Author's Penname: IceQueeny
Story Genre: X-Men
Story Title: A New Age. A New Team.
Author's Notes: 1) I don't own X-Men ((wonderful Marvel Comics does)) and some of the character in the story are owned my reviewers, so please don't take them without talking to me first.
2) Also anything that is put in italics, or looks like this, means it's a thought of a character's. Like you're hearing the character's thoughts.
3) This is a VERY important chapter that everyone needs to pay close attention to. This chapter describes the eras/ages and everyone will need to know and understand those eras/ages names and what they are to understand the storyline.
4) Also, this is no longer an application story. I received an e-mail from telling me that my story had been removed because it was an interactive story, and so I'm hoping that changing it from an interactive story to a regular story that I can continue to post it. We'll see…
A New Age. A New Team.
Introduction
In a time where the Age of Apocalypse was over and Apocalypse was defeated, people had hope. The people of the world had named this age of hope and prosperity, The Renaissance Age. In The Renaissance Age, the majority of mutants and humans had found a common ground and they had begun to live among one another, in peace. The world was being rebuilt and there were no longer any lines of separation…So everyone thought.
In The Renaissance Age, it seemed that in a blink of an eye, hell itself had opened its fiery gates upon our world, slowly. The Renaissance Age was renamed The Hell Era because it was as though yesterday the Earth looked like it does for us today, but in a split second something changed. The Earth as we know it today seemed to be cast into the depths of hell. Some great cities crumbled into nothingness while some great cities managed to survive and continue life, but in a much different light then before. In the cities that managed to survive, the people found ways to continue on with their lives, but everyone was always very cautious just in case.
Our time now is a legend told to children at night before they go to bed in this period. This age we live in now was referred to as The Golden Age. The Golden Age seemed to die in an instant along with the hope of billions because one man rose up with a secret army and raged a war against all humans and mutants that associated with humans.
The X-Men were destroyed along with Xavier and his dream. The once magnificent dream and team was now a legend of the time. When all mutants began to fear that there would be no hope of ever achieving Xavier's dream of peace something happened. Long ago Xavier built a machine with mass amounts of power that even the government couldn't understand the technology behind it. This machine could comb over the whole world and space to find mutants. The machine could pinpoint a mutant's exact location. This machines name was Cerebro.
Cerebro became a legend along with Xavier and his X-Men, while the Mansion was believed to be a legend that was most likely reduced to rubble. The legends were wrong. Xavier and his X-Men were indeed destroyed but the legend of Cerebro and the Mansion being gone was wrong. During all the horrible battles, Cerebro had managed to keep the symbol of Xavier's dream standing: the Mansion. The Mansion in The Hell Era looked as is nothing had happened to it; as if someone took the Mansion from The Renaissance Age, or even The Golden Age, and placed it in The Hell Era. The gardens were perfect, the water wasn't stained red from blood, the paint looked fresh, and the windows were still in tact. However, for some reason no one could find the Mansion anymore.
Cerebro functioned on a higher program and level then it did before. It could detect mutants like it could before but now it could contact them. Cerebro's programming now was closer to that of a human's personality, though the voice was still robotic; the personality was that of a human. It recruited new mutants to train to fight for deceased Xavier's dream, though he was dead. Over time, Cerebro had recruited a fair amount of mutants for the school and was teaching them education, training them, and taking care of them as a mother would. It ran the whole Mansion and it was the new Xavier to the new X-Men team, which was called X².
The X-Men became constantly in battle to maintain Earth's very existence all because of a war that began long ago, during The Golden Age where mutants were still feared and unknown. Over time it subsided… but not for long. The war began to rage more then it ever had before; setting mutants again mutants, and humans against all mutants with the help of a new type of Sentinels. The X-Men, Acolytes, the Brotherhood, Magneto's team, all mutants seemed to be destroyed. X² was formed a few years afterwards, to replace the deceased X-Men and Chaos was formed to replace the Brotherhood, the Acolytes, and Magneto's team.
Many died, the demand for mutants was high on both sides and a deadly virus was in the hands of lone, disturbed human assassin bent on revenge.
That time is now…