"Let's look around," Berzerker suggested, and opened the door that led out of the Danger Room.
Walking out into the corridor, Magma wandered off for a while, and then ran back, screaming. "Dylan! We're coming!" Looking utterly puzzled, all three of the superheroes stared at her and said, "huh?" "The past us!" Magma said. "The us from the past!" Looking alarmed, Psyche said to everyone, "they can't see us here. We'll disturb the fabric of time! Run!" And all of them practically flew all the way to the other side of the corridor and out of sight.
"We have to be quick," Psyche said. "We have to get to Cerebro now!"
All of them ran like the wind, across corridors and across the basketball court to the door that led to Cerebro.
As they were halfway up the West staircase, Berzerker held on to Psyche's and Magma's hands, stopping them, and said, "uh oh." "What!" cried Magma.
"I took the West staircase up to the Danger Room just now." Berzerker said apprehensively. "HEY! Who the heck are you!" A voice boomed from the bottom of the staircase.
"Which means that that voice belongs to..." Wanda said, her voice trailing off into nothingness.
"Hey! Who are you, imposter me!"
Everyone looked down at another Berzerker, who had "confused and startled" written all over his face.
"RUN!" Magma shrieked, and all of them ran towards Cerebro, hoping to shake off the Berzerker from the past, who was hot on their heels. Just as they reached the door to Cerebro, and Magma, being the slowest runner, was still in the adjoining corridor, with Berzerker cornering her, powering up an energy ball. "Don't throw that or I'll throw something else at you," Magma said, pointing a finger at the past Berzerker. "Be my guest," Berzerker said, and threw the energy ball, and Magma screamed, dodged the energy ball and "flamed on", her skin becoming blood red with black stripes that made her look like a tiger, and her hair blazed with fire as she fired a magma ball at Berzerker, who got hit squarely in the chest and was flung backwards.
The Berzerker from the present suddenly shouted in pain as he grasped his chest and fell to the ground. Wanda knelt down beside him and asked him what was wrong, as Psyche, seemingly unaware of Berzerker's sudden pain, stared at the door to Cerebro as his eyes glowed pink, and a cool female voice said, "Welcome, Professor," and the doors to Cerebro slid open, just as Magma ran up to them. "Can you get i... oh, my GOSH! What happened!" Magma screamed as she saw Berzerker lying on the floor. "I have no idea," Psyche said, "bring him in before anyone sees us." They dragged the injured Berzerker into Cerebro, and then the door slid shut. Psyche ran to the coveted Cerebro, and then put the helmet on, and switched the computer on. He then began searching the computer's files for blueprints, as Wanda asked him what had happened. "I felt as if I was burning," Berzerker said. "It was like I got hit by boiling water." Why don't you just take your shirt off and show us what happened?" Magma suggested. After Berzerker took off his shirt, Magma gasped when she saw that what had hurt Berzerker so much was a circular burn mark that looked exactly like burn marks that were left from one of Magma's magma balls.
"I've got it!" Psyche thought to himself, elated, as he gazed upon the blueprints of Cerebro. He looked at the blueprints for quite some time, so that his memory could capture it better, and later, all the Shadow King would have to do was look through his memories and copy down the blueprints from there. Meanwhile, behind him, Berzerker was enraged that Magma had done this to his part self, thus influencing the present him, giving him the exact same injury as his past self had suffered. "You mean you did this!" Berzerker shouted as his powers ran amok; electricity flew from Berzerker's hands into the metal ceiling of the giant computer, shocking Psyche since it was connected to him. Shocked, both literally and metaphorically, Psyche lifted the helmet from his head and put it back, and realised that the shock had messed with his memories of the blueprints.
His eyes turning black, Psyche turned around and walked towards Berzerker, his face the epitome of anger. Just before the Shadow King decided to switch hosts and telepathically fry Berzerker's brains just for the fun of it, the door slid open to reveal a shocked Professor X. "What is happening here?" the Professor demanded. It would be understandable as to why the Professor was so shocked, if you see from his point of view; he came into Cerebro, the room that only he was able to access, to find a shirtless Berzerker sitting on the floor, Wanda and Magma staring at his chest, and Psyche appearing to be accessing Cerebro.
"Charles Xavier," Psyche said as he looked at the Professor with glowing black eyes, "we meet again, after so long." Looking at the bewildered look on the Professor's face, Psyche laughed and said, "Don't you recognise me? Amahl Farouk? The Shadow King?" A black energy ball manifested in Psyche's hand and he hurled it at the Professor, who deflected the energy ball back at Psyche who raised a hand to catch the energy ball and absorb it. "Amahl Farouk?" The Professor said, stunned. "How did you get out of there?" Laughing maniacally yet again, Psyche replied, "Let's just say I have a good host."
"Get out of Dylan, immediately!" the Professor demanded, actually looking angry. Everyone knew that it took a lot to get the Professor to show his anger. "Alright, I will," Psyche said, and his eyes glowed pink and he collapsed onto the floor as another Psyche materialised behind the unconscious one. "Here I am, Xavier," Psyche said, and threw an energy bolt at the Professor, who was not fast enough to deflect it this time and both man and wheelchair were hurled out of the room. Going back into his body, Psyche stood up and walked out of the room with truimph written all over his face, releasing his psychic hold on Wanda, Magma and Berzerker, for he no longer required their assistance.
Snapping out of the hold Psyche had on them, Wanda, Magma and Berzerker ran over to the Professor and helped him up. "We're so sorry, Professor," Magma said, almost on the verge of tears, very sincere in her apology. "Yes, I know you are, Amara," the Professor said, as Berzerker and Wanda helped him up. "He's in the basketball court," the Professor said. "Go there and stop him," he said to them, and they nodded and ran off towards the basketball court while Berzerker walked briskly; he is injured, you know.
As Psyche walked to the basketball court, he saw himself, except he was decked out in black and was wearing a black trenchcoat, not unlike the clothes that the Shadow King
donned during his time in the Astral Plane, standing behind a row of teenage mutants; Portal himself, a girl with red, wavy hair cut to shoulder-length, a boy with dirty-
blond hair and green eyes, an Indian girl in royal blue robes and a girl who had purple hair, fingernails and pupils, facing a row of people made up of Cyclops, Storm,
Iceman, ianother/iBerzerker, this one suffering from the same injury as the Berzerker from the present was, and another Scarlet Witch, who were firing their own
projectiles to counter the fireballs fired by the opposing side, their source being the immensely big cloud of fire floating above them.
As the Professor, Wanda, Berzerker and Magma caught up, Berzerker and Wanda glowed white and flew into their past counterparts, and so did Psyche, who flew into his black-clothed counterpart, and the same thing happened to Magma, but she flew into the school building, forming one person out of the present and past persons. The mutants on both sides were stunned by this, and as a result, the projectiles from both sides hit the people from the opposing side and both sides flew backwards.
"What just happened?" Berzerker sat up, now wearing a shirt, and asked Wanda. "I don't know, but I think it's because we walked in from the past to the present because time overlapped," she replied. On the other side, Psyche sat up, recovering from the attack, and so did everyone else on that side. "Portal!" Psyche said loudly, "the Shadow Room." Portal nodded and snapped his fingers, upon which all six of the mutants on their side disappeared in a flash of pearly orange and pink.