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Stength: Gambit is a mutant who possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing streetfighting techniques and acrobatics
Special skills and abilities: Bilingual in English and French, ability to throw small objects, including knives, throwing spikes, and playing cards, with extraordinary accuracy
Known superhuman powers: Gambit has the mutant ability to tap into the potential energy contained within an object and transform it into kinetic energy. When Gambit thus charges an object with kinetic energy and throws it at a target, the object releases this energy explosively on impact.
sorry there wasnt more about him
well it dosent say, but im sure he can here is the rest, tho it's not so much about abilities
History: A homeless boy wandering the streets, Gambit was adopted by Jean-Luc LeBeau, head of the council of the Thieves Guild, a criminal organization based in New Orleans. As part of a peace pact between the Thieves Guild and their rivals, the Assassins Guild, a marriage was arranged between Gambit and Bella Donna Boudreaux, the granddaughter of the head of the Assassins. However, Bella Donna's brother Julien objected to the marriage and challenged Gambit to a duel. Severely wounding Julien, Gambit was forced to flee New Orleans to prevent war between the two guilds.
Gambit wandered the world as he plied his skills as a master thief, aided by his mutant power to charge objects with explosive energy. He employed playing cards he charged with kinetic energy as his trademark weapon. At one point Gambit agreed to assemble the team of assassins called the Marauders for Mister Sinister. Gambit did not realize that Sinister would employ the Marauders to massacre the underground mutant community called the Morlocks.
Eventually, Gambit encountered the X-Man Storm, who had been transformed into an amnesiac child and who had turned to theft. He helped her escape her enemy, the Shadow King, and they became partners. Later, when Professor Charles Xavier returned from a long period of traveling in outer space, Storm, having regained her memory and true age, sponsored Gambit's admission into the X-Men. Gambit has remained on the team ever since and fell in love with his fellow X-Man Rogue. Recently, however, Gambit and Rogue have grown apart. As for Bella Donna, she has become Gambit's enemy. Recently, the X-Men learned of Gambit's role in the massacre of the Morlocks. Guilt-ridden, Gambit has left the team, at least temporarily.
In the alternate future in which the X-Man Bishop was born, Gambit has become an aged figure who witnessed the betrayal of the X-Men by one of their own members. Bishop suspected Gambit was the traitor until he learned how Xavier's mind spawned the malevolent entity Onslaught.
any other request's?
There is a time limit to the explosion, since were doing scientific stuff here goes..
Mr. Lebeau has the ability to rearrange the atoms of any object into a kinetic energy(kind of like rubbing your feet on the carpet, theres always a kinetic energy in everything). His power allows him to bring this to the surface and control it. which is why he can decharge an object.
The problem is when he was a child his power grew out of control at first.
much like cyclop's had to have a visor to keep his under control. Mr. lebeau
was found by a nice elderly gentleman named Dr. essex who using genetic engineering placed a block on it, to where he had to actually have
physical contact with an object to control it's particles. As a child he was
raised up on the street's. where he had a fascination with card tricks.
Eventually learning them himself he began to use his talents to turn a
quick buck, or for defense of himself or those he loved. Since he always
had a card deck it just became natural for them to be his weapon of
choice.
and that concludes my stupid yet oh so boring lecture on mr. lebeau.
now get out there and kick some mutant fanny!
Real name: Ororo Munroe
Other aliases: (current) None, (former--in Kenya and Tanzania) "Beautiful Windrider"
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Adventurer, (former) "Goddess" to an African tribe, master thief
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record. (She probably has a record as a juvenile offender in Egypt, but not under her true name.)
Place of birth: New York City, New York
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: David Munroe (father, deceased), N'Dare Munroe (mother, deceased), Ashake (ancestor, deceased)
Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, (former) Cairo, Egypt; Kenya and Tanzania; X-Men headquarters, Australian outback
Group affiliation: (current) X-Men, (former) Leader of the Morlocks
First appearance: GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1
History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.
When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.
Homeless and orphaned, Ororo, came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil in thievery and in picking locks.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert and finally reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain, which lies in the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged, and she used them to help the local tribes, who worshipped her as a goddess.
Ororo remained with the tribes for years until Professor Charles Xavier recruited her into the new team of X-Men he was assembling. She was given the code name "Storm" after her power to affect the weather. Except for brief periods away from the team, Storm has remained in the X-Men ever since and shares leadership of the X-Men with Cyclops.
Height: 5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 127 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
Strength level: Athlete
Flight speed: Subsonic (when propelled by winds)
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Wolverine
Special skills and abilities: Extraordinary ability at picking locks, excellent marksman with handguns
Known superhuman powers: Storm has the psionic ability to control the weather over limited areas. She can fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight. Storm has limited immunity to extreme heat and cold.
Special limitations: Storm's psionic powers over the weather are affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control of her emotions, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Also, Storm suffers from severe claustrophobia.
Other accessories: Storm carries lock picks.
Real name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock
Other aliases: (former) Captain Britain II, Lady Mandarin
Identity: Secret
Occupation: (current) Adventurer, (former) Fashion model, operative for S.T.R.I.K.E. Psi Division, (as Lady Mandarin) Assassin
Legal status: Subject of the United Kingdom with no criminal record
Place of birth: Braddock Manor, England
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: James Braddock, Sr. (father, deceased), Elizabeth Braddock (mother, deceased), Brian Braddock (Captain Britain, brother), James "Jamie" Braddock, Jr. (brother)
Base of operations: The Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York State, (former) Braddock Manor, England; X-Men headquarters, Australian outback
Group affiliation: X-Men, (former) S.T.R.I.K.E. Psi Division (British division of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
First appearance: (U. K.) CAPTAIN BRITAIN (Vol. 1) #8, (U. S.) NEW MUTANTS ANNUAL #2
History: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock is the daughter of Dr. James Braddock, who was once a denizen of Otherworld, an other-dimensional realm. A being who called himself Merlin (but who may not actually be the wizard of Arthurian legend) sent Braddock to Earth to father the champion who would be known as Captain Britain.
Living in England, Dr. Braddock became one of the United Kingdom's leading research scientists. He married a woman named Elizabeth and they bought the mansion they renamed Braddock Manor. There Dr. Braddock created a highly advanced computer complex called Mastermind (which is not to be confused with the two mutants of the same name).
