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Earth-18104 - 18th and 19th Century

List of events of 18th and 19th Century happening on Earth-18104, focusing more in the events happening with Wolverine, Sabretooth, my OCs and the Akkaba Clan (yes, they're important in this story)

The (N) at the end of names serves to indicate character births, and the numbers is their ages. I will add more eventually as I write.

List of Events of Earth-18104 (Resume)

Tw: mentions of death, abuse and violence

18th century (1701-1800)

1700 -

• Wakanda, Atillan, Talokan, Okkara and Lemuria prosper while the world around it remains at war, deploying wooden ships in naval battles.

1713 -

• Odelia, a descendant of Etana of Okkara, is born somewhere on the African continent, in one of the small cities of the new kingdom of Okkara, home of the first mutants. (N) OC

1727 -

• Odelia is separated from her family and sold into slavery, being taken to South America, Colombia.

• At some point she awakens her fire powers, but keeps them secret.

1728 –

• Hadiza is born, daughter of Odelia, descendant of Etana. (N) OC

• Odelia taught her daughter how to control her powers. In the following years, her children and grandchildren would inherit her abilities, however, none of them would have such powerful flames until the birth of Tereza Márquez years later.

1757

• June 23 - Britain establishes corporate dominance in India, beginning nearly two hundred years of oppressive rule over the country.

1760 –

• A mutant named Samara is born, a distant descendant of Etana. (N) OC

1764 -

• September 18 - Raven Darkholme is born somewhere in Germany. (N)

• In the future she would be called Mystique. Her shapeshifting powers first manifested when she was twelve years old and granted her a lifespan far beyond that of a normal human.

• June 25th - The witch Amelia Smith is born. (N) OC

1773-

• December 10 - Vincent, a feral mutant, father of Tereza Márquez, is born in Colombia. (N) OC

1775 -

• April 19 - The American Revolutionary War begins.

• June 14 - The United States Army is formed.

1776 -

• July 4 - The United States of America is established.

1779 -

• March 11 - Salomé, a mutant of fire, mother of Tereza Márquez, is born in Colombia. (N) OC

• Like her ancestors, she has the ability to create fire, however, her flames are much weaker than her grandmother's.

1780 -

• The Daughters of Liberty sisterhood was founded in Europe. Spreading the message of freedom in the colonies, they were a sisterhood of guardians protecting the knowledge of the new age.

• They were trained in forms of combat, such as swordsmanship and martial arts.

• At some point, Agatha Harkness (116) joined the organization and trained some members, including Amélia Smith (16) OC.

1783 -

• September 3 - The American Revolutionary War comes to an end.

1787 -

• (The bear)

• Born as a slave, when Vincent was fourteen, he saw his mother being mistreated and tried to defend her, being beaten instead. Seeing the boy's injuries disappear just moments later, the slave master continued to punish him for several days.

• When the punishments got worse, Vincent's second mutation emerged, giving him long, dark fangs and claws, like those of a bear.

• Tired of the torture, Vincent freed himself from his chains and killed his attacker, running away from the plantation where he lived.

• For the next few years, he lived alone in the forest. His mutation made him more of an animal than a man and he learned to live like one.

• Many stories were created about a wild man who protected the forests and many people tried to find and kill him, but no one succeeded.

1789 -

• April 13 - The mutant Beatrice Carvalho, later known as Lullaby, is born. (N) OC

• George Washington becomes the first president of the United States.

• The French Revolution begins.

• The Akkaba Clan was involved in this conflict. They grew in numbers, accumulated wealth, and placed themselves in influential positions to control the world.

1791 -

• Amelia Smith (27) was expelled from the Daughters of Liberty for involving herself in forbidden magic.

• She was found by Elsa Santiago (306) who welcomed her into her coven and taught her about the Enriched and the beliefs of Apocalypse and the people of Okkara.

• Thus, she became the Second Pillar of the Inner Circle.

1794 -

• Amélia Smith (30) met and married a mutant, Carlos Salazar.

