"Wow, hold on just a minute. I thought that they had to stay together in order to wake them up. Now that they're apart what does that mean exactly for my bro?" Alex inquired glancing over his shoulder towards Scott's motionless body.

"What about poor Kayta? She is in as much danger right now as your brother." Piotr responded angrily. He gazed down at his girlfriend with fear in his eyes. He couldn't lose her.

"Please both of you calm down. I'm sure that everything will be fine. I admit it would be better if the team stayed together, but right now they can't. We have to hope that they can deal with the situation at hand. I'm certain that Forge is doing his best to correct the situation. Right now the best thing you can do is comfort your love ones and try to help them wake up." Xavier told them.

Both boys sulked back towards their loved ones bed. In the last two hours since they had been first found they had quieted down considerably. Neither one was thrashing around or making any sounds. Some how this wasn't very comforting to them.

"Come on Scott wake up. I need you bro. Things are getting a little crazy right now around here. You've got me and your girlfriend really worried. Listen man whatever is going on inside your head you have to know it isn't real. I'm here for you. Come on dude wake up." Alex pleaded to his brother. He got no response.

Jaime walked over and stood next to him. "Any change?"

"None at all. I don't understand it all. I mean when they first brought him in he was struggling and screaming so much I thought he was possessed. Now he looks like he's in a coma. You know he has been in a coma before, did you know that?"

"I heard a rumor about that. He doesn't like to talk about his past much. It must have been pretty painful. I mean losing your folks and thinking your brother's dead. Waking up to that nightmare must have been really difficult." Jaime consoled.

"It was for me too. I never imagined I see him again. When I found out he was alive I was so happy I felt like I was going to burst. I mean after all the craziness we've been through I hate to lose the one family member I have left to another accident." Alex confided in the younger boy.
"Trust me Alex. Nothing is going to happen to Scott. I mean face facts. With Jean using her mind link and the rest of our friends risking their lives to help save him there's no way they lose." Jaime pointed. Alex smiled up at him before turning to face his brother again.

All was not well in the Control Room. Jean was yelling at Forge because the machine had malfunctioned and she couldn't sense the team anymore. And Forge was yelling right back at her that she wasn't helping matters and everything was under control.

"Oh really. In case you have noticed we seem to have misplaced half the team! How is it even possible for the Danger Room to be running two dream sequences at once anyways?" Jean demanded of him, all the stress of what was going on was getting to the both of them at the moment.

"I don't know okay! I don't have all the answers and I'm not going to pretend I do. Be thankful that none of them are dead! Look right now the best thing we can do is hope that they can handle the situation and save them both. Our best hope for reuniting them is if they both wake up at the same time then I can transfer them into the same dream. Till then we have to wait. So sit back and relax. Or while your up get us something to eat I'm starving." Forge told her as he sat down in his chair tired.

"Fine I'll get us something to eat, but I want to be kept up to date on everything, understood?" Jean told him before heading out for food. She was really worried about Scott. She could sense his pain and it was tearing her up on the inside.

At that moment on the Danger Room floor there where two bubbles. One was dark with stars all over it and the other one was brown and green. From the night time one screams could be heard as three people popped into existence five thousand feet in the air.

"AHHH! WE ARE GOING TO DIE!" Magma screamed as the ground rushed towards her. On her right Shadow clutched her hand and on her left was Sunspot. The later was screaming while the former was trying to figure out how to survive the fall.

"Sunspot! Do you think you can ignite and fly us to safety!" yelled Shadow over the wind.

"I can try. But somehow I don't think it will work!" Sunspot shouted back at him. He focused his powers desperate to change, but nothing came. What a great time to lose his powers! "No good! I don't have my powers!"

"We are going to die!" Magma yelled again. Shadow didn't waste breath telling her to be quite. Instead he focused on figuring out someway they could survive their situation. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted a plane heading their way. That gave him an idea.

"I've got an idea. But in order for it to work we have to trust one another. We need to angle our bodies towards that plane and try to stay streamline so we cut down on wind resistance. If we time this just right I can anchor ourselves to the roof using my katana." Shadow told them.

