X-MEN

CHILDREN OF THE ATOM

CHAPTERS

1. MUTANTS

PART 1. XAVIER

PART 2. ERICK LENSHERR

2. MY WIFE AND KIDS

3. OXFORD MAN

4. FRIENDS

5. JEAN

6. RECRUITS

7. RELATIONSHIPS

8. SENATOR KELLY

9. SINISTER PLOT

PART 1. MOIRA MCTAGGERT

PART 2. REVELATION

10. FIRST BLOOD

11. MAGNETO

12. THE X-MEN

EPILOGUE – THE JUGGERNAUT

CHAPTER 1. MUTANTS

PART 1. XAVIER

XAVIER MANSION - 1930

The Xavier family can be traced back to the early eighteen hundreds. The Xavier mansion itself was built in 1827. Over the years it has been remodeled by each generation. It is the year 1930 and Doctor Brian Xavier marries Sharon Arvand. A year later she gives birth to a son they name Charles Francis Xavier. Brian a nuclear researcher died when Charles turns nine years old. Three years later Sharon Xavier starts dating Doctor Kurt Marko a former friend of Brian's.

"Mother will there be a war?" Charles asks looking at a news paper.

"I don't know son…God I hope not…"

Sharon and Charles are at the beach with Kurt and his son Cain. "The Germans lost one war why would they go and start another?" Kurt says. They ride the rollercoaster and go swimming, they eat hotdogs and cotton candy.

("Damn she's a fox…") – ("I wish this day was over already…") – Charles grabs the sides of his head as he hears voices and experiences a headache. His mother takes him to see different Doctors but they all say that he is fine.

"There is a Doctor by the name of Strange…Doctor Peter Strange…He is an old friend…Don't tell him I sent you…but call and make an appointment…"

A week later Sharon takes her son to see Doctor Strange. She coughs while waiting in the waiting area, with her arm around her son, rubbing his shoulder. "Sharon and Charles Xavier!" A nurse calls. They get up after about a ten minute wait. The nurse is clutching a clipboard in her arm, "This way please!" She walks them out the waiting room and into one of the treatment rooms.

"Good Afternoon…Now who is the patient?"

"Good Afternoon Doctor this is my son Charles…He has been experiencing severe headaches and complaining of hearing voices…I have taken him to see multiple Doctors, Psychiatrists, and they all say the same thing…Nothing is wrong with him…Can you help him?"

"Well let us see what we can see…"

Peter Strange examines Charles' eyes, his mouth, he looks into his ear on both sides. Then he asks Charles to take a deep breath in and out a few times to examine his heart beat, then takes a blood and urine sample for testing. Afterwards he touches his head. "I would like to perform further tests…" He places a device on Charles' head and prints out readings on paper. Later Strange has Charles wait outside.

"Your son isn't sick…but I do know the cause of the headaches…"

"What?"

"Your son is a mutant…"

"I beg your pardon?"

"A mu-tant! His body is changing in some extraordinary ways…It is called the x-gene few Doctors know what to look for and those that do believe that humans are about to experience the next stage of human evolution…"

"I…Wow…I mean…Okay is there a cure?"

He laughs, "You may as well try to find a cure for red hair or dark skin…I think your son may develop telepathy or the ability to read minds…I have seen it before…"

"This is the first time I am hearing about this…"

"Well few people know about it…Our government has documented cases…In other countries they lock people like this away…and in some places they perform experiments…All I can do is prescribe mental exercises they may help your son control this ability…"

"You say the government has documented cases…Are you going to report my son?"

"No ma'am…I am here to help and heal I do not work for the government…but you may want to keep this a secret…"

"Thank you doctor…"

"So what did Doctor Strange say?" Kurt asks later when they are on a date.

"Charles is fine…Doctor Strange prescribed some mental exercises that will help…He says its revolutionary…"

He smiles, "Well I am glad I could help…" He clears his throat. "Sharon…I love you and I want to be with you…Please will you marry me?" He passes the open ring box across the table.
"Kurt…I…"
He stops her from completing the sentence: "Please… think about it." He says interrupting and kisses her cheek.
When Sharon returns to the Manor she goes to tuck Charles into bed. "You know mother I am not a little boy any more…"

Sharon smiles, "I know my son, but you will always be my little boy…"

"Did you have fun on your date…" Charles asks changing the subject

She smiles, "I did...What do you think of me marrying Kurt?"

Charles sits up, "Really mother…I like him and Cain…I always wanted a brother…"

She kisses his forehead, "Did you do your exercises?"

"Yes mother…"

Two months later Kurt and Sharon marry at her home. It was a small private affair with a guest list of only close family and friends on Sharon's side of the family. Charles gives his mother away and Cain serves as best man. "Hey Cain when our parents go away for their honeymoon you and I will have the house to ourselves…" He says after the ceremony.

Cain shoves Xavier to the ground, "You little punk…stay the hell away from me…We are step brothers, nothing more…get that through your fat head…"

"Cain! What are you doing…" Sharon yells walking up to them.

"Nothing momma we are just playing…"

"I asked you a question…"

Cain frowns, "So what you're not my mother!"

Sharon slaps him across the face, Cain sneers and tries to hit her, but Kurt catches his fist. "What is going on here?" Kurt asks.

"Your son shoved my son down to the ground…"

Kurt looks at Cain, "Honey I'm sure they were just playing…"

"It didn't look that way to me!"

