Mutant Generation Force

Issue #53 – The Lights – Part One

Xavier's School for Gifted Mutants

"Nathan Christopher Dayspring-Summers, I wish there was something I could do," Jean Grey said as she touched her son's face.

"There's nothing anyone can do. There's no way to reverse the process and as much as I miss my telekinesis, I have it locked holding the virus away from me internally and my vital organs," Cable said as he looked in a mirror and saw a shiny silver face looking back.

"It just," Jean began but Cable took her hand. She my not have given birth to him, but she was the only mother he had ever known.

"Don't worry about me. Like you I'm a fighter and a survivor," Cable said with a smile.

"So when's your team heading out?" Jean asked not needing telepathy to know her son's thoughts.

"Domino and her X-Force team are already heading to one of my safe houses tracking a lead on Sinistra and her band of evil. I'll leave in the morning to meet up with them there," Cable said.

"You don't have to go," Jean said knowing her plea was useless.

"Yes, I do. Sinistra and the others need to be brought down," Cable said.

"Who's going with you? I know Siryn turned you down to stay here at the school," Jean asked.

"My daughter, Tosha will be going with me," Cable said.

"I haven't had a whole lot of time with my granddaughter, but from what I see she is a lot like you, in many ways," Jean said with a smile.

"I was hoping she would stay here but she insists on being by my side. We've started to heal and grow closer. She even mentioned in passing she was thinking, instead of adding the hyphened last name, just changing her last name to Summers to carry on the family name," Cable said with a smile and then paused.

"Stop, that is your family name. I was declared legally dead, and with so much time passing Scott has moved on and I'm fine with that. Just because I went back to my maiden name doesn't mean we aren't all the Summers family, plus it's only fair since your sister chose to carry on the Grey name. So, who else is going with you?" Jean asked changing the subject.

"Not too many and I cleared everything with Dani and Sam first. I'm taking X-23, Warpath and his son Risque and Cipher since she is long over due to get out of the mansion and the fact she makes the others nervous having been in the mansion all these years and no one knew it," Cable said.

"Well, be careful and keep in touch," Jean said as she leaned in and kissed him on the cheek.

Headmistress' Office

"Dani, please," Sam said trying to keep his voice down.

"Sam, I think it's better if we stop and go back to being friends," Dani said trying to stay strong.

"I haven't' done anything with Theresa. I still love you," Sam began to say.

"But, you remember your time as her boyfriend and still have those strong first love feelings for her. We have a school to run and I don't have time for you to try and sort this out," Dani said as she had to bite her tongue when Siryn asked to stay on at the school and not go out into the field with X-Force.

"Dani, please," Sam begged.

"Sam, it's for the best. Besides the school, you need to focus on your reunited family, both the Guthrie's and Summers, and dealing with your former life memories which includes Theresa," Dani said putting an end to the subject.

"Fine, but you're okay with Theresa joining the staff here?" Sam asked nervously.

"Yes, we can use her. We have twenty-one X-Men in training and now with all of you missing mutants returning the student number just doubled and that includes ALL your brothers and sisters," Dani said as she kept her eyes off Sam and on the list in front of her.

"Hey, I agree with you one hundred percent. Both Paige and Elizabeth need better training. That's why, no matter what the age, we made Sway and Mary Drake part of the X-Men in training," Sam added instantly.

"I still think Christian Frost, despite my reservations of him actually staying here, should be part of that group, but I guess if Jean vouches for him then I guess he can be part of the staff, probationary that is," Dani said as she was glad that Rictor agreed to keep an eye on him.

"Well, along with him and Jean we also have Rahne, Amara, Theresa, Rusty and Illyana joining the staff. The Drakes and Norton McCoy will just be staying here but will help out where needed with Lucinda," Sam said.

"What about Leyu?" Dani asked.

"She's going to head overseas to go visit her brother and Betsy over at X-Calibur. She wants to see the newlyweds. I also think Daken is going to go with her," Sam said.

"Good, he gives me the creeps," Dani said as she couldn't wait for Magneto to leave as well, who wanted to wait till Storm and Oro were settled well here before leaving them for a brief time to hunt down his eldest daughter.

"So does that Layla girl. Jamie wants to leave but all she says is she knows they have to stay for one more day," Sam said as he wished Dani would at least look at him when they talked.

"Well, I think this does it for tonight," Dani said finally looking up and giving Sam the hint he needed to leave.

Outside Grounds

"I hope you understand why I must go," Magneto said as he looked from the eyes of the woman he loved to her large belly.

"Yes, you need to find your daughter," Storm said but not sure what she truly thought of the whole thing.

"I hate to leave you," Erik added as he touched Storm's face with one hand while touching her pregnant belly with the other.

"I can take care of myself, but don't worry, there are plenty of friends here, including my grandmother," Ororo said with a smile.

"Don't forget your sister, child," Oro said as she and Amara came walking out.

"Of course not," Storm smiled still not used to seeing Amara with dark skin thanks to her reverting after her memories had come back.

