Mutant Generation Force
Issue #52 – The Return – Part Two
Xavier's School for Gifted Mutants
"Are you all nuts?" Frost shouted in protest.
"Emma, we all agreed we would respect," Jean began to say, trying to talk over the former Headmistress of the school.
"Storm, even you can't be serious about this?" Frost asked cutting off the annoying red head.
"Emma, as much as I would like to take control of the school or even back you," Storm said rolling her eyes, "I have more important things to be taking care of."
"I agree," Magneto said as he put a hand on Storm's shoulder smiling down at her.
"You all are nuts if you think I'll stand by and watch this school me and Scott helped rebuild continue to be run into the ground by a bunch of young X-Men men wannabes," Emma shouted.
"You now where the door is," Sam said cutting the woman off.
"And I'd be more than happy to help show you to it," Bishop added with a smile.
"No need," Frost said as she stormed out of the room.
"Emma, wait!" Jean called after the woman with no effect
"Let her go, you guys are better off without her," Jamie chimed in with a chuckle.
"Now, are you sure about this?" Dani asked looking at everyone feeling relieved.
"Yes, Dani, no matter what you have earned the right to run this school and you will have all our support," Storm said as Jean, Magneto and the rest all nodded.
"So you're truly going to let us run this place and not interfere?" Sam asked looking at the older X-Men.
"Just like Bishop, we will be here to help teach and protect the school as needed," Jean answered.
"Don't worry, you kids haven't done any worse than the rest of us," Cable said as Dani winced a little, still not used to his flesh now being completely organic metal.
"With that settled, let's finish up here," Magneto said, growing tired of the meeting.
Frost Quarters/Holding Cell
"This is crazy. I don't even know why they are holding me here. I've never done anything wrong," Cordelia Frost, the youngest of the Frost children said running her hand through her midnight black short hair.
"That's because those that run this school remember your stint with "Mondo", Black Tom and your failed attempt at trying to join the Hellfire Club," Emma said stepping into the room, swaying as she felt the dampeners kick in, and stared at her youngest sister and her elder brother.
"Whatever, so what's this, a family meeting?" Cordelia rolled her eyes as she saw three identical girls step in with Emma.
"Oh, my nieces, Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe, right?" Christian asked as he clapped his hands after giving his sister a big hug.
Emma smiled at her brother and watched him hug the Cuckoos, her daughters. Once might argue that they weren't her daughters since they had been grown, but the fact that Project X had used her eggs made them as close to being real daughters as one could get. Emma thought it would be weird or take time to get used to them, but since they were psychics and on some level they had almost known and felt connected, they had easily moved into the role as if she had raised them all their lives. Even Christian had bonded quickly with them and despite how much she hated it, he had spent a lot of time conversing with Jean as well when she came down to check on those in cells.
"So if this is a family meeting, where's our grandfather, Xavier and the other two, Lilandro and Zan. How are we exactly related again since Xavier kept jumping into his offspring's bodies?" Cordelia asked being annoying.
"As far as I'm concerned, we are not related to them. We are Frost's and our family starts and ends with us," Emma said trying to control her anger over everything lately and her decision that is was no time to leave this place, especially now that Scott was gone and no longer available to her, for now.
"Mom, we don't want to leave. We like it here," Celeste began to say when a large explosion shook the room.
"What is that?" Christian asked.
"Schools been breeched," Emma and the Cuckoos said in unison as the room's dampener went off.
Not Far Down From the Frost's
"It's true, it is her," Pyra said as he, Lady Mastermind, Aumente, Crimson Commando and Port, wearing a outfit very similar to Astra's stepped in front of the cell holding Magnetrix.
"How?" Magnetrix said as she looked at her Brotherhood, minus the recently deceased Astra, her defected brother Pietro and One-Eighty, who was being held not far from them.
"If it wasn't for Prism secretly leaving with Sinistra's group and us planting a fake here to act as an anchor to teleport in we wouldn't be able to free you," Lady Mastermind said as Crimson Commando broke their leader out of her cell.
"We must hurry," Magnetrix said still feeling weak from being in the cell for so long.
"You're not going anywhere," Cable said pointing his gun at the Brotherhood as he, Jean, Dani, Sam, Bishop, Magneto, Storm and Siryn stepped into the room as Network and the rest of the staff and X-Factor secured the school and it occupants and made sure there were no other unexpected guests.
"Not another move or I will go all pyro on this place," Pyra laughed as everyone felt the heat building and fast.
"What is, oh," Emma said as she, her daughters and her siblings rounded the corner.
