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A young Russian boy dejectedly sketches a pencil portrait of his older brother Mikhail. He sighs, and once again tells his brother that he does not want him to leave. Mikhail reiterates that he has to go and fulfill his duty to his country. “I do this for Russia, but I also do this for you. To make a better world for my little brother,” he says to little Piotr. “One day you will understand.” Piotr stares at his sketch instead of making eye contact with his brother. He asks Mikhail who will watch over him with his brother gone. Mikhail, decked out in an olive-green Russian military uniform, tells his brother that he will always be watching over him. He adds that all Piotr has to do is look to the stars, and he will know that his big brother will be looking back. Before he departs, Mikhail removes a gold star from his uniform and pins it to Piotr’s collar. “I love you, little brother. Always remember that.” Siberian Russia, 62 miles northwest of Lake Baikal, three months later…Piotr Rasputin walks home through a snowy field to his house on the Ust-Ordynski collective farm. He crests a hill and takes a look at his family’s cottage in the distance. Immediately, Piotr notices a black government vehicle in the driveway. He excitedly assumes Mikhail has returned home and rushes through the snow to reunite with his brother. However, the scene he witnesses on the porch fills him with grief. His despondent mother cries into the hands of Piotr’s father, and two solemn-looking government officials bow their heads in respect. As Piotr draws closer, he begins to understand that this is not the joyous reunion he anticipated. The sight of the government officials bearing a medal on a velvet cushion confirms Piotr’s worst fears: his brother Mikhail is dead. He drops his backpack and rushes off into the snowy field. Alexander Vahzin, one of the government messengers, is the only one who notices Piotr. He decides to follow the boy. Piotr runs for as long as he can bear before collapsing on his knees. Uncontrollable tears of grief pour down his contorted face as he begins angrily shouting at his dead brother. “You were supposed to watch over me!” Piotr yells while clenching his fists. He raises his arms back behind his head, and with a force propelled purely by grief, swings them forward and onto the ground. Unbeknownst to Piotr, in the middle of this motion his entire body turns into organic steel. When his fists connect with the snow-covered ground, the impact is devastating. It sends a cloud of snow and debris soaring through the air, clearing a bare patch all around Piotr. He screams once more to the skies before getting a look at his body. His clothes have been destroyed, and his naked body seems to be composed of steel. Confused, he looks at his metallic hands, and asks for help from his dead brother. At that moment, Alexander emerges from the flurry of snow. He glimpses Piotr’s body reverting back to flesh, and stands in shock. “Dear God…Piotr?” he asks. Piotr has no time to answer, as he collapses to the ground, unconscious. The man stares in disbelief at the naked boy lying in the center of a newly formed crater. Later that night, Piotr’s parents try and explain how they found him earlier that day. They tell their son that Alexander found him passed out in the fields. They add that Alexander was a good friend of Mikhail’s while they grew up. “Then why did he not die in Mikhail’s place?” Piotr scornfully asks. His parents express shock at hearing their normally gentle boy say something this vitriolic. Piotr’s father adds that Mikhail was a gift that belonged to the whole world, not just to their family. Piotr asks why the world could not have taken him instead. Once more, his emotions build up, and his body once again begins turning into organic steel. “I need him! I need Mikhail to tell me what is happening to me!” he cries. His parents stare in complete shock as Piotr transforms into a metallic colossus right before their eyes. Moscow, the offices of the Federal Security Service…The director of the Federal Security Service offers his condolences to Alexander Vahzin regarding his friend, Mikhail Rasputin. He adds that the entire Russian space program mourns the young man’s death. Moving on, he commends Alexander for saving the life of Mikhail’s younger brother Piotr. “You spared the Rasputin family a second tragedy, then,” the director says. “Anything else to report?” Alexander says no, intentionally neglecting the strange occurrence involving Piotr. His lie does not go unnoticed, however. The F.S.S. director meets with another agent and, citing the condition in which Piotr was found, orders him to spy on the young Rasputin boy. He also orders a team to keep watch on Alexander, adding that they are to report on every move he makes. Meanwhile, in the F.S.S. archives, Alexander scours old newspaper articles in search of information that may aid in understanding what he saw with Piotr. Finally, he comes across a newspaper article from The New York Times bearing the headline, “Mutant Attack at Cape Citadel?” The accompanying photograph shows the masked mutants Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Marvel Girl attacking the man known as Magneto. Alexander’s eyes widen at this possible clue regarding the truth about Piotr. One year later…Piotr’s parents welcome into their lives their newborn daughter, Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin. They offer to let Piotr hold the baby girl, reminding him to be gentle, as the girl is as fragile as a little snowflake. Piotr cradles his baby sister in his arms and clumsily introduces himself. He tells her that he will always be there for her, and will always watch over her, no matter what. “Although I suspect that you may be trouble, little snowflake!” he laughs as little Illyana reaches up and playfully grabs her brother’s nose. Three years later…Little Illyana runs out to her family’s barn and finds her brother Piotr, who is busy bailing hay. She begs him to paint her portrait, but he declines, adding that he paints her a picture at least once a day. The farmhand Ivan comments that Illyana has more energy than all the men on the farm put together. He jokes that if there were only a way to put her to work. Piotr agrees, laughing. With their work for the day complete, Ivan says goodbye to the Rasputin siblings and departs, joking that he looks forward to seeing Piotr’s new painting tomorrow. Illyana, who tugs at Piotr’s leg and continues beg, apparently gets what she wants. Ivan then walks to his farm truck, enters the cab, and makes a discrete phone call to his director at F.S.S. He has nothing new to report, and adds that monitoring Piotr is a waste of time. The director refuses to budge, and orders Ivan to continue his mission. Ivan begrudgingly complies. Meanwhile, in Moscow, Alexander Vahzin sits by himself at a bar and stares at his drink. He answers a sudden call on his cell phone. The caller bypasses all formalities and tells Alexander that they need to have a private conversation. Before Alexander has a chance to respond, his surroundings melt away and he finds himself face to face with a mysterious man in a wheelchair. The man introduces himself as Charles Xavier. He explains that he is the man Alexander has been trying to contact, and then adds that their minds are currently conversing in the privacy of the astral plane. At Xavier’s request, Alexander explains about the promise he made to watch over the family of his deceased friend Mikhail. He worries that Piotr may be a mutant, which will surely attract the attention of the Russian government. “Mutants seem to be an American phenomenon so far,” Alexander says. “And while the Americans react with fear and hatred, Russia is not America. Russia seeks power. If the government here were to find out about Piotr, they would take him. They would make a weapon out of him. Mikhail always told me what a gentle soul Piotr was…an artist, or a poet. I will not let this happen.” Xavier thanks him for the information and says that he will be in touch. “By the way, they’ve thrown your body outside. The barkeep assumes you’ve passed out,” Xavier adds. Sure enough, Alexander mind returns to his body, only to discover that he now rests against a dumpster in a dirty alleyway. Two years later…Piotr, Ivan, and another farmhand walk through a sunny pasture after a hard day’s work. Illyana comes running to her brother with her arms outstretched. “Piotr! Shiny! Come on!!” she shouts. Piotr tries to silence her, as her comments hint at his mutant condition. As Ivan wanders away, he senses that something important has just occurred. Trusting his hunch, he turns around and discretely follows Piotr and Illyana over to the barn and peeks in through a crack in the door. What he sees finally validates his entire mission: Piotr Rasputin, his body completely composed of steel, effortlessly lifts a tractor over his head with one arm purely to please his little sister. Ivan sneaks away, unnoticed. The F.S.S. Intelligence Grid, 36 hours later…The F.S.S. receives agent Dubenko’s report on Piotr Rasputin’s condition, and the entire agency is alerted. Alexander Vahzin realizes that his fears have just come true: a black ops team is about to be sent to retrieve Piotr for government conditioning. He desperately tries to contact Professor X, but gets no answer on the other end of the line. However, he hears Xavier’s voice in his head telling him not to be alarmed. Confused, he turns around and sees several F.S.S. agents aiming pistols right at him. They inform Alexander that he is under arrest for treason. Meanwhile, out at the Rasputin farm, the family sleeps peacefully in their beds. They remain completely unaware of the covert operations team that descends upon their home in helicopters. Several masked agents approach the house kick in the front door, and proceed to Piotr’s bedroom. They enter and fire several rounds directly at his bed. However, once they take the time to examine the room, they realize that no one is sleeping in this particular bed. Their tranquilizer darts hit nothing but sheets and pillows. Nearby, Illyana awakens to see her older brother in her room. She asks what he is doing, but he assures her that nothing is the matter and asks her to go back to sleep. He switches off the light, pulls the door close, and changes into his metallic form. In the hallway outside, the soldiers move from room to room. They hold Piotr’s mother at gunpoint as they check each room. As one of the soldiers begins to open the door to Illyana’s room, Piotr’s metallic arm burst through the door and punches the man in the face. Piotr then walks through the debris and stands over the unconscious man. The other men gaze at the colossus before them, not believing what their eyes see. They begin firing anyway. The rounds from their guns are useless and merely bounce