1800 -

• February 26 – Antônio Cavalcante. (N) OC

19th century (1801-1900)

1801 -

• June 6 - Theodosia Salazar is born, daughter of the mutant Carlos Salazar and the witch and former member of the Daughters of Liberty, Amélia Smith. (N) OC

• (The second Pillar - OC)

• When Beatrice Carvalho was twelve years old she discovered that she could float, the first of her mutations. Beatrice was very imaginative, so her parents didn't believe her at first when she told them that she managed to fly into the clouds.

• Upset, she kept trying to fly again, until she managed to do so in front of her parents, climbing high until she touched the roof of her house.

• What she thought was a blessing, her parents thought otherwise. Despite not being afraid of their daughter, they believed there was something wrong with her and asked her not to use her mutation in front of others.

• Beatrice didn't think anything was wrong. She began training secretly, every night going to the garden where she would try to fly to the top of her house and then back.

• Some time later she had already mastered her mutation and no longer needed to hold on to trees or the roof to stay still.

• One day, she showed her parents how well she could fly, floating around the garden, leaving her parents in awe.

• Without her knowing, Amélia Smith had been watching the girl train for the last few months and went to tell her teacher, Elsa Santiago.

• Unfortunately she wasn't the only one to see it and Santiago was more than interested in her mutation and wouldn't let the girl go free, so she took her daughter Deianeira to the city where Beatrice lived.

• The following night, Beatrice's house was surrounded by a crowd, who demanded that she come out and show off her powers.

• When Beatrice's parents tried to send the people away, they started throwing stones and torches at the house, while Santiago and Deianeira watched everything from afar.

• Beatrice watched as her parents were stoned to death, which caused her second mutation to emerge. Frightened, she began to cry and scream, but her voice came out a hundred times louder, creating sound waves so strong that it brought the angry crowd to their knees.

• Santiago then decided to intervene, using her powers she disintegrated the humans and walked towards Beatrice.

• Without knowing that it was Deianeira who hypnotized the humans to attack her house, Beatrice became attached to the two mutants when she saw that they had powers like her.

• From that moment on, Beatrice was taken by Santiago and was part of her Inner Circle as the Second Pillar.

1803 -

• Salomé (24) OC escaped from her slave master, revealing her fire powers. Unfortunately, she had to leave her siblings behind to escape, but promised to return to free them.

• In a forest in Colombia, Vincent (29) OC was still hiding from humans when he met Salomé.

• Upon seeing her, he tried to kill her, but Salomé managed to produce flames large enough to burn her face and blind him, giving her the chance to escape.

• Even so, Vincent, seeing that she was not human either, became curious and followed her, promising to protect her from the hunters.

• They lived together in the forest for a few years and Vincent fell in love with Salomé, asking her to be his mate.

1805-

• The mutant Silas Burr was born in Canada. (N)

1807 -

• May 14 - Theodosia Salazar awakens her powers at the age of six. Her father helped her control her flames and keep them hidden; Her mother Amélia (43), a witch and a follower of Elsa Santiago, watched Theodosia closely.

• She tried to teach Theodosia the ways of Apocalypse's disciples to make her believe that because she was a mutant she should dominate humans, however, her husband did not agree with her beliefs and forbade his wife from teaching his daughter about the mutants of the past.

• December 5th - Francine Cavalcante, a mutant and future founder of the Mercs for Money, is born in Colombia. (N) OC

1808 -

• When Salomé (29) became pregnant, she told Vincent (34) that they couldn't live in the forest forever with their baby and convinced him to go find a safer place to raise their family

• Reluctantly, Vincent accepted and they travel through Colombia, running away from slave owners and others who were after their skills until they reach a Palanque hidden in the Western Cordillera of Colombia, in the region of Eje Cafetero.

• Despite being well received, Vincent built a cabin for himself, his wife and baby away from the Palanque.