Dr. and Mrs. Braddock's three children, the eldest, Jamie, and the twins, Brian and Elizabeth (nicknamed "Betsy"😉, inherited genes from their father that endowed them with superhuman powers. The children's powers, however, remained latent for many years.
Dr. and Mrs. Braddock were killed in an explosion in Dr. Braddock's laboratory at Braddock Manor that was caused by the malfunctioning computer Mastermind.
Brian Braddock eventually became the costumed champion known as Captain Britain. Betsy developed the psychic ability which she used in the service of S.T.R.I.K.E., a British division of the international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. Betsy also developed a highly successful career as a fashion model. She knew of Brian's double identity, and the two siblings took up residence in Braddock Manor.
Members of a British government agency called R.C.X., knowing that Brian Braddock was Captain Britain, attempted to recruit him to work with them. Refusing to be exploited by the government, Brian Braddock gave up the role of Captain Britain. The R.C.X. agents then persuaded Betsy to become the new Captain Britain, working with them. Betsy used a costume taken from an otherdimensional counterpart of Brian, which magnified her strength to superhuman levels when she wore it and enabled her to fly. Another other-dimensional hero, Captain UK, trained Betsy to become a crimefighter, and the two acted as partners on missions together for many weeks.
Finally, Betsy launched her solo career as the new Captain Britain, which came to a quick end when she went into battle against two of the original Captain Britain's arch foes, the Vixen and Slaymaster. Wearing a battle suit that amplified his own strength, Slaymaster savagely beat Betsy nearly to death and blinded her. Sensing her telepathic cries of agony, Brian Braddock rushed to his sister's rescue and fought and killed Slaymaster. Realizing he could not forsake his responsibilities, Brian resumed his role as Captain Britain.
Betsy went to Switzerland to recuperate. While there she was taken prisoner by the other-dimensional creature known as Mojo. Mojo took control of Betsy and gave her new, artificial eyes, thereby restoring her sight. Betsy was rescued through the intervention of the New Mutants, a team of adolescent mutants. Having regained her free will, Betsy chose to remain at the New Mutants' home, Professor Charles Xavier's mansion in Westchester County, New York, which also served as the secret headquarters of the mutant adventurers called the X-Men.
Betsy proved her courage to the X-Men by resisting the attack of their enemy Sabretooth when he broke into the mansion. As a result she was accepted into the ranks of the X-Men, becoming a costumed adventurer once more under the code name Psylocke.
Later, Psylocke was captured by the crime lord Matsu'o Tsurayaba. Seeking to save the life of his lover, the female assassin Kwannon, Tsurayaba oversaw a process through which the minds of Kwannon and the X-Man Psylocke switched bodies. In the process Kwannon's mind melded with that of Psylocke, endowing each of them with the same memories and telepathic abilities. Tsurayaba brainwashed Psylocke and turned her over to one of Earth's most dangerous men, the Mandarin. Under the name of Lady Mandarin, Psylocke briefly served the Mandarin, but ultimately Psylocke regained her free will and returned to the X-Men.
Later Kwannon, in Psylocke's body, became an ally of the X-Men, calling herself Revanche. For a time there was confusion among the X-Men as to who was the "real" Betsy Braddock. Finally, Revanche learned that she was dying from the Legacy Virus and had Tsurayaba kill her. Thus Betsy's original body died, but she lived on as Psylocke in Kwannon's original body.
Recently, Psylocke and her fellow X-Man, Angel, have fallen in love with each other. Psylocke was nearly killed by Sabretooth, but was healed by magical forces from a mystical dimension called the Crimson Dawn. However, Kuragari, a sinister being who had conquered the Crimson Dawn, attempted to corrupt Psylocke's personality through a mystical ring. Kuragari planned to make Psylocke his queen and through her father a genetically powerful bloodline. However, together Angel and Psylocke thwarted Kuragari, and Psylocke's mind is now free of Kuragari's influence.
A life-saving encounter with the other-dimensional energy source called the Crimson Dawn resulted in a more subtle, though no less meaningful, metamorphosis. Psylocke's fighting skills and telepathic talents were enhanced, and she acquired the ability to transport herself and others through shadows, as well as become one with the shadows. Also, the mark of the Crimson Dawn, a blade-like, red tattoo, appeared over her left eye. Betsy later sacrificed her psychic powers to forever imprison the telepathic criminal called the Shadow King in her astral shadow form, but subsequently acquired a range of telekinetic abilities.
Soon after, Betsy left Xavier's mansion with a small strike force of fellow X-Men in search of the diaries of the blind mutant seer known as Destiny, which map out human history for the next thousand years. While in Valencia, Spain, the team was captured by the Action Force of the Guardia Civil, that country's national police. Subjected to a battery of tests, the X-Men were released into a technologically fortified maze to gauge the their fighting abilities and mutant powers. Psylocke, the blue-furred Beast and the ability-absorbing Rogue found them selves in the headquarters' control center, separated from their teammates. There, they encountered Vargas, a criminal claiming to be the first manifestation of the next authentic generation of humanity, the pure and legitimate Homo sapiens superior. Her teammates wounded, Betsy engaged her opponent in a duel to the death, which ended when Vargas speared his sword through her abdomen. Psylocke's sudden demise left her teammates, and her lover, Thunderbird III, to balance the scales and complete the quest for Destiny's missing diaries.
Height: (both bodies) 5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: (both bodies) 155 lbs.
Eyes: (original body) Violet, (current body) Blue
Hair: (original body) Blonde, (current body) Black (dyed purple)
Other distinguishing features: Red tattoo over her left eye
Strength level: Psylocke possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Known superhuman powers: Psylocke possesses many telepathic abilities, enabling her to read minds, communicate mentally with others over long distances, stun the minds of others with "mental bolts," control the minds of others, and create illusions in the minds of others. Psylocke can intensely focus her psionic powers into her "psychic knife," with which she can stun or kill an adversary.
The best way to learn how mutants work... is to learn their past and origin... the past has influenced every mutant on how to deal responsibilities the way they should like... and as well as discovering their limitations.
I'll start it with Ms. Ororo Munroe also known as STORM.
PART 1
Ororo Munroe is the daughter of David Munroe, a photo-journalist from New York, and N’Dare, a princess from a Kenyan tribe. Several of N’Dare’s female ancestors displayed white hair, blue eyes and unusual facial features, though it is unknown exactly who or how many of them did so. While it is clear that N’Dare apparently didn’t, her daughter, Ororo, did manifest those physical traits.