"Are you crazy! That will never work!" Magma shouted into his ear.

"You have a better idea? No, then do as I say. Angle your bodies downward and keep yourself still! Don't do anything till I say so!" he told her. As they didn't have much of a choice they followed Shadow's lead.

Down and down they fell. They were gaining tremendous speed, but seem to be slowing down at the same time. At the right moment they spread themselves out and caught a breeze, which carried them near the plane. Pulling out his katana Shadow thrust it out and embedded it deep in the roof. The sudden stop caused them all to crash onto the roof.

"We need to find the hatch and get inside fast. We can't last much longer out here." Stammered Sunspot. He began to inch his way across the roof towards the right side of the plane. He spotted the hatch and signalled he found the hatch.

Forming a human chain they lowered Sunspot towards the door. By swinging back and forth he gained enough momentum to twist the door open. The wind rushed around him as he swung inside. He crashed into the far wall. Rubbing his head he raced back towards the door and pulled in first Magma then Shadow. Together the boys closed the door and sank to the floor. "Whew, I never want to try that again. I don't envy those trapeze artist."

"Enough chit chat guys. We have a mission to conduct or have you forgotten. Come on this plane isn't that big I'm sure will find Scott soon." Magma said getting to her feet.

"What do you think happened to the rest of the team? You don't think their dead do you?" Sunspot asked nervously.

"I doubt it. I'm sure that they're safe and sound. Forge is probably working to correct the problem as we speak. We should all be back together in a few minutes. So do either of you know what this plane represents?" Shadow asked glancing around intensely.

"I got the feeling that we're on the plane that is going to crash. Scott lost his parents in a plane crash and was separated from Alex for a long time afterwards. How much money do you want to bet that his worst nightmare is dying along with his family in the crash?" Magma asked them as they made their way towards the cockpit.

"I have dumb question. Considering how long they've been asleep for, how come no ones has died yet? I mean it can't be just because of us can it?" Sunspot asked the other two.

"Who knows? Perhaps are friends are not ready yet to give up on living. The important thing now is to find Scott and awaken him before this plane crashes. I don't think even we could survive a dream crash." Shadow said darkly.

"Well here's the cockpit. Let's open the door and see who inside. On the count of three, one two three!" Magma yelled flinging open the door. Their where gasps from everyone as the three members of the X Factor team came face to face with the Summers family.

"Who in blazes are you and what are you doing on this plane?" demanded Major Summers. Mrs. Summers stood protectively in front of her sons guarding them against the intruders. The boys looked so cute as kids. Scott's eyes were an amazing shade of brown and Alex's hair wasn't as long as it was in the real world. They looked at them with fear in their eyes.

"Wow calm down sir. We don't mean you or your family any harm. Where here to help you." Shadow said calmly. He held his hands out showing them that he was defenceless.

"Yeah right. If you aren't going to harm us why do you carry a weapon?" demanded Major Summers pointing at Shadow's katana.

"You have to trust us Mr. Summers. We aren't here to harm you. In fact we've been sent here to save you. We're part of a special team of gifted people whose job it is to help keep peace between mutant and human kind." Magma started to tell him.

"Mutant? What are you talking about?" Mrs. Summer's asked confused. She looked at them curiously. She seemed to sense that they weren't here to harm her or her family. She gestured to her husband to hear them out.

"Where mutants, people who are born with an X-gene that grants them strange and unusual powers. For instance I can use solar energy to fly and stuff. Shadow over there can manipulate shadows and do all kinds of weird things with them while Magma over here can create lava and turn into a real fire princess." Sunspot explained.

"That's crazy. If you can really do all that stuff prove it then. Fly or turn into lava." challenged young Scott.

"We can't use our powers because of you Scott. You see there was an accident involving a friend of ours who can create nightmares. She zapped you by accident and you're asleep right now." Shadow told him.

"Wait a minute let me get this straight. You saying I'm asleep right now. That none of this is real? Your crazy dude."

"Yeah truly crazy." Alex piped in.

