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"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single
celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking
thousands and thousands of years. But
every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward." ~ Professor Charles
Francis Xavier
"From
the dawn of time we came, moving silently, down through the centuries. Living many secret lives, hoping to survive
to the time of the Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the
last. No one has ever known we were
among you…until now."
~ Juan
Sanchez Villa Lobos Ramirez
Immortal X
Chapter One
"All X-Men to the War Room, Immediately!" Xavier's
voice rang out through the school, via the speakers. Wolverine and Rogue were in the Danger Room. They looked up from the robots they had been
mercilessly beating on, and Rogue said,
"That's us, Sugah."
With that, they were off and running towards the War
Room, the briefing room where the X-Men learned about their missions. Professor X, Psylocke and Gambit were
already there, and Jubilee came running in a few seconds behind Rogue and
Logan.
"What'd I miss?" She asked breathlessly.
"Nothin' yet." Logan answered. "Chuck hasn't
started."
At the word "Chuck", Professor X frowned, then
asked,
"Is this all that's coming?"
"Sure, Professor," Rogue answered. "Archangel, Cyclops
and Colossus are at Harry's in town, and Storm and Jean are at the movies. Looks like it's only us."
"So, what de mission, Professeur?" Gambit asked,
impatiently.
"Yeah, spit it out, Prof." Logan said, even more
impatiently.
The Professor hesitated a second, then said,
"It's probably not too much of a problem. Cerebro picked up some interesting activity,
and I want you to investigate it."
"All of us?" Jubilee asked, hopefully.
The Professor smiled at Jubilee. "Yes, Jubilee, you
can go too. I don't expect it to be too
dangerous. And if it does get
dangerous, there'll be enough of you there to take care of it."
"So what's goin' on?" asked Rogue
"And where is it?" Psylocke wanted to know.
"I'll attempt to answer both your questions at
once." The Professor started. "All I've
been able to figure out is that a great amount of energy, not mutant in origin,
is being gathered on the west coast. I
want you to go find out what is happening, and report back to me with your
findings."
"Where on the west coast?" Jubilee asked.
"A city called Seacouver."
"Doesn't sound to difficult." Wolverine said. "When
do we go?"