off of Piotr’s armored body. He turns and hurls their downed teammate right at them, knocking several of them down. The soldiers try to call for backup, but it does them no good. Piotr makes quick work of the squad end hurls their leader out of a second-story window. He then leaps out the same window to finish the job, but is not quite prepared for what he sees upon exiting. “Bozhe moi,” he says when confronted by an armored stealth helicopter. Piotr springs into action without hesitation. He takes a flying leap at the helicopter and demolishes it with a blow from his double-handed fist. With the threat neutralized, he walks over to the squad’s leader and hoists him off the ground. “Who are you? What do you want with my family?” he shouts. The soldier struggles to speak. “Piotr…I know you are not that stupid. We only want you.” Piotr replies that he does not wish to kill anyone, and demands that they leave and never come back. The agent tells him this is impossible. He pulls off his hood, revealing his face to Piotr. He immediately recognizes the man as the farmhand Ivan. Piotr is stunned by this betrayal. Ivan continues to speak, and tells Piotr that Moscow will not stop until they have him. They will do whatever it takes to make that happen, even if this includes hurting Piotr’s loved ones. He concludes by telling Piotr that he knows he is not a killer, and that is why he has already lost. Suddenly, Ivan is hit by a tranquilizer dart in the back of the neck. Piotr lowers Ivan’s unconscious body and sees the man who has come to help him: Alexander Vahzin. Alexander confirms that everything Ivan said was true, but then adds a curious amendment. He says that after tonight, the Russian government will no longer have any interest in the Rasputin family. The soldiers involved in this incident will wake up tomorrow and have no recollection of this event, instead having memories of a night of heavy drinking. “And it seems I have been promoted to Director of Intelligence,” Alexander adds. Piotr has trouble understanding this new development. Alexander assures him that he does not understand it either. All he knows is that they have a guardian angel of sorts, and he hopes that one day they both have a chance to meet him in person. Meanwhile, Alexander tells Piotr to clean up the mess at his house. Sometime later, Illyana plays out in the fields on a sunny day. She focuses all of her attention on a beautiful butterfly that rests on her finger. Nearby, Piotr helps his father move bales of hay. His father asks why Piotr has been so quiet and angry for the past few months, but Piotr responds that nothing is the matter. His father sees right through his lie. Unfortunately, their conversation does not have the chance to continue. Mr. Rasputin spots a runaway tractor heading right for Illyana. He shouts for her to get out of the way, but realizes he is powerless to save her from this distance. Piotr, however, is not. He sprint toward his sister, transforming his body into organic steel along the way. He steps in front of the tractor just before it crushes Illyana and completely halts its deadly momentum. Piotr then sweeps his terrified sister into his colossal arms and hugs her tightly. “You need to be more careful, little snowflake,” he says. Suddenly, Piotr hears a voice speak inside of his mind. It draws his attention to a couple of men who stand in a nearby patch of wheat. He immediately recognizes his friend Alexander, who stands beside a bald man in a wheelchair. Alexander tells Piotr that today he will receive the answers he seeks, and then introduces him to Charles Xavier. Professor X enlightens Piotr about mutants, and Piotr immediately recognizes the wheelchair-bound man as the “guardian angel” who has watched over him. “You must understand, Piotr,” Xavier continues. “The world is changing. More and more mutants are appearing every day. Humanity fears and hates what it does not understand. You and your family will always be in danger.” Piotr replies that he can protect his family, but Xavier explains that he can do so much more. He tells Piotr that together, they can change the world. He then mentions his school for gifted children, where mutants can receive proper training of their mutant abilities. Most importantly, his students learn to use their powers to protect all people from those who would do them harm. Alexander is shocked that Xavier would ask Piotr to join the X-Men. “I asked for your help because I didn’t want Piotr to become a weapon for anyone!” he shouts. However, Xavier has something else in mind for Piotr entirely. “Piotr is a weapon, Mister Vahzin…but I need him to become a hero.” Later that day, Piotr talks with his father at the dinner table. He tells his son that he is a gift, and like any gift, he belongs to the entire world. “You cannot hide here, waiting for them to come for you. Your gentle heart will turn hard and cold to match your skin. If you want to protect Illyana, you know what you have to do.” Piotr decides to accept the responsibility that comes with his mutant ability. On the night he leaves, he says goodbye to Illyana as she sleeps. He whispers that what he does, he does to protect her. “But know that I will always be there for you. Watching you. Protecting you,” he says while the light reflects off his metallic skin. “Always.” Later, at Professor X shows Piotr Rasputin around his School for Gifted Children in Salem Center, New York. “In all my life, I’ve never seen such clothing as this,” Piotr says, commenting on his red and yellow uniform. Xavier addresses Piotr by his new codename, Colossus, for the first time. Finally, he brings him to the waiting room where he meets Wolverine, Storm, Thunderbird, Nightcrawler, Sunfire, and Banshee for the first time in his life.


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A nice detached house in winter. A young, red-headed girl stands at the window unmoving, her gaze sad and inwards.
“Hello Jean,” a newcomer greets her, having just wheeled into the room that is empty, save for a bed and has damaged walls and a damaged ceiling, her anxious parents standing behind the stranger. His name is Charles Xavier, he tells Jean. He hopes she’ll forgive the intrusion. Her parents have been kind enough to allow him to visit her today. He wanted a chance to meet her, because he knows. He knows what is to be different, to feel different inside. And he knows too well the desperate need to control that which makes them different. He has come to help her, he projects right inside her mind. And for the first time, Jean reacts a bit, slightly turning her head towards Xavier.
Later in the living room, Xavier talks with the rest of Jean’s family. Elaine Grey sighs that the last two years, ever since the accident, have been a living nightmare. Jean screams in pain whenever they take her anyplace. They had to empty her room to keep her from hurting herself anytime she… Elaine doesn’t finish her sentence.
Professor John Grey admits they had Jean see every sort of psychologist, psychiatrist, neurologist, and faith healer phony astrologist one can imagine. Xavier is the first one to even get her attention. Jean’s older teenage sister, Sara, mumbles unhappily that she wants her sister back.
Xavier admits that he won’t sugarcoat it. This is only the smallest first step on a long and difficult journey. It’ll be one thing to teach her to control her talents… but they are dealing with a psyche so damaged, so traumatized that the act of healing her falls just short of a resurrection.
After a moment of silence, Elaine asks hopefully that he can do it, right?
Xavier enters Jean’s psyche, finding her reliving the car accident that killed her best friend Annie Richardson before her eyes. Annie, don’t go! she screams mentally. Jean, what is it? Xavier asks her. Jean replies she can feel her dying inside. I’m dying. I’m dying!
No, Jean, Xavier replies and gets out of his wheelchair and stands up to stand next to Jean. It’s Annie who’s died, he corrects her. Jean’s emotional state triggered her mutant talents and she experienced her friend’s death through telepathy. She’s alive he sends to her mind. She’s alive and she doesn’t have to be here. Come with him, he tells her, offering his hand and Jean takes it.
The dreary winter mindscape gives way to that of a beautiful summer meadow. Where are they? Jean asks as she happily runs though the flowers. Where they’ve been all along, Xavier explains. In her mind, Jean realizes he’s right. She used to have dreams about this place. And she still can, he assures her. She needn’t spend the rest of her life endlessly revisiting past miseries. She simply needs to take the proper path. He can train her to control her telepathy, and her telekinesis as well. He can help her to confront her fears. He can show her the way.
In reality, in her empty room, Jean turns around and states that she’d like that.
And so, over the coming time, Xavier helps Jean, teaching her to control her telepathy, her telekinesis, helping her confront her grief over Annie’s death. Finally, a smiling Jean stands before the mirror in a new dress and walks out of her room.
Her sister Sarah sits on the couch, reading a teen mag. Jean addresses her carefully. First, Sarah reacts automatically, telling Jean she is reading right now. Then she realizes what is happening and jumps up happily and hugs Jean, relieved and welcoming her back.
Some time later, Professor Xavier takes Jean to the mall. The girl is resistant, suggesting that maybe they should postpone this trip. Xavier assures her she can do this and tells her to trust in herself. Jean walks around, followed by Xavier and indeed she is doing fine. She can block people’s mental voices out. She thought she’d never be able to be around people again, but here she is, she tells Xavier smiling and thanks him.
Suddenly, a boy bumps into her. Xavier warns her to stay focused, but too late. Jean’s mental walls crumble and she hears everyone’s thoughts pressing onto her like scream. Xavier shouts at her to control it. Helplessly, Jean lashes out with her telekinesis.
Later, she seems to be back where she was at the beginning, sullen and withdrawn, staring out of the window.
Xavier apologizes to her parents. He thought she was ready, but he pushed her too much, too soon. He realizes now what must be done. He’s going to wall off her telepathic abilities. That way she can…
Enraged, John Grey asks him why he hasn’t done that already if he can do that. Get rid of all of it – the mind stuff. Her memory of the accident… That isn’t what he does, Xavier corrects him. Jean’s abilities aren’t an affliction. They are a gift. The psychic barriers would only be temporary. Her telepathy will rematerialize over time, but not until she’s ready, Not until she’s learned to cope with everything else. And he’s afraid that’s going to take longer than he’d originally hoped. How long? Elaine asks, desperate.