"One-Eighty, quickly, we are leaving," Lady Mastermind said as Aumente placed her hand on Port's back to give her the boost needed to get them all our of here.
"I," Christian began to say.
"You don't have to go," Jean said as Emma glared at her.
"Chris, over here, now!" Pyra commanded.
"No, I want to stay. The Brotherhood, you, isn't what I want, never wanted, at least not like that," Christian started to stay.
"Then die with them," Pyra shouted in anger at being rejected and ignited a powerful blast of fire.
"No!" One-Eighty said as he had kept eye contact with his former boyfriend and caused the blast of fire to reverse and turn on its master and friends, causing them to scream, fall back.
"Take them," Cable said as he moved and then found himself being pushed back and slammed against the far wall.
"I am don't playing games," Magnetrix said as she stood, beads of sweat on her brow as she called on her weakened power to grab hold on her enemy and the walls around them.
"Anya, my daughter, stop, please," Magneto said as he waved both arms causing his daughter and the Brotherhood to go flying back while breaking the magnetic hold on the ones his daughter attacked.
"Don't call me that. You lost that right when you abandoned me," Magnetrix said flying to her feet and taking a stand in front of her father.
"I didn't know," was all Magneto got out before his daughter unleashed her power on him.
Magneto countered pushing out with his powers to meet that of his daughters. As both powers collide they cause an explosion that pushes Magnetrix to he knees and Magneto to sway and almost loose his balance. Magneto Quickly pins his daughter and her team down, anger starting to replace his pain, "Anya, it doesn't have to be there way. We are family."
"You are all dead to me, I have no family. I vow that I will not rest till everyone related to you or you care about is dead. Once that is done then I will kill you myself," Magnetrix declared as she pushed with the last of her strength to push her father back and release his hold on them.
"Get us out of here," Lady Mastermind said as Aumente infused Port with a power boost.
"Wait, take him as well," Magnetrix said as she pointed and Crimson Commando fired off his gun causing a cell to shatter and Wild Child to leap out.
"You dead," Pyra growled at Christian as in a pulse of sparkling light Magnetrix, Wild Child and the Brotherhood were gone.
Epilogue One
"How are you doing?" Wolfsbane asked as she stepped into Dani's office.
"Fine, really," Dani answered.
"Hey, with Sam, I've been there done that. Just give him space and sort out his feelings," Rahne said.
"I know, I just wish his revealed life hadn't come with a girlfriend," Dani sighed.
"That's better than finding out that your real father and half uncle are notorious villains," Rahne said with a chuckle.
"On the plus side, how cool is having Wolverine as an uncle?" Dani asked back finally feeling a little better.
"Whatever, back to why I'm here. We got all the students and staff back on track and will still keep to your new plan and not have squads. Madeline Drake arrived and she and the rest of the Drakes want to stay here for a while as does Norton who insists on helping out around here. Cable and Magneto both plan on leaving in a few days," Rahne said.
"I see and with Sam allowing the others in his Secret Mutants team form his previous life to stay here as well we care getting a full house again. What about Jamie and X-Factor?" Dani asked.
"Bishop I think wants to hold on to his sister so he's offered them to stay on here as School security. Jamie would rather leave but that Layla chick says that they need to stay here for now," Rahne said.
"Well, at least Emma's gone and her stupid sister," Dani added.
"I'm glad the Cuckoos agreed to stay but why let Christian stay?" Rahne asked.
"Jean believes he's good. He's just had a bad life and never been given a fair chance, plus Rictor agreed to keep an eye on him and help him on the right track," Rahne said as she looked at Dani and they both knowing this had to make Emma furious.
Epilogue Two
"I can't believe you let him stay," Cordelia said as she followed her sister into a dark café.
"I can't believe you severed ties with that place," a voice said from the shadows of a corner booth.
"You were our inside, even though we thought you gone forever," a second voice added.
"Don't worry, I still have an inside but what we needed has been found. Not only do I know that the Pheoneix Force still exists, but Xavier's secret showed there is more power then we could even imagine," Emma said as she and her sister stepped up to the table as she got very sharp so they could all talk and not be heard.
What is she doing here? The woman with jet black hair asked.
Yeah, she wasn't good enough to ever be a member then what makes her good enough to be one now? The other woman added.
With the London branch falling and the Shaws gone the Inner Circle and all carnations are no more. We are starting something new and from the ground up. As we agreed, this will be a new Hellfire Club ruled by Queens, not Kings or Imperials. We will each represent a color, select a King to serve us as well as our appointed court.
