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Chapter Seven – Explanation

'How sweet of you, darling,' Rogue smirked as she levitated herself towards him, her hands bare and ready for contact. Franklin raised his arm, hurling her away from a wave of telekinesis she couldn't go through. Jean created a field for her friend to fall on instead on the hard ground; she was surprised to find a field already created by Franklin Richards himself. Both Gambit and Iceman covered Rogue from Franklin's view without abandoning their positions completely.

The dome around them had collapsed, bringing everyone from outside in contact with them. The X-Men kept their ground as the helicopters hovered above them. Franklin glared at them and Jean raised her arms to create a telekinetic umbrella in case he decided to take them down or they decided to use cure darts on him.

'Start talking,' Cyclops demanded and for a moment, Franklin Richards looked at him with what Jean thought was respect. She couldn't read his mind without attacking him and every time she had done so far, she felt like hitting someone as powerful as herself, if not more.

'I'm here from the future, I want to help you all from an awful fate.' Franklin spoke his intention. Jean was glad her telekinetic umbrella was also telepathic and no one else from outside the dome could hear anything.

If he had showed up under any other circumstances, more than ten days ago, the team would have let the army use their cure darts as to contain him and see what's wrong with him. Now, with Logan back from 1973, they had to listen to what the young blond man had to say.

'While we fought, you slipped, I heard you saying you want Charles Xavier.' Jean accused him before everyone. 'What for?' she demanded, her mind raising shields as she felt Richards reaching for her knowledge of the professor's whereabouts, she blocked his mental probing.

Franklin moved down from the bridge and approached them. Wolverine snarled and Storm remained guarded as Rogue rushed back to her position. Franklin raised his hands in surrender. 'Handcuff me, contain me in anyway you think appropriate, I won't fight you.' He reassured them as he moved closer to them. Scott's hand was on his visor's button the whole time. 'I attacked only because I was disoriented by the travel.' He actually shot them a sheepish smile, his jaw bloody from the trail of his nose.

'Answer her, why you want Xavier?' Wolverine interfered and Franklin looked at him, crooking his head on one side.

'I need to speak to him,' it was a half lie, Jean was sure, but there was something more there. 'I must inform him of something very important.' Franklin added as he looked at the X-Men around him.

'You asked about Hank McCoy,' Jean added, if the young man wanted, he could simply fight them all, for now at least he was being talkative.

'He will be assassinated on the 18th of May.' Franklin explained coldly, as if simply stating a past event. He tried to invade everyone's minds to get the information he needed but Jean kept everyone concealed.

'By who?' Scott asked this time, his jaw set.

'Polaris,' Franklin answered simply.

'Who?' Storm asked this time and Franklin seemed happy for a moment.

'So I am on time,' he mostly mused to himself, he focused on Jean. 'Currently my seventeen year old self is in a coma in John Hopkins Hospital and will remain there for two more years.' He explained and looked at Jean. 'When you and Hank McCoy visited me to give an opinion to my mother, you told her that when I wake up, the school will be there for me. You had tried to reach me telepathically, we met inside my mind, in my family's vacation home, you asked me to follow you out but I explained to you that I couldn't.' Franklin said and Jean knew he was saying the truth this time. Susan and Reed Richards had asked Jean and Hank's help, years ago, when their oldest child fell in a coma because of his powers manifesting.

Franklin Richards was simply too powerful for his own good and his body had drowned him in a coma that nobody achieved to wake him out of. She had done her best, exactly as Franklin had just described but she hadn't made it to pull him out. Franklin's example was one of the reasons Jean remained awake at night over Hope's possible future with her own powers.

'What will change in two years?' Jean asked and Franklin sighed, showing a vulnerable sign of exhaustion.

'Charles Xavier will have a second stroke, the ripple of his seizure will wake me up in 2025.' Franklin explained and the X-Men seemed unsettled. 'If I am correct, he will have the first one in some days from now, on the 18th of May, plenty of time to stop McCoy's death and all that will follow...' Franklin explained, his eyes filling with worry as he looked at all of them.

