Ch. 2 The new world order
Our world is a nightmare. Much that once was has been erased permanently by the new rulers who domain over us. We live in constant fear of being found and captured, for if we are death is certain. Weather if it's by experimentation or by mass extermination, we are murdered with out mercy.
In 2018 Bolivar Trask used the sentinels to force other world leaders out of power, thus he crowned himself along with Sinister Kings of there new Earth. Then as the sentinels became too destructive, Sinister used biological warfare to exterminate us, utilizing the new Legacy Virus in which mutants were captured, infected and released with the virus.
It spread like a wild fire throughout the remaining mutant population. I my self am currently a carrier of the disease, but thanks to the amazing work of Moira Mac Taggart it has been isolated in a small section of my heart.
After the virus killed most of all remaining mutants Trask and Sinister ruled unopposed and it has remained so for the last 30 years. I was born in 1990, and at age 17 Moira presented me with a regenerating gene that has kept me and a few others the same ever since, to help one day liberate the world from terror. I have been a top leader in our underground sanctuary for the last six years, I' am second only to Wolverine.
It's sad but the mutant teams once known as the X-men have long since been forgotten. They were inevitably every mutant's last hope for defeating Trask. But they became divided and were destroyed. Wolverine is our leader and he has yet to reveal what happened to the rest of the x-men. Though he is in command I have sensed a certain instability with in him. His tragic past I think is causing him to loose his grip on reality. Two weeks back he proposed that we all go on a final strike. I objected saying that it would lead us to our death and the notion was dismissed. I hope that our leader is not lost to us.
We live in an underground city built by the Morlocks called Haven. The name is obvious in its meaning but that's what it is. Although the living conditions are poor we accept them. Haven is divided into three main sections, living corridors, the link tunnels and the battle arena. Haven is also sanctuary to gays, non believers in the new religion Oblivion and all outcasts of the new world. The city is well hidden beneath the city of New York and we pray it remains that way until the time is right.
Fear is a powerful and effective tool to wield. But fear inspires anger and rage. While fear keeps us hidden like roaches in the dark, anger and rage drive us and keep us alive. For one day we will strike without mercy. The sentinels, the kings and the humans.
As for the rest of the humans, they have accepted there new laws and regulations. They do not question, or protest against there masters. I could care less for them and the only consideration I have is for the ones that live with us, the ones who refused to go quietly into the night. Although mutants have been forced underground mutants are still born all around the world. Unfortunately there fates are never happy. Upon discovery of the x-gene at birth mutant babies are injected with Ziox and killed. Those who escape death at birth, live only to face it when there mutation is triggered later on down the future.
My birth name was Eric Mantras, but I no longer go by that name for it has become a lost fragment of who I once was. My parents were humans and they rejected me. I now go by name Immortal for it is a representation of who I am and they loyalty to my kind. It is a name I intend to take to the grave.