A/N: kanna here! I am SO SORRY it took this long, but here we are with the Shinkenger crossover we've all been waiting for: Shinkenger/X-Men: Apocalypse!

This story is set a few months after the previous installment, Overdose, so if you haven't read that, I strongly suggest you go and read it.

I don't own Shinkenger, X-Men, or whatever else that isn't original that I might decide to throw in here.

And to answer the lingering question that may or may not be on your minds: there might be a mutant design contest. I haven't decided yet.

Another question you might have: Will this storyline continue into the rest of the X-Men movies? Well, the answer to that is...probably. There's a new one coming out next year called New Mutants. Will it feature Kotoha and possibly the other Shinkengers? Possibly. I have to see the movie, which is still in production and won't be out until next year.

Yet another question you might have: Will this storyline continue into the Dark Phoenix saga? Well, the answer to that is maybe. I haven't read the X-Men comics in a really long time, so if it doesn't take place too far after the Apocalypse movie, then I'll do it. But I don't think the Dark Phoenix saga (in terms of the movies) comes out until next year or the year after. So if you want me to go by comic logic or movie logic after this ends, let me know.

Kotoha woke with a start from the bed that she and Alex now shared. There was an earthquake, which Kotoha didn't understand. Why would there be an earthquake in New York? Something had to be up. She looked at the clock and saw it was 7:30 AM. That meant that Hank was up, Charles was probably up, and Alex...well, she let him sleep as she got out of bed and got into the shower. She thought about the earthquake.

After getting in the shower, she got dressed and ready for the day. It was now 8:15 AM, so she went to the kitchen to go and get some breakfast. Hopefully she'd see Hank or Charles there. The two were amazed that Kotoha hadn't turned into bridezilla from all the wedding planning. The wedding date was getting closer. Kotoha sent invitations to the Shinkengers (minus Chiaki, who no one had heard from, surprisingly), and they all said they would be there. Takeru and Mako were both already in America and living together. They hadn't gotten married yet, and Kotoha wondered what was taking them so long.

Had Takeru not proposed yet? According to Mako, who Kotoha now talked to more frequently since her move to America, she was hopeful Takeru would ask, but wasn't pushing anything. Kotoha hoped that Takeru would propose soon, and Mako felt the same way. Mako was working at her parents' restaurant as a waitress, and Takeru worked at the same restaurant as a maitre'd. Someone had to pay the bills for the house they shared, and while Mako's parents offered, Takeru and Mako decided to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the house together.

Kotoha also kept in touch with Genta, although not as much as Takeru and Mako. He was in Paris working at a three Michelin star restaurant, but he, too, found love. Her name was Eponine, and from the pictures of her that Genta sent, she really was a beauty. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and skin that was white like ivory. Genta said that the language barrier that should have been there was nonexistent, as both spoke English pretty well. After dating Eponine for two years, Genta proposed to her and she said yes. The two of them, like Kotoha and Alex, were also in the midst of planning their wedding.

No one had heard from Chiaki. Takeru spoke to him every now and then, but their frequent chats were getting less and less. Last Takeru had heard, Chiaki was studying video game design at a university in Japan. It was almost as if Chiaki disappeared off the face of the earth.

The school had just opened a few months ago. Kotoha taught Japanese and Alex taught hand-to-hand combat. Charles, Hank, Kotoha, and Alex all had teaching positions, and there was a sudden influx of students when the school opened, including Alex's younger brother, Scott. His power was similar to Alex's, only it came from his eyes. It was still hard to believe that there were so many mutants in the world. However, Charles managed to track a rather large number down within the state and got them to attend what was now Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

Kotoha found she connected well with one of the school's first few students, Jean Grey. Jean was telepathic and telekinetic. While she wasn't in any of Kotoha's classes, Kotoha was one of the first people that she encountered at the school and often went to her for emotional support. Now, Kotoha was downstairs and saw Hank beginning to pour his coffee. "Hey," he said as he set the coffee pot down. She waved to him. "You all right?"

"The earthquake woke me up. Didn't you feel it?" Kotoha sighed as she grabbed the kettle and filled it with water so she could make tea. She turned the stove on so the water could boil and then went to get a mug from the cabinet.

Hank nodded. "Why would an earthquake happen in New York?"

"My thoughts exactly."

"I turned on the news when I woke up, and apparently these earthquakes have been happening all over the world. At the same time."

"What do you think?"

