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MMIII, Anno Morionis (Year of the Madman, 2003)
It is the year 4006. A young boy of about twelve years of age is swimming in the sea with the dolphins, naked, a strange green mollusc around his mouth that helps him to breath under water. Today started out as just an ordinary day, he tells Iryn, the Goddess, with his grandmother nagging him. "Jonathan Earthsalt Woo!" she yells. "Come out this very moment!" One of the dolphins prods him with it's nose, just in case he didn't hear. But as she was projecting the shout into his mind he had no choice but to hear it. He swims to the surface of the water and takes off his breathing mask.
His grandma, who wears the mark of the Askani over her right eye, wants to know why he's always swimming with the dolphins; she asks whether he is a boy or a dolphin. He jokes that he knows what he'd prefer to be. "Hush boy," she accosts him, rubbing his hair dry with a towel. "To spend a life playing, this might fit a dolphin, but not an Askani." She rubs his head too hard, hurting him. He complains, and she leaves him to dry his own hair. She then proclaims it is time for his meditation. He finds complaint with this too, thinking meditation sucks.
Later, Jonathan is meditating upside down, levitating himself off the ground, as well as a group of rocks. His Granma berates him again about the rocks, asking him whether they are bored of being rocks and would prefer to be birds now. Jonathan tells her he can easily make them fly. "Just because you can do it, it doesn't mean you must do it!" she tells him. "Power is about restraint as much as anything. What would have happened if Nathan Summers carelessly flaunted his power after he had become almost all-powerful at Krasnaya Polyana all those years ago?" "He's have been more fun," Jonathan answers.
His Granma is outraged, and hits him across his backside with a towel, causing him to loose his concentration and fall to the floor, the rocks falling with him. She thinks all he thinks about his fun. Without Nathan Summers they would not be here today. Nathan averted a conflict that could have destroyed the world. "Yeah...by dying," says Jonathan angrily. "By dying, of course," says his Granma calmly. "How else?"
The whole word was watching, and his death changed that. By dying of his own free will he reminded us, once again, what being a man is all about.
His Granma explains that Nathan Summers could have lived forever he was so powerful, but he died so they could live! Jonathan understands that, but thinks that it would've been better if he'd died more heroically, slaying legions of villains. She thinks he's heard too many stories and talked too little with Iryn. Jonathan thinks Iryn is boring. She remember thinking that herself when she was his age, but the stories of Iryn flying to the rescue on a dragon named Jordan and all the other aren't true. Granma goes on to say: "In truth, Nathan and Iryn were never lovers, there was no dragons and Blaquesmith never traveled back in time to give birth to himself! Singapore was just a pet rat Nathan once had."
Then comes a man, exhausted from running, shouting the name "Askani!" The Venerable Mother, the name he gives Jonathan's Granma, inquires what he wants. The man begs help, using the name of Nathan Dayspring Summers to sway here. She assures him he does not need to bind her with the holy names. Her duty is to help those in need. He proclaims there is a war down in Red Field between the fishermen. "Again?" mutters Granma. He tells her they agreed to wait two days, but it took him two to get here as the Serpentine Marauders stole his horse. They have no time. "For despair, there's never time," she tells him. "For hope, there is nothing but time." She orders Jonathan to get dressed; they have a job to do.
Later, as Jonathan and his grandmother journey to their destination, he asks her why the families in Red Field are fighting again. She thinks it's some stupid feud over the best place to fish. He wonders why they bother. "Because we are Askani," she answers. They see a rider approaching them on a horse. Granma names them Askani, on a mission of peace, and kindly asks him whether they can borrow his horse. He kicks her away from him, calling her a filthy beggar, and continues on his way. This makes Jonathan furious, but she begs him not to harm the man. She manages to stand, feeling the pain in her back. She tells her angry grandson that theirs is to be grateful for both the help and for the kick. That is the Askani way. Jonathan thinks the Askani way sucks, because it allows everyone to push them around. He wonder whether this is what his whole life will be.
"Your life, Jonathan, will be whatever you choose it to be," she tells him. "You are born an Askani, but you can renounce the Summers' teachings and become either a performer or a prince, whatever you like." She spots a Dear Iryn shrine, and decides to head there and pray. She leaves him to ponder his choices. Later, when the moon is out and it is night time, he approaches his Granma, who is hard at praying in front of a small Dear Iryn shrine. He asks her whether the shrine is a machine. She answers that it is both alive and machine; it is an ear that the Goddess lent them. "We tell our thoughts, hopes and sorrow to Dear Iryn and she remembers them for every Askani who might need them. She is the soul of our tribe." She continues her prayers, telling him: "Let me talk to Iryn in peace, boy."
Jonathan walks away to sulk. Bored, he picks up a stone and a large stick. Using his telekinesis he levitates the stone and hits it with the stick. The stone hits the hooves of a horse. He looks up, seeing an armored horse with a bearded, sinister rider on it's back carrying a huge crossbow. "Granma!" he cries, terrified. "The Serpentine Marauders! The..." The cry is cut off as he watches the rider fire a bolt at him; not a normal arrow bolt, but a small snake. Before the snake has a chance to hit him his Granma leaps in front of him, and the snake hits her in the neck, biting her. She falls to the ground as the Marauder screams "Death to Askani scum!" and rides away.
Jonathan tells his Granma to break the venom up into its composite amino acids to cure her of the snake's poison. He doesn't know how to do it yet, but she does. She tells him no. "Why?" he begs, crying.    "Why do our enemies call us madmen?" she asks. "Because we are not afraid to die," he answers. The Granma asks when they are not afraid to die, and remembering her teachings, Jonathan replies  "When the benefit of our death is greater than the sadness of our passing." "I want to die now Jonathan," she tells him. He begs her not to, but she dies anyway, as the small snake that sucked the life out of her entwines itself around her lifeless fingers. Angry, and grief-stricken, Jonathan throws a huge rock into the air and smashes it into pieces using his powers.
Later, after Jonathan buries his beloved Granma under a pile of rocks, he kneels down in front of the Dear Iryn shrine and begs it to let him talk to his Granma.
That's how we first met, Dear Iryn. You were not boring at all. You were a great comfort.
In the morning Jonathan presses on towards his destination. He needs transport quickly, so hides in the bushes by the roadside and waits. Soon enough a man comes by on a gray horse. He uses his powers to snap the saddle's straps, and the man falls off his horse and bangs his head. Jonathan rushes to his aid, telling the man he is Askani and can help him. He orders the man to stay where he is so he can go fetch a doctor to help him. "But aren't you people healers too?" the man wonders. Jonathan is on his horse and galloping off before the man even has a chance to catch his breath.
At the Fishermen's Village of the Red Field, by the blood red waters stands a harbor, where two warring fishing families, the Mikulas and the Kastelas are on the verge of open conflict. Insults are flung back and forth, and weapons are brandished. Just as they are about to engage in a brawl that would almost definitely end in bloodshed Jonathan enters the fray on the back of his newly acquired horse, demanding them to stop. Barnabas, a fisherman, wants to know what he wants, as does a fisher girl. He tells them he is Askani. They don't think so, as he hasn't the Askani markings.
"I have no marking for I have yet to earn them. But I am willing to do the duty of an Askani--to shed my blood so no other blood would be shed." He explains to Iryn, as Barnabas points a gun at his forehead, that he was frightened during the whole ride to the village. But now there was no more fear. Just a certainty that whatever was coming next he was ready. The fisher girl tells Barnabas to let the kid go; that there will be no war today. He wants to prove that the Askani philosophy is wrong, and that no sacrifice can end a war. But he backs off, and instead whacks Jonathan over the head with his gun instead. He smirks, walking away, telling her that nobody can be punished for shedding Askani blood. The fisher girl takes a look at Jonathan's head wound. She takes some blood that seeps from the cut and smears it across Jonathan's eye, making the mark of the Askani. She smiles, telling him that he did good. He looks at his reflection in the water, at the marks on his face.
The immense feathery weight of the world landed on my shoulders then, Dear Iryn. I was an Askani, with all the anguish and all the joy a good deed brings. I cried then so I could laugh later.


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Rebels, Freaks & Prophets - part 1
(25 years ago)
Somewhere in Dallas, Texas, a young white boy has journeyed into the wrong neighborhood. Two black boys beat him for his color. Are we chosen by our destinies? Do the abused become the abusers? If you are raised in a racist household, are you predisposed to hate? Hate and abuse are powerful forces, but so is destiny. You just have to make the right choice, and hope it's for the best. The boy looks into a small rain puddle. Instead of finding his own reflection he finds that of Nathan Summers. Of course, he doesn't know who it is, and the image quickly vanishes. The boy shouts at the puddle for the image to come back, but he only sees himself, bruised and battered.
(one month from tomorrow, 08:21 a.m.)
Television news reports another terrorist bombing on US soil. The target is an airplane, Jet Flight 505, at Los Angeles International Airport. The anchor is not sure at this moment who is behind this atrocity, and he prepares to switch over to the White House where the President is about to address the nation.
(10:13 a.m.)
