The time would never be better to strike out at anti-mutant sentiment, and X-Corporation needed to be at the forefront of the media push - capitalizing on the goodwill to help mutant-human relations turn the corner ( Read more... )

Beneath the mansion just outside of Westchester, New York, sits a strange amalgam of modern and alien technology, the training center known throughout the heroic community as the Danger Room! Its designer, Professor X, sits in the main control chamber, his hands resting in his lap as he commands the machinery with the power of his mutant brain ( Read more... )

From: Magneto (Lehnsherr, Erik Magnus ( Read more... )

There's been a radical change in Pietro Maximoff's life, but despite the circumstances that fostered it, he nevertheless feels a sense of optimism. Thanos' assault on Attilan and Maximus' subsequent attack on his daughter were reprehensible, and he will see that Maximus suffers. However... his daughter, the girl he had feared for so much for not ( Read more... )

In Uatu's citadel, the Mad Titan stands triumphant over Uatu's semi-conscious form. The Phoenix Force flares around him like a cloak, augmenting the powers of the Mind Gem as Thanos sifts through the memories of the being who sees all worlds ( Read more... )

The door to Uatu's citadel explodes in shards, the flaming remnants raining down nearby. Thanos lowers his hands - still glowing from the discharge of energy, and steps inside, still wreathed in the flames of the Phoenix Force.

"Uatu. Come out here and save me the twenty seconds it will take to find you. I promise the pain will be brief."

A sleek silver craft streaks through the inky blackness of space - appearing from hyperspace near Earth's moon, and proceeding towards it at roughly half of light speed ( Read more... )

((OOC: Bendy timed to a week after the final events of Crisis of Faith. Also, opened to any X-Men/New X-Men/X-Kids who would feel the need to go to Sophie's funeral.))The house was somewhere between a large house and a small mansion. Not many in the local neighborhood had turned out for the funeral of Sophie Cuckoo. Most of the neighborhood had ( Read more... )

This was the part of the job that saddened him the most.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Shaara...There were probably a few cynics among the team who wondered why he bothered. He'd heard the jokes, about how the afterlife has a revolving door for the X-Men. After all, most of them were about his wife. Remarks about "getting better" and jokes about their ( Read more... )

((ooc: takes place right after this. Like right after. Open to anyone who wants to try to deal with four traumatized girls.))They sat in the medlab, huddled together. All four had tears running down their faces. They didn't know what to say to each other. Someone had to call their parents, but none of them had the presence of mind to do it ( Read more... )