[OP: "Ready, Aim, Fire" -- Imagine Dragons]

"How come I've never seen your face around here? I know every single face around here.

A man on a mission, changing the vision, I was never welcome here."

But what had happened to Scott from Earth 616?

Backing up to about a week or more ago, he'd been in the middle of stopping some armed robbers, and shopping, when he'd suddenly felt the air around him go fuzzy.

Everything seemed to spin and sounded faded.

He felt like his insides got yanked hard.

Then suddenly he was standing in front of a bench, facing the ocean, and the city had vanished.

He blinked.

This looked like the landscape of the Mansion...

He turned and looked behind him. There it was.

Had Shine just portalled him home for some reason? But why would she...? But no, that didn't feel like one of hers.

Suspicious, Scott ran up the hill to see if anyone was in the house.

Once he got closer, he saw something about it didn't look right.

And then he realized it was hot. Not really, really hot; it was New York by the sea, but, compared to the freezing winter weather he'd been in, it was hot. He was wearing too many layers.

Also no snow was in sight, or he might have thought he was just sick.

But by far the biggest shock was that he nearly ran into someone who was coming down the hill.

A woman with red hair and a green shirt, who looked kind of familiar.

She stopped short.

"Scott?" she said. "What...what are you wearing...?"

Then she frowned. "Wait...you're not Scott."

Scott had only time to think that it was weird she knew his name then, before he was yanked up by telekinetic force.

"Who are you?" the woman yelled at him. "What have you done with him? You have the same glasses, but--"

"Don't take those off!" Scott said, as she moved her hand.

She stopped. "The same power..." she said.

Scott suddenly had a terrible idea he knew what was going on.

If Emma Frost had a double in their world...then maybe he had a double also...

But if this woman, who had Jean's power and looked suspiciously like Jean, didn't know him...

And this Mansion didn't look right...

Scott realized the truth.

This other Jean must have read his mind, because she suddenly gasped. "What...? What are you thinking!? Where is Scott?! Give him back!"

"I don't have him," Scott said. "Ma'am, could you calm down, please.... I think I know what's happened. If you put me down.... Where's your Professor X? You have one, right?"

Jean glared at him. "If you know that, then you know he's in a coma."

Scott remembered Emma mentioning that at one time, and almost swore.

"Right...he's...but you're a telepath, so you know. I'm not the Scott you know, that's right...but I am Scott Summers. There's something bad happening right now. I think I've been abducted by someone. You could be in danger. You're Jean Gray, right?"

She nodded slowly, frowning. "But you're not the Scott Summers I know.... You're.... I'm sorry, another dimension? Is that right? That sounds impossible."

"But it's true," Scott said. "I swear. You have a Scott Summers, right? He must be in my dimension.... I don't know how this is possible, but I think we switched places. Was he standing down there?"

"He likes to, so I thought so," Jean said. "I was just going to look for him.... I felt something strange happening, a second ago. Some disturbance in the astral realm or the psionic realm...but it must have been from you."

She lowered him slowly. "You're telling the truth...but where is Scott? Where are you from? I don't understand. There are other dimensions? How?"

"I'm afraid I don't really understand it, but if you have any X-men, I need to talk to all of them right now," Scott said.

Jean pointed at the house. "They're in there...but Wolverine is not going to like this.... Also...did I read something about Emma Frost in your mind?"

"Yes...your Emma Frost," Scott clarified.

Jean suddenly looked angry. "I knew it! I knew her disappearance was going to be a problem! But at least you may have some insight. Come with me."

She led him inside.

She didn't seem quite like his Jean...who was probably freaking out right about now, Scott recollected. But he didn't feel her in his mind.

He wondered unconsciously if she could reach across dimensions...in which case...they had no idea what just happened to him.

He was still surprised himself, but having the benefit of already knowing something was up with the dimension, he wasn't nearly as shocked as his alternate self had been.

His first priority was to find out what these other X-men knew.

He hoped the DJs would be able to come get him soon enough, but it might take a bit for them to figure out where he was, and he might as well use this time to gather intel, he figured.

Having a plan always made Scott more calm, so he just followed the other Jean.

However...

Jean called for the other X-men psionically, and they all came running into the main hall.

Scott noticed the whole place both looked and smelled freshly rebuilt. What happened to it?

"What's going on?" Wolverine came in--younger-looking, he thought--and angry, as usual.

Along with him came people who looked vaguely familiar.

