I'm skipping over a lot here, but my last position at home was training the next generation of mutants with Piotr. We had a small group. They were a couple years younger than me, but without the experience.
Magneto came to us with a mission. He's the leader of the X-Men...at least where I'm from. He'd met a man who claimed to be from another version of our world. He said Magneto's friend, Charles Xavier, was never supposed to die, and because of that everything else had gone wrong. Apocalypse wasn't supposed to be in power. The cullings never happened. The rad zones. Mass graves. Genetic processing plants… None of it. Magneto had the story checked out as well as he could with our resources and he put a plan in motion to reset our timeline.
Just… undoing our lives like we were some kind of failed video game.
[She takes a breath.] From us he needed someone with temporal abilities to work with the crystal that was the key to redoing everything. Apocalypse was big on eliminating mutants with telepathic and temporal abilities. Nothing that could threaten what he'd built…destroyed. However you want to look at it. Know-it-all managed to find one though. Illyana Rasputin. Piotr's little sister. He thought she wad dead, but she was in a labor camp prison. Magneto sent us to get her.
Six went in. Three came out.
Not much point mourning people who were about to be erased anyway I guess… [She still does. He can probably hear the lighter clicking on her side. Time for a smoke.]