• September 13 - Some time later, Vincent and Salomé's first daughter is born, who they named Helena. (N) OC

• At first the other residents looked suspiciously at the new couple, but over time, Vincent, being a mid-level feral mutant, became the palenque's main protector and helped free other slaves and take them to safety.

1809 -

• December 14 - Salomé and Vincent's second daughter, Cecília, is born. (N) OC

1810 -

• With the creation of the state of Cartagena, the abolition of slavery in Colombia was officially presented.

• However, this would not be respected and the slave trade would continue, which traders still considered private property.

• At this time, Antônio Cavalcante (10) OC awakened his mutation, being able to enter people’s mind and read their emotions by touching them.

1812 -

• February 13 - Theodosia's father, Carlos Salazar, died in a mysterious accident caused by her mother, Amélia Smith (47).

• June 18 - The Anglo-American War begins.

• August 27 - Months later, after discovering her father's death, Theodosia Salazar (10) burns her mother to death.

• In the months that pass, the people of the village think that Theodosia is innocent and she lives in an church with other kids.

• One day Elsa Santiago (326) and her daughter Deianeira (191) visit her and try to take her to their mansion, where they could help her control herself. Theodosia refuses, stating that no one can help her, and tries to attack her upon hearing that Santiago was her mother's mentors.

• She is no match for Santiago and is easily subdued. Elsa promises to train Theodosia and the young mutant accepts and becomes the Third Pillar of the Inner Circle.

• For the next years, she lives with Elsa and other mutants, including Deianeira and Beatrice Carvalho (22).

1813 -

• Zebadiah Creed fights in the Anglo-American War.

• November 11 - After losing a baby during birth, Vincent's first son, Hector, is born, and like his father, he shows signs of feral mutation since birth. (N) OC

1814 -

• December 24 - The Treaty of Ghent is signed, ending the War of 1812.

1815 -

• February 18 - The Anglo-American War comes to an end.

• Zebadiah Creed returns to Canada and marries a young woman named Victoria as he had promised to do before going to war. They live on a farm in Edmonton, but Victoria quickly regrets the marriage when she sees how explosive Zebadiah could be.

• August 19 - Tereza Márquez, later known as the villain Sanguinária, is born in a palenque in the Western Cordillera of Colombia. (N) OC

1817 -

• February 11 - Zebadiah and Victoria's first son, Luther Creed, is born. (N)

1819 -

• May 3 - Victor Creed, later known as the mercenary Sabretooth, is born in Edmonton. (N)

1820 -

• January 22 - Clara Creed is born as the only daughter of the Creed family. (N)

1821 -

• April 30 - Living in the same palenque as Vincent and Salomé, the mutant Francine (13) awakens her telekinesis. After that, she becomes closer to Helena (12) and Cecília (11), Vicent's daughters.

• Seeing that Francine was a mutant like his children, Vincent (47) decides to adopt her into his pack, and which time he begins to train them to control their abilities, teaching them to hunt like feral mutants.

• Meanwhile, Tereza (6) began helping her mother with household chores while her father and sisters went hunting; From an early age she had trouble interacting with other people and didn't spoke until she was a little older, which worried her mother.

• What her family, at that time, didn't know was that Tereza, like her brothers, was autistic. Despite not speaking, she understood her family very well, who never tried to make her communicate verbally or anything that made her uncomfortable.

• She lived a happy life in her community, despite all the dangers she faced.

• One day, Tereza was playing with Hector (8), who started teasing her about going hunting with his father for the first time, which made his sister jealous. She wished she could hunt with Vicent, instead of running the house with her mother.

• After being provoked by her brother, Tereza's mutation manifested itself, causing her to create red flames on her hands, much more deadly than her mother's.

• It was the first time in three generations that a member of her family, who were distant descendants of Etana, awakened such a powerful mutation.

• While Salomé was worried, Vicent was pleased with his daughter's strength.

1822 -

• April 30 - Saul Creed is born, last son of the Creed family. (N)

• July 23 - Dulce, Vincent's youngest daughter, is born. (N) OC

1823 -

• When her mother becomes ill, Tereza Márquez (8) begins to accompany her father and sisters on their travels.

