A man stood on the balcony of a giant warehouse. He was watching as 1000's of sentinels were being assembled.
Sentinels are robots that stand 100 feet tall. They have one sole purpose…capture mutants. They are also affective killing machines, they take every order without question. No room for mistakes, no room for failure, no room for mercy.
This man's name is William Stryker. Stryker considers himself a patriot and a man of honor. But, in truth, he is a cold, heartless, military man who has been trying to solve "the mutant problem" his whole life.
"Dr. Trask?" Stryker called down to a scientist working on the main floor.
"Yes Mr. Stryker?" Trask replied coming up to him.
"Are we set to proceed within the next 2 hours?"
"Sir, with all do respect that's impossible. We haven't even seen these things in action," he said pointing to the sentinels, "I need at least another 2 weeks to work out the kinks."
"No Trask we proceed today!"
"But-"
"That's an order!" Stryker sighed. "Trask you realize that today we will make the world safe again, by taking these mutants out." Stryker handed Trask a file. "today we will rid this country of those vile, mutant insects! And no man, women, child, adult, mutant, or human will get in my way!!!"
Stryker glared into Trasks eyes for what seemed minutes.
"Are we clear?"
"ye-ye-yes sir" Trask stuttered.
"Good then back to work" Stryker added dismissing him.
Trask nodded and quickly descended the stairs. He sat at his station and started downloading files on the mutants they were targeting.
Another tech. named Greg Miller approached Trask.
"What the hell was that about?" Greg asked.
"Nothing, just Stryker being Stryker is all."
"When do we precede with the launch?"
Trask glanced at his watch. "Plan A begins at 7:30 AM."
"All right."
"Hey Greg, I'm a little loaded at the minute. Can you finish uploading these files for me." Trask said handing him Strykers folder.
"Sure thing, but I'm going to need to use the lab in the back."
"All right just do what you gotta do."
"See ya later" Greg said walking off.
Greg headed out of the main area, and went to the boiler room. He glanced both ways before entering. He locked the door behind him and headed to a sealed door in the back of the room. He unlocked it and opened it. Inside was the real Greg Miller bound and unconscious. The fake Greg closed and locked the door again and then morphed back into his real self.
He pulled out a phone and dialed a number.
"Salutations." The man on the other side answered.
"Hey Beast it's Mason." The shapeshifter replied.
"Did you obtain the files, George?" Beast asked
"Yeah but we have a little problem so get me out of here." George said
"All right I'm sending Jean and NightCrawler now." Beast said hanging up.
A minute later there was a whoosh and 2 more mutants had joined George Mason.
"Vat is wrong?" Nightcrawler asked.
"When I was disguised as this guy here," George said showing them Greg, "I accidently ran into him and I panicked. Jean you need to wipe his memory.
"Not a problem" Jean said. She lightly touched his forehead then untied him.
"When he wakes up he'll think this was all a dream and he just dosed off. Nightcrawler move him to that desk over there."
"Da"
"Nightcrawler take us out of here. We need to show the X-Men this file." George said
"Here ve go" Nightcrawler said as he grabbed them both and teleported them out of there and into their headquarters.
They walked into the war room.
"What is it Shadow?" Their leader Cyclops asked.
"I'm not sure but several mutants are being targeted by a general William Stryker, and cut the codename crap, it's Mason."
"When will they be attacked?" Cyclops asked
"According to this file all within the next 5 hours, and the first one is at 7:30." George said handing him the file.
"That's in 30 minutes, I'll alert the professor"
"Wait, there's more."
"What?"
"I'm not sure where, or when, or how, but all I know is today something else is going down, something big. And it's happening today."
"All right we'll look into that but first we need to get to this first mutant before the sentinels do." Cyclops looked at the picture of the man being targeted. "He's in California. Gambit and Rogue are there so I'll alert them."
"By the way what is this mutants name?" George asked
"His name is Jack Bauer."