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What if Jean Grey died, and stayed dead the first time around...in effect several X-men left the team: Colossus persued art in Paris, Nightcrawler studied in a monestary in Sweden, Storm returned to tend to her tribe in Africa, and Xavier remained with Lilandra along with Wolverine- who's appointed Captain of the Imerial Guard.
Cyclops goes to Alaska to sort out his life. While at a ski resort he encounters a beautiful British woman, Elisabeth Braddock who'd been blinded in battle as Captain Britain. The two struck up a conversation about their mutant powers. Betsy, as she sweetly asked him to address her, was a telepath and didn't need eyes to see Scott's pain.
Suddenly she screams, a frantic energy pattern jolts from her soft countenance in the shape of a butterfly. She falls to the floor mumbling "they're already here"
....She awakens in an infirmery, two furry fingers taking her pulse. "You must be Henry." she says. Beast assures her that nothing's wrong physically, but Cyclops wants to know who "they" are. She then remembers her precog flash, an alien invasion, already pending and to stop it, they must assemble a new team of mutants. Cyclops says he'll just call in the other members, but Betsy (using Jean Grey's mental residue to contact the X-Men through Cyclops) sensed they had already become hosts.
Using Cerebro she assembles:
Thunderbird (who hadn't previously joined)
Quicksilver
Scarlet Witch
Gambit
Magma
Sunspot
Feral
with herself, Cyclops and Beast rounding out the team...
more tomorrow
Cyclops goes to Alaska to sort out his life. While at a ski resort he encounters a beautiful British woman, Elisabeth Braddock who'd been blinded in battle as Captain Britain. The two struck up a conversation about their mutant powers. Betsy, as she sweetly asked him to address her, was a telepath and didn't need eyes to see Scott's pain.
Suddenly she screams, a frantic energy pattern jolts from her soft countenance in the shape of a butterfly. She falls to the floor mumbling "they're already here"
....She awakens in an infirmery, two furry fingers taking her pulse. "You must be Henry." she says. Beast assures her that nothing's wrong physically, but Cyclops wants to know who "they" are. She then remembers her precog flash, an alien invasion, already pending and to stop it, they must assemble a new team of mutants. Cyclops says he'll just call in the other members, but Betsy (using Jean Grey's mental residue to contact the X-Men through Cyclops) sensed they had already become hosts.
Using Cerebro she assembles:
Thunderbird (who hadn't previously joined)
Quicksilver
Scarlet Witch
Gambit
Magma
Sunspot
Feral
with herself, Cyclops and Beast rounding out the team...
more tomorrow
