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Xavier Mansion
Magneto walked into the nursery that was in the mansion, and see's Rogue playing with Charles Lenshire, Rogue and Magneto's son. He watches from the door as Rogue picks Charles up and puts him in his crib. Then Magneto walks up behind and puts his hand on her shoulder.
Rogue, watching her son fall asleep, says to Magneto "Erik, he wants me to touch him, he wants to feel my skin, but ah can't."
Erik replied to that by saying, "One day we will find a way for you to touch him, just like you can touch me."
At that Rogue turned around and kissed her husband, then said "Ah know, ah know, but still..."
After Rogue's voice trailed off and they just stood there in silence holding each other.
(A/N: Magneto is able to generate a very thin magnetic shield around himself, allowing him and Rogue to touch without her absorbing his psyche. However Rogue can't touch anyone else, not even their infant son.)
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A short time later
The X-Men, as called by Magneto stand in the court yard in the Ruins of Xavier Mansion, Bishop is also there. Then Magneto and Rogue walk in. After a moment of silence, Magneto began to speak, "This man, his name is Bishop, and he claims that all of this is wrong, that none of this was meant to occur, and I fear that he may be telling the truth more than that he was sent here by Apocalypse, unfortunately, since we lost Jean, we have been lacking a telepath. However, we may have another option."
A sudden look of realization passed over Rogue's face and she said "No..."
"Rogue we need you too, only for an instant, so you can see if he is telling the truth or not, I can buffer you with my powers, it would also allow me to see what you see." Magneto said to his wife.
"All right, but just for an instant." Rogue said.
Bishop stood there perfectly still as Rogue and Magneto walked up to him, Magneto raised some kind of magnetic buffer around the three as Rogue took off her glove and touched Bishop's forehead. Flashes of images entered the minds of Rogue, Bishop, and Magneto, images of the Xavier mansion, images of a bald man in a wheelchair teaching mutants to control their powers, images of a world where humans and mutants live side by side, images of a world without Apocalypse, images of a world where Magneto is considered a villian, and then images of a battle between Magneto and some other mutant over Israel. As this was going on no one noticed the shadowed figure in the shadows till he leaped out of the shadows and interupted what was going on.
The man held Rogue who was still weak from the experience and said in a Cajun accent, "Chere are you alright?"
As soon as he finished talking, Creed grabbed him by the neck and pulled him up into the air, Creed then said with a growl, "What are you doing here Cajun?"
"Its ok Victor, I summoned Gambit here, I now believe that Bishop is telling the truth, and as such we have work to do. Nightcrawler, I need you to find your mother, Mystique, and Destiny, I feel we may need them. Gambit, I need you to steal something, from Death, we will discuss that in private later. Creed, Blink, and Wild Child, I need you to go to Boston and find the Brotherhood, tell them we need to find Illyana, now it's top prority, Know-it-all told me she may powers of the chrono variety. Storm, Pietro, I need you to find Marco and his team. Wanda, I want you to go to see Angel and the Hellfire club, we'll need all the information they can gather. Now, go, we have a lot of work to do." Magneto said. Nightcrawler teleported away, leaving a slight smell of brimstone, and Blink opened a sparial portal for the other teams, then she, Creed, and Wild Child set off on their own.
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Brotherhood of Mutants Headquarters, Boston, Mass
Avalanche, Shadowcat, Cannonball, Husk, Toad, Colossus, Magma, and Polaris are sitting around a planning table, preparing to strike out against one of Apocalypse's breeding pens. Then a black hole appears in the center of the room, and three figures step out. They are Creed, Blink, and Wild Child of the X-Men. The Brotherhood quickly rises to their feet is suprise.
"What The!?!" Avalanche yells as the three X-Men appear in his living room.
That is when Creed starts to talk, "Magneto sent us, we have urgent news." After he said that, Creed went on to explain the Bishop situation, and that Magneto feels that we may need Illyana, Colossus's sister.
Shadowcat spoke up next, "So, all of this wasn't suppost to happen? No Apocalypse, none of this!"
"So we need to find my sister? Why does Magneto need Illyana?" Colossus asked in his heavy Russian Accent.