When Ororo was six months old, one of David’s assignments took the family from Harlem to Cairo, Egypt, where they would stay for the next years. In her earliest childhood, N’Dare showed her daughter a special ruby-crystal that had been in their family for a long time. [X-Treme X-Men #10]
During an Israeli-Arab conflict, a plane crashed into the Munroes’ house. Her parents died, while Ororo, ca 5-6 years old at the time, was trapped besides her dead mother in the rubble, resulting in a severe case of claustrophobia that Ororo suffers from to the present day.
Somehow, the child managed to dig herself out, apparently taking her mother’s ruby with her. Alone in the city, she was eventually found by some street urchins who brought her to their master, Achmed-El Gibar, a kind of Fagin, who gave children a home and trained them as thieves. Within a year, Ororo was trained to be a beggar. Within another, she became an excellent pickpocket and thief. [X-Men (1st series) #102, 113]
During that time, Ororo picked the pocket of an American tourist, one Charles Xavier. The man noticed her, used his powers to stop her in her tracks and examined her. However, at that moment, he was mentally attacked by Amahl Farouk – the Shadow King - and Ororo escaped. [X-Men (1st series) #117]
Itching to prove her skills as a thief, Ororo also stole another rare ruby-colored gem, the so-called “heart of eternal darkness.” She did so against Achmed-El Gibar’s direct orders. Only later, it would be discovered that the stone contained the essence of the immortal mutant Candra. [X-Men (2nd series) #60]
When she was about twelve, Ororo felt the irresistible urge to wander southwards and left Cairo. During that trip, she naively trusted a man who offered her a ride and was almost raped, before she killed him with her knife. As a result, she swore never to take another human life. [Uncanny X-Men #267]
Ororo wandered for one year, crossing two thousand miles and nearly died on her trek through the Sahara desert. Along the journey, she discovered her emerging power to control the weather. Shortly afterwards, she witnessed how South-Africans, under the leadership of Andreas de Ruyter, were trying to kidnap Prince T’Challa of Wakanda, a young boy barely older than she, to use him as a hostage against his father. She managed to help the youth to escape. They journeyed together for some time and, while they grew very attracted to one another, T’Challa’s duty and Ororo’s dream pulled them in different directions. [Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #100, Black Panther #26]
Ororo arrived on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya and made her home there. There, she called out to her goddess and was answered with the sight of a shining figure of a woman, who resembled her. [Uncanny X-Men #226]
Ororo herself was adopted as a goddess of life by the local tribes, whom she helped, however she could, with her powers. However, she discovered that the weather reacted to her emotional state thus, to protect the people around her, she detached herself from stronger emotions as far as possible.
Ororo also found a substitute mother in the elderly tribal woman, Ainet, who helped her learn how to responsibly use her complex powers. [X-Men (2nd series) #76-77]
Years later, a threat arose as a fellow mutant who called himself Deluge, had wrested control over the weather from her in an attempt to revenge himself on humanity. With the help of several of the original X-Men, who were stranded in Kenya, Ororo managed to destroy Deluge and disperse the storm. After she had departed back to her tribe, the X-Men wanted to inform Xavier about this promising mutant. He informed the group that he already knew about her, but didn’t want to contact her because he thought the cultural shock would be too much for her to handle. [X-Men Hidden Years #5-7, Uncanny X-Men #300]
However, some months later, when the X-Men had been captured by the mutant island Krakoa, he felt he had no other choice. After enlisting the help of several other mutants he had recently learned about or had at one point had met his students before, Charles Xavier visited Ororo in Kenya and asked her to join his X-Men. He explained that she was a mutant, not a goddess, and that she had a responsibility to the world. Curious, Ororo decided to leave her “nest” and see what the world had to offer.
Old and new team together defeated the mutant island. As part of the X-Men, Ororo received the codename “Storm” and a costume made of unstable molecules. It also contained some of her own elements, like her tribal tiara and her mother’s ruby, which she wore as a brooch that held the cape together. [Giant Size X-Men #1]
to be continued....
😉
STORM Part II
Ororo was naïve in the ways of the modern world. For example, she had no idea why there was any need for clothing, if one didn’t feel cold. This led to some embarrassing episodes with her fellow X-Men. Otherwise, she quickly made friends among the others, regarding them as a family. She very quickly forged a bond of friendship with Jean Grey, who helped Ororo to buy a new wardrobe. It was during one of their shopping tours that Jean learned of Storm’s severe claustrophobia when the two women were chasing a thief into a subway station. [Classic X-Men #2, 4]
Ororo was also the one member of the team who would stand up to Wolverine when his temper was flaring and, through sheer force of personality, get him to back down. There were aspects of the life as an X-Man that proved hard for her, though, as for example when she destroyed a Sentinel that seemed very lifelike. What if she were ever forced to kill another human being? [X-Men (1st series) #98-99]
Storm’s claustrophobia placed the entire team in danger when they battled Juggernaut and Black Tom in Cassidy Keep. In the cellars of the ancient castle, Ororo felt entombed between the walls of solid rocks and went into shock. She could do nothing but cry while her teammates were butchered. Only after all had fallen, she utilized the strength to fight. However, it was only after the Juggernaut accidentally punched a hole in the wall and she could see the open sky again that she could free the team and turn the tide. [X-Men (1st series) #102-103]
During the X-Men’s adventures in the Savage Land, Ororo was at one point unable to save the villain Garokk’s life, who was falling into a dark pit. She flew down after him but, shortly before she had reached him, she was overcome by her claustrophobia and rushed back to the surface. [X-Men (1st series) #116] Feeling the need to sort this out alone, she distanced herself from the other X-Men and wandered around the Savage Land on her own. Bathing in a lake, she suddenly encountered a strange beast and saved a mysterious woman from it, almost losing her own life in the process. When Ororo came around, she found herself in another fantastic dimension adjacent to the Savage Land. M’rin, the woman from the lake, was this dimension’s warrior queen. She befriended Ororo and came to regard her as her surrogate daughter (her true daughter being her mortal enemy). However, after a while, Ororo felt she had to leave her and return to the X-Men. Before Storm left, M’rin showed her how to use her mother’s ruby crystal to open the dimensional gates and come visit her, if she wished. [Classic X-Men #22]
Back in New York, Storm decided to take a look at Harlem, where she was born. When she reached the building where her family used to live, she was shocked to learn that it now was the hideout of several junkie kids. She wasn’t aware how run down things had become in the neighborhood since her family had left. Her friends, Misty Knight and Luke Cage, reminded her that there was only so much that superheroes could do. [X-Men (1st series) #122]
