"When was the last time you were down here?" Logan asked as they walked down the X-Men basement.

"The last time we went looking for students." Hank replied.

"A lifetime ago." Charles added as they topped before the doors of Cerebro which scanned the professor with an illuminated x.

'Welcome Professor.' The doors opened allowing them into the round room. They walked over to the controls which were covered in dust.

"Raven was wounded so she won't be moving fast." Hank said as he turned on Cerebro. Charles took the helmet blowing the dust off of it before placing it on his head.

"These are muscles I haven't stretched in a long time." Charles said as they helmet lit up and he gasped. The room was filled with red and white lights that made up forms of different people all of them shouting indistinctly. There was weeping and crying as the lights started to spin out of control, the machine going haywire.

"Charles!" Logan called out as Charles screamed the lights disappearing and the machine's dials exploding. Charles through off the helmet as the machine smoked Rhea kneeling by his side in concern.

"Charles! It's all alright." Hank reassured him from his other side before he straightened up. "I'll go check the generator."

"It's not the machinery is it?" Rhea asked softly.

"I can't do this. My mind…" Charles shook his head.

"Yes you can." Logan argued.

"It won't take it." Charles stammered out.

"You're just a little rusty." Logan pushed.

"You don't understand, it's not a question of being rusty. I can flip the switched, I can turn the knobs, but my power comes from here…" Charles gestured to his head then moved to his heart. "It comes from…and it's broken." He turned his chair and started to leave. "I feel like one of my students, helpless." He moved away from the controls heading for the door. "It was a mistake coming down here, it was a mistake freeing Erik, this whole thing has been one bloody mistake. I'm sorry, but they sent back the wrong people."

"You're right." Logan said stopping him causing him to turn back to them. "We are."

"Actually it was supposed to be you." Rhea said as they walked over to Charles. "But Logan and I were the only ones who could physically make the trip."

"And we don't know how long we've got here." Logan said. "But I do know that a long time ago…actually a long time from now…I was your most helpless student and you unlocked my mind, you showed me what I was, you showed me what I could be. We don't know how to do that for you, you're right we don't, but I know someone who might. Rhea…"

"I can manage it." Rhea nodded as she walked over to them.

"Look into my mind." Logan said to Charles.

"You saw what I did to Cerebro, you don't want me inside your head…" Charles argued.

"There's no damage you can do that hasn't already been done, trust me." Logan smirked a little. "Come on."

Charles hesitantly reached out placing his hands on Logan's head pressing to fingers to his both temples. Slowly Charles's face fell as he ready Logan's past seeing all of the horrible things he had gone through.

"You poor, poor man." Charles breathed out.

"Look past me." Logan said.

"No, I don't want your suffering; I don't want your future." Charles nearly screamed.

"Look past my future, look for your future." Logan said.

"Unitatis Mentis Tribus." Rhea placed a hand on Charles shoulder and the other on Logan's, her tattoo blazing as she guided Charles's consciousness along Logan's to the future.

"That's it." Logan said as Charles face went slack as he came into the future and face to face with the Professor. Slowly Charles's eyes came back into focus as he leaned back into his chair. "Find what you were looking for?"

"The power's back on." Hank said as he walked up to him.

"Yes." Charles looked from Rhea to Logan. "Yes it is."

Charles once again returned to the controls placing the helmet once again on his head and this time it worked. Charles used Cerebro to speak through various people to Raven trying to convince to come home, but to no avail.

"Raven stop, stop running." Charles said through another.

"Charles?" Raven questioned. "Where are you?"

"Back at the house where you should be, I need you to come home." Charles said.

"I know what I need to do." Raven replied.

"If you kill Trask you'll be creating countless others just like him." Charles said.

"Then I'll kill them to." Raven shot back.

"Those are Erik's words, not yours." Charles said. "The girl I grew up with wasn't capable of killing. She was good, fair, full of compassion."

"I have compassion, just not for Trask." Raven said. "He's murdered to many of us."

"Shut her down Charles, get into her head." Logan said.

"She's not letting me in. I'm barely holding on. I'm not strong enough yet." Charles gasped out before focusing on Raven again. "I know what Trask had done, but killing him will not bring them back, it will set you on a path from which there is no return, an endless cycle of killing. Us and them until there is nothing left, but we can stop it right now you and I. You just have to come home."

"I have to?" Raven echoed. "You haven't changed at all Charles. Like I said I know exactly what I have to do."

Charles sadly removed his helmet.

"Where is she?" Logan asked.

"She's in an airport boarding a plane." Charles replied sadly.

"A plane to where?" Rhea asked.

"A plane to Washington DC." Charles said.

"Guys there's something I need to show you." Hank said and lead them out of Cerbro and back upstairs to a room filled with monitors and equipment that looked like it had all been scavenged from a junk yard and hodgepodged together.

"I set the system I designed to record any news about Paris over all three networks and PBS." Hank said as he took a seat before one of the TVs.

"All three, wow." Logan said sarcastically sharing an amused look with Rhea.

"Yeah, and PBS." Hank said missing Logan's sarcasm as he turned on a TV to a news cast. "Look at what I found."

"Tomorrow in front of the White House the President will make his announcement. He will be joined by secretary of defense Laird and has even sought the help of renowned scientist Bolivar Trask his special advisor to combat this mutant issue." The reporter told the world. "The White House has asked…"

"Raven doesn't realize that if she kills Trask at an event like that with the whole world watching…" Charles trailed off.

"Then we came a long way for nothing." Rhea said darkly.

"And there's more bad news, I saw on a report that they found traces of her blood in Paris." Hank told them. "For all we know they already have her DNA which is all they need…"

"To create the Sentinels of the future." Logan said.

"Not exactly, blood would only go so far, what they really need is brain tissue, spinal fluid, the things that help activate her mutation." Rhea said thoughtfully. "They'll still take her if they can catch her."

"There's a theory in quantum physics that time is immutable." Hank told them. "It's like a river, you can throw a pebble into it and create a ripple, but the current always corrects itself. No matter what you do the river keeps flowing in the same direction."

"What are you trying to say?" Logan asked.

"What I'm saying is what is the war is inevitable, what if she was mean to kill Trask, what if this is just simply who she is?" Hank asked.

"Just because someone stumbles and losses their way doesn't mean they are lost forever." Charles replied with a small smile. "No, I don't believe that theory Hank and I cannot believe that is who she is. Ready the plane, we're going to Washington."