Somewhere in the woods in Washington State, Jonas Keller asks his followers "Blacks. Jews. Hispanics. Asians. Who invited them here anyway?“. He tells them they don't belong here, unlike them, the pure-white Americans. But they're not the real enemy here; Uncle Sam is. He's turned his back on them; and after what their group did in Los Angeles Uncle Sam will see it as their act of independence. Now the President will be after their blood, and it's time to move camp before the storm comes in. They don't want to be swept up just yet. His men fire their guns up into the air in salute. A bullet hits an eagle, flying overhead, squarely in the head.
(11:01 p.m.)
At Datetime Studios, New York City, Roy Calhoun Junior presents this evenings program entitled "Assault on America." The talk is of the group W.A.R, (White America's Redemption), lead by Jonas Keller, who was responsible for the attack in Washington less than 48 hours ago. Jonas claims this will be the first strike of many. The first guest, a woman, explains that Americans are as fearful of each other as they are of foreigners. It's simple anarchy. This group are offering no demands for restitution, and they clearly have a gripe against the government, yet offer no direct solution to what they perceive of as their problem. The second guest, a black writer, claims that the average white American psyche is wired towards racist tendencies due to the colonialist underpinnings inherent in their society. It is not an anomaly; they should've seen it coming.
Roy thinks it's ludicrous to think they could've see this coming. Most white Americans aren't bigots, and besides, a lot of white people were killed by W.A.R. in the bombing. The third guest, an Hispanic woman, claims that the flame beneath the American melting pot keeps getting lower and lower. Racial diversity means that more cultures are being polarized. Roy tells the viewers that next they'll be looking into what the authorities are doing in locating Keller.
(04:08 a.m.)
Helicopters fly over Keller's compound in Washington State. Many soldiers abseil down, armed. A small group of them kick the compound's door in and enter, but find nobody there. Then they freeze; there is a bomb attached to several canisters, with a timer ticking down from 2 seconds...
(06:69 a.m.)
In their new base of operations, North Dakota, Keller and his men are watching the news on television; apparently thirty agents perished in the blast at his old base, and more are seriously injured. The anchor goes on to say that Keller and his extremist faction are still at large and staying one step ahead. One of Keller's cohorts, Bob, thinks this means they are smarter than the government. Keller tells him not to get cocky, that "he" will be after them now. They wonder who he's talking about. "Dubya?" Bob asks. "No, someone far more powerful," Keller answers.
(11:37 p.m.)
Nathan Dayspring Summers is returning to the US. Currently 45 miles off the Georgia Coast, keeping himself in a cocoon of light, he travels a few meters off the surface of the water using his vast powers, his mind calm all the way.
(3:23 p.m.)
In W.A.R.'s base of operations, one of Keller's men, Simon, is introducing his son Jed to him. Keller has a mission for Jed; the ultimate sacrifice. Still, Keller senses apprehension in the boy, and asks what is wrong. Jed wonders whether they should be using drugs in their mission. Simon tells off his son for questioning the General's orders, but Keller answers anyway. The enemy they'll be going up against isn't like anyone he's ever seen. Jed inquires if he knows the enemy. Keller replies, in a way, he has known him for years.
"He'll know your deepest thoughts before you utter a word. He'll protect his physical being using absolute power of the mind. He is not quite human; not quite more than human. He must be distracted just long enough for you and the others to reach your objective. That distraction will be achieved by placing your consciousness beneath a euphoric blanket...otherwise he'll be able to read your thoughts too easily. The drugs I've provided are the surest, most effective means of shielding your mind. We've got to keep him off balance Jed. If he learns what we want, the cause is lost."
Keller tells Jed that none of them will survive this encounter, and that he and the boy's parents will be proud of him. When the boy's back is turned, though, Keller whispers the words "you impressionable young redneck, you."
(6:52 p.m.)
In his office at the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, General Deeks is told that the Secretary of Defense is still waiting on the phone for him. Deeks orders his assistant, Belinda, to be more creative in stalling him; he mustn't be disturbed at this moment. She leaves, annoyed. Nathan is sitting by the General's desk; he had shielded himself from Belinda's sight, and made it so the General couldn't tell her that Nathan was there. Nathan reminds him that he's here to find out everything about Keller. General Deeks explains that Keller was a dedicated military officer; the youngest to ever reach the rank of a Colonel. He was transferred to Special Forces after a few years, but two years ago, during a mission, Keller went missing during an operation in the Middle East. They didn't even know he was alive until 48 hours ago.
General Deeks feels ashamed of the part he played in the man's training, and that there's nothing in his psyche reports to indicate racist tendencies. Keller is a great tactician, and the General wonders what they could have done to stop the bloodshed. Nathan reminds him that Keller was trained to spill blood, only now he's gone out of control. The General wants to know his interest in Keller. Nathan sees no point in telling him, as he'll remember nothing of this conversation after he coaxes his mind into forgetting. But he still wants to know. Nathan tells him he's recruiting his own army for a mission of his own. General Deeks asks what the mission is; Nathan tells him it's classified. Nathan takes this chance to leave, wiping the General's mind of the conversation, and leaving him to dream of baseball and apple pie...
(9:00 p.m.)
Nathan floats over to Keller's new compound in Dallas, Texas. He lands, using his powers to break down the door. He senses three... or maybe six minds inside. He isn't sure. He finds a group of Keller's men, but the man himself. They are all strapped with explosives. Their minds are severely affected by psychotropic drugs, and it makes it that much harder to sift through their minds to find their intent. Almost too late, he finds they want him, as they close in...


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Rebels, Freaks & Prophets - part 2
(9:02 p.m.)
Jonas Keller's Texas ranch in Dallas explodes. In the flaming wreckage Jed cries out mentally for help, gravely injured, his right arm and leg blown off. Nathan floats over to him in a psychic bubble, telling him he's going to save him. Nathan picks up Jed and they fly out as more of the explosives set off and explode. Nathan reaches safety and puts Jed down, using his powers to take the pain away. Fire engines and police cars start racing to the scene. Jed is surprised to find him alive, that it's impossible as they planned to kill him and the others all detonated the explosives strapped to their bodies. Nathan asks him why he didn't set off his own C-3 explosives. Jed just couldn't, and asks Nathan how he's so strong to survive the blast. Nathan replies that he's a mutant, not much more different than him. When inquired of him why he would save him Nathan tells him that he needs his help to find Jonas Keller before he can spill more blood. Try as he might Nathan can't seem to locate Keller with his mind; Keller is a blind spot to him. But before Jed can answer he dies. However, Nathan touches his mind, and finds the information he needs still in there. He floats away again as police and fire men watch, proclaiming him an angel.
(6:17a.m.)
At W.A.R.'s base of operations in North Dakota, Keller, while playing with a pack of cards, tells some of his men that they've succeeded. They want to know how he knows. "How I always know," he tells them, looking at an Ace of Spades. "It was on the horizon." He reveals that the man that went to meet them still lives. His men are confused; how can this be a success? But Keller planned it this way; he wanted Jed to tell him where they were so he'd come to them. Simon doesn't understand. Keller thinks that he's the only one who's supposed to understand at the moment; only he can see the greater design and the implicit order of the world around them.
He switches on the TV where Roy Calhoun Junior is reporting on the bombing in Texas, and helping viewers to catch up on the other atrocious acts perpetrated by Keller and his group, W.A.R, including the bombing at Los Angeles International Airport and the fireball trap that killed several federal agents. They reveal that a dead body was found away from the wreckage, and that a man was seen flying away from the scene. Keller knows who this is, and knows that the man is coming for them; destiny is fast approaching, and they should be ready for it.
Keller's men ready themselves for the upcoming conflict; they gather weapons, and listen to Keller's speech that this is the day they have trained for. He asks them; wouldn't they kill or be killed to fight for the future of an America that their parents dreamed of? Fight for their children's honor? Fight for God? Fight for him? Now there's no turning back, as his aerial assault squad is already closing in on the enemy... Two of Keller's helicopters are approaching Nathan in his psychic bubble as he flies towards Keller's compound. They fire missiles at him, but he uses his powers to deflect them back, destroying the flying vehicles. Keller's men watch in awe as the burning debris crashes to the ground, with Nathan hot on its heels.
"Kill for me!" Keller screams. "Die for me." Keller walks away as his men close in on Nathan and prepare to fire their guns on him, with no use, as the bullets bounce off his telekinetic shield. Nathan telekinetically raises their guns into the air and disintegrates them. Nathan orders them to step aside, and they do, leaving him a wide aisle which to walk through to reach Keller.
Sitting alone in his room, Keller is counting down the seconds in which Nathan will reach him using playing cards as a counter. "3...2...1..." he intones. Nathan is here. "Saw you coming a mile off," Keller tells him. Nathan asks if he minds him going inside his mind. Keller doesn't mind. Nathan tries, but is blocked. But Nathan does glean something from this; he learns that Keller is a mutant; a precog. He can see into the future. Nathan wants to know what he hopes to accomplish; does he think fear will keep immigrants out of the country? Keller claims he's isn't anti-government at all, and he's not about hurting innocent people. "...no matter what those trailer trash down there might believe. Still, I needed an army, and appealing to others through their base emotions and irrational hatred was the surest means of recruiting blind followers to a cause. Any cause."
