Post by JESSIEJAMES on Oct 2, 2010 13:00:23 GMT -5
GOD WILL LEAD YOU INTO A
DELIVERANCE WHERE THE MEANS
THAT DELIVERS YOU WILL BE
THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY YOU
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What would you do if the world around you was going to hell and there was nothing you could do to save it?
Well I guess it really depends on where you stand. When you look around you, what do you see? When you look around you do you see a world with potential? Do you see people who have been corrupted with the wrong idea of what it really means to be a mutant? Do you want nothing more than for everyone to get along, and for equality? Or are you someone who sees the beginnings of a war? Someone driven by anger, or someone consumed with fear, for you've witness this in a similar past, and wish to end it, wish to reign on top.
Everything isn't so black and white though. While we have those who struggle for equality, and fight a seemingly hopeless battle for a peaceful coexistence, there are some who have lost their way. Some who don't see a bright light at the end of the tunnel, but who can be realistic enough to see that a war is indeed on it's way, and it won't be pretty.
Two years after the attack on Alcatraz, the X-Men have opened up the Xavier Institute's doors wider than ever. They enrolled more students than they've previously ever had, and everyone can agree that things were going well for such a long time. The cure had taken care of some of the biggest threat against Mutant/Human coexistence. Magneto was given an overdose of the cure, and has yet to rise again, Mystique had disappeared, the Brotherhood's numbers dwindled down to nothing. While the forces of evil had taken a backseat, the X-Men and their students rose, and looked at the horizon of what could be a beautiful world.
Flash forward
Mystique had found files a few years ago on a budding project about metallic warriors in Stryker's files, and had recently found out that one Boliver Trask was reawakening the project. The plan: hit the facility hard, kill anyone involved and steal a Sentinel for themselves. The X-Men were already aware that Mystique would want to take out Trask, and found themselves with a mission of their own: stop the Acolytes, save Trask.
The X-Men were successful, and Bolivar Trask was saved, but Mystique and Company got away with a Sentinel, something the X-Men weren't aware of. It was safe to say that Mystique's motivation for the entire thing was to attack Trask as a decoy in order to get her blue hands on a Sentinel to finish what Magneto had started so long ago. Unfortunately Magneto wasn't quit as brilliant and conniving as his second in charge. The plan for the Sentinel was pretty simple, use the machine to start a War against her own people. It was a scare tactic, Mutants would gather and unite against a common foe, and Mystique was giving them something to fear. However, unlike Magneto, Mystique worked the other angle as well, using her Acolytes to attack all corners of the continental USA in order to frighten the Humans as well. Motivate them and herd them like the clever shepherd that she was. Mystique had all the pawns where she needed them, and drove the Humans to the ranch that was Simon Trask, a candidate running for President, making promises on stricter Mutant Laws. Simon couldn't have come at a better time, and Mystique used him just like she used everything else that came her way. Eventually the man was elected and made promises of birthing laws, exile and for mutant rights to be stripped.
Mystique's crosshairs were aimed at Trask, and she had her fire mutants burn down his home, to make the 'Mutant Menace' even more threatening. Simon was elected, and Mystique's next plan went into action. Mystique broke mutants free from a facility in the Bermuda Triangle, but a mysterious contact offered his services in trade for keeping the facility in tact. With her growing army, Mystique found herself and the Acolytes plus the many mutants who found themselves alongside her in a battle. A battle that would have ended in mutant victory had the White Queen not shown her true colors. Emma Frost a woman often misunderstood temporarily mind wiped all the mutants at the battle, and caused many of them to lose all control of their abilities. Many mutants died that day, and one of them was assumed by the entire country to be Mystique. Her whereabouts are still unknown, but she left one thing, a back up plan. Manuel de la Rocha started a group of his own known as The Mutant Liberation Front. Mutants are no longer a disease that needs to be cured. The Humans see them as Vermin that need to be exterminated, in Mystique's wake we see free roaming Sentinels apprehending any mutant who steps out of line, and a Mutant Resistance Division who act as a Mutant Fighting S.W.A.T. team. If Mutants thought living in public was hard before, they clearly have a slap in the face awaiting them.
