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The Gene-Nation
In the present, Cable and
Jean Grey are strapped into an amplifying machine, with the purpose to pass on a message to the time-displaced X-Men.
In the past in Israel,
Charles and Magnus chat and drink before get into a bar brawl whilst defending an disabled war veteran. Meanwhile, posing
as Xavier, Legion seduces his own mother. Xavier mentally hears her cries of agony and he and Magnus rush to the hospital
to find Legion waiting for them. Cable reaches his teammates in the past just long enough to pass on a message to Bishop before
being pulled back to the present.
Archangel is called to a crime scene at a dance club, where many people have been killed,
presumably by mutants, who “signed” their work. Bishop and Beast, while exiting a movie, are distracted by what
they thought was a shooting star, but was a near dead Juggernaut, falling from the sky. At
the same time, Jean’s father talks to Jean about Sara and how she would be proud of her. After the meeting, Jean and
Scott are watched by a dark figure, which thinks about how they have changed since joining Xavier. While Beast and Bishop
are checking on Juggernaut’s condition, Psylocke arrives to lend a hand.
Suddenly, Cain revives and in a panic attacks them. After calming down, he wonders why the X-Men are in Canada, but when Beast tells him he’s in New
Jersey, he goes berserk, realizing he has been tossed from one country to another. After Bishop finally
calms him down again, Cain tells them who attacked him: Onslaught.
Iceman and Rogue are stuck
on the side of the road with a flat tire; Bobby gives her a hard time about it and offers to make a spare with his powers.
She tells him no powers on the trip. So they start down the road. Archangel is confronted
by Psylocke in the danger room about being distracted about what he saw in the club, but they are interrupted by a just awoken
Gambit, who wants to know where Rogue is.
Cannonball takes Sabretooth out for a run but Creed smells Wolverine, who tells Creed that he is watching him. Storm arrives and
takes Sam and Logan to the city to check something. At the CNBC building, Beast
confronts Trish Tilby about her broadcast about the
legacy virus and she ends up putting the blame on the X-Men for the mob death of a mutant. As she starts to apologies, Beast
leaves. At city hall, Graydon Creed talks to a crowd about the club massacre the night before. While at the city morgue, Storm,
Wolverine, Cannonball, and Detective Jones talk to a doctor about the bodies. He starts to explain what’s wrong with
them, when Wolverine attacks him. From the body of the doctor rises Sack,
who was hiding in him. Storm wants to question him but they are interrupted by Vessel, who says they are both members of Gene Nation and, if they have to, they’ll kill the X-Men
Psylocke takes a clandestine
tour through Gambit’s mind, but Remy spots her and warns her to keep out. He doesn’t want his secrets revealed
just yet. In New York, Storm, Cannonball, Wolverine
and Detective Charlotte Jones are faced with a new threat coming from two mutants, who say they are members of a previously
unheard of group called Gene Nation, which promises to kill one hundred humans for every mutant they have killed.
Cannonball takes on Sack,
while the stronger Vessel faces Wolverine and Storm. They disrupt a Friends of Humanity rally, and Beast steps in to save
Graydon Creed from a chunk of masonry thrown by Vessel. He then watches, as Storm proceeds to use her lighting powers to release
the ‘lights’ inside Vessel, while Cannonball manages to prevent absorption by Sack by smashing them both into
the ground. Vessel and Sack manage to escape, leaving Storm to swear they will pay
for their crimes. Meanwhile, in Millstone, Arizona, Rogue and Iceman stop at a saloon while their car is fixed and Rogue passes
on her regards to Grey Crow to the waitress, a man who hasn’t worked there for six years, which is when Gambit also
used to work there.
Crimson Dawn
When Sean returned to the
school, Emma Frost let him have a piece of her mind for the way he had treated her and hit
him in the face. Eventually, they made up, though, and the two headmasters continued their supervision of their teenage charges'
through several bizarre adventures. Upon learning that Siryn had lost her fight, her vocal
cords being severed in a fight with Feral, Banshee rushed
to X-Force's new headquarters in San Francisco to stand by her side, but he found that his daughter wanted
to spend some time alone to deal with her loss. Instead of turning to him, who once had gone through the same ordeal, she
went to live with a distant aunt.
At some point around Christmas, Black Tom and Juggernaut attacked them with
their newest charge, the real Mondo (as opposed to the clone that had been living with
Generation X for some time). Mondo wanted revenge against Emma's sister, Cordelia,
who had sold him out and Tom as usually wanted revenge against Sean. Generation
X beat them back but the villains escaped and Sean was left with the somber thought that, after his daughter,
Theresa, Tom now had another youngster to raise and corrupt.
