1 I was lost and now I'm found Part One

The X-Treme team flew over the Navajo Desert looking for the mysterious figure that had called them to this place.

"I still don't trust this 'shaman'!" Psylocke yelled voicing her obvious displeasure with Storm's decision to seek out this man.

"I find it a bit suspect also Storm. I mean what is a shaman doing out in the middle of the Navajo desert? Alone at that?" Tessa questioned.

"My friends if it is a trap we will be ready for it. I rather take a chance than never know if that was our only ticket to getting back a diary," Storm replied.

"For all we know this could be Kuragari," Bishop said almost indifferent to the matter.

"And for all we know he could be from the future and doesn't tell anyone a damn thing about himself. I say we go for it!" Rogue exclaimed. She got a nasty look from Tessa and Psylocke. She rolled her eyes at them and continued to listen to Storm.

"There will be no more discussion on this matter. We are going to find the man and that's final! I don't want to hear another word on the subject,"

"Of course Queen Storm," Psylocke said bowing.

"Bitch," Rogue murmured under her breath. Neal heard her and just as he was about to intervene Bishop grabbed him by the shoulder and shook his head. Neal steadily leaned back into his leather seat understanding the horrible mistake he was about to make. "Don't ever get in the way of arguing women. " Bishop said.

Meanwhile Beast was hanging upside above Neal writing a letter to Trish.

Dearest Trish,

As my friend Rogue puts it "Hey darlin!" I'm sorry we haven't been able to spend much time with each other lately, but with the quest for the diaries now in full swing I've been rather busy. Take for instance the jet I'm riding in now. I constructed it myself with some help from my most treasured teammates. Now how do we get fuel you ask? I've come up with a way for the engines to absorb kinetic energy so we have a practically limitless energy source. Enough about my intellectual works I'm sure you want to know what progress is being made in the mission. To be honest not much progress has been made in this endeavor of utmost importance. It's a long story and one I rather share with you over a date next week.

Sincerely yours,

Hank

"Hank how can you be writing down new theories in a time like this?" Tessa asked looking up from her seat at the hanging McCoy.

"Actually I was writing an exposition of love to my dear sweetheart Trish Tibly. I'm sure you have heard of her," Hank smiled.

"Who hasn't?" Tessa murmured.

"X-Men brace yourselves. The man is directly below us. Sage and Psylocke I need you two to scan the mind of this man," Storm commanded. Sage and Psylocke looked at each other and then nodded. The two's eyes fell shut and sweat began to form on their brow. After about two minutes of slow descent and concentration the two women awoke from their state.

"We can't get in, but that mind feels familiar to me," Psylocke said shaking her head trying to figure out who it could be. It was most likely Kuragari, but it could be Shadow King or some other villain she has faced in the past. There were too many possibilities and one major headache.

"My friends prepare yourselves for a fight because that is what is seems is going to happen. Either way we will get a way to the Crimson Dawn out of him!"

"Now that's the Storm I'm talkin bout!" Rogue exclaimed as the plane began its descent towards the sands of the Navajo Desert.

"Glad to see you all showed up," the old, Native American man said as Storm came first out of the plane.

"In times of need people are willing to do most anything sir," Storm replied.

"Believe me I understand that more than you know," the old man said bowing his head.

"Okay let's not get into some deep conversation here. We came here for the goods and that's what we want. So how do we get to the Crimson Dawn dimension?" Tessa asked.

"An anxious one isn't you? Tell you the way to the Crimson Dawn I can, but wonder if you can handle it I do,"

"Sir if you really knew us you would know we would be able to handle it," Psylocke replied.

"Just what I wanted to hear!" the old shaman exclaimed pulling off his disguise and revealing himself as he truly was. Now Psylocke knew where she recognized the man's voice. He was Deck, the brother of Kuragari. While everyone else was prepping to fight Betsy ran and embraced the man whose flowing cloak seemed almost to envelop his body.

"I take it she knows that big giant," Sage whispered in Beast's ear.

"Yes I do believe she does. Tessa I have been meaning to ask you a very important question about your research. How come no other geneticists before you have discovered the numerous amount of mutation within a single mutant gene?"

