A/N: kanna here! OMG it has been FOREVER. Between finishing college (I graduate this April), forgetting my password and having to change it multiple times, and writer's block, I've had a lot going on. But I have some time on my hands! I have two projects going right now: this fic and a Gunslinger Girl/Lord of the Rings crossover (no romance in that one; the girls are too young). I'll try to alternate updates between the two.

As per usual, kanna does NOT own Shinkenger/Super Sentai or X-Men. You know who they belong to.

Alex and Kotoha left Charles and Moira to discuss what was going on and how to best handle the situation. The two were on their way to their bedroom to go over wedding plans when Kotoha stopped as they were walking and she jolted. "What's wrong?" Alex asked. "Everything okay?"

"Fine," Kotoha said. "It's Charles. Raven's here, and...he wants us at Cerebro. Now. It seemed pretty urgent." She looked at Alex. "Looks like we'll have to put off the wedding planning for a bit."

"What's Raven doing here?"

"I don't know. Let me see if I can listen in." Kotoha tightened her face in concentration as her mind searched for Raven's. She knew she wouldn't be able to get into the Professor's mind, so Raven's would have to do. Kotoha was shocked at what she saw before she opened her eyes and relaxed her face. "Erik has resurfaced."

"Erik?"

Kotoha nodded. "Apparently, he had a wife and daughter. They were killed. Along with a handful of policemen. And then he killed a bunch of factory workers. The whole world will be looking for him."

"Then we have to find him before they do," Raven said as she, Moira, Hank, and the professor came up behind Alex and Kotoha. "We have to go to Cerebro. Now."

The group of mutants arrived at the doors of Cerebro in silence. "Moira," Charles asked, "I'm going to have to ask you to keep this a secret."

"I don't even know what this," Moira gestured all around her, "is." Cerebro recognized Charles right away and he wheeled in, followed by the others. He put the helmet on and blue lights appeared. "What are they?" Moira asked in awe.

"The humans," Charles explained. "And these," the lights changed to red, "are all the mutants. I'm connected to all their minds."

"The CIA would kill for this."

"I know." Charles closed his eyes and asked aloud, "Where are you, Erik?"

Erik's voice rang throughout the room as he said, "Charles?"

"Hello, old friend. I'm sorry. I am so sorry. I feel your pain. And your loss."

Erik scoffed. "You think, because you can see into my head...you know how it feels? You are looking in the wrong place, Charles."

Kotoha suddenly stiffened before she fell to her knees and held her head in pain. Alex knelt down beside his fiancee. "What's wrong?"

"I can feel...someone," Kotoha grunted. Charles couldn't talk to Kotoha because he was concentrating on talking to Erik through Cerebro. "He's a mutant, and a powerful one at that. He's a telepath...no, wait. He has so much power...it's terrifying. I shouldn't be able to feel him at this distance. It hurts! The pain is going through my whole body! I-" Kotoha suddenly moved one of her hands to her lower abdomen and screamed in pain. "So much power," she gasped when she finished screaming. "Is it Apocalypse?" Another wave of pain swept through her lower abdomen as if to confirm her suspicions and she screamed again.

"Hank!" Alex yelled as he looked from Kotoha to the mutant in question. "What's going on?"

"I'm not sure," Hank replied with fear evident in his voice.

"Now," Erik said as his voice rang throughout the room, "we'll take everything from them."

"Hank, he's not alone," Charles gasped. His eyes widened. "Oh my g-d."

"Thank you for letting me in," a sinister voice said.

"Someone's taken control of Cerebro," Hank realized.

Charles's eyes started to turn black. "I've never felt power like this before," he said in awe and fear.

"What have they taken control of Cerebro for?" Raven asked in a fearful tone.

"To connect," Hank replied in realization.

Charles broke free from the connection long enough to say, "Alex!" Alex turned from Hank to the Professor. "Destroy it! Destroy everything! Destroy Cerebro! Wreak havoc."

Alex let out a blast of plasma rays from his chest and destroyed the room, which started to collapse around everyone in it. They all ran out as fast as they could, with Kotoha being carried by Alex. The pain in her head went away, but the pain in her lower abdomen was still there. She had a feeling about what happened to her, but never said anything to Alex about it because she was afraid of his reaction.

When the group made it out, though, they saw Erik surrounded by other mutants. Alex assumed one of the mutants to be Apocalypse, but he wasn't sure who the others were. There was a tan girl with a white mohawk, a boy with metal wings, and another girl who had some kind of plasma whip.

"Erik," Raven gasped. Erik's expression remained blank as he held out a hand and Charles's wheelchair, with him in it, came zooming across the hall.

"No!" Hank and Raven screamed. Alex couldn't blast them, as his hands were full with his fiancee. He wanted to put her down to blast them, but was worried that would cause her more pain. He cursed loudly before Apocalypse somehow created an explosion that destroyed the mansion. The group of mutants and one human saw a flash of silver that ran them all at a super fast speed outside before the house exploded. The other students were outside, as well.

