Scott turned to see the human with his smoking gun pointed directly at Johnathan's back. Reacting in anger, Scott touched his visor, opening it more than he normally would against a human. The human flew back and slammed into the ground unconscious. Checking his communicator and finding it working, Scott body slid everyone back to the Blackbird. While the New Mutants strapped themselves in and Logan put the two bodies in the back, Scott lifted the jet into the air and set off towards the mansion. After strapping the two bodies into seats at the back of the jet, Logan settled into the copilot seat and radioed the mansion to tell them to prepare the infirmary for wounded. Even if Johnathan, Caileen, and Danielle were dead, Steve still had a chance and needed to be tended to.
Landing in the hidden hangar, Scott killed the engine as Mary and Lucas helped Steve hobble out of the jet and to the infirmary. Scott and Logan each carried one of the dead bodies out of the jet and towards the infirmary, where the final autopsies would be done. Logan could barely contain himself. His first time as a teacher and already he'd lost three students. He couldn't understand how Chuck had done it year after year. Training each new generation of mutants only to see several of each generation cut down in the prime of their lives. Maybe that was why Chuck had decided to let someone else take over recently.
Looking back, Logan saw Daemon come shuffling out of the Blackbird, leaning on Sam. Logan couldn't imagine what Daemon was going through. He had just lost his little sister, and after being promised that she would be safe at the school. This had been a terrible day and Logan couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. How could he continue to train these kids and watch them get slaughtered by this new army of sentinels?
In the infirmary, Steve's leg was patched up and he was given a shot for the pain. He walked over on his crutches to look at his sister's body lying there on the slab, cold and lifeless. He couldn't bring himself to look at the smoking hole in his sister's chest. But something caught his eye. Or, more accurately, the lack of something caught his eye. While his sister's chest was burnt and smoking, there was no hole. Yet he distinctly remembered there being a hole earlier. As he watched, the patch of smoking flesh healed itself to a slight burn and stopped smoking. Suddenly, Caileen's eyes popped open and she breathed a deep breath of air. She sat up and looked around at her surroundings. Seeing her alive, Steve couldn't stop himself and jumped up on the slab and hugged his sister for all he was worth.
Caileen managed to pry her brother off her and began to sign, asking what had happened. "What happened?" Steve asked with an incredulous voice. "You died! That's what happened! And now you're here. What happened?" Caileen signed that she didn't know, only that she had been shot through the chest, passed out and woke up in the school. She asked what had happened with the sentinels. "The sentinels shot you dead. Then Johnathan showed up and blasted them all away. Then he got shot by a human who Scott took care of later."
Looking over at Johnathan, Steve and Caileen were shocked with everyone else in the infirmary to see Johnathan begin to move and moan, then wake up and sit up. Just like with Caileen, his chest had patched over and now only had a scar.
Logan walked over and looked from Johnathan to Caileen and back again. "Well, does either of you want to tell us what just happened?" The two just shrugged their shoulders. "I really have no idea," said Johnathan. "I got shot out in the field, then I woke up here."
Scott looked at Johnathan and asked, "Not that we're not grateful that you showed up and took out every single sentinel, but how did you know where we were or even that we were in danger? They had jammed our communicators and blocked Lucas's telepathy." "I don't know. I just knew where to go and that I was needed." He decided to leave out the part of having a dream of his two thousand year descendant. It might sound a little too weird.
A few days later, the entire school held funeral services for Danielle. Charles gave the sermon and Scott gave the eulogy. The entire teaching staff at Xavier's school for the gifted understood what they were up against with this new sentinel model. They knew that the students had to be made ready for upcoming fights. Daemon had decided to stay at the school, to make sure that his sister had not died for nothing. He would take out those sentinels and make sure they didn't hurt anyone else ever again. Caileen began training with Sean Cassidy, a teacher for Generation X, because he also had a sonic scream. She hoped that she would soon be able to speak.
Johnathan was given an inhibitor suit to wear under his clothes. Hank had determined that Johnathan didn't actually generate his energies, but channeled them from some other source. The suit would limit the amount of power he could gather.
All of the students now understood what it meant to be an X-man and train to save the world. It involved hurt and sacrifice. They had to be willing to lay it all on the line, and then be slapped in the face by the very ones they had just saved. It was a thankless life, but one that gave them all hope.
Johnathan couldn't help but remember his descendant's words while he looked at Danielle's grave. In the end, they all died. Had he actually stopped the future? Someone had still died, even with Johnathan's help. Would everyone else die too? Could he still save everyone and the future? He thought about all of this while he wondered if he would ever hear from his descendant again. Otherwise, he would just be muddling through this without any idea of what was to come and how to stop it.
That scared him more than anything else.