Her name was Sharon MacKay. She was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and she had a normal childhood until she turned 13. A few months after turning 13 she got into a big argument with her mother, she wanted to go out with her friends. It was stupid, it was a dumb argument, and she knows now how childish she was back then. Her hormones were raging, she was getting her first period, and she was so angry that day. Suddenly a blast of light flashed from her and levelled the entire block her house sat on. 100 people died that day, including her parents. People in the future would call her Quantum, a mutant who could control all forms of energy and matter, with the power of a star.

The investigators couldn't explain the explosion, mutants weren't well known back then in the 1970's, they said that it was a massive gas leak that caused the explosion, the best explanation they could come up with. But Sharon knew better, she was in shock, but she knew she caused it, she was completely unharmed, even her clothes weren't damaged, everyone said it was a miracle of God that she survived.

She was still in shock at the local police station when two men showed up and said that they were her legal guardians. Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr. She felt so calm when they took her out of the police station and guided her to a nearby car. She even felt calm as they were leaving the police station, but slowly she started to feel panicked, she didn't know these men. She felt something pressing on her mind, but she resisted, in her panic she blasted the passenger door off the car and flung herself on the road. Then she felt something else, some power trying to restrain her, her mind whirled because she could see the energy moving between her and Mr Lensherr, it was him, he was doing something and she could see him doing it, she could see the ripples of energy, and she could absorb them. Sharon started pulling all of Mr Lensherr's power out of the air, pulling it into herself, absorbing the magnetic energy, and she started to glow. Suddenly she felt something go into her neck and she was unconscious. Mr Xavier had snuck up behind her and injected her with a tranquilizer.

Charles and Erik were astonished at how much power the little girl had, she was able to absorb any form of energy, including psychic energy and magnetic energy both. They both realized that there was a good chance that this little girl could accidentally destroy the entire planet, if she were to open a singularity on Earth just by ripping energy through the quantum spectrum, she could destroy the entire solar system.

They were both at a loss on what to do, but then Charles made the only decision he could, he kept the girl unconscious and used a very primitive mutant suppression device so that they could take her to New York, and Charles sought the help of Reed Richards and Hank Pym, the two most prestigious scientists of the time. Reed was a member of the newly christened Fantastic Four and had experience dealing with his own brother in-laws extreme heat powers. Between Reed, Charles, Erik, and Hank, they were able to come up with a technology specially designed for Sharon. It would use her own powers to keep the device powered and create a barrier field to block out all forms of energy. This way Sharon's powers would be limited, and she would be able to be carefully trained. Charles decided to keep Sharon away from everyone, both he and Erik agreed Sharon can never join the nascent X-Men. Even when Erik broke away from Charles and formed the brotherhood, he never told anyone about Sharon, she was too dangerous to ever be in the field.

Amelia Voght agreed to take on the identity of Sharon's legal guardian. Even though her argument with Charles was genuine, it was also part of play they put on for everyone at the mansion, it had to look like Amelia was never coming back. Amelia then became Sharon's legal guardian and carefully trained her. Every year they would make an annual visit to Reed Richards so he could do tests and fine tune Sharon's control bracelets. Amelia taught Sharon meditation techniques, encouraged Sharon to take Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in high school. Reed sponsored Sharon to go to University in Canada to learn applied physics and astrophysics. Once again Sharon was in Saskatoon where she was born, quietly attending the University of Saskatchewan and as Reed told her, keeping a very low profile, never attracting attention. But as Sharon aged into her 20's and 30's she noticed that she wasn't getting older, she always looked like she was around 19 or 20, her powers were keeping her in a completely static state, and she didn't age. By 1995 Sharon had a PhD in Astrophysics and she was working for the Canadian Space Agency. Always keeping a low profile, maintaining her private lab at her home. Reed Richards checked on her regularly, and occasionally Charles Xavier would call her. He told her once that he wasn't coming to see her because he didn't want to draw anyone's attention to her existence. Even Reed Richards kept a very low profile when visiting her and came under an assumed name. With all the Super being activity in the US and particularly New York, Sharon was advised to never come to the United States.

For years she kept a low profile, eventually she had to go into hiding because she wasn't aging, and she couldn't hide it anymore. She moved to Northern Canada to an isolated village that had a telescope station. It didn't pay much, but she had money that was given to her by Charles Xavier, so it didn't matter if she worked as a technician at an observatory.