Ororo started to doubt her life as an X-Man. At least in Kenya she could help people. Here, she only seemed to fight. Some time later, she was kidnapped by Arkon, emperor of the other-dimensional world Ptolemaeus. His people needed someone with control over lightning to restore the machine that kept the energy-rings around their word (in place of a sun) and, since Thor wasn’t available, they abducted Storm. Ororo was willing to help, even though it would have cost her life. However, with the aid of the other X-Men, any loss of life was avoided. This adventure reminded her that life as an X-Man was more than just one battle after the next. [X-Men (1st series) Annual #3]
When a new student, the teenager Kitty Pryde, was introduced, Ororo quickly started to develop motherly feelings towards the girl, whose parents’ marriage was disintegrating. During the same adventure where the X-Men met Kitty, Storm was captured and humiliated by the telepathic White Queen, who telepathically probed Ororo for information on the X-Men. When the rest of the team assaulted the building, the White Queen got angry and would have left Storm a brainless vegetable, if not for the intervention of Phoenix. [X-Men (1st series) #129-131]
Sadly, Phoenix died shortly thereafter and her fiancé, team-leader Scott Summers, needed a sabbatical. Xavier asked Storm to become the new leader, a role Storm was first unsure about, even though all her teammates – including the authority-hating Wolverine - applauded Xavier’s choice. [X-Men (1st series) #139] Logan even taught her how to handle firearms around that time, knowledge she abhorred, but which should eventually come in handy. [Uncanny X-Men #187]
One of her early missions as the team’s leader involved the X-Men freeing the villain, Arcade, from the more dangerous villain, Dr. Doom (or actually, as was revealed later, a very convincing Doom-bot). Doom and Ororo felt some attraction towards each other, but that didn’t stop Doom from trapping her and her fellow mutants and transforming Storm into a statue of organic chrome. For a claustrophobe, this was a nightmare come true. Subconsciously, she started to warp weather patterns all over the world, creating a giant thunderstorm. When her teammates finally freed her, she was immensely more powerful and close to insanity in her rage. Eventually, her friends reminded her of Jean’s transformation into Dark Phoenix. Realizing she was heading down the same path, she reined in her power and stopped the storm, even though it almost cost her life. [Uncanny X-Men #145-147]
During a walk in Salem Center, Storm was almost assassinated by a South-African sniper, part of de Ruyter’s revenge plot for her saving T’Challa as a teenager. Solving the case, the Black Panther and Ororo renewed their friendship but both realized that any chance for a relationship between them had passed. [Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #100]
When Kitty’s parents demanded that Kitty be transferred to the Massachusetts Academy (of the White Queen), Storm brought her there and became the victim of the Hellfire Club’s latest plot. To infiltrate the X-Men, the White Queen used a device to switch bodies with Storm. Ororo had a hard time dealing with her new telepathic powers but eventually did, by remembering the friendship with Jean Grey, who had explained her a few things about mental powers. After freeing herself, it took her some time to convince Kitty that it was really Storm stuck inside Emma Frost’s body. Eventually, they came through and saved the X-Men. With their personalities restored again and Frost about to attack once more, Storm was overcome by a murderous rage and quite willing to break her vow not to kill. It was Wolverine, of all people, who held her back and reminded her that she was better than that. [Uncanny X-Men #151-152]
A short time later, the X-Men journeyed back to Ptolemaeus to save both Arkon and the Fantastic Four from an invasion of the alien Badoon. Arkon and Storm admitted that they had feelings for each other but Storm also told him that, so far, no one had touched her heart the same way Scott and Jean had been in love and that her duty as team-leader took precedence. [Uncanny X-Men Annual #5]
to be continued....
STORM Part III
As a leader, Storm was forced to show a greater deal of unscrupulosity, for instance, when she and the X-Men infiltrated the Pentagon to destroy all the government’s files on the X-Men (as the anti-mutant climate was growing), a plan which unfortunately led to a fight with Rogue within the Pentagon. As a result, Storm wrestled not only with her own doubts but also with those of Cyclops, who had returned from his leave of absence and was unsure whether he should take his old position back. [Uncanny X-Men #158, 161]
During a nightly walk in New York, Ororo was mugged and found later with a throat injury. Nobody knew what was wrong with the ailing Ororo over the next days, not even she herself. At first, Ororo felt strangely safe in the night, while direct sunlight was bothering her. Later, she sensed someone calling out to her. Kitty finally figured out that she was under the thrall of a vampire – Dracula himself. The X-Men tried to fight Dracula with all their powers and their religious faith but Ororo was already under his thrall and about to become a vampire herself, by killing her first victim. Kitty intervened and reminded Ororo of her former self. The teenager’s faith in her gave Ororo the strength to shake off Dracula’s influence over her mind. For an instant, she considered killing him with a wooden stake but then refrained. She did not want to become a killer for his sake. When Dracula was later killed by someone else, Ororo was completely freed of his influence. [Uncanny X-Men #159, Annual #6]
When Colossus’ sister, Illyana, was kidnapped to the other-dimensional Limbo by the dark magician Belasco, the X-Men followed. There, they met alternate, older X-Men from another timeline. Ororo came face to face with an elderly version of herself, whose mutant powers had waned with age. However, she had instead turned to the other side of her heritage and became a powerful sorceress, who challenged Belasco's rule over Limbo. [Uncanny X-Men #160]
When the X-Men were abducted into space by the Brood, Ororo took it harder than the others. Unlike during other space adventures of the X-Men, she felt that the special link she shared with Earth’s lifeforce had been severed and she had no idea why. When the X-Men battled some of the alien Brood, Storm released lightning to stun them but it flared out of control, destroying the enemies’ ship and killing them. Having broken her vow not to kill again, Storm was frightened and ashamed at the same time. She examined herself, body and soul, and finally found the reason for her condition – within her resided a child, an alien child. She and the other X-Men had been infected with Brood embryos. Learning this, Ororo was in turmoil and fled from her friends in a small spaceship. She felt she couldn’t take a life, even one as evil as the Brood in her, but how could she unleash such an evil on the world? Just as her body starting to undergo its transformation, she took a third way out, effectively trying to commit suicide, as she channelled the energy of all the stars around her into herself, destroying the Brood embryo but leaving her unprotected in the vacuum of space.
