Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of the X-men or the Avengers, what I do own is my characters Sieg, Noah and Virgil
This is a spinoff of my Struggle of the Apprentice series, this is something I've done for fun but it also sets up scenarios for the Hunt and my future Second Coming fic. This is set after my Rise of the Dead fic, so spoilers for that, plus you might not understand this without reading that fic. So without further a due I present my fic
From X-men to Avengers
Chapter 1: Formation/Aftermath
Scott Summers had lost count of the amount of times repairs needed to be done to the mansion. In fact it was rare for some kind of damage not being done to the mansion. This was where it all began for the X-men; it was something that remained a constant presence in Xavier's dream. Teaching young mutants to accept humanity was essential to uniting humans and mutants. In the wake of the Gothica incident, it was decided by Xavier that the mansion would be rebuilt into a smaller facility while the students and younger X-men would go to Utopia. Magneto's old asteroid M had been converted into its own nation floating on the sea. The Xavier institute would be the mutant populations link to the world of humanity. Wolverine was making the finishing touches to the mansion gate, attaching the sign to the front.
"X-Men Corporation" Logan read gruffly.
"That was Crowner's idea, not exactly a step up from Stark Tower is it Logan?" Jean asked.
She wore what would be the standard casual uniform for the X-men, which resembled what the X-men wore during their street clothing days. Scott walked to his wife's side, kissing her cheek softly. Ever since it had been revealed that the Scott that had an affair with Emma was in fact a Skrull Jean and the real Scott spent as much time together as they could. Logan had even taken to spending his nights at the bars he got drunk at, while other X-men with heightened senses tried their own methods to block out the sounds emanating from the couple's bedroom.
"Never thought I'd see the day we'd make the mansion smaller" Bobby said.
The youngest of the founding X-men chuckled as he looked at the scaled down mansion. It was grand, but not as big as school facilities. Now the mansion was purely a base for the X-men. Xavier worked on Cerebra down below. The machine only detected a handful of mutants, most of them centred on Utopia. Xavier removed the helmet and rolled his way out of the machine. Getting used to his paralysis was no difficult task considering he had spent half of his adult life on a wheelchair, something he had been reduced to until Forge and Beast could build a more advanced hover chair. Xavier turned his head to the danger room, already hearing explosions coming from the rebuilt simulation chamber. He rolled into the control room, to see Gambit running the simulations.
"Ah Professor, Remy think we've got some mighty fine upgrades that every body was dazzling to test out, hope you don't mind" The Cajun mutant said.
"Not at all, I assume the safety protocols are on" Xavier said.
"Don't worry professor Remy's got that covered, some bruises, but no more buzz saws, just plain old holograms"
But even a hologram could be life threatening, considering these holograms were made from Shiar technology. X-men were now practicing fighting ever-changing opponents. Gambit was testing different simulated environments and opponents. Rogue and her team ran through the midst of a Brood nest. She accessed Havok's powers, blowing several Brood bugs away with solar blasts. Colossus charged head first into the Brood, whilst Nightcrawler teleported them into the air. He then landed and kicked a Brood across the head. Gambit pushed a button, changing the scenery to a roman battlefield. A centurion tried to slash Shadowcat across the chest, but Kitty phased through the soldier and kicked him round the back of the head. Rogue then accessed Wolverine's powers, healing a knife wound and punching the legionnaire across the head.
"Come on Gambit, turn the difficulty up a bit" Kid Vulcan said as he blasted away several legionnaires.
"Be careful what you wish for" Gambit smirked.
With a press of a button he made the little brother of Cyclops regret his words. The scenery shifted into the savage land. Kid Vulcan and Darwin widened their eyes as a group of dinosaurs rampaged towards them.
"Like I said be careful what you wish for" Gambit said before bursting into laughter.
Beast grunted as he heard yet another explosion from the Danger Room. The sooner the danger room was sound proofed the better because it got in the way of his work. He finished running the scan over his patient and slid her out of the cylinder medical scanner. Laurie Collins sighed in relief, feeling slightly claustrophobic from the experience.
