Chapter 25: Girl From the Edge of Tomorrow Part One.

Chapter 25: Girl From the Edge of Tomorrow Part One.

Rogue was not the type of girl to get giddy about jewelry but she was going to have to make an exception for today. For right now Harry sat across from her with Kitty and handed Rogue the bracelet before the Goth girl had put on her wrist with a smile. This was one piece of jewelry that she could get behind and really appreciate.

"The charms should hold, the slider can allow you to switch the field on and off at will," Harry informed her as Rogue nodded before Harry continued. "You can also set a passcode if you want to, but it's really down to what you think is easier between that and the slider."

Rogue would have to keep that in mind before she had switched the slider on before she pulled off her gloves. With another motion she put her hands on Kitty's bare face at that point. Kitty smiled at that point before she turned to Harry.

"It works," Kitty answered with a bit of a smile as she looked at Harry but she then hastily amended. "Like it wouldn't work."

Rogue nodded she was completely confident that something like that would work at all times but Harry had pulled her into an embrace. The three of them had a busy day and it was time for all of them to unwind.

Harry cupped Rogue's face before he pulled her into a kiss which Rogue returned at that moment. He kissed Rogue for about twenty seconds before he switched over to Kitty and gave her a long kiss as well. At that moment, Harry switched back and forth to kiss both of the girls before the real fun began.

Smut/Lemon Begins.

Harry cupped Rogue's breasts through her shirt and kissed her as Kitty got down onto her knees and began to yank Harry's pants down. That was not what Harry focused on at the moment as he focused on Rogue's breasts to feel them, touch them, and squeeze them. After a moment of fondling and Rogue's moans, Harry pulled the shirt off to reveal her nice pair of tits.

"Such great tits," Harry told her as he buried his face in between her cleavage and began sucking on it.

Harry's pants were off as Kitty was down between his legs. She watched Harry suck Rogue's tits as Kitty grabbed onto his balls before she fondled them a little bit. Slowly but surely Kitty licked her tongue up and down the length of Harry's cock before she switched tactics to tease the head. All of it felt good to her at this point.

Harry removed his head from Rogue's breasts before he reached over and stripped Kitty's clothes off before he ran his hands all over her tight body. Kitty moaned in pleasure as Harry played with her at this point.

"Yeah Harry, that's it," Kitty breathed before Harry placed her down on the bed before he aimed his cock towards her slit.

He teased the entrance with his head as Rogue stripped off her pants and also pulled down her panties. Rogue sat back and allowed Harry to push his fingers into her cunt. The girl's eyes glazed back in pleasure as Harry pumped his fingers in and out of her willing cunt.

"Oh yes Harry, oh yes," Rogue breathed but she watched as Harry continued to tease Kitty but then he backed off at this point with a mischievous expression in his eyes.

Several ropes wrapped around Kitty and Rogue at this point. The two young mutants were tied up, unable to move, and they were at Harry's mercy. A grin spread across his face as he leaned down to grab both of their wet pussies.

"Harry, this is torture," Kitty begged when Harry cupped her with his hand tightly.

"Yeah, it's called teasing," Harry retorted with a grin as he fingered and played with the two of them while he made sure his cock stayed in both of their lines of sight at all times.

Kitty and Rogue panted and begged for Harry to stick his cock into one of them but after the necessary charms were performed Harry closed his eyes and randomly picked one of the girls who would get his cock buried in her.

Rogue felt a rush of pleasure as Harry pushed into her twat and began to pump in and out of her with expert precision. She managed to raise her hips up as far as she could to meet Harry's incoming strokes. Harry pushed in and out of her as he sawed away at her pussy with his cock, an action that caused Rogue great pleasure.

Kitty had nothing to really complain about for Harry aimed his fingers before he jammed them into her pussy and pumped it inside at the same speed as he had fucked Rogue with his cock. Both of the girls moaned loudly and encouraged Harry.

"Keep doing that.."

