"Hank, do something!"

Raven grabbed onto Charles as she screamed his name over and over again to come back to them. Hank punched through the machine's scream and pulled up a few wires as he tried to find the one. Clara glanced up to the walls of Cerebro as she noticed just now that she couldn't even see any of the humans or mutants displayed in the room. She turned back to Charles as he started to groan and form his hands into fists. She could tell that he was fighting back but just sitting here by him made Clara almost feel next to useless.

Hank started to get frustrated as he pulled out the wires at random now, not caring if it could hurt Charles or not. The man was already screaming in his wheelchair as Raven gripped onto him to help support him. Hank threw down the wires in annoyance as even the most clever man in the world had run out of ideas. He turned to everyone who just stood there, helplessly watching Charles become a mindless victim to this unknown.

"It won't shut down!"

Clara looked around, "If it won't shut down and someone is blocking us from taking the helmet off his head! What the hell is going on!?"

"Destroy it!" Raven shouted out.

Clara turned to her, "What?! This is the mansion's prized possession"

Raven gripped onto her, "Fuck the prized possession. My brother is in danger!"

"I have pyrokinesis, that's only fire, even if I could I can't make it into solid energy" Clara told her.

"Alex…"

"What?"

Charles strained, "Destroy it! Destroy everything. Destroy Cerebro!"

Charles let out a painful yell as Alex didn't even ask twice about the Professor's decision. He moved himself to the front as he held onto the panel for support. Clara dragged Raven back as she knew the woman would urge Alex to stop if Cerebro hurt him more than the helmet did.

Raven held onto Clara as her nails dug deep into her skin but the feeling didn't seem to make her feel in pain. She watched as Charles leaned over and grabbed onto Alex for his attention.

Alex turned around and glanced down to him as everyone in the room heard him utter out his words.

"Wreak havoc!"

Alex let out a scream as energy shot out from his chest, the same ruby red as his brothers. Raven moved to be next to her brother but Clara held her in place and steered her away. She held her in a bear hug as Raven let out a scream but didn't try to pry Clara off of her. Clara turned back around as she saw the agony written all over Charles' face.

Alex turned and shot out his energy beams into the other sides of Cerebro. The tiles started to bring and clatter down to the ground.

As soon as the connection was lost, Hank yanked off the helmet and wheeled him out into the hallway before he kneeled next to him, "Charles, are you okay?"

Down the hall, a sort of rumbling could be heard. Clara turned as she noticed a purple force field had materialized. She turned and looked down to Charles unconscious and limp in his chair. Seeing her friend like that mad her angry as she turned around and formed flames in her hands. Everyone moved away from her as she brushed by to the front of the group, waiting for the mutant to come "I got this"

But nothing could prepare her for Erik to stand there with the group of unknown mutants. For a moment, it looked like he too was surprised to see Clara standing there amongst Charles and his friends. The thought to attack the threat left her mind as her fire dimmed within her hands, "Erik?"

Erik waved out his hand as something moved past Clara. Raven shouted out, "Charles!"

"Alex!" Hank shouted as the man ran past him.

"Hey! Hey, asshole!" Alex yelled out.

"All will be revealed, my child" the mutant said.

"Stop!" Hank commanded Alex, "No!"

Clara suddenly realized why Hank wanted him to stop as she remembered the jet was in the garage. The reason why Hank never lets Clara into their because of her power. She let out a gasp as she saw Alex kneel down and groan as he summoned up his power. Clara gasped as she placed her hands over her mouth.

Hank had tried to reach Alex in time but it was too late, Alex had shot off a warning blast to the group just as they left. Clara watched almost in slow motion as the energy shot into the jetplane at the other end of the hall.

An explosion sounded in her eardrums as the blast blinded her eyes as she waved out her hand in a desperate attempt to control the explosive fire faster than it could destroy the entire school.

Within a blink of an eye, she was suddenly outside of the school, in pain at least. Clara doubled over as a random act of quesiness over took her. She actually wanted to puke just to get it over with. She took in a deep breath but that let in the smell of burnt wood come to her senses as she straightened up.

Clara groaned, "Oh my God"

"What happened?" Moira moaned, "I feel like I'm going to vomit"

Clara stared at the empty space that has been her home for so long now turned to a pile of ash. A tear fell down her cheek as she took a step closer, somehow not believing that this is happening.

"Wow!" a silver-haired teenager beside her muttered.

Clara looked him up and down, "Where did you…"

He turned to her, "I was looking for the Professor I thought he lived here"

"They took him" Hank said from behind Clara.

"She's the one. It's her" a student whispered.

"Are you sure?"

A little boy came up to Clara, "Is she going to help us?"

A girl smiled, "Wow"

Mystique turned and looked to Hank as he said, "They look up to you. Right now, they need you"

"That's not what they need" Raven told him as she changed into her human form.

"Whoa! That's awesome!"

A car rolled up to the side of the road as Clara turned and noticed Scott running towards them, "What happened? Where's Alex? Where's my brother?"

"Pretty sure I got everybody" the teenager said.

"Alex was closest to the blast" Clara noticed.

She looked up and didn't even need eye expressions to know that Scott had heard her. She watched as the boy took off running to the rubble. Clara ran a hand through her hair and sighed as she didn't have to follow the kid to wonder about the fate of her brother. Alex has to be dead, no one could live through that kind of blast. She was just sorry to have Scott be here to witness his brother's passing.

Clara huffed, "I'm such an idiot"

Clara turned around and kicked a piece of gravel away from here as she started to pace around. She was the one who volunteered to take on the mutant, she stopped the second she saw Erik, and she knew there was a plane behind them. If she hadn't been so shocked about Erik, maybe Alex would have been alive, and the mansion not destroyed. Clara glanced up to the destruction, maybe even Charles would still be here.

Clara heard something chopping the air as she turned around and noticed a helicopter in the distance. She furrowed her eyebrows and shielded them from the sun but couldn't tell that it said. Still, an uneasy feeling overcame her as the chopper came closer and closer.

Raven was beside her, "You see that?"

Clara nodded, "Since when do helicopters come to a destruction site so fast? Be alert, Mystique"

"You too, Ember" Raven told her.

Clara turned to Raven as she formed her jaw and gave a nod. It would've taken helicopters 20 minutes or less to come to a site like this.

"Please remain calm" an automatic speaker repeated as the chopper landed, "Medical assistance is on the way"

She watched closely as she noticed the soldiers coming out with guns instead of medical bags.

Moira waved her hand over her head, "Hey! Moira Mactaggert! CIA! Thank God you're here!"

"Wait!" Raven shouted next to her.

"Fire!"

And then everything went black.