"I thought I went through something like this when you found me during the invasion" Laurie said, going to the changing room to change out of her medical robe.
"That was a scan for your biology, what I've carried out just now is a temporal energy scanning in order to discover special particles consisting of a series of microbes fused with your very DNA structure" Hank explained.
"Am I supposed to understand any of that?" Laurie asked, putting on her shirt and jeans and stepping out of the changing room.
"Well in short those particles are the life forms found in the space between realities, whatever bought you to our reality passed you through that space, where these microns interacted with you in order to adapt your body to our own reality"
"So they're harmless?"
"Oh yes, perfectly, in fact they're basically bacteria" Hank said.
"Don't use those words…you'll make her feel dirty" Warren said as he and Betsy walked into the room.
"So what's the prognosis then Hank?" Betsy asked.
"I spoke with Reed Richards, Laurie here is definitely an alternate version of our Laurie" Beast said.
"But I have her memories, or my memories…god this alternate reality stuff is complicated, I remember getting shot at and before that my arm being half destroyed by Kevin" Laurie said.
"And yet you have a perfectly healthy hand, it could be that your world is very similar to ours, or those particles altered your memories in order to help you adapt to this world, I'm not quite sure, I'll have to interview the other alternate reality counter parts"
"What counterparts?" Angel asked.
"The ones that Gothica recruited, it turns out they weren't clones as we thought, but alternate versions of us, I found similar particles to the ones on Laurie's body on them"
"You haven't talked to them?" Betsy asked.
"I fear I never will talk to them, Emma is taking them to Utopia with the students"
Betsy and Warren both had looks of disdain at the mention of Emma's name. Despite the revelation that Emma had been brainwashed to serve Osborn she still had in fact been secretly meeting with his Cabal. She had to be punished for her actions, so she was chosen to take the students to Utopia where she would teach them. Emma dressed in her usual white attire. A white blouse with the X symbol on her chest, a cloak attached to the blouse, opera style gloves and form fitting white trousers and boots. She sat in the pilot seat of the new X-wing with her chaperones Warpath and Rachel Grey watching her closely. Sat behind them were the Xavier students, the legacies of the X-men.
From the old Paragon squad sat Trance and Pixie with Emma's private students the Stepford Cuckoos. Gambit's old student Bling sat with Ink, Cipher, Anole and Blindfold. Indra sat with Loa, Elixir, Surge and Prodigy. Emma noted that only two of her students were sitting together; Mercury and Rockslide. The two of them were sitting with the young mutant Noah, a mutant with control of light and darkness and possible schizophrenia or an actual entity shared his body with him. No one knew for sure what he was, but right now he was a mutant whom could benefit from the facility Emma was setting up on Utopia.
"So Cuckoos how does it feel to have emotions again?" Pixie asked the triplets.
"I wanted to find Sieg" Celeste said.
Phoebe and Mindee glared at Pixie while Trance smacked her elbow against her chest. Emma made a note to talk to her three "daughters" when they got settled into Utopia. Right now her concern was primarily on Laurie, Laura and Sooraya. The clone of Wolverine and Dust told Emma they would get to Utopia there own way, while Laurie instead chose to remain in Westchester with her mother. Emma knew that something was on the horizon, the arrival of these alternate reality versions of the X-men were build-ups to something bigger. Plus there were still people out there whom wanted the first mutant child born after M-day dead. Scott and Jean had entrusted Hope to Cable, whom had disappeared after the Gothica incident. But Emma intended to make sure that her students and mutant kind as a whole was ready for whatever was on its way.
They needed to be ready for whatever was coming. He knew Gothica was just the beginning, Laura told him about Hank's findings concerning the alternate reality X-men.
