His master was angry with him.

Limbo Kurt didn't know what he had done to deserve a whipping, but his master had him chained between two poles and he was whipping him over and over again with a cat-o-nine-tails that was blazing with cold fire.

He screamed; his fur struck by the whip searing away. He begged his master to forgive him; his eyes clenched shut as tears fell down his cheeks. He was struck over and over again, his body soon throbbing with the beatings.

***
He woke with a start, his brow drenched in sweat. He looked around, making sure he was still in his room and on the quilt on the floor beside his bed. Moaning, he placed his head in his hands.

He had been having these dreams a lot over the three weeks that he had been staying at the mansion. Shivering, he hugged himself, rocking back and forth as he whispered to himself that he was safe as long as he stayed here with his twin and his version of the X-men.

Slowly, he stood up and he looked at himself in the mirror, unable to stop himself from tilting his head to one side like a dog.

Reaching out, he pressed the palm of his hand against the glass, making sure that it was really there and that he wasn't still dreaming and would wake up to the touch of the lash.

His tail curled around his leg slowly, the tip swaying side to side lazily.

As long as he stayed here with his twin, he would be safe. His twin had promised him that right to his face the third night that he had been there.

But that still didn't stop the nightmares that he was having every night about being dragged back down to Limbo as a slave. He could still feel the lash of his master's whip.

"Remember," he whispered, pressing his brow against the mirror. "I am safe here. I won't be hurt here because Belasco cannot leave Limbo just to come after me!" Slowly, he took a deep breath and he let it out steadily, calming down his heart and smoothing away the troubles in his mind.

Smiling, Limbo Kurt opened his eyes and he looked at himself in the mirror before he turned ad laid back down on the quilt, going to sleep with a lighter heart.

***
Belasco was finishing up the last transportation rune in his knot spell. He smiled when he was finished, and he started to hiss out the words in Infernal, he words echoing all around him.

In a flash of fire and brimstone, Belasco was gone.

***
The computer in the Danger Room sputtered on, typing out that another dimension was incoming, and that another universe needed to be cleared out before it could fix itself up.