Jean’s mindscape:
Jean relives the accident again, thinking of her friend, Annie. Cradling her corpse, she thinks that not a day goes by that she doesn’t wish she had thrown that Frisbee anywhere else but there. Maybe if there had been just a little less wind… She gets up. Anyway… the thing is Jean doesn’t belong here with Anne. She never did! It just took her some time to realize it. She just wanted, before she left, to say good-bye. She’ll miss Annie.
With an evil look on her face, a monstrous Annie comes alive, screaming No! Jean can never leave her! She lunges for her, trying to drag her down. Jean panics first, then realizes now that this isn’t really Annie, just a part of Jean that’s afraid to let go, but she outgrew her fear.
The whole ground vanishes and Jean flies upwards. Xavier tells her “good work.” Staring upward, she sees a wall rising. Is he almost done? Jean asks. Just about, Xavier assures her. After today the only voice she will hear in her head other than his will be her own. At least for a while.
Years later. Jean sits in front of the mirror reading, while idly telekinetically brushing her hair. She listens in to a conversation her parents are having with Xavier. The Greys are enthusiastic and grateful. Xavier admits that Jean’s made great strides these past years, She’s happy, she’s sociable but she needs more. They’ve seen it on TV. There are others like Jean out there and the rest of the world isn’t taking it too well. He’s opening a boarding school of sorts. An academy for mutants, where he can train and prepare them. Where they can learn to accept themselves, and where they won’t have to live in constant fear.
Uncomprehending, Elaine states that they’ve just got their little girl back. Now he wants to take her away from them. Xavier understands how she feels but he doesn’t believe Jean has any other choice.
And so, some time later, Jean hugs her parents goodbye, while her taxi is waiting for her. She’s not doing it to be safe, like he said, she assures them. She just needs… something. After a tearful goodbye, Jean is brought to Xavier’s school. Nervously, she tells herself to take a deep breath.
Later. The Danger Room:
Marvel Girl is lost in thoughts and doesn’t notice the flying rocket heading for her until Cyclops shouts a warning. At the last moment, she telekinetically swats it aside. Cyclops warns her she isn’t out of the woods yet, as it returns to her. Jean hesitates. Cyclops gets ready to blast the thing out of the air. Xavier mentally tells him not to. This is Marvel Girl’s test.
Jean feels the rocket is too quick. She strains trying to hold it, finally managing to cause it to fly over her head and straight at Iceman, who fortunately protects himself with an iceshield from the explosion. Feebly, she apologizes.
Later, alone with Xavier in his office Jean admits she doesn’t know what happened. He was going to say the same thing. Xavier points out she’s done it before. In fact, she’s accomplished greater telekinetic feats out in the field. He thinks she does know why she failed this. What’s troubling her?
She takes off her mask and admits she is grateful for all he’s done. For this school, her teammates, her friends. She’s learned so much and feels she’s really grown as a person, but there’s something missing that… She doesn’t know what it is, but there’s this empty place inside.
Good! he replies with a smile. Jean frowns. That’s good? It’s wonderful, he assures her. It means she is a perfectly healthy teenager. What does that even--? she begins to ask. They are interrupted by Beast who anxiously informs them that they saw something important on TV. The X-Men are needed!
Not much later, the X-Men set off in their jet when Cyclops suddenly notes that they are traveling a little light. Marvel Girl isn’t among them.
Jean instead has opted to walk through the city’s streets alone. Strolling past an electronics store, she sees in the news that her teammates are confronting Magneto.
“Crazy”, a girl standing close to her suddenly states. Sorry? Jean replies. Mutants, the other girl says. That stuff’s crazy. She has nothing against them or anything, but she means, what are people like them supposed to do? Carina, she introduces herself. Jean also tells her her first name. Is she skipping school too? Carina asks. Pretty much, Jean admits. They begin to talk about school.
Close by, an ambulance driver is momentarily distracted and sees a closed road too late. He drives against the sidewalk and crashes, beginning to slide down the street.
Carina tries to get Jean to run away. Jean sees the panicked people on the street like a mother with a stroller sure to be hit by the out of control car. Telekinetically, Jean lifts mother and infant above the car and out of harm’s way, then strains to stop the sliding ambulance. Finally, it comes to a screeching halt mere inches in front of Jean’s foot. ,Exhausted she leans against it.
Carina stares at her, mouth agape. She’s a… she’ a … she tries to say. A perfectly healthy teenager? Jean asks with a smile. Yeah. She knows. With that she levitates away.
Later in the mansion’s garden, Xavier has a serious talk with her. He’s placing her in detention, he announces. She’s not to leave the campus for any reason. She broke the rules.
Jean apologizes. Her teammates might have fallen without her and she, in turn, placed herself in harm’s way, Xavier continues sternly. Will she ever do it again? No, she replies, looking away. She’s lying, he remarks, that’s irresponsible. Jean gives him a playful smile. Good girl, there’s hope for her yet, he remarks.


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“Yeah, well, I’ve been following this. I know what I’m talking about,” high school student Hank McCoy says to his lab partner. As he doodles a picture of recent celebrity the Human Torch in his notebook, he explains how these super-people seem to be appearing out of nowhere. First it was that Spider-Guy who fought an ex-convict made of sand down at the docks. Then there was the guy who descended into New York City in the midst of a thunder storm and claimed to be the God of storms. And, of course, there was the incident of renowned physicist Reed Richards and his crew returning from space in possession of fantastic powers.
Their biology teacher walks by and plops an old exam on Hank’s desk. “McCoy. B plus,” he says. He would have earned an A had he not messed up the question about Mendelian distribution of inherited traits. He advises Hank to read the chapter again, and Hank thanks him for the criticism. A student in a letterman’s jacket sitting a row back scratches his head like an ape and asks Hank if he inherited his traits from the zoo. The jock and his friend laugh, until the teacher returns their tests. “Steckler, D minus. Case, straight D,” he announces. “Don’t bother reading the chapter again, gentlemen. Just look at the pictures.” The teacher then returns Jennifer Nyles her test, which she aced. Well done, he says.
After class, Jennifer chides her friend for uncharacteristically missing a question on genetics. He tells her it was a lapse of concentration, but she doesn’t believe him. “What’s the deal, Hank? It’s girls who fake dumb to get dates,” she asks. It’s not easy to explain, Hank answers, but gives it a shot. A few years before his birth, his father was involved in an incident at the nuclear power plant. Apparently, the reactor’s cooling system shut down, and while everyone else ran away in fear of a meltdown, Hank’s father entered the chamber and manually got the coolant flowing again. This act of bravery exposed him to ten times the annual safe dose of radiation for a man his size, but he knew of the risk in advance. He only worried the radiation would mutate his genes and adversely affect his children. When Hank was born, he prayed the child would be normal.
“Normal?” Jennifer scoffs. “Let me get this straight. You threw the test so you’d blend in?” Hank reminds her that a B plus is a very respectable mark, but Jennifer reminds him it’s also a big fat lie. She has glimpsed his brilliance before; his brain reminds her of a super-computer on speed. Brilliance is something to share, not hide. Hank insists his intelligence merely places him on the high end of normal, but Jennifer refuses to let it go. “Normal’s not a straitjacket, Hank.”
“You’re right,” he replies, gesturing with one of his mammoth hands. “It’s an anchor.” It’s not an anchor he needs, Jennifer tells him. He’s big, strong, and broad-shouldered; if he just acts like himself, he could become someone unforgettable.
Nearby, the Coach Peppnick berates his football team for their dismal season performance. Think this is a game, he asks? One of his blockers begins to say yeah, it is, but the coach interrupts him. Jump-rope is a game. If they want to play jump-rope, they should go play with the girls! Football demands commitment! He could build a better team by rounding up the guys in the library. The same outspoken blocker claims they are doing their best; Coach Peppnick tells him their best stinks like a rotting corpse!
To make an example, he turns and addresses the first student he sees: Hank McCoy, whom he calls McBean. Hank corrects him. Whatever, the coach says, before telling Hank to come closer. He hands him the football and asks if he knows what it is. “Some kind of oblate spheroid with tapered ends,” Hank replies in earnest. Coach Peppnick tells him to kick it over the goalposts. Supposing it could do no harm, Hank lets go of his books, picks up the ball, and gives it a firm drop-kick. It soars to the other end of the field and, after bouncing off the goalpost, slips through and lands beyond the end-zone.
The coach’s jaw drops; he meant the nearer goalpost. Sorry, Hank says. “No, that’s – absolutely fine,” Coach Peppnick says. “You’re on the team, McFly. Any position you like.” Awestruck, Hank fumbles for a way to deny the offer. However, when one of the players pipes up and asks coach if he really means to put “Monkey-Man McCoy” on the team, Hank changes his mind. What position does he play, he asks the coach? Hank’s antagonistic new teammate tells Hank to run back to the science lab. Actually, he was just about to do that, Hank tells him, until he opened his yawning chasm of a mouth. Now he’ll just have to live with.
“Nice going, mister normal,” Jennifer jokes as she and Hank walk away. It’s only high school football, Hank replies; no one is going to care. Jennifer looks at him with widened eyes. “So that’s what famous last words sounds like. I’ve always wondered,” she says.
