In the Marvel Universe: I can summon items from all dimensions.

Chapter 65 Reversing the Future (but not Wolverine)

After confirming that the Red Tank was completely incapacitated, the two stopped their attack.

A few seconds later, the red tank, which had been completely blown to a blackened state, fell from the sky. Its weight of nearly 900 kilograms made a huge crater in the ground, and it would probably take an excavator or something similar to dig it out.

"It actually succeeded!"

Scott even felt it was somewhat unreal—after all, in all the conflicts over the years, this was the first time he had seen the Juggernaut be defeated head-on. In the past, it was always this bastard who relied on his seemingly indestructible physique to beat the X-Men to a pulp. Over time, they even developed the impression that "the Juggernaut is probably unbeatable," which shows how big the psychological trauma was.

"Hmm—it went fairly smoothly."

Kuroshi Kasumi sighed and said to Mason through the telepathic link, "This guy is really strange—he clearly has a very large energy source, but he only draws energy from it little by little. If he were to unleash it all at once, even if I used my true form, I might not be able to hurt him."

"Ha, that's his unique understanding of the game."

Seeing the Juggernaut finally defeated, Mason breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, "Let's stick to the script we agreed on from now on, and not give anything away."

After saying that, he saw Scott walking towards him, holding his neck. It seemed that firing hundreds of lasers in a row had not been without its burdens for him; at least his neck muscles seemed to be somewhat injured.

Upon approaching, Scott swallowed hard, glanced at Mason and Kuroshi Kasumi, and then cautiously asked, "So what exactly is this—"

"I have some kind of relationship with him, so I'll step in to help him out at a crucial moment."

Kuroshi Kasumi pointed a finger at Mason indifferently and said in a cold tone, "Don't ask about anything else, anyway, I'm not your enemy."

"That's clear enough, but—"

Before Steker could ask any more questions, Mason stopped him and whispered, "Don't ask anymore. Everyone has a few secrets; it's normal."

"But your secret seems a bit too big, doesn't it?" Scott retorted. "It's hard not to care, isn't it?"

"Let's talk about that after the game is over."

Mason shook his head: "Don't worry about that now, let's think about what to do next."

Having been silenced like that, Scott couldn't ask any more questions, so he could only go down the steps and look back at the shield that had begun to tremble, saying, "Let's keep checking if there are any other ambushes. That's what we came out to do, but we have to deal with these guys first."

He pointed to the four-man group of Juggernaut, Sabertooth, Meatball, and Mammoth, who had completely collapsed.

That's the advantage of being a tanky character. If it were a squishy mage, they would probably be dead if someone got close and dealt a full combo. But these guys are different. Even the Magnus, whose neck was slapped off, seems to still be breathing. They are incredibly durable.

After some communication, the academy learned of the situation and immediately dispatched a drone array with special restraints for mutants.

After another series of maneuvers, the four defeated villains were hoisted back to the academy by drones. What awaits them is an incredibly cruel fate—?

If it were S.H.I.E.L.D. or Hydra, this would probably be the case, but this is the Academy after all. The professor, being such a nice guy, would probably just lock them up and give them a lecture; he wouldn't do anything more than that.

Some people might be wondering here – why didn't Magneto send anyone to help when he clearly saw Juggernaut and his crew being brutally beaten?

The answer is yes, it was sent, but it was unsuccessful.

Don't underestimate Hank's reaction speed!

Although he didn't know exactly what had happened, when he discovered through drone surveillance that someone had suddenly appeared and started beating up the Juggernaut, and that Magneto was trying to send the Bishop to provide support, he immediately activated a large number of defensive turrets and drone swarms, and launched an attack on all the Brotherhood members. This level of firepower was certainly not enough to cause any damage to a group of mutants who were at least Delta-level, but if anyone dared to leave the group and act alone, they would have to experience the X-Men's bottomless energy reserves.

So the bishop was forced back before he could take more than a few steps, leaving the Red Tank crew to fend for themselves.

Of course, if a true powerhouse like Zhu Shuai or Wanda were to take the field, they could withstand the firepower and go to provide support, but then it would be unclear which side was the main force. In the pre-battle plan, the Juggernauts were originally sent out to distract the X-Men, so that the X-Men would have to be on guard against a group of people suddenly attacking from behind while dealing with the Brotherhood's main force. However, the plan was unexpectedly crushed before it even began.

