Current Timeline

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Part one

After Charles departed from the vivid world of Ciara’s mind, Chibi Sin sighed. He put down the red and black tea cup and wandered down the hall of books. He stopped part way, just about the spot Charles had and grew into a very tall and slender version of himself.

With his long and thin fingers, he pulled the book from the top shelf and ran his fingers along the smooth leather cover. It was a small book compared to the others and was as black as night but the title was as clear as day; Age of Apocalypse.

Out of all the books Charles could have pulled, it had to be this one… All these books, they were filled with knowledge. Knowledge, Ciara had learned over the incarnations of her life. There was a small section of his own but this book… This was a bit different.

It wasn't knowledge but more of a tale… A rather grim and sad tale.

It was about the 70th try, Horatio had gotten himself drunk, filled with grief over the last life, how Ciara kept turning into a monster. He wanted to try something new… something different. Max tried to make him see reason but Horatio had already vanished into another timeline…

It wasn't the usual set up. This world was grim, a mix up of people from different eras living at the same time together. They nabbed him before he knew what was happening… It was only all was said and done that Max was able to pull him out of this world... But because he went there, Ciara had to follow…

The mutant known as Apocalypse had risen up and taken cover the global. Mutants were the dominate race and all obeyed and followed Apocalypse. He was their king, their god.

Phillip McHale worked alongside Hank McCoy. They were partners; experimenting on mutants to learn as much as they could. And they worked under Apocalypse’s approving hand.

One day, Phillip took a jet to another one of their labs. He had been acting very strange, almost… like he was in love.

“I’m going to meet her today, Hank.”

Hank chuckled, “And who might she be?”

“The woman who will make me a better man.”

Phill’s jet never made it to the lab. It was blown off course and crashed in what was known as the Savage lands; A strange and mystical place, where mutant powers and electronic devices don’t work. Something to do with the magnetic fields in the area. Phil could remember coming to, a spear at his throat and the one holding it… She took his breath away. Long braided red hair, and eyes like the sea. His future wife. A human

She took him back to their camp. They were the last of the free humans. There weren't many humans left to begin with. They were mostly kept as pets, slaves…
They argued of what to do with him, if others would come but Phillip was able to convince them he meant no harm. That no one would find him. He became their doctor, proving himself useful. He ended up married and having a happy baby girl. A human, just like her mother.

She didn't survive giving child birth. So Phil had to raise Ciara as best she could. Teaching her everything he knew, math, science, how to defend yourself against a mutant. Phil’s powers no longer worked so he could have never seen what was coming. All he had been dreaming of was the day he would meet the love of his life…

The rivers in the Savage lands dried up one day, something was preventing the water from coming. Phil begged her not to go but she was so much like her mother, a hunter, a warrior, a survivor....

Age of Apocalypse

Part 2
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Besides, Wayne was with her. That man had earned himself a nickname… The Bat. He’d traveled outside the Savage lands before; For supplies. Bandages and first aid equipment didn’t grow on trees. Wayne would be gone for months at a time. He had to travel far as not to attach attention to their homeland.

Ciara, Wayne, Dick, Robin and a couple others made their way through the forest and out of the savage lands. They traveled for days till they came to it. A dam. The mutants were building a big base of some kind around it; maybe a lab. It was when Wayne sent her off to scoot that things got ugly.

She returned about 10 mins later to find a blood bath before her. There were casualties on both sides. Just because they were human, didn’t mean that they hadn’t found ways of defending themselves.

Wayne threw a dart at one of the mutants who fell straight to the ground, he turned, noticing Ciara and kicked the large mutant over, knocking some debris in front of the vent.

“no. No.” She whispered, trying to push the piece of concrete out of her way.

She could see out of a crack. Wayne yelled for Robin and Dick to flee and covered them. But they didn’t make it far. Ciara felt her hands shaking as they lined the three of them up, hands bond on the ground.