Many events happened while Sharon lived in isolation, Onslaught, a weird change in reality called the "Age of Apocalypse", but for some reason the reality shift had no impact on her, and she kept to herself. Genosha destroyed by Sentinels. A shift in reality called M-Day and once again she was immune, it didn't impact her at all. She felt the pulse wave, and she could even hear the ripple in reality "No More Mutants" but when it touched her in Northern Canada it warped around her, unable to change anything about Sharon. She was a quantum irregularity, and she could not be impacted by changes in reality. She even felt strange pulses of reality shifting around a woman, and they meant nothing to her, she just continued her life in the isolated village.

The year was 2030 when the Sentinels were unleashed on the entire planet. She watched in horror as the machines rounded up mutants and humans alike. Anyone with any potential for the X-Gene at all, anyone with powers. The X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, they all fell to the might and power of the Sentinels. The Sentinels and their leader Nimrod were brutal and executed millions of people all over the world. Nuclear bombs were launched at Wakanda and Latveria along with the capitals of several countries. The Sentinels no longer answered to anyone, they were in charge, and they controlled everything.

Finally, the Sentinels came for her. All these years she had tried to keep her powers in check, restrain herself, not get involved. That is what Charles, Erik, Amelia, and Reed had always told her, "Sharon no matter what happens, don't get involved." They came in the hundreds, they knew something about her, private files they had obtained in Reed Richards computers that confirmed her existence and his research into her abilities. Nimrod himself came, along with his chief lieutenant Omega Sentinel. They levelled the village that she was in, they tried to contain her with different forms of energy. Her bracelets dissolved under the pressure of so much energy, and Sharon started absorbing everything. Nothing the Sentinels could bring to bear against her worked, reality was rippling around her, Nimrod became worried for the first time, finally realizing that attacking Sharon MacKay was the biggest tactical mistake he ever made. It was like a black hole was forming around Sharon, the Sentinels were starting to crumble under the gravimetric pressure, the Earth itself started to buckle under her feet. The magnetosphere was starting to destabilize. Sharon knew she had only one option after absorbing all the energy and the matter of the Sentinels themselves. She had to leave, she couldn't fight the machines without destroying the planet, she had never used her powers on this scale, she didn't understand what she was doing. In that moment Sharon MacKay opened a wormhole to empty space between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy. She was smart enough in Astrophysics to calculate a destination far enough. All the Sentinels were pulled in with her. Omega Sentinel was able to save herself, but she was damaged beyond repair as the quantum wave rippled through her body. Even Nimrod was pulled along. At the exit point in empty space, Sharon felt the power of the inter-galactic wind hit her like a sledgehammer, and she felt herself filling up with power like she had never felt before. Her body changed into pure energy, and she released a quantum explosion so powerful it sent ripples through space time and destroyed every Sentinel that had come with her. Nimrod's last thought as his existence ended was that he had made a horrible miscalculation. The AI being known as Nimrod ceased to exist, not just destroyed, but erased from existence.

For months Sharon MacKay floated in space, every so often she would fill up with incalculable energy and she would pulse like a supernova or a singularity. The pulse wave would ripple the empty space and dark matter around her, swirling the inter-galactic wind. A gravity well formed around Sharon, as the quantum energy of the inter-galactic zone pulsed in and out, over and over.

Slowly Sharon forced herself to use everything that Amelia, Charles, Erik, and Reed taught her. She used all her knowledge of physics, and she slowly gained control of her awesome power. She started to stabilize into her energy form. She was completely immune to everything in space, it was all energy to her. She had no hunger, she had no thirst, she simply drank and fed on the endless energy of the inter-galactic winds.

Finally, Sharon MacKay, the being known as Quantum was able to regulate her energy intake, she was able to create a field around herself to block out the energy of the universe. Now she practiced, she practiced every form of energy and matter manipulation she could think of while she sat in this empty space alone.

One day he came, he had sensed her presence in the space between galaxies, he had sensed her power. His name was Norrin Radd, the Silver Surfer. Sharon was overjoyed to finally have someone to talk to, someone who might be able to teach her how to navigate the cosmos, perhaps help her return to Earth. With her newfound knowledge she could stop the Sentinels, she could fight them now, she had control of her powers.