• She briefly meets Theodosia Salazar (22) OC, who was looking for other mutants in Colombia by Elsa Santiago's request.

• Theodosia shows Tereza her fire powers and tries to teach her how to create bigger flames, but Vincent (49) attacks her.

• For a moment Theodosia though she should take the child with her, but decides to stay away and not tell Santiago about the family of mutants she found. Years later, Theodosia and Tereza would become rivals.

1827 -

• March 24 - Salomé (48) succumbs to her illness, as do other few residents of their Palenque. Francine (19) and Helena (18) take on the responsibility of looking after their siblings while their father is away.

• Now without his wife, Vincent (53) becomes more rigid and distant from his children and begins attacking carriages that come too close to their village's perimeters, causing people to retrace stories about the demon that haunted the forests.

• (Origins: Sabretooth)

• May 3 - During Victor Creed's 8th birthday, he and his brother Luther (10) got into an argument over a piece of pie.

• Victor's mutation manifested for the first time and he threw himself at his brother and slashed him with his new claws.

• Used to the fighting games he had with his brothers, Victor didn't realize he had injured Luther until he saw him bleeding.

• Although it was an accident, Victor's father confined him to a basement, forbidding him from seeing his siblings, and every night, he pulled out Victor's "devil's teeth" in an attempt to purge the boy of his demons.

• For the next few years, he was isolated in the basement, receiving visits from his sister who came to give him food in secret.

1828 -

• Silas Burr (23) ran with notorious Edinburgh murderer William Burke and took part in the heinous West Port murders.

1829 -

• Victor Creed's (10) father continues to torture him and lock him in the basement, forcing him to call himself a monster. He then stops feeding him, only releasing a rabbit into the cellar, telling Victor that "if he wants to live, he has to kill".

• Helena (20), Francine (21), Hector (15), Tereza (13) and other men help a group of slaves escape and take them to their city.

• Later, Helena reprimands Tereza for using her powers irresponsibly and says that if she cannot follow orders she should take care of the housework with Dulce (6), which angers Tereza and the two sisters fight.

• September 28th - A few months later, Tereza (14) was dancing with her family, during a party in the Palanque, when they were attacked by a large group of white men. Vincent (55) and his children tried to protect the Palanque, but they were easily subdued even with their powers.

• Seeing her family being attacked, Tereza's mutation evolved and her flames grew and she was able to kill all her enemies, but destroyed her village and the surrounding forest along with it. Unfortunately, her father's healing factor was not strong enough to save him and he died along with his daughters, Helena, Cecília and Dulce.

• October 14 - Having to flee their old home, Francine, Hector and Tereza began to live on the streets and in the forest.

• Thanks to the training they received their entire lives, they were able to protect themselves from other people who tried to attack them when they were alone.

• The three adopted the name Márquez, took jobs to support themselves, and continued to help slaves and mutants escape and hide; some stories about the three were invented.

1832 -

• One night, after years of living in the basement of his family's home, Victor Creed (13) heard his father and mother arguing. Hearing the scream of his mother and brothers he tried to free himself to protect them.

• One of the chains on his wrist broke easily, but the other remained intact. With no other choice, Victor chewed off his own hand and left the basement.

• When he arrived in the kitchen, he found his mother crying over the body of his brother Luther (14) and his father holding a bloody axe.

• Victor then killed his father, but spared his siblings, Clara (12) and Saul (10), and his mother, who asked him to flee when neighbors approached the house. Victor obeyed and ran into the forest, where he lived alone for the next few months. He allegedly invaded three Canadian provinces and killed at least three police officers while on the run.

• Even far away, he kept an eye on his family and attacked everyone who tried to harm them.

1833 -

• Victor Creed (15) returned to his family after a year living alone in the forest. Upon returning home, he was forgiven by his mother and brothers and became the alpha of his family and began to live wildly, slowly embracing his animal side and taught his brothers to do the same.