The team opened their mouths to defend themselves when there was an explosion and the plane lurched forward. Everyone screamed and they rolled forward into the controls. Scott screamed and Alex began to cry. Sparks blazed from the controls and smoke began to fill the cockpit. "What happened?" Mrs. Summers shouted.

"I don't know. Something exploded. I think we lost an engine. Get the kids out of here. I'll see if I can't steady us." Major Summers ordered. He was surprised when he found Sunspot helping him up.

"Let me help. I've got the best scores for the flying the simulator. Maybe I can help. Don't worry about your family. Magma and Shadow will make sure their okay." Sunspot told him helping him towards the controls.

Back in the Control Room Jean was pacing. She looked at Scott's dream bubble anxiously hoping that everything was all right. She had tried to use her mind link with Scott to try and reach him, but she kept running up against the same roadblock. "Scott please be safe. I wish I were in there instead of up here. But the rest of the school needs me up here in case something goes wrong. This is my entire fault. If I hadn't left you alone you never would have gone to sleep. And if you never gone to sleep you never be in this state right now."

"Hey you can't blame yourself for what happened Jean. If you had to blame anyone blame me. I'm the one who keeps inventing stuff that does anything but what it's supposed to do. I'm just wasting my time. I don't even belong here at school or on the X-Factor team. If I had any sense at all I quit while I'm ahead." Forge told her glumly.

"Forge don't even think that. You where trying to help Danielle with her powers. Doing things to help others is never a waste of time and don't let me ever catch you saying you don't belong here at the school or your team. Your inventions are brilliant. You just need to take more time with them so they work properly." Jean told him kindly. She placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder and gave him a small smile. "Don't doubt yourself so much Forge. That's how we got into this mess to start with."

"Thanks and Jean…sorry about before you know with the yelling and stuff," Forge told her.

Jean nodded her head, "I know I'm sorry too I shouldn't have been taking my frustrations out on you. I'm supposed to be one of the older more mature ones."

"You're also right Jean. None of us should be doubting ourselves at the moment. We need to stick together if where to over come this crisis." Forge replied. Suddenly an alarm went. Forge's eyes widen and he began to furiously tap away at the keyboard.

"What's wrong? What does that alarm mean?" Jean asked concerned. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Scott's dream began to stretch out and she clutched here her head as wave of fear and pain was sent her way via her link. "Oh my God. Something really wrong I can feel it. Forge what's happening?"

"I'm not sure but I think the nightmare has reached its peak. The moment when the most terrifying thing is about to happen to that person in a dream sequence. I've been trying to calibrate the machine so that I can judge what kind of effect it will have on the real world. Almost got it. Just have to tweak it a little there. Oh no this is bad. Jean you got to contact the infirmary now! Tell them to prepare for an out control Scott!"

"Professor! Scott's about to be a huge problem! Be ready for anything!" Jean screamed in her head directing her thoughts at the Professor.

"Beast, Jean says something big is about to happen! Be prepared for anything." Professor Xavier informed his colleague. He already began to roll over to Scott.

"What? What's going to happen to my bro?" Alex asked anxiously.

Suddenly Scott began to shake around uncontrollably like he was having a seizure. He started shouting incoherently. Alex stumbled backwards and tripped over the stool he had been sitting on. He watched in disbelief as Scott jerked his head backwards causing a huge dent to form in the gurney. "Scott!"

"Warren! I need you to hold him down so I can examine him! Gail, get over here please!" Beast yelled as he tried to manoeuvre his way over to Scott. Suddenly Scott jerked violently to the left and his shades fell off. "Everyone duck!"

Warren who had been flying over to help was the first to get hit. He received a full blast in the chest. The blast sent him crashing into the rest of the gurneys sending the three patients who awakened into the floor.

Scott then jerked to the right sending a beam straight at Kitty. Piotr jumped in front of her shifting into his metal form. He deflected the beam towards Alex who used a tray to send the beam at the other students assembled. They ducked barely avoiding being hit.