"Well," Magneto began to say when Oro held up a hand to silence all.

"What is it?" Storm asked standing up quickly.

"Shh, I feel a disturbance in the air," Oro said as she looked around.

"Nobody move," a voice called out as they all turned to see a woman with bright red hair pointing a gun at them with six additional figures behind her all wearing futuristic outfits with a strange holographic lighted "X" on them.

"You dare threaten Magneto?" Magneto stood up and violently whipped his arms at the group.

"You think we don't come prepared?" Mimicry asked as she held a non-metal gun as well as all their costumes equipped to resist any magnetic effect on them.

"We'll see about that," Storm said as her pupils went white and lightening struck down.

"Velocidad," Mimicry said as her teammate went into action.

Velocidad pushed out with his powers causing the area around them to slow down with time. This allowed them to leap out of the way of the lightening bolts well before it struck. They quickly ran down towards the group of X-Men. Amara and the others stared in amazement because to them it appeared as if this group of young attackers had moved with great speed and in an instant before the lightening struck, they were gone and now down in front of them.

"Ororo," Oro began to say when suddenly she was encased in ice.

"Oya, behind you," Mimicry said as her teammate turned from her frozen target to see Magneto advancing on her but was stopped as another figure had leapt out, striking Magneto and sending him flying backwards with great strength.

"Thanks, Primal," Oya said with a smile.

"Oh, you all are so dead," Magma said as she called on her powers and the ground began to erupt.

"Not so fast," the girl with blew skin and pink hair said as Amara was suddenly in her hands.

Mimicry and the others watched in awe as their teammate, Transonic had grabbed Magma with super speed and shot straight into the air. Mimicry saw that her friends body had not only changed to allow her to fly up into the air where it would be too cold for fire but take on a texture to allow her to hold onto a very hot body. Storm stood facing the other attackers as she was now alone in the fight.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Storm asked as she started to call on her powers.

"I wouldn't do that or I will kill her," a bald and strange looking figure said as strange tentacles grew from his arms and seemed to form around her frozen grandma and start to burrow though the ice near her head.

"Zero, remember, not to kill any innocents here no matter what," a blond girl with strange glowing skin said.

"Don't worry, Serenity, I will only kill who Mimicry has approved to kill, for now," Zero said with the last two words under his breath.

"What's going on? Someone, somehow hacked into my body-slide and that has never, OMG!" Cable rushed out shouting and then suddenly stopped.

"Cable!" Mimicry suddenly gasped as she looked up to see a man made of organic metal stepping out of the mansion followed by a bunch of other mutants.

"Hope?" Cable asked in surprise as he suddenly recognized a girl he hadn't seen in years. "What are you doing here?"

"Sorry, father, but you sent me and the rest of the Lights back in time to save our future and that's what we're doing," Mimicry said as she noticed everyone suddenly staring at her and Cable, mouths open in questions at what just transpired.

"Did she call you father?" Tosha asked seconds before Dani had.

"Save the future, what are you talking about?" Cable asked.

"For our future to survive, I must kill Storm and her unborn child," Mimicry said as Sunspot fell to the ground as a light seemed to pass from him to her causing her eyes to glow white right before her body went solar black and she sent a powerful plasma blast right at Storm.


The Secret Mutants

The Hunt for Weapon XX – Part Four

"There's too many of them," Marrow said as she trust and jerked her arms out sending out sharp bones and hitting the demon creatures like spears while extruding more to use as weapons for close combat.

"We can do it," Dryad said as she had used her new omega level power to tap in, find demon like plants and cause them to grow and help strangle and in some cases, chew and swallow the attacking demons.

"Just watch your backs," Surge said as hit a flying demon with electricity before it had gotten too close to Dryad.

"Just wish I could do more," Elixir said as he dodged and ran acting as the felid medic healing any that got injured.

"Hey, healing us is very important," Mercury said as she had taken a loosely liquid form of a large demon as well to help fight thanks to her powers going Omega and she could in a sense shape shift now.

Hey, Josh, until I get a better handle on my magic it's you and me," Pixie said as she teleported Elixir where he was needed.

"Die, demon scum," Beak screamed as he used a large canon to blast away demons. He may be normal but he had his weapons and he was now a born warrior.

"I wish I knew where they are coming from. For every one we kill there is like twenty more," Hellion said as he used his powers to deflect the fire breathers as Razora just charged into the demons slicing them up with her razor sharp body.

"I may be able to submerge these guys in fire, but most are resistant to my powers," Match said growing as tired as Medusa was staring at demons and shooting whatever she could form her warts to fend off the demons.

"At least our new friends are helping us," Rockslide said as he battled the demons and glanced over at others.

Ent was ripping through the demons as the demon armor grafted onto his body not only gave him resistance to injury but also enhanced his strength. Erg was blasting what he could with energy while Electric Eve was barley holding shape and she bounced around electrifying her opponents. Sling Snot stood near Callisto sending snot from all the snouts on his body doing what he could to distract the demons while Callisto helped take them down with her new tentacles that seemed to grow, split and multiply as much as she willed them to and had uncanny strength.

