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.

Now is one of the most troublesome times for the mutants. The government has introduced and is beginning to support the Mutant Registration Act. States of the United States have already begun their mutant reform, especially in schools. Students are being tested for an active X-gene. If found the child will not be allowed to attend certain schools. The Brotherhood of Mutants, a group of angry mutants who believe that mutants should dominate the humans and believe a war is coming, have been organized by a powerful mutant called Magneto. However, a group of mutants trying to keep peace has been formed, even if the public doesn't know it. Professor Charles Xavier started the X-Men so that he could train young mutants to control their powers and fight for what is right. He takes in students having difficulty with their powers usually and helps them gain control. Magneto has been going around recruiting as many mutants as possible. But unlike Xavier he must go searching and looking. The Professor has Cerebro, a machine that links his telepathic mind to all the others on the planet. He can use that to find certain mutants. Until now he has only used it to find mutants in need of power control. Now the Brotherhood has made the first move and attacked a senator's home. He and his family are now missing. This has struck up riots around the world against mutants. Some are now being captured, beaten and put into slavery in certain parts of the world. Xavier is now using his small team of 8, including himself, to recruit all the mutants in need of salvation.

Professor Xavier has recently recruited two new mutants, Kurt Wagner and Kitty Pryde. They are adjusting to their new life at the Xavier Institute and starting to take classes taught by the other X-Men.

TEN YEARS AGO

"Warren! Dinner's ready!" the boy's mother called.

"I'm not hungry!" the boy yelled back from somewhere upstairs.

"Sweetie you have to eat! You haven't eaten anything in two days! You're a growing boy and you need food!" she yelled back.

Warren was in the upstairs bathroom and not coming out no matter what his parents said. Not right now anyway.

'Warren!" his father called. "Listen to your mother and get down here!" he said with force, but not overly so. Warren made no response. "Come on, Warren! I want to show you this news report on these so called 'mutants'! They're showing up all over the place now! Wish the government would just lock 'em up." No answer.

"Alright Anita, I'll go talk to him," said Warren Worthington II to his wife. He went over and entered the elevator he had in his large home and pressed the large silver 2. "I really should use the stairs more like Anita's been telling me," he thought to himself. He then exited the elevator and called out to his son. "Warren? Where are you?"

He heard a sudden crash come from the bathroom and ran to it. The door was locked. "Warren, what's going on in there?"

"Just a minute!" his ten year old son yelled, followed by more crashing noises.

"Warren! Open the door right now!" he yelled. "Warren! Open this door!". No answer. Mr. Warrington backed away and then rushed the door, breaking the already loose lock. He entered the bathroom thinking "Good thing I didn't fix it last week like Anita tol- oh no." He looked upon his shirtless ten year old son, then the floor. I was covered in little white feathers and blood. The counter was splattered with blood and there were several knives. In the mirror he could see two long slits in his back that had several more feathers sticking out. His son's face was covered in tears and pain as he saw his father's reaction.

"No. Not you too," he breathed out. Warren continued to cry.

'I- I'm sorry," he got out in between teary sobs. "I'm sorry."

PRESENT DAY

Xavier Institute

It was Kurt's first day at mutant school. He had had half of his classes already today. But now he and Kitty had their first Danger Room Session. Wolverine was listed to be their teacher for this week but when the entered they found not only Logan but also Jean, Professor X, Storm, Beast and Cyclops. They had all come to watch them.

"Alright kids," Wolverine said as soon as the doors had closed behind them. "I'm your instructor this week. The others are here just to watch and help out if you are in danger. First," he said while turning to Storm, who seemed to have clothes in her hands, "these are your uniforms." Storm brought both of them a black X-Men uniform with a golden belt that had an X on the buckle. Kurt's was black with blue seems while Kitty's had pink seems.

"Oh. My. Gosh! These are so stylish!" Kitty said as a sudden high school girl personality emerged. Kurt laughed and the others smiled, except Wolverine. Kitty got a feeling he didn't like her, but then again, who did he like?

"You will wear these from now on for all Danger Room sessions and missions. Come in anything else and I will be very unhappy, you will have to go change and you will have detention with me after school," he said. "But for today what you have on is fine. Now line up!" he barked.

Kitty and Kurt straightened up right next to each other. "You will step forward, say your name, codename and power and then step back!" he barked out as glanced at him and he understood she wanted him to go first.

"Kurt Wagner! Nightcrawler! Teleporting!" he said in his German accent as if he was in the army. Kitty half expected him to end with "Sir!" and salute. But he simply stepped back in line.

"My turn," she thought. She stepped forward. "Kitty Pryde! Phasing through walls!" Then she stepped back in line.

"I thought I asked for your codename," Wolverine growled.

"I don't have one," she whispered.

"What was that?" he said, even though he had enhanced hearing a heard her loud and clear.

Kitty looked at the other X-Men watching her and said "I said I have no codename. Not yet, anyway." She felt embarrassed and started blushing.

"Hmmm," Logan said. "Walk through walls, huh? Tried Invisagirl?"

At this Nightcrawler jumped and said "Ha! I told you!"

"No, sir," she replied. "That doesn't fit me and I refuse to take it," she said defiantly, then stepped on Nightcrawler's foot... hard.

"Ouch!" he yelped.

"Kitty, huh. Alright for now. But if you don't have a name by Friday I'm giving you Invisagirl," Wolverine responded, slightly impressed with her courage.

"You will now demonstrate your power," he growled.

Kurt immediately disappeared and then reappeared right behind Logan, tapped his shoulder and the came back while wolverine turned only to see a small cloud of smoke and the smiling faces of the rest of the X-Men. "Alright, furball. No showing off," he said and turned his gaze to Kitty. "Your turn."

"What do you want me to phase through?" she asked. At that moment a hologram of a very angry looking robot appeared in front of them and tried to grab them both. Wolverine and the others just stood there without a single look of surprise.

The robot's left arm went for Kitty and the right for Kurt. Kurt teleported to the other side of the room immediately. As soon as the arm was about to reach Kitty her body began to feel a tingling sensation and she saw the red robotic arm go strait through her torso. She laughed and ran straight through him, running in the direction of Nightcrawler. The robot began to chase them.

"We need a plan," she told Kurt.

"If I got you close enough to it do you think you could disable it?" Kurt asked.

"If I was within arms length I think I could."

"You think?" he questioned. "Good enough for me!" and with that he teleported. Kitty ran to the left to escape from the robot's once again outstretched arm.

As she was running she heard Nightcrawler yell "Now, Kitty!" She turned around and saw Nightcrawler had teleported on top of the robot and used his hands to cover it's 'eyes'. The robot's arms were trying to get him off.

Kitty saw her chance and took it. She ran straight for the robot. Just as she was about to get to it, it knocked Kurt off it's head in time to see Kitty dive and go right through it. That was the last thing he ever saw.

Kitty reappeared behind the fallen robot clutching a small metal box with wires coming out of it. She hugged Kurt and looked on as the robot and the piece in Kitty's hand vanished.

"It was like you just came out of nowhere for him and then he just fell over!" laughed Kurt. "And then you went right through him like a shadow! I wish I could have heard his thoughts! They probably would have been "Oh, Crap!""

"That's her name," Wolverine said, walking over to them.

"Oh, Crap? No thank you Logan!" she said with a smile.

"That's not what I meant. You said it yourself. She went through him like a shadow."

"So?" Kurt said.

"So I figured out her name," Wolverine said, lifting his hand as if for a hand shake. "Welcome to the X-Men, Shadowcat."

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