For the first thirteen years of her life, Kitty Pryde lived as a relatively normal girl growing up in Deerfield, Illinois. She had kind and caring parents, did well in school, and fretted over things like boys, clothes, and good hair days.
That is, until she started getting the headaches. At first she and her parents wrote it off as nothing. Then came the night Kitty had a dream of falling and woke up on her basement floor. Terrified and confused, she panicked after realizing she had literally fallen straight through her bedroom floor. And this was definitely no bad dream. The evidence was clear - above their heads, part of Kitty’s bed sheets dangled ominously through the basement ceiling.
The next day, Kitty’s parents were visited by Professor Xavier and Jean Grey, eager to help Kitty understand and learn more about her powers. At first, her parents wanted nothing to do with it. They were determined to forget the whole thing ever happened. But in the end, thanks to Xavier’s persistence and Jean’s empathy, both Kitty and her parents were able to make the right choice, and Kitty decided to move Xavier’s Institute for Gifted Youngsters. With a little training, she soon became an official member of the X-men, taking on the codename Shadow Cat.
At the Institute, Kitty was introduced to mutants just like her. There she learned to be more accepting of people different from her, to control her powers more effectively, and was trained in combat scenarios. Kitty quickly formed a family-like bond with the other mutants at the Institute, and with their help managed to maintain a fairly normal life as a teenage girl and high school student along with her life and training as a mutant.
Everything seemed to be coming together perfectly. That is, until Wolverine is captured by a government organization that the X-men believed to have dealings with the X-men’s archenemy Magneto, and the X-men were forced to team up with a gang of rival mutants called the Brotherhood to search for him. Drawn by his power signature to the facility where he’d been held, they stumbled upon a laboratory facility for a new anti-mutant government program called the Sentinels. The Sentinels are essentially oversized mechas programmed to seek and destroy any detected mutants they find based on their unique genetic signature. They soon discovered the researchers had been using Wolverine as a test subject for their new technology.
When they arrived outside the facility, the team is met by Magneto’s newest forces, and a battle erupts in the streets of New York. The mutants are forced to use their powers in broad daylight in front of an innumerable amount of eyewitnesses in order to fight off the threat. Thus, their cover as mutants was blown. Live TV footage of the fight aired across the country, exposing them to the world. Meanwhile, Magneto continues to manipulate events by unleashing the Sentinel onto the city, adding even more fuel to the fire of the very public fight. This results in several of the Brotherhood and X-men’s capture.
Luckily, the fight ends with Magneto’s defeat at the hands of Brotherhood member the Scarlet Witch, and the remaining X-men (including Kitty) are able to flee the scene and fly back to the Institute, only to find it completely destroyed.
After that, all known mutants were forced to live in exile. The incident with Magneto and the Sentinels had thrown the entire world into a state of anti-mutant paranoia. Soldiers patrolled the streets and the media ran rampant with scare tactics and conspiracy theorists.
Eventually the captured mutants were able to escape the government holding facilities and rejoin the others. Kitty and her friends and comrades were forced to take shelter in an isolated cave not far from the ruins of the Institute, watching the panic and hatred grow from a tiny portable TV.
It didn’t take long for the government to find them, tagging on the heels of Rogue and Wolverine. There, they were forced to retreat instead of engaging the government choppers attacking them, trying to avoid further tarnishing their public image as dangers to society.
For the first thirteen years of her life, Kitty Pryde lived as a relatively normal girl growing up in Deerfield, Illinois. She had kind and caring parents, did well in school, and fretted over things like boys, clothes, and good hair days.
That is, until she started getting the headaches. At first she and her parents wrote it off as nothing. Then came the night Kitty had a dream of falling and woke up on her basement floor. Terrified and confused, she panicked after realizing she had literally fallen straight through her bedroom floor. And this was definitely no bad dream. The evidence was clear - above their heads, part of Kitty’s bed sheets dangled ominously through the basement ceiling.
The next day, Kitty’s parents were visited by Professor Xavier and Jean Grey, eager to help Kitty understand and learn more about her powers. At first, her parents wanted nothing to do with it. They were determined to forget the whole thing ever happened. But in the end, thanks to Xavier’s persistence and Jean’s empathy, both Kitty and her parents were able to make the right choice, and Kitty decided to move Xavier’s Institute for Gifted Youngsters. With a little training, she soon became an official member of the X-men, taking on the codename Shadow Cat.
At the Institute, Kitty was introduced to mutants just like her. There she learned to be more accepting of people different from her, to control her powers more effectively, and was trained in combat scenarios. Kitty quickly formed a family-like bond with the other mutants at the Institute, and with their help managed to maintain a fairly normal life as a teenage girl and high school student along with her life and training as a mutant.
Everything seemed to be coming together perfectly. That is, until Wolverine is captured by a government organization that the X-men believed to have dealings with the X-men’s archenemy Magneto, and the X-men were forced to team up with a gang of rival mutants called the Brotherhood to search for him. Drawn by his power signature to the facility where he’d been held, they stumbled upon a laboratory facility for a new anti-mutant government program called the Sentinels. The Sentinels are essentially oversized mechas programmed to seek and destroy any detected mutants they find based on their unique genetic signature. They soon discovered the researchers had been using Wolverine as a test subject for their new technology.
When they arrived outside the facility, the team is met by Magneto’s newest forces, and a battle erupts in the streets of New York. The mutants are forced to use their powers in broad daylight in front of an innumerable amount of eyewitnesses in order to fight off the threat. Thus, their cover as mutants was blown. Live TV footage of the fight aired across the country, exposing them to the world. Meanwhile, Magneto continues to manipulate events by unleashing the Sentinel onto the city, adding even more fuel to the fire of the very public fight. This results in several of the Brotherhood and X-men’s capture.
Luckily, the fight ends with Magneto’s defeat at the hands of Brotherhood member the Scarlet Witch, and the remaining X-men (including Kitty) are able to flee the scene and fly back to the Institute, only to find it completely destroyed.
After that, all known mutants were forced to live in exile. The incident with Magneto and the Sentinels had thrown the entire world into a state of anti-mutant paranoia. Soldiers patrolled the streets and the media ran rampant with scare tactics and conspiracy theorists.
Eventually the captured mutants were able to escape the government holding facilities and rejoin the others. Kitty and her friends and comrades were forced to take shelter in an isolated cave not far from the ruins of the Institute, watching the panic and hatred grow from a tiny portable TV.
It didn’t take long for the government to find them, tagging on the heels of Rogue and Wolverine. There, they were forced to retreat instead of engaging the government choppers attacking them, trying to avoid further tarnishing their public image as dangers to society.
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