This story is written by 2 X-Man fans: Eneida Queiroz & Bruno Siqueira.
Drawings made by Patrícia Clarkson
Translation from its original version made by Marcela Bijalba.
Losses and Damages
Prologue:
Our story begins at the ex X-Man
Jubilee´s 16th bithday party . All the X-Men are present, except for the professor who is
trapped. (After the ounslough he was taken into space leaving the Earth protected from
"his" horrible threatenings). All from Generation X and the X-Force have showed
up to this superparty. Gambit is dancing with the birthday girl while everyone else
is talking, drinking, laughing and having fun.(At least once in a lifetime, after all,
they deserve it!).In a table with five chairs,on the side, Wolverine is talking to Storm
while Joseph is taking the courage to ask Rogue, who is right next to him, to dance. The
chair next to her, on the other side, is Gambit´s. See drawing .
Narrator: Mutant Jubilee´s 15th birthday party at the school for the young supergifted of professor Chavier in Massachusetts.
Jubilee: Oh Gambit! I´m so happy Wolvi came to my party! At least this time he was a bit less antisocial...
Gambit: Of course he´d came chere, he loves ya.
Joseph at last has the courage to ask Rogue up. Wolverine pretends he doesn´t see anything.
Joseph: Hi, wanna...dance?
While everyone is dancing nobody seems to notice something terrible is about to happen. The hand of the formerly known as Magneto comes across Rogue´s face. If he were to do what he was thinking, he could get into a coma. But Joseph, despite his memory loss, knows he can control a magnetic field across his body and protect himself from the powers of the beautiful mutant, that can suck away his memory and powers. What would be her reaction to a real touch? After all it has been so long. See drawing. And then, Joseph´s hands touches Rogue´s face and lips. She closes her eyes while a shimmering tear falls down in an explosion of feelings from her eyes.
Narrator: At this moment Rogue doesn’t know whether to smile or cry, after all a man can touch her!Joseph: Lets go somewhere else...
Rogue: OK...before ah regret it.
Gambit returns to the table with Jubilee by his side.
Gambit: Do you know where Rogue is Wolverine? See this picture
Wolverine: She was here with us...but now I don’t know.
Storm: I think she went to the the little ladies room...
I´d like it if you didn’t judge these two poor souls, they didn’t measure the consequences of their acts. They’re only two human beings that have been taken by the moment.
Narrator: Already at the mansion, Joseph takes Rough to their first night of love. In this moment of ecstasy, the master of magnetism lets out a very compromising sentence:
Joseph: Rogue, I love you... See this picture
Rogue:
I love you too, Remy...Narrator: On the next day...
Jean and the Angel are siting and watching TV. Psylocke enters the room.
Psylocke: Good Morning you all. Jean, my aurora rubra scar is gone. What could have happened to it?
Jean: Oh, Betsy...I have no idea. I´m not sensing any psiquic alteration in you but I think it would be better to ask the Beast. see this picture
Joseph enters the room with a indescribable grin on his face.
Jean: Wow, where did that all that
happiness come from ? That been very rare in this house lately...Joseph: It’s because I had an incredible night!
In the command room, Scott, who is very worried calls Storm and Wolverine for a chat.
Narrator: Meanwhile, in the command room, who is giving out orders is Scott Summers.
Storm: What’s wrong, Scott? You called us?
Scott: Yes, I did! The three of us have to go to Wall Street, a anti-mutant group is threatening to put fire on a building full of innocent civilians if the X-Men don’t show up!
Storm: What do they want? To have us arrested?!
Scott: Yeah, there’s something really weird going on over there.
Wolverine: Grrrr! Just tell me who it is, I´ll chop him into bits,
boss.Scott: We excuse your bloody comment, Logan. LET`S GO X-MEN!
Wolverine:
Pretty boy!Wall Street. A not very large but significant group is protesting in front of a buildind full of victims. But that’s when Logan, Scott and Ororo arrive...
Anti - mutant group: Let´s exterminate everybody! Get the black bitch!
Storm: That´s racism!
The scuffle is on the lose. Cyclops gives a man a ray of light from his shades. Storm lifts up a dirt cloud that makes everyone nearly blind for a good period of time, meanwhile, Wolverine prefers to sock a man on the grown. That´s when he sees a pamphlet on the ground.
Wolverine: Hey pretty boy, come here! Things are harder than we expected. We gotta tell the other X-Men now!
Pamphlet: " Campaign for the Sterilization of the Mutant Race, don’t let them procreate"Back in the mansion, Storm is in the command room trying to find a solution to the problem.
Storm: This is extremely serious Scott! They want to extinguish our race in this generation... If the professor X were here he´d surely thin of somethin´.
TV: And the weather forecast is predicting a little bit of rai.....this is Trish Tilley and we´re entering this programs with some hot news: an anti-mutant group strikes again in Wall Street, they are demanding the presence of all mutant that should be sterilized in the Hospital of Massachusetts. If this should not occur, they pretend not only to exterminate a new generation of mutants but to exterminate this one now! Trish Tilley for the four o´clock news.
In the Blackbird on the way to Wall Street are Psylocke, Wolverine, Scott Summers and Samuel Guthri.
Scott: Don´t hurt any civilians X-Men! Did ya hear that,
Wolverine!Wolverine: Grrrr! Pretty boy!
In the middle of the mess the midget that appeared on the same day Aurora Rubra saved Psylocke shows up again.
Midget: Betsy, it´s time....
Psylocke: What?
Midget: The scarlat forces of the Aurora Rubra have been quipping you alive for the last year, but now we want you.
Narrator: Suddenly, Betsy is invaded by an incredible force which raises her mutant powers emitting a psychic scream in everyone that loved her: her friends, her parents and her love.
Angel:
Betsy!!!!!Narrator: The angel lifts up on a desperate flight to be with his loved one but all he sees is a powerless body fading between his arms.
The angel embraces Betsy in his arms while all the X-Men and the humans observe everything forming a circle around the tragedy, and for a moment, they form one group. With no distinction of colour and race... the angel takes Betsy flying into the setting sun.
Narrator: It is at this moment when the angel realizes he’s back to being a bird flying alone.
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