Karma took a glance at the Inferno Brigade also in action but had to stay focused. Demon minds were harder to process and she managed to grab two large strong ones to help them kill the demons attacking. Toko, like Hellion was using his force field powers to help deflect the fire breathers. Face was blasting demons left and right as well as Timothy with his thermal energy blasts. Maw, his mouths were now open and had sharp teeth that allowed him to bite and tear apart the demons. Trista was talking backwards to some of the demons and getting them to do her bidding and turn on their own kind. Shauna would touch a demon with her leech-like hand causing them to momentarily become paralyzed while she gutted them with a large demon like blade.

There were others that also had strange demon weapons and blades that they used since their powers weren't as destructive. Scab would cut himself and lit his blood out and create an armor like plating to help protect his body while he used his blades on the demons as well. Alex was engulfing his foes and inhibiting them while Russell flew by with super speed and slicing at them with his claw like blades attached to his hands while Bob sent out mini duplicates of himself to claw and scratch the demons. The last was Loca who had two demon looking guns in her hand sand was blasting away. The only ones not helping were her uncle and General Ulysses who were both watching Predator XX who seemed to be standing off to the side watching the battle and waiting.

"What do you think it's waiting for?" Callisto asked as if she was reading Xi'an's mind.

"I think its seeing what we can all do and strategizing it's plan of attack and in the mean time see how many of us the demons take out for him," Karma said as she glanced over at face and suddenly felt light headed.

"Who are you?" a voice asked causing Xi'an to turn and see a man close to her age with short blond hair and beautiful blue eyes.

"I'm Xi'an," Karma said and then paused as she realized the demons were gone she and this guy were standing in the middle of a cornfield next to a large farm.

"Nice to meet you, I would give you my name but I don't seem to have one," the man said.

"You don't have a name?" Xi'an asked in confusion.

"No, I was never given one. When my powers manifested I lost my sight, voice and hearing so I've lived my whole life sensing my brothers and sisters around me and fighting. How did we get here?" The man asked.

"Oh, you're Face. Someone my powers linked with you and we are in your mind," Karma said as she briefly explained who she was and what was going on.

"Well that explains how I can talk and hear. I wish I could do that in real life and for the record, Face is cool for a nickname but think I'm more of a Bart," Face said.

"Actually, I think I can help you with that," Karma said.

"What do you mean?" Face asked.

"It would weaken my powers some but I could extend my mental power in you enough to allow you to at least see, smell and heat through me. As far as talking I'd be the only one able to hear you," Karma said as Bart ran up, hugged her and then they were both back on the battlefield.

"Where were you? There's a battle going on," Callisto said as Karma finally snapped back to reality.

"I was talking with Bart," Karma said nodding to Face.

Karma's team instantly noticed a change in the Inferno Baby. He seemed more aware of his surroundings and fighting more humanly than just animalist rage. Karma told those near her that she was extending part of her powers into his mind allowing him to see, hear and smell through her. They were connected just enough for him to do this instead of her fully taking over his body. As long as Face stayed close enough to her she could do this with ease and not having to truly concentrate to do it and fight as well. Of course she could do this with ease, but it did weaken her ability to control others so she had to fight a little harder, physically.

"No!" Erg shouted as they all turned to see a demon tear Sling Shot in half.

It wasn't long after that a demon engulfed Bob and devoured him causing all his mini duplicates to revert back to blood and vanish. Both the Secret Mutants and Inferno Brigade fought with all their might trying to win a never ending battle. Meanwhile, Predator XX just sat there and watched. General Coy didn't like it but at this point he knew it was only a matter of time before they were all overwhelmed. Project Purgatory had been compromised and with word that the Weapon Project was no more there wasn't a need for any of this. He took a deep breath and did what he knew he must.

"Ulysses, it's time. Code Inferno Extinguished," Coy said as General Ulysses walked over to a devise and gave the command codes causing the machine to start to beep.

"Sir, it is," was all Ulysses got out before he was cut off by a large sharp tail piercing out of his chest.

"What're you doing?" Karma asked as she saw her uncle's partner's lifeless body get tossed aside by Predator XX.

"I'm putting an end to this once and shutting down the Project indefinitely. Project Inferno, alpha codes extinguish fire," Coy said as the machine suddenly began to pulse with a white light.

"What did you do?" Callisto demanded.

"I set the self destruct. In ten minutes, this inferno bomb will go off causing this pocket of Limbo to close in on itself destroying everything here. As always, my niece," Coy said as he pressed a button and opened a small portal that he leapt through.

"Coy!" Karma screamed as the portal started to close and the pulsing machine started to emit a very bright light.

Next: Issue #54 – The Lights – Part Two & Secret Mutants: The Hunt for Weapon XX – Part Five