphem don't look human anyways…"

"He's still a mutant, so the signalling pathways should be the same." I said as I carefully pierced him with the biopsy tool, "I'll run the tests on these samples to make sure, but all your teachers gave me samples and this has produced the same results across all the powers that couldn't naturally be turned off." I said with a nod.

"Yeah, that's it, you keep talking about our powers like they aren't natural." Scott interjected.

I looked at him, "Because they aren't? It took me a while to find the right references, but I was able to find enough evidence to back up the rumours that mutant abilities are due to Celestial meddling."

The two turned to stare at me, "What?"

"Yeah, there's this race of enormous godlike beings that wander the universe, and they incubate their young in planets for millions of years. To protect their young, they meddle with the local dominant life forms to allow them to fight off predators." I stated confidently.

Kurt looked at me, "And you know this… how?"

"Oh, I had to get Strange to confirm it with Aggamotto," I noted as I put the samples into the small container of liquid nitrogen and slipped the container into my jacket, "but he was able to give me a first-hand account of the initial intervention a little over a million years ago."

Rogue burst back in, stopping to look at Scott and Kurt, "I dunno what you are talking about, but I don't want to know."

"That's up to you." I said, "Did you speak with Xavier and Hank?"

"Yep, Hank dosed me up too!" She said as she threw herself at me.

I barely kept my balance as she bowled into me, hugging me tightly, "Thank you so much."

I chuckled and ruffled her hair, "It's not a problem. I'll have the rest of your treatment ready next week. I'm going to need to put you under for an hour at least, though, while the genetic modification is taking place."

She nodded, "That's cool."

Scott started gingerly touching Rogue's exposed wrist, "It worked."

"Of course it worked," I stated, "we confirmed that just now."

"You can just… turn it off?" Scott asked.

I nodded, "Yeah."

He raised his fingers to his glasses, "Could you?"

"Fix your power? Let me take a look." I said.

I summoned up a bolt of biotic energy and ran some scans, and immediately found what I was looking for.

"So, it looks like your power is supposed to be able to turn off, you have the genetic markers that I've come to associate with that, but I'm seeing some damage in the areas of the brain that those genes would be expressed in. Do you want me to heal that?" I asked.

He stared at me, "Yes…? You can do that?"

"Yeah, it's not too hard. Well, with magic at least. A lot of normally complex things can be fixed that way." I said.

"Then yes, please heal it." He said confidently.

I wave my hand and let a wash of energy flow over him, "There you go."

He stared at me, "Is that it?"

"Yep," I opened up a quick portal to the outside, "Why don't you try?"

He turned to the portal and gingerly opened his eyes.

Nothing came out.

"I can see.' He said in shock.

I furrowed my brow, "I was under the impression that you weren't blind."

"He acts like it a lot." Rogue scoffs.

Kurt chuckled, "No, he means that he can see green and blue. He keeps moping about having to wear his lenses all the time."

I shook my head, "Now, Scott, could you try and use your powers?"

He nodded before a pencil-thin beam left his pupils for a second.

"What was that!" he said in shock.

I nodded, "It seems that you have some control over the intensity of your optic blasts, they aren't on or off, they can be dialled in as you want."

"Yeah," he said.

I turned to Kurt and Rogue, "Now, Rogue, I'm going to expect that you will arrange a full free day some time at least a week from now with Dr McCoy for the changes. Kurt, I'll send you an email in a few days if we need to do the same for you."