I can see them. I can always see them. The X-Men. Children of the Atom. I see them as they are now, but I have also seen them as they will be. When I saw them at Muir Island, defeating the Marauders and discovering that Moira MacTaggert was the villain Malice, I knew what was soon to come. A mutant from the future appeared to them. It was Henry McCoy, the Beast, asking the X-Men for help in his own timeline. He claimed it was help that only they could provide. Beast, obviously a sincere man, convinced them to journey back with him, after relaying a story of the coming Apocalypse. He told of the mass production of mutant killing robots and the capturing and execution of mutantkind’s greatest leader. He informed them that the threat he needed their help with was a mutant by the name of Proteus, Moira’s own son. Proteus had declared war on humanity and on the mutants that stood in his way of global domination. The tipping point where Proteus began to work on this was when ...

 Hey baby. It’s your girl, Cherry Jackson. I know it’s been a while, but honey I been busy. I’m off the streets these days, sugar. Last year, I got busted while I was walkin. But I’m no dummy. I made a deal with the Five-O. What’s that? Oh no. I’m not doing no time at all. They fitted me with a wire and sent me into that pimp-ass Beno’s place. He was talkin all kinds of jive about the big man. It was like I had the super power of making low lives flap their lips. If I’d known it was that easy, I’d have been off the streets long time ago. So after the blue-light special that took place in front of Beno’s place, and after they booked that muther fu… I know, baby. I’m not supposed to cuss. I just worked it for that creep for so long. I was under paid and overworked, and nothing ever belonged to me. Nothing. Well Cherry Jackson is taking what’s hers now. I did such a good job helping the cops and the FBI bust Beno and that Kingpin, that they gave me a regular gig....