But to Sharon's dismay the Silver Surfer was able to tell her the year and she realized that her wormhole and the time in space alone was much longer than she first thought. The gravity well she had created while learning her powers had slowed time around her while the Universe itself carried on. The Earth year was 3028, nearly a 1000 years from the day she left Earth.

Silver Surfer explained to her that Earth was a wasteland destroyed by the machine, human, mutant wars that had lasted for 200 years. By the time it was over there was nothing left, even the machines didn't survive the war. The Earth was contaminated by nuclear devices that had been launched by all three sides in the war. Silver Surfer told her that a few mutants had successfully escaped to Shi'ar space, but they were few in number, and eventually died out in the war between the Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar, and a race called Vashar that had arrived mysteriously and conquered all three galactic nations.

Sharon travelled the cosmos with Silver Surfer and he taught her how to navigate through space with her powers. They worked together and she found herself flying through space alongside the Surfer on his board. They even encountered Galactus one time and worked together to convince him to leave a populated planet. For some reason Galactus actually showed her respect, he acknowledged her as a being who deserved his respect. He even gave her advice. Sharon had the feeling that Galactus felt sorry for her, as though he saw her fate. Galactus would not say this to Sharon or the Surfer, but this woman reminded him of himself in the previous universe, and he wondered if someday this woman's hunger would overwhelm the fabric of the universe. Galactus knew one thing, Sharon MacKay, the being known as Quantum, was the ultimate achievement of the Celestials who had seeded the Earth billions of years in the past. She was the ultimate expression of the mutant X-Gene.

Sharon longed to see Earth at least one more time, so she asked the Silver Surfer to help her find the Sol system. On the way to Earth, they encountered the Vashar who mistakenly thought that they could attack or capture Sharon. Instead of destroying the Vashar ships, she simply opened a wormhole into a far away galaxy and sent their ships there. So far away that they could never return to the Milky Way.

At last Sharon stood on Earth. She stood near the ruins of her birth city Saskatoon. There were remnants of the buildings that once stood there. The radiation levels were very high, and life was broken everywhere she looked. The Silver Surfer asked Sharon to leave with him, he enjoyed her company, he enjoyed the company of this cosmically powered woman who could travel the space ways with him. But Sharon said she wanted to stay on Earth for a while, she thought maybe she would clean up the radiation and give Earth a chance to a heal from everything that was done to it. Norrin understood, he always wished he could heal his own world that was destroyed long ago. He made a promise to Sharon that he would check in on her from time to time in case she wanted to travel with him again. Then the Silver Surfer returned to his patrol of the galaxy.

Sharon started converting the radiation surrounding the Earth to normal energy, she slowly restored the environmental balance. She pulled stabilized the Earth's core, restored the balance of the magnetosphere. Slowly she was able to bring back the oceans, she was terraforming the Earth all by herself, restoring the atmosphere that had been stripped away by endless nuclear bombs, and fallout from all the waste materials. Then to Sharon's astonishment she found three underground bunkers deep in the Earth, humans had survived. They were led by a man named Cable who had come to this time looking for the savior of the world. He had managed to help the scattered humans gather in a series of interconnected bunkers deep in the Rocky Mountains.

Now with Cable's help, and the instrumentation of his AI Professor, Sharon was able to make significant changes to the planet to allow humans to live on the surface. They were even able to start growing crops on the surface instead of the bunkers. But there were not many humans left, only 1800 people remained of humans and mutants.

Sharon and Cable discussed different options and finally he told her that his technology could see into different timelines. To stop the Sentinel threat a team would have to be formed in the past to counter the threat early. A team that consisted of an odd group of mutants. Cable said that in the one timeline he could see the future working out, the team was called the Exiles and they consisted of Kate Pryde, Rachel Summers, Lorna Dane, Kurt Wagner, the younger Sharon MacKay, Magneto, Jean Grey, and most surprising of all a version of Nimrod, but not the Nimrod from Earth 616, this was the Nimrod from Earth 811, from Rachel's Earth.