Nathan wants to know why he needs follower and what his objective is. Keller explains "I'm beating my chest. Flexing my muscles. Trying to show you what a person like me is capable of." Nathan wonders whether that's why he did this. Keller explains that his precog powers revealed themselves when he was being beaten by two bullies. Those powers didn't help him fight back against the bullies, but it helped him avoid those types of situations. The he reveals that, on that day, he saw a vision of a stranger in a puddle, and knew this day would come when they would meet. But for some unexplained reason he could never see past this day. Nathan is a blind spot for him surely as he is for Nathan. So he had to get Nathan's attention; lure him here.
"Butcher!" Nathan yells angrily, using his telekinesis to toss Keller around like a rag. Keller was a precog; he could have changed things from how he saw them, Nathan accuses him. Keller knew no obstacle would prevent Nathan from finding him. Keller tried going down another road, but the outcome was always the same, which was when he realized there is only one road. "There must be a reason why I can't see past this moment, right?" Keller asks. "I mean, our fates are hopelessly intertwined. We're both mutant visionaries. Why not rulers of men, too? Brothers? Equals"
Nathan walks away. Keller asks him what's wrong. Nathan tells him he's neutered his powers; he can't see the future any more. Outraged, Keller asks why. Nathan doesn't give a damn why, as long as Keller isn't a threat anymore. Keller doesn't believe him, and picks up his pack of cards. He picks out card after card but cannot predict which one will come out. Angered, he kicks the card table over as Nathan exits.
When someone who can read thoughts delves into the psyche of someone who can look into the future, Nathan thinks to himself, the telepath vicariously experiences that same power of foresight. He sees through the eyes of the precog. But when I entered Keller's mind--I saw no future.
Behind him, as Nathan walks away from the building, Keller can be seen at his window, holding a gun to his head. He shoots, and his body crashes through the window to land in front of his followers. It was because he didn't have one.


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Dead Ends - part 1
(last August)
In Miami, Florida, Jose has just come home from work, a long 16 hour shift, just to be told by his wife Carmen that his daughter is a mutant, or a "mutie" as he calls her. Jose calls Magda, his daughter, cursed, and that this could ruin their lives. A tearful Magda, eyes red and snakelike, tells them she prayed for her abilities to go away. Her mother tells her they'll get through this, but Jose points a gun at her, ordering her to get out of the house. He understands that Magda wont hurt him, and explains that he's scared and wonders why God would do this to their family. Magda, on the verge of taking the gun from him, thinks that perhaps it is God's will. He screams "NO!" and there is two gunshots.
(53 minutes later)
Cops have cordoned off the apartment where Magda lived. Two dead bodies are zipped up and taken away. The cops call it a straight forward double homicide, and they already have a suspect; Magda, whom they arrest for the murders of her parents.
(thirty-six hours later)
In a Tokyo bar, full of video screens showing a news story, Nathan is having a drink. He listens to the television, which is telling the story of a gruesome double murder in America, and the person arrested for the crime; the victims‘ eighteen year old daughter, a mutant. Magda's face appears on the screen and Nathan is immediately interested in the case. A Japanese man, Jo-Ji, approaches Nathan. Jo-Ji now follows the Askani teachings, but still remains with Haizen Sato's Mind Indoctrination Cult, just as Nathan asked. Jo-Ji reveals the reason he asked Nathan to come to Tokyo; the cult are planning an attack even as they speak.
(four hours later)
The Marunouchi District of Tokyo, a busy financial center, is where the attack is supposed to go down. He tracks the persons responsible for the potential attack almost immediately; a man and woman, both carrying briefcases that contain the lethal nerve agent VX. "Why would you commit such an atrocity?" Nathan mentally asks them. They wonder who said that when Nathan approaches them, talking in their mind again and confusing them. The woman tells him to stay away or they'll release the gas. He looks into the woman's mind. She is called Keirin Etsumoto; she gave up all her wealth to Haizen Soto in exchange for heightened spirituality. Nathan asks her what does killing many innocent people have to do with the advancement of spirit? Keirin isn't sure. Her male companion tells her not to listen to the demon, and in his confusion falls onto the subway tracks just as a train approaches. Nathan holds Keirin as her companion is killed. Nathan walks way, as Keirin runs after him, telling him she doesn't want to go back to Soto's temple, and asks him to show her the way. He smiles.
(two days later)
In a Miami holding cell,  a female lawyer is talking to Magda about her options. She wonders why Magda doesn't use her mutant powers, as it doesn't matter either way. Her red eyes give away that she's a mutant. The cops figure that her religious parents weren't best pleased that their daughter was a mutant. Magda tells her that her Mama loved her. The lawyer answers that maybe she did, and asks her why she repaid that loved by killing her. The residue tests have come back from the gun; it clearly shows Magda's fingerprints on the weapon. She then proceeds to give Magda an ultimatum; either confess to the murders and serve a life sentence, or choose death by execution. It's her choice.
(three days later)
Sitting aboard Air Ukraine Flight 109 out of Seoul, Nathan is reading a newspaper. He has been following the case of Magda Ramirez wherever he goes, and whatever he does (including battling militia groups, an army by his side, using his telekinesis to fire guns at the enemy). He thinks it's very tragic that a mutant-or anybody else- should murder her parents like that.
(four months later)
At Denver International Airport, Nathan sits in a bar, watching a TV report on Magda. Apparently she entered a plea bargain and has been forced to serve three consecutive life sentences without parole. The entire country is in uproar, starting riots and demonstrations, thinking she should be executed for her crimes. Nathan isn't even sure the girl is actually guilty. He leaves the bar, telling a bigoted barman who thinks Magda is being coddled with the tax payers money because she's a mutant, to "get a clue."
(six months later)
In Colombia, Guerrillas have captured a bus, and are threatening two priests, telling them they need cocaine, not God. One of them wonders whether it is a sin to torture a holy man; Nathan flies in, telling them it is. They flee, frightened of the mutant. Nathan is slightly upset that the priests are more frightened of him than the guerrillas.
(three months later)
A TV in the window of a Tel Aviv boutique reports that, due to the controversy surrounding Magda's sentencing, the original sentence has been changed, and she is now to be executed in 24 hours time. The boutique explodes. Nathan arrives as the bodies are being taken away; too late. He reminds himself that he can't be everywhere at once. He touches some of the fatally injured, taking away their pain, as a broken TV continues to report on Magda, saying that her lawyer said this his client was coerced into confessing on the grounds that she wouldn't receive the death penalty, and that she didn't even get a defense trial. Nathan telekinetically switches the TV off, saying "enough."
(twelve hours later)
In Fort Myers, Florida, a group of armed, butch female prison guards are watching over Magda's cell. Inside the filthy cell sits Magda, with a huge metallic helmet clasped over her head. The guards talk, one of them has spoken to Magda and thinks she is okay. Another wishes they'd hurry up and execute her. Another has also talked to her, and discovered them to be both of the same faith. Yet when she asked her why she killed her parents she claimed that Magda went quiet. They talk more, wondering what her mutant powers are, when the security alarms go off. Some of the guards run off down the corridor where they bump into Nathan. He cuts off their oxygen flow so they fall unconscious. He doesn't like doing it, but it's one of the few non-violent approaches that he has left. He continues to Magda's cell, where he plants fears into the remaining three guards minds. One of them imagines nerve gas. Another sees a swarm of giant flying bugs. The third sees lots of angry mutants charging at her. The guards fall to the floor, immobilized by their fears, as Nathan enters the cell.
Magda can sense something has happened to the guards. Nathan uses his powers to pull off Magda's helmet, telling her he's come to help. Nathan wants to know how her parents died. She won‘t tell him a thing. With no other choice he tries to enter her mind, but she blocks him. He realizes she is a telepath. "Magda Ramirez," she mind speaks. "Nice to meet you."


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Dead Ends - part 2
(astral plane)
Nathan Summers stands in the mind of Magda Ramirez, convicted mutant murderer, due to be executed for her crimes. In the landscape of her mind he appears to be near Magda's apartment building, which is covered in crosses. The skies are a deep red, and the shadows of angels can be seen darting around. Some of the angels, the ones that can be seen, appear to be only ugly midgets or deformed babies with wings. To reach the building, however, Nathan must pass a trench filled with mines that have, instead of spikes, crosses sticking out of them. There are also crucifixes decorated with human skulls, which are strung up with barbed wire. "Now this...is different," Nathan comments on the scene before him.
(present)
Both Magda and Nathan are still in her cell at the Belgrade Maximum Security Prison. Magda tells him to get out of her mind; it's trespassing. He tells her he has no choice if he wants to find out the truth about her parents, as Magda refuses to talk about it.
(astral plane)
Nathan proceeds to dash across the mine field, dodging explosions from the left and right, barely surviving. He finds Magda crucified. She tells him to mind his own business, almost begging him not to continue and find out the truth. He tells her this is his business, and continues. A bit further along Nathan stops. He is confronted by several large, vicious looking dogs that Magda has created to stop him from getting to the apartment building and thus the truth. The dogs attack him.
