Polaris Attacks

"I dunno Professor do you really think this is going to do any good?" Scott asked.

"Scott we must keep trying to educate the public on mutants," Xavier said. They were at the local television station. "You know as well as I do that public opinion is shifting dangerously towards heavy anti-mutant sentiment. We must do everything possible to stem the tide. The alternative is unthinkable."

"I gotcha," Scott sighed. He went to the sides where some of the other X-Men were waiting. Jean, Tabitha, Kurt (Wearing his image inducer), Ororo and Bobby were there. "Well here goes everything."

Reporter Trish Trilby was the moderator at a debate. "Good evening. Tonight's debate is the topic of Mutant Rights and Registration. Our debaters tonight are Professor Charles Xavier and Senator Edward Kelly. Good evening gentlemen. Professor Xavier would you please start with your opening statement?"

"Thank you," Xavier said. He looked at the camera. "I know these are difficult times. It's easy to fall victim to one's fears. I myself have felt them. That's part of being human. What the Xavier Institute represents is a way to combat those fears. To teach students how to overcome their fears and to put their powers to use for the good of all humanity, not just a select few. Despite terrible ordeals my students have overcome great adversity and grown in ways unimaginable. And I am proud of them. Just as any parent would be proud of his children. For that is what most mutants are, young children just learning to deal with the changes in their bodies. Most mutants gain their powers during puberty, which you'll all agree is a stressful and confusing time to say the least. The last thing they need to be taught is hate."

"Oh please! What the good professor is forgetting to mention is that I myself have also had contact with his students," Kelly said. "You remember I was once their principal. On my first day of work I was nearly squashed by a scoreboard, the gym caught on fire, the soccer field was destroyed and I was attacked by mutants. And I'm pretty sure the Professor did something to my mind that night! I have a lot of hazy memories from that evening. The point I am trying to make is mutants are dangerous! They shouldn't be allowed to roam free and endanger the lives of decent hardworking human beings!"

"Senator mutants are human," Professor Xavier said.

"Oh really?" Kelly asked. "Then why don't they act like it? Take for example some of Xavier's 'students' over there. Two cheaters, a thief, a circus freak and practical joking living ice cube! And let's not forget one of them was the nephew of that weather witch over there! You remember, the one who went out of control after he was disqualified at a skating competition? He nearly single handedly killed the entire stadium and yet that monster still runs free! Why? Because the good Professor is protecting him! Like all mutants they stick together regardless of the damage they cause!"

"ENOUGH!" Ororo shouted. "Evan lost control of his powers because he was poisoned! It was bigoted monsters like you that drove him away!"

"I'm a monster?" Kelly shouted. "Take a look in the mirror lady!" Ororo's eyes were glowing. "Look at her! No human has eyes like that! I…"

"YOU WILL BE QUIET LITTLE MAN!"

"Who…?" Kelly turned around and saw a girl in a green uniform wearing a green helmet hover above him. "Who are you?"

"I am Polaris," Lorna told him as she summoned several metal chairs to do her bidding. "And I am a representative of the future. A future you are trying to deny!"

"Oh no…" Kelly screamed as the metal chairs chased him. "NOT AGAIN! YEOW!"

Instinctively Polaris created a magnetic barrier blocking Scott's eye blast. She used the chairs to attack the X-Men. "Oh please, you didn't think you could take me out that easily did you?" She sneered.

"Oh man does something like this have to happen every time we go out?" Bobby groaned. He blasted at her with his ice powers but she easily dodged them.

Lorna created several spears out of the chairs and threw them at the X-Men. "She has powers just like Magneto!" Jean gasped.

"Of course I do," Lorna told her. "What else would you expect from the daughter of the Master of Magnetism?" She took metal scraps and created more sharp projectile weapons, hurling them at the X-Men. Fortunately Jean was able to create a force field to block them.

"Did she say…daughter?" Tabitha gasped. "That's impossible! Is it?"

"Great just what we need around here," Kurt groaned. "Another insane offspring of Magneto." He barely dodged another projectile.

"What did you mean by that crack, 'Another insane offspring'?" Lorna growled.

"Face it sister you ain't exactly an only child," Bobby piped up.

"You're lying!" Lorna snarled.

"It's not me who's lying sweetheart!" Bobby snapped as he sent a cold blast towards her.

"How about we warm things up?" Tabitha threw some bombs in order to blind her.

Enraged Lorna used the metal to capture the X-Men and bind their arms, pinning them to the wall. "Now it's just you and me Xavier," She hissed.

"Why are you doing this?" Xavier asked.

"Revenge," Lorna told him. "Revenge for my father, the man you allowed to die!"

Kurt teleported out of his bonds and on top of Lorna. "Professor I've got her!"

"Oh really?" She snarled as she threw him off. She took several bolts out of the floor and changed them into sharp pins. They pinned Kurt to the floor through his uniform. "You were saying?"

That was when Bobby shot at her with a blizzard blast. "Jean use a psychic blast!" He shouted. He had used his powers to help free the other X-Men.

"I can't get a lock on her mind!" Jean said.

"Fool!" Lorna hissed as she used all the metal in the room against them. "Did you really think I would come unprepared to face a telepath? Your psychic blasts are useless against me!"

"Then how's about we even up the odds?" Logan roared as he ran in with all the other X-Men. "You okay Charles? We saw what happened on the broadcast and got down here pronto!"

"I'm fine," Xavier said.

"If you want the Professor so bad, you're going to have to go through us!" Scott shouted reading his visor.

"All of us…" Ray snapped creating some sparks. Jamie made more copies of himself. Amara fired up. Remy readied his cards.

"Another time perhaps, when the odds are more to my liking. Mark my words X-Men," Lorna snarled. "I will have my revenge on you for what you did to my father!" She created a hole in the metal roof and flew away.

"Who is that?" Rogue asked.

"She calls herself Polaris," Scott said. "She claims she's Magneto's daughter."

"What?" Rogue gasped.

"For a ruthless maniac Magneto seems to have had a pretty active social life," Bobby commented.

"That's not funny Bobby!" Rogue snapped.

"Neither is what happened here," Xavier sighed. "I'm afraid now the public has another reason to hate mutants."

"Two reasons," Kitty looked at a nearby monitor. "Remember that dome in Mexico? Well Apocalypse just made another one in China!" She pointed to the screen.

"Why do I have the feeling our situation's just gotten a whole lot worse?" Logan grumbled.