Ororo would have died, had she not been saved by the Acanti, a race of space whales, that was hunted by the Brood, who liked to use them as living spaceships. An agreement was reached, as the young Acanti prophet singer, who carries the soul of his entire race, had lost his mother to the Brood and needed an adult mind to guide him. In return, for becoming one with the Acanti, Storm’s physical body was healed inside the alien whale, while her consciousness guided him and as an astral image could also interact with the X-Men. Eventually, with the homeworld of the Brood destroyed and the X-Men miraculously healed by the Acanti, Ororo was restored and returned to them. [Uncanny X-Men #162-166]
However, things did not return to the status quo back home. When Ororo tried to re-establish her link with the Earth, the weather turned against her. Her powers briefly flared out of control and she felt that the Earth “rejected her” – the recent encounter with the Brood had caused her inner harmony of body and soul to shift out of balance. [Uncanny X-Men #168]
Further emotional changes were to come when, shortly afterwards, the X-Men confronted the Morlocks – a clandestine society of mutants that lived beneath New York – over the kidnapping of former X-Man Angel. With the X-Men hopelessly outnumbered, Storm saw only one chance to save her friends. She challenged the tough Morlock leader Callisto to a duel and surprisingly won by ruthlessly and intentionally almost killing Callisto, something she would never have done in the past. As a result, she also inherited the leadership of the Morlocks and, before she and her team left, she forbade any more attacks on the humans living on the surface. [Uncanny X-Men #169-170]
When the X-Men were in Japan for Wolverine’s planned wedding, Storm ran into and fought side by side with a friend of Wolverine’s: Yukio, a self-proclaimed ronin ( a rogue masterless Samurai) who lived life to the fullest every day, as though it were her last. Storm found herself fascinated with the woman and her lifestyle and Yukio’s influence was the final straw that caused a visible change in Ororo. When Storm returned to the X-Men a few days later, she had gone punk, was dressed in leather, more willing to use violent means against her foes, if necessary, and no longer willing to keep her emotions in check. [Uncanny X-Men #172-173]
The change puzzled her team-mates and especially hurt her relationship with Kitty. Eventually, the two of them talked and Storm explained that she was Kitty’s friend, not her surrogate mother. Kitty didn’t have the right to expect her to stay the same just for her own benefit. [Uncanny X-Men #180]
When Rogue, the team’s most recent addition, who was going through a difficult phase, was chased by governmental agents because of a mistaken murder charge, Storm followed her to Mississippi, intending to help. To show Rogue that her mutant power was not only a curse, Ororo voluntary let her absorb her power. Amazed by the way Storm saw the world, in energy patterns, Rogue was tempted to permanently absorb the weather abilities, but resisted, not wanting to betray the trust placed in her.
Tragedy ensued when, suddenly, the federal agents tracked them down. Storm tried to save Rogue from their pursuers, but was hit by the blast instead. The weapon used was an newly-built untested Neutralizer that instantly banished all superpowers. [Uncanny X-Men #185]
Storm was saved from drowning in the Mississippi by the gun’s inventor Forge, who hadn’t meant for this to happen. Forge nursed the suicidally depressed Storm back to health. Having lost a hand and leg in the Vietnam war, Forge could relate to being crippled and he made Ororo face the fact that she now was just like everybody else – the goddess had become human. Ororo realized that, without her weather powers, she no longer would have to fear her emotions overwhelming her. Eventually, both mutants began to fall for each other but, when Ororo accidentally learned that it was Forge who had designed the Neutralizer, she left him, angrily, despite his offer to find a way to restore her powers. [Uncanny X-Men #186-188]
to be continued...
STORM Part IV
Feeling she no longer had a place among the team, Ororo quit the X-Men and returned to Africa, to find her place in the world. While on the ship she had a vision of some mountains she had never seen before, immediately followed by a ghostly image of her mother. Puzzled about the meaning of both sightings, Ororo decided to search out these mountains, hoping to realize her life’s purpose there. [Uncanny X-Men #189, 193]
Wandering through the Serengeti Plain in East Africa, she ran afoul of the Struckers – white poachers who acted like colonial lords. She prevented Andreas Strucker from raping a native woman and humiliated both twins. As a result, Andrea later cowardly shot her and left her to die. [Uncanny X-Men #194, 196-197]
Concussed and delusional, Ororo wandered through a sandstorm, until she ran across a pregnant injured girl named Shani, the sole survivor of a bus accident. Ororo accompanied the younger woman back to her tribe and later helped her give birth, despite her own injuries. The same day, the tribe’s elder, Mjnari, sacrificed his life so that there would be room in the poor tribe for the newborn. Before he passed away, he taught Ororo a hard lesson - that the world needed both ancient wisdom and modern ideas to survive - that it was the same with humans and mutants and that she could be a bridge between both. That this was the metaphorical mountain she was meant to find. She finally came to terms with having lost her powers as, in her heart and mind, where it truly mattered, she could soar higher than the stars.[Uncanny X-Men #198]
Not much later, Ororo was sought out by Warlock of the New Mutants, who asked her to come to Cairo. The rest of the New Mutants had had been captured and possessed by their former team-mate, Karma. Only Magik and Mirage had managed to escape through one of Illyana’s teleportation circles. Lost in time, they had temporarily ended up in ancient Egypt, where they’d met an ancestor of Ororo – a white-haired, blue-eyed witch named Ashake who helped them back into their own time. Ororo realized that the true foe behind Karma was actually Amahl Farouk – the Shadow King – and helped the New Mutants fight his influence. Together, they were able to free their other teammates, including Karma. [New Mutants #32-34]
Ororo accompanied the teenagers to the Greek island paradise, Kirinos, feeling they deserved a break. Unfortunately, they fell victims to a plot by Loki. The Norse god of tricks and mischief wanted revenge for an earlier defeat at the hands of the X-Men and, honor-bound not to attack them himself, he had asked the Enchantress to capture Storm and her companions for one of his plots. However, unfamiliar with the team, the Enchantress mistakenly kidnapped the New Mutants in his name, believing them to be the X-Men. Meanwhile, Loki subtly brainwashed Ororo and gave her an enchanted mallet similar to the one of Thor, intending to make her the new goddess of thunder – one that would be obedient to him. Naturally, the X-Men followed their friends to the mystic realm but Ororo only managed to snap out of her trance after Loki forced her to use her restored abilities to almost kill Wolverine. Herself again, she rejected Loki’s gifts, thwarting his plans for controlling Asgard. [New Mutants Special Edition #1, Uncanny X-Men Annual #9]
When Xavier had left the school in Magneto’s care, Cyclops felt that he should lead the X-Men, as a powerless Storm clearly was unable to do the job. Storm challenged him to a Danger Room duel and, surprisingly, she won. She had been focussed on the job while he was not, distracted by the troubles his rejoining the team would cause his marriage. [Uncanny X-Men #201]