• At some point he worked for a railroad. Apparently he eviscerated a man who was harassing him in a bar, which resulted in him and his family having to move.

1834 -

• Canada. - At midnight on July 31, slavery came to an end in all British territories, including British North America. To honor this important event, August 1 is celebrated as Emancipation Day in Windsor, Ontario and elsewhere.

• Margaret Slade was born in one of the high houses of Clan Akkaba. (N)

1835 -

• Ichisumi was collected by Apocalypse and "stored" for later use as the Hunger of his Final Horsemen.

1836 -

• February 23 - The Battle of the Alamo begins.

• Antônio Cavalcante (36) OC was present in this conflict.

1838 -

• Elsa Santiago (342) heard about the Márquez siblings and became interested in their mutations, especially Tereza's fire abilities, which seemed to be as strong as Theodosia's.

• Upon discovering that Tereza was a descendant of Etana, she went looking for her.

• Tereza (23) received an offer from Santiago to be trained by her, to learn about her powers, but she was not interested. She agreed, however, to be trained and work for Santiago.

• She had to become the Fourth Pillar of the Inner Circle, but still remaining distant from Santiago because she felt uncomfortable with the strange interest the woman had in her.

• Under the tutelage of Santiago and her followers, Tereza's powers grew stronger and became a skilled assassin.

1840 -

• Francine Márquez (34) met Antônio Cavalcante (39), a rich man who had a transport business in Colombia. Antônio had heard about the Márquez and soon realized that they were mutants like him, so he revealed his own abilities.

• Francine agreed to partner with Antônio and they started working together. Shortly afterwards, Antônio proposed to her, and she accepted only because of his money.

• Even though Antônio was kind and never treated Francine cruelly and was truly in love with her, Hector (26) and Tereza (25) were not happy with the marriage. Contrary to what she had planned, Francine started to fall in love with Antônio and they had a happy life together.

1843 -

• July 3 - Jonas Graymalkin was born at his family's residence. (N)

1850 -

• Madripoor is used as a sanctuary for pirates.

1851 -

• Slavery in Colombia is abolished.

• Hector Márquez (34) travels to the United States and joins Tereza (33) in the Inner Circle, working for Santiago.

• Francine (43) tries to stop him from going, as she didn't trust Santiago and her allies, because of their "mutant supremacy" mentality. Even so, she and Antônio (48) move and settle in Canada, where they continue their business.

1856 -

• Jack Starsmore, member of Clan Akkaba, descendant of Apocalypse, was born in his family's ancient home. (N)

1858 -

• August 19 – The mutant Irene Adler, later known as Destiny, is born. (N)

1859 -

• Jonas Graymalkin was aware of the turmoil in the colonies over taxation by the British Parliament, but he did not care. He was coming to terms with his own problems when he realized he was gay.

• One day, while meeting another boy in his family's barn, he was discovered by his father, a religious man, who believed his son was an abomination and the spawn of the devil. Beating Jonas nearly to death, his father tried to bury him alive in the nearby forest.

• This burial unleashed Jonah's mutant powers, allowing him to survive nearly 200 years underground before being unearthed in the modern era.

1860 -

• August 4 - Hamilton Slade, Margaret Slade's eldest son, is born into a wealthy and prestigious family. (N)

• Being a descendant of Apocalypse, Hamilton inherited a strong dose of his blood that granted him great strength and resistance and that is why he was chosen to be the next leader of his clan.

1861-

• The American Civil War, or Civil War, begins.

• Saul (39) and Victor Creed (42) and Hector Márquez (47) OC join the war. Because of their mutations and wild nature, the three men do not get along immediately, mainly because of Victor's aggressiveness.

• Hector sends letters to his sister Francine, telling her that he had found other people like them.

• Over time, the three become comrades and talk about their sisters, Victor also becomes curious about Hector's sisters being "freaks" like them.

• As women were not allowed to fight in the war, Tereza Márquez (46) OC disguised herself as a man and used the name Vincent Márquez to join the army.