As Jennifer predicted, Hank’s excursion into football makes him insanely popular. He leads the school to a surprise victory at the state championship, and his string of broken football records even earns him extensive television coverage. Unfortunately, he also attracts the worst kind of attention. Somewhere, a man with a golden gauntlet clicks off the television after watching a broadcast about Hank. “The gods have spoken,” this mysterious man says. He will find the boy.
As they walk home together after the championship game, Hank’s father lets him know how proud he is of his victories. As long as his grades don’t slip, he fully supports Hank’s foray into football. Hank tells him to relax; with Jennifer as his study buddy, he has nothing to fear. Norton smiles with relief. Jennifer is smart as a whip, after all. He looks down and sees his shoelace has broken, and asks Hank to go on ahead without him.
After returning home, Hank calls out to his mother, but stops mid-sentence when he sees his living room full of people. Surprise, they shout in unison! His mother Edna runs up and gives him a big hug. Congratulations, she says. Hank, grinning uncontrollably, asks his mother how she kept this surprise party a secret. “I’m just plain devious. Your dad didn’t know about my country-western habit until after we were married,” she answers.
Hank enjoys himself as he makes the round at his party, whether it’s relaying the events of the game to his young cousin or waltzing with his grandmother. After the party ends late that night, the exhausted Hank falls right to sleep on top of his bed.
A strange voice wakes him up later. Hank opens his eyes only to see the sharp tip of a sword glimmering in his face. Its bearer, a man in gold armor who calls himself the Conquistador, tells Hank to rise and greet his destiny. He claims to be the last surviving member of Ponce de Leon’s crew who gained immortality after drinking from the fountain of youth. He believes himself favored by the gods, and has chosen Hank as his servant. “You may abase yourself,” he commands.
Hank sighs. He tells the intruder and his stone-faced followers the party is over; it wasn’t even a costume party. They should leave before he calls the police. Spurned, the Conquistador thrusts his sword at Hank and fires a surge of electricity into his chest, propelling him off the bed and into the wall. He has already ordered him to abase himself, and warns Hank not to anger him again. After all, he bears the sword of the Aztec god of fire, Xiuhtecuhtli. Ever hear of Prozac, the god of sanity? Ever speak to him, Hank asks? Likely not understanding this jab at his expense, the Conquistador reveals to Hank he has magically spirited away his parents to a distant kingdom to ensure his obedience. “Mom and dad? Oh my stars and garters,” Hank says, suddenly understanding the situation. “You’re insane.”
He asks what the Conquistador wants from him. The Conquistador has already made his desires clear. Hank submits, and finally abases himself by kneeling at the intruder’s feet. Is this good, he asks? Acceptable, the Conquistador answers. He produces a set of blueprints and drops them at Hank’s feet. He is to break into the nuclear power plant where his father works and steal their cold fusion reactor prototype. The map shows its location. Retrieve it, the Conquistador orders. Hank hesitates. The power plant is heavily guarded; he cannot wander in unescorted. The Conquistador waves his hand at Hank in disappointment. “The gods say – use your strength. Your ingenuity. And your father’s identity card. The rest – they will provide.”
The foot-soldiers pull the defiant Hank to his feet. He agrees to follow the Conquistador’s orders, but asks that he release his parents first. Hank will complete the task for the sake of the gods themselves, if he must. “Just as Cortez imprisoned Atahualpa until the Aztecs brought him his mountain of gold,” the Conquistador says with his back turned, “so your parents will remain at the safe house until you do what the gods demand of you.” The safe house, Hank asks? He was let to believe his parents were in some distant kingdom. “Exactly,” the Conquistador answers. “A safe house in a distant kingdom.”
After the subordinates remove Hank from the bedroom, the Conquistador lifts a fist to the sky and shouts to his gods. “Oh Xiuhtecuhtli, torture me no more,” he yells. “I will make sacrifice to you on a pyre burning with nuclear fires!”
In the hallway outside, Hank asks the Conquistador’s subordinates if they realize they are working for a lunatic. They don’t care; that lunatic, after all, has more money than Donald Trump. They arrive in the basement and Hank gathers up a bag containing several of his father’s things from the lab. The soldiers ask why he needs all this stuff, when he was only ordered to grab his father’s I.D. Have any of them broken into a nuclear power plant before, Hank asks? They have no response. Exactly, Hank says, telling them to back off.
The soldiers drive him to the power plant in an old Buick. They park out of sight and have him approach the gates himself, reminding him of the danger his parents face should he fail. Hank approaches the guards at the gate with confidence and presents his father’s I.D. card. Night shift, one guard asks? Pays the rent, Hank answers. I hear ya, mister McCoy, he says, casually glancing at the I.D. After getting approval, Hank enters, descends in the elevator, and makes his way to the research facility. The security door requires two identity checks for entrance: an I.D. card and a palm-print. After swiping the card, Hank realizes he has reached an impasse. He kicks the door down instead.
With the laboratory breached, the security alarm begins to sound, forcing Hank to move quickly. He finds the locker containing the prototype. After tearing the door open, he tucks the device under his arm, just as the security guards enter and draw their guns. Freeze, they shout! Hank ignores them and takes a running jump out the nearest window. He lands on his feet amidst the broken glass, only to be greeted by yet another squad of security guards. They fire their guns at Hank as he runs toward the barbed-wire fence, but he deftly dodges their bullets and leaps over the fence, free as a bird.
The foot-soldiers can barely believe he survived the assignment. Nevertheless, they start up the engine and make their getaway, passing a trio of police cars en route to the plant as they escape. The safe house turns out to be an abandoned commercial building uptown. Upon entering, Hank sees the Conquistador standing next to his parents, both of whom are bound and gagged. The Conquistador commends Hank on a job well done and asks for the prototype. As Hank hands it to him, he asks for his parents’ release. In good time, the Conquistador says. First, he intends to incorporate this stolen technology into his armor and sword. “So, like Hercules, you have other labors still to perform.”
“Oh yeah?” Hank sneers. “Well Hercules is a Greek myth, you moron. And didn’t anyone ever tell you – Xiuhtecuhtli the fire god hates cheats.” The cold fusion prototype suddenly produces a bright white light, illuminating the room to the point of blindness. Hank, however, knew to cover his eyes. With his enemies now dazzled, he leaps around the room, knocking them unconscious one at a time. Soon only the Conquistador remains. It seems Hank has his own divine patron, he says, firing a bolt of electricity at the young mutant. No, Hank replies, just some wiring and a high-powered bulb from the electronics store. As he lunges at the Conquistador, he asks if he feels stupid for being tricked. If he does, the feeling is nothing compared to how he will feel once Hank finishes with him. He lands on the lunatic’s chest and while holding his sword at bay with one hand, rips off his body armor with the other. Surprisingly, Hank sees it contains several wires and accumulators. He doesn’t have any gods working for him; he only has tricks! Stupid, pathetic tricks. He smashes the Conquistador’s head into the brick wall.
With all the villains neutralized, Hank frees his parents from captivity. Instead of relief and appreciation, however, they greet their son with fear and anxiety. How did Hank do those things? What is he, they ask? “I’m – your son,” Hank answers. His answer does nothing to reassure them, so he continues. He has been reading up on the subject, and thinks he may be a mutant. As he begins to explain Reed Richards’s theory of genetic and environmental triggers, Norton interrupts and says this must be a nightmare. He embraces Edna as she bawls into his chest. Hank may be a mutant, Norton says, but they will work through it as a family. Somehow.
Exasperated, Hank reminds them nothing has changed. He is still Henry McCoy, their son. Why are they acting like this? His father ignores him and continues rambling nervously. They will have to keep this a secret, he says with a solemn look on his face. “I – I don’t…”
Suddenly, both Edna and Norton’s facial expressions change from disappointed to elated. I don’t know how to thank you for changing that wheel for us, Norton says to no one in particular. They could have been stuck here forever had he not helped! The instantly happy married couple smiles and walks out of the building, leaving their son behind without saying a word of goodbye. Hank is stunned; he calls out to them, but for some reason, they don’t seem to hear his voice.
“Best to let them go, Henry McCoy,” a mysterious voice declares. “Your destiny lies elsewhere.” When Hank turns around, he is greeted by the sight of a bald man in a wheelchair, backed by a man with wings, another with an eerie red visor, and another seemingly made of snow. The bald man introduces himself as Charles Xavier, proprietor of a school for people with amazing abilities like Hank’s. He had hoped to arrive earlier, but had difficulty pinpointing his location. These young men with him are his other students. “I hope you’ll consider coming along with us when we leave,” Xavier says. “And in the meantime, I’ve taken the liberty of erasing the fact of your existence from the minds of everyone who ever met you.” Hank approaches Xavier in awe; can he really control people’s minds, he asks? Of course, Xavier answers, but for ethical reasons he only does so as a last resort. In this case, he manipulated the minds of Hank’s friends and family to protect them from the consequences of Hank’s destiny.
After first asking forgiveness for speaking so bluntly, Hank reminds Xavier he is the second person today to wave his destiny in his face. What is he supposedly becoming? Xavier looks at him with icy consternation. He will become a hero and a champion of the mutant race. He will become an X-Man. Hank is speechless, but not from this honor. Instead, he is horrified no one will remember him at all. Professor Xavier asks if he would rather they remembered him with hate, and fear, and regret. In his opinion, it’s better this way. However, if Hank wishes it so, he will change everything back to normal. “It’s your choice,” he tells Hank. “Because it’s your life.”
