"Sigh."
"How long do you intend to just mope around like that?" Illyana asked me with a glare, looking irritated; which was a first as I had yet to see such a mundane emotion from her. My answer to her question?
"...sigh."
"You're not even actually sighing anymore! You just say the word!" Huh, so Illyana's ears go red when she gets too irritated, it was kind of cute. Such a shame that I wasn't in a state to enjoy it.
"I can't help it, I feel so lonely and depressed without Skaar." I said with sad eyes as I tried to convey my sorrows to Illyana, hoping that she would understand my pain.
"It hasn't even been a day since he left." Which was rather dumb, now that I think about it; expecting sympathy from the girl who grew up in a literal hell. "Honestly, I thought you grew up on a planet of barbarians and were separated at birth. The fuck did you do before meeting your brother?"
"I searched for my brother." I replied without much thought. "I have been aware of his existence from the time we were in mother's womb. We are connected in a way hard for others to understand. A connection that has grown even more firm after we obtained the Old Power for ourselves." And it had been glorious. The sensation of the whole planet under my feet, billions of souls moving around with their inconsequential lives and yet my brother alone shined like a star to my senses. Shame that everything had went to shit not soon after that with Galactus eating our planet and mother banishing us to earth and all.
"To think that this and the guy who was bitch slapping Osborn around the island are the same person."
"You talk like anyone in this place wouldn't bitch slap that overgrown tick around for funsies. And because of how ugly his hair is."
"His hair is ugly." Illyana said with a sagely nod, making me wonder why everyone else were so scared around her. She wasn't that different than others when she didn't remind them how she had grown up in hell with her dark humor.
"Seriously, there is no way that shit can be nat-" I suddenly stopped as my eyes widened and got up to my feet with a jump. "Something's wrong with Emma."
"...what?"
"No time to explain!" I yelled as I raised my hand and created a portal. "Come with me!" And then jumped through it to the Cerebro chamber. Coming face to face with Scott holding Emma in one arm and ready to shoot a blast until he realized it was me.
"What are you doing here?"
"I sensed something happened to Emma." I said as I knelt beside the unconscious telepath. "What happened to her?"
"See for yourself." Scott said as he pointed up at the holographic planet above us.
And the red dots on it.
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"We need to go now!" Hope yelled as he slammed her hands down on the table.
"No one is saying otherwise Hope, we simply..."
"No! We need to go! I need to go!" The redheaded mutant yelled at Beast, who had just been trying to calm her down. "This is why I'm here! This is why Cable saved me!"
Scott couldn't help but flinch at the mention of his son... from his kind-of-granddaughter. God, things had been so much simpler before time travel.
It was a hard pill to swallow, the fact that his son had apparently died while sending Hope back to their time. Something that she did not seem to be taking well either with how desperate she looked right now but she wasn't wrong.
Hope was the spark, the spark that was meant to reignite the flame of mutantkind throughout the world after the tragedy of the House of M; the first mutant born since that day. That was the whole reason Cable was the one to raise her, in order to protect her from all those who would wish to extinguish her spark and bring the symbolic end of their race.
Though... there was a part of him wondering how much of that still held true as he looked at Kala at the corner of the room, leaning against the wall.
It was hard to remember sometimes due to how he looked but the son of Hulk too was a mutant born after the House of M, even if Scott wasn't sure how exactly he and his brother had aged so fast. Unfortunately he couldn't be sure whether it was Hope or Kala who was born first.
Not that it mattered since the rest of the world, and by world he meant bastards like the Friends of Humanity, thought of her as the one that would bring back the mutants so she needed their protection; more so than an average mutant at least.
"There are five different mutants on Cerebro, I doubt that you can go to them all at the same time." Kala said with a snort, making the redhead girl glare at him. "The obvious solution is to split and go to all of them at once, if not then just with more than one group."
"Kala is right, we need to get to them as soon as possible." Scott said with a nod before turning to Hope and pausing for a moment before sighing. "Hope, you're coming with me and Logan. We'll go to the signal at Nigeria. Kitty, Piotr and Kala will go to the signal at Ukraine. The rest will stay here in Utopia in case someone tries to attack us." He said before getting up and walking out of the room with Hope coming behind him.
It was time.
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