A man with a visor across his face walked up to Wayne and pushed him in the face, “That’s for Storm you bastard… Emma. Why couldn’t you detect them coming?”

A woman in all white approached and cupped Wayne’s face, “A good question. It seems their minds are shielded by…” She pulled the ear cuffs from Bruce’s ears, “These.”

“So who are you huh? Some slaves who got away?” Scott questioned as their earrings were removed.

“You wish, one eye.” Robin barked.

“Robin.” Wayne warned.

“They’re…. not slaves.” Emma tilted her head in curiosity and walked toward
Robin, still not being able to read Wayne’s mind. “They’ve…” She smiled sweetly, “Have their own little town,” She knelt down running a hand along his cheek, “Filled with filthy little humans… Tons of them.”

Robin pulled his face away and rubbed his face against his shoulder, “You don’t know nothing about us! You’re monsters!” He yelled.

Ciara pushed harder, “Robin… don’t do it.”

Emma turned, “Hmmm… I guess we-“ She turned, “NO!”

Robin bit into the pill and fell over dead, foam coming from his mouth.

Age of Apocalypse

Part 3
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The mutants tackled the two remaining bond humans and made sure they couldn't also kill themselves.

"Logan." The one with the visor called out. "Find anymore?"

Another mutant, this one was shorter than the others and was smoking a cig, "...No." He sniffed, standing just before the clearing.

"What is it?" Emma asked, having given up on reading their minds for now.
"There's another scent, female... But it stops here at the bushes."
"Must have been because of those smoke like bombs this one threw." Scott stated, kicking his foot into Dick's back.
"So you brought a little she savage with you? Where'd she run off to hm?" Emma asked, tilting Dick's head up.

Dick didn't respond and his mind was rambling nonsense. She frowned, "Not what I wanted to hear. Take them away. I'll call the girls in... We'll have you two talking before sun down tomorrow."

"Search the area. She couldn't have gotten far." Scott ordered as the others dragged the two humans off.

For the longest time, Ciara didn't move. Her mind blanked, frozen in horror. The worst had happened. They had been discovered and most of them killed. It wasn't till they grabbed Robin by the leg and started dragging him off that she retreated into the vent and back into the mutant base.

She spend hours calming herself down. Till she finally got the courage to go and try and rescue her friends. It was very late when she dropped down into the empty control room. She stared for several mins, trying to remember all her father had taught her about computers.

She reached forward and tapped a button. Nothing... She tapped a few more. The screens lit up and a woman's voice sounded, 'Unknown personal. Scanning. Scanning.'

Ciara froze as a green light wrapped around her.

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He hummed away to the music, Johann Sebastian Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd movement, Largo Ma Non Tanto) to be exact. He lifted his scalpel filled hand and waved it a few times before cutting back into the brain of his latest experiment. A cut here, a poke there....

He looked up as a rather loud male computer voice rang out, "Match found. 63% match found." He put down the scalpel and snapped his gloves off. He walked up to the big computer and pulled his goggles back, "63%?" He mumbled to himself. Quickly, he typed away. The match was coming from the new lab/ base Scott was building down south.

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"Scan complete...Error- error- er- restarting program. Closest match found. Access granted." The computer stated, several windows opening up.

Ciara sighed, sweating bullets. "That was weird... ok... layout... layout... cameras..." She typed away, using her two index fingers clearly never really used a real computer before. "Should be... in this folder?... no. Ah here we go."

The camera behind Ciara turned itself on.

Beast looked on, "...It can't be..."

Ciara turned toward the camera and having noticed it, threw a boomerang at it. The camera cut in and out but stayed online just long enough to watched Ciara jump back up into the vents.

Beast pushed a button on the console, "Mrs. Potts, get the jet ready. I'm heading to the new lab..." He stated, staring at the frozen image of Ciara.

