Broken Leadership (Tag: Anyone)

Slade hadn't expected anyone to come in right now. He had expected most mutants to be trying to get their own things in order. He stood up immediatly and tried to gather himself together. "My apologies I did not mean to disturb you. I should have remained stronger for the camp." Slade tried to hold it together, but on the inside he blamed himself for everything that had happened. "Are you okay Saika?"

He let out a sigh and walked back into his tent motioning for her to follow. "This wasn't supposed to happen this way. We were supposed to have more time. I wasn't ready for it to be so soon. Everything is different than it should be." Slade picked up the book wiped the dirt off of it. He placed it on his desk which was empty of all other material. "I wrote down everything I remembered but its not the same anymore."

"I apologize for not making this anouncement public but I'm actually not from this timeline." He realized that this might be difficult so Slade flipped through the book to the begining of it and read the pages allowed as he decoded his writings. "Day 1: I made it back but had to dig myself out of the ground. It's the same past that I remember within the city. My first steps are being taken to find Dimitri, and then I shall proceed to finding Tomoe and together we will create a haven and training ground for mutants." He closed the book and looked up at her. "I wrote this last year after being sent back in time from 20 years in your future. I've met some of the mutants here before but because that was my timeline they don't know me."

He put up a hand to calm her. "It's not a secret. I tell tthe mutants who ask me where I came from. I try not to keep secrets from those who ask. A few already know like Meg. She's actually someone that I used to know. It's sometimes hard to find a face that I knew when it was older. 20 years is a long time." He hoped he could give her an explanation that wasn't too complicated. He was still getting used to being a leader even though he acted like he had done it for years.

Slade closed his eyes and remembered the world he had left behind. "I was a weapon of FROGS for many years before my mentor found me. I saw many horrible things. Mutants were either enslaved or imprisoned or executed. We were butchered on sight if we were caught trying to escape. Every mutant was given a collar that was fitted with electric charges that would drop us no matter where we were. I saw a mutant get dropped while it was being Attacked by wolves. The body was never found. Unfortunately that's not even the worst part. Mutants began fighting back any way they could. They didn't care if humans were dangerous or not. The world became filled with killers, men, women, even children were willing to kill anything they deemed a threat."

Slade had thought the same thing many times when he remembered the future he had come from. "How do you know I did?" He had gone crazy in his time as a weapon and only after being saved by a FROGS member did he snap back to his senses. "It was a world that couldn't be saved, so my mentor made the ultimate sacrifice and sent me back 20 years to train mutants to defend themselves and to take down the FROGS headquarters. It's going to be quite a feet but I think in time we could do it."