One must have been Storm, though she was dressed differently and looked different.

The other looked like an older version of Kitty Pryde. And another like a younger, trimmer Iceman.

And then Hank...who was pretty much exactly the same.

Then, last of all, Nightcrawler...who looked way leaner and less...Catholic, somehow.

All of them gaped at Scott.

"Something terrible has happened," Jean announced.

"Other than that outfit?" Kitty said. "What the heck, Scott? It's, like, 75 degrees outside."

Scott was sweltering already, actually.

Wolverine sniffed. "Something smells funny here."

"I think I found a link to why Frost disappeared," Jean said. "This is not the Scott we know. I read his mind... He's from another dimension. I don't fully understand what that means, but apparently he's seen Emma Frost, and he's from a team of X-men, like us, but different. I haven't gathered that much more though..."

Iceman burst out laughing. "He's from another dimension? You expect us to believe that?"

"A strange claim," Beast said. "But considering..." He walked closer to Scott and looked him up and down. "Something about him is built differently, and he looks older, perhaps... And how did he change clothes while he was outside? Also, his shades are a different shape."

Wolverine pulled out his claws. "I don't like fairy-tales. What's this about? Who are you, Hallmark Card?"

"Just what she said," Scott said. "I'm from a parallel dimension. I think I was just switched with your Scott Summers, I'm not sure how. But we have had some visitors from other dimensions in mine for some time, and I think it may be connected, and, yes, your Emma Frost just appeared there a few weeks ago."

"Weeks?" Jean said. "She disappeared...a few weeks ago, yes, here. I'm confused, though--in your mind I saw her like a person...not...shattered into a thousand pieces."

Kitty winced. "Ugh..."

"How do we know he's really Cyclops?" Iceman said. "Maybe he just stole his outfit."

Scott took off his glasses and shot a hole through one of the walls.

Iceman backed up.

"Sorry for the property damage." Scott put his glasses back on. "Convinced?"

"Yeah, that's definitely Scott," Kitty said. "Just...not like him, really."

"To answer your question about Emma Frost--" Scott didn't usually call her just Emma. "--there was some mystery about that at home. According to her, she did shatter into pieces. She had no memory of what happened to her after that, until she was found in some secret hideout by some of my team. They rescued her, but never found out who took her there or why or how they assembled her. We had theories, that's all. But we suspected some plot involving this dimension."

"Well, ain't that just great," Wolverine said. "That's what we needed to hear, on top of the other news."

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Did I miss somethin'?" Suddenly someone who was dressed like Rogue, but looked very, very different from her walked in.

Scott did a double take. "Rogue?"

"Yeah? What are you wearin'?" Rogue said.

"That's not our Scott," Kitty said.

"What?" Rogue said.

By the time they explained the whole thing to her again, Scott was getting impatient.

"Okay, look, I think my team may come looking for me soon," he said. "But until then, maybe we can help each other. It seems like you know something about Frost that we don't, and I'd like to hear it. She's suspicious to me."

"Well, she should be," Wolverine said. "She fooled us all. She really jacked up the X-men."

"Hey," Kitty said. "That might be true, but she was okay in the end." She looked at Scott somberly. "She died trying to save...well, our Scott...and Jean."

So that much had been true.

"What happened after that?" Scott said. "She doesn't know."

Jean frowned and crossed her arms. "Well...I guess we might as well tell you. Maybe it'll turn up something... After Emma shattered...we had this idea that maybe we should try to see if she could be fixed. It was a long shot, but Hank had this theory that her diamond form might be able to be healed."

"The evidence was strong," Hank said.

"I tried to find all her pieces," Jean said, "using my power...but there were so many. We went over the street, but...who knows? Could have missed some... Hank was going to put them back together. But he'd just barely started trying, and we walked in one day, and they were gone. All of them."

"It was so strange," Hank said. "We had no records of the locks being broken. No sign of tampering. It was as if it just vanished on its own."

"Like how you just appeared." Jean frowned. "So maybe the same thing was behind it... So, is the Emma Frost you know here, then?"

"Well, clearly she didn't appear here." Scott was confused. "But why not? If I switched places, why not her? There's something wrong with this...something bad. I have a feeling."

"Creepy," Kitty said.

"All right, hold on." Rogue held up her hand. "This is a lot to process, right off. But let's say all this is somehow true...so our Scott is with your X-men? Is that right?"

"Yes," Scott said. "As long as the car didn't hit him, anyway..." That would be bad.

