Marie jolted awake when she heard the loud shouting voices at five in the damn morning. Turning over, she frowned when she found that Bobby wasn't lying beside her. Rolling off, she took a brief glance at the mirror to make sure she was presentable before storming off towards the kitchen. Whoever woke her up was going to pay.

A smiled curled at the edge of her lips as she gave a brief glance at her hands.

"What's the rack- Bobby? Logan?" Sure enough in front of her, both looking murderous, were the mutants dubbed Wolverine and Iceman. They didn't even turn and look at her, both intently imagining themselves mauling the other. Marie had a feeling Bobby would not be on the winning side for this one.

Rolling her eyes, she rushed between them and tried getting Bobby's attention. No such luck, Bobby was still glaring at Wolverine.

"Look at me Bobby!" She finally gave up and just yelled at him. To Marie's surprise, Bobby actually turned towards her. With out missing a beat, she dragged him towards Xavier's office, reaching her other hand out and snatching at Logan's wrist. Scott and Ororo, talking quietly to the Professor by his desk, looked up in surprise.

"What brings you three here?" Scott asked, as he and Ororo straightened.

"Wolverine straight out confronted Kitty in the dumbest way possible!" Bobby snarled. Marie was surprised by the ferocity in Bobby's voice. She has never seen Bobby angry like this before.

"Hey, you have a better way of talking to her?" Wolverine snarled back.

"Yeah, it's called not mentioning that everyone sacrificed their life so she could send someone back in time!" Everyone looked at Wolverine in shock.

"You did what?" Ororo finally spoke up, breaking the silence.

"Ok, ok, I went a bit too far. It was a mistake!"

"A mistake?" Bobby was furious. They had went over countless of times that they were going to approach Kitty slowly and then Wolverine came along and tossed that plan out the window. "Do you know how much weight that would add to her already heavy conscience?"

"Hey it wasn't that bad!"

"She was ready to attack you, what do you mean it wasn't that bad?"

"Enough." Charles said calmly. "This is what we do..."


'Kitty, Bobby, and Ororo, please come to the Cerebro chamber.' Kitty groaned, rolled off her bed, and made her way to Xavier's office. She still wasn't over what Wolverine had said. The way he made her seem so... selfish.

She didn't like to think that maybe she was.

She was thankful that Xavier hadn't called Wolverine down as well. Hopefully he wasn't already there. Kitty walked into the Cerebro chamber and saw that the other two were already there as well as Wolverine. Joy.

"Professor, what's going on?" Bobby spoke up.

"Cerebro has located a mutant in Juneau, Alaska."

"Alaska? Well there's a place we haven't been to yet."

"Here is the information we have gathered about this mutant." Xavier pulled up an image. "Her name is Ellen Adams." Xavier continued talking but Kitty stopped listening. The short pink hair... it looked so familiar. She had seen this girl in her visions!

"Lightning!" She bursted out excitedly. She turned to Wolverine, the earlier morning accident forgotten.

"Remember her? Elle? The one who could shoot out pink lightning?" Wolverine stared at her for a minute before his face too showed recognition.

"Well, it appears you two recognize her. In the alternate timeline, how advanced did her powers become? We can use this knowledge to know what to help her develop her powers to." Charles said. Bobby was looking at Kitty in wonder. Kitty had just admitted what they just recently knew. She did have the memories of the other timeline. He mulled over this revelation for bit then turned to Wolverine when he started talking.

"Lightni- Elle's powers mainly revolved around electricity. She generally shot out lightning, but she could also absorb electricity from storms or machines, and redirect it as lightning, or as energy. She and 'Roro were the dream team. I thin-"

"Ok, this is lovely and everything, but perhaps we should recruit her first, then talk about her arrangements." Kitty abruptly cut in. To be honest, she was in between the lines of excitement and nervousness. Excitement, because she and Elle were close in the alternate timeline, and nervous because this wasn't the other timeline so she wasn't sure how to act.

Elle wasn't going to be the same and she couldn't just walk up to her and start talking, because that would confuse her. This was so frustrating. She was really thinking that the world hated her, because first it was Bobby and now it's Elle.

Kitty Pryde was trying really hard to avoid the cyrokinectic sitting in the Blackbird right next to her. Storm and the professor were up by the controls, and left her alone with Bobby.

She refused to believe that this was a coincidence.

She knew Bobby was looking at her, wanting an explanation about the whole Elle situation. She just didn't want to explain yet. Instead she chose to close her eyes and think about Elle.

In the other timeline, she had met Elle at one of the camps. She was one of the reasons why Kitty didn't go crazy. Elle was a sarcastic girl who was a great source of entertainment with her snide remarks. It was refreshing, and reminded her of the kids back at the mansion.

"We're here," she heard Storm say. Kitty immediately straightened up and get ready for the Blackbird to land.


Ellen Adams, or Elle as she prefers, stared up from the tree that she was sitting on. She prefered spending most of her time after school and homework in the forest, loving the peaceful tranquility.

But that's not why she was in the forest today. Today she waited patiently for Professor Xavier to come, as she knew he would when she finally went out to test her powers. It had taken her awhile to believe she was ready.

Elle was going to send out that spark earlier... but then the dreams arrived.

Not dreams. Too... real to be dreams.

Recollections.

Memories.

Visions.

She saw herself using her powers to fight these machines? androids? called Sentinels along with other mutants. She saw herself fighting others to give that girl, Kitty, some extra time. She saw herself fighting with a group of friends for survival. Though the rest of the world hunted them down, she felt accepted.

Even though it was a terrible world, Elle wasn't sure if she would've minded feeling like she belonged, for once.

Elle jolted out of her thinking when she sensed a jet coming, the one she felt in her visions, the one she saw on a rare few occasions. She nervously smiled and headed towards the place she knew they would land. Time to have a chat with some fellow mutants.