Of Marvels Past
by
Reed311574
The New Tokyo Territory, Japan. "Logan San, tell us of the final days of the followers of
the X!" "You know I never fell comfortable, teling you that children, but you must know it
all, so it never happens again." The Japanese children gather around Logan.
"I remember it all beginning in Colorado, the first blast that hit the plane knocked Jean out." One
of the children stand up, "I saw your picture of her and some man with goggles, she was
pretty!" "Yes, she was more than I could ever describe." "Ororo and Cyke took control of the
plane." "Sam went to see what was going on."
The bastards were filming us, I should have known. They sent Sentinels at us, ones I have never
seen before. We fought and fought and fought some more but nothing helped. Sam was
neutralized as was Cyke and STorm, I had to protect Jean. SHe tucked us in a TK shield, and
we crashed landed in the plane.
We awoke hurt inside of a converted Hulkbuster base. Guards were yelling at us telling us that
we were going to die along with Xavier's dream. Satellite feeds showed us the Mansion being
ransacked, they burned Jean's clothes, they destroyed my pictures of Mariko, and wiped
their punk ass noses with Sam's letters from his family.
"Grrr!, those bastards had no right to do that, we never did anything to them!" "They were
torturing Cyke to get him to tell where Gen X , Excalibur, and X-Force were located, he
wouldn't say a word. They beat him shitless, day end and day out, they told him that they
killed Jean and that were going to kill Xavier."
The days were long and I could remember hearing Sam in shock saying that Rogue and the
others would come back from space to save us, he had hope. HOPE!, god I miss hope. They
showed us more satellite feeds of anti-mutant riots across the country. Spider-Man and
some Morlocks were fighting on our behalf, we wondered where was Bobby, Cable, and the
others. What had happened?
One day when a guard returned me back to the cell, the poor bastard never knew what hit him.
He nicked my restraint, and pop claws popped out. Last sound he heard was "SNIKT!". I
got the others loose, and we broke out throught the sewage system to escape.
They chased us all through out the night, until we reached a nearby town. We stayed there, stole
a car and some food, and headed to Mexico. Cyclops showed us the way to a safehouse
Cable had, we stayed there for the night.
We found a small arsenal of weapons Cable had stashed there, and planned our strategy for a
ttacking Bastion. Cyke said, " In the past we had a team, now we need an army!" "We will
recruit all mutants we come across, and try to meet up with any other X-Teams." "People, we
can't stay here long, we have to leave now!"
Xavier was suppose to have a trial, but due to Operation: Zero Tolerance, he was to be executed
for crimes against humanity for Onslaught. We had to act now, as did many other X-Teams.
It was going to be an all-out attack on Bastion, that is what he planned.
The Brotherhood, X-force, Excalibur, and a couple of others also planned to attack at the
excution. Jean thought the attack was suicidal, as did I. "This isn't the time, Chuck would
have told us by now to strike, he would have at least given us a sign!"
The others left to join the strikeforce, while Jean and I went to Madripoor. God I remember the
day it happened, Xavier was sitting there looking into the sunset, even though he lost his
powers he knew what was going to happen. Henry Peter Gyrich was the judge, he spoke
"Charles Francis Xavier, we find you responsible for the crimes of Onslaught! You plead guilty!"
What happened next was the modern day "Shot Heard Around The World". The bioblast
poored out of Havok's clenched fist hitting Gyrich in the chest, the damn man burst into
flames. Charles was more than appalled, he looked up and saw Havok as he began to speak.
"You have destroyed my mutant brothers and sisters for too long, your cold war is over, I
speak for all mutants when I say we declare WAR on you!" The battle crys were loud as the
battle broke out. It was armaggedon, Chuck's heart, his soul died that day.
Bastion expected it all, as they all gathered, he let loose the hounds!
I remember Pyro's screams as it jumped on his back and broke his neck. Bastion had to send
out the hounds, since he couldn't pubically expose his so-called "Human Sentinals."
But then of all people that dirty rat, Apocalypse showed his head. Xavier knew he had to keep
him out of the battle, so he went off to fight him alone. I am still not sure how Chuck died,
Nightcrawler told me, they just found his body in a pool of blood, with a hole through his
forehead.
Bastion was trying to escape when he was confronted by Havok and Cyclops. They fought of
course, but the unusual thing was that the Summers Brothers were losing. Then from what I
heard Apocalypse himself enterted the room, and disintegrated Bastion.
Apocalypse looked down at Havok and Cyclops and gave then a choice. "Join me and
Xavier's dream may live again, if you do not then you will be killed." They actually joined
him. And as you my children know Apocalypse began his conquest of America.
This is why your parents are helping the Scions of Xavier to counterattack Apocalypse. One
of the children stood up and asked "What ever happened to Ms. Grey?"
She returned to America to try to bring Scott back to us. That bastard turned her over to
Apocalypse for use in his breeding pens." "That is why the Scions need your help!" "We
work side by side with the X-Men in North America, tell everyone you can to help us
overthrow Apocalypse."
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