The Mastermold Project

The guards dragged Duke from his cell in handcuffs. He had been slightly roughed up but not seriously harmed. "What do you want with me Trask?" Duke asked as he saw Trask and Foresight waiting for him.

"I just wanted to give you a tour of our little enterprise," Trask grinned. "You know Sergeant I've reviewed your file. It's rather impressive. It would be a shame for a man of your talents to be disposed of."

"Well you could always just let me go," Duke replied flippantly.

"You know Sgt. Hauser we're not really that different," Trask told him as they walked along the corridor. "We both believe in human rights and liberty."

"Yeah, but your idea of human rights is to destroy those humans that are different than you," Duke pointed out.

"Mutants are not human!" Trask snapped. "They are a blight! A disgrace to our gene pool! They are a threat to our way of life."

"Listen jerk," Duke snapped. "I've heard that garbage before from other despots and bigots. It may have a new twist but it's still the same old song."

"Oh really?" Trask snarled. "Well you may be singing a different tune after I show you a few things." He pushed a button on a wall and they entered a huge room. In the middle of the room was a huge 40-story statue like contraption made of wires and metal. Several scientists were working on it.

"What the hell is that?" Duke stared at the enormous structure.

"This is the Mastermold," Trask told him. "My ultimate achievement. When it's completed it will mean the end of mutantkind once and for all."

"What exactly is it gonna do?" Duke asked. "Sit there and ugly them to death?"

"Very amusing," Trask punched in a monitor. "It's the ultimate Sentinel. Watch the screen. This is a computer simulation of what it will do when completed."

On screen the Mastermold was seen creating sentinels. Hundreds of sentinels. "Imagine, a sentient computer creating sentinels and hunting down mutants all over the globe," Trask grinned. "When completed the Mastermold will be able to mass produce over a hundred Sentinels every hour."

"Trask when are you going to learn that giant robots never solve anything?" Duke groaned.

"Laugh while you can Duke," Trask told him. "But soon all of mutantkind will be nothing more than a memory. Soon…" He was interrupted by a sound from Foresight. "What now?"

Foresight screamed and fell to his knees. "NOT AGAIN!"

"Now what's going on?" Duke was puzzled.

"Foresight get a hold of yourself," Trask hissed.

"NO THE VISIONS ARE BACK!" He screamed as his helmet shorted.