Some time later, a group calling themselves the Marauders slaughtered the other mutant group Ororo led – the Morlocks. Learning of the attack, the X-Men quickly ventured into the underground tunnels only to find hundreds of the outcast community killed. However, they managed to save a few survivors, although several X-Men paid with horrific injuries, when the team encountered the killers. Storm felt she had failed as a leader and wanted to give up until Callisto, the de facto Morlock leader, slapped her back into taking up her responsibilities again, reminding her of the effect this would have on the many wounded and dying. [Uncanny X-Men #211-212]
With more and more enemies to mutants in general rallying against them, the Hellfire Club proposed an alliance with the X-Men, offering Magneto the seat of White King. After discussing this with Ororo, he accepted, with his own condition that he and Storm would jointly take the title of White King. [New Mutants #51]
However, Ororo would not be not available for much longer. The Marauder Malice trying to take over Dazzler, and the bombing of the house of Jean Grey’s sister, Sara, indicated that somebody was trying to get to the X-Men through harming their friends and families. As these enemies would apparently only stop once the X-Men were dead, Storm came up with the plan to go underground and fake the team’s deaths. Overall, she adopted a more aggressive style and decided the X-Men would have to be more proactive. [Uncanny X-Men #217, 219]
Storm felt that, especially under theses circumstances, she needed her powers back. Swallowing her pride and naming Wolverine deputy leader, she went to Dallas to ask for Forge’s help. Instead, she found his home derelict, hints that Forge had gone mad and his old mentor Nazé, who told her that Forge – who was also a powerful, if reluctant, Shaman - had probably been claimed by his nemesis, the Adversary, and would try to destroy the world in his name. Storm accompanied Nazé on a dangerous quest to find Forge, unaware of the fact that this wasn’t the true Nazé, but the Adversary in disguise. As Storm started to admit to herself that she still loved Forge, she also became more and more convinced that he had, in fact, gone evil, thanks to “Nazé’s” subtle manipulations. Eventually, she confronted Forge on a mountain, surrounded by demons, over him a gate to another dimension. Convinced that he was trying to destroy the world, she stabbed him, only then realizing that he had in fact been trying to close the gate and save Earth. [Uncanny X-Men #220-224]
While the Adversary then widened his control to the city of Dallas, Forge’s home, where time and space suddenly went crazy, Storm and the heavily injured Forge found themselves transported to another Earth, devoid of any human life. After spending a year there – most of it separate, as Storm journeyed to Africa to do a lot of soul-searching – they realized that the Adversary, even as he was preparing to destroy the other Earth, was giving them the chance to become parents to a new humanity on this world. Admitting their love for each other, they nevertheless decided that they had to try and save their own Earth.
Forge had used their time apart to use the technology in his artificial leg to create an anti-Neutralizer, which gave Storm back her powers, once her lightning was used to energize a portal back to Earth. At first, Ororo was unsure, as she feared that having her powers back would turn her into the unreachable, untouchable “goddess” she was before, but Forge supported her by telling that then she wouldn’t have learned anything during the past years. With her mutant abilities reactivated, the couple travelled home. It turned out, however, that the only way to defeat the Adversary was a certain magical spell to counter the one Forge cast many years ago, which had freed the Adversary in the first place. As it needed nine souls to give it energy, the X-Men and their companion Madelyne Pryor, on live TV, sacrificed themselves for Forge’s spell to banish the Adversary. However, while the world believed the X-Men dead, they were secretly returned to life by Roma, Omniversal ruler. [Uncanny X-Men #225-227]
STORM Part V
The X-Men decided to follow Storm’s original plan and let everybody believe they were dead, in order to better strike back at their enemies. They found a new base in the former hideout of the Reavers, in the Australian Outback. While some of the other members missed their friends and loved ones, who did not know of the X-Men being still alive, Storm got the chance to reacquaint herself with her foster mother, M’rin, during a trip to the Savage Land [Uncanny X-Men Annual #12]
Some time later, during the Inferno event, the X-Men found themselves face to face with X-Factor for the first time, among them Jean Grey, whom they had believed to be dead. Jean and her team likewise had thought the X-Men were no longer among the living, after the events of Dallas had been broadcasted on TV. The first tension was soon overcome and Storm found herself happily reunited with her best friend.
When Storm destroyed the demon N’astirh, by overloading his circuitry with her lightning, this also showed the great differences between Cyclops and Storm’s teams. Cyclops clung more to the ethics taught to them by Xavier, whereas Storm wanted to get the job done, no matter what means necessary. [Uncanny X-Men #242]
Back at their headquarters in the Australian Outback, the X-Men were attacked by the psychotic Nanny and her charge, the Orphan Maker, in a perverse attempt to save them. Nanny captured Storm and faked her death to her teammates with the help of a SHIELD life model decoy, which resembled Ororo and was found by the X-Men in the wreckage of Nanny’s ship. The villains, though, had escaped with their captive in a second ship and, once back in their base, Nanny physically and mentally reduced Storm to her pre-teens to better control her. However, Storm’s claustrophobia gave her the strength to overload Nanny’s systems and escape from her containment device. [Uncanny X-Men #248, 267]
The now approximately 11-12 year old Ororo found herself in the city of Cairo, Illinois. She had no memories of her time with the X-Men or even why she was in America. Her powers hardly worked either, due to her youth. The Shadow King took this opportunity to once more hunt her. Taking over the body of FBI agent Jacob Reisz, he framed young Ororo for murder. [Uncanny X-Men #253, 255, 257]
Ororo hid and once more returned to her thieving ways. During one of her capers, the Shadow King had his agents waiting for her. Luckily, she was saved thanks to the intervention of a fellow mutant and thief named Gambit. He became intrigued by the young girl and they formed a partnership, playing Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Eventually, they were found again by Nanny. They managed to beat her and destroy her aircraft, but the encounter reactivated Storm’s memories of what had happened to her and who she had been. [Uncanny X-Men #265-267]
Together, she and Gambit travelled to the X-mansion , where they were reunited with Banshee and Forge, who had begun to search for the missing X-Men, as well with the New Mutants under Cable’s leadership and X-Factor. [Uncanny X-Men Annual #14] Excessive tests and examinations revealed that Nanny not only had reduced her to a teenager, but Ororo was stuck in this form – she did not grow or age and, as such, she could not fully develop her powers.
