Mutant Academy: The Story So Far..., Catching Up with the X-Men

[Hyperkid37]

September 1963

Stan Lee/ Jack Kirby

"The Strangest Teens of them All"

The X-Men

5 Super powered teenagers. One man with a dream.

One simple comic book idea has in due time branched out, and created one of, if not the, most successful stories of the 20th Century.

Here we are now. 2007. The 21st Century. And over 40 years later, that storyline continues, as Professor Charles Xavier and his school of Mutants continue to fight for the common goal of equality, all the time trying to find their place in the concept of Evolution, and in time, finding their place in the world.

This world, taking place in a world know as "Earth 616", has found itself actually establishing its own, in cannon, worlds that follow close to, yet slightly different, then the worlds that came before it. A world taken over by mutant hunting robots called Sentinels. A world where the X-Men are simply known as the Witchbreed during 1602. A world where tyrant Apocalypse rules the world with an iron fist. So many worlds, that even a task force assembled by 6 different heroes must travel in between worlds just to make sure right triumphs over wrong.

One world, however, is a very special world...

Earth 617, 616's 'sister' world.

The World of the Mutant Academy.

Here, the X-Men were established by the combined work of Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr during the late 80s. After discovering that they had long-lost sons from the same woman (who records still indicate as a mystery) from an adoption center, Charles and Eric build a school when it became apparent that the boys (told to be named "Charles" and "Eric" by their mother before she left them forever as babies) had the same abilities as their fathers. Soon, The Xavier/Lensherr School for Higher Learning was established, as with a new school comes new students. Scott Summers, the Cyclops. Jean Grey, the Phoenix. Bobby Drake, the Iceman. Hank McCoy, the Beast. Warren Worthington III, the Angel. Together, with Charles Xavier Jr., the Psilord and Eric "Magnus" Lensherr Jr., Xorn, the X-Men were born.

This peace didn't last long though. Charles and Eric Sr. constantly found each other at odds. Charles believed in peace. Eric believed in domination. While their views were different, they still chose to accept each other's opinions in good spirit. Soon, the duo led to the addition to even more 'X-Men' into their family. Wolverine. Storm. Colossus. Nightcrawler. Rogue. Psylocke. Havok. Shadowcat. Mutants of all shapes and sizes were welcomed into the school, leading the the school being filled with over 300 mutants at any given time, leading to the students to dubbing the school "Mutant Academy". This was sadly before the bad times arose...

Jean Grey's amazing powers began to grow more and more powerful to the point that Jean began to actually gain a whole new personality. Calling herself "Dark Phoenix", Jean grew more violent and out of control with each day. Charles felt that it was in Jean's best interest to suppress her powers. Eric felt that Jean should release her powers and become the strongest mutant alive. This argument was more or less to determine the fate of all of mutant kind, and sadly, it ended with violence. Eric mentally lifted a lard steel pike and stabbed Charles through the spine, just as their sons were watching. Charles became paralyzed from the wasted down, forced to live with the fact that he would never walk again. When Eric asked his son to leave the Academy with him, Eric Jr. refused. Devastated, Eric left alone and donned a scarlet helmet, making sure that Charles could never read his thoughts again. He also began going by a new name, his "real name": Magneto.

Despite these tough times, life at the Mutant Academy continued to grow. There were bad times (such as the rise of the Hellfire Club upon the Academy), but there were also times of great joy. Despite having a crush on his somewhat older history teacher Ororo, Storm (only by 5 years), Charles Jr. fell in love with his high school sweetheart, TJ Wagner, the daughter of Nightcrawler. After years of dating and puppy love, and after advice from everyone from Wolverine to Eric Jr. to even Nightcrawler himself, CJ planned to finally propose to TJ. Placing the engagement ring on TJ's favorite fountain in the backyard, everything was perfect. Nothing could spoil this day.

Then, Magneto returned.

