when i heard they’re revamping the x-books again way back 2000, i was thinking of finally ditching my comicbook collecting and well, try to save more money instead. besides, my friend (the one whom i’m buying my comicbooks at) is saying farewell and will be closing his store in baguio for a change in career - in china.
i dunno what happened next but still, i am able to resist my conditioning and bought this together with the other x-books (xtreme xmen, etc).
first pages show cyclops rescuing some mutant kid with 3 pig faces somewhere in australia from a sentinel attack. okay, that’s promising but then realizing how wicked morrison’s mind is. i continued.
it seemed that the human gene is producing new species which we now call mutants. yes. mutants. mutants blooming out of nowhere like mushrooms. before, numbers were a handful till they realized how large their population is. let’s say like around billions.
so how on earth did the xmen find out? thanks to the newest unit the xavier institute have. before it was cerebro, the tracking machine but now, it got a bigger bad ass sister called… wait a second, guess first.
okay, time’s up. it’s cerebra. magnifying telepathic (even latent ones) abilities 10x more.
a spike, jean says but somewhat the very excited professor xaview missed it, neither does the beast who was overwhelmed of their new stuff. (o yeah, did i mention that he looks more like feline now and has 4 fingers for a paw? long story.
that spike was none other than cassandra nova. later issues revealed that she was professor xavier’s twin sister. get this, evil twin sister. mumudrai.
she was near ecuador lecturing some dentist (a trask relative) about evolution and how the evolved humans slaughter the lower species. very graphic is the presentation. you can actually see hands and feet flying.
the poor dentist didn’t do well at the end coz’ cassandra nova was just copying his cells to activate master mold and produce rouge sentinels under her command. finishing him off by piercing his heart. talk about heart break (get it?)
emma “the white queen” frost is introduced here too as a teacher in genosha. bitching actually but she loves her stuff so i guess, she’s pretty much doing good. gone were the generation x days with the banshee.
anyway, cyclops and wolverine were asked to go check the spike which jean saw but got ambushed by the rouge sentinels and were captured. they met cassandra but lost the pig-faced boy in the process as the sentinel burned his body to bacon smell. it was cyclops who gave the killing shot though as he used his eyebeams to end the boy’s agony (he did that? yes!).
they were able to capture cassandra though as wolverine slashed her throat.
before they were able to do so though, she ordered some sentinels to do something… and lifted off.
what did she order? oh nothing special, just to kill off billions of muties and burn genosha. the very island which magneto ruled over.
the xmen and the world were in tears that day. though not all coz’ some racists did like the idea.
cassandra nova is brought to the institute for questioning. while beast and jean went off to genosha to look for survivors. and there they met emma frost holding a dead student. how come she survived while the rest including magneto was a victim of the sentinels? thanks to her secondary mutation, turning herself into a diamond, she was able to see the next day.
back to the mansion, cassandra is a very resourceful woman. she was able to stop the xmen and show them how she mean her business. even the professor wasn’t able to stop her. she managed to get her bald head inside’s cerebra and psychic tentacles came out of her mind.
emma bless her soul, was thinking of helping the x-men all along or was it because she left her louis vuitton bag at the lab? she went back to check on it and snapping cassandra’s head in the way.
you also see prof xavier oulling the trigger and shooting the enemy. hardcore chuck.
so everybody’s safe now.
later that night, jean and cyclops were discussing issues about their marriage. him being possessed by apocalypse which changed his persona and her not standing on his excuse. she feels they’ve been too apart from each other too long already.
then they saw professor xavier appearing on a tv announcing to the whole world what he really is.
“ladies and gentlemen, i am profesor charles xavier and i am a mutant”.
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