"Yeah, fuck me, fuck me hard!"

"Oh, that's just the beginning," Harry grunted as he waited for the magical timer to go off before he pulled out of Rogue, his cock leaving her snug pussy.

With another motion Harry switched over and pushed himself into Kitty's cunt to feel her tightness wrap around him. The pleasure of her pussy wrapped around his throbbing prick was not missed when he pushed hard and fast into her tight pussy.

"So tight," Harry grunted before he began to push in and out of Kitty long and fast. He alternated between two long strokes and a rapid fire succession of five short and fast ones. Harry could tell the desire that Kitty felt as he put one set of fingers in her mouth so she could taste her own juices and kept another set in Rogue's cunt.

"Mmm," Kitty groaned as she slurped her own juices off of Harry's fingers as the two of them tried to struggle in their ropes but they could not get out.

Harry after a time had switched when Rogue had been brought to an orgasm and once again had switched off. This time he had his cock inside Rogue's tight pussy as he thrust in and out of her. He rode her with all it was worth as he finger fucked Kitty on the other end. Rogue got a taste of her own pussy juices.

"You two like eating your juices, don't you?" Harry asked them.

"Yeah, we're dirty little girls, we need to be punished," Kitty breathed as she mentally counted down to when her turn was. For right now she would enjoy Harry's able fingers working her over to send little jolts of magic deep into her to cause her body to fill with warmth.

Harry responded for a second when he ceased all actions and then spanked their tight asses. This had got the desired reaction as he alternated between Kitty's ass and Rogue's ass at that point. He then switched at that point before his cock went into Kitty and his fingers had gone into Rogue's pussy.

As it turned out the more powerful that Harry got, the longer he could keep up this dance, not that his lovers minded being driven to several orgasms per love making session. The fact that he could switch on and off increased the pleasure and gave the pleasure.

"So tight, one of you is going to make me cum, but which one?" Harry asked at that point as he continued to hammer into Rogue who tried to summon all of her energy to her pussy for Harry.

"Cum for me, I need it, shoot that spunk in my twat, sugah," Rogue breathed at this point but her time was up before she could make Harry cum.

Harry switched off before he aimed his cock at Kitty and pushed deep inside her. It was another moment before he sped up and knew his release was about to come.

"Fucking tight, yeah, going to cum, so going to cum," Harry groaned as he speared into Kitty and Kitty did all she could to squeeze him.

"Cum for me, shoot me with your spunk, paint my walls white!" Kitty yelled through the hazed lust that she felt when Harry's cock continued to pummel her tight pussy harder and harder.

These words combined with the collective moans by both of the girls had caused Harry's balls to tighten up a great deal. He knew the end was here as he also made Rogue reach her peak. All three of them were going to cum together as he moved faster and faster.

Three simultaneously orgasms were most certainly a spectacular sight and Harry managed it as his loins blew his love juice deep into Kitty's inner chambers as Rogue came all over his fingers. The three of them collapsed after they came down, all satisfied for this night.

Smut/Lemon Ends. 

Harry sat himself down at a perch point outside of the Danger Room as he watched the latest Danger Room session with the newest mutants. He continued to observe them over the past few weeks. The new mutants did seem to have some raw potential that much Harry was able to find out. The interesting thing was whether or not they would fit into the team dynamic with the senior team members as they got used to working with each other. That was something to consider in the future.

That was a fact that Xavier seemed to not overlook at that point. The Headmaster of the Xavier Institute turned towards Harry at that point before he addressed Harry. "In a few sessions we should attempt to integrate them with the rest of the team training sessions. Some of them might fit in better than others."

Harry went over this theory in his head at this point, he knew that there might be a time where these New Mutants had worked their way to the main team. Kitty, Rogue, and Kurt showed up behind Harry's back with Harry only paying half attention to any of them. The fact of the matter was that their Danger Room training session was about ready to start after the New Mutant training session was over.

