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X-Terminators Issue 1of4 March 29th, 2001
CYCLES
Cycles. Life is filtered out into various cycles. This cycle could be good, the next one bad, this one could break you the last could have crippled you and the next one could redeem you. Cycles define life. The last cycle that Alex Summers remembers clearly was the mutant x-verse. He remembers arriving and he remembers leaving, but nothing in between. This cycle has blocked those memories from his mind.
Alex Summers lay in a field of grass, wearing a costume he vaguely remembers and having a cloud of doubt covering his memories. He had exploded into this reality far about this field of grass and on instinct had cushioned his fall with his cosmic force blasts. Alex Summers is a mutant. For years he fought alongside his friends, as a member of the x-men. He fought to rid the world of evil and unite humans and mutants. He later joined lead X-factor. The love of his life fought with him in a governmentally funded team of mutants that eventually became much more than a team, they became his family. He has been thought dead for god knows how long. It is time to get his life back online.
"Jamie I will break down this damn door if you don't let me in. You have been hogging the bathroom for over an hour, how long does it take for you to get ready to go out?" Lorna Dane stood outside her bathroom, in a luxurious suite in New York City, pounding on the bathroom door.
"Hey, I have to make sure I look good so any dupes I make will not give me a bad reputation!" Came the voice from within the bathroom.
Lorna's eyes flared and the bolts in the hinges of the bathroom door shuddered then flew to the floor and she kicked the door in. There stood Jamie Madrox, the multiple man, fully dressed and looking surprised. "HEY! Lorna I could have been stark raving naked in here you would have.."
"Have what? Seen you naked? Like I haven't before."
"You have never seen me naked!" Jamie said matter of factly.
"Oh really?" Lorna looked at him up and down. "If I recall correctly after we came back from Genosha when your clone contracted the legacy virus and you were running around with three clones that you couldn't control, one of them got into the shower with me accidentally. I never really new if it was you or one of the ones that had developed a personality."
Jamie smiled and then quickly attempted to hide his amusement. "So, he saw you naked too? HAHAHA!"
Lorna's expression changed to amusement herself, "What are you laughing about? Remember I saw you naked as well, and I know why you don't get any dates."
"HEY!" Jamie's face turned red.
"Oh, chill out Jamie, I am only playing with you. I didn't even look. I was to busy trying to cover up. But it is my turn to use the bathroom, it is my apartment by the way."
"I know, and don't think I am not appreciative of the fact your letting me stay here for awhile, I really still don't have any clue as to what I am going to do next with my life." Jamie walked out of the bathroom and into the hall.
"Well you are more than welcome to stay here until you figure it out pokey." Lorna giggled maliciously and used her powers of magnetism to close the door.
"HEY!! YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T LOOK!"
"I'm only playing, you know I wouldn't…" a knock on the door interrupted whatever she was going to say next. " Jamie, be a doll and go get that please."
Madrox quickly tapped his foot on the floor and instantly created a duplicate of himself, exact in every detail. "Hey, go get the door."
The dupe, as he called them, scowled at Jamie and slowly answered the door. When he opened the door the dupe was surprised to see a long thought dead friend.
"JAMIE! It is so good to see you!" Alex gave his friend a big huge and twirled him about and then set him on his feet. "I didn't expect you here, where's Lorna? I have been dying to see her. Why do you look like you just saw a ghost?"
The original Madrox had heard the voice of Alex and had hurriedly come into the room. "Why? Because I am seeing one right now!"
Alex, Jamie and Lorna all sat in the living room of Lorna's apartment. After a deep kiss between Lorna and Alex upon being reunited, the two had a lot of questions for Alex.
"So you have no idea of what this whole time or where you have been?" Lorna said a bit skeptically. She had not taken her eyes away from Alex the whole time. She had been tricked and betrayed before and she was going to make sure this was really the man she loved.
"I get bits and pieces every once in awhile. Images flash in my mind and then leave almost as fast as they came. I wake up at night in a bath of sweat not remembering the nightmares that had awaken me. It is almost like whatever it is that is in my mind wants me to remember but something is stopping it."
"Hey man, don't worry about it. It will come back when it needs to come back. The important thing is that you're alive and well. Man will Guido and Rahne be happy to hear you're alive, and what about your brother. You know he never did believe you were actually dead, he just kept saying he felt you were still alive." Jamie sat back still a little shocked to see his long lost friend. "So what happens next?"
Alex leans forward in his chair a little bit. "I am not entirely sure. I have been out of action for sometime now. You said that the X-men are completely different now, and that X-force isn't even X-force anymore, and Excalibur was disbanded and Generation X's school was closed. A lot has changed. I need to be completely caught up to speed on some things. The only things I know for sure is that I don't want to ever be away from Lorna or my friends again."