"Beast only you would ask a question about research in a time like this, but of course I would be happy to answer it. It seems the mutant gene has only recently began to show it's true potential. How and why I do not know nor understand yet, but I'll definitely be working on it. One of my theories though it is probably out of wack is that a greater power is manipulating the mutant gene. Another theory I'm sure you've heard is the one that all x-factor genes are malleable energy mutations that adjust themselves according to my three factors of mutation. I tend to find both theories to have at least some precedence."

"Always the wealth of knowledge," Beast said kissing Tessa on the hand. Meanwhile Psylocke let go of Deck and told her team it was all right and he was an ally.

"I'm sorry about the deception X-Men, but I had to test your resolve and see if you were truly ready to face the Crimson Dawn. I believe this is yours," Deck said handing a Book of Truth to Psylocke.

"Hold on! Why did we need to be tested if you already had the book with you?" Tessa exclaimed.

"Because the book isn't the only reason you all need to go to my home with me. Recently my brother found a mutant named Havok floating along the dimensional stream adrift and far away from his original world. Kuragari snatched him off of the river and bought him to his castle for say keeping. My brother in hopes of gaining more power used his magic to try and find the home dimension of this lost warrior and he came to find this world was his home. Kuragari became angered and decided to make some good out of the situation and declared that Havok would be his apprentice. Right now he is trying to twist and bend the mind of your comrade for his own devious purposes," Deck explained. All the X-Treme team except for Neal and Sage stood in awe of this story. The long thought dead Havok was alive and not so well, but alive nonetheless. Even after all the miraculous resurrections the X-Men had seen they still were shocked every time one did happen.

"So what are we waiting for? We got a rescue mission to complete," Bishop said charging up one of his guns.

"X-Men prepare yourselves for the Crimson Dawn!" Deck exclaimed as there was a flash of light and the whole world went white.

When the X-Men began to see the world again they realized they were in a different dimension just by looking through a window and seeing the blood red sky. Neal was the most shocked by this new world. Despite all his experiences with the X-Men and all the tales he heard never once did he think he would end up in another dimension with them? Even if he did he always had figured it'd be Mojoworld.

"Well this place doesn't seem to pleasant, but not much involving the X-Men is pleasant," Savitar mumbled.

"Now you're starting to learn luv," Betsy whispered in Neal's ear.

"Betsy I would prefer you be quiet. We can't afford to have our enemies getting the drop on us," Storm said.

"No need to worry about us getting the drop on you because we were already expecting you," Kuragari said tapping his sword gently in his hand and looking at his brother with a sigh of impatience.

"X-Men prepare for battle! We will not fall this day!" Storm commanded shooting a lighting bolt off at Kuragari. He just deflected it off of his sword and it hit Tessa knocking her out and it would have killed her had it not for been Storm's lighting being weaker in this strange dimension.

"X-Men beware the minions surrounding my brother are just as deadly as he is," Deck warned. Before the X-Men could divvy up who was going to fight whom Kuragari's troopers attacked.

Psylocke was up against her old friend Otto. She was dodging his claws left and right, but she wasn't going to be able to keep it up much longer. "You deceived Otto! Now you die!"

"There is wee little chance of that!" Psylocke yelled as the Crimson Dawn tattoo on her face was beginning to glow brighter and brighter. Otto charged at her teeth snarled and claws bore. Psylocke bent down and caught Otto in mid air with a ground roll and sent him flying into a statue.

"You are impure and you must be purified," Psylocke said in an almost robotic tone as shadow spikes began to fly out of her body like Marrow would pull out a bone. The spikes all hit Otto like heat seeking missiles. Otto's skin began to blacken and he let out one, last and final scream as he disappeared into oblivion. Psylocke fell to the floor exhausted. What had possessed her to do that she had no idea and why had she never done it before?

Meanwhile Beast and Bishop were up against one of Kuragari's right hand men, Luggo. Beast was trying to land a punch on Luggo, but every time he did he hit Luggo's force fields, which acted almost like a rubber ball and sent anything or anyone who hit it in recoil.

