Jenna's eyes widened at the sight of the very old looking woman. "Okay, would someone please start explaining things?!" She yelled in frustration, everything was coming by so fast and with little information.
Cassandra was a bit taken back by the teen's outburst, she really must be frightened. She looked over to the very indifferent looking Logan, he must have not told her anything. "Well I guess I could explain the whole story briefly. From what we know you are from the past, a past way before this future became a possibility. A hundred and fifty years ago your world as you remember it, was destroyed by the dead of Jean Grey. Everyone was naturally upset; Charles and Scott left the school, leaving Beast to try and pick up the pieces. He succeeded for a small while...until he started experimenting the human genome. In his experiments he came upon a 'smart' bacteria, causing Beast to become Sublime. Sublime's only wish is to purge all life from this planet and create new life to make the world, "perfect." We have barely kept the struggle to regain the biosphere alive. Humans and mutants are slowly becoming extinct, and you, you can help us."
"Why me? What about the me of this time? Wouldn't she be more helpful?"
Cassandra shook her head, "'You' died nearly at the beginning of this turmoil. Logan is the only original X-man left."
Jenna's eyes widened once again, "What do you mean? What happened? What happened to James? How could they be dead?" Her mind raced, her whole world crumbled inside of her. Her family, friends, all dead. It couldn't be, they were all too strong for that.
Logan took a step forward and placed a hand upon Jenna's shoulder. "If you don't mind Cassie, I think she ought ta get the details of those stories from me."
"Very well Logan, but we must have her ready soon She is the only one strong enough to at least confuse the Phoenix."
"The Phoenix? You have to be kidding! I can't defeat her, let alone confuse her," Jenna exclaimed almost in a panic.
Cassandra frowned, "You had the capabilities, use them! You are a descendant of Charles Xavier, your mind can marvel even the Phoenix!"
"Come on kid. There's a lot you need to know in a very short amount of time." Logan led her away from the fuming Cassandra and out to a more private area away from the oracle chamber. During the walk he had fought with the ways he could tell her the truth. The entire truth, even her own death. After a few moments of silence he turned to her and nodded, "Well, shoot with the questions."
Jenna took a few moments to think; she knew how the world came to be such a horrible place, she knew how Beast became a psychopath, the only thing she didn't know was why Logan was the only one left. "What happened to everyone? Are they all really dead?"
Logan sighed, "Straight to the hard stuff, eh Darlin'?"
She shook her head, "I just have to know. It's eating me inside and I just...need to know."
He gave a shrug, "I can understand how ya feel. it wont be easy to tell you, but most of them fell to the Crawlers, plain and simple. And to tell the truth, James isn't dead. But then again he might as well be."
"What do you mean?"
"When you were killed, he lost it and went after Beast directly. He got himself caught and now he's become one of them."
"No...that..can't be true," Jenna's body shivered as she couldn't imagine her fiancé being so cruel and heartless.
"Very possible, your death was hard on him."
"And you as well, I can see it in your eyes. You can't look at me without remembering it can you?" She didn't mean to pry into his mind, but she couldn't help but to notice it, was her death really that traumatic?
Logan shook his head, "Of course not, it wasn't a pleasant sight."
"May I look? Then you wont have to tell me."
He sighed gently, "Go ahead, but it I'm telling' you, it aint pretty."
Jenna approached him slowly and placed her hands upon his temples so that the connection could be more concrete, "I still need to know, after all I may not get back to my time."
He walked along the quiet halls of the mansion, ever since Jean died, most of the school was dead as well. Who knew one person's death could affect them all so horrible, especially with how many times she's died. Then again she had infected a lot of people with her charm, and now Beast was no where to be found. And watching after all these kids was going to drive him insane.
"Logan!"
Logan smirked slightly as he turned to see the woman, somewhat jogging towards him. "Gainin' a few pounds Darlin'? Should stop eating those doughnuts."
"Ha, ha, very funny Grandpa." Jenna stood in front of him with her hands on her hips. Her looks hadn't changed much over the few years, except that at the moment her belly was protruding out abnormally.
"Grandpa?"
"What?" She smiled and wrapped her arms around Logan's arm. "Thought this baby was going to leave you alone? You know you're a magnet to kids."
He rolled his eyes, she was right, he'd have to make a mental note to be mean to kids from now on.
"Aww come on grumpy, you promised you would take me shopping since I can't drive in my condition."
"What about that husband o' yours?"
She chuckled slightly, as usual Logan was trying to get out of a shopping trip, "He's taking over my classes for me, so I can go shopping."
Logan smirked, "Shouldn't be slack," his joke was interrupted by a loud crash. It sounded like it came from the entrance way, "Stay here, I'll check it out." He walked out into the foyer to investigate the crash. He sniffed the air and noticed the glass on the floor. His eyes continued to scan the area suspiciously to find the source, but only found what looked to be Nightcrawler. Logan was about to call out to him when suddenly the room was filled with Nightcrawlers. He took a step back as they advanced towards him, a slight growl emitting from his throat. "Okay bubs, I don't want to fight you, but if it come down to it," the sound of his claws erupting from his hand interrupted his words, "I have no objections. Jenna! Get the students into the lower levels." Logan braced himself as the nightcrawlers advanced further towards him. As soon as his ears picked up the sound of the scattering students, he attacked. Though his attack was a rather radical maneuver it did the job to keep the crawlers away from the students. His eyes widened as another wave of them came and went right past him for further access to the mansion. He cursed violently in his mind as he fought the crawlers that were left behind, he only hoped Jenna and everyone else reached the safety of the sublevels. The crawlers just kept coming and coming, and he just kept fighting and fighting. Never seeming to put a dent in their numbers, his blood mixing with the blood of his enemies.
He was snapped out of his adrenaline rush of frenzy and blood, to notice one crawler fly over his head from the opposite direction that they were coming from. A growl came from his throat again as he continued to beat back his patch of crawlers, "Get down to the sublevel, James will be pissed if you get hurt."
Logan sighed as he heard Jenna respond from the other room, "I can't leave you alone up here." He would have pressed harder to get her to leave but the density of the crawlers was increasing again. The attacks diverted his attention until he heard that all too familiar shriek. Jenna Turning his back on the pack he ran into the room he had left her in, only to see a mass of crawlers piled on top of something. He just knew it was her, quickly he went slashing with his claws. Crawlers scattered in pieces and blood. The blood bath continued as he dug to find Jenna's body, and the crawlers left behind attacked. It felt like an eternity until finally the crawler hoard grew thin, and the few left ran for their lives. Logan turned to look upon the mass that he had tried his best to protect. Jenna.
He turned his head, breaking the younger Jenna's concentration on his memories.
"Please," Jenna pleaded. She didn't argue that the event was brutal, but she had to answer those unanswered questions that were plaguing her mind. Unanswered questions would only hinder her helping them, she knew they just wouldn't leave her alone.
Logan gave a sigh, he hated to remember this, he never wanted to see her like that again. But she was right in front of him now, breathing and living. Yet, she did deserve to know why she doesn't exist any longer, "Alright, just needed a break Darlin'."
Jenna gently replaced her hands back onto his temples, closing her eyes and preparing herself for the horror to come.
