Years later...
Well, looks like my vision really came true and I couldn't do anything about it. The young feral I had saved, unfortunately wasn't fast enough to escape, leaving me alone and with a pained heart. Her name was Lizzy, and like the majority of mutants, her family had abandoned her when she first found out who she was.
But, easy, I'm not alone. Protecting myself I found out I wasn't the only one alive. Humans were also dying at the hands of the Sentinels. Looks like the creator didn't see that one coming, that one day their own machines will turn against them.
My journey has taken me to a monastery in China, where I suddenly sensed a presence in mind.
Don't fear, dear. It's been a long time, but I'm pleased to see you alive
I stopped dead in my tracks. Professor?
Hello, Blair. I don't think it's the time to chat telepathically. I'm near you, please take the path to the right and go straight. There's a jet you'll find familiar.
I nodded and followed instructions. I sigh a relieved breath when the rampage opens. There I can see the professor, a few years older than the last time I saw him, a white haired American-African women who I easily recognized as Storm, a ruffly brown haired mutant who I only met once at the school named Logan or how everyone knows him Wolverine and the last mutant aboard is Magneto. The once villain human hater.
I'm not the only approaching the jet, three mutants are also running towards the professor. It only takes me a second to recognize them. Three mutants I've never met their names but their code names, Bishop Sunspot and Warpath.
A blonde guy also arrives, that's Bobby. A smile spreads slowly in my lips seeing the once best friend I had when i was on Mutant High.
The professor eyed his students with a relieved smile. He then looks around spotting me at the entry and beckons me with a smile
"Bobby. You're not the only one alive. I'm glad to say she's alive and wants to see you" his gaze on Bobby as he says with a warm smile. The first one, I guess since the destruction started. From here I can see the frown on Bobby's face. I use my telekinesis to raise a rock in front of him to hit him on the shoulder. His eyes widened at the action. He looks at the professor. He looks at me, Bobby following his gaze to find me leaning against the wall, a smirk on my face.
"Oracle" Bobby breathes in relief running to embrace me. I return the hug tightly
"Iceman"
We pulled away with happy tears. With a sided hug we returned towards the other mutants.
"Welcome back, Blair. Good to see you alive" Storm greets me. I smiled
"Kid" Logan's gruff voice greets me with a nod. I returned it with a smile. "Your mutation helped you to survive?"
I smirked tapping my forehead "It's really useful in this times to see the future, don't you think?"
Logan hummed in agreement. I smiled. Footsteps behind me makes me turn around to the noise seeing a brunette girl making their towards us with another man. I smiled recognizing Kitty and Colossus.
"Professor, you made it" she smiles. That's when she spots me next to Bobby. "Blair?" She smiles in relief and hugs me. I hugged back flinching as I'm suddenly trusted into the past, her past.
A fight where it looked like they died, only to return alive. Her mutation, another part besides of phasing through objects. She sent the conscious of another mutant to the past to warn them about they were going to die.
My eyes opened widening.
"That was brilliant" I whispered in her ear. She pulled away smiling widely. The others looks at us confused. I stepped back so she can explain. The professor has a knowing look. He knows what I'm talking about. But there's a thoughtful look on his eyes.
"Whenever the Sentinels attack, Warpath spots them... then I send Bishop back to warn us of the attack before it happens. Blink scouts the exit site... and then we leave before they ever know we were there"
Warpath smirks "Because... we never were"
Logan looks at them confused "What do you mean you were never there?"
"She projects Bishop back in time a few days to warn the others... of the coming attack" The Professor explains.
Logan hums "So she needs Bishop back in time?"
The professor shakes his head
"No, just his consciousness, into his younger self. His younger body"
Logan looks impressed "Wow"
Magneto looks at the professor with a thoughtful look.
"This might just work, Charles"
They exchanged a silent look. I recognize when the Professor is having a telepathic conversation with someone else. Kitty sighs
"What might work?" She asks
"The Sentinel program was originally conceived by Doctor Bolivar Trask. In the early '70's, he was one of the world's leading weapons designers. But, covertly, he had begun experimenting on mutants... using their gifts to fuel his own research. There was one mutant who has discovered what he was doing"
Magneto hummed and continued "A mutant with the ability to transform herself into anyone"
I realized who they meant.
"Mystique" I answered voicing everyone's thoughts. The professor nodded
"I knew her as Raven. We me when we were children, grew up together. She was like a sister to me. I tried to help her... but only succeeded in driving her away. She haunted Trask across the world. And at the Paris Peace Accords in 1973, after the Vietnam War, she found Trask... and killed him. It was the first time she killed"
"It wasn't her last" Logan grumbled, the professor shot him a look for the interruption
"But killing Trask did not have the outcome she expected. It only persuaded the government of the need for his program. They captured her that day... tortured her, experimented on her. In her DNA, they discovered the secrets to her powers of transformation. It gave them the key they needed, to create weapons that could adapt to any mutant power. And in less than 50 years, the machines that have destroyed so many of our kind were created. But it all started that day in 1973, the day she first killed, the day she truly became... Mystique"
We realized what the professor meant. Exchanging a look with Kitty she voiced his thought out loud
"You want to go back there"
"If I can get to her, stop the assassination... keep her out off their hands... then we can stop the Sentinels from ever being born"
"And end this war before it ever begins" Magneto finished agreeing.
It was a good plan, but there was a small problem.
