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My extensive research on time travel and divergent realities points to that the O5 are now from a divergent reality.

Travelling backwards in time (as mentioned above) Countless Fantastic Four comics go into explaining that to go into the past to change history you actually create a divergent reality. However, this all depends on how disruptive the activities in the past have on history. A great example is. In that story, Tempus tricks Willie Lumpkin into going into the past. There he accidentally gets George Washington captured during the War of Independence, and tips off Chicago mobs in the 1920s about the coming stock market crash. This changed the present leaving Earth a primitive wasteland. When the Fantastic Four went back in time to prevent this, they still interfered with history, but their actions put things on the right course, reinstituting their reality and diverging those Lumpkin goofs into another reality.

Second example is, Legion goes into the past and accidentally kills his father, replacing Earth-616 with the Age of Apocalypse. In, Bishop goes back and prevents this from happening setting Earth-616 back to normal, and diverging it from Earth-295.

Pulling Someone Forward in Time

The process of bringing a character out of the past and into the present is a little stickier. But and Unlimited Access Vol 1 and - all have a consistent response:

A character who is pulled forward in time and later returned to their proper era with no physical changes and no memories of the future prevent a divergence from occurring.

So if the characters are put back where they belong, they way they were exactly when they were taken, time resumes its normal course.

Travelling from the Future into the Present

Anytime someone comes from the future and travels to the diverges Earth-616 away from that possible future the longer they interact with it. The various alternate versions of Days of Future Past are a clear example of this. Those futures are still accessible by travelling "sideways" in time, but they are no longer the future of Earth-616.

Status Post Secret Wars

There is a lot of speculation about what realities still exist and what ones don't. Frankly, the logic that realities (such as the Ultimate Universe) were not restored is presumptive at best, because it assumes that the Richards family won't restore the entire multiverse. There are countless realities that have been claimed to have been destroyed or said to have ceased to exist, yet they still endure (House of M, Age of Apocalypse, Days of Future Past etc.)

The All-New X-Men

When considering the fact that Beast came from the future to pull the young X-Men forward to the present, and accounting for all the changes the O5 have undergone (Angel being a big one, flaming wings and all) too much has changed for them to be easily put back in their own timeline.

The following things would have to happen:

(1) All of their enhanced powers would have to be reverted. (2) Their memories would have to be wiped. (3) They would have to be de-aged to approximate how old they were when they left. (Per the Timescale, it's probably been a few months at most, but they have still aged)

Does their reality still exist though? I think that unless it is specifically said to no longer exist we cannot assume that it's not there. It's status hasn't been confirmed (Just as I'd say about the Ultimate Universe. It hasn't been confirmed and other than Miles Morales running around Earth-616, there's nothing to really definitively say that it has been destroyed other than the fact that the Ultimates line was cancelled)