"Logan, if you really want to go against me, I suggest you pull all the metal out of your body first." Magneto stared at Wolverine with a provocative smirk.
Naturally, Wolverine didn't back down, glaring right back at him and scoffing. "I'll deal with you my own way."
Off-screen, the two men were clearly at odds. On-screen, the tension was no better. Wolverine looked at Magneto with disgust. "So you've always been a bastard, huh?"
Wolverine already had a deep fear of flying. Earlier, when Magneto lost his temper, the entire plane had trembled violently, giving Logan quite the scare. He had no intention of being nice afterward.
Magneto, however, seemed a bit confused. He had already spoken with Wolverine about the future, so he raised a brow and said, "I thought we were good friends in the future."
Logan lit a cigar without even looking at him, scoffing again. "I spent years trying to kill you. 'Good friends'?"
"So how did that turn out?" Magneto asked knowingly.
Logan's face darkened with weariness as he exhaled a puff of smoke. "You're like me. A survivor."
In the apocalyptic future for mutants, Magneto, Logan, and even Xavier — once bitter enemies — had become nothing more than a group of pitiful survivors clinging to one another.
This revelation made the watching trio — Xavier, Magneto, and Logan — all the more curious about what exactly the sentinels brought about in the future. What kind of disaster had wiped out their people?
So far, none of the leaked footage had revealed what this so-called doomsday actually looked like. All they knew was that the Sentinels — a special human-made weapon — had brought catastrophic destruction to mutantkind.
As players were left pondering, the video paused and a new question popped up on the screen:
[Were the Sentinel robotssuccessfully created?]
[A: Yes
B: No]
A straightforward multiple-choice question — seemingly easy.
But Charles instinctively felt that something was off. Stroking his chin, he mused, "According to the plan, after we rescue Erik, we're supposed to persuade Raven to abandon the assassination. If the government never gets a sample of her blood, they won't be able to create the Sentinels… So why isn't the question, 'Did our plan succeed?'"
"You're saying our plan didn't go as planned?" Erik quickly picked up on Charles' implication.
Charles nodded. "That's what I think. I'd go with A."
Before Erik could respond, Logan frowned, visibly restless. "If the plan failed, then my time-travel mission… was all for nothing?"
"No, that's exactly the point."
Charles shook his head. "If the question was 'Did our plan work?', I'd say A. But the question asks whether the Sentinels were created. Think about it. Even if Raven gives up the assassination, does that mean the government won't get her blood sample?
Unless we hide her somewhere absolutely untraceable — and that's not realistic. So, theoretically, the scientist probably still got her blood in the end, and the Sentinels were built. But that doesn't necessarily mean our mission failed.
The real problem in the future isn't the Sentinels themselves — it's the human society and government's attitude toward mutants. If we can change that hostile mindset, then even if the Sentinels are built, the future can still be rewritten."
Charles was smart — viewing the situation like an outsider, he quickly deduced the true heart of the mutant apocalypse.
Logan looked pensive. Erik, on the other hand, frowned. "Charles, you're still too naive. Changing their attitude? Impossible. I'll never believe humans would willingly give up their dominance and coexist peacefully with a species they see as a threat."
Then he changed tone. "Still, I agree — even if the Sentinels are made, it's not the end. Now that we know what's coming, we can act first. They're just machines, after all. Tampering with them isn't that hard."
With his ability to control metal, Erik had always dismissed robots as trivial — unless they were made of plastic. As long as there was any metal involved, they were nothing more than toys to him.
Of course, in the future Logan described, even Erik was beaten back by the Sentinels. But Erik believed that was only because the government had deliberately developed materials to counter him.
Now that he knew the truth in advance, the outcome would be different.
Despite their ideological differences, Erik and Charles agreed that A made more sense.
Logan had his doubts but was outvoted two-to-one and had to remain silent.
Soon, the countdown began. Charles represented Team A and selected A.
On the other side, Team B — Stephen Strange and his group — discussed and chose B.
Unfamiliar with the X-Men universe, they could only rely on the limited clues from the footage and their own experiences, like how the Avengers had changed the future by going back in time. They believed Logan's time travel would change fate too.
The timer hit zero. The correct answer was revealed — Team A had it right and earned 4 points.
Team B was wrong and lost 1 point.
Stephen looked surprised. "They traveled through time and still failed?"
Pietro shook his head. "Hard to say. I don't think it's that simple. Honestly, I'm rooting for them to change the future…"
Even though the Pietro in the video wasn't the same as him, it still hit close to home.
Besides, after the recent footage, Pietro's popularity had skyrocketed. Both emotionally and logically, Pietro was firmly on the side of the mutants.
After the quiz ended, the screen started playing the correct answer video.
Hank piloted the aircraft smoothly through the clouds as night fell. Inside, Erik and Charles had an open-hearted conversation.
Erik explained the truth behind the so-called "presidential assassination" and sincerely apologized.
But Charles still couldn't let go of how Erik had once taken Raven away.
He believed it was Erik's hardline ideology that corrupted Raven — turning the once innocent girl into a cold-blooded assassin who nearly killed Trask and triggered mutantkind's downfall.
Erik didn't argue. He just insisted that tomorrow, they would succeed in changing the future.
With Erik's apologies and a bit of humility, Charles finally put aside their old grudge — at least for the moment — and invited him to a game of chess, just like in the old days when they had first built the mutant special task force together.
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