EPISODE 3:

Mystique, Quicksilver and Shadowcat are by the biggest pyramid in Giza, The pyramid of Khufu. Mystique orders Kitty to go down below and find out if this is the correct place where they should be. Kitty goes down through the sand and pops back up a few moments later. She says that it's the tomb of El Sabah Nur.

Mystique: "So? What are you waiting for? Wake him!"

Kitty: "What? That's not possible."

Pietro: "Why not?"

Kitty explains that she can't just lie within his bones to regenerate and wake him. Mystique asks her how to wake him. Kitty says that she's a literary teacher and that she's not into science nor history.

Kitty: "Apocalypse is a regenerative mutant, but you guys have no idea of what he could do to this planet if you revive him."

Raven: "That's not your concern. Who would know how to wake him? Don't you see? If he's alive he can restore the world's mutants. He can find Wanda, reunite sister and brother."

Pietro: "We need to get him out of there. I think if we do that it'll at least be a step in the right direction."

Raven: "That's going to be troublesome. How do we know Kitty isn't lying?"

Raven looks around. Kitty is gone.

/

Beast is working on the Blackbird. Emma goes to talk to him. She asks him of his unbiased opinion about Moira's serum.

Emma: "Whatever I say, Scott backs me. You're a scientist and you tend to put things into perspective. Should we be worried?"

Beast says that he thinks the first point of call for Emma and Scott was right; rebuild the X-Men. He says that at least that way, when there is trouble ahead, you're not on your own. Beast says that D-Day came about because of the dysfunction in Magneto's family. The X-Men aren't like that.

Beast: "We've always been there for one another, and now we may need each other more than ever before."

Beast says that whether the X-Men oppose it or not, Moira's serum is backed by the government, so it will go ahead.

"The consequences, are hard to predict."

/

Split screen to Scott, Remy and Sooraya. Sooraya is in a shopping centre while Scott and Remy are in a car in a parking lot. Remy says that he showed her a bunch of YouTube clips and online magazines with Hollywood celebrities.

"Hopefully she gets a sense of how folks dress over here."

Scott: "I'm glad she's doing this. It's better she fits in as much as possible."

Remy: "She won't remove her Niqab though."

Scott: "That's alright. There are plenty of Westernised women rocking jeans and religious wear."

Remy: "Rockin'? Since when dat enter your vocab homme?"

Scott: "I'm having a daughter. I figure I try and understand what a child's speech would entail, to try and talk to her on her level."

Remy looks at him quizzically.

Scott: "What? Too much?"

Remy: "De girl hasn't even been born yet. You're treatin' her as if she already be a demanding teenager."

Scott: "That and I would like to have ponies on her bedroom wall for her. Emma won't allow it. Don't baby our baby she says. And she's not even born yet."

A pause as Gambit laughs under his breath.

Scott: "What?!"

/

We see Quicksilver enter a quiet place. He sees Wanda and he's shocked. He approaches his sister to try and embrace her with his joy, but then she turns into Magneto. And then Mystique. Mystique laughs as she says Pietro needs to stop reacting upon his every emotion. She says that they have a clear mission.

Pietro: "My clear mission, is to get my sister back – that's all I want to do!"

"Yes and I am helping you. Helping the world. And you know who will know how to wake Apocalypse now that we've found him? Your father."

The two argue as Pietro says that he doesn't want anything to do with his dad. Mystique says that Magneto is human.

Pietro: "Then he's more useless now than he ever was!"

Mystique says that Erik would help them revive Apocalypse so that he could get his powers back. Quicksilver reminds Mystique that Magneto killed him and that's why Wanda said "no more mutants" in the first place.

Mystique says "so we trick him. We promise him that we are trying to get the world's mutants back, get Wanda back and his powers too, as long as he tells us how to revive Apocalypse. He'll tell us and then we turn on him."

Pietro: "Turn on him how?"

Raven: "Incarcerate him. Trap him. Whatever. We just make sure he's away from Apocalypse when we wake him. That way he has no say and no way of getting his powers back. Then when Apocalypse finds Wanda we can show her that her dad is normal. Then maybe you all can have the normal family that you crave."

Pietro: "And what will you do? What's your ambition in all of this? You used to serve beside my dad."

Raven: "Yes, and I know the pain of what it's like to lose a family. We can give that to him. I owe him that. After it's done I will have a new purpose; to serve Apocalypse. If he reverses what Wanda did, in fact if he makes it so there are more mutants on the planet than humans, then so be it! We are homo-superior and I'll be damned if I'm spending the rest of my days hiding out and trying to fit in. Why the fuck should I? I'm a mutant and proud of it."

/

Back at the X-Mansion, Emma has lunch ready for the return of Scott, Remy and Sooraya. Sooraya looks ravishing despite having her face covered. Emma is bluntly envious.

Emma: "I bet there's a candidate for Miss Universe under there."

Hank joins them for lunch and they discuss the whereabouts of Wolverine.