All this new information was too much. If they gave him up to the authorities to deal with him, he would probably break out and turn against them all, causing death. If they were to take him with them, they would be bringing him right where he wanted to be, close to Charles. At that moment, Charles was too weak. Jean had seen a glimpse of Franklin's dystopia. She realized the images from her nightmare before were his. She had seen him in that sequence of moments. His dystopia had been shared with Scott because of their link, she could feel her husband thinking among the same lines with her. Jean didn't want to be naïve but she felt like she could trust the young man before her. He had all the desperate reasons to reach them through time, just like Logan had done from his own timeline.

'Scott… everyone's getting impatient outside the dome. We need to decide what to do with him.' Jean sent to Scott as Franklin turned and looked at them.

'I know your daughter, if you don't let me help you… Hope will be in serious trouble in a few years from now.' He added and Jean regarded the young man for a few moments, he seemed honest, guarded mind and all, he seemed true. Jean glanced at Scott who remained looking at the young man although his visor didn't allow the detail.

'Not here,' Scott murmured as he heard Jean's trail of thoughts. 'Can you alternate everyone's mind? Make them forget the fight? Let them feel the presence and that something is off but nothing else, erase the dome and our arrival. The Richards don't need their son's future face plastered all over the news.' Scott told her and she nodded, reluctant to use her powers like that. It was necessary for everyone's sake.

'So we trust the bub?' Logan wondered and Scott shook his head.

'We hear him. We need to leave the center of New York. Even if we give him to the army, he will break out, causing casualties.' Cyclops explained and Logan shrugged in agreement, still eyeing the younger man. 'Do we need to tie you up?' Scott asked Franklin who smiled at the older man.

'I promise I will behave, sir.' He said as they moved towards the Blackbird.

The moment the aircraft went supersonic, everyone behind them were left with the unsettling feeling that something was off, something they couldn't quiet put their finger on.

They all strapped themselves on their seats. Franklin seemed to have been in the Blackbird before. He sat in silence and waited, Jean was glancing at him from her own seat behind Scott, it was safer than actually reaching for his brain as he felt her attempts. He had a small chain around his neck but whatever was hanging from it remained hidden beneath his blouse. Jean wondered for a moment how they will keep him concealed from the press, his own parents and the rest of the world.

'So, what is the date?' Franklin finally asked.

'The 14th of May,' Jean replied simply and Franklin nodded. 'Why was it so important for you to know if I accepted the position as secretary? She tried semi privately, Scott was linked with her.

'Your position as Secretary can save us all.' Franklin only replied and Jean sighed and nodded this time. 'Hope had told me you had accepted to become the Secretary some days before Xavier's first stroke. After McCoy's assassination, they dropped your nomination because of security reasons. It's vital for you to become the secretary, I need to talk to Xavier and we must save McCoy.' Franklin added and Jean reached for Scott this time.

'Don't let him know yet,' Scott sent at her and she nodded and looked back at the main screen and out at the blackness of the night sky.

'Where will we get him? He seems to know the Blackbird, maybe after he wakes up in two years, he actually comes at the school. He gives the mental impression he knows of the mansion's whereabouts.' Jean sent to Scott and saw his head bowing slightly from the seat before her.

'Damn it,' He internally commented for a moment. 'The Danger Room, then, and away from Hope,' Scott sent and Jean agreed, she could feel her husband's annoyance at the man knowing their daughter in a first name basis.

They reached Westchester and Franklin stretched his neck to look through the windows at the mansion. He certainly had been there before, was that longing in his eyes? Jean sighed as the dystopia she had glanced into, made her stomach turn. The basketball court opened up and the Blackbird landed carefully at its spot.

The team came out of the Blackbird, all of them almost circling Franklin who seemed to know where he's going. Jean stretched out her mind and saw that everyone was back in their beds, half of the students were asleep but at least they were all back in their rooms. Hope was asleep.