Xavier fell out of his chair as another beam came his way. Gail crawled over to check him over. "Would somebody get his glasses or his visor on him please!" she shouted.

"What do you think were trying to do? But we also have to save the infirmary and the patients! But his optic beams aren't easy to dodge!" Sam yelled narrowly avoiding a beam.

Suddenly Scott's eyes started cutting a circle in the ceiling. Soon the tiles gave way and Bobby fell through the hole screaming. He landed on top of Scott knocking him to ground and out. Gail grabbed a spare visor from the counter and slid it on to his face. Brushing back a strand of hair she looked over at Bobby and smiled, "You okay?"

"I don't know. I was just going for a drink while dealing with a cold of all things and suddenly I feel the floor give way and I'm in the infirmary. Oh I think I broke my leg!" Bobby yelled grabbing his left leg.

"Let me see. I don't think it's broken just sprained. I'll bandage you up in a moment. Right now I need to check on everyone okay? Is everyone alright?" Gail asked helping Bobby limp to a chair.

"Yeah for the most part. We didn't lose much equipment. But Mr. Summers is going to have a couple of cracked ribs when he wakes up. I don't understand how we couldn't have been prepared for the possibility that Scott's powers would activate like that." Beast said as he finished checking the equipment.

"Professor, are you alright?" Jaime asked as he helped the Professor back into his chair.

"I'm fine Jaime thanks for asking. Right now I'm greatly concerned for Scott and the students in his mind. This display of power shows that they are losing the battle to save him. I only hope that Jean's mind link can convince him that he's dreaming." Xavier said steadying himself.

Jean was biting her nails now and trying not to scream. Though they hadn't been able to re-establish communications with the teams she was able to get a reading on the one in Scott's. They where in deep trouble and if they didn't receive some sort of miracle soon all four of them would die. "I can feel it Forge in every fibber of my body. They're not going to make it without some serious divine intervention. I have to help them somehow, but I can't even reach Scott's mind with this damn nightmare occurring!"

"Maybe there is a way. Just give me a few minutes all right. I'll be right back!" Forge yelled as he raced out of the control room leaving Jean alone to worry.

In the dream world Sunspot was doing his best to keep the plane aloft. Major Summers and him were having some success at keeping the plane up. They had switched to secondary backups and where attempting to glide on the currents of air. Sunspot looked out the window hopelessly looking for a place to land.

"It's no good sir. There aren't any valleys to land the plane in. Just mountains. I don't think I can keep the plane aloft much longer. What about you?" Sunspot yelled over the roar of the failing engines.

"I'm trying to compensate for the loss of the engine, but I don't know how much that will help. This plane is doomed to crash. We have to bail. I hope that there's enough parachutes for everyone." Major Summers said and Sunspot began to get a sick feeling in his stomach. He didn't think there be enough parachutes for everyone and without his flying ability they were sunk.

Shadow was looking all over the plane for parachutes hoping to find at least four. All he came up with where two. He glanced at Magma and shook his head. She had been holding a crying Scott while Mrs. Summers comforted Alex. She nodded her head and turned him so he faced her.

"Scott we need your help. You have to listen to me please. Scott only you can save us from dieing. You have to trust what I'm saying. This isn't real. This is a dream. You're girlfriend and brother need you. Please wake up." She begged him. But Scott just tried to squirm away.

Back in the control room Forge was finishing attaching electrodes to Jean's forehead. They were connected to the computer panels. "Now I don't know if this will work, but if you telepathy was transmitted as part of the computer interface with the helmet you might be able to establish a link with Scott. Unfortunately I don't know for how long or if it will work at all. You have to put all your powers into it. Close your eyes and focus. All right I'm turning on your connection. Good luck."

Scott was still struggling in his mother's arms. He was scared. Something was wrong with the plane and his parents were shouting. His little brother was crying next to his mother's feet. The strangers were acting really weird. One of them was in the cockpit with his dad trying to help him stabilize the plain. The other boy was looking all over the plane for parachutes while the girl was trying to tell him he was dreaming. They were all nuts!

