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 * Issue 07 - 'Saved by the Bill' **




 * Plot**

The seniors decide they must confront the future versions of themselves hiding in the Morlock tunnels nearby. Those future versions must be the Travelers, but then why did they attack the school? Upon reaching the Morlock tunnels, the seniors are attacked by the Morlocks in an attempt to prevent the Travelers from being discovered. Fortunately, the seniors convince them to stop fighting. They find the hidden lair of the Travelers and are confronted with the future versions of themselves! A badly burned future Billy tells the group they’ll only be able to understand the Travelers’ actions if they see the dark future ahead. He instantly transports them into the future world ruled by a despotic supervillain named Victorious. In this post-apocalyptic future, the superheroes are either dead (the Avengers, the X-Men, and more!) or in hiding. Above the Morlock tunnels, the X-Mansion is in shambles. They see the charred remnants of Professor X, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Angel, Rogue, Gambit, and Colossus (the old team); they also find the bodies of Armor (leader of that time period's X-Men), Jubilee, Shadowcat, X-23, Blindfold (their Ruth!), a woman named Molly and others they don’t know (the new team). They learn that even the Brotherhood, led by Magneto, has been killed! They also learn that Iceman has turned himself into ambient moisture in the atmosphere, but in so doing lost his ability to re-form. As they survey the horror of this dark future, Doombots attack! The seniors are able to defeat the robots, but their real problem is that Victorious has been alerted to their presence. Future Billy transports them a few days back through time, before Victorious' evil rampage. Future Billy then explains that all this began when Victorious became evil. Victorious, once the greatest hero of the time, had the ability to create electro-magnetic blasts and control machines. Once he went rogue, he used his technopathy to take control of Danger. With all the knowledge of how to defeat the X-Men through countless training sessions with the team in the Danger Room, Danger then slaughtered all the mutants while Victorious killed the Avengers, the Fantastic Fourteen, the Captain Americas, and more. Billy and other students survived the attack and went into hiding. This group - including future versions of Bastienne, Dane, David, Lucius, Samantha, as well as classmates named Selena and Paul - saw only one way to save their world. They had to use Billy's mutant ability of time control (not speed powers, as the group thought!) to go back into time and prevent the holocaust of Victorious' rampage. But they couldn't stop Victorious alone. They came up with a plan. They would go back into time and remove the X-Men and the other seniors, forcing Bastienne, Billy, Dane, David, Lucius, and Samantha to become the New X-Men. Since they'd never been in the Danger Room, Danger wouldn't know their moves and the New X-Men could defeat her when Victorious rose to power. If the group could defeat Danger, the X-Men would never be killed, and between the Avengers and the X-Men, Victorious could be defeated. But the seniors discovered the Travelers before their plan came to fruition, and the timeline had to be advanced. The group would have to fight Danger right away! Now that Victorious is aware of them, he can travel through time to stop their scheme and will find them soon. The group is forced to prepare a defense only minutes before Danger arrives to destroy the X-Men...

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