(present)
Magda sadly looks down and says she is says sorry. It takes all of Nathan‘s strength to maintain the contact and battle her mental defenses, but ultimately, he gets through, and in return tells Magda that he is sorry.
(astral plane)
Nathan holds up the dead dogs and, quite easily, continues towards the building. He enters Magda's apartment. Magda tells him he has no right to be here, which he knows, though he stays and watches the events. Replaying in front of him is the scene mere minutes before the death of her parents. He watches as Carmen Ramirez defends her daughter for being a mutant as her husband tells her their daughter is cursed. Nathan notes how much Magda and her mother loved each other as Jose gets a gun. Nathan is shocked as Magda explains that her father was just scared, and that she tried to calm him down with her mental powers, but it didn't work.
He pointed the gun at her and was about to kill her when her mother flung herself in front of her, taking the bullet instead. It was her father that killed her mother, not Magda. Both Magda and her father were shocked by the sight of the dead woman. Nathan tells Magda, as she turns away, unable to watch, that it was just an accident. Then he watches as Jose pushes the gun in his mouth. Magda tried to stop him and wrest the gun from his grib, but he fires the gun and kills himself. Magda sat alone, with the gun in her hands, next to the bodies of her parents.
(present)
Nathan asks Magda, as their minds return to the jail cell, why she didn't tell the authorities she was innocent and wonders whether she wants to die. Magda only expected to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Nathan tells her this is her father's responsibility. She isn't so sure, telling him if she hadn't been born a mutant none of this would've happened. She'd rather die than have her father remembered as part of a murder suicide. Nathan asks her why she isn't bothered that she didn't get a proper trial and wasn't found guilty by a jury of her peers. "Why won‘t you fight for the will to live?" he asks her. She tells him it's God's will that she pay for her sins. Nathan thinks it's more man's will.
Nathan opens the door; he shows her the guards, all comatose. He tells her she's free to go. She asks him what happened to this "being judged by peers" stuff he was telling her. She has been judged by a peer; a mutant, him. Magda thinks she can't change what has already happened. Nathan disagrees, and breaks away from the girls' painful memories and takes her into his own.
(astral plane)
Nathan and Magda find themselves in a huge metallic laboratory/cathedral type place. She asks who he is. "Nathan Dayspring Summers," he replies. They hear a baby crying. Magda deduces the place is a nursery, and goes over to the crying baby in it's cradle. She is shocked by what she sees; the baby has metal tubes growing out of it's face. Nathan tells her that it's him. He explains to her that, when just a few months old, he was subjected to a techno-organic virus. She thinks this is insane. He shows her his metallic arm, explaining that he has to use 20% of his telekinesis to stop the virus from spreading. Magda is confused; she tells him that virus' like this don't exist. "No, not yet," he tells her.
Magda is confused and asks where they are. Looking outside she sees a war torn futuristic landscape littered with skulls and destroyed buildings. “The future“,  Nathan explains. She doesn't believe him at first, saying that people coming from the future is stuff from movies. "The memory is real. You know I'm being sincere. I can feel it. You're not the only one who's ever known pain, Magda. I hated this world. I fought against it, and it killed just about everyone I ever loved. It broke my heart. So when I found the tech that would allow me to travel into Earth's past, I didn't hesitate to use it for a second. It became my mission to prevent this world from ever coming to be."
(present)
Magda asked whether he succeeded. He tells her yes, but there isn't a way he can find out for sure, and it wont bring back his loved ones. He lost a wife, and a son, and now it's as if they never even existed. Magda wonders why he's helping her if he's been through all this pain. Nathan still has a mission, he tells her. When his powers first manifested he believed they were a gift, and with his power he got control over his illness and the ability to help those too weak to help themselves. He sees that Magda can help with her power too; the world needs people like her. She's scared though. He tells her he's here to save her, and they prepare to leave.
But Magda hesitates and says she can’t go. If she just walks away then people will believe mutants can get away with murder; that mutants are beyond the law. By walking away they will be feared even further. Even though she is innocent she can't go; as long as people think she is guilty. Nathan offers to change people's minds for them. "The whole world?" she asks him. Even he could not have that much power.
(eleven hours later)
Nathan levitates in his hotel room in Miami, thinking about Magda, as TV's around the country report that it's only 30 minutes to her execution. The newscaster claims the country, indeed the world, is uttering a sigh of relief. Magda is asked whether she has any last words. In her mind, she is talking to Nathan, while being led to her execution, a metallic sphere encasing her head. Still Nathan manages to make telepathic contact, and Magda thanks him for coming. He didn’t want her to be alone, it "Was the least I could do," Nathan tells her. "Really." Magda tells him not to worry, as she is no longer afraid.  "I know Magda, I know." They tell each other a last goodbye, and Nathan curls up in his hotel room, grief stricken – Magda is dead.
(six months later)
In an isolated cabin in Juneau, Alaska, a message arrives on Nathan's phone from Domino. She's tried all of his safe houses, trying to find him. She figures something bad must've happened for him to vanish off the face of the planet. No one in their old circle of associates has seen him either. She has news for him; mutants are disappearing all over the country, arrested for terrorism based on their unique abilities, then taken to debriefing camps. Nathan, who had been listening but couldn't be bothered to answer because he had a hangover, grabs the phone. He tells Domino that he'll rendezvous with her inside of twelve hours. He also advises her to bring very big guns.


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1st story: When Arrows Fail!   -   2nd Story: A Love That Never Dies
1st story:
'I'm burning up! And the ground's so hot! Must have died and gone to – nah! My head hurts too much! I can't be dead!' Hawkeye a.k.a. Clint Barton thinks to himself as he finds himself wearing nothing but his white boxer shorts on a beach. His costume isn't the only thing missing – his bow and quiver are gone, too. He wonders where he is, and jokes that this certainly isn't Kansas. The last thing he remembers was being in Paris, he had gone there because of Trick Shot – the guy who taught him archery – he had challenged him to a death match, but when he arrived, Silver Sable arrested him for Trick Shot's murder. Clint remembers that he had managed to escape Sable when he ran into Trick Shot himself – alive and breathing. Clint supposes that Trick Shot hit him with a hypodermic arrow, because he went straight out. Clint knew that Trick Shot was holding a grudge, but wonders why he went to so much trouble to kidnap him. Making his way off the beach and into a nearby forest, Clint comes across his bow and some arrows laying on the ground. 'Well, well, well. Look what the Easter Bunny left me' he jokes, when suddenly, he hears someone coughing.
Clint realizes that he best get moving, he moves forward and taps the arrowheads so that the shafts lift into his hand, grabs the bow, then fires the arrows – straight towards some other arrows that are fired towards him, blocking them. Clint decides that this must bw the start of Trick Shot's death match, and boasts that Trick Shot is in for more than he bargained for – a lot more! Clint picks up his quiver and the rest of the arrows, then calls out into the jungle: 'Heads up, Trick! In the words of good ol' Rambo: “I'm coming for you!”' Clint quotes, before he begins to check the arrows, they all seem okay, but Clint doesn't want any surprises.
Meanwhile, inside her castle, Silver Sable is in an office, where the Minister reminds her that thev French government hired her to neutralize a professional assassin, but her plan to use the Ameican archer Hawkeye to lead them to Trick Shot has failed – and now she has lost Hawkeye as well. 'Quite true, Minister, but -' Sable begins, before another man enters the room, he excuses the interruption, before reporting that operatives have just learned that a man fitting Trick Shot's description has just charted a boat to one of the uninhabited Greek isles. 'Excellent!' Sable exclaims, before instructing the man to notify the assault force, as they leave immediately. But Sable is actually concerned, and thinks to herself that this is not good, as she knows what Trick Shot is capable of doing – and if Hawkeye is still alive, he has the fight of his life on his hands.
Back in the jungle, 'Come out, come out wherever you are!' Hawkeye calls out as he walks through the jungle – only to step in a snare, which pills him into the air. 'What the -!?' Hawkeye calls out, as he finds himself hanging upside down, the arrows all fall from the quiver. 'Very funny, Trick! Very -' Clint begins, before he notices more arrows that are fired towards him. 'Geez! Is this how you treat all your guests?' Hawkeye asks, firing the arrows he managed to save at the arrows that approach him, 'The very least you could've done was offer me a cup of coffee before you tried to kill me!' Hawkeye jokes. He then pulls himself up on the rope and announces that he is real mad, as there is absolutely no excuse for bad manners. 'If you want to get down and dirty – you picked the right guy!' he shouts. Trick Shot is hiding in some shrubs nearby, 'You hear me?' Hawkeye calls out as he fires some more arrows, which strike the tree near where Trick Shot is hiding.
Hawkeye notices Trick Shot, who starts to run, 'Yeah! Guess you got the point!' Hawkeye shouts as he chases after Trick Shot, while thinking to himself that something is real wrong here. Clint comes to a cave, which is surrounded by three tall cliffs. Clint knows that Trick Shot is easily his equal with a bow, and wonders why he is holding back. He realizes he has come to a dead end, unless the cave leads somewhere. He supposes that Trick Shot has to be somewhere nearby, and assumes that Trick Shot scounted the entire island before bringing him here, knows the terrain, whereas he doesn't. Clint wonders if Trick Shot wants him to enter the cave, when suddenly, an arrow is fired towards him – narrowly missing his side. 'Wha -? How'd he get behind me?' Clint wonders, realizing that he has to find some cover, fast, as he sees Trick Shot at the front of a nearby opening. With no place to go except for the cave, Clint enters it, and decides that if he can get out of the sunlight, Trick Shot won't be able to target him properly.