Scott pushed the button of the Danger Room's concealed door and the team took the signal. They moved with Franklin within it and closed the door behind them and faced the young man. He remained relaxed and in a calm posture although they were basically cornering him.

'Now, take it from the beginning,' Scott demanded and Franklin nodded.

'I need to speak with Charles before anyone else.' Franklin said casually and Scott shook his head. There was no point in hiding the obvious; a simple reaching would give the young man the truth.

'You say he will have a stroke on the 18th, the day Hank will be assassinated.' Jean pointed out and Franklin nodded.

'The shock of McCoy's death was too much for him.' Franklin confirmed, nodding.

'Charles suffered a stroke tonight. The moment you showed up in Central Park.' Scott said and Franklin's eyes filled with horror.

'WHAT?' he demanded and Logan took out his claws in instinct, Storm held his arm.

'Quiet possibly because of the ripple your arrival created. If at your timeline, it was on the 18th, it means his mind was already fragile and ready to suffer the seizure at any moment. Your undue arrival probably triggered the event earlier.' Jean explained and Franklin cursed. Jean didn't let him recover from the news he heard. 'Now we ask the questions or you start talking on your own.' Jean added and Franklin looked at her with angry eyes.

'OK…' he gritted through his teeth. His mind was racing, Jean could tell, but she couldn't possibly penetrate his thoughts and see what plan he was forming with this change of plans.

'Who is Polaris?' Storm asked and this time Franklin looked at her.

'Lorna Dane, the youngest of Magneto's children,' Franklin announced and the team glanced at each other, shock all over their faces. Franklin seemed to expect that. 'He has more children than Peter, two more living daughters, we don't know the mothers.' Franklin explained and everyone tried to leave the shock behind and focus.

'Why will she try to kill him?' Logan asked this time and Franklin sighed.

'Hank was the Secretary of mutant affairs… cure darts, the X-Men working with the government… her father in prison for decades with all his applications for pardon, taken down.' Franklin explained, 'She felt like Hank was the traitor to mutantkind, one of us yet against us.' Franklin added and Logan shook his head.

'As if he got in jail unfairly.' Rogue retorted, in instinct she circled the white strands of her hair.

'In history, he's passed down as a controversial person. In some cases he saved the day, in others he committed crimes against humanity.' Franklin spoke and Scott this time snorted.

'Genosha, Apocalypse, Alkali, Alcatraz, Essex corporations. It's good he remained in jail,' Scott added and Franklin smirked.

'Anyway, I am not here to review history. After Polaris kills the Beast, as I believe you call him, the Congress will stop his nomination of Dr. Grey here to become the Secretary. And you didn't fight against it because you had to find Polaris and only half wanted the position anyway. Problem is, as the Secretary, you can stop some undercover plans of specific people that will try to destroy the mutant kind.' Franklin explained and Jean frowned at him.

'Plans like?' She asked and he sighed and looked away.

'Plans like the corporation of an anti-mutant toxin that will be added in massive consumption products. Within the next fifteen years the mutant birth rate will collapse. They found a way to wipe us out.' Franklin explained and the team fell in silence. Jean herself had researched on accelerating and abating the x-gene. 'Some of the research they based the toxin on was yours indeed. You need to remember the name: Zander Rice.' Franklin told Jean and Logan grimaced as Franklin turned to him. 'You killed his father in Alkali Lake in 1983.' Franklin added.

'Zander Rice worked for the Transigen Project, which sought to curb the spread of mutants on the planet. Using genetically modified food, Rice spread a virus through the population that ended natural mutant births. After the success of the project, Rice initiated a project to create mutant children to sell as weapons known as Weapon-X.' Franklin added, Jean took a shaky breath, bioweapons again, like the ones Essex had bred from her and Scott's DNA. From project Weapon Ω to X in a few decades.

