Rachel and Nathan were fighting again. This time, the scrap had been going on for so long that neither of them remembered what sparked it in the first place. All they needed to know was how to evade the other's attacks.
Nathan dashed down the hallway and dove behind the safety of the couch as Rachel flew behind him, flinging as many objects as she could at him. Luckily for Nathan, he was skilled enough to dodge most of them, especially when Rachel began picking up heavier objects. For a moment, everything was at a standstill. Rachel was early quiet as the objects stopped flying. Feeling a bit brave, Nathan peaked his head around the couch just to get a glimpse of Rachel's smirking face. Her eyes glowed magenta as she moved her hands toward the couch.
"Crap."
Nathan scrambled to his feet when he realized that Rachel was going to drop the couch on him. Drawing his gun, he rolled away and took a shot at his sister. Being the hood shot that he is, Rachel took it hard in the side and careened backward. The couch dropped safely back onto the floor, without crushing Nathan beneath it. Having a temper similar to her mother, Rachel screamed wordlessly as she telekinetically latched onto Nathan.
Soon, Nathan was running hopelessly in the air, panicked to find out what his sister might do to him.
"Rachel, Rachel stop! I'm sorry!" The teen exclaimed. His glowing eye spiked in both fear and anticipation.
"No you're not!" Rachel screeched. She flung Nathan high into the ceiling, causing him to bounce off and fall towards her ungracefully. Brother slammed into sister, making them both crash into the floor. Unfortunately, something in Nathan's bodyslide tech malfunctions and they're sent teleported to an unknown location.
They end up in a dense wood, near a camping ground that seems to be occupied with tents and a small fire. The siblings unfortunately get tangled up in a bush with twigs snagging at their hair and clothes. Rachel, being the first to recover, levitates herself out of the bush with disgust.
"Ugh," she snorts, "Where are we?"
The bushes rustled as Nathan tumbled out behind her. "Actually sis, it's when are we?"
Rachel was quick to give him a look. "You did not just— Bodysliding is only supposed to teleport you." She narrowed her eyes in accusation. "What did you do?!"
Nathan casually picked a stick from out of his hair. "So I uh, had a long chat with Forge and now the bodyslide tech can time travel." The answer only made Rachel angrier.
"You what?"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time." Nathan remarks as he goes about fixing their situation. "Just give me a minute, I'll get us back home."
Rachel threw her hands up in defeat as she took a look upon their surroundings. She floated herself over to get a closer look at the campsite, careful to keep herself hidden. As of right now, there were two figures sitting by the fire, admiring the stars. One man and one boy. Presumably father and son. The boy's brilliant brown eyes started to get heavy lidded as he nestled against his father's side. Out of curiosity, Rachel reached into their minds to get a sense for when and where they were.
"What a day," came the father's thoughts. "We should probably head in soon, little guy is already getting tired."
Rachel then peered into the boy's mind.
"Too bad we have to leave tomorrow… I'm having so much fun. Who knows when Alex and I are going to hang out with dad again?"
Eyes widening in realization, Rachel turned to her brother. "Nathan…"
"Yeah Rach'," Nathan retorted with a roll of his eye, "I'm on it, just relax."
"No Nathan, wait…" Rachel went over and grabbed his arm to prevent him from doing anything else. "This is the night before the plane crash." she whisper-hissed and Nathan sweat dropped.
"The plane crash?" Nathan echoed, mirroring his sister's shocked expression. "As in… one parachute left? As in—" Rachel cut him off. "Yes!" She pressed her palms against the sides of his head. "Do you know what this means?"
Nathan pursed his lips. "No…?"
"This means we have an opportunity to save them." Rachel supplied and Nathan set his brows with worry.
"I dunno Rachel, that seems adherently wrong. What if we erase ourselves?" Nathan asked.
Keeping her hold on Nathan's head, Rachel pulled him over to get a glance at their father and grandfather. "Look, when I sent Kitty back in time to change my future, it worked. But for me, everything stayed the same because my future became an alternate timeline. If we save them here… we can create an alternate timeline where everything goes right for dad and Uncle Alex, hell Katherine is pregnant with Uncle Gabe right now."
Nathan's eyes shone with apparent consideration, "Wow… grandad has not changed at all— ow!" Rachel pulled on his ear. "Did you even listen to anything I just said?"
Nathan swatted her away and crossed his arms. "Yeah yeah, alternate timeline. What if we subjugate them to a worse timeline than ours?" he proposed. He hated being the voice of reason, especially considering time related things. It was really embarrassing trying to convince his teenage time displaced parents to go back home.
Rachel raises a brow. "Worse than everything leading up to now? Yeah, whatever, I'm going to go have a talk with them." She promptly turned on her heel before getting tackled down by her brother.
This didn't go unnoticed by the young Scott and Corsair, but they attributed it to wild animals and just went back inside their tent.
"Are you crazy?" Nathan accused. "Rule number one of time travel, you can't interact with anyone!"
Rachel threw her brother off of her back. "You know, for someone so worried about not fucking up the timeline, maybe you shouldn't have asked Forge to implement time traveling into bodysliding."
This comment only elicits a deep frown from Nathan. Funnily enough, it was very similar to a look Scott would give them.
"Alright alright," Rachel put her hands up in self defense. "You're right. Let's just go home."
Nathan then smirked as an idea dawned upon him. "You know what we can do?" He quickly grabbed his sister's hand so that they could be able to bodyslide together.
"What's that?" Rachel inquired, a cheeky question in her eyes.
"You'll see." Nathan said, "Bodyslide by two." Light engulfs them once more as they are sent on their way.
This time they are ported into a dark room only lit up by moonlight. The room was sparsely decorated and the moonlight illuminated a wooden desk on which a sports almanac sat. Nathan reaches out and snags the said almanac and quickly tucks it under his arm.
"Alright," Nathan said, "Now we can go home. Bodyslide by two."
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm just going to go ahead and advertise my new story right here for all you X-Men Evolution fans. It's called "The Return of David Haller" (yes I know the title is lackluster but it gets the point across.) It's very obviously about Legion if you're
interested because the show got cancelled before we could ever get a follow up to his episode. I would be very grateful If you gave it a look. :)