Age of Apocalypse

Part 4

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Ciara scrambled back into the vent and stayed there for a few mins... No one came so she climbed back out and tried her best to locate Bruce and Dick. After several tries she managed to get a camera on them.

'Don't worry guys... I'm coming."
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"What do you mean he's coming?" Scott barked, his arms crossed in frustration. Great, now he'd have the big blue wonder to deal with as well. He's sent Logan off to follow their trail back. Perhaps locate this settlement.
"Hey, I'm just the messenger man." Toad said panicky, waving his hands back and forth.
"Get back to your post, Toad and open a channel to headquarters... If what Emma's read was true... we have a settlement to destroy-" Scott turned noticing the Blob was looking at something. "Oi! Who told you to stop cleaning up this mess? It'll take days to repair this mess."

Blob had moved the the rumble from the air vent. "Ummm.... The cover is off." He pointed at.

"How is that a shocker? We were fighting. It got damaged and-" Scott got a better look at the vent. No... the screws had been REMOVED not snapped off. Scott smirked, "Blob, I owe you a cake..."

Althought this facility was still under construction, it appeared they had finished the prison cells for animals and guinea pigs fairly early in it's construction. And even though it was rather new, the large long room was damp and covered in water puddles. Clearly someone was still working on the pumping as well.

Dick looked up, hearing the call of a grey wagtail bird His arms were bonded to the wall and chains linked his legs. He swallowed hard, a bit of thickened blood going down his throat as he returned the bird call.

A few seconds later a red head girl appeared out of the shadows and rushed over to him.

"You should have run for it." He whispered softly as she cupped his bruised and batted face gently.
"You know I couldn't. Not after Robin..." She said softly, placing a kiss on his lips, scared she might lose him too. He hissed, his lip had been cut during his questioning. "Are you ok? Where's Bruce?"

"Oh you know me, this is nothing... merely a few scratches. They took Bruce somewhere else... I haven't seen him since we were taken. "

"We'll find him togeth-"
"No, we have to go."
"What are you saying, he-"
"He's planned for this... If this were ever to happen. He told me to leave him and run." Dick said flexing his now freed arm before grabbing Ciara by the upper arm. "Ciara, I don't want to leave him either but we can't risk everyone else's lives... Please love...Just this once, don't be as stubborn as me." He slid his hand up and cupped her face. He wanted nothing more than to save Bruce. The man had saved him and raised him as his own but this world was dangerous and they were outnumbered and out-powered.

"Ok." She whispered faintly.

"But the party has just begun, little she wolf."Came a french sounding voice. Ciara spun around, knife in hand and a long slender hand caught her arm. "Remy would hate for you to go, after all... we have just met." His voice seemed to echo all around the room. Ciara couldn't help but gaze into those red eyes, her shoulders relaxing.

"CIARA! DON'T LOOK AT HIM!" Dick yelled, trying to free himself faster.

"Hmmmm..." Remy slipped the hunter blade gently from her finger tips and tossed it over his shoulder, never breaking eye contact.

What was wrong with her? She felt so lightheaded and flushed and it was like her ankles would give out any second now. Her heart was pounding loudly in her ears. It was like how Dick made her feel when they were alone but this man.... was this all a dream? Yes, maybe it was just a dream. Just a terrible dream. She'd wake up and Dick would be there. Teasing her for falling asleep in the hammock as they had been stargazing.

"Perhaps you're more of a petit lapin (Little Rabbit) than a wolf...What's your name little Lapin?" He asked, pulling her wrist closer so he could kiss the top of her hand.

"Ci...Ciara... Mc...mc..." She began her eyes fluttering as he pulled her closer.

"Mc?" He asked softly cupping her face.

This man's presence seemed to block out all of Dick's cries all but one word. 'Decipio'

The tall man was sliding his fingers back, pass her cheeks and toward her ears and ulimatly her earrings.

Ciara grabbed hold of his two arms and pushed off from the floor and kneed him hard in the chin.