Clint rounds a bend in the cave, and is grateful that the break in the wall will protect him – before he peers around the corner, and notices that it wasn't Trick Shot who fired at him – it was a dummy! 'That means -' Clint thinks, before the cave is sealed in by a large metal door that slides own over the entrance. 'Swell! He used one dummy to trap an even bigger dummy!' Clint thinks to himself, deciding he can scoot under the door before it fully closes – but he's too late. 'How come those guys in the movies always make it out in time?' Clint wonders, before the cave is plunged into darkness. 'Great. Now what am I supposed to do?' Clint wonders, before a light comes from the other end of the cave. Clint rushes to an exit that appears, and supposes that Trick Shot is out the other side waiting for him. 'Okay, fella – get ready because here I -' Clint thinks to himself, but has he runs out the opening, he finds himself sliding down a slippery slope, straight into a lake.
'That does it! That does it!' Clint shouts, standing up in the shallow water, he tells Trick Shot that he has had enough of his screwing around. 'If it's a fight you want – come out and face me like a man!' Clint exclaims. 'No need to shout, kid! I'm right here!' Trick Shot replies, sitting atop a tree that is growing out of the lake. Trick Shot tells Hawkeye that maybe it is time they settled things once and for all. 'Go ahead, kid! Make your move!' Trick Shot declares. Clint reaches into his quiver, but finds it empty. 'What's the matter, hot shot? Need some arrows?' Trick Shot asks, before a quiver full of arrows is dangled before him. 'Think you can reach it before I put this arrow through your heart?' Trick Shot asks, readying an arrow.
Hawkeye wonders why Trick Shot is just talking, why he doesn't shoot him and get this over with. 'He ought to realize by now that he can't rattle me!' Clint thinks to himself, before tossing an arrow head at Trick Shot, who is startled and falls off the tree. 'Let's Rock n' roll!' Hawkeye shouts, before deciding that was too easy, as the Trick Shot who trained him would not have allowed himself to be distracted like that, wouldn't have lost his balance or given him time to reach this second quiver, which Clint grabs, and readies another arrow, wondering what is going on, why Trick Shot doesn't pull out all the stops. 'C'mon, old man! There's no way you can escape me now!' Hawkeye shout, before two arrows are fired towards him from under the water. 'Nice try, Trick' Clint remarks as the arrows miss him.
Hawkeye tells Trick Shot that he really appreciates all the trouble he has gone through to rig these traps, 'But I've got a flash for you, fatso...you just lost game, set and match!' Hawkeye exclaims as he spins around and shouts 'I have you now!', as Trick Shot rises from the water, several feet behind Hawkeye, who aims his arrow towards him. Trick Shot tells Hawkeye that he is impressed, especially as he must have felt that last trip wire under all that mud and silt. 'You're good' Trick Shot admits. 'Almost as good as me' he boasts. 'Better, Trick. Much better' Hawkeye replies. Hawkeye then lowers his bow and arrow and asks Trick Shot if he is satisfied, tired of playing this stupid game. 'It's obvious you never intended to go through with this death challenge' Hawkeye remarks, pointing out that Trick Shot kept passing up too many chances to kill him. 'Don't be a sap, punk!' Trick Shot calls back, readying his own bow and arrow, he declares that Hawkeye lowering his was a dumb mistake. 'You're dead, kid! You hear me – you're dead!' Trick Shot declares as he fires an arrow, but Hawkeye fires one back just as quick: 'Then, so are you!' he exclaims.
'You missed!?' the shocked Trick Shot shouts as he turns to the arrow that Hawkeye fired – now stuck in a tree trunk close to his head. 'That's impossible! You never miss!' Trick Shot calls out. 'You did too, Trick! WHY?' Hakweye shouts. 'This ain't fair!' Trick Shot exclaims as he trudges through the water over to Hawkeye, revealing that he set this whole thing up so that Hawkeye would be forced to kill him. 'You can't fail me now!' Trick Shot declares, he takes a swing at Hawkeye, but Hawkeye steps back, avoiding Trick Shot's bow. 'I watched you! Tested you! I sent paid killers up against you – and you beat 'em all!' Trick Shot complains. 'YOU NEVER MISSED! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO KILL ME! KILL ME!' Trick Shot booms as he tries to attack Hawkeye again, but Hawkeye blocks the bow with his own.
They stumble backwards towards the edge of the lake, and Trick Shot tells Hawkeye to do it now, or he will beat him bloody. 'You don't have any choice!' Trick Shot warns him. 'Why? WHY?' Hawkeye asks, slamming his bow against Trick Shot and knocking him back 'What the heck is wrong with you?' Clint asks. 'What's wrong with me? I – I'm dying! I have cancer!' Trick Shot reveals. He begins to cry as he explains that he has cancer and does not ewant to end his days wasting away in some stinking hospital bed or jail cell, as he is a hitman, has lived his whole life by the eay of the arrow, and he wanted to go out fighting. 'You owe me, kid! It's your duty to kill me!' Trick Shot tells Hawkeye, reminding him that he was nothing when he found him – nothing – but he trained him, gave him the necessary skills to become an Avenger – and the world's greatest archer. 'All you are, you owe to me!' Trick Shot exclaims, telling Hawkeye that he has to kill him.
'It's the price I demand for all I've given you' Trick Shot tells Hawkeye, who looks at his bow, then snaps it in half. 'No way, pal! Some debts just can't be repaid!' Hawkeye relies. Trick Shot falls to his knees on the shore, 'You were my last hope! The only man who could've beaten me in a fair fight!' he pleads. Hawkeye puts his arms around Trick Shot, who asks 'What am I gonna do now? I just can't face this kinda slow dying' he remarks. Hawkeye tells Trick Shot that they will find a way, somehow, they will find a way. Hawkeye offers to do whatever he can to help – after all, he owes him that much.
2nd storyThe night air is chill and damp. A woman with dark hair huddles into her long green coat and cautiously turns her head. She knows she is being followed. Of late, the man never speaks, never approaches her closely. But he is always there, sometimes out of sight, always a palpable presence. The woman thinks that in her brief light, she has escaped him once, and fears that she will not be able to do so again. She knows that she needs the help of a friend – someone who will be able to both perceive and to understand her difficulty. She walks on faster.
In Leonia, New Jersey, in the home of Wanda a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, and her android husband the Vision. Wanda is wearing her classic pink costume and stands before a mirror examining herself. 'Ahhh Wanda... your babies have not left you with your girlish figure' she decides, wondering whether she should give up on the idea of getting it back. Wanda wonders if it is a mistake to try to wear her old costume, as there is much to be said for a more mature look. 'Still, if my husband prefers me as I...' she starts to say to herself, interrupted by a sudden knock at the door. 'Who could be calling so urgently this late in the evening?' Wanda asks herself, noticing the fierce rapping on the door. When she opens the door, she finds the woman in the green coat, who exclaims 'Wanda! Thank goodness you're home! I was afraid even to stop and call!' 'Melinda? This is a surprise!' Wanda responds.
Melinda asks Wanda to help her, and declares that she may be the only one who can. Wanda realizes that Melinda is shivering, but it is not even that cold. She tells Melinda to calm herself, for whatever it is, hysteria will not help. 'I know...' Melinda replies, adding that it may be that nothing will help. Wanda tells her to hush, and Melinda remarks that Wanda has been kind to her before, and she needs a kindness now. Wanda informs Melinda that her husband isn't home, he is at a baseball game, but that he would agree to letting her stay for a time – for as long as she likes.
Wanda leads Melinda into the living room and tells her to sit and dry her tears. 'Tell me about it' Wanda asks. Melinda replies that she is not sure where to begin. 'No! That's not true! I do know where to start. It begins with Xandu!' Melinda declares, and Wanda frowns. 'Xandu...' she utters as her mind wanders back. 'I was dead, Wanda! I know I was! But my lover was a sorcerer, and he wouldn't let my body return to the dust' Melinda reminds Wanda. 'You remember. It was your spirit Xandu stole to rekindle the spark of life within me'. Melinda adds that if not for Spider-Man's help, Wanda might have become her – that was Xandu's hope, but that didn't happen, and because Wanda's spirit prepared the way, Melinda was able to live again.
Sipping a hot drink that Wanda has given to her, Melinda remarks that Death, it seems, is reluctant to surrender his grip on those who have thought to escape him, and Melinda continues her story:
Flashback images, narrated by Melinda in the present:After Melinda and Wanda parted company, she returned to her home in California, and there she met a wonderful man named John Kowalski. He was knowledgeable, straightforward, totally charming in his directness and his simplicity. Melinda found herself falling in love, and she was certain that her affection was returned. One evening, as they walked home from a movie in Westwood, there was an accident. A drunk driver. A sidewalk – the driver plowed into several people. Melinda was thrown aside by John, and he was the last to be hit, head-on, with enough force to kill. But John Kowalski didn't die – he was already dead!