Cyclops and Wolverine thought that Gothica was still out there. But he wasn't their priority. The priority was Hope, keeping her and Cable safe and other mutants. That would require work behind the scenes. They needed to be harder and darker; the rules of super heroes didn't apply to them. Domino looked over her pistols, lazily loading bullets in her magazines. Rahne was apprehensive about being here, but she had already been part of the team for too long. Warren walked into the room, planning to meet Betsy later for dinner. Right now he needed to pay attention to Cyclops and Wolverine's meeting. X-Force was the best team for what it did, but was what it did necessary?
Sieg didn't say why, but he told them that Gothica was no longer a threat. They left the issue in the air for now, instead deciding to focus their attention on what their new objectives would be. This reality's Laurie Collins was either resurrected, or her body had been stolen, either way Sieg intended on finding the people whom committed the crime and punishing them. A number of Gothica's resurrected servants were also still active, and something needed to be done about them.
"I know some of you guys might have qualms about doing this, but the people whom Gothica brainwashed are lost" Cyclops said.
Warren and Rahne widened their eyes in shock. That was as good as an order to kill their friends. Even resurrected students were to be killed. But that was X-Force's purpose, to wipe out the enemies before they attacked the X-men. Laura could tell that Logan was conflicted, but when the time came to do the deed he would do it without a second's hesitation. She had the same mindset; after all she had been raised to kill by the facility. And the X-men were the only ones left to give her a sense of purpose. But now she had joined Sieg's team of Avengers, with a similar proactive goal to X-force. And yet she didn't tell Sieg about X-Force's current mission.
As Sieg carried out his mission briefing, Laura wondered why she didn't tell him. She was part of an unofficial Avengers team and X-Force, their goals were similar and yet she couldn't bring herself to tell Sieg about Wolverine and Cyclops's plans. Sofia also seemed conflicted for some reason and though Sooraya wore her robes, Laura could tell that she was only here to deal with Jay Guthrie, whom had been resurrected into a twisted version of Archangel.
"Right now we should prepare ourselves, I've already got a good idea of who can be our mission control expert, and I've managed to find out where Stryker got his guns from, once we're ready we'll attack the home of Tyrone Cash, a mobster in South Africa" Sieg explained.
"I also wouldn't hurt for us to pick us some new possible recruits once in a while, I'm pretty sure that some of the other kids will want to get involved in saving their friends" Michael Pointer said.
"Save? I thought we going to eliminate them" Laura said.
Sofia shook her head while Sieg slammed his hands against the table.
"Damn it X-23 are you trying to live up to your reputation? We're going to take down threats that the Avengers and the X-men wont touch but we're going to do it our way, we'll find out who Gothica gave "second chances" to then we'll find out what happened to our reality's Laurie Collins and bring in the person who committed those crimes…I thought, I thought you'd want to save Julian"
Laura lowered her head, realising why she didn't tell Sieg about X-Force. Because Sieg's Avengers and X-Force would inevitable fight because of their opposite goals. X-Force was a band of killers while these Avengers were trying to save lives.
"We'll meet up here in two weeks time, once we're ready we'll go over to Cash's place, where we'll take him down my way" Sieg said, looking Laura in the eye.
He didn't trust her, although lately he had been withdrawn to the people whom were supposed to be his friends. Sieg would quickly leave the meeting point, get on a bus and leave the Westchester area. Sooraya would fly back to Utopia while Michael Pointer would fly back to Canada. Laura however would go into the town and hitch a ride with Logan.
"What have you been up to X?" Logan asked as Laura climbed into the car.
"Nothing you should concern yourself with" Laura said.
"You ready for tonight?"
"Yes sir!"
Cyclops watched over X-Force as they prepared for their next mission. He knew that there was danger in having Warren fight in his Archangel form. But right now risks needed to be taken. William Stryker, Stephen Lang, Craydon Creed, Bolivar Trask and Cameron Hodge were back from the dead and something needed to be done about them. That was what X-Force was for. Wolverine had had his Adamantium stripped from him by Gothica. But he was still as dangerous as ever, he would be leading X-Force. Domino had killed people before, and she had worked with Cable's original X-Force. She was the perfect ally and member for X-Force. And Warren's Death form was a valuable asset, Cyclops couldn't think in terms of morality. Right now tactics was all that mattered and the tactics demanded the death of these anti mutant leaders. If that meant using a child like X-23 then that was how things would have to go.
