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"It is possible, with my powers," assured Ana. She looked at the boy. "We did. It is strange that they aren't here. Not even him."

The other girl looked around and saw the cave in. "Ana, perhaps they fell through there," said the girl.

"Good. Alex and Sato, go in. Nocturne and Nova, you keep checking everywhere else. Sora, stay with me," ordered Ana.

The boy that was with the wind girl went over to the entrace with Alex. Then a water foutain burst up. Sato and Alex got on and rode the water down.

Meanwhile Sonya and Markus were still going on when Sonya heard the water. "Sounds like someone's coming after us," she said. She began to fly faster. "What do we do Markus?"

Pietro frowned. "I don't buy it," he said, still eying "Ana" suspiciously. "How do we know that you're for real?" he asked.

As if on cue, a few words began to echo through the minds of the X-Men and Brotherhood. The voice was perfectly familiar.

If they are not legitimate, began the telepathic voice of Charles Xavier, Then they are capable of building mental constructs to a degree I've never seen before. Indeed, if they COULD, that would only further prove they were from the future, as Cerebro has never detected a telepath of such skill...

Hmmph, aside from yourself, thought Pietro sarcastically.

Pietro then grew a bit softer as he saw Ana. Indeed, she had grown into quite a beautiful young woman... though there was a sadness to her eyes, and even a bit of coldness. And of course, for her to risk coming back in time, whatever had happened to her must have been horrible. "Ana, what happened?" he asked.

Meanwhile, Sonya would receive a different message from Xavier. Sonya dear... distance yourself from the institute for at least a few hours... you may be in danger, but I dare not say more unless they intercept this... was all she would have heard before his mind went silent, for now...

Penance wanted and didn't want to believe what was going on. Logic wanted her to disbelieve anything here. But when was anything the X-Men EVER faced logical? They've seen everything that shouldn't be possible. She put a hand on Jacen's good arm and without words he held back from what he was going to do.

Penance looked at the girl who had that look in her eyes. The look Penance knew. That look of loss from a long time ago. Penance had that look for years. And for the first time in a long time she took down her own defenses.

Why don't you speak, little girl... The connection was there immediately. She knew it would be. Just the way she and her mother had formed one. She knew herself. Had she children in the future with this ability, she would form the bond as well.

The girl didn't have to tell her anything. Penance saw the visions in her own mind that Alexandria sent to her.

I'm sorry you have to live through such things. Penance was very saddened for the children after seeing what she saw. Wrinkling her brow and looking visibly upset for a moment, Penance looked at Jacen, "She hasn't spoken since her father died and won't now that her mother is gone."

"X-men and children, Come," Penance motioned to the group of people starting to form in the main corridor. She looked at Sasha, Pietro, and Markus and anybody else there who didn't fall under the X-Men title, "All of you come to. Scott can kiss my a**, we're going to the War Room. We can sort this out there. We don't need to be on display."

After some hesitation, she was followed. An ocular scan later, they were in the War Room with Penance sitting at the head. She was the senior X-Man at the moment as non others cared to show up. She glanced around the room knowing that Regina had followed them just not sure where she was at the moment. Penance's fifteen minutes had been up about twenty minutes ago.

"You say that Xavier is in danger and you're after somebody," Penance looked at the group of children, "I'm not here to stop you but before I dive the X-Men into something, I need more details from you. And don't act like you can do this on your own. You may come from a darker future than today, but I know you can use our help."

From the future? The idea hit her like a ton of bricks straight in the face. Had she have never been a mutant and joined up in this evolutionary war, she would never have believed it, but since things hadn't gone that way, she took it in stride and accepted it as the norm.

Under the semi-reluctant orders of Penance, Victoria picked herself off the floor and followed the rest of the students to the War Room, carefully avoiding the large hole in the floor. After the group of them filed into annoyingly shiny room, she took her preffered place in the back of the room. She sighed and flipped little chucks of food from off her sweater while waiting for futher information.

Jacen couldn't help but look at both Alexandria and Evelyn. They both seemed to be feeling each other out slightly, but then when he heard what Evelyn had said when she looked him dead in the eye...it stunned him a bit.

"Her...father..died?," he asked, perplexed, as he felt a gentle squeeze on his shoulder. "How?"

