A Woman Scorned: Peridot
I was a weapon: Fist of Magneto, then Xavier and a puppet
of Sinister and malice, and that followed by the Shadow
King.
I served my country and my kind as a member of X-factor--
out of good faith--and again, I became a weapon...to counter
Magneto.
Then my lover, Havok, betrayed me and joined the side of evil.
He died...he left me alone and defenseless.
But against all odds, I was taken in by Magneto.
And he taught me to use my powers in ways I'd never dreamed of.
But in the end, even he betrayed me: and allthose who trusted him
to rule Genosha..the atrocities Pietro and I couldn't stop will
haunt me for the rest of my life.
Only a few escaped before Cassandra turned jury-rigged Sentinals
loose on the isle.
And that was a greater atrocity than the Holocost...
And now Pietro and I find ourseles "elected" by Fate as the leaders
of the expatriot and surviving Genoshans...
...Damn you, Charles, double damn you Magnus--and may you both burn
in a very fitting hell along side Cassandra!
You all knew whose child I was...yet you never told me.
My past, all lies...always the victim, never the victor...
No more.
My brother and I will learn from your mistakes...and we will not repeat
them, we have been through hell, and back. We lived to tell the tale,
but as the 'victors' we will not rewrite history.
I will not live another lie.
I was a weapon: Fist of Magneto, then Xavier and a puppet
of Sinister and malice, and that followed by the Shadow
King.
I served my country and my kind as a member of X-factor--
out of good faith--and again, I became a weapon...to counter
Magneto.
Then my lover, Havok, betrayed me and joined the side of evil.
He died...he left me alone and defenseless.
But against all odds, I was taken in by Magneto.
And he taught me to use my powers in ways I'd never dreamed of.
But in the end, even he betrayed me: and allthose who trusted him
to rule Genosha..the atrocities Pietro and I couldn't stop will
haunt me for the rest of my life.
Only a few escaped before Cassandra turned jury-rigged Sentinals
loose on the isle.
And that was a greater atrocity than the Holocost...
And now Pietro and I find ourseles "elected" by Fate as the leaders
of the expatriot and surviving Genoshans...
...Damn you, Charles, double damn you Magnus--and may you both burn
in a very fitting hell along side Cassandra!
You all knew whose child I was...yet you never told me.
My past, all lies...always the victim, never the victor...
No more.
My brother and I will learn from your mistakes...and we will not repeat
them, we have been through hell, and back. We lived to tell the tale,
but as the 'victors' we will not rewrite history.
I will not live another lie.