A great while later, Hank returns to his old neighborhood. He sees Jennifer Nyles walking down the sidewalk with one of the football players. Hank hides his face as they pass, but the gesture is pointless; Jennifer would not remember him anyway. Jennifer, now with blonde hair, giggles and gives her new friend pointers on how to cheat on homework assignments. She then asks if he is coming over tonight. No, he replies; he has football practice. Jennifer tells him to call her anyway; she is all by herself tonight.
After the two pass by, Hank recalls something Jennifer once said to him: Normal’s not a straitjacket, Hank, she said. Just be yourself. You’ll be something pretty unforgettable.


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Sabretooth
That spring in an isolated house, Victor is in the kitchen with his brother, Luther. Victor asks Luther for a bite of the pie he’s eating. Luther tells him that he doesn’t have to, it’s his birthday – the pie’s all his. Enraged, Victor leaps at Luther. As he does, Luther calls out to his ma. While Luther’s mom walks in, she tells them that if the two of them don’t stop acting up, pa will be hearing about… this. Walking into the kitchen, ma is mortified when she witnesses Victor sitting on the ground eating a piece of pie while his brother Luther lies dead next to him. Victor simply states ‘aw ma, we were only playing.’
That fall, in the basement, pa rips out Victor’s sharp teeth with a pair of pliers. While he does, he tells him that he has the devil in him and if he pulls out enough, one day the Satan teeth ain’t gonna come back. Turning to leave, he states that he lost one son to the beast, he ain’t about to go losing another. Once he has left, ma walks over to Victor to wipe the blood off of his mouth. Victor tells her to let him go. Ma replies that she can’t, he’s too strong, he’ll… Victor cuts her off and says don’t be scared of pa, be scared of him. Looking into her son’s dark eyes, ma runs off in fear.
The next spring, Victor is another year older and is chained up in the basement with a cloth around his mouth. After struggling against his bonds, Victor breaks one of the chains free. As he continues to pull against his other chain, Victor discovers that it’s not going to come loose. Eventually, Victor breaks free and escapes the basement and makes his way to the kitchen where his ma and dad are. Holding the pliers in one hand and his hand ripped off on his right hand, Victor tells ma that he told her, she shoulda listened.
With that, Victor viciously attacks his parents and kills them in cold blood. After doing so, Victor sits on the front porch and eats a piece of pie. Stopping for a moment, he says “happy birthday” and proceeds to rush off into the woods.
Years later, Victor is walking the streets of what appears to be a Wild West town. Sniffing the air, Victor sniffs the air and catches a whiff of something from a saloon. Before he enters, a local townsman comes up to him and tells him that it’s good to see him back and asks him if there’s anything at all he could do to make his stay more comfortable. Tossing his fur at the man, Victor tells him to hold it. Entering the saloon, Victor sees a man inside the saloon fighting the men inside. Smiling, Victor joins the battle.
A short time later, the battle has ended and Victor and Logan are sharing a beer together. Logan informs Victor that he knows that he didn’t need the help. Victor replies that he knows he didn’t; he had a feeling that he could look after himself, kinda like he can. Logan responds that ‘you know, bub, you may be onto something.’ Logan then asks Victor what it was to him – playing? Victor says nah, that was just him taking a little exercise. His playing don’t look like no one else’s. He’ll know when he starts playing.
Victor then asks Logan what started the fight. When Logan tells him that someone made jokes, Victor states that comedians always got it coming. Logan remarks that certain jokes just get him a little ornery, ‘specially ones that concern a lady. Victor smirks and says yeah, it’s always a lady. Just then, an attractive Indian girl enters the saloon and says to Logan that this won’t make it any easier. Logan stands up and tells her, Silver Fox not to worry. It’s all gonna be fine, they just needed a few points of good manners explained by him and his new friend.
Victor Creed then introduces himself as such and says that he’s charmed. Putting his arm around Silver Fox, Logan tells Creed that he’ll see him around and that if a guy ever comes at him with a chair, he’ll know who to call. Creed says to Logan that he reckons he does and warns him to be careful; she’s a real pretty one. She’ll make him feel bad eventually, they always do.
Months later, Logan walks into the saloon carrying a dead Silver Fox in his arms. Drinking at the bar, Creed tells him that he told him so and happy birthday. With that, the rage builds up in Logan and a brutal, vicious battle begins between Creed and Logan. Over time, Creed is the victor and stands alone.
Many years later, Victor Creed is in the office of a young lady. She proceeds to ask him her one last question. The work will be regularly as black as any CIA-affiliated op gets. Is he absolutely certain that he doesn’t have any moral issues? Creed replies that he has no morals at all. Shaking his hand, the lady tells him congratulations and welcome to Team X. They’re honored to have him, his record is outstanding. When it comes to deniable operations, there’s few who have a comparable resume. Creed tells her that that… he is “not going to deny.”
She then adds that it’s lucky – another successful candidate is in the building. It’s probably best that they meet; they’ll be spending a lot of time together. She then opens the door to her office and introduces Creed to… Before she can get out Logan’s name, Logan proceeds to punch Creed in the jaw. As he gets up, Creed remarks to Logan that he was wondering where he got his licked self off to. He sees that he’s still an uppity little fella and asks if he’s come for his present early. Logan tells him that things have changed and continues to punch away at Creed. He was young and stupid back then. Responding back with a punch to Logan’s jaw, Creed tells him ‘and whupped.’ He then adds that he, Logan, can change the other two all he likes but the third ain’t ever gonna go anywhere.
At that moment, as the two of them battle, the young lady calls out for tranquilizers, nets, nerve gas, bazooka, and a tank if they can get it up the stairs. Standing next to a colleague she mentions that this confirms suspicions that the two subjects share a personal history. Observing the two men take on the guards and still try to go after each other, the man states that it’s probably a good idea they were planning on wiping their memories.
Two years and two mind wipes later, Logan, Creed, and Christoph Nord are enjoying some drinks at a local bar. Seeing Nord passed out, Creed remarks what else is new, Nord can’t drink worth a damn. Clinking their glasses together, Logan tells him to play fair, he doesn’t drink as well as they do, no one drinks as well as them. Downing their drinks, Creed says exactly, he can’t drink worth a damn. Once they finish, Logan recalls earlier in the day when Creed saved him from being killed. He says to Creed that he was there, if he wasn’t…
Creed cuts him off and tells not to worry. That’s what he’s there for. He’ll always be there for him. Now quit it, he’s gettin’ him all sentimental. Pouring another drink, Logan states that it’s a good day and it’s even his birthday. Creed asks his birthday? They should celebrate properly and proceeds to punch Logan across the face. Picking himself up off the floor, Logan asks Creed what that was all about. Punching him again, Creed tells him he has no idea but doesn’t it feel right?
Some years later in West Berlin, Creed is in a bar. After he finishes telling the bartender he can have the bottle back after he’s finished with it and that he’s celebrating, Logan walks in and yells his name. Logan proceeds to ask him what in damnation’s name’s going through that dumb skull of his. Creed replies that he’s thinking he’s thirsty and he’s thinking of a drink. He should try it.
Smacking the drink out of Creed’s hand, Logan tells him that he’s seen him do just about the craziest things. He’s seen him shoot guys in the back, guys who weren’t armed, guys who’d surrendered, torture people who’ve already given up all they know “just to be sure.” And it all slides off of him, how can he sit there and…? Creed cuts him off and informs him that he’s just at home with who he is – he should try it sometime, he’d feel better.
Logan angrily tells him damn it, Janice Hollenbeck was the extraction target. That doesn’t mean extracting his damn slugs from her body. He, Creed, shot her for no good reason whatsoever. Creed calmly tells him nope, he had his reasons. Only problem is, he, little man, can’t work out what it is. Enraged Logan slams Creed’s head into the bar. Picking his bloody face up off the bar, Creed mutters at last and proceeds to throw Logan face first down the bar.
After five minutes extreme violence, Logan tells Creed that he gives up and asks him why he did it. Creed replies hasn’t he looked at the calendar – happy birthday. Creed adds that he, Logan, always needs to be talked around to doing what they both know he wants to. This time, he didn’t need to wrestle with himself. It’s just his li’l present. Looking at Creed, Logan tells him that Team X, everything, he’s out, he’s done. He then tells him to stay out of his way. As he walks out the door, Creed tells him that he’ll see him in twelve “bub.”
Around ten birthdays later, Logan finds himself in another bar. The pretty barkeep asks him if she can do anything for the mysterious guy glooming up her bar stool. Logan tells her yeah and hands her a wad of bills. He then tells her to take it and disappear for the rest of the night. It’s his birthday and he’s expecting some company, he’ll need some privacy. The barkeep tells him okay and goes to leave. Thumbing through the money she tells him that she was alone for her last birthday and that’s just no fun. Looking at her with a solemn look on his face, Logan tells her to hurry up. This isn’t the sort of party you’d like to crash.
