Prologue:
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, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward. Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.
On the brink of an all-out war, the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters is bursting with new students, ranging in appearance and varying with powers. But a dark secret from Xavier's past has come back to haunt him. Two lost and forgotten children have come into their powers…angry, confused and alone, they lash out at those around them. And now they've come for the man that abandoned them, Xavier………