Emma says that Logan hadn't been spotted in obvious places: "I made a few calls as you know. He's not stuck around here, he's not in New York, LA or Texas. I'm guessing he's gone up north."

Hank says that he has ensured the Blackbird has enough fuel backup, a power generator "and even solar panels. If we get shot out of the air, we may be able to have a stable landing with the power of the sun."

Sooraya: "You all have been shot down before?"

They all respond in turn, nodding, agreeing and Cyclops saying "many times."

Emma says that she learned all of Wolverine's history from Charles when she initially became and X-Man. This means that she can have an educated guess or two as to where he may be or where he may have been spotted.

"But my own research and calls have led to nothing so it does look as if we're going to have to track him down another way. Perhaps begin our search where he may have started." Emma suggests that the team start with the Canadian government.

We go into a split screen, but with Emma still voicing over in order to advise. She says that Logan worked for the Canadian government after he was Weapon X. There is where he had a home, where he had a team that genuinely cared for him. Emma assumes that their HQ might've been the first place he went for answers.

Back to the X-Mansion; Beast suggests that Emma joins them so that she can filter through who may or may not be lying to them when they ask questions. Scott says that Emma will stay at home due to her pregnancy being so far down the line. "She needs her rest."

Remy voiceover as the screen splits back to the Canada scene: "Wow. We really are doing this the old fashioned way."

Cyclops, Beast, Gambit and Dust are stepping off the Blackbird having landed outside a government building in Canada. Cyclops reminds them that they're only there to ask questions and find out if anyone has seen Wolverine.

/

Quicksilver is on a plane. A woman comes and sits beside him. We can tell by her eyes that it's Mystique.

Pietro: "I still don't know how you're so casual about such things."

Raven: "What do you mean?"

Pietro: "Changing. Turning into whoever you need to be in order to get what you want. You do it with such ease."

Raven: "I wasn't your father's right hand for nothing. Besides, the human part of us means we all have limits. Even you, who can run on top of water from one country to another would need a rest at some point. I too can't keep my desired shape unless I am fully concentrated. That's why right now I'm putting my coat over my head and I'm going to sleep. If there's a problem and you wake me, say the name on my passport (she hands Pietro her purse) and I'll become her as soon as I wake."

Raven turns in her seat and puts her coat over herself, immediately turning to her true blue self. Pietro looks in her purse; lip balm, throat sweets and a passport. He opens the passport and to him the name/image of the woman is unrecognisable. The audience immediately recognise her as the singer Iggy Azalea. (Pop culture reference. Iggy is of Australian fame and Raven and Pietro are headed to Australia).

/

Remy, Sooraya, Scott and Beast walk out of the Canadian government building.

Remy: "Well that was a waste of time."

Scott: "We had to ask."

Hank: "Seems like the staff in there were very tightly wound. I don't think they liked us very much."

Scott: "I think they'd seen their fair share of trouble Hank."

Remy: "Naw, Hank's right. Seemed like they be hidin' de fact dat Logan been here. As if he had caused a ruckus and now, that's why they be scared."

Hank: "Perhaps I should not have gone in. My appearance can't have helped our enquiry."

Scott: "I get where you're both coming from, but any human has their guard up against any mutant. Despite our innocent intentions, they have a right to feel scared. And Hank, they'd have seen my visor to know that I wasn't playing Robocop. Mutants are still a part of the world and a government building should be a place where mutants are safe. Having said all that, I think Gambit's right. There's no way Logan hasn't been here."

Dust: "Could it be that it's a simple case of timing? Maybe the staff on duty now were not on duty when your friend arrived."

Scott: "Maybe. If we could see their CCTV footage, maybe that would help."

Remy: "They wouldn't just let us see it though."

Hank: "Aah, I can be of use here. We have a data cloning device that I conveniently installed onto the Blackbird. It's quite simple in it's action, but we would have to get inside the building and insert a USB into their CCTV drive. The USB would clone the footage and we'd hopefully find what we're looking for. Getting to their security office to plant the drive would be the obstacle."

The group had been walking toward the town and into a café.

They take their seats as Dust says that she could get into the building unnoticed. They begin devising a plan as Remy waves over the waitress to take their order and the scene splits back to Emma in the X-Mansion.

/

Emma is talking aloud as we see her in Charles' office going through some of his teachings. She's communicating with Ororo. We hear Ororo's voice and cut to where she is in Wakanda.

"Pietro's not silly. He changed his clothes as soon as he left here. The tracker stopped in a hotel not far from here, but then stayed there for days. He must be changing while he is moving." Storm is in her palace, running her fingers through material of various wedding dresses.

We hear Emma: "Meaning that he doesn't want to be found nor followed. More to the point, he doesn't want anyone to stop him from his mission. I imagine he has a purpose, but it's unclear as to what it could be."

Ororo: "He didn't let on. In hindsight I should have had my King make him answer some questions before he left."

Emma: "Your focus is elsewhere I'm sure. The wedding plans are well?"