Creed responded by saying, "Magneto had Know-it-all hack into Apocalypse's data banks a while back, and search for any mutant with a chrono variant powers, even if it's somebody who has not yet manifested powers. The search comes up with only one possible candidate - Illyana Rasputin."
"WHAT!" Colossus yelled.
"I thought Apocalypse ordered all mutants with the ablity to time travel killed, so no one could go back in time and stop him...," As Polaris said this her eyes widened in utter shock, "My God, thats what your planning to do!"
"Do we have any idea where she is being held?" Husk asked
Blink spoke up next, "On our last mission, we were able to find out that she is being held in a holding pen some where near what used to be Miami, I can gate you there if you want."
Avalanche spoke up next "Yeah, we want it."
"Good, after you get her, come to the old Xavier Mansion in Bayville." Creed said.
After that, Blink opened a dimensional portal to Miami and sent the Brotherhood through, then , once they were there, she closed it, then opened one to the Mansion.
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Xavier Mansion
"You want us to do WHAT!" Gambit yelled when he heard what Magneto wanted him to. "It's suicide!!"
"Look, Remy, according to Bishop's memories, we may need a shard of something called the M'Kraan Crystal, what ever that is, and me and Magneto recently learned from a reliable source that Death recently returned from a mission that involved it. So we need you to get aboard Death's ship and steal the shard." Rogue said.
"And if we can get the shard, we may be able to stop all of this from happening in the first place, so it won't be suicide, because none of this would have happened." Magneto added
"Fine, I'll take my team, and we will get the shard, where is Death?" Gambit asked.
"He is in orbit of the earth, holding over Apocalypse Island, at the moment." Magneto said.
"Ok, I'll go get my team ready, then we will be off, I won't want to, but I'll have to see Fatale. This won't be easy." Gambit said as he left.
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Ruins of Washington D.C.
Caine Marco, the Juggernaut, was sitting in a the remains of the white house smoking a cigar. Exodus and Domino are in what used to be the Oval Office, which is now there bedroom, and Scrambler and CopyCat have gone off to where every they go to "sleep." That was his team, Force X, they enjoyed themselves like the world would end tomorrow, when in fact, for them, it ended years ago.
Caine was attempting to relax when one person ran right infront of him and another flew in through a hole in the ceiling.
"Hello Peitro, Ororo," Caine said in a deep voice.
"Hey Marco," Quicksilver said.
"What does Magneto want?" Exodus said as he walked in, Domino right behind him.
"Magneto sent us to get you, he plans on taking Apocalypse out." Storm said.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Domino said.
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Heaven "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Heaven, a place that is free of the horrid war outside, I am your host, Angel." Warren Wothington III said as he slowly descended to the floor and into the loving arms of the assassin Psylocke. Thats when some one tapped Psylocke on the shoulder, causing the telepath to jump due to shock.
"What the? Who are you? How did you sneak up on me? It's impossible to sneak up on a telepath!" Psylocke asked the woman dressed in Red. Thats when Warren laughed. Psylocke scowled at him and said, "And what is so funny?"
Warren answered by saying, "Psylocke, allow me to introduce Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, she has the power to alter probablity feilds, she can turn the impossible into the certain, so she can sneak up on a telepath, by raising the probability that you won't detect her, it makes her a very good spy."
Wanda finally spoke up, "I didn't sneak up on you, I just needed to speak with your boy toy here." This time Psylocke laughed, and Warren blushed.
That is when several people look up and start to speak, "Look Sentinals," "Why don't they attack?" "Energy Sheild?" "Secret deal with the Human High Council?" The thoughts and rumors continued to go on.
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Apocalypse Island
The Horseman of Pestilence, Mr. Sinister, and his adopted son, Prelate Cyclops, are walking along a parapet near The Statue of Apocalypse.
"Look Scott, I have to go away for a time, and I don't know when I will be able to return," Sinister said to his son.
"Why father, where are you going?" Cyclops asked Sinister.
"I can't tel you that, for if Apocalypse found out, well it would not be good." Sinister said as he walked to a teleportation pad and disappeared. Leaving Cyclops alone to ponder his thoughts.
"Whats going on?" A confused Cyclops said to no one. He then noticed several small figures flying off in the distance, "hmm, sentinals, what are they doing here?"