Lorna attempts to hide her blush, "Baby, I love you I don't want to ever have to miss you again." She leans over and her and Alex kissed deeply.
"Hey, not to be a big party pooper, I know you haven't seen each other in a long time but we do need to figure out what's going on. Now, Guido is with Lila Cheney again, but he left me a number to his voice mail that he checks through some interstellar communications system or something. I don't know where Rahne is right now but I am sure she couldn't be too hard to find. Quicksilver is kind of dealing with some things to do with his dad right now, did you know Magneto is president of Genosha now? Anyways Forge is always reachable through the X-men if we can get in touch with one of them. Wild Child is missing right now, he said he needed to figure some things out."
"Well first off, does this mean we are reforming X-factor?" Lorna says.
"X-factor doesn't belong in this world anymore. The whole name has been associated with either Cameron Hodge's control or Apocalypse's manipulation or the Governments mutant puppets. We should have ditched the name when we went underground that one time. We need a new name and we need to contact some old friends. Jamie, I want you to get in touch with Guido and see if he wants to rejoin his old friends and attempt to get in touch with Forge and Wolfsbane. We will let Wild Child and Quicksilver deal with their own issues before we ask them to rejoin us. I just need to be back in the hero business and I can tell you two need to as well. But if we can't get in touch with the others or for some reason they don't want to join us we can not do this alone. I am sure there are some unaffiliated mutants out their that we have histories with. You said X-force isn't even X-force anymore right? Try and get in touch with Cannonball and the others and see if they want to join, get in touch with Dazzler and Longshot in mojoverse, Sunfire in Japan and maybe Firestar and Justice."
Lorna clears her throat, "Some of those names are fine but Justice and Firestar are Avengers now and X-force is missing. Longshot and Dazzler we can get in touch with and Sunfire as well and if they agree that makes us six mutants strong."
Alex stands up, "Six is all it ever took before, we can take care of whatever comes along, watch each others backs."
"More important than a line-up though is a team name, something that strikes fear into the hearts of our enemies! Like X-Killers or X-Badasses." Jamie said.
Alex stops him, "We are what we are. I am tired of facing the same people over and over. We need to strike fear into the hearts of our enemies, you are right. I am not concerned with our image so much as the message our name carries. And what better name then one that used to be used by our friends. We will be the X-terminators!"
X-Terminators Issue 1of4 March 29th, 2001
CYCLES
Cycles. Life is filtered out into various cycles. This cycle could be good, the next one bad, this one could break you the last could have crippled you and the next one could redeem you. Cycles define life. The last cycle that Alex Summers remembers clearly was the mutant x-verse. He remembers arriving and he remembers leaving, but nothing in between. This cycle has blocked those memories from his mind.
Alex Summers lay in a field of grass, wearing a costume he vaguely remembers and having a cloud of doubt covering his memories. He had exploded into this reality far about this field of grass and on instinct had cushioned his fall with his cosmic force blasts. Alex Summers is a mutant. For years he fought alongside his friends, as a member of the x-men. He fought to rid the world of evil and unite humans and mutants. He later joined lead X-factor. The love of his life fought with him in a governmentally funded team of mutants that eventually became much more than a team, they became his family. He has been thought dead for god knows how long. It is time to get his life back online.
"Jamie I will break down this damn door if you don't let me in. You have been hogging the bathroom for over an hour, how long does it take for you to get ready to go out?" Lorna Dane stood outside her bathroom, in a luxurious suite in New York City, pounding on the bathroom door.
"Hey, I have to make sure I look good so any dupes I make will not give me a bad reputation!" Came the voice from within the bathroom.
Lorna's eyes flared and the bolts in the hinges of the bathroom door shuddered then flew to the floor and she kicked the door in. There stood Jamie Madrox, the multiple man, fully dressed and looking surprised. "HEY! Lorna I could have been stark raving naked in here you would have.."
"Have what? Seen you naked? Like I haven't before."
"You have never seen me naked!" Jamie said matter of factly.
"Oh really?" Lorna looked at him up and down. "If I recall correctly after we came back from Genosha when your clone contracted the legacy virus and you were running around with three clones that you couldn't control, one of them got into the shower with me accidentally. I never really new if it was you or one of the ones that had developed a personality."
Jamie smiled and then quickly attempted to hide his amusement. "So, he saw you naked too? HAHAHA!"
Lorna's expression changed to amusement herself, "What are you laughing about? Remember I saw you naked as well, and I know why you don't get any dates."
"HEY!" Jamie's face turned red.
"Oh, chill out Jamie, I am only playing with you. I didn't even look. I was to busy trying to cover up. But it is my turn to use the bathroom, it is my apartment by the way."