Ororo: "They are, but I'm not into any of these dresses. I think I will travel down south. Find something more authentic."

Emma: "You will make the dress glow Ororo. I don't think any dress would be worthy of you."

Ororo: "My King says the same. But he is anxious, not to let me out of here."

Emma: "Let you?"

Ororo: "Mmm, it's not a discussion. I will go. His guards can accompany me if that makes him feel better."

Emma: "You've always been strong. I doubt T'challa has a thing to worry about."

Ororo: "Worrying is all he knows. Me in a certain dress, I hope, will give him only our passions to worry about."

Emma: "Alright Ororo, please, change subject. Scott and I are hands-off until the baby is born and neither of us are dealing with it too well. Wedding nights and honeymoons are not on my let's talk list."

We cut back to Emma, who's going through a contact book of Xavier's.

Ororo via the communication device: "Fair enough. Have you found what you were looking for?"

Emma: "Well I didn't really know what I was looking for. More clues I guess, to where Logan might be."

She opens the contact book and sees a number of names and addresses. Some of the names have 'AKA' and a mutant alias beside them.

Ororo: "And?"

Emma: "And I may have something here. In fact this may help us continue our revival of the X-Men."

Ororo: "How so?"

Emma: "Xavier's contact book. It seems to have everyone that was here's first address."

Ororo: "Everyone that was there? The X-Men?"

Emma: "The X-Men and the students. Xavier kept this as a log of mutants' origins I think. Maybe a way to give those that were here a way home or something."

Ororo: "Are there just the mutants and their addresses?"

Emma: "Mostly, yeah. But some have parents' names too." Emma flicks through the log and comes across Colossus.

/

Back at the café, the group have eaten through lunch and their plan is in place of what to do. We split screen to Beast, Cyclops and Gambit being in the Blackbird. That then split screens to sand and gravel travelling along the floor as if being swept by wind outside the Canadian government building. Sooraya in Dust form, moves herself up side of the entrance door and waits until it opens to a staff member. She snakes her way into the building, noticeably away from the line of vision of any staff or cameras. From Dust's snakey point of view we see how she makes her way through the building.

We hear Beast voicing over from the Blackbird: "She knows where to go. If the blueprints to the building are correct, she shouldn't have a problem finding the security office."

Dust indeed does find the security office and she waits until the door opens before she can get in. Meanwhile via voiceover we hear Gambit's concerns.

"This is taking too long."

Cyclops: "She has a comms device. She'll be fine. As soon as she's in she'll let us know. Hank has to talk her through the CCTV processing."

Gambit: "But what's taking so long? What if a janitor has swept her up or something?"

Beast: "Relax Gambit. It's a government facility so I would expect all entrances and exits to be air tight. She may be having to wait for doors to open before making any moves."

As Beast proclaims this, Dust makes her way into the security office and turns herself back to natural form, turning on her communication device.

"I'm in."

She sits by the monitors and looks at the computer system.

Beast on comms: "Great Sooraya. Now don't insert the USB yet. We have to ensure we have the correct footage. Look at the top left of the main screen and hover over the box up there."

Dust does so and we see a drop-down menu: "Ok. There are options."

Beast: "Good. Go to Archives and once the pop-up box is on screen, it will allow you to type in a date from and a date to. We need the dates from March last year, to May. That should be sufficient enough for us to find Wolverine."

Dust: "Ok, that's done."

Beast: "Now go to export and then you can insert the USB."

Dust does as instructed, but when she inserts the USB the screen flickers and the building alarm goes off. Dust looks around at first and then realises that security guards would be fast on their way back to that office. She transforms into sand and gravel and drops out of sight as security guards rush into the office. There are three of them and they go to the main CCTV computer as we notice Dust in gravel form on the ceiling above the guards' heads. From her point of view we hear them converse.

"There was someone in here. A USB, the system thinks it's a virus."

"Is it?"

"No. It looks like a transmitting device."

The guards look at the CCTV screen.

"Someone was trying to steal footage from these dates."

We see from Dust's point of view that a much larger figure has come into the shadow of the door to the office. We hear sniffing. Once. Twice. The door closes. We see a silhouette of the figure that's just entered.

Sniff… "The thief's still here."

From inside the Blackbird Cyclops, Beast and Gambit can hear that the government building security alarm has sounded. Their communications with Dust are unavailable while she is in Dust form. Gambit looks like he's in a panic as he gets playing cards out of his pocket. Beast gets out of his seat and Cyclops prepares himself to exit the Blackbird.

Cyclops: "All they need is a distraction. As long as the doors keep opening, Dust'll be able to get out of the building."

Gambit: "Hank, you didn't know there'd be a detection thing on their computers?"

Beast: "Contrary to what you may believe, I don't know everything Gambit."

Cyclops: "Whether we like it or not, we've got action X-Men. Let's keep this as peaceful as possible."

The screen goes black and all we hear is a sniff.