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Xavier Mansion
Magneto walked into the nursery that was in the mansion, and see's Rogue playing with Charles Lenshire, Rogue and Magneto's son. He watches from the door as Rogue picks Charles up and puts him in his crib. Then Magneto walks up behind and puts his hand on her shoulder.
Rogue, watching her son fall asleep, says to Magneto "Erik, he wants me to touch him, he wants to feel my skin, but ah can't."
Erik replied to that by saying, "One day we will find a way for you to touch him, just like you can touch me."
At that Rogue turned around and kissed her husband, then said "Ah know, ah know, but still..."
After Rogue's voice trailed off and they just stood there in silence holding each other.
(A/N: Magneto is able to generate a very thin magnetic shield around himself, allowing him and Rogue to touch without her absorbing his psyche. However Rogue can't touch anyone else, not even their infant son.)
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A short time later
The X-Men, as called by Magneto stand in the court yard in the Ruins of Xavier Mansion, Bishop is also there. Then Magneto and Rogue walk in. After a moment of silence, Magneto began to speak, "This man, his name is Bishop, and he claims that all of this is wrong, that none of this was meant to occur, and I fear that he may be telling the truth more than that he was sent here by Apocalypse, unfortunately, since we lost Jean, we have been lacking a telepath. However, we may have another option."
A sudden look of realization passed over Rogue's face and she said "No..."
"Rogue we need you too, only for an instant, so you can see if he is telling the truth or not, I can buffer you with my powers, it would also allow me to see what you see." Magneto said to his wife.
"All right, but just for an instant." Rogue said.
Bishop stood there perfectly still as Rogue and Magneto walked up to him, Magneto raised some kind of magnetic buffer around the three as Rogue took off her glove and touched Bishop's forehead. Flashes of images entered the minds of Rogue, Bishop, and Magneto, images of the Xavier mansion, images of a bald man in a wheelchair teaching mutants to control their powers, images of a world where humans and mutants live side by side, images of a world without Apocalypse, images of a world where Magneto is considered a villian, and then images of a battle between Magneto and some other mutant over Israel. As this was going on no one noticed the shadowed figure in the shadows till he leaped out of the shadows and interupted what was going on.
The man held Rogue who was still weak from the experience and said in a Cajun accent, "Chere are you alright?"
As soon as he finished talking, Creed grabbed him by the neck and pulled him up into the air, Creed then said with a growl, "What are you doing here Cajun?"
"Its ok Victor, I summoned Gambit here, I now believe that Bishop is telling the truth, and as such we have work to do. Nightcrawler, I need you to find your mother, Mystique, and Destiny, I feel we may need them. Gambit, I need you to steal something, from Death, we will discuss that in private later. Creed, Blink, and Wild Child, I need you to go to Boston and find the Brotherhood, tell them we need to find Illyana, now it's top prority, Know-it-all told me she may powers of the chrono variety. Storm, Pietro, I need you to find Marco and his team. Wanda, I want you to go to see Angel and the Hellfire club, we'll need all the information they can gather. Now, go, we have a lot of work to do." Magneto said. Nightcrawler teleported away, leaving a slight smell of brimstone, and Blink opened a sparial portal for the other teams, then she, Creed, and Wild Child set off on their own.
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Brotherhood of Mutants Headquarters, Boston, Mass
Avalanche, Shadowcat, Cannonball, Husk, Toad, Colossus, Magma, and Polaris are sitting around a planning table, preparing to strike out against one of Apocalypse's breeding pens. Then a black hole appears in the center of the room, and three figures step out. They are Creed, Blink, and Wild Child of the X-Men. The Brotherhood quickly rises to their feet is suprise.
"What The!?!" Avalanche yells as the three X-Men appear in his living room.
That is when Creed starts to talk, "Magneto sent us, we have urgent news." After he said that, Creed went on to explain the Bishop situation, and that Magneto feels that we may need Illyana, Colossus's sister.
Shadowcat spoke up next, "So, all of this wasn't suppost to happen? No Apocalypse, none of this!"
"So we need to find my sister? Why does Magneto need Illyana?" Colossus asked in his heavy Russian Accent.