"I don't believe any of this. Leave me alone your lying!" Scott shouted wiggling free from his mom's arms. He ran to the back of the plane. He closed his eyes refusing to listen to both the girl and his mother. He just wanted to be left alone.

That's when he heard a strange voice inside his head. The voice sounded kind and gentle. It was sweet, melodies, and reminded him of his mother. It was also very faint. He stopped crying and concentrated hard so he could hear this voice.

"Scott listen to me please. It's Jean, Jean Grey. You have to trust the strangers. They want to help you. If you don't listen to them you are going to die and I will have to live with your dieing voice in my head forever. Please trust me."

"Why? Why should I believe you anymore then them? What proof do I have that your telling me the truth?"

"Listen to your heart and trust your instincts. What do they tell you?"

Scott was silent a moment, he didn't know why but something deep inside him was telling him that he knew that voice. That it did sound familiar to him, "That you're telling the truth. Am I really am dreaming?"
"Yes you are Scott trust me, you can help them all if you only wake up…Please Scott for me…Wake up." Jean pleaded with him.
Scott wanted this to stop, and the voice he felt he could trust. "Okay…I'll wake up…"
"Good bye Scott. I love you." The disembodied voice said before disappearing.

Scott opened his eyes and took a look around. His dad had had abandon the controls giving up any chance at landing the plane. The boy in the ninja outfit was handing his mom two parachutes while the other boy talked softly to the girl. Both of them had a bleak look on their faces. He could surmise why. Scott got up off the ground and walked over to his mother.

"Mom, what's going on? Why do you look so sad?"

"Oh sweetie I love you. Never forget that. It's just that there are only enough parachutes for two people. Those strangers have graciously given them to you and your brother." His mother explained to him gently.

"But that means they'll die along with you and Dad. I can't allow that to happen." He told her. He turned to face Magma who was holding Shadow's hand for comfort. "If this is a dream and you guys came to save me, then what do I have to do to wake up?"

"We need you to fully believe that this is not real and that everything will be okay. That's the only way you'll wake up. But right now we need you to believe that we have special powers. It's the only way that we can survive your dream and go help other people who are in the same predicament." Shadow explained to him.

Scott nodded his head. He believed what they where saying. So as his mom strapped on his parachute and his Dad put on Alex's he imagined that they each had their special powers back. When he looked at them again he smiled as Magma had turned into her fire form, Sunspot had charged up, and Shadow had merged with the ones on the plane. They where really cool people once you trusted them.

"Hurry you two there isn't much time. Remember that we love you both very much. Take care of one another. And know that will watch over you both always." Mrs. Summers said crying giving her boys one final hug and kiss.

"I love you both very much. You three over there make sure that my boys are safe." Major Summers said as he hugged his boys one final time.

"Don't worry will make sure that your son's are safe. You have are word on that. I'm only sorry that we couldn't save you and your wife as well." Magma said sadly taking Sunspot hand.

"Don't worry about us. We're happy just knowing that our boys are safe and happy. Thanks for giving us that. Now go!" ordered Major Summers as the plane started its unavoidable descent into the mountains.

The boys were first. They took one last look at their parent's before jumping. The three mutants went next. Taking a deep breath they jumped off the plane and flew next to the boys. Still they where stuck in his mind.

"Scott! You have to wake up now! The plane will explode soon and if we get caught in the shower of all those parts we could end up seriously injured!" shouted Magma at him.

"I know I'm trying to wake up! I just don't know how!" he yelled back at them. Just then a huge white light surrounded them all and the three mutants felt the similar sensation that they were done here.

In the infirmary ordered had been restored. Alex, who was nursing a sore shoulder, was next to his brother side. There had been no change since the excitement and he was worried. Suddenly his brother bolted up right shouting. "Jean! Oh what happen to me and why do I feel like an elephant fell on top of me?"

"Scott! Your okay! Man bro I am glad to see you awake. You had me worried there for a sec. Relax okay and I'll tell you everything." Alex said gently pushing his brother back down. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kitty had awaken to. He wondered what would happen next in this crazy adventure.