Chapter Notes: So this popped out on accident, but it really struck me. I always think of Xavier and Magneto as flipped, and then I thought of Genosha and of kids that never get to be kids, and I did a double-take. Prompt: dystopia, for 100wordstories LJ comm.


Fighting Dystopia

Jubilee slams her books onto her dorm's student desk. Doesn't have the satisfying ring of a locker. She wants to cry; instead, she throws off a dozen sparklers to burn up what's left of the walls.

She always thought the Professor was fighting for utopia. She could believe in that: America's golden streets.

Staring at the demolished remains of the mansion, the result of a new program—sentinels, walking her golden streets, that promised American dream—of a government "by the people with liberty and justice for all," now she knows the truth. And she hates it.

She's fighting dystopia.