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Oh well, the three idiots besides Sabretooth are not very obedient anyway, especially the Juggernaut, who is useless except for his strength. Let them go, the real main force still depends on this side.

"Have you gotten the composition analysis results for the shield yet?"

Magneto asked the commander, "Charles wouldn't just leave a turtle shell here for us to attack for no reason. There must be some traps hidden inside. We need to figure out what's going on before it takes effect."

"—It's impossible to be sure."

Zhu Shuai replied with a gloomy face, "You can't see it, but Charles Xavier's psychic energy has been trying to infiltrate this place. I don't have the ability to do a delicate job while fighting him."

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Magneto frowned, then turned to look at a brown-haired woman surrounded by the Brotherhood members.

"Moira, do you know anything?"

The woman he was questioning was a thin woman who looked to be around 4,000 years old. She had short, neat hair and dressed plainly, and didn't seem particularly special. However, her bloodshot eyes revealed a cold and sinister aura.

"I don't know," she said. "Last time," the academy's shield was shattered by the Nimrod-type sentinels without much effect.

Moira Marktagt, a mutant with little combat ability but a huge advantage in intelligence.

In the movies, she's a high-ranking CIA agent with a somewhat ambiguous relationship with Professor Charles. However, in the comics, she's a mutant with the ability to regenerate after death; after dying, she starts her life anew with all her memories.

It can be understood as a template for the urban rebirth genre, except that she has a more abundant number of rebirths.

In fact, this attack on the Academy was planned after she showed Magneto some information about the future. It wasn't for any personal grudge, but purely for the need to survive. If two completely different ideologies continue to exist among mutants, their development speed will be greatly slowed down, and they will become prey for the "Sentinels," a weapon developed by humans, and face the crisis of extinction in a few years.

In her previous life, Moira witnessed countless mutants die at the hands of the Sentinels. These robots, whose goal of exterminating mutants was written into their underlying protocols, had an outrageously fast upgrade and iteration speed. From being unable to withstand even mortars at the beginning, to being able to kill Alpha-class mutants through encirclement and annihilation, and finally, after the birth of the Nimrod-class Sentinels, even Professor X and Magneto were no match for them.

The progenitor of mutants, Apocalypse, awakened during the era of the Sentinels' rampage, but he was unable to change the situation. Even Omega-level mutants like Legion and Quentin could only ensure their own safety, but could not defeat the Sentinels or even protect the safety of others.

In just ten years, millions of mutants and hundreds of millions of ordinary people carrying mutant genes but not showing mutant abilities were slaughtered. Even other types of superhumans became victims. By the time Moira died, the Earth had been ravaged by endless wars.

To avoid that future, she had to do something.

Some truths are cruel, but they are very realistic.

Just as kindness doesn't always lead to good results, Professor Charles is an undeniably good person, but his kindness cannot lead mutants to a bright future.

This is a fact that Moira has already confirmed.

This is her fifth life.

For the first time, Moira, unaware of her mutant identity, grew up normally, going to school, working, getting married, and dying in a shooting at the age of thirty-nine. Her life trajectory can only be described as ordinary and unremarkable.

The second time, while still in her mother's womb, Moira gained memories of her previous life, which made her a renowned genius. With the extra decades of social experience and knowledge, she was admitted to a prestigious university and embarked on a life path that should have been much brighter than her previous life. However, during a debate competition in college, she met a young Charles and learned about the existence of mutants from him. Later, the two fell in love, and Moira naturally joined the X-Men. However, she was killed in a conflict with the Brotherhood at the age of forty-two.

The third time, a more mature Moira met Charles when she was a teenager and used her precognitive intelligence to prevent the Brotherhood from being formed. Charles and Eric maintained a relationship with each other despite their differences, thanks to her mediation. As a result, under the leadership of the X-Men and the Academy, the living conditions of mutants improved significantly. However, a crisis was also brewing.

Realizing that mutants, a race with an inherent advantage in strength, would inevitably achieve dominance after receiving ideological guidance, humanity developed weapons specifically designed to target mutants called "Sentinels." Unsurprisingly, these weapons went out of control. After reaching a certain level of development, the Sentinels broke free from their developers' control and began targeting all mutants, humans carrying mutant genes, and even humans with friendly relations with mutants, aiming to eliminate them all. This led to a protracted war in which Moira perished.

Fourthly, Moira made further attempts, including but not limited to killing the developers of the Sentinel robots ahead of time and trying to accelerate the development of mutants.