"I know, and don't think I am not appreciative of the fact your letting me stay here for awhile, I really still don't have any clue as to what I am going to do next with my life." Jamie walked out of the bathroom and into the hall.
"Well you are more than welcome to stay here until you figure it out pokey." Lorna giggled maliciously and used her powers of magnetism to close the door.
"HEY!! YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T LOOK!"
"I'm only playing, you know I wouldn't…" a knock on the door interrupted whatever she was going to say next. " Jamie, be a doll and go get that please."
Madrox quickly tapped his foot on the floor and instantly created a duplicate of himself, exact in every detail. "Hey, go get the door."
The dupe, as he called them, scowled at Jamie and slowly answered the door. When he opened the door the dupe was surprised to see a long thought dead friend.
"JAMIE! It is so good to see you!" Alex gave his friend a big huge and twirled him about and then set him on his feet. "I didn't expect you here, where's Lorna? I have been dying to see her. Why do you look like you just saw a ghost?"
The original Madrox had heard the voice of Alex and had hurriedly come into the room. "Why? Because I am seeing one right now!"
Alex, Jamie and Lorna all sat in the living room of Lorna's apartment. After a deep kiss between Lorna and Alex upon being reunited, the two had a lot of questions for Alex.
"So you have no idea of what this whole time or where you have been?" Lorna said a bit skeptically. She had not taken her eyes away from Alex the whole time. She had been tricked and betrayed before and she was going to make sure this was really the man she loved.
"I get bits and pieces every once in awhile. Images flash in my mind and then leave almost as fast as they came. I wake up at night in a bath of sweat not remembering the nightmares that had awaken me. It is almost like whatever it is that is in my mind wants me to remember but something is stopping it."
"Hey man, don't worry about it. It will come back when it needs to come back. The important thing is that you're alive and well. Man will Guido and Rahne be happy to hear you're alive, and what about your brother. You know he never did believe you were actually dead, he just kept saying he felt you were still alive." Jamie sat back still a little shocked to see his long lost friend. "So what happens next?"
Alex leans forward in his chair a little bit. "I am not entirely sure. I have been out of action for sometime now. You said that the X-men are completely different now, and that X-force isn't even X-force anymore, and Excalibur was disbanded and Generation X's school was closed. A lot has changed. I need to be completely caught up to speed on some things. The only things I know for sure is that I don't want to ever be away from Lorna or my friends again."
Lorna attempts to hide her blush, "Baby, I love you I don't want to ever have to miss you again." She leans over and her and Alex kissed deeply.
"Hey, not to be a big party pooper, I know you haven't seen each other in a long time but we do need to figure out what's going on. Now, Guido is with Lila Cheney again, but he left me a number to his voice mail that he checks through some interstellar communications system or something. I don't know where Rahne is right now but I am sure she couldn't be too hard to find. Quicksilver is kind of dealing with some things to do with his dad right now, did you know Magneto is president of Genosha now? Anyways Forge is always reachable through the X-men if we can get in touch with one of them. Wild Child is missing right now, he said he needed to figure some things out."
"Well first off, does this mean we are reforming X-factor?" Lorna says.
"X-factor doesn't belong in this world anymore. The whole name has been associated with either Cameron Hodge's control or Apocalypse's manipulation or the Governments mutant puppets. We should have ditched the name when we went underground that one time. We need a new name and we need to contact some old friends. Jamie, I want you to get in touch with Guido and see if he wants to rejoin his old friends and attempt to get in touch with Forge and Wolfsbane. We will let Wild Child and Quicksilver deal with their own issues before we ask them to rejoin us. I just need to be back in the hero business and I can tell you two need to as well. But if we can't get in touch with the others or for some reason they don't want to join us we can not do this alone. I am sure there are some unaffiliated mutants out their that we have histories with. You said X-force isn't even X-force anymore right? Try and get in touch with Cannonball and the others and see if they want to join, get in touch with Dazzler and Longshot in mojoverse, Sunfire in Japan and maybe Firestar and Justice."
Lorna clears her throat, "Some of those names are fine but Justice and Firestar are Avengers now and X-force is missing. Longshot and Dazzler we can get in touch with and Sunfire as well and if they agree that makes us six mutants strong."
Alex stands up, "Six is all it ever took before, we can take care of whatever comes along, watch each others backs."
"More important than a line-up though is a team name, something that strikes fear into the hearts of our enemies! Like X-Killers or X-Badasses." Jamie said.
Alex stops him, "We are what we are. I am tired of facing the same people over and over. We need to strike fear into the hearts of our enemies, you are right. I am not concerned with our image so much as the message our name carries. And what better name then one that used to be used by our friends. We will be the X-terminators!"