A/N: This is the product of my imagination running wild like so many five-year-olds. This is the prologue. If you like the idea I will continue it with a passion. If you don't I shall continue it halfheartedly and probably give up all together. Flames are welcome, not necessarily enjoyed, but welcome. Suggestions are welcome. So please, bring it on. Enjoy.
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Three years ago a violent band of anti-mutant extremists raided the mansion. They broke down the doors and forced their way inside. The X-men tried to fight them off but their attackers, members of the Friends of Humanity, shot anyone who got in their way. They fought their way up to the stairs and into cerebro where they kidnapped Professor Xavier. They knocked him out and dragged him into the hallway and beat him to death. They shot Beast to death when he tried to defend some of the younger students and they shot and beat Storm to death. They managed to overpower Logan and, because they could not kill him, they kidnapped him and took him away in one of FoH's trucks. The students were raped, shot, or beaten. The mansion itself was completely destroyed by a fire started by one of the FoH members. The remaining X-men fled for the protection of the woods. Several died from starvation and lack of medical care. Those who survived traveled to New York where they were scattered about the city.
It was a disaster. The FoH were nearly untouchable and only a few members went to jail. The raids, however, continued. The Brotherhood house was set on fire and the members followed the X-men to New York. All around the country mutant related violence was rising quickly as the FoH gained hundreds of new members daily. Politics began to heat up as members of the government debated on what to do. Robert Kelly was elected as president shortly after the massacre. He opposed mutants and put many restrictions on the use of their powers. The breaking point came when Magneto was shot by an angry citizen at a riot in Washington DC. Mystique, trying to avenge his attempted assignation, attacked the perpetrator and was shot in the process. Nearby mutants retaliated in the largest human-mutant conflict so far, which was then followed by the largest mass-arrest of mutants at one time. Magneto survived and Mystique was put in a coma and thus began the civil war.
The Brotherhood and remaining X-men struggled to get by. Some grew violent and aggressive, others slowly slipped into the comfort of insanity, others became addicts. The X-men live in various on the second floor of a rundown apartment building except for Kitty who usually lives with Lance and the Brotherhood in an apartment building a few streets down. Those who are employed work as drug dealers, thieves, and prostitutes. World War Three looms on the horizon as tensions between nations mount. Magneto is currently traveling the country with his Acolytes, looking for recruits to aid in the mutant uprising.