But this only fueled humanity's radical thinking, leading to the early birth of Sentinel robots, which developed stronger and faster. Her prophetic advantage was easily overturned, and one after another, stronger Sentinel models than she knew in her previous life were born: the Omega model, the Nimrod model, the Mother Module, and that despairing nightmare: the Nimrod model!

In the first decade of the war, much of the Earth's surface was reduced to scorched earth. In order to survive, Moira even replaced most of her body's tissues with machinery, but it was all in vain. She and the last remnants of the Warfighters were blown to pieces along with the entire planet by the Nimrod-class Sentinels' heavy artillery on the Mars base, marking the end of her fourth life.

After returning to her mother's womb once again, Moira spent a long time sorting out her thoughts and finally came to two conclusions.

The emergence of the first Sentinel robot was inevitable. As long as mutants exist, humans who fear this power will inevitably try to create weapons to counter them. War will break out sooner or later, and it doesn't matter whether the weapon is named Sentinel or Superman.

And Charles Xavier was not a suitable leader.

Throughout the two wars against the Sentinel robots, he consistently opposed the extreme strategies proposed by Eric and others, such as thoroughly dissecting and studying some low-level mutants to explore the deepest secrets of their genes, or sacrificing a portion of the troops to achieve greater results. It must be admitted that Charles was an undeniably good person, but good people don't always bring good outcomes. A moment of soft-heartedness could lead to greater suffering. For a war that was bound to come, only a ruthless and unscrupulous leader could better guide the race forward.

—That is, Eric Lancher.

In this life, Moira did not join either the X-Men or the Brotherhood beforehand. Instead, she made various preparations and plans in advance. Only after feeling that everything was ready did she come out of seclusion and contact Eric, showing him the future that would unfold. The two hit it off and decided to become the leader of the mutant race before the war and fully develop their power. Charles and his Institute would inevitably become obstacles, so they had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Try to persuade the professor? No way. His telepathic abilities have the side effect of simultaneously experiencing the emotions of the person being read, which makes the professor hate anything that brings pain to people. Moira's plan, on the other hand, would require countless screams and bloodshed. Based on this alone, the professor has no chance of cooperating with her.

Returning to the present, Moira looked up at the academy behind the shield.

This is the place where she dedicated three decades of her youth. Apart from the professor himself, probably no one has a deeper affection for this place than she does.

But for the continuation of the entire tribe, for the future, she had to crush this place filled with beautiful dreams and reshape it into something else.

Yes, it has to be done—even if it's a wrong choice, it will provide experience for "next time".

Moira sighed softly.

She had never been to the academy before today, so she could only judge things based on her impressions.

The Red Tank was actually knocked down? Who could have done it?

She did know that there were quite a few people who could do this, like the Xorn brothers of mutants and the Hulk of superheroes, but was the professor that close to them?

Just then, several cracks suddenly appeared on the sturdy shield.

Seeing this, Shan Beng, who was sweating profusely from emitting a large amount of vibration waves in one go, showed joy. He immediately exerted all his strength and released all the remaining energy. As a result, like ceramic that had been smashed and cracked, countless crisscrossing cracks spread across the shield. This sturdy defense system, which had blocked enough energy to cause a magnitude 7 earthquake, finally reached its limit and completely exploded.

"Daniel, now's the time!"

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At the same time, Hank, sitting in the command center, issued an order to a police officer, then immediately switched to another communication channel and roared, "Scott, Logan, Piotr, Mason, the shield's counterattack function is about to activate! All four of you, don't be afraid of anything you see in the next few minutes, it's all an illusion! Tell that person Mason called over too!"

"learn."

After Scott finished answering, he immediately repeated the sentence to Kuroishi Kasumi and invited everyone to sit down.

"What's going on?" Mason asked. "What kind of mechanism is this?"

"I don't know that much either."

Scott shook his head and said, "The energy shield is a new device that was only recently developed. A large part of it is experimental. Who knows what Hank put in it—just listen to him."

"This hasty approach really doesn't matter—"

Before he could finish his rant, a powerful, chilling light flashed from between the shattered shields, instantly engulfing Mason and plunging him into a dark world that seemed to teem with countless monsters.

"Hey-"

I was suddenly hit hard on the back of the head.

"?"

Mason was momentarily distracted when he saw that the surrounding scenery had returned to normal, and Kuroishi Kasumi was standing behind him, marveling, "Wow, there's such a thing—humans' ability to create mischief is truly not to be underestimated."