Jun 15, 2006 11:22
Realistically, they could have gotten to D.C. quicker on their own, but if a a now sitting U.S. Senator sends you plane tickets and puts you up in a hotel room, it's best to do things by the book.
And thus, Scott Summers and Jean Grey find themselves in civilian clothes, riding in the back of a limo on its way to the capitol building to discuss the Mutant Registration Act with Senator Dell Rusk, successor to the recently deceased Senator Dornan K. Roberts.
"And did Mystique really kill him?" he thinks. He's tired of these grey relationships with the likes of her and Magneto. They cause as much trouble as the anti-mutant bigots on the other side. Magneto's constantly warning that the X-Men will have to choose sides -- human or mutant. But he's got the distinctions wrong ...
He's been to Washington before, but he's usually busy punching someone. They pass the Lincoln Memorial, and it takes his breath away a little.
"Yeah," he thinks. "I know what side I'm on."
red skull,
jean grey,
professor x,
"nothing to fear",
cyclops