Beast had formulated a plan and he managed to tell Bishop it while Luggo was gloating over how easy he was beating the two X-Men. Beast leaped into the air and hit Luggo's force field on purpose and once he bounced off of it he used his body to knock down a pillar that fell down on Luggo. Luggo wasn't prepared for the pillar so he wasn't able to make his force field strong enough, but the pillar was enough to incapacitate Luggo. He simply turned himself into a tornado of razor blades and sliced right through the pillar. Bishop had his gun directed right at the mini tornado of blades so he could take out Luggo just when he went back into his normal form, but as Bishop was waiting something came out of the tornado and hit Bishop right in the shoulder. It sent him flying back into the ground. When he turned to look at his wound he it was a glowing crystal that was more or less liquefying itself into his skin. Just then Luggo turned back into his regular, dragon-like form.

"Don't think that I didn't hurt you Bishop. You are going to realize what I've done to you soon enough and you will pay the price for it!" Luggo snarled showing his ooze-covered teeth. Bishop grimaced at the sight almost as much as did when he saw the stone slab from the rubble of the pillar fall upon Luggo's head with a loud and sickening thud. Beast's plan had worked even if there were some minor complications along the way.

Meanwhile across the massive hall Storm and Savitar were caught in battle with A1, Kuragari and Deck's brother. Storm realizing her electrical abilities weren't as powerful in this dimension was using winds against A1, but he kept shaking off the gust winds like they were nothing and on Earth they would be powerful enough to break every bone in a human's body.

"Neal you've got to use your power to incinerate this fiend!" Storm commanded knowing A1 would probably be able to handle whatever Neal threw at him. Neal began to stumble not knowing what to do. He was afraid that he would use his powers and end up hurting his friends and possibly himself.

"Neal do it!" Storm yelled, but to no avail because an energy spike from A1 hit Neal and knocked him unconscious. Storm in anger let out a blaze of fury unleashing bolt after bolt upon A1. Seeing that it was having no effect Storm surrounded her body in an electrical field and dove straight into A1 hoping to take him out for good. Soon as she rammed into A1 he knocked her out with a swipe of his hand. A1 walked over to the unmoving body of Storm ready to deliver the killing blow when he was blasted away by the optic shadow blasts of Deck. Deck had wished he were able to help Rogue who was easily taken out by Kuragari.

"Brother you shall not win this day!"

"Oh please Deck look around. The X-Men are falling like flies! You can't win!"

"Oh but I can," Deck smiled making large, red tentacles rise out of the ground and wrap around A1 suffocating him.

"Deck you and your allies die now for the deaths of Otto and my brother shall be avenged!" Kuragari yelled black energy flow from his body.

1.1 X-Treme Letters

Our first letter is from the avid fanfic reader Jason Trenner. The guy's loaded with ideas.

Interesting issue..though I know that Psylocke getting her telepathic

powers

back=Shadow King on the loose. That's most definitely not a good thing.

If

you want to know about the Omnivore(and a lot of other obscure things)

go

here: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/index.htm .

Well Shadow King might not come back in the way you would expect him too. But I'm definitely going to use Omnivore now. It'll probably be in the annual.

1) Is Tessa using Mimic as part of her theory(since he has the primary

powers of mimicing other powers and has the powers of the original

X-Men as

his secondary powers...and he once was a perfect copy of

Wolverine(that's

what keep him from dieing of gamma radiation poisoning)?

Well I never thought of this, but Mimic can very easily apply to Tessa's theory. But let's remember theory isn't necessarily fact.

2) Speaking of Mimic..is there any chance of him joining the team?

Not really. I like him though so look out for a Marvel Revolution story perhaps.

3) Will Rogue use organic steel claws(using Colossus's powers with

Wolverine's)?

She definitely will now.

4) If Rogue used Gambit's powers..would they be at the power level when

she

kissed him..or at their full power?

Full power because part of her brain isn't missing.

5)Will the Destiny Diaries have anything on Cyclops?

Maybe.

6)Will Piece try to his base back(and will you explain how he came

back)?

Probably in the annual.

7)Will the X-Treme X-Men have any contact with the new Magik?

No contact whatsoever

8)Are the X-Treme X-Men disappointed that Wolverine killed Magneto(the

Uncanny team doesn't seem bothered in the slightest by it)?

This will be addressed briefly in X-Treme issue 6.

9)What future do the Destiny Diaries lead to?

This is definitely a question that I cannot answer.

10) Do the Destiny Diaries have anything on Franklin Richards?

Maybe.

11)Do the Destiny Diaries have anything on Scarlet Witch?

Check answer 10.