"Car?" Jean said.

"So Frat Boy is in your world, and you're here," Wolverine said. "How do we switch you back? No offense, but we want our Cyclops, not some discount, dime store brand of him in a pullover."

Scott frowned. "I'm actually quite capable in a fight. I'm the leader of the X-men."

Iceman and Kitty both laughed.

"I don't think he was kidding." Storm had said nothing till now, but she seemed somber.

"You?" Wolverine said, skeptically.

Scott already didn't like this one any better than the one he knew, less even. He seemed like a showboat.

"Yes, me." He frowned. "Is that so hard to believe? I am a senior member."

"Senior, as in old?" Iceman said.

"You seem the same as the one I know." Scott frowned at him.

"Good, right?" Iceman said.

"I can't understand how there is more than one version of us," Kitty said.

"Perhaps it's like there are future versions of us," Storm said. "Tell me,...new Cyclops...is your world's time the same?"

"What year is it?" Scott said.

"2015," they said. [I moved it up a few years because the show was kind of futuristic.]

"It's just about to turn 1984 in my world," Scott said.

"There's...a 30-year gap?" Hank said. "Meaning our future is 50 years from his."

[Fun fact: If we follow the usual Days of Future Past timeline, that would put that future the correct amount of years ahead of our main story-line, but not the alternate one. Funny how that worked out, since the alternate one is set sort of after the events of the old show, but with tweaks on the character introductions.

Also this universe is not technically 1081 in the show, but that made more sense for my story, so I combined it. It's impossible to keep track of all the numbers otherwise. They're so similar.]

"We once received a message from 50 years into the future," Scott said. "About the world being overrun by Sentinels."

"Yeah...same." Wolverine frowned. "So are you just from our past?"

"I don't think so," Scott said. "Unless my other self remembers this happening to him..."

"We can't ask'him," Rogue said. "But you'd think that would have come up."

"But you think you're from a different dimension, not just a different time?" Jean said.

Scott nodded. "That's what the DJs said."

"The who now?" Hank said.

"Disc Jockeys?" Nightcrawler finally said something.

"No...maybe we should start over," Scott said. "We need to compare notes...the last year, what's happened to you, and what's happened to me. Maybe we can figure this out."

"Sounds like a good idea..." Kitty said. 

"Fine," Wolverine said. "We might want to sit down for this..."

* * *

Wolverine didn't actually sit down, but the others sat in the study while he stood by the window moodily.

It took a lot of effort to compare notes. The X-men interrupted each other a lot, and Scott wasn't sure what was important and what wasn't.

But it came out that the events of their worlds were very similar...but on different time scales.

They decided he had to be a different dimension Scott, because 30 years ago, he wouldn't have been born at all, once they knew their ages, let alone been this young in their time.

That settled, they were shocked at the similarities. Sinister...President Kelly, Magneto, Genosha.

But with more questioning, they realized the similarities weren't as deep as they thought.

"Your Kelly likes mutants now?" Iceman said. "That'll be the day."

"Magneto runs Genosha?" Scott said. "That's.... I think Frost mentioned it, but.... And she was a traitor? Figures she'd never tell us. I knew there was something off about her."

"Yeah, well, I hope your X-men are smart enough to catch on to that right off," Wolverine said. "But if they have a conscious Professor X, and a Jean, they probably will."

"I don't like the idea of our Scott there with her, though," Jean said. "What if she hurts him?"

"Why would she do that?" Kitty said. "He'd probably hurt her, more likely. If she did this."

"Hey, the lady might have the motive, but how would she pull this off?" Wolverine said. "There's something else weird about this."

But as they kept talking, it came out that the stark difference was the DJs.

All the other differences were somewhat nuanced, layered, but there was no such thing as Shine or Wally here.

And the others found Scott's description of them to be puzzling.

"I never heard of anything like that," Hank said.

"But it sounds like we have suspects for who could do this," Wolverine said. "It must have been them. They double-crossed you. Maybe with Frost."

Scott had not even thought of this.

But he shook his head. "Look, we've had our differences, and I can't say I like them that much, but they're no traitors or liars. I've seen them tested many times now. They wouldn't do this. They have a code. This sort of thing has to be dangerous--  can't see them risking it. Sorry, but I think it's someone else."

They looked at him oddly.

"But forgive us if we're not convinced," Storm said. "They are the only people either of us know who have power to cross dimensions. Who else could it be?"