Some time later, Generation
X were attacked by Sean's cousin Black Tom, who, after having escaped
from prison, had undergone a horrible change: more powerful than ever, after conducting experiments on himself, he was now
more plant than human and had infiltrated Generation X with a spy -Mondo.
The mentally unhinged Tom wanted revenge on Sean for "taking" away Theresa, so Tom figured he'd now take away Sean's "kids".
Playing mindgames with Banshee, he ordered him to either kill Emma or lose the children. Not wanting to be responsible for
the death of another group of children, Emma forced Sean to use his sonic scream on her. Tom was content but revealed he had
been lying. He had no intention of returning the children and had long sent them away. Penance, the only student not captured by Black Tom, finally used her powers to get rid of Tom, for the moment,
saving Sean.
Fortunately, Emma survived, as she had only faked her death and, together, they tried to look for their missing students,
an undertaking that was complicated as Operation Zero Tolerance, a mutant hating operation by the government was in full swing
at that moment, forcing Sean, Emma and Penance into hiding. Without any resources at their hands and the X-Men not answering
to their distress call, Sean and Emma were finally offered a deal by their enemy, Emplate - the location of the others if they returned Penance to him. Sean refused, while Emma was willing to
play Emplate, not really intending to trade away Penance either. Sean's distrust welled up again. He crashed the deal and
told Emma to keep away from the school for now on.
The children, in the meantime,
safely returned, having managed to free themselves. Banshee paid a rare visit to Muir
Island and his ladylove, Moira, who was by now the only known non-mutant
suffering from the Legacy Virus. Sean managed to coax her from her non-stop work for a bit, as they enjoyed some rare quality
time together. However, only days later, the stubborn woman decided to quarantine herself in her own lab, with a pre-set locking
mechanism that would only let her out once the cure was found. As Sean realized that he couldn't talk Moira out of it, he
did the only thing he could, encourage her and promise her to wait for her.
Meanwhile in the Xavier
School of Gifted Youngsters, Rogue soon took a leave of absence after a kiss
with Gambit left her emotionally unstable; Iceman went with her to make sure she would be all right. Gambit was also affected by this kiss; he was in a
coma for months.
Also, Psylocke was attacked and almost killed by Sabretooth. She was near death. Wolverine
and Archangel traveled to Japan looking for a magical jewel called the Crimson Dawn in order
to save her life, with the help of Doctor Strange. After Psylocke was saved she gained new powers and became very cold to
the people around her. Archangel and Psylocke then took a leave of absence.
For the Rush
Following a
friendly baseball game involving members of the X-Men and Generation X, Colossus teleports inside the mansion’s grounds,
carrying an injured Callisto, who is quickly taken to receive medical attention.
When she comes to, she informs the X-Men that a group of renegade Morlocks, calling themselves Gene Nation, are planning to
kill a hundred humans for every Morlock who died during the mutant massacre. The X-Men quickly head to Manhattan,
where Gene Nation hold a group of human’s hostage, with their young leader, Marrow, attaching incendiary devices to them, linked to her own heartbeat. After brief skirmishes in the tunnels, Storm and
Callisto find Marrow and her cohorts and Marrow challenges Storm to a fight, as payback for what she believes to be Storm’s
betrayal when she was the leader of the Morlocks. Storm takes up the challenge and they begin a ferocious battle. With the
only way to prevent the bombs exploding being to stop Marrow’s heart beating, Storm shows she has the guts to do this
and rips Marrow’s heart from her chest, thereby disarming the bombs, but killing Marrow in the process. Meanwhile, Gambit
receives a phone call from Rogue, who is on a road trip with Iceman, and senses that she remembers everything that she absorbed
during their kiss. He heads out to try and speak with her. Shortly after, Mister Sinister is informed by Threnody that Gambit is traveling to Seattle,
and she was asked to inform him if Gambit ever went there. However, Sinister is busy worrying if his well-laid plans are heading
towards ruin.
Marrow (Sarah Rushman), hyper-accelerated metabolism speeds up the growth factors of
her body, increasing her strength, agility, reflexes, durability and regenerative properties, and causing her bones to grow
on command into oversized finger talons or various external shapes such as knuckle guards, blowguns, daggers, spears, and
projectile spikes
Gambit sits
on the roof of the Institute, feeling chained to the past and fearful of the future. Storm joins him and her answers to Remy’s
questions about the nature of a person go nowhere to allay his sense of pessimism. In San
Francisco, Beast and Professor Xavier attempt to play down the possible threat that the Legacy Virus
has brought with it. Audience member Renee Majcomb is skeptical and it falls to Dr. Valerie Cooper to put a government
slant on the argument by insisting that, at this point, there is insufficient scientific information available to determine
whether it is a threat. At the Institute, Boom Boom begins to
doubt Sabretooth’s sincerity but Gambit has no doubts, and tries to
torture him with holographic images of the people Creed has killed. When he goes too far, Storm steps in and warns him off.