"That son of a bitch," Alex growled. The bright side was that they were outside and near Kotoha's element, earth. He gently placed her on the ground so she could draw strength from the earth. Soon enough, she opened her eyes. "What happened in there?" Alex asked quietly as he took Kotoha's hand.

"I'm not sure," Kotoha sighed. Alex slowly helped her sit up. "Apocalypse...he..." Her head tilted to one side and her eyes closed as she collapsed into a deep sleep. It was probably for the best. Alex then noticed Hank talking to a boy with silver hair. It was Peter!

Peter ran over to Kotoha. "Is she okay?" he asked.

"She's sleeping," Alex replied. He then noticed Raven was in her natural blue form.

Students began murmuring all around her as a large helicopter landed on the ground. Moira quickly ran to greet it, but when Raven saw who came out, she yelled for Moira to get down. Unfortunately, she was too late, and some kind of electric net was cast over all the students, Moira, Raven, and the other mutants. They became unconscious.

The group of mutants and the one human were all in some kind of cell in the helicopter. There was no way out. "Alex, I'm so sorry." Hank said after he looked over Kotoha. He was in his blue, furry form. As soon as Alex woke up, he ran over to Hank, woke him up, and asked him what was wrong with Kotoha. "I'm not a doctor, but Kotoha...it looks like Kotoha was about a month pregnant with your child. When Kotoha collapsed in Cerebro and felt all that pain just from Apocalypse, the baby died in the womb."

"Why didn't she tell me?" Alex asked as tears angrily filled his eyes. "Did you know?" Hank shook his head.

"Apocalypse is going to pay," Alex growled. He clenched his fists. "That son of a bitch is going to pay dearly."

Peter woke up, took one look at Hank, and his mouth opened in shock. "Is that what's going to happen to all of us?" he gasped.

"No, I just left my meds in the house," Hank explained.

Raven and Moira were the next to wake up. "Hey! Hey!" Raven shouted.

Kotoha was the last to wake up and she slowly sat up with the help of Hank. She and Raven gasped when they saw an all-too-familiar face behind the window. "Major Stryker," Kotoha growled. She turned to face Alex with an apologetic look before turning back to face the window Stryker was behind.

"Colonel Stryker," Stryker corrected her. "I wouldn't get too close to the wall if I were you. It may create some...discomfort."

"I'm Moira MacTaggert. I'm a senior officer at the CIA," Moira tried to explain.

"I know who you are, agent MacTaggert."

"You cannot keep me here in this-"

"Actually, I can," Stryker smirked. "A psychic event just destroyed every nuke from here to Moscow. That event emanated from exactly where we found you. At the home of the world's most powerful psychic. So, you're going to tell me. Where is Charles Xavier?"

"It's not him you should be worried about," Kotoha said as she tried to stand, but ultimately fell down. "There's someone else. Someone more powerful. And if you let us out of this hellhole, we can help you."

"Please," Raven added.

"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Stryker scoffed. "You can put on any face that you want, but I know who you are. What you are." With that, he walked away.

The minutes that passed in silence felt like hours before Hank finally broke the silence by talking to Moira. "Why didn't you tell me?" Alex asked Kotoha as he held her hand.

"I wanted to be able to steel my nerves," Kotoha muttered. "I didn't know how you would react." She laughed darkly to her self. "Stupid, huh?"

"No," Alex said as he shook his head and moved his hand to stroke her forehead. "The stupid one is that guy, Apocalypse, thinking he can take everything and everyone we love from us."

"You're not mad?"

"I wish you had told me, but I'm not mad. You and I are going to make sure Apocalypse pays for what he did to us." Kotoha nodded in affirmation.

More silence passed before everyone gasped. They all heard Charles's voice in their head say, "Hear me, inhabitants of this world. This is a message. A message to every man, woman and mutant. You have lost your way. But I have returned. The day of reckoning, it is here. All your buildings and temples...will fall. The dawn of a new era will emerge. For there is nothing you can do. This message is for one reason alone. Those with the greatest power. Protect those without."

"That was Charles," Hank said.

"Without Cerebro," Kotoha added.

Stryker came back to the mic. "I know that voice. It's Xavier, isn't it? What's going on?" he shouted.

"We don't know!" everyone in the cell yelled.

Stryker muttered something before he walked away. It had to be at least an hour later when Hank saw Kurt standing in front of the microphone. "The door," Kurt said through the static of the mic, "Stay away from the..."

"The door! The door!" Moira shouted. Everyone ran away from the door and when it was blasted open, they saw Scott and Jean outside. Kurt quickly teleported himself down to where they were.

"We know where the professor is," Jean said.

"You've been busy," Alex said as he hugged his brother, who ran from him to Kotoha.

"We had a...a little help," Scott explained. "Let's go!"