"I'm telling you, they would," Scott said. "And if I know them, they'll already be working on what causes this and trying to fix it. We should do the same... I kind of thought they'd be here by now, actually."

"Yeah, almost like they don't want to get you." Wolverine was not buying it. "Face it, Summers, they have to be the ones who did it."

"No," Scott said. "It's not their style. And the way it happened isn't like them either. And the thing that phased me here, it wasn't their portals--they're a purplish yellow, and they look like doorways. This was just...like being yanked through some crack in a wall, almost. Everything got fuzzy. It wasn't the same at all. I think I'd have felt it."

"Well, he is the one who knows them," Hank said. "It's conceivable there are more people with such powers. We just don't know who."

"I'll tell you some people who had powers like that," Scott said. "Sinister, Apocalypse...they exist here, right?"

"Funny you should bring that up," Nightcrawler said. "Ve only just got a message about Apocalypse. From the future."

"From..." Scott paused.

"Yes...the Professor, he sends us messages from the future," Storm said. "Yours is...not in a coma, which is wonderful, but ours uses Cerebro to contact us. He just recently warned us about a being named Apocalypse...but we have not found him in our time, and we're not sure where to look."

"Under every rock," Scott said. "He's usually hiding under one."

They didn't seem to get it.

"Well...perhaps you should talk to Xavier yourself, then," Hank said. "Maybe he can help. Perhaps there is some precedent for this in the future."

"We barely know this guy--we're just going to let him in there?" Wolverine said.

"Do we have a choice, Logan? Scott is gone," Storm said. "Who knows if any one else may be abducted at a moment's notice? There is no time to lose...please."

She didn't speak with the authority of the other Storm, but she apparently did have some of her common sense.

Scott already missed his old team. They'd have already been taking action by now. What was with these X-men? Didn't they know an emergency when they saw one?

Wolverine finally agreed to let Scott interview the Professor.

It was eerie, seeing the future's technology--and their Professor X in a coma.

And it took a while to get through to him also.

Scott didn't like it one bit. But finally he spoke to them.

But he had no idea who Scott was.

Nor had he heard anything about this in his time.

"Which," he said, "seems to me it can only mean the discrepancy between our times has only just started.... The events in another dimension would not be in our history at all...so I don't know. It might not be in any of our records if the X-men had a problem with this."

"We are supposed to not talk about it." Scott recalled Shine and Wally's words on the subject. "It's dangerous if too many people try to disturb dimensions. If this gets out, power-hungry madmen might try it."

"Looks like we're already there, Pretty Boy," Wolverine said. "Just which madman is it?"

"I will look into it, but I doubt very much there's anything to find," Xavier said. "And the more pressing matter of stopping Apocalypse is at hand. You must find where he's hiding in your time. Perhaps around Sinister--he is here too."

"Together?" Scott said. "That's not a good combination. We fought them once together too. They were harvesting Psions' powers to try to empower Apocalypse further."

"Oh, well, that's what we needed to hear," Iceman winced.

"Yeah, way creepy," Kitty said. 

"So what do we do about it?" Rogue asked.

Everyone looked at Wolverine, then at Scott.

Scott felt like his team would have been making suggestions already.

"Well..." Wolverine clearly had no clue.

"Maybe we could go to the last place you saw Sinister," Scott suggested.

"Warren might be there," Storm said. "Or...they could have moved."

"Why not have Rogue do what she did before and drain the evil out of him?" Scott asked.

"What?" Rogue said. "I don't think that will work. It ain't that simple."

"I'm still confused about how it was Sinister who turned him evil, not Apocalypse," Scott said.

"And we're still confused about how you've met Apocalypse several times and we've never heard of him," Wolverine said.

"This is going to get really annoying, isn't it?" Kitty rubbed her head.

"Well...given that we have no better ideas...perhaps we should do as this Scott suggests," Hank said. "Are you going to come with us?"

"Well, until the others find me, I suppose I have nothing better to do," Scott said. "I might as well help. You need a Cyclops."

"Don't get a big head," Wolverine said. "You're on probation at most--and take off that stupid sweater."

"I have my costume under it," Scott said.

But his costume got a lot more snickers from the kids...and even Hank.

"Blue Spandex? Really?" Kitty said.

"You look like something from Star Trek," Iceman said. "Beam me up, Scottie."

"That's what they said too," Scott said.

"We should call you Scottie," Iceman said.

"You are not calling me that." Scott frowned at him. "Is that clear?"