Creed responded by saying, "Magneto had Know-it-all hack into Apocalypse's data banks a while back, and search for any mutant with a chrono variant powers, even if it's somebody who has not yet manifested powers. The search comes up with only one possible candidate - Illyana Rasputin."
"WHAT!" Colossus yelled.
"I thought Apocalypse ordered all mutants with the ablity to time travel killed, so no one could go back in time and stop him...," As Polaris said this her eyes widened in utter shock, "My God, thats what your planning to do!"
"Do we have any idea where she is being held?" Husk asked
Blink spoke up next, "On our last mission, we were able to find out that she is being held in a holding pen some where near what used to be Miami, I can gate you there if you want."
Avalanche spoke up next "Yeah, we want it."
"Good, after you get her, come to the old Xavier Mansion in Bayville." Creed said.
After that, Blink opened a dimensional portal to Miami and sent the Brotherhood through, then , once they were there, she closed it, then opened one to the Mansion.
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Xavier Mansion
"You want us to do WHAT!" Gambit yelled when he heard what Magneto wanted him to. "It's suicide!!"
"Look, Remy, according to Bishop's memories, we may need a shard of something called the M'Kraan Crystal, what ever that is, and me and Magneto recently learned from a reliable source that Death recently returned from a mission that involved it. So we need you to get aboard Death's ship and steal the shard." Rogue said.
"And if we can get the shard, we may be able to stop all of this from happening in the first place, so it won't be suicide, because none of this would have happened." Magneto added
"Fine, I'll take my team, and we will get the shard, where is Death?" Gambit asked.
"He is in orbit of the earth, holding over Apocalypse Island, at the moment." Magneto said.
"Ok, I'll go get my team ready, then we will be off, I won't want to, but I'll have to see Fatale. This won't be easy." Gambit said as he left.
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Ruins of Washington D.C.
Caine Marco, the Juggernaut, was sitting in a the remains of the white house smoking a cigar. Exodus and Domino are in what used to be the Oval Office, which is now there bedroom, and Scrambler and CopyCat have gone off to where every they go to "sleep." That was his team, Force X, they enjoyed themselves like the world would end tomorrow, when in fact, for them, it ended years ago.
Caine was attempting to relax when one person ran right infront of him and another flew in through a hole in the ceiling.
"Hello Peitro, Ororo," Caine said in a deep voice.
"Hey Marco," Quicksilver said.
"What does Magneto want?" Exodus said as he walked in, Domino right behind him.
"Magneto sent us to get you, he plans on taking Apocalypse out." Storm said.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Domino said.
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Heaven "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Heaven, a place that is free of the horrid war outside, I am your host, Angel." Warren Wothington III said as he slowly descended to the floor and into the loving arms of the assassin Psylocke. Thats when some one tapped Psylocke on the shoulder, causing the telepath to jump due to shock.
"What the? Who are you? How did you sneak up on me? It's impossible to sneak up on a telepath!" Psylocke asked the woman dressed in Red. Thats when Warren laughed. Psylocke scowled at him and said, "And what is so funny?"
Warren answered by saying, "Psylocke, allow me to introduce Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, she has the power to alter probablity feilds, she can turn the impossible into the certain, so she can sneak up on a telepath, by raising the probability that you won't detect her, it makes her a very good spy."
Wanda finally spoke up, "I didn't sneak up on you, I just needed to speak with your boy toy here." This time Psylocke laughed, and Warren blushed.
That is when several people look up and start to speak, "Look Sentinals," "Why don't they attack?" "Energy Sheild?" "Secret deal with the Human High Council?" The thoughts and rumors continued to go on.
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Apocalypse Island
The Horseman of Pestilence, Mr. Sinister, and his adopted son, Prelate Cyclops, are walking along a parapet near The Statue of Apocalypse.
"Look Scott, I have to go away for a time, and I don't know when I will be able to return," Sinister said to his son.
"Why father, where are you going?" Cyclops asked Sinister.
"I can't tel you that, for if Apocalypse found out, well it would not be good." Sinister said as he walked to a teleportation pad and disappeared. Leaving Cyclops alone to ponder his thoughts.
"Whats going on?" A confused Cyclops said to no one. He then noticed several small figures flying off in the distance, "hmm, sentinals, what are they doing here?"
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to be continued