Melinda watched, in rising horror, as John Kowalski stirred himself, and moved down the row of the injured and dying, taking the lives of the dying, one by one. Mercilessly, with no sympathy for those who were merely suffering. Melinda knew then that she had fallen in love with Death! John Kowalski is another name for Death! Melinda fled from him that night, terrified to think what it was he might have wanted from her. She prayed that she would never see him again.
Present:'But I haven't been spared, Wanda!' Melinda sobs into her hands, revealing that she fled from city to city and John  - Death – has always been there, watching her, never speaking to her, never making any effort to explain. She tells Wanda that she has been haunted by Death these many long months, and now she wants it to end. 'I'm alive! You can see I'm alive! Why can't accept that, and let me live out my time in peace?' Melinda asks.
Suddenly, Melinda looks up to a window, and sees a shadowy figure standing outside. 'Why can't he... no! He's here!' Melinda exclaims. 'Where? I can't see anything -' Wanda begins, when suddenly, a cry can be heard elsewhere in the house. 'The children!' Wanda gasps. 'Oh, Wanda! What have I done?' Melinda utters, while Wanda rushes out of the living room, 'Wait here!' she calls back to Melinda. 'I'm so sorry' Melina cries.
'Kowalski!' Wanda screams as she rushes up the stairs. 'Show yourself to me!' Wanda exclaims, before bursting into her sons' room, where she finds Kowalski holding one of the twins in his arms. 'How dare you? My children! Those lives spring from me!' Wanda declares, scowling at Kowalaski. 'Do they? What of it?' comes Kowalski's response. He tells Wanda to posture and threaten all she likes, but that there is nothing she can do that will affect him, for her powers affect probability, and there is nothing more certain for a human being than death! Wanda informs Kowalski that she is more than human – she is a mutant witch and can hurt him. 'And I will do it, unless you put my son down, now!' Wanda warns him, raising her hand she starts to cast a hex. 'Very well' Kowalski replies, putting the boy back into his crib.  Kowalski claims that he was merely curious about the nature of children born of magic. 'There is a void here in this one, that reminds me very much of myself' Kowalski remarks.
Kowalski informs Wanda that, in any case, her children were in no danger, as their time has not yet come. 'You on the other hand, have cheated me more than once. A pattern, I observe, that repeats itself among your family and friends' Kowalski remarks, declaring that he has had enough of it. 'In threatening me, you have issued me a challenge, Scarlet Witch. I accept!' Kowalski exclaims, as an image of his true self – Death – appears behind him.
As Melinda joins Wanda, John Kowalski remarks that the question of whether the beautiful Melinda belongs properly to life or death can wait, and instructs Wanda to prepare herself for battle. 'War they say, is hell!' Kowalski declares as the landscape around them changes, and all three appear in the middle of a raging battlefield.
Motioning to one of the deceased soldiers lying on the battlefield, Kowalski remarks that Death wears many faces, and his is only one. 'But each face has a special destiny. Mine has been to suffer nearly fifty years for my sins of life' John explains, asking the Scarlet Witch if she understands war. 'Do you know how many souls there were that died in this war alone?' Kowalski enquires, as his spirit form hovers over the body of the dead soldier. 'I have seen war. Through the eyes of each of them. Their lives have become my own' he announces, boasting that, through them, he claims his due. The soldier springs to life, and opens fire at the Scarlet Witch. 'NO!' Wanda screams, casting a hex sphere, she deflects the bullets. 'You play with shadows, Kowalski! Whatever tricks you conjure, I can dispel!' Wanda warns him, adding that phantoms are no threat – they are not even real. 'They are real to me. Every death has meaning, Wanda. If only to the one who dies' Kowalski replies.
The battlezone changes to another war, and Kowalski tells Wanda that perhaps she is right. 'My war was one you never lived. If it ever became real to you, it was only through the stories you heard as a child. There have been others' Kowalski remarks, before Melinda gasps 'Wanda...' as Wanda realizes they are in Vietnam. A chopper above fires an explosive to the ground near Wanda and Melinda. Wanda tells Melinda to run, 'This is no game!' she exclaims. 'I don't understand...' Melina begins, before Kowalski, standing on a rise nearby, the image of Death behind him, asks Melinda if it is enlightenment that she seeks, then he can offer that to her, as well.
'You will never take her!' Wanda shouts. She declares that she is through fighting shadows. 'Now I am fighting you!' Wanda warns Kowalski. 'Very good! Perhaps you do understand!' Kowalski responds. He tells Wanda that the only way she can defeat him is by changing the rules of this conflict. 'Your game, not mine. But it is death who rules here. And if I am to be beaten... then someone must take my place...' Kowalski explains as the landscape changes once more, and Wanda casts a hex sphere directly at Kowalski, striking him, which in turn causes Wanda's form to change, as she appears as Death.
'Kowalski... your time has ended. I see that now' Wanda-Death announces as she continues to pour the hex power at Kowalski. 'Wanda?' Melinda calls out. Kowalski falls to the ground, and Wanda-Death stands over him, telling him that he is weary, tired of the mantle that he has borne. 'There is no further need of you. I freely take it from your -' she starts to say, but an urgent Melinda cries 'Wanda! Oh, Wanda, no! I love him!' Wanda-Death turns to Melinda: 'What?' she asks. 'I love him! You can't take him from me!' Melinda pleads as she rushes over and throws herself onto Kowalski. 'Love...?' Wanda-Death asks. 'You love him...' Wanda remarks as she returns to her true appearance. 'Yes, I love him! Didn't you hear me?  I told you that from the start!' Melinda exclaims. Death is completely separated from Wanda, who watches as Melinda tells Kowalski that it is all right, and that she understands. 'I was frightened! I'm so sorry. Can you forgive me?' she asks. 'There's nothing to forgive' Kowalski replies. They stand up, and Death moves closer to Kowalski, who stands behind Melinda, as he tells her that all he wanted was a chance to experience happiness, for he never had that in life.
'You've given it to me, John. That, and love. That it should come to me after death is a miracle beyond my dreams' Melinda replies. They turn to each other and John puts his hands on Melinda's face, 'It was all I ever wanted to give you' he tells her. Melinda tells him that she knows, before asking how much time they will have. 'I have three years to prepare my successor' John replies. 'Three years... or an eternity together, my love!' Melinda utters, as they kiss, while the manifestation of Death stands over them. Wanda looks at them, but a haze spreads around them, and a voice calls out 'WANDA!'
'Oh, Vision! You startled me!' Wanda gasps as she looks over and sees her husband standing between their sons' cribs. The Vision informs Wanda that the ballgame went into extra-innings, but the Mets were victorious, and adds that the Black Knight sends his regards. The Vision notices that Wanda seems distracted, and asks if there is something wrong with the children. Wanda looks away from her husband as she tells him that the children are perfectly safe. 'Whatever happened, I would have seen to that'. They both look down at their sons, and Wanda tells the Vision that she learned a wonderful thing tonight. The Vision puts his hand on Wanda's shoulder, and she places her hand on his, announcing that she learned even in death there can be a love that never dies.
And elsewhere, Melinda and Kowalski continue to embrace, as Death looks on.


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One Day in the Life of Pietro Maximoff – Homo Sapiens
Run Down Apartment in NYC:
Pietro Maximoff lays in bed, sleeping in his underwear and dirty ragged shirt. He was the fastest living creature on the planet. He was so fast he was a blur to human eyes. Bullets could not touch him. He could run up the sides of buildings and snatch arrows out of the air. He was built for speed; running zero to sixty in seven seconds. His top speed was almost 220 miles per hour. His body adapted to withstand the accelerated impact of his feet hitting the ground thirty times per second.
As morning comes, Pietro, who hasn’t shaven in days, is bothered by a fly that buzzes right into his face. He curls up the newspaper, with an image of Purity activist William Stryker on its front, and tries to bat away the fly. Instead, he is too slow, and ends up knocking over his cup, spilling its contents. Pietro sits up in bed and looks down at the liquid on the floor, thinking. As the uninjured fly lands on the newspaper, Pietro gets up and, undresses so he can shower. When he is done, Pietro looks at himself in the mirror, and then proceeds to dress and pull out a bottle of liquor from his nightstand. The bottle is empty.
The man walks down to the store, and thinks to himself that his bones could absorb shocks that would shatter those of normal men. His tendons had the resilience of high tensile steel. His body metabolized food so efficiently that there was virtually no waste. He never carried an ounce of excess fat. He processes information at five times the speed of the average college student, as the data leaped from synapse to synapse. Today, it takes him much too long to read the nutrition facts on the back of a jar.
Pietro gets into the express checkout lane, but he is not as fast moving as he once was. Annoyed, a customer behind him tells Pietro to hurry up as he reaches into his pocket to pay. This is the express checkout, reminds the disgruntled customer. Like, for people in a hurry. Duh.
Pietro leaves the store, along with another bottle of liquor, without saying a word to the other man. Outside, he sees his bus speed by and runs after it. Once, he could have run across the surface of the water. However, this time Pietro slips and falls, spilling his groceries all over in the rain, as pedestrians hurry by and do not help him.