'What all this has to do with Xavier?' Scott asked composed, trying to reach the point. Franklin seemed hesitant to say more.

'Because of his condition… the way opened for the governments to be against mutants again, They used the toxin undercover but even when it was clear that things were turning against us, nobody dared say a thing. All the balance achieved through the years got destroyed by the Westchester Incident.' Franklin announced and Jean shut her eyes at the mention. The images from the nightmare had flooded her mind again. Her teammates dead, Scott in a coma, Charles and Logan on the run. Franklin looked deep into her eyes when she opened them, they looked at each other for a moment longer.

'What condition?' Logan asked and Franklin nodded his head, realizing there was little he could keep from them by now.

'The first stroke was something he recovered from, however his sorrow for McCoy and his old age created more issues. He developed Alzheimer and started having seizures, one of them led to another stroke that woke me up in 2025.' Franklin explained and Jean sighed, reaching for Scott through the link. 'Another followed in 2028, it resulted in an physic attack, that one killed seven of you and injured two hundred people within the school grounds and four hundred more in a radius of kilometers from here. Most of the injured people, humans and mutants alike, were left handicapped or with life-long defects.' Franklin explained and Storm gasped and covered her lips with a trembling hand.

'Oh God,' Rogue whispered in horror.

'Someone took him and left, we never found him again, many believed it was the Wolverine who took him somewhere. Others said he died and you buried him on time to prevent retaliation.' Franklin added, his voice monotonous, for him it was his reality. 'Point is, after the Incident, the X-Men disbanded, the government classified powerful mutants like Xavier as dangerous and their brains as weapons of mass destruction.' Franklin added. 'Same stands for me, you and Hope,' he pointed at Jean with a finger pointed at her, he then turned it towards his own temple.

Jean nodded her head as she looked at Scott, his frown was evident even with his visor concealing his eyes, his hands had turned into fists. 'From the Incident and on… many things happened…awful things… that enabled the Sentinels program to take the Green Light eventually.' Franklin added and the four X-Men who knew of Logan's return looked at each other. Logan's dystopia had become Franklin's.

'Fuck…' Logan cursed and Jean looked at him for a moment. In the nightmare, or the future, she had stricken him across the face and sent him away with Charles. All his struggle to go back to 1973 seemed in vain now. They were meant to suffer at the end, the dystopia felt unavoidable.

'There are many more things that happened, or will happen…' Franklin seemed to be in a monologue, his eyes focused on the ground between him and the team. Jean didn't use her powers, she could see the sorrow. Franklin looked up at them, his eyes clearing. 'But the point is, since the ripple changed the day of the stroke, circumstances will differ. I can't be sure what else might go differently from what I know. The day McCoy is being assassinated you all go at the scene, trying to stop Polaris but at the same time Peter Maximoff will attempt to free his father, and he will succeed because you will be fighting Polaris.' Franklin added and this time most of the team actually groaned.

'Do you have anything good to tell us, bub?' Logan asked in annoyance but Franklin's defeated demeanor made Jean's heart sink. She knew he wasn't exaggerating, she had seen his world, even in glimpses. Before anyone could say another word, Kitty was heard from the speakers of the Danger Room. Jean's stomach dropped as her mind rushed to Hope, she was still asleep, she was ok.

'Guys… you need to see this.' Kitty only spoke and turned on the projection of news on the wall across from the team. They all focused at the news showing numerous bodies on the floor of a high security prison. The plastic cell that had kept Erik Lehnsherr for the past decades was broken, the plastic melted.

'We report that Peter Maximoff along with two female mutants invaded the high security prison twenty minutes ago and achieved to free Erik Lehnsherr, widely known as Magneto. Leaving in their wake more than three casualties and eleven injured people.'

A little bit of history, a little bit of the Logan events, we're building the plot here, it was mostly a filler but i need to show the dynamics between the characters, i hope you like it guys, please let me know of what you think

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