Armed with his "Brotherhood of Mutants," consisting of Juggernaut, Pyro, Avalanche, and Toad, Magneto stormed the castle, looking for blood. Juggernaut made his way into the backyard. CJ and TJ fought with all their heart, but Juggernaut (somehow, stronger then ever) was just too much. After a violent concussion that robbed CJ of half his energy, he could do nothing but watch his step-uncle murder the love of his life in cold blood. A thought that would never leave his mind. Juggernaut surely would have killed CJ too, if not for the Eric Jr. using all the shrapnel within a 5 block radius on Juggernaut, forcing him to flee with the rest of the Brotherhood just as the rest of the Brotherhood was forced away by the remaining X-Men, vengeful for their fallen comrade. This would not be the only spilled blood, though. A giant steel sphere, forced by the mind of Charles Xavier, flew up from the Academy right into space itself, lifted by Xavier's own telepathy. He knew that he had to take Magneto down once and for all for what he has done to his school, even if he had to go down with him.

The Avengers, a duel superhero team formed years earlier, reported that the sphere went right into the very sun itself. No one could have survived that impact. No one could survive an impact like that. No one.

The dream was over. The X-Men were without a leader. But out of grief, a new leader was about to arise.

With his father and girlfriend gone, CJ forced himself into work. He took over as the Headmaster of the Academy...and hated every second of it. Sure, there were times of happiness, such as the establishment of sister Academies in Genosha, Canada and China, but CJ never wanted to run the school. As Xavier's heir, he had no choice. He tried to run it to the best of his ability, but after an event dubbed "Black Sunday", which featured every meta-human terrorist in the world seemingly joining forces that led to the death of another academy member, Jean Grey, CJ resigned from the Academy, giving it to the couple/longest reigning academy members Scott Summers and Emma Frost as co-headmasters. Though like many things at the academy, it didn't end there.

With the death of his fiancee' and the destruction of his school during Black Sunday in Genosha, Bobby "Iceman" Drake began heading into a spiral towards damnation, soon leading to his siding with Mutant conqueror Apocalypse.

Also, feeling the side effects of his 'de-mutation' at the hands of Moira McTaggert, Hank "Beast" McCoy also sided with Apocalypse.

A new 'semi-academy' in California was created, following the destruction of X-Nation, a Canadian-Based academy and the disappearance of its headmaster, Anthony Summers, led by Blink and her team of mutants, finding themselves under attack by the Hellfire club following the betrayal of student Siphon.

Soon, during an attack by Apocalypse's Horsemen all across the world, and learning that the Horsemen actually consisted of X-Man Xorn, and the re-animated Nocturne, the X-Men were shocked to learn that the entire attack was created by Emma Frost, X-Man and Headmistress of the Academy. Only with the help of the return of CJ (calling himself Ronin, and sided by the love of his life, Storm), the X-Men were able to stop Emma and Apocalypse, but in doing so, learned the truth behind Emma's plans...

With the X-Men distracted, and with Apocalypse backing, Emma was able to give herself a telepathic secondary mutation, helping her win the New York Senate Chair, leading her to create one devastating rule: all Mutant Training schools must have a government appointed headmaster.

Charles Xavier Jr. is, once again, without a school, and everything that is, was, and always will be associated with the Dream, now belongs to Emma...

To Be Continued...

*blink!*

[Hyperkid37]

Xavier has been removed from his own school.

Emma Frost has taken command of the Senate.

Excalibur has gone underground.

The X-Men, as we know them, are over...

However, the winds of change are upon as, and events from the not too distant future are about to pave the way for how the X-Men, and Mutant Kind, experience the world forever...

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Half way across the world; Jeremy Shaw, the Grandson of the Hellfire Club's Back King. tries to learn the mysteries behind his powers and why Emma Frost was so interested in them. The unavailing of these powers may provide some insight into what Frost's big plans are.

Limiter has revealed his alliances with Emma Frost and she has revealed that he has worked with her for over a year. Limiter has been manipulating and tricking the people of Excalibur the entire time.

[Hyperkid37]

For the last two years, Nikki Cloudtalker has been through Hell. She has yet to know love without instantly knowing loss. But now, after somehow gaining "information" about an upcoming crisis, Nikki actually holds all the cards...and she's prepared to deal them out with a vengence.

[Hyperkid37]

Excalibur Underground

Since the establishment of Emma Frost's Mutant Academy Registration Act, the Mutant training school has been forced to go underground. There, with their newest member Colossus, Blink, Nocturne, Heather Hudson, and the rest must find a way to continue training and protecting the West Coast without Frost finding out. The only question is: how?