"Chilly," Iceman said.

* * *

Sinister's lab turned up nothing, however. It was completely abandoned. All his DNA samples were gone also. And no sign of Warren.

And, even worse...the DJs never came for Scott.

While he had had his differences with them, he knew they would never leave him in another dimension...on purpose. So...he realized that they simply couldn't get there.

Racking his brain to remember how their powers worked, he thought...they could go to people they knew...but there might have been one thing they said about not just going to new worlds unless they were sent.... What if they literally couldn't?

A lot of their weird rules began to take on a new meaning. They might not just be a choice, they might be a real limit...in which case...he might be stuck here.

But there had to be a way.

As was typical of him, Scott resolved to just find it.

And the other X-men, after days had gone by with nothing new turning up, resolved to help him.

Things worsened, however, when just a couple days after Scott appeared, Jean vanished in just the same way. No one knew it until they searched the grounds for her.

They weren't sure at first it was the same cause, but Logan traced her scent to a spot in the house, and then it just stopped, so...it seemed likely. 

But...this meant no telepath was available to use Cerebro.

As angry at the new X-men were at Frost, they would have been glad to have her around.

Scott tried everything he could think of to try to reach the DJs.

He even tried praying. He wasn't sure how he felt about their God at this point, but maybe if He was out there, in some form, He'd help.

But no answer seemed to come.

After a week or so, Scott even tried reading a Bible, looking for clues...but he found nothing that seemed to apply to this situation.

He even asked Hank if he knew.

Hank had only theories, and none of them had the complete sound of Shine's rules. They were just ideas.

The X-men looked for Sinister more but still found no trace of him.

They treated Scott cordially, but were not very friendly.

At first he thought little of it, but as more and more days went by without Jean and without his other friends...he began to realize that he felt alone.

He was viewed as an outsider here, and even if they accepted his story, they didn't trust him that much.

For the first time in his life, Scott got a taste of what it was like to be viewed as the bad guy, the one who might not be trustworthy, the one who might be plotting against you.

And the one with no friends, in a strange place.

Nothing else would have persuaded him to rethink his early treatment of Shine and Wally, but walking a day in their shoes...it was hard.

It was stressful...the only way to keep from freaking out was to try to solve the problem, and their busyness began to make more sense to him.

And their frustration with people not buying their story and not listening to their ideas. He told the X-men his theories, and they didn't really accept them.

He told them all he could remember of Shine and Wally's rules about dimensions and how they worked, and he got looks of disbelief, and when he mentioned they put it to God, they scoffed at him.

And they said Shine and Wally sounded like nut jobs, who probably were just into some cult or something.

Once, Scott would have said the same thing but...not now.

And he was being looked at as probably a little nutty himself for even entertaining their ideas.

It was horrible.

But it did make him think...had he done exactly this?

Jean had been a little nicer to him, because she kept hoping he'd tell her something about the Scott she knew...and she had a lot of questions about Emma.... Clearly she was jealous.

It was in this way that Scott learned that Emma had a thing for his other self.... Funny, he never got the impression from her.

But she also worried about her other self being there.

Scott was sure his Jean would never mistake the other Scott for him, and that would be that...but what did she think happened to him? Had they figured it out?

Surely the DJs knew of something like this.

Funny, he hated listening to Shine most of the time, but he'd have given anything he had to hear one of her crack theories about dimensions right about now. Anything that would make sense of this.

But there he remained.

Once Jean had vanished, they did suspect there was a pattern...just not sure what.

They couldn't come up with anything nearly as complex as the Merging. But they thought maybe people were being swapped for a reason.

But they didn't find the Jean Scott knew anywhere, which begged the question...where was she?

At the end of the first 8 days, about coinciding with the events of the other dimension, had they only known that, they received some unusual intel.

Scarlet Witch contacted them.

She wanted to talk to Nightcrawler.

"Listen," she said, "I know you won't like this...but can you all come to Genosha? My father isn't here anymore.... It's me now.... I promise, I won't hurt you. Something very, very weird is happening here, and I need...I don't know, I need professional help."

"You believe her?" Hank asked Nightcrawler.

"Vanda has never lied to me, not like this," he said.

"Scarlet Witch works on Genosha here?" Scott said. "I didn't think she and her father spoke much."

"Well, they don't now," Rogue said. "So guess that's about the same.... I heard he left, but I didn't believe it."

"We should go, right?" Kitty said. "I mean...it could have something to do with what's going on."