"Not now, Jace," Penance said before she started to take charge of the situation. Another one of those pesky traits of her's that he admired; her courage. Before he knew it, he was trailing the small group of mutants to the War Room. Alex seemed to be walking closer to Penance, like she had more of a connection to her than she did to her father. He didn't know why, but that made him think for a second. Why did he die?; how did he die?; why did he feel sadness and remorse for the girl? Was it because of the way that Penance looked at him? He only saw that look twice that he could remember. The first time, when under Ahab's dominance, he impaled her on his energy blade. The second....after emerging from twenty tons of stone rubble.

To his chagrin, he heard the doors opening to the War Room, and filed in like the rest of them. He looked at Penance and smiled as she took the head seat at the table. Not that it help to flash a smile of reassurance, but he figured it wouldn't hurt either. Naturally, he didn't take a seat at the table. He never did when it was time to formulate attack plans or to partake in a mission briefing. While he hung back, he saw Ana take a couple of steps back towards his direction.

"Does your arm hurt?," she asked.

"A little....but I'll manage," Jacen replied.

"We'll....Alex will need you at one hundred percent," Ana said as she lay her hand on Jacen's casted arm.

"Hey, I just found out I have a kid later on.....don't try to make me feel guilty about any....." He was cut off as he felt odd. Almost out of place, like he was being thrown forward almost. Everything else around him seemed to stand still for the moment. And as quick as it started, it stopped. Everything became normal again, the chattering voices echoed his ears and filled the room.

"You just...."

"Sped time up for you. Jumped you about nine weeks," Ana said as she turned her attentions towards the speaker of the moment.

"Much obliged," Jacen said as he couldn't feel any more pain sitting in his arm. Whatever was there was immediately disappearing and the discomfort was gone. Within two seconds, he was flexing his hand, and working on breaking the cast off. Only cracks appeared, and with the flick of his wrist, he had an energy knife in his free hand, and slicing open the cast. How joyous it felt for him to not have to wear that thing, and he only had it on for less than 24 hours.

Feeling ten times better, he scanned the group of mutants to see Alex looking at him every once in awhile and grinning slightly. He wondered what that was about and absent-mindedly touched his face to his hand. He had a light beard growing in? He was startled for only a second, but realized that it would happen to any guy who didn't shave for nine weeks straight.

Must be how she remembers me?, he asked himself while listening to the conversations melding into one.

Tetsuo walked into the insttute...catching an unexpected scent...not the smell of good food...but of dust. He growled, Looking around cauciously. "What the hell happened" He said, walking further into the building. He remained in human form...waiting for any kind of threat.

Ana sighed. "I was hoping we could skip the story, but you are just as curious as before. We are from the future, about 18 yrs from now. In our time there a huge war has been going on for about 17 yrs. There are three sides. One side, lead by the mutant we are looking for, is a group of mutants who kill humans and mutants. Their leader is terribly strong. Even with my time power, I am unable to stop that kind of power. They are currently traveling across the seas to Europe to conquer more lands. The second side is the humans that hate all mutants. They have nuclear bombs aimed towards the mutants that are coming. But, with some many bombs, it would cause life on the Earth to disappear. The third side, where we come from, is humans and mutants who life in peace. The war began because Xavior, the mutant who would never harm a mutant or human, and President Kelly, the human who doesn't like mutants but would never kill them, have be assainated. We are not sure who exactly the mutant is. Her name changed in the future after she had her children." She looked at Sora and Sato. "But Miss Penny of the future told us we would know once we see her powers."

From listening to all that her future daughter was saying, Sasha was having a really bad feeling about this. Something told her that this would all be connected to her somehow but she wasn't sure how.

Sonya and Markus were able to escape through a sewage tunnel. "This is sooo digusting," said Sonya, as she and Markus were walking through the ecky water. Sonya was conserving her powers ever since Professor Xavior had told her to leave the mansion. "I thought Professor Xavior was gone somewhere," she said. She then saw a rat and screamed. She jumped onto Markus and they both fell through a tunnel. It was much like a water slide. They landed outside. "Eww," said Sonya, "My dress is ruined." Then it began to rain. "Can this get any worse." Unknowling, someone was watching them.

"......" Rasing his head, Kris decides that he should be a more active listener. Straightening and turning, he leans on the left side of the door frame, looking in at the gathered group.
"Well, what kind of power does this individual have?" His voice is quiet, but at the same time, forceful, plesant and kind, all at once. With his left hand, he pushes his glasses further up his nose as he stares levely at the youth of the future. As he waits for a reply, he considers asking what happens to him, but probably, it's better if he doesn't.