Tempus is a mutant with the ability to stop time. She currently serves as a member of "The Five," tasked to resurrect dead mutants with her powers.
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Eva Bell was out with a friend one night, when they spotted David, a boy for whom Eva harbored a crush. The evening went well until Eva's fiercely protective brother, Steven, showed up and began to brawl with David and his friends. Frustrated and scared, Eva's powers manifested forming a temporal sphere about the size of one city block and stopping time inside it for twenty hours. Eva didn't know what happened and was terrified when Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magneto arrived. They told her she was a mutant with some sort of temporal power. With the help of Emma, Eva unfroze time and the Australian task force attempted to take her into custody, but the X-Men intervened and saved her.
They brought her to the former headquarters of the Weapon X Project in Canada. There she met Christopher Muse and the two formed a friendship. Later on she requested to go visit her mother in Gold Coast, Australia, where the Avengers appeared and attempted to take Cyclops and Emma Frost into custody. Eva used her powers to trap the Avengers a time bubble to cease hostilities. After returning to the New Xavier School she showed a minor romantic interest in Cyclops after he arrived with Angel and was dragged into Limbo by Dormammu's attempt to kill Magik.
During the training in Tabula Rasa she disappeared within a time bubble, only to return with several minor injuries, longer hair, and looking several years older. Her dialogue with Celeste, who had read Eva's mind, hinted that she was in another time and place, and she begged Celeste to keep everything a secret from the others. When Triage moved to heal her injuries, she refused to let him touch her, leaving him confused.
When Eva summoned the time bubble in Tabula Rasa, she accidentally traveled through time, first to an alien invaded future, then the American Wild West circa 1895, and finally a version of the year 2099. Upon arrival, she is found by the X-Men of that time, who found her through a powerful energy spike in Cerebro. Quickly realizing who Eva was, they took her to the Sorcerer Supreme of that time period, Magik. Knowing of her predicament, Magik strongly advised not trying to time bubble again until she was properly trained.
Seven years later, Eva has married Danny Warburton and they had a daughter. One day, after meditating with Illyana, a monster that greatly resembled Beast attacked the Sanctum Sanctorum. Magik attempted to hold off the monster, but was fatally wounded. Before the monster could attack again, Eva trapped it with her powers; however, before she could do anything to help Illyana, she demanded Eva go back in time to ensure Beast stand trial for what he had done and never come back to this time period. Eva initially refused to leave, until the monster broke free from her time bubble; as on several earlier occasions, stress and fear triggered Eva's powers and she disappeared into the past in front of her husband and daughter.
Eva once more became "unstuck" in time, but was now frantic to get back to the future and her family. She briefly traveled back to a prehistoric era where she met the imprisoned Morgan le Fay, but soon forced herself to begin jumping forward in time. Eventually, she ended up back in 2099, but quickly realized it was not the one she had left when it was revealed the Sorcerer Supreme was now Tony Stark. Eva begged him to help her get her family back, but was devastated when he told her that not only could she not return to that specific time, but that it, Danny, and their daughter no longer existed. Stark warned her that attempting to return to that time would only cause more serious repercussions, and a heartbroken Eva finally accepted the truth before Stark helped guide her back to the Tabula Rasa.
Eva Bell was a member of "The Five", a group of mutants established by Charles Xavier with the goal to resurrect all of the fallen mutants in a process known as “transcendent”. The five mutants together were able to actually create new clones of the deceased mutants, restoring their bodies, their powers, and their memories as they were at the time of their deaths. Eva lived on the sovereign nation state of Krakoa, created by Xavier, Magneto, and Moira X, where she with the rest of The Five was considered as something sacred to be treasured.
Xavier tasked The Five with resurrecting Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Husk, Archangel, Penance, Mystique, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler who died stopping the creation of Nimrod. The Five had previously resurrected other long deceased mutants, such as Banshee, and Sophie and Esme Cuckoo.
The Five were seen partying following the recognition of Krakoa as a sovereign nation by the United Nations and the first meeting of the Quiet Council.