Emma Frost's arrival on Utopia hadn't been a warm welcoming. Wanda Maximoff wasn't anywhere to be seen, Magneto had probably suggested keeping her out of sight for now. What Emma did know was that Magneto had also welcomed Namor and his people to Utopia. The people of Atlantis were using a support pole that Magneto built to keep the island a float as a new city. Namor burst out of the water, landing on the thick rock to welcome Emma.
"Frost, it is good to see you again" Namor said.
"Likewise Namor, has Magneto not come to greet me?" Emma asked.
"Alas I think he took your suggestion to kill the Scarlet Witch personally"
"My suggestion still stands; she is a threat to every human and mutant in existence"
"Indeed, come Emma allow me to show you to your quarters"
"Actually Namor I think it would be better if we took our prisoners to the holding facility I suggested"
"Yes…very well" Namor said.
Emma smiled, knowing that her telepathy was working. Namor knew about the prison underneath Utopia but he knew nothing about the fact that Emma was keeping Sebastian Shaw locked away. Magneto was immune to her telepathy because of his helmet, but not even he had discovered the secret cells Emma used to hold particularly dangerous prisoners. These alternate reality X-men would be the latest editions to the prison. She and Namor moved into the underground prison, with some super strong mutants whom helped to carry the capsules containing the alternate versions of the X-men.
"Right here will be fine Namor" Emma said.
Namor placed the cell containing an alternate Cyclops on a magnetic lock. The other Dark X-men were put on separate locks away from one another. Emma ran a quick check over the prisoners and smiled, they were all healthy and thinking over the things they had done.
"Thank you Namor"
"It's no problem Miss Frost, perhaps you'd like for me to give you a small tour of the new Atlantis while your students get settled in" Namor said.
"I'd like that, just give me a moment and I'll be joining you" Emma said.
Namor walked out of the prison and Emma turned to one of the secret doors she kept. Typing the code into the console, the door slid open and Emma walked into the secret prison cells. Sebastian Shaw got out of his bed and marched towards the cell door. Emma couldn't here him cursing her name on the other side, but the sight of his bleeding knuckles caused her to smile. He still hadn't gotten the idea that his powers didn't work inside the power-dampening chamber. Then she turned to her next prisoner, resurrected and brain washed by Selene. In the aftermath of Gothica's attack, Emma had discovered Wither, wounded by Sieg. Knowing that he former student was lost, Emma had him imprisoned in the cell. Emma didn't regret any of it, because she knew that crossing these lines was necessary. She walked out of the prison and linked her arm with Namor's.
"Well King Namor I'm all yours for the day" She said.
The Atlantean king swung Emma round, grabbing her chin. She closed her eyes as he pulled her lips into his.
X-23 stood by Wolverine's side as they staked out the location of the Right. The Right were a group of armoured anti-mutant soldiers. Cameron Hodge was their leader but this was a simple gathering ground. But no one had been to this location in hours. Domino yawned as she looked down the sight of her rifle, she couldn't see anyone inside the building. Wolverine and X-23 sniffed at the air, people had been here recently, along with a familiar scent.
"All right team, move in" Wolverine said.
But the members of X-Force stopped as they heard Cyclops over the radio.
"Team forget it, the Right has already been hit" Cyclops said.
Archangel growled in fury before slicing a vent in half. Wolverine sighed, pulling off his cowl and making his way off the rooftop. X-Force gathered at Angel's Aerie in Colorado. Cyclops stood at the front of the team as they watched a news report regarding the fate of the Right gathering ground.
"Police crews today picked up numerous anti-mutant gang members, evidence was anonymously given to the police, leading to an official raid on the gang hideout, Hammer agents recovered numerous weapons and armour of unknown origin, liaisons tell us that currently the Right members are awaiting trial"
"Someone hit the base before we could" Wolverine said.