So they did, reluctantly. Wishing they had a telepath.

But Scarlet Witch, or Wanda, as they called her, was pretty cordial, all things considered. She seemed more nervous about them than they were about her.

"This is what I want to show you," she said.

She brought them to a spot on the island...one where it looked like a building had been, but now it was only a patch of ground with no grass on it.

"Odd, I could have svorn there was a tower here, " Kurt said.

"There was." Wanda folded her arms. "It vanished...some time in the last three days, I think.... And the crazy thing is...hardly anyone has noticed. I mean...we walk by this all the time, but only me and Lorna even noticed it. And Blink. I wanted to show you this first to show you I wasn't making this up. But I wouldn't call you here over this."

"Good, 'cause I was about to say it was a waste of our time," Wolverine said.

"You see it's gone." Wanda faced them. "But it's not the only thing.... Blink vanished also. Yesterday. No warning. I don't know how. But she was gone."

"That's strange," Scott said. "Because Jean vanished just a couple days before that."

"What?" Wanda said.

"And Scott," Kitty said.

"But..." Wanda said.

"It's a long story," Kurt said. "Maybe ve should tell her though.... This is not just us, then--it could be any mutant."

Well...one long conversation later, Wanda was sufficiently unnerved.

"There's something else," she said. "Now that you mention it...since this had happened...I've been getting these weird...mental images.... I swear, they're like memories, but they aren't mine....I see my brother, but they don't look the same, and my father, but he doesn't look the same either, and I see Genosha...but it's not like this. It's flatter. There're no metal buildings, and...the mutants, they're enslaved to humans.... I  was afraid it was the future...but do you think I could be seeing another dimension? Like...some kind of message from it?"

"A possibility..." Hank said.

"Did you see Jean?" Scott asked.

"No," Wanda said. "None of you. They seem like memories of me...or maybe..." She frowned. "Another me. If there's another you, Cyclops...and another X-men...why not me?"

"There is another you," Cyclops said. "And she does have a brother named Quicksilver. And Magneto is their father, but they don't really talk."

"Well, now we don't talk either." Wanda frowned. "I...banished him...after the robots."

"Vhat?" Kurt was stunned.

"Yeah." Wanda shrugged and stood up and walked to a window. "The people here were mad about it, and...it was the only thing to do. Even Lorna agreed, and she's...well.... Anyway...Quicksilver could have stayed, but he's a daddy's boy, and he's gone. Still...this is serious. Maybe I should call him."

"Maybe," Wolverine said. "But don't mention us. Last thing we need is more problems from the Brotherhood."

"Unless they know somethin'," Rogue said. "They're bad, but...I don't think they'd want this.... This is weird."

"Maybe we should all work together," Scott said. "I get the impression all of you are not on the best terms, but I want to get home, and this is the first sign we've had of something else other than people disappearing happening. So...If we don't want more people to vanish...then we have to stop it."

They all looked at each other warily.

"Isn't it clear?" Scott said. "My X-men would work with someone they didn't like if the fate of this many people was on the line. What's the problem?"

"We're not your X-men, Cylcops," Wolverine said. "We do it our way."

"But he's right," Wanda said, suddenly. "Come on, I know how you all feel about us, but...Blink is gone. Who could be next? I can't take care of this place if there's no mutants to take care of. Everything could go! The whole island could!"

"Vanda, calm down," Kurt said.

"Well, how would you feel?" Wanda asked.

"I think I know," Kurt said. "This happened to the X-men a year ago."

Silence for a moment.

"Well...then...you know," she said.

"Okay, chill out," Kitty said. "Fine, we can work together, right, Logan? I mean...it's kind of an emergency."

"For now." Logan finally gave in. "First of all, we find out if anyone else has disappeared. You'd better search this whole island. And get that idiot brother of yours, but don't mention us."

"Yeah, heard you the first time." Wanda rolled her eyes.

Scott was glad to at least have a plan...

But things weren't going to go the way they hoped.

[Hmm...hope you enjoyed the peek at Our Scott.

For those who are confused about why Jean didn't vanish at the exact same time as the other Jean, it's been said many times that different worlds have their own time. While she was swapped at the same moment in one way, it could have taken more time to translate between dimensions. Scott's instantaneous transfer would be a rare phenomenon in World Walker lore. Think of it like how Spider Gwen was sent back a week before everyone else in Spiderverse. Spacetime jumping is not the most exact thing.]