"So, do you think that any of them will have the potential to graduate up to the main team?" Kitty asked to Harry which broke him out of his thoughts.

"That's really not my place to say," Harry said at that moment.

"But saying that it was, would you recommend any of them to get the move up?" Rogue asked as she gave Harry a brief smile as a nod before she looked at Harry. "Well?"

Harry had to answer the question in the most honest manner that he could.

"Some of them are progressing better than others but others are struggling a bit with their focus. They know who they are, don't worry. All of them have tried to take my suggestions in mind, but I notice that there are some things that they are doing wrong. And there are some things that we should work on."

Harry turned to his team members as Kurt peered at Harry at this point at time before he shook his head. "You have a better eye for detail than Logan."

"I don't know about that one," Harry responded with a shrug at that point as there was something in the Danger Room when two of the New Mutants had tripped over each other, that being Boom Boom and Iceman. "Yeah, they could work a bit more on their focus, and a bit less on any kind of showing off."

"To be young again," Kitty offered with a whistful sigh.

"Yeah, you at the old age of fifteen, almost sixteen," Harry remarked to her in a teasing voice and Kitty shrugged at this particular statement, shaking her head and taking a long breath before she responded to Harry.

"Okay, I guess I walked right into that one," Kitty answered with a shrug before Harry just smiled back at her with Kitty and Kurt looking amuse.

Logan showed up as he looked at Harry before he offered a rather prominent nod. He knew that he would not be leaving this responsibility in Harry's hands unless he trusted Harry to keep an honest perspective. And Harry was extremely honest, to the point where he was brutally honest to an insane degree. Logan would not go as to say that Harry was harsh. He had said more critical things to the students after all so it would be hard to criticize too much.

Jean popped in out of nowhere right now but she had a bit of a frantic expression on her face. Harry did not pick this up. Scott had followed Jean in and the dark haired young mutant had a feeling that he was about to find out what they seemed so frantic about.

Another figure joined them at this point who had showed himself into the mansion, a man with dark hair with streaks of grey in his head. Kitty, Rogue, Kurt, and Harry all looked curious with the training session in the Danger Room becoming second to the arrival of Reed Richards who had turned to Xavier.

"Doctor Richards, what do I owe the pleasure?" Xavier asked at this point.

"There has been a tear in the time-space continuum, the second in many months," Reed stated without preamble.

Harry stood up to take notice at this little statement from Richards and his mind swarmed with some possibilities. Could it at all be possible that someone else had found a way through? While it did seem to be impossible given what he learned from the Sorcerer Supreme, Harry knew better than else that the improbable can become very probable.

Regardless, his interest was piqued and curiosity bubbled within his mind.

"Did you determine out what had arrived?" Xavier asked as he tried to determine this.

"We believe the tear occurred approximately a month ago but the energy pulse had not been registered to this point," Reed answered as one could almost get a sense that he was making calculations in his head. "It has yet to be determined whether or not that person is friend or foe, or even a person."

Now that was a statement that interested them at this point, Harry more so, but Kurt, Kitty, Rogue, Jean, Scott, and even Logan looked up at that moment. Jean saw Reed and Xavier go off before she turned to Harry.

"So what do you think, Harry?" Jean asked curious about Harry's input which Scott noticed.

"I don't know, whoever came through could be dangerous," Scott responded as he seemed rather tense.

"Or it could be someone who might need our help," Kurt chimed in at this point.

Harry would have to consider all sides of the argument nice and hard, there was a chance that this person did in fact need their help. In fact, Harry shook his head and tried to figure out who had come through. There were countless possibilities, many of them Harry could not even begin to consider, with many, many angles.

Could it be...no Harry wasn't going to even get his hopes up for that one. Although why he would arrive later than Harry, he had no clue.

"I don't really know," Harry said at this point as without more information it was really hard to tell.

"I'm sure we're get sucked into it eventually, whatever it is," Rogue offered with a smile crossing her face as the Danger Room had stopped.