"No, he was much subtler, he took pictures of the scene and recorded anti-mutant speeches, though the police cant prosecute them for living out their rights they can be prosecuted for all the illegal weapons and tech that they possessed, then each member gets his background checked, leading to the police discovering their alleged involvement in mutant killings, which prosecutors and district attorneys will use to raise their sentences" Scott explained.
"So basically we spent months of research on nothing" Domino said.
Laura found herself confused; she couldn't understand why the adults were angry. Whoever had gotten involved insured that the Right members wouldn't harm any more mutants. She understood the fact that they had wasted time and effort, but someone besides them had gotten results and avoided blood shed.
"Any idea who it could have been?" Warren asked.
"It's no concern right now, we've got another problem" Scott said.
"Great, what now?" Domino asked.
"The Canadian government has reported that Michael Pointer has left Omega Flight with the Guardian suit"
"Have they done anything to stop him"
"No!"
"So what are we going to do, kill him?" Wolverine asked gruffly.
"Please Logan, that's not all X-Force is about" Scott said.
"Really, cause that seems to be exactly what its about, we hear that someone took down a right base without blood shed and your not over the moon, were you hoping we'd kill them?"
"You know that blood shed is the last thing I want"
"And yet your still sanctioning us, Jean would be ashamed"
"If that's what you think then you don't know her at all"
"That's enough both of you, this isn't the time for us to be bickering" Warren said.
"Angel's right, I'm more concerned about what Pointer's doing with his new found freedom" Domino said.
In the wilderness of Canada, Michael Pointer was currently at work. For too long had others manipulated him. The force known as Xorn controlled him as the Collective, Sasquatch had threatened him into joining Omega Flight and Osborn had tried to brainwash him with power. Now for once in a long time he was free to make his own choices. And he chose to save lives with his power. Flying across the Wilderness, Michael or Guardian as he chose to call himself intercepted a falling plane. He cut off the wings with his energy blasts and began to wrap the rest of the plane with an energy barrier. Pouring all of his concentration into the barrier, he altered the planes course and speed. He knew this area well; if he was going to be Canada's local hero then he would need to know his country well. The snow up ahead was thick, thick enough to act as a cushion along with the barrier.
"Everyone brace yourselves" He said.
He let out a yell as the plane impacted with the snow. The large aircraft slid across the snow, leaving a trail of clear grass behind it. Michael let out a final yell as he dashed in front of the plane. Using his personal force and his own speed, Michael acted as a brake for the plane. When the plane finally stopped, he sighed in relief before flying to the door. Pulling the door off of its hinges, Guardian looked inside the plane. He checked the crew and the passengers, they were all non responsive. But they were alive and breathing, they looked as if they were in some kind of hypnotic state. Michael looked down the corridor of the plane and narrowed his eyes. He didn't know much about super villains, but he had read enough to know a super villain when he saw one.
"Proud to be Canadian I see, I like patriotism in my men" She said.
She had blonde hair and wore a red mask with yellow markings on her neck, wrists and legs. Her suit was a grey colour and hugged her body. Raising her hands, her eyes glowed a yellow colour as she gave off a yellow pulse. Michael didn't know why but he couldn't help but look into this woman's eyes. She was beautiful and her tight uniform left little to the imagination.
"Come closer little Guardian, come listen to Hypnotia" She chanted.
Michael had never heard of Hypnotia, but he didn't care. Her voice was enchanting and her eyes drew him towards her.
"Obey me, obey me, love me, love only me"
He raised his arms, walking towards her, to embrace her as she commanded.
"Be my pet, my slave!"
Guardian's eyes widened as he heard the words slip from her mouth. Obey, slave, pet, they were all the words and names of the manipulated.
'No' He thought. 'No, no, no, not again…not ever again!'
