AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm going to go on a bit of a rant here because I have nowhere else to grievance. The whole polygamy thing that Hickman is pushing in it's underlying tones just disgusts me. I hate that Scott and Jean have separate rooms and Wolverine also lives with them in a room connected to Jean's. I know that Nightcrawler hatched the bright idea of "make more mutants" but there are plenty of women and men on Krakoa. None of this "sharing." While I had put in the description of this fic that I wasn't going to include any of that considering Wolverine, there won't be mentions of a homosexual relationship with Cyclops either. It's just, ew. I'm going to stick with how Cable views it in Cable #1 in that Wolverine is simply Uncle Logan. I don't think I'll include Wolverine in the near future into any of these one-shots but for future reference he would be referred to as such.
Also, no Emma Frost. Period. Unless it's about a snobby rivalry with Jean not concerning Scott or concerning the fact that Cable might start dating the Five-in-One (which I am a bit more okay with than anything else relationship-wise Hickman and others might be pushing.)
No orgy, no nothing. Even if the X-Men seem to be a death cult of sorts at the moment. Just the wholesome and bit of humor that is sometimes seen on the surface level of Dawn of X and related titles. H̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶l̶y̶ t̶h̶e̶ c̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶ X̶-M̶e̶n̶ s̶c̶a̶r̶e̶s̶ m̶e̶ b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ o̶n̶ o̶n̶e̶ s̶i̶d̶e̶, t̶h̶e̶ c̶u̶l̶t̶ a̶n̶d̶ s̶e̶x̶u̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ r̶e̶l̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ a̶r̶e̶ d̶a̶u̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ b̶u̶t̶ o̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶, t̶h̶e̶ r̶e̶v̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶ a̶n̶d̶ t̶h̶e̶ s̶h̶i̶f̶t̶ f̶r̶o̶m̶ b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ o̶p̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ e̶n̶t̶i̶c̶e̶s̶ m̶e̶. Okay, now that that's off of my chest in like- the 9th chapter, let's finally continue.
Scott Summers had made a lot of mistakes in his past: marrying the clone of his one true love, abandoning the son he had with said clone, cheating on his wife, breaking off and becoming a despot like Magneto… killing Charles Xavier. Those were just some of them.
Ever since returning to life (having died from terrigen mist) and being given a second chance, Scott had made the effort to be the boy scout he once was. Unfortunately, when he had paid the Fantastic Four a visit, the view of him being a "bad guy" had not faded away as he had hoped. Factually, the humans were suspicious of all mutants congregating on an island. But most remember what Cyclops had done. See, leading up to the events where he killed Charles Xavier, the Phoenix Force had returned to Earth. It came in search of his granddaughter Hope Summers. No matter how hard he tried to push Hope, she wasn't ready for it. Instead, the Phoenix Force chose five new vessels: Colossus, Magik, Emma Frost, Namor, and himself. At first, the five (which quickly became known as the Phoenix Five) had begun to use their powers for good. Especially for the wellbeing of the previous mutant haven, Utopia.
Of course, then things started to go out of hand. Long story short, if one of the Phoenix Five had fallen, the power would be redistributed among the rest. In the end it was Scott who had all of it. He remembered the power of being life incarnate gave him. He remembered wondering if this was how Jean felt. He then remembered the Professor begging for him to stop.
Then… all he remembered after that was pain and sadness. Eventually Scott had converted that into something a little more positive much to Captain America's disdain. He knew that the whole ordeal would make him a martyr and he was right. Just look at Quentin Quire for instance. Scott predicted that he would become so much of an icon to be printed onto T-shirts for young mutants.
And he was right. Cyclops was right.
Even though he admitted to Cable that he was wrong at the point of his resurrection it does come to mind… if he had been wrong then… does that mean he would've been wrong now?
Everyone had feared and hated him on the account of "he was training children to be soldiers" or for the straight fact he was working with Magneto. He had to hand it to Wolverine though, maybe he should have focused more on training children only to defend themselves. But what of Utopia? Just like Genosha, Utopia had fallen. Both were a place for mutants to go to escape prosecution. Sound familiar?
All in all, Scott had chosen not to dwell too much on the matter. He was wrong. That was it. If he keeps telling himself that, then maybe he could better himself for the future. Scott had already buried the hatchet with Wolverine and the fact that he killed Charles Xavier has gone unsaid. Hell, even Quentin stopped wearing "Cyclops was Right" T-shirts.
Scott in turn had learned to let all that baggage go. As all residents of Krakoa did. The sooner he accepts the current state of things, the happier he would be.
And he was. He never felt happier in his life. For once in a long time, he was in control. Forget being right or not. Scott's New mantra might as well be "Cyclops is happy." Corny as it might sound, it was true. At least Jean wouldn't laugh at him. Possibly. For a fact, his children would. But even they would understand. The clusterfuck that is the Summers family had faced a lot of hardships.
No one speaks of the past unless it was of a fond memory. None of his family members mentions how he became a despot. He should be thankful for that, and he truly is. But somewhere deep inside of him, he hopes to become the beloved leader he once was. Perhaps he had just let the Fantastic Four get to him and he was over contemplating things.
His son Nathan saw him as that very same leader. He told Scott himself.
Maybe that's all it was, he just wanted to fit the image his son has painted of him. Surely Jean would find this one amusing. She probably caught wind of it by now through their psychic rapport. Especially now that he was storming with thoughts before their bedtime.
Scott swaps his visor for his glasses before settling down to rest. Sometimes you had to look through the past with ruby tinted glasses.
Sometimes literally.