SUMMARY: Someone's been messing with times past and it's up to Logan's kids to fix it back the way it was.

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BEEN THERE: WHITE WAVES


"Everyone, get out." Wolverine said quietly.

"Why? What's the matter?" Storm asked Logan cautiously.

"I can't move." Logan said tightly. Without any visible means he was picked up and thrown against the side of the wall and plastered to the statue's insides. The metal strips crinkled and crackled as they maneuvered to encase Wolverine and the others. Cyclops and Jean found themselves facing each other.

"You better close your eyes." Magneto said. Sabretooth snatched the visor off of Cyclops's face. Scott was breathing hard and he swallowed fearfully.

"As for you, let's points those claws in a safer direction." Wolverine tried to fight the pull of his arms, but they crossed across his chest anyway.

Some bad guy and good guy formalities were being followed as they exchanged points of view. Marie was screaming in fear. "Somebody please help me!"

"If you were so noble, it'll be you in that machine instead of her." Wolverine said venomously. Magneto gave him a glare and hovered himself to the torch.

Andie had held back and Magneto's power didn't have any effect on her in the least, so she remained quiet. The others didn't alert Magneto to her presence; Sabretooth scented her, but didn't inform Magneto. Better not to get her involved just now, she'd probably kick his ass again. Taking his frustration he swallowed it, he stalked around keeping an eye out on everybody and wondered if she was going to attack him again. He wasn't sure if he wanted her to or not. The desire to encounter her again was waging steadily. He glared at Logan who was frantically growling at Marie's screams. Not able to take any more he screamed and released his claws into his chest and freed himself from his metal bonds. He hit the floor hard and Sabretooth walked over and bent over him cautiously. In a flash Wolverine lived up to his name and attacked Sabretooth for all he was worth. They took their fight outside and Black Fire chooses that time to charge up the stairs to the bound group.

"About time you showed up, Andie." Jean said lightly.

"Hey, what's the point of a secret weapon, if everybody knows about it in advance?" Andie chuckled. "And since we're on a mission; I go by the name of Black Fire." She said pointing a blazing finger at the metal to heat it enough to break it.

As Black Fire hurried to release them from their bonds, they heard the fight rage overhead. A thump and the sound of claws embedding themselves into the side of the statue were heard and Jean flinched when the claws came thru just next to her face.

"Uh, Black Fire, you want to move that along?" Jean said whispering. Black Fire only chuckled. She kept up the heat and pulled hard.

"You can help me ya know." Black Fire said. "Your telekinesis should do the trick for you. I'll start on the others before Sabre gets here." Clomp, clomp! "Too late," Black Fire said snickering. Sabretooth stalked over to them.

"Going somewhere?" He said quietly. He stared at Storm.

"What?" Black Fire said irritably.

"She owes me a scream." He rumbled. Black Fire sighed heavily.

"Oh, you and your peccadilloes; honestly Vic….don't you ever change?" She thought a minute. "Oh, that's right…..you don't, well not much anyway." She chuckled at him huskily. Sabretooth just glared at her. She was keeping his attention for a reason he suspected. She grinned at him……… Logan should be entering about now……….

Sabretooth had whirled at the sound of Logan landing behind him. "Hey bub, I'm finished with you yet. Jean," he said holding up Cyclops's visor. "Dropped something?" The visor levitated for a moment or two and in about three heartbeats the visor was back on Cyclops's face and Sabretooth seeing what was coming; let out a roar. Red light streaked out and hit him squarely on the chest and he crashed thru the statue's wall and fell out and landed on the boat outside and thru the boat outside. Black Fire closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She looked at a watch on her wrist. It glowed green. She let out a deep relieved sigh. Jean looked at her in confusion.

It wasn't over yet, Marie was still screaming and Magneto was still bent on changing the world's leaders into mutants. The rescue was still in progress. A conversation among the heroes in black; then Wolverine was on his way to the torch. The waves of white radiation started to be emitted by the rings of the machine. Magneto strived; using what little of his power left he halted Logan's progress to free Marie.

"Cyclops, would you just quit stalling and shoot that crazy old coot, so Logan can save Marie and our collective mutant bacons!" Black Fire said hotly. Sure enough, Scott adjusted his visor and said.

"I have a shot, I'm taking it." A blast of red light hit Magneto squarely on his shoulder and the older mutant hit the railing floor hard with a yell of pain. Logan in that same moment brought down his lethal claws and made scrap metal out of Magneto's machine. Marie was slumped loosely in her bonds. While Black Fire and Jean, Scott and Storm watched breathlessly, Logan tore off his gloves with his teeth and embraced Marie like a lost child. Hope against hope that her mutant powers would bring her from the brink of death.

"Come on, come on." Andie said desperately. She glanced at her wrist watch. The light was blinking a deadly red. "No, no….please…." She whispered harshly. The light blinked and blinked then between flickers it blinked green and almost at the same moment she heard a gasp and a thump as Wolverine fell. Andie expelled the breath she was holding. She looked at her watch again and it was still blinking green. So far so good……………………