After the conference in San Francisco, Hank finds Professor
Xavier in a contemplative mood and they discuss Sabretooth and his possible rehabilitation. Hank makes the point that Creed
has committed many crimes and it is in his nature to kill. They couldn’t change him, and they shouldn’t let Sabretooth
change them.
In an unknown
location, an amnesiac man resembling Magneto finds himself alone
in a barn.
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The Lost Clone
Iceman soon lost track of
Rogue and returned to the X-Men. Meanwhile, Astra is still looking
for his masterpiece named Joseph. Then mysterious man arrives at
an orphanage and displays strange magnetic powers before passing out from exhaustion. He awakens later to find himself tied
to a bed, with a woman calling herself Sister Maria offering him food and drink. He has amnesia but, in the back of his mind,
he feels he has a dark secret. Sister Maria allows him to stay until he is well enough to travel and he accepts her kind offer.
A week later, he shaves off his long white beard and is shown to be a somehow younger version of Magneto, and Sister Maria
suspects this to be the case. He grows fond of the children and they feel the same way, and he remains at the orphanage, helping
Sister Maria work the land while receiving spiritual help in return. One day, his powers come to the attention of Colonel
Ramos, who has Sister Maria and the children kidnapped
by his criminal associates, hoping to use this as leverage to make Joseph work for him. His plan doesn’t work, and Joseph
instead uses his powers to force Colonel Ramos to tell him where the children are. He arrives at an old church, where the
children in the basement hear a commotion above. Sister Maria knows Joseph has arrived to save them but, as she and the children
leave the basement with him, they see the retribution Joseph has wreaked on their captors. Everyone is shocked and he sees
their disappointment, deciding to leave the following morning. Sister Maria explains that the children will forget and he
doesn’t have to go, but he does so anyway, heading to America to discover his past.
The clone was found, sick
with fever, by small children who belonged to the Holy Sepulcher Orphanage in Guatemala.
Sister Maria de la Joya of the orphanage nursed him back to health, but he proved to have no memory of his past. One of the
orphans, who had found him, Migdalia, gave him the name Joseph.
Over the following months Joseph displayed the superhuman ability to manipulate magnetic forces. Sister Maria suspected he
might be the mutant terrorist Magneto, who had recently vanished, despite the fact that Joseph seemed to be in his twenties, making him younger than Magneto had been. However, she was willing to give
him a second chance in life. Also at that time Joseph's friend named Maggott
is also looking for him in the midst.
Joseph, have the ability
to control magnetism and other related forces. The fact that he is Magneto's clone his powers should have also worked in the
same manner that Magneto's did.
Maggott (Japheth) is
a mutant who appears to have a telepathic rapport with the two enormous slugs that accompany him. These slugs, which are the
size of small dogs, can apparently devour any form of matter at great speed. The slugs appear to have a symbiotic relationship
with Maggott, the nature of which has yet to be explained.
At one point criminals captured
Sister Maria and the children in order to force Joseph to aid them in fighting law enforcement agencies. In rescuing the hostages
Joseph slaughtered their captors. The children, who had grown to love Joseph, were horrified, and he knew he had to leave.
Sister Maria told him about the team of mutant adventurers called the X-Men, and Joseph left for the United States to seek help from them. Then later he met Rogue spending her time
for vacation.
Charles Xavier has finally admitted defeat in trying to ‘cure’ Sabretooth of his homicidal rages.
Sabretooth taunts him about his failure but Charles insists that he must understand that they had to try and help. Jean shows
Cyclops and Bishop why Charles reluctantly gave in. She displays Sabretooth’s thoughts onto a monitor, showing his perverted
view of life. Bishop wants to kill Creed, but Scott persuades him that, once the killing starts, it’ll never stop. Bishop
has to agree and informs them that he’s been having strange memories of a time that cannot have been. Scott and Jean
realize he may have gone through a similar experience to theirs. Charles speaks with Val Cooper, who agrees to send a squad
in to remove Creed from his hands. Creed laughs at Xavier as he leaves the room, taunting him that his dream is a sham. Once
Charles is gone, Meltdown talks with Creed about how he used her. Cleverly, he uses her youth and inexperience to make her
so angry that she uses her time bombs on him, which has the expected result of releasing him from his shackles. With Sabretooth
now free, Psylocke jumps in to defend Tabitha, who calls for back up, her power temporarily
spent. The much larger Sabretooth manages to overcome Psylocke, who tries to stop him with her psionic blade. Unfortunately,
this no longer has the desired effect and Creed guts her before fleeing the institute. Beast, Cyclops and Archangel arrive in the
Danger Room to find Tabitha holding Psylocke in her arms, with blood everywhere.
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