"Charles did he push you…"

"No we were just playing and I lost my footing…"

Sharon coughs, "You see honey they were just playing…"

Kurt pulls his son to the side where no one can see them, "What the hell is the matter with you…are you trying to ruin everything? You screw this up for me and I will send you back to boarding school… Do you get me?"

"Ha! You can't afford it anymore…"

Kurt slaps him, "Don't you talk back to me…boy!"

Concerned about leaving her son alone with Cain while she is away Sharon hires a nanny to watch them. As time passes Cain bullies Charles every chance he gets. Four years after they are marrried Sharon falls ill. "I want to see my mother…" Charles demands, he is sixteen.

"Your mother is fine…" Charles looks into his mind, ("And soon all that money will be mine…")

Charles pushes his way into Kurt's mind, ("You will stand aside and allow me to see my mother…")

"I'm sorry Charles if you wish to see your mother go right ahead…" When he enters the room he cries.

"Oh my son you must be strong…"

"Mother…I love you…"

"I love you as well my brave boy…"

"Mother…I…I think Kurt married you for your money…I…I read his mind…"

"We have to do something about that don't we…" Sharon calls her lawyer and secretly has her will changed. "Charles you are a mutant…Promise me you will only ever use your gift to help people…"

"I promise mother…"

Sharon dies a few months later at the reading of the will Charles is left everything. Cain storms out after the reading of the will. Kurt threatens Charles by saying that if he didn't give him some money he would reveal his secret that he is a mutant. Charles wipes his mind and sends him away.

PART 2. ERIK LENSHERR

POLAND 1941

Germany invaded Poland and as always they persecute the Jews living in the country they conquer. Erick Lensherr is thirteen years of age a bright young man whose world had been turned upside down by the German invasion. He stands arm and arm with his family as they are led to the gas house. Then a soldier walks up and separates Erick from his mother and father.

"No!" He screams pointing his hand at the soldier. He leaves his feet and is slammed into the wall. Others try to subdue Erik, but he points his hands and makes a fist. That is when the metal helmets worn by the soldiers crush their skulls, seven men are killed at the same time. A soldier manning the mounted machine gun points it at him. He fires but Erick extends his hands stopping the bullets. Then he sends them back at the man manning the machine gun. Several soldiers grab his parents and point their guns at them. Erick rips their guns away then he rises into the air and as he does the gates start to vibrate. Metal screws and nails start to loosen. When he is fifteen feet in the air Erick unleashes an EMP wave.

Erick frees his people and gives them the enemies' guns. They fight back and Erick destroys the base. They take the vehicles and Erick magnetizes the trucks and push them along the ground through the countryside. They stop at sunset to make camp. "You are like me…" A teenage girl says to Erick.

The others are grateful for what Erik did, but they also fear him. He looks at the girl, "What do you mean?"

"I can do this…" She jumps up into a tree twenty-five feet and then back down. Then she runs off at an incredible speed and returns. "Can you teach me?"

"What's your name kid?"

"Ruth…"

As they travel Erik teaches Ruth to control her growing powers which include super speed, heightened senses, super strength, healing, and agility. After a month of traveling through the wilds they finally make it to Switzerland. Erik stays with his parents until he turns sixteen then he travels to England to enlist in the military. Erik charges from the troop carrier using a magnetic field to repel the bullets flying at his unit. Erik jumps into a trench and points his hand at a German heavy artillery. The shell explodes inside the cannon and then he leads a charge into the enemy lines.

A man teleports behind enemy lines and decapitates a German soldier then he vanishes and reappears taking another man's gun. He shoots down three more soldiers. Ruth a little older and disguised as a man with her hair cut short runs and leaps fifty yards onto a tank. She rips open the hatch throws a grenade into the tank. As she leaps off the tank it explodes she hits the ground and rolls forward. Erik finds a place then unleashes an EMP disabling the German weapons. This allows the Allied forces to storm the beach.

After it is over Erik, Azazel and Ruth sit on a German tank eating and talking. "Lieutenant! Colonel Manson would like a word with you…" A man says walking up to Erik.

"You wanted to see me sir?"

"I did at ease…This is Major William Stryker…"

Erik salutes, "You and your team have an outstanding record…"

"Thank you sir…" Erik replies.

"I have asked that you and your team more specifically Privates Azazel and Reed be transferred to my command…"

"Why? What is going on?"

"We have been questioning German Prisoners and have been getting some very weird reports about you and Privates, Azazel and Reed."

Just then there was a flash and Azazel appears. He grabs Erik and they vanish in a flash of red light and smoke. "What the hell Azazel…"

"I had to get you out of there…Two men attacked me and Ruth…I was able to get her out, but they darted her…" Ruth is unconscious on a couch.

"Where are we?"

"The safe house in Zurich…"

Ruth stirs, "What the hell did they hit me with?"

Erik takes a sample of her blood. "Wow this stuff was designed to incapacitate mutants…No matter what their abilities…" Erik is staring through a microscope. Then he looks at Azazel, "You might want to put that makeup back on…"

Azazel is wiping makeup from his face to reveal his red skin. "Why?"

"I need you to find out about our new friend William Stryker and who made this stuff that suppresses mutant abilities…"

"You know we are AWOL and both the US and British militaries will be looking for us…" Ruth says.

"Maybe I should shave and color my hair…"