Hank sighed. "I'm not sure what to think. We'd have to use Cerebro to investigate, and only Charles can do that."

"Did you wake up in the middle of the night, too?"

"From what? That telepathic wave?"

"Yeah."

"Was it Jean?" Kotoha asked even though she had a feeling she already knew the answer.

"Yes," Charles said as he rolled into the room. "Her nightmares were different this time, though."

"Well, it could have counted for something I saw while I was in my lab earlier. There was some kind of tremor. Like an energy surge. I picked it up on one of my meters," Hank explained.

"So you're saying Jean created it?" Charles asked.

"No, I'm saying something else did. Maybe she was reacting to it, I don't know. But the epicenter was halfway around the world."

"'Halfway around the world?'" Kotoha repeated.

Hank nodded and turned to Charles. "I was hoping you could take a look into it," Hank said.

"I'll get Alex. We'll meet you at Cerebro in a few minutes," Kotoha sighed.

After a look in Cerebro, where Charles discovered that the CIA was involved with investigating the earthquakes as well, it was decided that Kotoha and Alex would accompany Charles to the CIA to see Moira MacTaggert. Kotoha vaguely remembered Moira from when they fought off the missiles in Cuba, but Charles kept having slip-ups in his speech when he talked about going to the CIA. Upon arrival at the CIA, Charles tricked the guards into letting the group in. "So, you really haven't seen her in all these years? You never looked her up? Not even in Cerebro?" Alex asked.

"Alex, what do you take me for? Some kind of pervert?" Charles countered. "I... Yes, I looked her up once. Twice. But not in a long time."

"This is going to be interesting," Kotoha muttered to herself. "If I remember correctly, you erased her memory of us, right?" Charles nodded and got the CIA workers in the room on the way to Moira's office to freeze where they were.

"Before the world knew about mutants, I have felt...it was the best thing for her," Charles explained.

"For her? Or for you?" Kotoha asked.

"It didn't really matter what was best for me." After a bit of silence, the three arrived at the door of Moira's office. Alex opened the door and the three walked in. Moira had barely aged a day. "Hello. Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Professor-"

"Charles Xavier," Moira interrupted. Alex and Kotoha exchanged a look of surprise. Charles had erased her memories...right? "I know exactly who you are."

"You do?" Charles asked. If he was shocked, he hid it well.

"Of course I do. I've read all of your papers. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. Moira MacTaggert," Moira introduced herself and offered a hand to Charles, which he shook.

"Alex Summers," Alex introduced as he tried to keep his tone neutral. "This is my fiancee, Kotoha Hanaori."

"Pleased to meet you," Kotoha said as she shook Moira's hand.

Moira invited everyone to sit down, and after a bit of prying into her life from Charles's slip-ups, they finally got to the point. "We were wondering if you could tell us about what happened yesterday in Egypt," Charles requested.

"I'm afraid that's classified information," Moira said. "And, I don't mean to be rude, but...how did you get in here?" Charles convinced her they had level five clearance (whatever that meant to Kotoha was a mystery), and Moira got out a bunch of files and fished through them until she found what she was looking for. "Ever since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of G-d. I was tracking one of them. This group called themselves Ashir En Sabah Nur, named after an ancient being they believed to be the world's first."

"The world's first..." Kotoha trailed off in confusion.

"Mutant," Moira finished.

"I thought mutants didn't evolve until this century," Alex mused.

"That's the common theory, yes. But these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens of thousands of years ago. And they believe he will rise again," Moira said. "They've been searching ancient sites all round the world for clues. These hieroglyphs described a specific set of powers greater than any man can possess."

"They think he lived that long?" Kotoha asked incredulously.

"Yes and no. They believe he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body, and whenever he was close to death he would just take on a new body," Moira explained. "So, these may have been the bodies of mutants enabling him to take their powers amassing varies abilities over the years."

"An all powerful mutant," Charles said with wide eyes. He exchanged a look with Kotoha and Alex.

"Exactly. And wherever this being was, he always had 4 principle followers. Disciples. Protectors he would imbue their powers."

"Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," Alex realized. "He got that one from the Bible."

"Or the Bible got it from him. And wherever he ruled, eventually, it would end in disaster. Cataclysm. Some kind of...apocalypse."

"The end of the world," the three mutants realized aloud. Moira had to go with them. Charles quickly persuaded Moira to go back to the mansion with them, and she agreed.