X-Men Story My Version
Chapter One: The Beginning
Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has allowed us to evolve from a single-celled organism to the dominant species on this planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands of years. But every few hundred millenia, evolution leaps forward.
UP ON the door of a weathered tower as a German soldier steps into frame wearing that familiar gray of that era.
POLAND 1944
Jewish men, women and children are herded like cattle toward a large open yard. There they huddle until the Germans begin to shout and shove through the mob. A small boy who will not die this day and will live to see the end of the war and the world of the future. He stares at the metal wire with an unusual fascination. Behind it, a Jew works diligently. The boy travels with his parents. The corridor comes to a junction where it splits in two.
Soldiers here push the mob using rifles as pikes, screaming and terrorizing the lot of them. Suddenly it is clear what they are doing. They are dividing the mob into smaller groups. Children from adults. The mother struggles to reach her child, but she is forced back. Her husband puts a hand over her mouth to silence her.
The mother struggles to reach her child, but she is forced back. Her husband puts a hand over her mouth to silence her. The boy hesitates at first, then runs toward her. Soldiers converge to stop him as he is separated from her by a gate of barbed wire so dense, it resembles wool.
The boy screams, louder and louder. The soldiers seem to be having a hard time carrying such a frail child. The farther they get from the fence, the heavier he seems to get, until they are literally pulling him as though he were anchored to something.
The soldiers are literally pulled back a step and they begin to slip in the mud. They look at one another and then over their shoulders as they hear a sound. The fence is bowing towards them like iron filings to a magnet, and several of the strands of barbed wire have given way. The boy keeps screaming... the wires keep straining...
Finally, one of the soldiers uses a rifle-butt and brains the boy violently. He falls to the ground, rain on his face.
To Be Continued!