Just then, Creed arrives and they share pleasantries. Sitting down next to Logan, Creed asks him if he wants to skip the usual preliminaries and get straight down to seeing how many teeth he can fit down his throat. Logan tells him that he’s not fighting him tonight. He’s there because he liked him, Creed, once and he’s stopping this. He should too. Hell, did ever think about giving this sadist thing a break? Creed replies by asking Logan if he ever thinks about giving it a real try. He’d like it, they both know he’d like it. Logan tells him he’s wrong, it’s over and goes to walk out the door.
Creed tells him this is never over. The two of them will never stop fighting. He, Logan, loves fighting, he just needs an excuse. Logan tells him that he’s wrong and there isn’t a damn thing he can do to start him. Creed calmly asks Logan if he remembers Silver Fox. When Logan stops in his tracks but doesn’t turn around, Creed remarks that he thought not. He does though, she was real good. He then tells Logan that’s all the excuse he’s gonna need and he knows he gave him plenty more, just because he’s thorough like that. He was only saving time, he’d have done the same thing to that little girl eventually – it’s in their blood.
Enraged, Logan pops his adamantium claws. When he does, Creed tells him it’s the most natural thing in the world. As they square off again, he says this ain’t fighting, this ain’t even killing. This is just playing.


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Wolverine
A young James Howlett stands over his dead parents and a girl named Rose yelled out “James”.
Xavier’s Narration: The Howlett Estate. Canada, 19th century.“The memories are like shattered glass. Fragments of a shattered life. Like flashes from a nightmare that never fade completely. But can never be remembered in full. In one instant, the child’s entire existence changes. The smell of the blood, of the gunpowder…even in these lost memories, his incredible senses are like beacons. The sound of a girl’s scream, her red shimmering hair, the smell of her fear…it shocks him back to reality. But to the child, reality itself is now the nightmare. Everything he knew, everything he was is gone. Only the animal remains.”
Many years later:Wolverine is woken by a soldier. He is in a plane over Canada. He is told to suit up, he is about to be dropped to his next target. While Wolverine gets ready the soldiers call him a mutant and an animal. They say they would all be better off if he got killed. It does not go unheard by Wolverine’s keen sense of hearing. As he falls from the plane he says to himself in response to their suggestion “Here’s hoping.”When Wolverine returns to Department H headquarters his commanding officer, Major Chasin, is furious that Wolverine did not kill his target. “You’re not a man, you’re a killer. And if we tell you to kill someone, you be a good little dog and kill them!” Chasin says to Wolverine who in turn grabs Chasin, pops his claws and says, “You don’t know what I am.” Soldiers draw their weapons and Chasin tells Wolverine to stand down or they will put him down like the animal he is.
Flashback to the 19th Century:James Howlett is hunting down a deer with a pack of wolves.“More fragments. The hunt, a rush of adrenaline, the fear of the prey. He pushes down the older memories, the trauma of the violent loss of his parents, of realizing that he isn’t human. His mind simply could not cope. He loses himself to the animal. At seventeen he is more beast than man. Life is simpler that way. The pack hunts. They feed. The pain fades. But he’s still haunted by the screams, the nightmare he can’t remember.”
Xavier continues to narrate the events of Wolverine’s past. Years later Wolverine was face down in the snow when he was approached by a man and two soldiers. The soldiers shot Wolverine down. He was taken into the Weapon X program where they gave him an adamantium skeleton. They wiped his memory and trained him to be an ultimate killer. All he could remember of his past was a name, Logan. They tried to control him but they did so in vain. Wolverine’s animal side took over and he went into a berserker rage killing everything he could find.
After killing everything he could in the Weapon X facility, Wolverine wandered the cold snow covered wilderness of Canada. He stumbled onto a house where he was found by a woman. For a moment he saw her as Rose, the girl from his past. She was Heather Hudson. She and her husband James took Wolverine in and got him well. James brought him to Department H. James was starting a super hero team called Alpha Flight. But while James was still assembling that team Major Chasin used Wolverine as an assassin. Heather started to worry because Wolverine was getting distant. Due to all the killing assignments Wolverine could feel that he was losing control again.
Later:Wolverine is lying in his room at Department H when is told to come to Major Chasin’s office to meet someone. When he arrives he is introduced to Professor Charles Xavier. Chasin tells Xavier he has five minutes. Xavier tells Wolverine he wants him to join his school and work for him. Chasin gets angry and calls in guards to throw Xavier out. Xavier freezes everyone with his mind except Wolverine. Xavier tells Wolverine he will help him recover his past if he agrees to come with him. When Xavier lets everyone go Wolverine tells Chasin he quits.As Wolverine and Xavier leave, Chasin calls someone and says “Wolverine is off the reservation. He’s all yours.” When Wolverine and Xavier arrive at the jet they both sense something is wrong. The jet blows up and soldiers surround the two men. One soldier yells out, “Tranq Weapon X. Put the collar on Xavier.” Wolverine doesn’t understand and Xavier explains that Weapon X turns mutants into weapons. Xavier has a concussion and can’t use his powers. Xavier says that his powers could kill and that he can’t be captured. He asks Wolverine to kill him but Wolverine says he will kill all of them instead.
While Wolverine is fighting off the soldiers he sees Xavier being captured. Wolverine goes into his animalistic rage and massacres the soldiers. Xavier sees firsthand the violence Wolverine has within him. “This was violence as a force of nature. This was evolution. Nature had created a creature that was a perfect killer. And man had found a way to make it better. This was death indiscriminate and uncaring. The man called Logan was gone. He had given in to the animal that he hated so much. And the animal wasn’t done killing.”
In his rage Wolverine tries to kill Xavier. Xavier tells Wolverine he is a man not an animal and he can control it. Wolverine is able to overcome his rage and not kill Xavier. When they finally reach Xavier’s school Wolverine is introduced to the X-Men. Xavier tells him “You believe yourself an outcast? A monster? Hated and feared by those around you? Then I say welcome home. Welcome to the X-Men.”


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Gambit: Random Acts of Redemption
Remy’s narration:On the streets of New Orleans a young Remy LeBeau watches a young blonde girl walking and eating an ice-cream cone. He is admiring her composure as she walks with proud arrogance. Suddenly he notices three men in suits attack the girl. He kicks one in the face but the other two are taken down knives thrown in their chests by the girl. The Girl was Bella Donna Boudreaux, Princess of the New Orleans Assassins Guild. “We were eight years old. And it was love at first sight.”
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Remy is telling this story to his adoptive father, Jean-Luc LeBeau head of the New Orleans Thieves’ Guild. They are preparing for Remy’s wedding where he will marry Bella Donna. Jean-Luc reminds Remy that today is more than his wedding day. The marriage also acts as a peace treaty between the Assassins and Thieves Guilds. Jean-Luc also tells Remy he is afraid for him. “You have a romantic streak. A perverse weakness for gallantry. A thief should be pragmatic, above all things. Not yield to sentiment. Not run to the rescue of imperiled damsels, or waste his time buying redemption with random acts of kindness.” Remy reminds his father he did the same by adopting him.
After the wedding, Remy is attacked by Bella Donna’s brother, Julien. Julien hates the fact that his sister has married a thief and believes it is an obscenity to the Assassins. He does not want his family name defiled anymore and challenges Remy to duel to the death. Remy accepts and hands the priest a deck of cards to hold on to and tells him he will be back later to sign the register.
Remy’s father tries to convince him to deny the challenge but Remy refuses. Here Remy tells his father that he has been feeling something, a pressure, building in him lately. Jean-Luc gives him advice on what to watch for and wishes his son luck.
The duel is with sword and dagger. Julien is obviously the better swordsman due to his training. He insults Remy during the bout. Finally Julien is able to maneuver Remy’s sword from him. In response, Remy throws his dagger at Julien impaling his shoulder. Remy didn’t notice that his mutant powers had manifested during the duel and he had charged the dagger with kinetic energy. The dagger explodes killing Julien.
Jean-Luc and Marius Boudreaux, Bella Donna and Julien’s father, King of the Assassins Guild, debate whether the kill was fair or not. Bella Donna pleads with her father to show mercy to her husband. When Jean-Luc comes to tell Remy the decision Remy is ready to accept the punishment, even if it means his death. His father informs him that they don’t want his life but for him to be exiled from New Orleans. Remy is furious and finds out that the exile was due to his wife’s pleading. Remy is mad at Bella Donna but she asks to go with him. He tells her no, saying that she would end up hating him for taking her from her guild and family and then he leaves.
In some secluded snowy mountains Remy is discussing a deal with Nathaniel Essex, a.k.a. Sinister. Remy has lost control of his powers. He can’t control how much he charges objects and they become highly volatile explosives. Sinister agrees to help him but for a price. Sinister has heard of Remy’s reputation as a master thief and one that will accept any job. Sinister wonders what it is Remy is looking for or running from. Remy says he is not doing either. “A thief has to be pragmatic, Dat’s all. If de price is right, I’ll do de job. I got no use for sentiment.”
Sinister agrees to help Remy. To do so, Sinister performs brain surgery on Remy and cuts out a small piece of the section of his brain that produces Remy’s powers to keep them under control. Unfortunately Remy had to be awake during this so Sinister would know which part to cut on.In return Remy begins recruiting other mutants for Sinister. These mutants include Sabretooth, Vertigo, Scalphunter, Riptide, Harpoon, Malice and Scrambler. Afterwards, Remy says he is done. Sinister retorts he still owes him one more thing. He wants Remy to lead his new team of Marauders to the lair of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who live in the sewers of New York City. Sinister tosses Remy a vial containing the piece of brain he cut out and says once he does what Sinister asked he will be done.