He had sworn never again to be used; yet here he was inches from breaking that oath. Years ago the collective powers of the depowered mutants and the mysterious being known as Xorn had taken over his body. Months after that Sasquatch and the Canadian government had forced him to join Omega Flight, regarding him as a criminal and a murderer; they used his guilt to form their mock Alpha Flight. During the invasion, Osborn had taken him from Omega Flight and driven him mad with power. Now, someone else was yet again manipulating him.
"No…NOT EVER AGAIN!" Michael yelled.
He fired a blast from his hand, hitting Hypnotia in the chest. The hypnotist fell to the ground and the passengers on the plane snapped out of their hypnotised states. They looked at Michael in a mix of shock and awe.
"Please citizens, if you could calmly vacate the plane and await the authorities then I will dispose of this villain…did anyone remember her name?" Michael asked.
He engulfed Hypnotia in an energy field, carrying her out of the plane. Leaving the woman bound and gagged on the snow, Michael helped the passengers get off the plane. As a change over his usual welcoming, the civilians didn't regard him with fear. Wearing the Guardian costume had its advantages.
"Thank you Mr Guardian" A child said.
"It's no problem kid, just remember to stay in school and listen to your parents" Michael had to avoid inwardly chuckling at his situation.
Despite the cliché, helping people felt right to Michael. He handed Hypnotia over to the authorities and stayed to see if the passengers weren't hurt. Whilst checking over a shocked boy, Michael over heard the policemen talking.
"This is the third one this week" One of the officers said.
"At least we caught them this time, I'd hate to think what these artificial mutants are planning"
"There's no planning, they're just adrenaline junkies looking to make names for themselves in the super villain industry, the captain says we'll be hitting a gathering ground of theirs on the south side" The Police officer explained.
As he flew away from the area, Guardian pushed his finger against his mask's ear, accessing his radio.
"Sieg, you might want to get the team together, I've just got a good potential mission for us"
Sooraya was well aware of the fact that Emma Frost knew of Sieg's plans. She was one of the world's most powerful psychics after all. But the scantily clad teacher hadn't yet confronted her on it. Instead she ran her teaching sessions, veining ignorance.
"All right class, for today I thought we would skips ethics and social sciences and instead move onto information on enemies of the X-men you know little about, first we start with the Right" Emma began, clicking a button on the projector.
A picture popped up, showing numerous green battle armours, with smiley faces on the masks.
"How are we supposed to take smiley faces seriously?" Noah asked.
"That is precisely why they are a threat to our species Noah, the smiley faces aren't intimidating and this could lead an opponent into a false sense of security, be sure to never fall for this trap, the Right possess advanced technology, technology that is only getting more advanced"
"Is the right still active?" Loa asked.
"One must always suspect that an enemy has survived, unless you witness their deaths first hand"
Emma then bought up the image of a woman wearing similar clothing to hers. However the very sight of this black haired, black clothed woman gave Sooraya a sick feeling.
"This is Selene, the former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, though she is apparently dead her abilities included the absorption of life energy, which prolonged her life and healed her wounds, she also possesses pyrokinesis, knowledge of magic and torture, mind control and power seduction and manipulation abilities, enemies like her are never to be taken lightly and if you ever encounter an enemy like her, show her no mercy" Emma explained.
Her eyes had remained particularly focused on Sooraya. Turning her face away, Sooraya did her best not to think about Sieg or her other friends. She couldn't give Emma an excuse to stop her from doing what needed to be done for their lost friends. Sooraya knew that with Sieg's team of Avengers then she would be able to do something that the X-men weren't focused on, saving their friends. She needed to save Jay Guthrie, not for her friends or for Jay's family but for him. Sooraya felt her phone vibrate; when she got out of class she checked it once she was alone.
"We've got our first mission, meet us at the usual place tonight"
Sofia Montega had once been a mutant. Now she was just a regular human being, or so people thought. By day she worked at a diner in New York, the people were friendly but the service wasn't exactly satisfactory. But it was cheap, cheap enough for the underprivileged and lower class of New York. It was cheap also enough for Sofia to see Sieg there every other day. At night, Sofia spent her time as the vigilante Renaissance. She hunted down gang members and particularly focused on anti-mutant gangs. And in between her solo work she decided that she'd help Sieg out with his team. After all his mission was to find their reality's Laurie Collins.