'X-Men, report to me, the training session for today has been delayed, we have a situation that needs prompt attention,' Xavier projected to them mentally as the team had moved over to join them.

Harry, Jean, Scott, Kurt, Kitty, and Rogue walked out with Logan shooing the new mutants out of the Danger Room.

"We believe our mysterious visitor and the telepath that meddled in the Brotherhood's friends might be one and the same," Xavier responded as he looked at the X-Men at this point as he turned to Reed who offered them a polite nod. "Doctor Richards has data that we want to take a look at, and we need to find this visitor before anyone else does."

'That much is for sure,' Harry thought who remembered the attention that he had received when he had popped out of where he was to here. He did not relish having anyone going through that ever again.

Mystique drummed her fingers on the chair that she sat on deep within the lab as she wondered what she had done to get sucked into this particular situation. The shape shifter mutant took a long and deep breath before she leaned forward at this point. The door of the lab opened before Mister Sinister entered the lab with a malicious expression flickering through his eyes. The eyes of Sinister were crazed before they snapped towards Mystique.

There was so much one could figure out from the eyes of Sinister and none of those things were that good. Mystique shuddered at that point when the woman thought about this man and what he was capable of at this point. The woman shook her head with a long sigh before putting her hands on the table and she snapped her eyes towards the face of Sinister.

"What do you want?" Mystique asked at that point as she knew fully well that Sinister was about to enlighten her and sure enough his mouth opened to inform her what he did want.

"The time for my plan grows near but a potential problem manifested herself in the world," Sinister responded at that point. "One of my agents has detected a mutant of great power who turned out. It was almost as if she appeared out of nowhere."

Mystique's face contorted into a fury as the last mutant that had shown up out of nowhere led to a bit of a problem for her and had foiled so many plans. She personally blamed him for what happened on that Asteroid and this latest situation that she was put on at this point. Magneto was still out there, she knew it but Sinister had a grander plan that she could barely fathom.

All Sinister would tell her that he was in contact with some believers for a cause that was far deeper than anything Magneto could ever dream upon. A force who hoped to bring Earth to it's greatest prominence.

"She's an asset," Sinister answered at that moment as he peered out the lab window with a sadistic glint in his eyes. "She's going to be an issue for certain but only if the X-Men reach her."

Sinister stepped around as he had checked out the printouts that he had. Mystique noticed that he had the DNA of several powerful mutants on file both those who lived and many who had passed on. It seemed as if many of them had died at the hands of Sinister himself when he had gotten his hands on them and experimented on them.

"I believe it is time to allow Charles to know that this game has much higher stakes than a ceasefire with Magneto," Sinister responded as his eyes flickered off to the side.

He had been biding his time for years and year, ever since the end of the second world war when his experiments had ended. There was no need to be as active. The growing prominence of mutants had presented himself the right opportunity to step forward and take advantage of them. Not to mention the fact that Xavier gathered students for his school which piqued Sinister's interest and allowed him to consider the potential consequences.

Of course there was another thing Sinister was intrigued by that he would help release when the time was right. This individual would ensure that survival of the fittest remained to be something that was the ultimate truth in this world. The demented Darwinist allowed himself a moment to consider all of the possibilities of what was on the line before he turned forward.

"I believe it's time to send an army to intercept the X-Men before they find our runaway telepath," Sinister added with malicious intentions in his voice but Mystique just seemed eager for a chance at redemption.

"Just say the word and I will take down the X-Men."

Sinister shook his head from side to side before he clasped his hands together in malicious fury.

"No, while your lust to prove yourself is commendable, I require you to remain here and not allow Xavier to know of our alliance until the time is right. Until it is much too late for him to do anything."

A malicious grin spread over the face of Sinister before he exited the lab to leave Mystique in his wake. He moved through the corridors and down a set of stairs before he arrived at the bottom of them.

