The Long Road (Scott Summers X Male Reader)

Ch 42. Days Of The Future Past

"Hey..."

...

"Hey, you alive?"

...

"No? Fine by me."

...

Scott hears someone faintly talking to him. As he regains consciousness, he feels his entire body in pain. However, he feels something else. He feels someone's presence. The same person grabs his headset from his body.

"This thing is really ugly. Practical... but ugly."

Scott slowly opens his eyes, as suddenly his mutant powers activates and lasers comes out of eyes. Whoever it is yelps and step back as Scott quickly closes his eyes.

"The fu-! I thought you were dead."

"Give it back..." Scott mutters.

"Sure, if you stop alerting yourself."

Scott feels the headset being dropped on his chest, making him yelp and groan in pain. He lift up his arm through the pain to grab it and put it on. Afterwards, he opens his eyes. All he sees is a ruined ceiling inside a small dark room. He feels someone touching him, specifically his pockets. He tries to move his head, but it hurts too much.

"Who are you?"

"Mmm? You got blind or something?"

"No... my entire body hurts..." Scott tiredly replies. He's sure he got some burn marks on his body. Speaking of which, he reminds himself what happened with the mission. "What happened?"

"World turned to shit. That's what happened." The stranger replies.

Now that Scott could focus better, he hears a man's voice. Though familiar, he doesn't recognize who it is. "Can you help me...?"

"Help you? Last time I checked, you screwed me over, big time. You and your little friends got what you deserve."

"Deserved?" Scott mutters.

"Most of them are dead." Scott stiffens. "I don't really know who, since I don't care for any for them, but some survived. Wish I could say about my people..."

"The X-Men... are dead?"

"Most of them, not all. At least, that's what I think, unless the sentinels got them." The 'stranger' responds. He let out a sigh and stands up. "Well, looks like you got nothing useful. Really thought you got a snack or somethin'. Guess not."

"What are you going to do?"

"Leaving."

Scott quickly gets his act together and tries to stand up, but his entire body is hurting, so he's failing. "Wait!" Scott tries to look who it is, but the person's back is turned. Although it's clear it's a man judging by the height and build, he's wearing a cloak. "Don't leave me...! Help me please...! My husband is hurting somewhere... a-and I need to save him...!"

"Y/N can go fuck himself..."

Scott rolls on his stomach and grabs the stranger's leg, who looks at the end. "Please... I beg of you...!"

It takes a couple of seconds until the man responds. "What value do you have?"

"Huh?"

"Convince me, because right now you look like deadweight."

Scott's thinks about it. The stranger would obviously take a no for 'it's the right thing to do'. "If the X-Men survived, they're somewhere and whatever they got, they can give it to you."