RetroaXtive Bishop arrives from the DARK FUTURE, in an attempt to disband the X-Men, as all he knows coming in is that they were responsible for the assassination of Senator Kelly, which snowballed into the eradication of mutantkind. After arriving, he recruits the mercenary Domino. He tells her of his story in order to justify an assassination mission on the leadership roles of the X-Men and she believes him. Bishop and Domino knock Professor Xavier and Jean Grey comatose during a battle between the X-Men and Magneto's brotherhood, but Bishop's time travel device is damaged in the battle, keeping him in the past. Magneto attempts to make Bishop an ally after the battle, and realizes he really is from the future due to describing a plot by Magneto and Mystique to frame the X-Men that he could not have known about.
Beast is injured and captured by Magneto, and as a prisoner takes an advisory role, giving Bishop insight into how the X-Men of today work as well as some input on possible courses of action to fix the future. Doctor Nemesis, with his specialization in time travel, is recruited to try and repair/replicate Bishop's Time Travel device. Deathlok Prime is brought in to help decide optimal courses of action with his probability calculator. Others are mostly muscle chosen by Magneto, though Whedon is brought in specifically as a lawyer. The dynamic is Bishop and Magneto are both trying to 'fix' the future but with Magneto (and Mystique, who can screw with projected future events really well with shapeshifting and mere plans) trying to subtly manipulate things into a heavier skew towards mutants/their own gains, which in turn causes strange interactions with Domino in particular due to her luck ability and being more in line with Bishop's goals. A hot blooded X-Men team without the cooler heads of Xavier, Jean, and Beast to keep them in check, meanwhile, act as the primary antagonists. Can Bishop determine Magneto's true motivations and overcome them, or perhaps even find a way to work with Magneto without any underlying deception to create an even better future for mutants and humans alike? Time will tell.
Otherworld X Who could believe it but Magma married Mephisto! What did Magma want from the king of bad bargains and has the world been changed? Thats what Dark Beast wants to find out, when Henry Phillip McCoy goes undercover as normal Beast to recruit a team of ignored Xmen: (Beak, Stacy X, Rictor, Xorn, and Warpath) to try to figure out the big scheme from Mephisto so Dark Beast can get on it himself! A still vengeful Magik decides to follow Dark Beast's team, especially after her connection to Limbo is cut off.
Meanwhile a lone Celeste Cuckoo shows up at Madrox and Butterflys secret retirement home asking to hire the retired investigator. Madrox takes the job when he learns from Celeste she has memories of people that don't exist anymore including her own sisters. During their conversation Butterfly herself disappears, Madrox doesn't remember her ever existing...but his dupe does.
Unravel the mystery and journey into the other world, of the under world in Otherworld X!