X-Men #2
"Sinister Vengeance" part 2 (of 6)

Mutant Town, New York

She walked down the crooked streets of the area and just stared at the town. The old buildings laced with grime, were decorated with streamers and bows. Balloons filled the hands of every child, mutant and human. Today in the area known as Mutant Town was a day of celebration, and Alison Blaire was there to make sure that nothing destroyed their joy.

Xavier's…

"What makes you the judger of powers, Summers!" Marrow yelled with even more arrogance then normal.

"What are you talking--"

"You know precisely what I'm talking about! How dare I not get chosen for a team." Cyclops rubbed his temples. A million things were rushing through his mind and he couldn't be bothered with this.

"Marrow, I--"

"Sarah."

"What?"

"My name's Sarah."

"Sarah, I can't deal with this now. There's mutant day to think of and then my speech. I…I need time to think."

"Oh, so now I'm unimportant!"

"What! What are you even talking about? Now you're just twisting my words."

"Fine, make me the bad guy, Summers! Just because I don't have powers like Gambit--"

"Gambit isn't even on a squad, Sarah. I can't deal with this now. After today if you have a problem with the squads, talk to me in my office. Until then, goodbye." Scott walked away continuing to rub his temples as he spoke. Marrow looked onward and watched as he walked. She huffed and then turned to walk away.

Subterranea

He is the Mole Man, the first villain who ever fought the "first family" of super heroes, the Fantastic Four. He rules the land known as Subterranea located in the land known as Monster Island, which is found in the Bermuda Triangle. No human eye has ever seen it before other then the Mole Man himself. But today is another day, and anything can happen.

"Cozy," said a voice from the unknown. The Mole Man turned away from his desk in his subterranean lab, pulling his staff out as he did. He went into a fighting stance when he again heard the unknown voice of the intruder.

"Reminds me of my own." Said the voice.

"Who…who are you? What do you want?"

"I've come here to offer you a proposition," said the voice. "One that I think even you couldn't pass up."

Xavier's

Cyclops was cornered. Just about every member of the X-Men was in his office at the moment. A headache made his temples pound with every word spoken by his team.

"Why am I not on a squad?" asked the voice of Warren Worthington III

"Why does Storm get to lead and not me?" asked Iceman.

More and more voices seemed to be crawling into his brain. He couldn't think anymore he just…

"QUIET!"

…freaked.

Scott stood up behind his desk. Papers covered the top of it, hiding the rich mahogany color.

"Alright, the teams are final. Colossus, Beast, and Jean make up my squad and Nightcrawler, Rogue, Polaris, Iceman, and Psylocke make up Storm's. Those are the team's chosen and that's what they'll stay at. Any other complaints will not be heard, at least not today. So everybody just leave."

Everyone just stood around staring with looks of either confusion, anger, or astonishment placed on their faces.

"OUT!" he screamed. In a single file, each member exited the room, muttering a swear as they each passed out of the room.

Mutant Town

"Wow! Daddy, did you see that?" a girl with cat like ears asked her father as she sat atop his shoulders.

"I sure did, sweetheart." Said the man. What caught the girls astonishment was the mutant heroine known as Dazzler standing at the corner of a street, playing Donna Summers' 'lets dance' loudly as she converted the song into twinkles of light. Dazzler made light bubbles and when they popped, tiny speckles of glittering light fell upon the hands of the little girl. The girl giggled as she had caught one of the bubbles which popped almost immediately as she caught it. Dazzler smiled as she saw the small girl.

"What's your name?" she asked her.

"Lana." The girl responded.

"I'm Allison." She said as she looked up to speak to the girl. Lana's father chuckled and he let out a hand to Allison.

"Hi, I'm Chuck Connell."

"A pleasure," said Allison. "So, do you guys live here?"

"Yeah. Actually today's our first day here. We're kinda just looking around to get a feel for what's around here." She smiled, "Do you live here?"

"No. I'm here for mutant day. A…friend of mine is supposedly making a speech here." Stated Allison.

"Oh, right. That guy with the red glasses…uh…Sam?"

"Daddy—look! Balloons!" said Lana, butting into the conversation. Her father looked over to where the balloons were, noticing they were mere feet away.

"Here—why don't you go get one." Said Chuck, pulling his daughter off his shoulders. "Don't go to anyone else and when you get it, come straight back here. Ok?"

"Yes Daddy." Lana ran straight to where the magical objects her heart desired were. She told the clown distributing them she wanted a big pink one, to which he gave her. Balloon in hand, she began to run towards her father, when the ground began to break. A large brown being appeared from under the ground and snatched the little 6-year-old in his dirty hands. She shrieked as loud as she could.

"LANA!" yelled Chuck his skin shedding revealing a new golden skin underneath his ripped flesh.