Some time later, Storm and several New Mutants were kidnapped by Genoshan agents - Genosha was a country that lived off the slave labor of mutants and had made enemies of the X-Men. At that point, the Genoshan government worked together with old X-Factor enemy, Cameron Hodge, to destroy the various X-Teams as revenge for an earlier defeat by them. The attack grew into a political conflict and the world learned the X-Men had not been slain in Dallas, as they had thought. In custody, Storm seemingly underwent the conditioning process that the Genoshans had developed to turn mutants or mutates into obedient, mindless slaves. Ororo’s head was shaved, she was stripped of any free will and was called Mutate 20. [Uncanny X-Men #270-271]
However, Genegineer Moreau and Chief Magistrate Anderson were among the faction working against Hodge and intended to use Storm in a Trojan Horse gambit against him. When Storm attacked Cyclops on Anderson’s orders, Storm not only regained both her faculties and her adult body, she also was given the means to reactivate the neutralized powers of the other captured X-Men. [Uncanny X-Men #272]
Some time later, it was discovered that the Shadow King had taken over the minds of the residents of the Muir Island Research Facility. Most X-Men were captured by the residents when they tried to stop the Shadow King and so Professor Xavier, back on Earth, enlisted the help of both X-Factor and SHIELD. After the villain was defeated, the original five rejoined the fold. The X-Men were reorganized with Cyclops and Storm becoming leader of one X-Men squad each. Storm was leader of the so-called Gold Team. [X-Men (2nd series) #1]
The arrival of the new X-Man, Bishop, from the future, put further strain on the relationship between Storm and Forge, a relationship that was already on the rocks. Storm had been too busy with her job to ever find time for her lover, who acted as mansion staff and technician. Forge proposed to Storm, but Ororo hesitated. As Jean Grey refused to tell Forge about Storm’s true feelings, Forge became convinced that Storm didn’t love him and could never be a complete person outside the X-Men. Therefore, he retracted his proposal and left to help Mystique, who seemed to be on the verge of losing her mind at the time. Ironically, Storm would have said “yes.” [Uncanny X-Men #289-290]
STORM VI Part VI
Some time later, Storm’s leadership of the few remaining Morlocks was once more called into question, when the Morlocks, possessed by one of their own, went berserk. The X-Men were able to get the situation temporarily under control. However, Colossus’ mad brother, Mikhail Rasputin, assumed leadership of the underground community. His first decision was to destroy the tunnel wall, flooding the Alley and all connected tunnels, apparently killing himself and all Morlocks. [Uncanny X-Men #291-293]
Shortly after he learned that Mystique had only been faking her mental problems, Forge invited Storm to dinner. They realized that they both had been partially to blame for their troubled relationship and made up again. Even if they couldn’t fully resume their relationship, as he now was X-Factor’s governmental liaison and as busy as Storm, they remained more than friends. [Uncanny X-Men #306]
With her old mentor, Achmed el Gibar, lying on his deathbed, Storm travelled to Cairo to be with him in his last hours. One of his pupils, a mutant boy named Jamil, had fallen under the influence of the evil immortal mutant Candra. Storm and her friends confronted Candra and managed to at least save another of Achmed’s charges – Karima, but Jamil chose to stay with Candra. Storm promised her dying teacher to help the children and she appointed Karima the new leader, sharing Achmed’s secrets with her. [X-Men Unlimited #7]
Storm learned that the news of the death of the Morlocks had been premature – actually Mikhail had transported them to another harsh dimension, where time passed faster. Children had grown up in the time, since the X-Men saw them last, and some of them –calling themselves Gene Nation - under the leadership of a teenage girl named Marrow – wanted revenge on the humans who had shunned the Morlocks. They planned another massacre on the Anniversary of the Morlock Massacre. Storm confronted Marrow, who had put a bomb into her heart with which she intended to kill their human hostages, in single combat and cut out the girl’s heart, before the bomb could explode. [Uncanny X-Men #325]
Unaware of the fact that Marrow had survived, as she actually had two hearts, Storm was deeply troubled by that decision. She also felt that her entire life consisted only of short-term solutions and that she was incapable of making working long-term decisions. Remembering the Morlocks and how she failed them, she celebrated the Ceremony of Light as a remembrance ritual in the Morlock tunnels, only to be teleported away.
Mikhail Rasputin, who had become a completely insane, Darwinian despot, faked Storm’s death and transported her to his other dimension, where she was to become “mother” to the Morlocks, just as he considered themselves their father. Storm learned that Rasputin actually backed Gene Nation. Eventually, she forced him to return all the surviving Morlocks back to Earth and gave the Gene Nation members a choice. She’d transport them to the African village she had been to on her travels while she was powerless. The village had become impoverished through neglect and they could help to rebuild it – or else. [Storm #1-4]
Newly energized, Storm presented a new look to her teammates. During that time Storm also called off her on-again-off again relationship with Forge for good, since she couldn’t imagine a long-term future with him and started a subtle flirtation with Cable instead.
