New York City had one of the highest mutant populations in the country, largely due to District X and the diverse, melting-pot nature of the city. All across the city there were roving death squads of Purifiers, rioters and lynch-mobs from associated anti-mutant groups like Purity, and Sentinels and Prime Sentinels attempting to hunt down mutants ( Read more... )

Those jerks! Trying to put trackers on him! Who do they think he is? Some washout like Sand? They also damaged the suit. He's leaking money now. With his powers he reaches out to the tracers to short them out and ( Read more... )

Everything is locked down and closed except for minimal, mostly bored, staff. Blackrock isn't the slave driver the Osborns or the succession of CEOs were. That and job security ensures loyal employment. It also means someone outside thinks it's prime time to get a few items to secure his fortunes for 2009.

Spider-Man Encourages Reckless Behavior Among TeenagersNEW YORK, NY -- Last night, a young woman was attacked by a gang of masked thugs and dragged into an alley. The victim, Melinda Brown, managed to escape with superficial injuries, but not, she says, because of the girl, the masked vigilante known as "Stinger", who interfered on her behalf ( Read more... )

Any normal parent would not allow their kids to be around a master thief in a mansion and allow said master thief to bind them with ropes, energy cuffs, and other binding implements. The Avengers are not normal.

She stands over them with a stopwatch. "Ready, GO!"

And unknown young man and woman celebrate the election of president-elect Barak Obama in the crowd celebrating the news in Harlem, New York.

He almost didn't want to admit it, but there was something fun about this.

Currently, he was stalking the streets of Manhattan, tracking... no, hunting the Young Avengers. Well, actually, he was hunting one in particular, and from his estimation, she wasn't traveling alone. That gave him pause, considering he wasn't in his full armor, but he ( Read more... )

"Peter Peter, pumpkin eater," Percy Grimes intones. He looks out on the field before them, illuminated only by the tiny sliver of a crescent moon, as he tosses a single pumpkin seed from his bag to the ground. Immediately, the ground begins to rumble as a pumpkin vine begins to grow ( Read more... )

The gift certificates Kate had given him for the nice restaurant would be expiring in another couple of months and had gone woefully unused. Well, tonight that was going to change. Billy had made reservations two weeks ago ( Read more... )

It's a place he likes to come every year ( Read more... )