This takes place during the Australian Outback X-Men era.

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What Went Before

Prologue

I am Moira Mctaggart, the keeper of the dream. Charles is dead, killed long ago in an ambush attack by magneto and his followers.

The New mutants were formed by Charles after Proteus attacked the Xmen, nearly killing most of them, but thanks to colossus he was captured and put in a sub basement of my Muir Island complex where he recuperated a few months before the xmen died.

The xmen are dead. They tried to stop the second wave of the brood attacks, and did so, unfortunately they were unaware that Psylocke was a brood carrier, within a few weeks she had infested the rest of the team with brood eggs. Using her psi powers to make the rest of the team believe that they were fine and forget any pain that they may have been in. The affected members were: Wolverine Storm Longshot Dazzler Rogue Colossus and Havok. Once fully transformed the brood had control of the xmen's powers and began to attack and kill humans in Salem Centre.

The First class of New Mutants took it upon themselves to stop the xmen. They arrived in Salem Centre and attempted to save the xmen, which soon resulted in the deaths of Sunspot and Cypher at the hands of the brood Wolverine, who decapitated them both with his admantium claws. Now seeing that they couldn't save the xmen, the New Mutants started to kill the mutated xmen in revenge for the deaths of Doug and Bobby.

Magma created a small volcano then used the molten lava to burn the brood infested bodies of both Storm and Havok who were both killed in the process. Magma was then ambushed by Rogue, who broke her neck in return for the deaths of Storm and Havok. Karma managed to take control of the brood Psylocke, then using their combined powers knocked out most of the other brood including Psylocke Rogue Longshot and Dazzler. This left only Wolverine and Colossus in battle. Colossus quickly grabbed Cannonball and Karma. He broke Cannonballs neck killing him instantly and then diverted his attention to Karma who desperately possessed Mirage in an attempt to free herself, but before she could access Danni's powers she was thrown into the nearest brick wall which collapsed on top of her, The impact killed Karma and Mirage died while merged to the dying mind of her friend.

Magik managed to defend herself against the savage brood infested Colossus while warlock and wolfsbane fought against wolverine, wolfsbane acted as a distraction fighting using a combination of both human and wolf body. Warlock knew that he had little time as wolfsbane was no match for wolverine, so he acted quickly infecting wolverine with the transmode virus, he was quickly absorbed by the virus and warlock used wolverine as raw energy to feed upon leaving nothing left of him.

Magik still fighting her brother Colossus swung at him with her soulsword but even her magic could not purge the brood from him. Accepting defeat with tears in her eyes a white energy disk opened from beneath her brother after a brief flash of white light he was gone, transported to another dimension of demons. Magik also transported the bodies of the unconscious Psylocke Dazzler Longshot and Rogue into limbo along with colossus. Storm and Havok's remains were no more than ashes.

Magik Warlock and Wolfsbane, my foster daughter, were then left to gather the bodies of their fallen Sunspot Cypher Magma Cannonball Karma and Mirage. The experience was traumatic for all of the survivors; Wolfsbane spent more and more time in her more simplistic form as a wolf, trying to forget the experiences of that day. Magik became even wearier of entering limbo scared of what she would encounter there. Warlock opted to spend some time off world exploring before returning to explore more of our planet.

I feel that I must keep the dream alive.

The mutants that I have gathered consist of:

Athena Carrabellose - Shimmer. Age 16, Athena hails form Greece, and is the leader of the Nu Mutants. Shimmer can turn her body into and acidic liquid substance, which she can then channel light through, this light like the acid her body is made from, becomes acidic burning through other substances. Her first serious boyfriend was left on the brink of death after her powers first manifested.

Kai O'sirus - Centaur. Age 17, Kai is Welsh and can transform the lower half of his body into that of a horse, this transformation often scares his team mates as he grows an extra set of legs in the process, party because of this he is very shy he has also developed a crush on another team mate Octave who is thus far unaware of kai's feelings towards him. . He is very strong and fast. Excellent tactician, who serves as the deputy leader of the team.

Jamellia Jackson - Insight. Age 17, Jamellia is West African and has precognitive powers; she has more experience with her powers than her team mates and so often ends up saving them when they endanger themselves during battles in the danger room. Jamellia has been mentally scared by the death of her grandmother, which she foresaw on a regular basis before it happened. This sometimes makes her over protective of her team-mates, and because she is older than most of them this can cause arguments because the others want to have their freedom.

Philippe Crawford - Gestapo. Age 16, Philippe was raised by his mother who his German in Germany, although his father is French. He can split his body into mini versions of himself, as many as he want as long as they can merge back together to reform his body. His body is like a cell that splits apart and can duplicate as many times as he wants but it can also re form its self back together to make just the single cell again. He is the class joker and is very popular among the other students.

Yioto Oyamahan - Octave. Age 17, Yioto has the ability to channel low pitch noises through his body enabling him level building by disrupting the supports at the bottom of buildings. He enjoys sports, especially swimming. He was exiled from his native Japan deemed a risk to the high rise building after levelling a row of disused apartments. He is unaware of kai's feelings towards him.

Toyah Twain - Dimension. Age 15, Toyah is a runaway from England, she is the team's teleporter, and is able to teleport objects or people small distances. The reasons that she ran away from home have not yet been discovered. She is now good friends with Jamellia, but recently Jamellia has become worried for toyah's safety, her team mates have dismissed it as another of jamellia's over protective spells, but I think something might be on the horizon.

Nicholas Jenson - Dew. Age 16, Nicholas hails from Canada, he is the class troublemaker. He doesn't get on well with most of the other team members and feels unwanted most of the time. He has the ability to solidify moisture around the bodies of his opponents, freezing ice onto their skin, immobilising them. He can also freeze armour onto his body and uses these as defensive weapons.

Now I must help these mutants to control their powers and carry on the dream of Professor Xavier.

Moira Mactaggart.