Once they are close enough to the lair Scalphunter sends Sabretooth ahead to scout. When the rest of the team catchtes up with Sabretooth they find that he has already killed one of the Morlocks. Remy is infuriated and demands to know why they were sent there. Scalphunter tells Remy his job is done and orders him to leave. Remy refuses and attacks the Marauders. Vertigo stuns him and Sabretooth catches Remy and jabs his claws into him, seriously injuring him. The Marauders leave Remy to die in the sewers.
Remy regains his strength and makes his way to the Morlocks lair where he is horrified to see the Marauders massacring them. While the Marauders leave to find more Morlocks Remy finds a woman and her daughter still alive. The woman begs Remy to rescue her daughter Sarah. Remy wants to save them both but the woman’s legs are pinned down by debris and broken. He promises her that her daughter will live.Remy carries Sarah to the surface where they are found by a policeman. While the policeman radios for an ambulance Remy tells him to look after the girl. When the policeman turns around Remy has disappeared.
Remy makes his way to a bridge where he falls onto a garbage boat.
Months later, Remy is sneaking his way through a building recalling the words of his father. “I’m afraid for you, Remy. You have a romantic streak. A perverse weakness for gallantry. A thief should be pragmatic, above all things. Not yield to sentiment. Not run to the rescue of imperiled damsels, or waste his time buying redemption with random acts of kindness.”
Suddenly Remy sees a young Storm being attacked by the Shadow King’s servant Lian Shen and two of his Hounds. Remy steps in between Storm and the trio. Lian tells Remy Storm is theirs and that he should leave and forget what he saw. Gambit’s reply: “Got a lot to forget already, Chere. More than you could ever know. Let’s make dis a night to remember …


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The Icy Beginning!
Fort Washington, Long Island, a nice suburb, clean-cut, green, tidy. The home of William and Madeline Drake. Loving wife and mother Madeline is in the kitchen, ‘Hush little boy… da-da-dee… da-da-dum…’ she sings to herself while preparing some sandwiches. She then calls out to her 12-year-old son, ‘Bobby? Lunch, kiddo! Come on, enough - swim…ming…? Bobby?’ Madeline goes wide-eyed and her jaw drops as she looks up from the sandwiches and out the window, where she sees Bobby in the swimming pool, which is now complete solid ice, with Bobby trapped in it waist-down. ‘I… I don’t know what happened. I just thought it. And then… help! Help me, Mommy’ Bobby calls out, scared.
Later, night has fallen, and Bobby has been freed from the frozen pool. He sits on the edge of his bed, with Madeline and his side. His father William stands away from them, hands on his hips. ‘The first thing you should know is… you haven’t done anything wrong and this isn’t your fault, son’ William tells Bobby. Madeline tells her son that they have seen on the news, stories about other people like him. ‘Like me?’ Bobby asks. ‘Who can do things… like you do. Who are special’ Madeline explains. ‘What’s wrong with me? Tell me, Dad’ Bobby asks. William sits down beside his son and explains that the news calls these special people “mutants”. ‘Which, if you are, it doesn’t mean we don’t love you’ Madeline assures Bobby. ‘Because we do, Bobby. It just means… you’re going to have to be very careful… for the rest of your life’ William adds.
Later again, Bobby stands in front of a full-length mirror. ‘My name is Bobby Drake and I’m not like anyone you’ve ever met’ he thinks to himself. ‘I can do things no one else on the planet can’. He points at the mirror, sensing moisture in the air, he can feel the water and he freezes it - covering the mirror and part of the wall in solid ice. He clenches his fists and concentrates hard as he collects the sweat on his body, and literally turns into a man of snow and ice. He grins with pleasure. ‘Pretty cool, right?’ he thinks to himself. ‘Pretty amazing’.
Another day, at school, ‘Bobby? Bobby Drake? Earth to Bobby…’ a girl sitting across the table from Bobby smiles. ‘Sorry, I was just…daydreaming, I guess’ Bobby replies. ‘About what?’ the girl asks. ‘Nothing important, Judy’ Bobby tells her. Judy smiles and tells Bobby that he is getting introspective in his old age. ‘Old age, right. Just ‘cause it’s my birthday -’ Bobby begins, ‘Tomorrow, I know’ Judy interrupts, before asking Bobby what they are going to do to celebrate. ‘Uhm…’ Bobby begins, when suddenly a voice calls out: ‘Hey, Drake!’ Bobby and Judy turn to see a guy leaning out of a car window.
‘Rocky Beasley. God, I hate that -’ Bobby begins, before Judy calms him down. ‘Sweet girl you got there, Drake! You taking care of her?’ Rocky calls out. ‘Because if you aren’t, we’ll take care of her. All of us. Happily!’ ‘Woo-Hoo!’ he shouts as the car speeds off, with the driver giving a hand-signal out the other window. Bobby stands up, frowning, Judy tells him that it is okay, as they are idiots. Bobby’s fists are clenched, blue almost. ‘Hey, did you feel that?’ Judy asks, hugging herself. ‘What?’ Bobby asks. ‘It got cold all of a sudden’ Judy tells him.
Later again, Madeline sits on the sofa in her living room and watches the television, where the talk show host, Tom, introduces the audience to educator and mutant advocate, Charles Xavier. ‘There’s been a lot of debate recently about the so-called “mutant problem” -’ Tom begins, before Xavier interrupts him: ‘The words you’re using, calling mutants a “problem”…it’s reductive and dehumanizing, Tom. It’s the language of racism and oppression… I hate to say it, Tom, but you, yourself, are encouraging hatred and violence against the world’s mutant population’.Madeline watches intently, ‘Do you know a lot about this man, Bobby? This… doctor, or whatever he is?’ she asks, but turning to look away from the television, she sees that Bobby has vanished. ‘Where did you go?’ Madeline calls out.
But Bobby is upstairs in his room. He climbs out the window, thinking to himself that ever night, there are reports about mutant-bashing, which is why he has started practicing, and he turns himself into ice. He slides along on an ice-sled, smiling, through the woods that he used to play hide-and-seek in when he was a kid. Now, these woods are where he hones his “special gift”, where he trains in the use of his power - though for what, he is not sure.
Shortly, the ice has gone from Bobby’s body, and he walks down a street, where hateful slogans have been spray painted onto buildings - “Kill all mutants” “Die, mutants, die”. Bobby narrows his eyes, and thinks to himself that Fort Washington is a nice, safe place - he knows that - but even here, he can feel it getting more and more tense. He walks towards Marie’s Diner, and sees Rocky’s car parked out the front. He sees Rock and his friends sitting in a booth, purposely tipping their food onto the table as they harass the waitress. ‘More dangerous’ Bobby decides. ‘Like the time for little gestures… is ending’. Bobby then uses his powers to freeze the wheels on Rocky’s car, and casually walks away, hands in his jacket pockets, whistling.
Bobby goes to a high point in the town and looks out over the suburbs, the lights from the houses shining in the darkness. He wonders about other “special” people like him - the other so-called mutants. ‘How many of them are there? And where? Living lives of fear and quiet desperation? Well, whatever. I’m not like them. Like the ones on the news. I’m not a freak. I’m not pathetic. I’m normal. I’m good-looking. People are jealous of me. People - people love me’ he thinks to himself. He returns home, and sneaks back into his bedroom through the window. He sits down at his desk and picks up the phone. ‘Judy? I’ve been thinking about my birthday. You know how they show old movies at the community center sometimes?’
Later, Bobby and Judy sit with some locals at the community center and watch a film. “We fought hard for this turf and we ain’t gonna give it up” the cast on screen calls out. “The war council or me!”. “I’ll let Bernado know. I’m not one of ‘em, Maria”. Bobby then casually yawns and puts his arm around Judy’s shoulders. “But you are not one of us, and I am not one of you”. Judy looks at Bobby’s hand, then smiles, letting him leave it wrapped around her. “To me, you’re all beautiful!”
Bobby and Judy leave the community center when the film finishes, but as they walk down the street, Judy asks Bobby to stop for a second. ‘Something wrong?’ Bobby asks her. ‘Nothing, silly’ Judy replies as she leans in and kisses Bobby on the lips. Bobby looks at Judy and tells her to listen to him. ‘Before we go any further, I have to tell you something about my -’ he starts to say, before a voice calls out ‘Well, well, well. Look who’s finally getting some action!’ It’s Rocky and his friends. They walk towards Bobby and Judy, and Rocky asks ‘Is that sweetness just for Drake, babe, or can we have some sugar, too?’
‘Bobby?’ Judy calls out nervously. Bobby tells her to get behind him, and he holds an arm out in front of her. ‘Sorry, Drake, you’re not my type’ Rocky declares, before ordering his friends to grab Bobby. They do so, while Rocky puts his arms on Judy. ‘Dammit, Beasley -’ Bobby shouts. ‘You don’t wanna do this, I’m telling you’ he warns the bully. Bobby can smell the alcohol on their breaths - they are drunk. ‘You’re telling me? You think you can back that up, Drake?’ Rocky asks, grinning. ‘Oh yeah - I can back that up’ Bobby replies, as he starts thinking cool thoughts, and two of the bullies who are holding onto him suddenly find their hands frozen over with ice. ‘How?’ one of them asks. ‘It’s Drake - Drake’s doing it!’ one of the others shouts.
