Marvel owns the X-Men and related characters not me. Feel free to post. Takes place in an alternate third season that diverges sometime after "The Toad, the Witch and the Wardrobe." And, Spyke's powers are not going out of control.

Back at base, Sinister was cradling the baby in his arms. She was wailing, but he did not care. She was a tool, nothing more. He looked at her expressionlessly as he gently rocked her to sleep and then he took out the ruby-colored gem from his draw and placed it in an incubator-like device on the shelf.

"After I have enhanced you, you will grow to adulthood in less than a year. I will then impregnate you and we can begin creating the first of our portion of the master race.

"Yours will be the night race. The Nocturnal Ones. They will rule the planet at night and serve as the watchmen who keep the Earth running smoothly."

Sinister walked over to a cage in which Juggernaut was being held, wearing only small black shorts. Adamantium bars prevented him from getting out. While it was possible that Juggernaut would be able to smash through adamantium, he could only do it if he had a running start,and the cage was too small.

"The Juggernautians will come from you. They will be the policeman, enforcers, and warriors. Unfortunately, I cannot mate with you - well, not to produce children anyway, as you are male. I could mate you with an enhanced female mutant, but I believe that my DNA is the DNA that all aspects of the new master race must have. So I have made a female clone of myself - she was my first creation. She is just like me, only I caused the doubling of an X chromosome and destroyed the Y chromosome before I began to grow her zygote. I was fortunate enough to have connections in various orphanages and to be able to implant her into some of the more - promiscuous female members. They never realized that the pregnancy was - artificial. And then I convinced them to giver the baby up, and adopted her."

"And if I don't want to mate?" asked Juggernaut.

"You may be indestructible, but you are not unsubduable. My female associate can mentally force the desired response if she needs. You lack your helmet. You have no psychic defense.

"She is twenty years old, anyway, and can take any form she wishes - or that you wish. As you will not have a choice, I suggest that you lie back and enjoy it." Sinister grinned for a second. He loved having control. "I only wish that my maturation enhancer had been developed while she was still young enough to use it. Or when my second creation was young enough. Too bad it only works on very young babies."

"Second creation?"

"I performed the same cloning procedure on DNA from a test subject in an Omaha orphanage. The subject was male, the clone is female, as my clone was, so that I can mate with her to produce the third and final race. I have often wondered if her powers will be affected by the alteration of her sex relative to that of her parent. We will find out today when she manifests."

"How do you know she will manifest today?"

"I took some samples of her father's tissue. Recent ones. The proteins that mediate his mutant power are concentrated in the tissues I took. They should cause her powers to activate as well."

"Why don't you have tissue samples of him from before?"

"I do, but the protein I want degrades quickly and was impossible to synthesize. I needed a recent live sample."

"The final race will be the Slayers. I got the name from the soulless warriors from the movie Krull. They will provide air and space defense, as well as be my army for taking over other worlds. Together, the three master races will actively seek out and screen mutants, and those deemed worthy will be enhanced. The others will be killed. The wild types will be used first for slave labor, and then done away with as they become redundant."

"Who is this second girl cloned from?"

"Scott Summers. That is why I chose the name Slayer. Slayers are the counterpart to the Cyclopes in the movie Krull."

"Cyclopes?"

"Plural of Cyclops. Latin. Third declension. In any case, she is about ten years old now. I am developing a method of advancing maturity that will work on older subjects, and it should be done in a week or so. Then she too shall reach adulthood within a year. But first, I must make certain that she has the necessary powers."

Sinister pushed a button on his glove and a door slid open. A woman who looked exactly like he would have looked as a female walked in. She had on exactly the same clothes as well. Also a girl of about ten walked in.

Sinister prepared a syringe and beckoned the young girl to come to him. He gave her a quick shot in the arm. She suddenly keeled over in pain.

"My eyes! My eyes!" she wailed. Suddenly she opened them, and a powerful blast of green light came out, knocking out one wall of the lab. Sinister pressed a button on his belt, a necklace she wore around her neck glowed, and her eyes stopped shooting beams.

"Green. Then emerald quartz will allow you control until you learn to control them yourself." He handed her a pair of green sunglasses. "Put these on, and then I will turn off the power inhibitor in your necklace."

She did as she had been told, and was relieved to find that while she was still blasting out beams with her eyes, they were being held back by the quartz, which dissipated but did not absorb the energy.

"I will have a room covered in emerald quartz in which you can train. The room itself will be invulnerable to your powers."

Just then, Juggernaut noticed in one corner of the room armor made from ruby quartz. Although not bright, he knew one thing: ruby quartz was too fragile to make good armor. The only use would be to protect from Scott's optic beams. So that must be Sinister's weakness! After spreading Sinister all over the landscape when Sinister had found him again two weeks ago, Sinister had quickly reconstituted himself. It had seemed that nothing could hurt him, and when his henchman had removed Juggernaut's helmet, Sinister had mentally knocked him out. But he had a weakness, and Juggernaut planned to do anything he could to help the X-Men to use it.

"Juggernaut, this girl is, obviously, Slayer Summers. And now meet your new mate - Ms. Dexter!" He pointed to the female version of him. "She is, shall we say, in heat. So I will leave you alone. Remember, tell her who you want her to impersonate, and if that does not make it bearable, just lay back and think of England!" Mr. Sinister placed little Talia in the incubator-like device, and left with Slayer out of the blown-out wall, into the next room, and then out a door in that room.