A group of sadistic mutants waited for Sinister, a group that was after Sinister's own heart and the demented Darwinist took a moment to survey the team that he had put together. It was time for them to step out and intercept the X-Men before they could find the telepath. She was too much of an asset for someone like Xavier to squander.

"Marauders, you have your orders."

The group of sadistic mutants nodded at this point, they were quite the nasty crew.

The first mutant was a dark haired mutant named Arclight who had a sadistic ability. With a wave of her hands she was able to create seismic waves that could utterly demolish everyone and everything in her path.

The second mutant stood large, bald, and ugly as he cracked his knuckles. This mutant had strength that could stand toe to toe with even the Incredible Hulk. His name was Blockbuster, who was ready to do some damage for his master, Mister Sinister.

The next mutant was a young man with purple hair who carried a spear in his hand. This young mutant was named Harpoon as he could charge that weapon and any other with an energy that could destroy anything that it touched.

The fourth mutant was a young man who could spin himself at super speeds and fling metal objects at his enemies. The mutant went under the moniker of Riptide and he could destroy anyone who stood in his way.

The fifth mutant was a woman who had long green hair and was dressed in a green bodysuit. Her name was Vertigo and she could induce dizziness with her powers.

"Yes, we have our orders," Vertigo responded as her eyes snapped towards her master like the obedient dog that she was. "And should the X-Men get in our way, there is not a single one of them that can stop us."

Blockbuster grunted in response as Arclight, Harpoon, and Riptide all nodded side by side. The five Marauders might have been outnumbered by the X-Men in quantity but Sinister was confident that his Marauders were in better stock than the X-Men. Soon the strong would survive and those who would not be worth would be perish at that point.

"So it begins, the end," Sinister responded as he waved his Marauders off to track down this young telepath and intercept the X-Men.

Nick Fury studied one of the pieces of the gem that he obtained at that moment but if there were any more, Shield had not found them as of yet. Something like this, Fury need not leave any stone unturned when he continued his search for the mystic gems. It was important for them to locate it before any unsavory forces could track it down. The Commander of SHIELD spun around to read the energy readings that had popped up a couple of weeks ago.

Two of his field agents showed up to walk up towards the commander with an apologetic look on both of their faces. Fury knew the looks that were on those faces immediately, he sensed that there might have been a problem.

"You lost her, didn't you?" Fury asked without preamble and they nodded in an apologetic manner. "She has to be found."

Fury did not really have to tell his agents how important it was to find this particular individual, because they could already tell by his tone. There were many unsavory forces out there that were getting closer to snatching her up as well. The SHIELD commander looked out into the horizon and he could realize that there was some kind of storm brewing although what it was he did not know.

All Fury could tell was things had gotten far more complicated than just a couple of crackpots with a lofty goal of world domination. That was something that Fury could handle but for some reason the entire apple cart had been upset to a degree that Fury had not really seen in an extremely long time. He tapped his fingers on the side of the window.

"We're picking up another reading," one of his men had stated at this point before Fury's one eye was on the entire team. "Whoever she is, she's making her way towards that school of Xavier's."

"She's been lurking around for months, and now she just decides to pop up there, I don't understand it at all," Fury responded in a gruff tone of voice before he shook his head. It was best not to really worry about that as of now. The SHIELD commander took a moment to allow himself to return to a situation where he would be able to control what was transpiring once again. He knew what he had to do now. "Keep monitoring her, do not let her out of her sight and send for the Widow."

Fury had said all these orders without even taking the slightest breath before the SHIELD agents ran off to do what he said. He continued to make his rounds around the floors with his hands behind his back. One eye was on everything but given that was all Fury could spare that was just as well. The SHIELD director crossed his arms before his face twisted into a grimace. The incident at Asteroid M just scraped the surface of what was possible to say the very least. Fury tapped his foot on the floor and looked over his shoulder.

"You wanted to see me, Commander Fury."

Fury spun around to see a tall women with long red hair who there in a skin tight black cat suit. Fury's eyes took a moment to look at her. She was one of the top spies in SHIELD, her name was Natasha Romanov but she was best known under her codename, the Black Widow. Fury nodded in response as he looked over her.