Bobby knows that this goes against everything his parents taught him about hiding his powers - but these are desperate times. ‘Judy - down!’ Bobby calls out, as he fires a beam of ice at Rocky, and starts to freeze the bully in solid ice. ‘OMIGOD!’ Rocky calls out, then again and again, as he becomes trapped inside a block of ice. ‘You - you killed him!’ one of the other bullies exclaims. ‘Freak, you murdered him!’ another shouts, while the third suggests they get out of here. ‘No.No, he’s not - not -’ Bobby calls out, while Judy hugs herself and asks ‘Bobby… what are you? What did you do?’
Bobby suddenly realizes that it is over - the life that he knew - there is no going back. Bobby tells Judy that Rocky isn’t dead, as there is air trapped inside with him. ‘And once the ice around his body melts -’ Bobby begins to explain, while a wide-eyed Judy gasps ‘Oh, God - you…y ou’re one of them, aren’t you?’ Bobby reaches out for Judy, she can’t even say the word, as if it is dirty. ‘Judy, please, you have to understand -’ Bobby begins, but Judy pulls him away and tells him not to touch her, while calling him a freak. A look of despair falls across Bobby’s face. Judy’s words cut like a knife, stabbing him in the stomach. Judy begins to cry, ‘I’m sorry, but I just can’t!’ she tells him. ‘Ever be with you. Ever love you. Ever even talk to you again’ is what Bobby imagines she wants to say. Judy suggests to Bobby that he get out of here, as Rocky’s friends will tell people about this. ‘They’ll tell people, and they’ll come for you, Bobby’ she warns him.
Bobby leaves, streaking through the night on an ice-sled, back to the only place he has left. Bobby knows that in some places, in some small towns, mutants have been killed, lynched, by bloodthirsty, terrified mobs. ‘Mom? Dad?’ Bobby calls out as he opens the door. ‘Bobby?’ Madeline calls out, standing up from the sofa. ‘Son?’ William asks. Bobby rushes over to them and tells his parents that he did something tonight, something terrible. ‘Oh God’ Madeline utters, while William asks Bobby if he did it in front of anyone, if anyone saw. ‘I…I had to. They…they were gonna hurt Judy’ Bobby explains. ‘Oh my God, William…’ Madeline utters, while William tells his son that they have to get out of here, and instructs him to get upstairs and pack.
Bobby does as he is told, and starts to pack a suitcase. He remembers seeing a news report a couple of weeks ago about mutants - about how when they are discovered, most mutants kill themselves - slit open their veins or take whole bottles of sleeping pills, out of fear. ‘That is not going to be me. That is not -’ Bobby tells himself, before seeing a light flash outside. He goes over to the window, and sees police officers pull up outside his house. ‘Oh, my God’ he utters. Bobby rushes down the stairs, ‘Mom - Dad - it’s too late - they’re already here!’ he calls out, before suggesting that he can pull together a wall of ice around the whole house - but as he reaches the living room, he finds the police already in the house. ‘Mom? Dad?’ he calls out to them. Madeline tells her son that the police are going to protect him, that they have promised they are going to keep him safe.
‘Safe. Right… tell that to the mob outside’ Bobby thinks to himself sometime later as he finds himself in a jail cell. He creates a small ice-step so that he can peer out the bar windows, where he sees a mob rallied outside the jail, protesting against Bobby. Madeline and William stand nearby. ‘My God, William, they want to kill him! We shouldn’t have handed him over’ Madeline wails. ‘Over my dead body will they touch a hair on Bobby’s head’ William assures Madeline.Suddenly, a bright red beam shatters open the wall to Bobby’s cell. ‘What now?’ Bobby wonders, turning, he sees a young man wearing a blue and yellow costume, with a visor standing in the rubble. He extends a hand to the frightened young man. ‘Oh, this can’t be good’ Bobby decides, while the new arrival tells him to hurry. ‘I’ve been on the receiving end of a pitchfork, and let me tell you - it sucks’.
‘I - I don’t know who you are, or what you’re after, but if you think I’m going anywhere with you, you’re nuts!’ Bobby replies. The man in the blue and yellow - Cyclops - sighs. ‘I told the Professor you’d be trouble’ he remarks, before firing a small optic blast towards Bobby. ‘This is for your own good’ Cyclops tells him. ‘Are you kidding?’ Bobby exclaims as he darts out of the way. ‘Something you’ll learn about me? I don’t kid’ Cyclops tells Bobby as he grabs him. ‘Hey, pal - do me a favor and cool it!’ Bobby replies as he encases Cyclops in a block of ice. ‘Ugh. Lame one-liner’ he thinks to himself, but at least his powers do their trick. ‘Nice try, Drake, but my optic blasts beat your ice any day of the week!’ Cyclops declares as he easily blasts his way free from the ice.
Backing out of the cell into the adjoining alleyway, Bobby tells Cyclops that he has never tried to freeze someone from the inside-out. ‘I wonder how it would work’ he remarks, when suddenly, he hears a voice inside his head. ‘That’s enough, young man’. ‘You jerk! We’re trying to help you, but if we need to get tough -’ Cyclops begins, about to fire another optic blast, when he also hears a voice: ‘You too, Scott’. Both Bobby and Scott turn to see Professor Charles Xavier enter the alleyway in his wheelchair. ‘I believe this evening doesn’t have to degenerate into violence. Further violence’ Charles tells the young men, while Bobby realizes that he recognizes this guy from television - the “mutant expert”.
‘Not just an expert, Bobby. I, too, am a mutant’ Charles reveals, explaining that he is a telepath who has just “prodded” the mob in front of the jail to disperse peacefully and forget all about young Bobby. ‘You…you van do that for real?’ Bobby asks, rubbing his head. ‘Can and did, my young friend’ Charles replies, adding that he sent Bobby’s parents home as well. ‘Why? What do you want from me?’ Bobby enquires. Charles informs Bobby that he has been tracking his development from afar for a while now, and that he is here to make him an offer. ‘I want you to join my X-Men’ he explains. Charles tells Bobby that he runs a school in Westchester County, for people with their sort of abilities - and Cyclops, Scott, is his first pupil. Charles informs Bobby that at his school, he will be trained, his powers honed and he will learn how to use them to fight against the people who would destroy them.
‘This is crazy. This is -’ Bobby thinks to himself, before telling the Professor that his Mom and Dad would never - ‘I mean, I can’t just leave them’ he points out. ‘Mama’s boy’ Cyclops mutters quietly. ‘Scott’ Charles scolds him, before informing Bobby that he would make it so that his parents know nothing about his powers. ‘So that they think you’re merely a student at my school for…I call them “Gifted Youngsters”’. Bobby knows that the Professor is telling the truth, he knows it in his heart, as insane as it sounds. ‘But if you do that, then…they won’t really know me, will they? My Mom and Dad? We’ll be strangers to each other’ Bobby points out. ‘You’ll learn, Robert, that sometimes… sometimes it’s better for our loved ones not to know’ Charles explains. Bobby looks sad, but he knows that the Professor is right. And decides that it is time his parents stopped living in fear, and he embraced what he has been preparing for all these years. ‘You said something about the “X-Men”, Professor? What’s an “X-Man”?’ Bobby asks. ‘My dear boy…you are’ Charles smiles.
All that is left then, is for Bobby to say goodbye. Firstly to his parents, who are now suddenly, completely unaware that he is a mutant. Charles and Scott wait by the car as Bobby and his parents spend their last moments together. Then, to Judy, who doesn’t remember about Rocky attacking them or what came after, and then, as they pass a sign that says “Now leaving Fort Washington. Come back soon”, Bobby says goodbye to the life he knew. ‘Bob? Earth to Bob-oh!’ Cyclops calls out as he drives the car. ‘What, Summers?’ Bobby snaps. ‘For the record? What you’re feeling right now? It’ll pass’ Scott assures Bobby.
But for Bobby, it doesn’t pass, it just becomes something else, and soon they arrive at a sprawling mansion. ‘Wow. This is… I mean, wow’ Bobby utters as he gets out of the car and looks around. Scott offers to give Bobby a tour, but Charles suggests that Bobby explore the grounds himself - as Iceman. ‘Isn’t that what you were thinking?’ Charles asks. Looking somewhat sheepish, Bobby replies ‘Maybe. I don’t know. Yeah. I guess’. ‘By all means, then, do’ Charles tells his new student. Bobby smiles and thinks cool thoughts - he is not afraid. He switches into his Iceman appearance, and takes off on an ice-slide to explore. Scott smiles and tells the Professor that Bobby really moves on that thing. Charles smiles and remarks that this is an historic day for them. ‘Where there was only one… now there are two’ he points out.
Very shortly, Bobby has created a huge ice-slide across the grounds of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. Bobby smiles, and thinks to himself ‘My name is Bobby Drake and I’m not like anyone else you’ve ever met. Or maybe I am. I’m a mutant. And, I guess, soon to be an X-Man. Whatever that is’….