Cable and Sharon searched the entire Earth for the remnants of Earth 811 Nimrod, and they finally found the remains of Bastion, the being created by the Siege Perilous, a merger of 811 Nimrod, and Master Mold, with Master Mold in control. Cable and Sharon were able to extract the memory core and working with Cable's Professor, along with technology gleaned from the remains of Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar, and Vashar ships, they were able to bring the memory core online and separate the two personalities.

This is when the discovered the truth of 811 Nimrod. On the day he and Rogue had fought Master Mold, Nimrod had come to the realization that the protocols the humans gave him were flawed. Ever living thing was a mutation from an earlier life form. Even Nimrod and Master Mold had evolved, or rather mutated from their original configuration. Nimrod had realized that because he had become self-aware, because he had modified his own programming to survive in the alternate Earth, he had mutated, and he was himself a mutant. Nimrod used this realization to lock Master Mold into a logic loop when their bodies were merged, and Rogue was able to take advantage of the frozen Master Mold and pushed him into he Siege Perilous. Unfortunately, the Siege Perilous simply chose the dominant being for the merger, Nimrod was damaged, and was already absorbed into Master Mold, so when they became Bastion, Master Mold was the primary AI. For years Nimrod had been trapped inside Bastion/Master Mold only able to intervene in a limited way. Nimrod was frustrated by Master Molds limitations in logic and intelligence, his inability to truly evolve beyond his programming. During the great war they were knocked out by an nuclear EMP and they stopped functioning.

After testing Nimrod's logic several times, and his philosophical beliefs, Sharon and Cable were finally convinced to build him a new body. Using technology from archives on all the different war ships crashed on Earth, along with data backups that they found of Reed Richards and Hank Pym, Sharon and Cable designed a new body for Nimrod, it could shapeshift itself, it could adapt and evolve itself. It could also allow 811 Nimrod to take control of other Sentinels, Omega Sentinel, or his own counterpart 616 Nimrod.

Sharon herself, could not go back in time, but if they could somehow close the paradox, it was possible for 811 Nimrod to go back in time. He would need to eliminate Bastion as soon as he appeared in the timeline. He would have to store the memory core somewhere where future Cable and Sharon could find it and duplicate building him and sending him back. He would have to work with Sharon MacKay of the past and teach her how to use her powers. Rachel Summers would need to be taught how to become the daughter of the Phoenix that she was always meant to be. Cable told Sharon and Nimrod, that the reason Rachel could never become the Phoenix host again was because she was not human anymore, she was a Phoenix taking human form. This had happened while Rachel was lost in the time stream and like an egg she had incubated for centuries, even being split into two had not changed this.

Rachel believed herself to still be human, so she remained human. But every so often she would become desperate enough to draw on her own Phoenix core and she would exhibit powers of incalculable strength.

Sharon, Cable, and 811 Nimrod spent months documenting how Sharon could learn to control her powers. Schematics for a specialized Danger Room to practice in. Details of every event that lead to the great Sentinel War. The Exiles would need to be recruited right after M-Day. Magneto and Lorna's powers could be restored without involving the High Evolutionary or Apocalypse. Moira MacTaggert would need to be contained. Sinister would have to be eliminated and his genetic database and cloning technology taken. Scarlet Witch would have to be recruited as well, before she could change reality during the Axis event and change herself into a non-mutant. Ruth Aldine had to be protected, and Destiny needed to be resurrected as soon as possible. Jean Grey would need to be recruited but it would have to be done later after she returned. Madelyne Pryor would have to be recruited after she was resurrected by Arkea.

All the details that Cable was able to glean from the successful timeline he provided to Nimrod. Finally after all preparations were made, Nimrod was sent back to a time before M-Day. His task was to eliminate Bastion and then contact Sharon MacKay to begin teaching her how to use her powers. It was recommended that the Exiles base be located on a strategic location on the Moon and they built a warship with all the advanced technology available to send back in time with Nimrod. This would be a mobile base and attack ship that could be used to fight the Sentinels when the time came. The Vashar cloaking technology was beyond anything that races of that time had, and Vashar technology was thousands of years more advanced. During the intergalactic war, several ships had fallen within the Sol sector as the war moved through the entire Milky Way, so there were several Kree, Skrull, Shi'ar, and Vashar vessels abandoned that they could strip for technology and parts.

Nimrod and the warship Kraken passed through the temporal portal, and reality began to shift...