To be honest, Fury preferred to put her on the Potter case a number of months ago given her ability to obtain information even when the subject was difficult. However, she was currently on another mission that Fury could not pull her off of so he had to settle with Barton. Fury scrambled for every single bit of information, every morsel that he could gobble up and the Commander of SHIELD took a moment to cross his arms.

"Yes, Widow, I did," Fury responded when his arms had been crossed before he pointed to a map where a blip had blinked. Black Widow's eyes turned to the map while she knew that Fury was about to explain everything to her. "Three weeks ago, a second tear opened as another force had dropped down. This was much like the Harry Potter case but so far we have not been able to track her down."

Black Widow took a moment to allow these words to sink in before she faced Fury.

"She could be more able to hide herself than the other one was," Black Widow responded in a crisp voice.

"Yes, she is likely more able which is not something that should give SHIELD any room to breath," Fury responded before the director proceeded to pace back and forth as he drew a bit of a breath within himself and shook his head. "The fact of the matter is that she's on her way to see the X-Men and if you monitor them, you'll find out what her stake in this entire mess is."

Widow nodded, she had enjoyed a challenge, that was one of the reasons that she sighed on for SHIELD and her eyes focused on Fury's one eye, not taking her eyes off of him for an instance, not blinking either.

"I trust you understand what is at stake with all of us," Fury continued as his eye was on the Black Widow. It was all seeing, all knowing, and the Black Widow felt as if she was always under evaluation when Fury looked at her. "SHIELD has much on the line in this situation and if we are caught in this mission, then everything will be jeopardized."

The Black Widow carefully looked over the print out of the recent missions that the X-Men seemed to be entangled in along with, and she offered her honest observation towards Fury.

"It appears that Mr. Potter has some kind of sixth sense that allows him to determine deception," Black Widow commented lightly as she paused and chose her next words carefully. "Naturally this makes it all that more difficult and increases the need for stealth."

"I have the utmost confidence that you will exhibit stealth, Widow," Fury answered briskly before the Black Widow spun around as she had walked off and quickened her movements to the nearest exit.

All Fury could do at this present time was wait and see how this situation would go. The Black Widow would gain the necessary information to report back to him but at the same time Fury would keep a delicate distance and continue to find out what the best course of action was.

"She seems to be moving rather fast, almost in an erratic manner."

These were the words that Charles Xavier stated in conclusion to his musings when the entire team of X-Men had crowded around. The New Mutants were not involved due to being merely students and not full term X-Men.

Going through everything in his mind Harry detected that this person, whoever she was, was trying to get their attention. Exactly what her reasoning was, Harry could not really say what her game was. However, there was just something that had stood out to him like a sore thumb as Xavier printed out a line up at this point. The team moved over to take a very close look at everything.

"There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern," Kitty responded in confusion but Harry just shook his head. "Really, because if there is a pattern, I don't see it."

Harry decided to enlighten his girlfriend on the matter along with the rest of the team before he took a deep breath. The dark haired wizard magically copied the print out at this point and he had looked at him. The dots showed where the energy spikes had been found as Harry's curiosity peaked and heightened. With a quick movement, Harry traced over the dots one at a time.

It was a few movements later before Harry had managed to connect the dots in more ways than one. Rogue and Kitty had noticed what Harry was doing first. It seemed like his ability to find patterns that no one else could did not extend to just physical fighting, it extended to other matters as well.

"So, you're saying that arrow is pointing to where she'll turn up?" Kurt asked at that point.

"I don't know, it seems almost too easy," Scott responded as he spoke up for the first time.

"That's exactly why I'd agree with Harry, there's a pattern that she's trying to point us in the right direction of," Jean commented at that point before Kurt was the next one to pipe up.

"And maybe a trap?"