He was like the wind or a lightning bolt. He was superb; he was perfection; he was Quicksilver!
Avengers Tower:
Peter Parker stands in his Spider-Man costume, sans mask, and looks despondently out the window at the rain pouring outside. Peter, asks his wife Mary Jane as she walks into the room. Didn’t he hear her calling him? How long has be just been standing there? Peter does not respond, so Mary Jane tells him that they have to talk about this. Something is wrong.
Silently, Peter begins to put his mask on, so Mary Jane tells him not to do it. She can’t talk to him when he has the mask on. Peter puts it on anyway and turns to his wife, telling her that he is ok. He just has to go out. You are not ok, says Mary Jane firmly. I’m ok, reiterates Peter.
Spider-Man swings out of Avengers Tower and through the streets of the city. He doesn’t think Mary Jane would understand what he is feeling right now. For her, the world is as it always was, but for him it will never be the same. For a while he had everything he ever wanted in life. He had the woman he wanted – and it wasn’t her.
Spider-Man stops on a rooftop and looks at a high-rise deck, with a family enjoying time in the rain. Peter then thinks about his time in the House of M world, and his wife Gwen and his son Ritchie.
As the rain stops, Spider-Man gets up and takes off his mask. Tears begin to fall from his eyes as he mourns.
Pietro’s Apartment:
Pietro returns to his apartment drenched. How can they live like this? How can they stand to be human? Pietro takes off his long jacket and sits in bed with a drink and a photo of him, his sister, Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man and Thor. He and Wanda came so close to creating an almost perfect world. If it weren’t for a few imperfections that brought it all down, it would have worked. If they could start all over again he knows they’d get it right. However, now he doesn’t even know where Wanda is. She is gone and she has taken away his birthright. ‘No more mutants’ is what she said. She got it wrong again. There are mutants out there. Not too many though; not him.
Pietro takes out his uniform from his closet and puts it on. He pours another drink and looks out to the night sky. What has his perfect sister done to him? She was always the strong one. She told him never to give up hope. Where on Earth does he go from here?
Suddenly, Pietro gets up and stares long and hard at the full moon. He then puts down his shot glass and rummages through his things. It must be here. He knows he kept it. Finally, Pietro finds what he was looking for – a small bronze signaling device of design not reminiscent of any human architecture.
Quicksilver goes out onto the fire escape and activates the device. He then says out loud that, if she has any feelings left for him at all, she will answer. He looks back up at the moon and mutters that she must tell him that there is a place where he can be more than human again.
Suddenly, Pietro’s attention is called to the alley below, where three men are harassing another. One man, Bodie, tells Johnny to stay cool and he isn’t going to get hurt – if Johnny has been straight with Bodie and his crew. There is a whisper going around that Johnny is a mutant. I used to be, replies Johnny, but not anymore. Didn’t Bodie hear? Yeah, replies Bodie. They aren’t morons. They watch television. However, they hear that a few mutants have immunity or something. So they are going to check Johnny out. Their common friend, Sally – Johnny remembers Sally right? – well, she said there was something weird about Johnny. As the men begin to push Johnny around, he tells Bodie that he was drunk. Bodies feels something under Johnny’s shirt and begins to rip it off, but what the three men find underneath is not what they expected.
Johnny looks down at his chest and abdomen, which is covered in tentacles. More than that, a pair of red eyes stare back, as well as a mouth! Please, says Johnny, he cannot help it. The three men back away slowly, wondering what that thing is. Bodie comes close to touch it, but his friends tell him not to. At that moment, the creature on Johnny’s chest reaches out with its tentacles and grabs Bodie! One of the other men tells Johnny to let Bodie go, but Johnny explains that the creature has its own nervous system. It just reacts.
The men take out a blade, and chop off a tentacle, causing the creature to spasm and shriek in pain. Blood pours out of the creature, weakening Johnny, who falls back against a wall in pain. However, Bodie is released. As the men surround for the kill, Quicksilver comes down and tells them to leave Johnny alone.
Unimpressed, Bodie asks the man who he is supposed to be. I’ll give you a second chance to walk away, says Pietro. Neh, says Bodie. He will just punch Quicksilver instead. Pietro calls Bodie pathetic, but Bodie is much faster than Pietro and punches him square across the face! Pietro falls into some trash defeated, and the three men turn back to Johnny. It seems some radical surgery is called for.
Before Bodie can do anything, a web grabs the knife out of his hand. Spider-Man descends and tells the men, as he beats them up, that this is what he loves about the city. Every time he needs to hit someone really hard, some jerk steps up and volunteers. He can feel all the stress flowing right out of him. He has friends who swear by yoga Tibetan chanting, but the crunch of knuckles in a bad guy’s face always does it for him.
As Spider-Man beats up the men, Quicksilver quickly sneaks away.
Spider-Man turns to Johnny, who is in bad shape. Johnny is not sure how he is. He cannot feel the wound, and he thinks he is going to pass out. Spider-Man makes a tourniquet for the injured creature and tells Johnny that he is losing a lot of blood. Does he have a cell phone? Inside pocket, stammers the weak Johnny.
Spider-Man gets the phone and dials for an ambulance. Johnny, who can’t even keep his head up, mutters that they say less than one percent of mutants stayed mutants - one in a hundred; that is him. You convinced me, says Spider-Man when he gets off the phone, life sucks. The good news, though, is that help is on the way, so Johnny should sit tight and think happy thoughts. Spider-Man then looks up at the fire escape to see Quicksilver quietly skulk away, and tells Johnny that he thinks he just spotted another bad guy.
Spider-Man sneaks to the top of the roof before Pietro can get there, and then uses his webs to grab Pietro and pull him up. Before Quicksilver can say anything, Spider-Man holds the man by the collar and tells him that the last time Parker saw hi, Pietro was being crushed to a pulp by his dad. Peter cannot blame Magneto for that. Spider-Man then throws Quicksilver against the doorway from the room to the apartment, and demands to know why Pietro did it. Why did Quicksilver wreck his life?!
Angry, Quicksilver asks Spider-Man if he thinks he wanted this. Look at him! He is living like a fugitive. He has earned the hatred of his father. His sister is gone. He doesn’t even know if Wanda is alive. Pietro swings at Spider-Man, yelling that he has lost everything. Spider-Man sidesteps the blow easily. You see, asks Pietro, he has even lost his speed. Spider-Man cannot imagine what it is like to be so slow.
Spider-Man pushes Quicksilver up against the wall and laughs sarcastically in his face. He then pulls him to the roof’s edge to show him the ambulance takes Johnny away. What does Pietro think about Johnny? Does Pietro think that would have happened if he and his sister hadn’t screwed with the world? How about the thousands of lives destroyed – all the mutants who aren’t mutants anymore? How do they feel?
Spider-Man then lifts Pietro off the ground by his throat, and in a rage asks the former mutant about himself. He had a perfect little boy in a perfect world that Pietro and Wanda made. The woman he loved, who was dead, was alive again. They had a baby! He has lost his son!
Spider-Man lets Pietro go, and tells him that people say the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to bury your own child. However, Spider-Man feels that there is something worse. His son is dead, and Peter cannot bury him, because he never existed.
Spider-Man sits and holds his head. He cannot even tell his wife. This morning he is sitting there with all these memories swirling around. He is grieving for his dead son, and she is telling him a joke she heard on Letterman. Then she wonders why Peter isn’t laughing!
Pietro, who stands on the ledge, apologizes to Spider-Man. If he could do anything to make things right, he would. However, he cannot. Spider-Man, looking down at the roof, figures that makes Pietro a waste of space, doesn’t it? It does, says Pietro as he stares off into the night sky. Can Spider-Man think of a single reason why he should go on living? No, Pietro, says Spider-Man as he looks away, truthfully he cannot.
Spider-Man looks back – and Pietro is gone! Spider-Man quickly looks over the edge to see Quicksilver plummeting to the ground. Horrified, Spider-Man shoots a web, but it is not fast enough to stop the fall, and Pietro lands hard.
Spider-Man leaps down. He didn’t mean for Pietro to kill himself! As he bends down to check on the still man, there is a surge of energy, as two beings teleport into the alley. “Spider-Man?” asks the woman.
Spider-Man looks up to see Quicksilver’s estranged wife, Crystal of the Inhumans, and the beast known as Lockjaw, standing before him.
“What have you done to my husband?” demands a horrified Crystal.


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It’s dark out there... but Pietro can hear voices discussing his fate...
A familiar voice to Pietro asks Spider-Man what he did to him. Spider-Man tells Crystal he knows how this looks, but explains that he’s one of the good guys. Pietro starts to wake up, and is surprised to hear Crystal’s voice. Crystal again asks Spider-Man what he did to Pietro. Spidey promises he didn’t do anything, and that they were just talking. Crystal doesn’t believe that. Spidey points out they were standing on the roof, and Pietro just... fell.