'Speak of the devil' Sofia thought as Sieg walked into diner.
He sat at a table, his face devoid of a smile. Sofia walked over to his table with her notepad ready.
"What will it be today Sieg?" She asked.
"I need to talk to you when I get the chance Sofia" Sieg said.
"What about?"
"Something I can't talk about amongst your co-workers" Sieg motioned to the staff.
"Did you get a lead?" Sofia asked, her voice as low as a whisper.
"No, nothing like that, the original plan still stands, lets discuss it later okay" Sieg said.
Sofia nodded her head and put her pen to the paper.
"So, ordering anything?" She asked.
"Yes please, get me a…" Sieg suddenly paused, reaching into his pocket.
He pulled out his phone, pressing it against his ear. Sofia watched him for a moment, wishing she still had her wind powers. Back when she was "Wind dancer" she could listen to people's voices through the wind. God she missed those days, the carefree days when she was a part of the New Mutants training squad. They were the next generation, but that was all ruined now. She and David were depowered, but while David still lived with the X-men she had been reduced to living on her own in an apartment. Josh was struggling between controlling his powers of healing and killing whilst trying to maintain a healthy relationship with Loa. Laurie, their Laurie was dead and her body taken. Noriko's attitude was as bad as ever, although at least she was on the verge of repairing her relationship with David. But Jay was missing, presumably resurrected by Gothica, his wings twisted into a mockery of Archangel.
"Sofia!" she was snapped out of her remembrance by Sieg's voice. "When you've got time, meet me in the alleyway, we've got out first potential mission" He whispered.
Sofia Montega smiled, hiding her nerves well. As Renascence she had access to some powerful technology. But formerly as a Wind Dancer she could fly. She really missed that feeling.
Wolverine walked into the dining hall in Warren's mansion. Domino was sat at the table with Warren and Rahne. Logan sniffed, finding no trace of Laura.
"Where's X?" He asked.
"No idea" Domino said.
Logan growled, whatever the girl was up to this was a mission they could have used her for. Cyclops soon walked into the room, throwing a file onto the table. A photo slid out of the file and Domino and Warren both raised their eyebrows at the profile picture. The boy in the picture had a blank expression and blonde streaks through his thick black hair.
"Is this Virgil?" Warren asked.
"Yep, Emma got a fix on his location with Utopia's Cerebro"
"What do you want us to do?" Domino asked.
"Isn't it obvious, we find the kid and get him to tell us how he's suddenly popped up on Cerebro as a mutant when he was one of the students depowered after M-Day" Logan explained.
Far away from Angel's mansion, a boy with black hair walked through the corridors of an abandoned building. He had blonde streaks in his hair and a yellow vein throbbing over his cheek. It was the remains of the Technarch virus, the force that Gothica used to revive him. He was here to get rid of the virus and for his own personal reasons.
"You know I would have thought you'd go to the X-men" A woman said in the darkness.
"They can't help me" The boy said bitterly.
"True, but why come to me?"
"Because you're an expert on mutants, because these "artificial mutants" are your doing, and because I know that going to you for help will get to the X-men" He explained.
"You hate them don't you?"
"I hate Frost, I hate Summers, they're the ones who've compromised, who've forgotten Xavier's dream" He growled.
He heard the clack of high heel boots. Suddenly he swung around, narrowing his eyes at the woman. Her face was an inch from his and her arm was wrapped softly across his shoulder. She had chalk white skin and red coated lips. Her black hair hung over her shoulders, matching her black corset and boots. She was dressed in tight black clothing with a lot of skin showing.
"Virgil are you asking me, the reincarnation of one of the X-men's deadliest villain's for a favour?" She asked.
Virgil grabbed her other wrist, his eyes glaring at the red diamond symbol on her forehead.
"I want you to change me back into a mutant!"
Next Chapter 2: Compromise
Hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter of this short series