The X-Men all stiffened at the thought of this new person having shown up potentially leading them into a trap. Xavier took a moment to ponder the situation when he looked at his students before he shook his head.

"It could very well be a trap, but is it a trap that's intended for us?" Xavier mused to them before the entire team looked at him.

"What do you mean, Professor?" Kurt asked at this point.

Before Harry could answer, Scott was the one that chimed in. "She's trying to get someone else's attention but exactly who, that's the problem."

Harry was willing to concede that point to Scott that could potentially be the case. While they could find the pattern that this young girl had put in, actually trying to piece together her intentions was another matter entirely as they only had the data that Reed Richards had given to them to point them in the right direction.

Now that they had been pointed in the right direction the team found themselves ready and able to go. The X-Men prepared to go off before Harry had stopped and voiced something that had been on his mind.

"We're not going to be the only one's that are going to pick out this pattern," Harry remarked for a moment and the X-Men all nodded when they realized where Harry was coming from.

"Do you really think that the Brotherhood could have figured out something like this?" Jean asked at that point.

"Could be something to watch for," Scott answered as Jean had given him a stiff and diplomatic nod. "We need to work together in case someone tries to attack us before we reach her."

Something in the back of Harry's mind wondered if there was someone who was far more dangerous than the Brotherhood that they had to worry about. The Brotherhood had given them a few anxious moments but there were other people out there that were far more dangerous than they could ever hope to be. The young man wondered if they were about to run into another problem. Something that was sinister could be in fact be in the air and it was far more dangerous than anything that they had ever battled against previously.

Then there was the fact that Nick Fury and the rest of SHIELD were out there. If Harry knew Fury, he had his eye on the situation likely long before anyone had found out about this. That was just what the Director of SHIELD was like, he was able to obtain information that other people had tried to keep hiding. Fury was annoyingly resourceful.

That fact both annoyed Harry and caused him admiration as the team had boarded with determination on their faces. They had weathered many battles before but this one just seemed to be different somewhere. For some reason, there seemed to be even more on the line then there was before.

As it turned out, Harry was not the only one who had felt that there was something sinister in the air. Jean had felt a feeling of dread and felt compelled to tell her teammates. Those thoughts had gone through her head as the red head telepath had leaned forward and voice them to her entire team.

"We should be careful, there is something out there, and I don't like it. Call it a mad hunch."

"No not bad, there's likely something dangerous out there," Harry answered at that moment before Kurt had to voice the question that had entered many of their minds.

"But is it the person we're going for or is it something else?"

"We'll worry about that when we get there," Scott answered at that point as the team looked from him before they looked at Harry.

Harry remained silent for a little bit but he did not say much of anything. His mind was a different matter as it worked rather carefully as it reached a certain conclusion. They were going to find out what was going on one way or another before too long. Something told him that they might not like the answers when they happened.

Rachel Grey waited in an abandoned grocery store in Bayville that was set for demolition years ago. She knew that her antics would have gotten the wrong kind of attention but she had to get the attention of the X-Men. It was important that they talked to her. In hindsight, she supposed that she should have tried to head to the Mansion that way but what was done was done. In the future that she came from, trust was not something that happened.

Especially given that there may or may not be a traitor in the midst of the X-Men that could have betrayed the entire team to lead to the domino effect that formed the future. Rachel thought about that long and hard, while she would like to believe that all members of the team were trustworthy there was a huge part of her that offered some doubt. It was more of a wait and see situation to be honest.

She heard the sound of the jet that stopped outside but would it be the jet for the X-Men or would it be a jet for someone else. Rachel would wait to see as she hid behind a shelf and just prepared herself for the very worst. The young mutant girl's heart thumped against her chest as she heard a creaking sound and voices.

The doors blasted open and Rachel peered through the shelve space to see the X-Men arrive sure enough. That was a good sign that someone else had not found her first. The entire trip to the past had rattled her mind and it was really something to see a world where she did not have to run from everything.

Rachel peaked out at that moment.

"I think I heard someone."