Crystal gets even angrier hearing this, finding Spider-Man’s explanation hard to believe. Spider-Man knows how that sounds, but... Crystal doesn’t let the webslinger finish his sentence, thinking he is lying. She powers up and attacks Spider-Man with her elemental powers. Pietro calls out to Crystal, who is relieved he’s alive and thanks her god, Randac. Almost with no breath left, Pietro confirms to his estranged wife Spider-Man didn’t do anything. He also didn’t fall... he jumped. Spidey adds that he tried to save Pietro. His web even slowed him down some but the guy still hit the ground pretty hard. Crystal asks Pietro why he would jump.
Pietro faints again. Crystal takes a look at his neck, thinking his spine is broken. Spider-Man tells Crystal they need to bring Pietro to a hospital, and asks if Lockjaw can take him. Crystal is certain that Earth’s hospitals won’t save Pietro, and asks Lockjaw to stand behind her. Lockjaw does and starts growling at Spider-Man, who is a bit scared by it. Crystal asks her loyal dog to taker her and Quicksilver home, and Lockjaw teleports them all away! Spider-Man tries to ask them to wait, but is too late... the Inhumans and Pietro are already gone. Peter wonders where Crystal’s “home” is.
Attilan...
Crystal, arriving home holding her former lover in her arms, demands to be brought to a healer!
A short while later, the rest of Crystal’s loyal family has brought Quicksilver to the care of the healer Kalikya. Standing behind a window and looking as Kalikya places her hands on Pietro to patch him up, Medusa promises her sister she doesn’t need to worry, as Kalikya is one of the Inhumans’ finest healers. Gorgon thinks Pietro shouldn’t be here. He knows Black Bolt gave Crystal permission to answer Pietro’s distress signal, but didn’t gave permission to bring him back here. Crystal explains to her cousin that Pietro was dying. Should she have left him to die instead?
“Of course not,” Medusa adds. Pietro may remain with the Inhumans until he is fully recovered. Gorgon still doesn’t like it, remembering that trouble follows at Crystal’s husband’s heel like a sick dog. Medusa, a bit angry, asks Gorgon if he’s questioning his monarch’s decision. Gorgon promises he would never do that, but he is curious as to how Maximoff came by his injuries. Crystal confirms that what they heard is true. Many of the human mutants have lost their abilities, and Pietro is one of them. Gorgon hopes that perhaps this will teach Pietro humility. Crystal rather believes that Pietro would find it... difficult... to live as a normal human, and it seems that his injuries were self-inflicted.
Crystal touches the window with her hands and can’t keep her eyes off her husband. She keeps staring at Quicksilver, before she realizes that Black Bolt gives her a questioning look. Medusa mentions they will talk about Pietro’s future when he is well. As Medusa and Black Bolt leave, Crystal and Gorgon stay behind. Crystal knows Gorgon never approved of her marriage with Quicksilver. Gorgon adds that Crystal’s marriage was the first between Inhuman and human, and now, looking at Pietro being healed up by one of their own, they can look at the result. Crystal disagrees. The result of their marriage was Luna.
Days later, when Pietro is as good as healed...
A happy Luna meets up with her father in his room, who is surprised to see her so big. Luna smiles she knows she has grown, as she’s six years old now. She also brought her dad a present. She had her friend, San, make it especially for him, and it’s the only one like it. She hands Pietro a box. He opens it and finds a red stone inside it. He smiles it’s beautiful and Luna smiles hearing that. She goes to sit next to Pietro on his bed, and asks why he never comes to see him. She wonders if it is because her dad is human and that humans don’t get along with Inhumans.
Pietro promises that isn’t the reason. He confirms some humans... many humans, actually, distrust anyone who appears superior to them. “But I’m not”.... Pietro says, but he doesn’t finish his sentence. Luna mentions that some of her friends hate humans too, because they attacked them so the Inhumans had to come live here on the moon. Pietro gives her a sad look, but Luna tells him not to. After all, she doesn’t hate him! Pietro and Luna laugh together, not realizing that a smiling Crystal watches them around the corner.
Again some time later...  BR>
Wearing his costume again, Quicksilver and Luna walk through the big city of Atillan together, holding each other’s hand. Pietro asks his daughter where he is taking him today. Luna wants her dad to meet Videmus, who is a communicator. They enter a big house and meet Videmus on a balcony, and Luna introduces the two to each other. Videmus welcomes Pietro and sees it as a big honor to be of service to him. Pietro isn’t entirely sure what service Videmus intends to provide. Luna explains that Videmus can make her see what her dad is thinking. All Pietro has to do is think of a picture and she’ll see it, too.
Videmus reminds his honored guest he has no sight of his own. He depends on others for his vision of the world and hopes Pietro will show him something splendid. Videmus stretches his eyes onto the minds of Pietro and Luna. Seeing lots of colors, Videmus mentions to Pietro that his mind is a vortex. He must focus on a single image. Pietro asks Luna what she would like to see. Luna wants to see the ocean, so Pietro thinks of an image of the ocean, with lots of fish in it. Luna is amazed. Luna asks Pietro if it’s true that, when she looks up at the Earth, all the blue is water.
Not far away from the moon, the Earth can be seen in its full glory, but a mysterious, red energy light is orbiting it.
Afterwards...
Quicksilver has been brought to the throne room, and asks Black Bolt for permission to undergo Terrigenesis. Medusa explains to Pietro that isn’t possible. The genetic council has forbidden humans from exposure to the Terrigen mists, and that this ruling stands for all time. To this, Pietro proclaims that he is not human! All he wants is to have his mutant status restored, and he believes the mists would do that.
Medusa calmly tells Pietro he is... he was... a human mutant. She reveals that, long ago, the process of Terrigenesis was opened to all Inhumans without regulation. The resulting mutations were often radical... monstrous. The damage to the Inhuman gene pool was disastrous. It has taken many millennia to restore the balance. Now every Inhuman must undergo rigorous genetic screening before being allowed to transform. That screening automatically blocks persons of human descent.
Pietro wants to know what that means for his daughter. Medusa says Luna is excluded from the mists, as it would be unsafe for her ever to be exposed to them. Pietro angrily states he doesn’t accept that! Medusa apologizes, but this isn’t open to discussion. Quicksilver disappointed leaves the room, leaving Black Bolt wondering.
Later that night...
Pietro visits Videmus at his home, and overlook the city from it. Videmus knows for sure that must be a wonderful view, though Pietro replies Videmus can’t really see it. Videmus rejoins that he can, if Pietro allows him. He attaches his eyes on Pietro’s mind again, and asks him to turn a little to his right. Videmus is impressed to see the Earth rising. Videmus asks Pietro to what he owes this visit.
Quicksilver explains Luna told him Videmus is revered as an educator. That he retains images and information from his mind links. Videmus can imagine it’s rather like the computers the humans are so found of. He asks Pietro if he seeks knowledge. Pietro wishes to learn of the Mists of Terrigen. Videmus tells Pietro to clear his thoughts. He has to make his mind a palimpsest upon which he may inscribe his histories.
Videmus reveals it is now almost 25,000 years ago since the Inhuman geneticist Randac isolated the catalyst for human evolution. It is an incredibly rare mineral, which exists in crystal form. Randac named the crystals “Terrigen.” At the correct temperature, when exposed to water, the crystals react to produce a vapor, known as the Mists of Terrigen. These mists are pumped into the flux chambers during the process of Terrigenesis. The crystals themselves are kept in a sealed cavern below the surface of Attilan, where they are constantly exposed to the heat and saline water. It is from this source that the Mists are collected.
This cavern is guarded by the Maledicta siblings, a tradition which has continued in their family for millennia. Their duties are largely ceremonial. No Inhuman would ever dare to enter the chamber without authority of the council. Videmus doesn’t envy the guards, believing their minds must scream with boredom. He further explains that at the entrance to the cavern is an airtight chamber, which serves as a barrier to prevent the escape of vapors from the lower levels. Only those who are appointed by the council to maintain the crystals may enter. And they must wear protective suits to avoid exposure to the Mists. To enter without protection would be to risk irreversible genetic trauma. No more than a dozen honored members of the Inhuman race enter the cavern each century. It is the holiest, most sacred place imaginable... the living heart and soul of the Inhuman culture. To desecrate those hallowed grounds would be unthinkable.
Not long after hearing the story...
Pietro walks toward the room where the Mists are stored. He spots one of the guarding Maledicta siblings, and quickly knocks him out. He drags them to a safe spot so they won’t be seen by anyone. Pietro presses a button, and a door opens, allowing him to enter the chamber. He bathes into a pool where the Mists are stored... and is exposed to them! Pietro feels his hands shaking. He looks at them, and can’t control it anymore! Suddenly, his entire body seems to fall apart!
Eventually, Pietro manages to control himself. His body is restored back to normal, and Pietro feels he failed. He doesn’t feel any different now, and did everything for nothing. He leaves the room, noticing the other Maledicta sibling. Pietro realizes that, when the other guard is discovered, the Inhumans will have no doubt who attacked him. At best, Pietro thinks, he will be expelled from Attilan and sent back to Earth. But that means he will never see Luna again, and wonders what Crystal will think of this.
Pietro goes back to his room, where he is shocked to discover he isn’t alone. He looks at an older version of himself, holding the glowing red stone Luna gave him earlier! This version, remaining calm and sitting in a chair, says “hello” to Pietro...