Our mission will be to find a way to kill the holders of the Phoenix Force, resurrect it from the ashes and making it the anchor to recreate all the Totems and harness and control that power once again. I, Emma Frost as the White Queen, my sister the new Blue Queen, you, Selene the Black Queen and the newly resurrected Madelyn Pryor as the Red Queen, and together we will be unstoppable as the new Hellfire Cult.
The Secret Mutants
The Hunt for Weapon XX – Part Three
"Santo, are you okay?" Karma asked as she looked at the mutant known as Rockslide who no looked like molten rock.
"Yes, never better. It seems I can reform my body and take on the properties of the material I use," Rockslide said as he walked over to the leader of their Secret Mutants team.
"Okay, now release the rest of them," Karma demanded of her uncle.
"Not yet, I want to ensure full cooperation," General Coy said while his niece did not trust or believe him.
"I want to re-introduce you to the Inferno Brigade. You've met Face. Due to the effect of his power blowing off his face he can't see, speak or hear. We've grafted that plate on his face to allow him to control his gifts and he also has a Psi-like field that acts like a Seeing Eye dog so he can get around," General Coy said.
"How do you communicate with him?" Karma wondered.
"We don't, he just follows the others thanks to the bond they all share," her uncle said as he continued to introduce the rest of the Inferno Brigade.
There was Scab, a bald man with scars and scabs all over his body. He only wore pants and boots leaving his chest and arms exposed except for a strange metal square on each side of his chest. Then there was a black girl named Trista with braided hair and leech looking hands. Next to her was a Japanese girl who looked normal except for a demon looking tail she had coming out of her backside. Her uncle then pointed out a boy whose body looked like it was made out of some kind of gelatin substance. His name was Alex and the blue sinned boy with claws for fingernails that stood next to him was called Bob.
Then there was another boy named Russell who wore a helmet over his head and looked like he had something on the outer part of his arms. Next to him was a very rough looking girl with demon and cybernetic parts grafted all over her body named Loca. The last two boys were named Timothy and Maw. Timothy looked like your typical blond hair blue eye jock except for these strange demon looking exhaust tubes sticking out of his forearms. Maw was completely scary looking and disturbing. He wore cut off cargo pants and had multiple mouths all over his body that never opened and remained shut. The only one to actually open was his actual mouth. The group was strange and Karma almost wondered how they would have turned out if the X-Men had gotten then instead of the government.
"So, there mutant powers made them look like that?" Karma asked.
"Not really. That was part of the Project. We improved and enhanced their abilities by grafting demon parts to them," General Ulysses answered.
"That is inhumane," Karma began to say.
"No, it helped save their lives as it did the Morlocks we just saved," her uncle said as Karma turned to see General Ulysses open up some tubes.
"What have you done to me?" Callisto asked as he stepped out, her arms gone and replaced by a long green tentacle.
"You were almost dead and defenseless now you have a way to defend yourself. Along with her and two others we did find two more we thought were dead but were alive. It seems the effects of Weapon XX when it scratched you can have different effect on a mutant," General Coy said as Karma tried to not let on that she already new this information.
General Ulysses then explained about the other Morlocks. Erg could now absorb all forms of energy on a mass scale and release it. As to not have devastating effects they grafted a strangle plate on his chest where he could safely release the energy. Electric Eve had gone omega as well and become pure electricity. She wore strange bands on her wrists, ankles and neck that allowed her to keep a solid form made of energy. The collar around her neck also helped make it possible for her to speak. Sling Snot was still pale green but had strange demonic snouts grafted all over his exposed bare chest and back. The last one was Ent. He had been rendered powerless but had retained his large form and had red demon armor grafted all over his body making him look like a very large demon.
"And the fact it works on other mutants shows that the potential is unlimited," General Ulysses concluded.
"Wait a minute," Karma said as she realized that her uncle never had any intention of freeing her team but was interrupted by a loud alarm.
"What is that?" Rockslide asked as he looked all around.
"Predator XX has broken through the barrier and it seems he's brought friends," General Coy said as they looked up to see a large hole in the barrier up in the sky as several creatures began to flood in.
"Rockslide, free the others, quickly," Karma commanded as she heard her uncle shout at the Inferno Brigade and then turn to see that demonic creatures had them surrounded and Predator XX was now staring at her only six feet away and preparing to attack.
Next: Issue #53 – The Lights – Part One & Secret Mutants: The Hunt for Weapon XX – Part Four