"Uh, I can send someone back a couple weeks. Maybe a month. But you're talking about going back decades. You have the the most powerful brain in the world, Professor... but the mind can only stretch so far before it snaps. It would you rip apart. I'm sorry. No one could survive that trip" she shook her head.
I looked at the unsurprised. She was right. There was a moment of silence before Logan perked out
"What if someone's mind has a way of snapping back? What if someone can heal as fast as they're ripped apart?"
We exchanged a look. Logan's mutation didn't only include those adamantium claws, but his principal mutation was regenerative.
Meaning he could heal
~8~
Outside the monastery, we prepare everything to send Logan back in time
Storm, Bishop and Warpath stand guard outside to keep a look, for the sentinels.
I stay inside using my ability to keep an eye on them. They're far, so we're safe. For now.
"So I wake up in my younger body, God knows where. Then what?" Logan asks reviewing what he has to do.
"You'll need to go to my house and find me. Convince me of all of this" The professor tells him
Logan frowns "Won't you be able to just read my mind?" I glanced at the professor
"I didn't have my powers in 1973. Logan, you're going to have to do for me what I once did for you. Lead me, guide me. I was a very different man then. You'll have to be patient with me"
"Patience is my strongest suit" Logan mumbled sarcastically. I chuckled
"You'll need me as well" Magneto stepped forward. Me and Logan raised our eyebrows
"What?" Logan asked
"After Mystique left Charles, she came with me... and I set her on a dangerous path. A darker path. It's going to take the two of us, side by side... at a time when we couldn't be further apart" He explained.
I looked at the professor and silently looked like he agreed. His eyes turned thoughtful and then his eyes found mine. Blue vs blue. He blinked
"Find Blair in the past. Her precognition abilities may be useful for you"
I blinked in surprise "Professor I'm a teenager at that time" I pointed out
"And with great control of your abilities, Blair. You could help Logan in finding Erik"
I furrowed my eyebrows looking at Logan. He raised his eyebrows and looked between me and Magneto
"Great. So where do I find you?"
"I'm in high school. Bliss High school to be exact, it's not that far of Mutant High"
Logan hummed as I crossed my arms. Certainly I was thrilled my younger self to be involved in this, but if for any reason, I could be useful, so be it
Logan looked at Magneto
"Well, it's complicated"
As Kitty is preparing Logan to time travel him back. I risk a blink to the future only to see it black. I returned back blinking, I breath heavily blinking back the tears.
I missed a part of Kitty's explanation but I focus back on her to find her saying "Once wake up... whatever you've done will take hold and become history. And for the rest of us, it will be the only history that we know. It will be like the last that 50 years never happened. And this world, and this war... the only person who remember it is you. All right, Logan... I need you to clear your head and to stay as calm as possible" she warned softly
"What? What do you mean?" Logan asked
"If your mind gets rocky, it will be harder for me to hold you... and you could start to slip between past and future" kitty explains
"What if I need to get a little rocky?" He asked
"Think peaceful thoughts?" She suggested but sounded as a question, Logan hummed
"Peaceful thoughts..." He hummed sarcastically "Do you have any good news?" He asked seriously
"Well, you don't really age, so you'll pretty in the same" she shrugged
"You won't have much the time in the past. The Sentinels will find us. They always do" he added somberly. I nodded in agreement
"And this time, we won't be able to run. We'll have no escape. This is our last chance" kitty told him. I took a deep breath and hoped this would motivate Logan more to do this quicker
"The future is black for this moment, if we don't do something about it, it won't change and black means we don't have a future" I told them, finally voicing my vision, they noted the edge of the tone and exchanged worried looks
"See you all soon" Logan bids his goodbyes and lays down as Kitty placed her hands on his temples. A thought formed into my brain and I stopped her
"Wait" I looked down at Logan "For any circumstance let me touch you"
They frowned except the professor. He was the only one to know of my concerns
"Why?"
"My younger self at high school has limited control. My ability that time only works with contact. I needed to have something, an object of the person to see its future. And like we don't have a future as of now, my ability will tap into your past. And not your younger self one"
"You'll see the destruction. That would be Logan's past but to you it would be the future" Bobby realized, I nodded slowly
"I don't want my younger self traumatized. Please Logan, don't let me touch you or being to close to you. Do whatever it takes to keep me at bay. I was always too curious for my own sake. It was always got me into trouble"
Logan nodded "Okay, kid. I won't let you touch me"
I nodded and looked at Kitty who placed her hands again on his temples. I stepped back returning to look straight at nothing specifically, my hand on my throat where my necklace was hanging soothing me.
"This might sting a little" I heard Kitty warn Logan softly and I prepared myself of muting Logan's screams before they started.
Logan yells out in pain making the others except me and the professor flinch back, as Logan yells his claws extend.
"Retro-cognition, huh?" Magneto asks me quietly
"It's easier when you can control it. When I first found out what I could do, my abilities shifted from past to future that I could see glimpses of both. Try that with an stranger and you'll stay crazy"
"You managed to control it, didn't you?"
"Yes, with the professor's help. But only to control when to see the past. The future and my telekinetic abilities were under control. The past never came willingly when I needed it. So he help me on that. And to see without the need of having contact, to see only with looking at someone"
"That's an amazing ability"
"It has its downsides"
Magneto agreed and we both turned to Logan, who was now sleeping quietly his hands relaxing and his claws retreaded back into his skin. Kitty's hands glowing on his temples. I eyed Logan and found myself seeing his mind on the past
I blinked "It worked" I announced looking at everyone