Rachel cursed at that point, she was being careful but she supposed that she should have been a lot more careful. Nineteen, going on twenty years old, and she should have learned to be a bit more careful. Yet there were sometimes where she was annoyingly careless to the point where she just wanted to hit herself.

"We come in peace," Harry said as he took the opening to talk to the person.

There was a moment's of pause where everyone was silent.

"Unless you want to attack us, then you're really kind of taking your chances," Kitty added at this point as she got her share of strange looks from her teammates. "Well they kind of are taking their chances just being here with all of the attention they're attracting and stuff."

Kitty took a moment to take a deep breath as she saw the red haired girl walk out. She was taken aback when she saw how much she resembled Jean, sure her hair was shorter and she had a few small scars on her face, but it was nothing that detracted from her looks too much. The other team members had hitched in a deep breath before she looked at them.

Harry was the one who had broken the silence. "Who are you?"

The red hair girl looked at them with an apprehensive look in her eyes, with Harry able to tell one thing. She was someone who had come from a tough background and life. "My name is Rachel. There's no need for you to tell me who you guys are. You're the X-Men, Cyclops, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, and…um Arcane."

"Phoenix?" Jean asked in a surprised voice, confused at what this girl told her.

Rachel suddenly had her eyes widened. "Oh, that didn't happen yet, did it?"

"What didn't happen yet?" Jean asked as she wondered if something bad had happened by the way this girl was now not quite meeting her eyes. She had serious questions about this girl's sanity as well because quite frankly she had no idea what she was blathering on about.

Harry decided to take control of the situation by he took a step forward and looked at the young girl. Rachel took a step back at that moment but she relaxed when she saw that they were not going to jump the gun and attack her.

"Look, Rachel, where did you come from?" Harry asked as he looked at the redhead girl who offered a sigh at this moment.

Rachel took a moment to look at Harry and the rest of the team as she looked like a deer in the headlights before she shook her head. The girl recovered rather quickly before she decided to keep all emotion out of her eyes when all of these people were seen alive. Then she spoke in a calm voice.

"Trust me, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Rachel got her share of strange looks at this point but Kitty just gave her a reassuring smile before she spoke. "Trust me, after all of the things we saw, there isn't much that surprises me."

"You can say that again," Kurt commented as he remembered everything that he had encountered in his short time as one of the X-Men.

Rachel calmed herself down and offered a bit of a smile but she was really reluctant. It was once again hard to look these people in the eyes given what she experienced. She recovered rather quickly before she opened her mouth to speak.

Suddenly the windows of the store blew open with a huge explosion that send glass flying in every single direction. Harry raised his hand to block the glass from cutting into them before he transfigured the glass into feathers and caused it to harmlessly drop to the ground in one fluid motion.

Now the X-Men were on their toes, and Rachel was included in this. Her worst fear had come true, she was about ready to try and help them fight off this threat, whatever they were.

Suddenly an energy wave had struck the entire team before they could make any move and dropped them to the ground. The entire group had felt rather dizzy, their equilibrium having been thrown completely off.

"I think I'm going to hurl," Kitty managed as her hands twitched and she tried to get back to her feet but she collapsed. Her knees wobbled a little bit.

Harry tried to find a way to block these attacks as he struggled to aim right but he was visited by a bout of double and triple vision. The young man tried to pull himself up and down as his legs twitched a little bit more. He discovered one important thing at this point; magic was rather hard to do when visited by a random bout of vertigo.

The wave seemed to effect the inner ear and cause illness as the X-Men were on the ground.

The doors burst opened and five figures entered the store to look down at the X-Men.

The group was ripe for the pickings as the Marauders moved in to finish them off. They would bring their corpses back to Sinister to harvest their DNA. The sadistic army of mutants walked over to rip them apart to destroy these X-Men and they were going to take their sweet time to enjoy doing it.

There was one thing for certain, they were not the Brotherhood, this was something new and something dangerous. And something that intended to kill them.