Storm once more confronted Candra – who had by now learned that Storm had stolen her heart as a child – over the fate of the children Jamil and Karima. After facing several old foes and friends who couldn’t possibly be there, Storm realized that Karima was a powerful mutant with the ability to make desires real and that Jamil was only an expression of her own desires. When Cyclops destroyed the ruby that contained Candra’s essence, Storm’s opponent perished and Ororo returned Karima home. [X-Men (2nd series) #60-61]
With Cyclops and Phoenix leaving the team to recuperate, Storm was once more leader of a partially untried team that included Marrow, who tried to provoke her at every point and whose very presence reminded Storm of her own failures. Eventually, after some clashes with some of her own teammates (e.g. Cannonball) and Callisto over Marrow, Storm finally offered her hand to Marrow and promised to do the best by her as her leader. By that time, Marrow too, thanks in part to her burgeoning friendship with Cannonball, had mellowed enough to accept Ororo’s peace offering. [X-Men (2nd series) #71-79]
When the High Evolutionary temporarily caused a world wide loss of mutant powers, Storm adopted an even more sisterly attitude to Marrow. While they worked together at a summer camp, Ororo happily observed that Marrow started to act like a normal teenager, crushes and all. [X-Men (2nd series) #99]
In the following months, the X-Men were restructured. Some members left, others returned and new ones joined. During that time, Storm took a less active role and belonged to a division of the X-Men that travelled around the world, more or less without leader, to face some new threats in Venice, Italy, and Russia. [Uncanny X-Men #381]
Eventually, the X-Men reunited, but with several of her teammates still recovering from injuries received earlier in battle, Ororo paid a visit to an old friend in need. The Black Panther was struggling with several personal and political crises, one of which included a possible world war in the making, as he was giving asylum to a Lemurian child who was hunted by her own government and several other factions. Storm assured the Black Panther of her friendship but also told him of her fears that he was in danger of going down the same path as Magneto. [Black Panther #26-27]
Shortly after her brief leave of absence, the X-Men learned of the Diaries of the late precog Destiny, which chronicled the future. With only one book in their possession, Ororo realized that the diaries were a dangerous weapon, a weapon someone as powerful as Charles Xavier couldn’t be trusted with and that she had to find the rest. With a hand-picked team of X-Men, she left the mansion. She especially asked Tessa AKA Sage to be among this group, as her analytical skills would be needed to make sense of the cryptic prophecies. [X-Men (2nd series) #109]
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STORM Last part
As leader of the new team, Storm had to fight with difficulties from the very beginning, not the least of which was the death of her teammate Psylocke at the hand of the mysterious villain Vargas, who claimed to be the true Homo Superior. [X-Treme X-Men #2-3]
Trying to help some saurian people reach the Savage Land, Storm became a prisoner of an old enemy – Brainchild. When she spurned his affections – as she had done before – Brainchild used his machines to push her downward the evolutionary scale and unleash the savage beast in her. Storm eventually turned against her “master” and her teammate Sage managed to restore her, but Storm’s anger and her fear at how easily her dark side was unleashed remained. [X-Treme X-Men Savage Land #1-4]
Investigating the death of the Australian crimelord Viceroy, for whose murder Gambit was implicated, Storm and her teammate Thunderbird III met Viceroy's children, the Camerons, who had no idea of their true father’s criminal past. After Storm saved Davis Cameron – the brother – from drowning, the two of them grew somewhat attracted to one another and started some subtle flirting. [X-Treme X-Men #5-9]
The Camerons stayed with the X-Men for protection. Around that time, Gambit asked Storm for the ruby she had inherited from her mother, which – as Sage revealed – was part of a mysterious powerful group of gems called the Madripoor set. The ruby, as well as the other gems, was stolen by the other-dimensional warrior Shaitan, who also abducted Gambit. Shaitan used the gems and Gambit’s power to create a portal - a giant space needle in the making - that allowed the other-dimensional armies of his master Khan, a conqueror of whole universes, to enter Madripoor, while at the same time a forcefield that prevented other heroes from entering Madripoor to help. [X-Treme X-Men #10]
Khan briefly became a prisoner and Storm saved his life from the psychopathic Madripoor Crimelord Viper, humiliating her in the process. Khan immediately became obsessed with Storm, recognizing in her a rare kindred spirit who was his equal. When Viper struck Ororo in the back, leaving her for dead, Khan took her with him to another dimension, ordering his physicians to save her as she would be his queen. As prisoner of Khan, Storm used all her wiles to convince him to stop his attempted conquest of Earth. Meanwhile, the other X-Men were racing against time to try and find Storm and to attempt some sabotage, before the space needle completely solidified – which would allow all of Khan’s troops instant access to Earth.
To make matters worse, Khan’s concubines jealously tried to murder her. Storm won against them, despite her powers not working properly, thanks to her spinal injuries. Storm failed at another attempt to convince Khan to blow off the invasion, when she met him in battle. Together, the X-Men managed to successfully stop the Invasion by sabotaging Khan’s castle and blowing up the interdimensional portal, seemingly blowing Khan’s ship up in the process. [X-Treme X-Men #11-16]
Ororo’s injuries took a heavy toll on her, however. She collapsed, had a near death experience and was shortly reunited with the spirits of her parents, who told her how proud they were of her. [X-Treme X-Men #18]
Storm woke up again, but was still heavily injured, needing physical therapy for her back and legs. With their mission to find the diaries over (since Rogue now has access to them, thanks to her powers), the other X-Men teams asked what was left of Storm’s team to return back to Xavier’s mansion. Storm, however, was convinced that there was still work for her offshoot of the team to be done. Since the other X-teams are now exclusively focussing on the rights of the ever-growing mutant population, Storm, Sage and Bishop felt they had to now make sure that somebody defended the rights of humans and make sure that they all can co-exist. [X-Treme X-Men #19, X-Treme X-Men X-Posé #1-2]
While Ororo recuperated in Rogue’s new Orleans mansion, assisted by Wolverine, her teammates, Sage and Bishop, investigated a murder case – the suspect being a 14 year-old, mutant teleporter named Jeffrey Garret, who had been given asylum at Xavier’s school by Emma Frost, who utterly refused to cooperate with Storm’s team. Storm was clearly hesitant to oppose Emma, until Wolverine confronted her with the fact that she was afraid of the other woman who had messed with her head twice. Storm eventually faced and overcame both her fears and Emma, still disliking the woman, but ready to give her the benefit of the doubt. Working together, both women solved the mystery of Jeffrey’s murders. Afterwards, however, Storm came to blows with Xavier over what to do with the boy: Xavier decided it was safer for all sides to keep on giving him sanctuary, whereas Storm believed that Jeffrey should take responsibility for his deeds in a court of law, to show that mutants are not above the law. Storm’s team left Xavier’s once again. [X-Treme X-Men #20-23]
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