The Very Uninformative Disclaimer- Who created X-Men? A) Me B) Marvel or C) Gambit? Guess what! The answer is B, Marvel!!!! Wow! I didn't create X-Men, and I'm not really sure how Gambit could create himself. That would be just....odd 0_o anyway, also, some ideas and situations from this story were also taken from the book Shade's Children which is by Garth Nix. Not CG. Got it? Good. No suing? Good.
Rating- PG-13 for violence and language.
Summary- The year: 2025 AD in an alternate timeline. Mutants are hunted by a mysterious group known as "the hunters" and are either killed on the spot or brought to a mysterious place in Antarctica known as "Mutant City". All the X-Men we know and love are presumed dead, but their sons and daughters live on. This is their story as they live their parent's legacy as the Neo-X-Men.
Author's note- Yes, I know I should be working on The Fifth Oracle, but then I got this idea that just couldn't wait. This one's a lot darker than The Fifth Oracle, and more violent, but give it a chance. Oh yeah, please don't flame me about anything having to do with who gets married and deaths and stuff. I chose based on who I know most about, and also who made the most sense. You can flame me about anything else, just not about that, 'kay? Kay! Enjoy the story. BTW: I know the title sucks, so if you have any better, more spiffy ideas, tell me, 'kay? Oh yes, some ideas came from the book "Shade's Children". If you haven't read it, read it! It's an awesome book! So yeah, on with the story ^_^. Expect me to update T.F.O. sometime this weekend, and possibly the next chapter of this too. Depends if I'm inspired or not.
LEGACY
>PROLOGUE<
2025 AD
There is a mansion in Westchester, New York that extends the grasp of the law. The outside world thinks that it is merely a school for talented students. Once it had been the operating base of the X-Men, but after the originals left to go and leave normal lives, that changed. Now, it was the one refuge in the world for mutants.
After the pass of the 2015 Mutant-tracking Act, everything started going down hill. Magneto would have called it the return of the Holocaust. Slowly, mutants were kicked out of their jobs, and banned from their schools. Then finally, it happened: the explosion. The hunters were formed. No one knew exactly who created them: someone in the government, but no one person could be blamed for it. They'd come and take everything, slashing, burning, and killing. If they met up with you and you were a mutant, you were dead meat. The choice was theirs: death, or Mutant City. No one quite knew what lay in the city in Alaska that was contained completely in a dome of red glass. Most people's best guess was concentration camp. Few escaped. Those that did were almost sure to die anyway, considering the tracker they carried, implanted in their arm, unless they made it to Westchester. Few did. Few knew it really existed.
The mansion now was old, and rather unkempt as there were many more pressing problems than the appearance of the base. Years and years ago, the first five students had come there: Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Robert Drake, Hank McCoy, and Warren Worthington. Soon more and more joined, became the X-Men, and fought for the cause. Six years ago, the sons and daughters of six of them returned, as orphans, to fight for the cause.