My life changed that day,
I was put in Prisoner 826's cell. It was obviously a girl with the long red and white hair hanging off her head. But they had her face covered like Jason with her arms bound in a stray jacket with a matching jumper. I looked at her and she was still facing forward. I wasn't even sure she was alive at first. Judging by the fact that she took a minute to look my way I could only assume that the mask also blocked her vision. Was she really that dangerous? If she was it didn't matter to me. I had planned on getting out. But in truth if were one to look back life changed for my kind twenty years ago…
Twenty Years Ago
Mutants were a concept left to comic books and folk lore. They weren't actually supposed to be real. That would be impossible. But the impossible always have a way of making their selves possible. Mutants lived in the shadows, in sewers, Albuquerque or anywhere else that they wouldn't be noticed for the most part. Life was not kind, but it wasn't cruel either.
Life for mutants of all kinds changed thanks to a man named Eric Lensherr. He was a young Jew in Nazi Germany. What happened to his kind was not fair and he harbored that anger even into his older years. Never would he forget. He transformed his hate for some people to all humans. He refused to be a part of 'their' world. Humans didn't deserve life as far as he was concerned.
But he wasn't entirely human, he was also a mutant. He choose to only acknowledge his mutant half believing that, due to his past, humans would never understand things that they chose not to. They didn't understand why he was a Jew and never would they understand that he was a mutant. He had always believed this then he met Charles Xavier.
Charles knew that the government knew about their existence, but as long as the rest of the populous didn't there was harmony not peace. He wanted to slowly integrate mutant kind. Have humans adjust. But Eric later known as Magneto objected stating what in humans history told him that humans could adjust? He brought up the conquest of the Mayan's the Inca's and the Black Continent. He brought up other wars. He knew that if mutants wanted a life they would have to fight for it. Survival of the fittest. Darwin had predicted it. Being simply human was outdated. Mutants were the knew 'sharks' at the top of the food chain.
In his anger Magneto formed a team of teenage followers and attacked the white house. The world watched as the symbol of America was destroyed along with the president. The fight was bloody. His young followers died. He survived due to his mutant powers and on the air demanded that mutants band together and serve him.
After the president died American's and other nations went crazy. Mutants who were too weak to defend their s elves were found and hung in the south, shot in the west, drowned in the Midwest, and thrown over bridges in the East. Those in other countries met similar fates. But government leaders who were above public execution decided to look at mutants as nameless resources. Kidnapping them for their powers and research. Soon small groups of scientist who wanted no restrictions on their work and to study mutants formed. One such group being HYDRA. In more civil areas people demanded protection thus forming the MRD and after much hard work the new glory of America, the Sentinel.
Mutant's went through hell thanks to Magneto's violent outburst. The only thing that temporarily helped was Xavier's peace talks. However, that didn't stop all the persecution. Street violence only killed the weakest of the mutants. The dangerous one's were harder to find and never made the mistake of getting caught unless it was by certain groups like Striker's or the MRD. The only reason they didn't knock down Xavier's doors were because of all of his Nobel Peace Awards, he served his country and his connections to Britain. Many others were not so lucky.
Most mutants secretly hated Magneto. But they were only left two choices. Die or fight back. Which would you choose?