• She joined an abolitionist group and carried out missions to free slaves, taking them to the secret houses of her sister Francine (53) and her brother-in-law Antônio Cavalcante (61).

• At the same time, Clara Creed (41) also fought in the war, first as a nurse, then as a sniper and spy for the Union.

1862 -

• Clara Creed met and became friends with Francine Cavalcante and worked together to free and shelter runaway slaves at the Cavalcante's house. Their actions caught the attention of the Daughters of Liberty, who invited them to be part of the group.

• At some point this year, Tereza Márquez got into a fight with Silas Burr (57), who had discovered her cover. She managed to defeat him and threatened to kill him if he told someone about her true identity.

1864 -

• Hector Márquez (50) was killed during a battle. His healing factor was not strong enough to protect him and he died after days battling alone.

• His younger sister Tereza (49), who was supposed to meet him days later, found his body and, in a state of rage, unleashed her flames on a small town where her brother's killers were.

• However, her flames became stronger and ended up devastating the entire surrounding area.

• She continued in the war, still fighting on the Union side for black people rights, as her brother had done, but became much more aggressive and cruel when dealing with enemy soldiers.

1865 -

• April 9 - The Civil War comes to an end.

• Victor (45) and Saul Creed (43) were not happy about this, knowing that with the end of the war they would have to go back into hiding or pretend to be normal humans.

• Meanwhile, Clara Creed (44), to the chagrin of her brothers, accepted the marriage proposal of Arthur Roberts, a man she had met during the war.

• July 12th - The wedding takes place a few months after the end of the war.

• Clara invited Francine Cavalcante (57) to the ceremony, but Francine told her about her brother's death and Clara mourned, sending her condolences.

• Clara and Antônio Cavalcante (65) started exchanging letters at that time. With her brother's death, Francine became estranged from her sister and continued business with her husband, continuing with his mission of abolition, as her brother would have wanted.

• Tereza also became colder and crueler and continued to work as a mercenary for Santiago.

• Over time her flames grew stronger, she completely mastered her powers and became very famous and feared.

• She enjoyed this fame, she felt powerful and over time, after so many years of suffering, she became more violent and her bloodlust increased, she became increasingly sadistic and thirsty for violence;

• She traveled all over the world learning several languages ​​and martial arts, becoming an assassin. Despite her cruel labors, she continued to defend her people alongside her siblings.

• Although she was never caught or seen, stories about a fire demon that defended the sacred lands and mutants, stories were created and she came to be called the Diablo of Ojos Rojos.

1866 -

• May 15 - Fredrick Slade was born at Alexandria House, the second son of Margaret Slade. (N)

• Because Frederick was the youngest and weakest son, he did not receive much attention from his mother or even his clanmates. His mother spent most of her time and energy molding his brother Hamilton (6), who constantly picked on Frederick because of his reserved nature.

• Hamilton on the other hand grew up as a sarcastic and aloof child and considered himself equal to Apocalypse and had no reverence for his lord except for being grateful that he was not born human.

1872 -

• Over the years, Tereza Márquez (57) has realized that she doesn't age, just like her father. However, her sister Francine did, as they do not share the same blood.

• Afraid of losing her last family, Tereza went to Santiago in search of a solution. Cruelly, Santiago offered her a chance to make her sister immortal like her, as long as Tereza did one more job for her, and if she completed it, her debts to the Inner Circle would also be paid and she could abandon her position as Fourth Pillar.

• Accepting, Tereza went on a trip, with the mission of finding a young feral mutant in Canada.

• (Events of ILYLRD - fanfic) (Incomplete for now)

• In the middle of his mission, Victor Creed (53) was hired to kill Tereza after she caused panic in a small town.

• At that time, Tereza still didn't have her super strength so she only used her flames and even though she was weaker, she managed to take him down thanks to her abilities when he attacked her in the forest.

• After killing Creed twice, Tereza offered him to pay him to help her find her target. Creed accepted and the two traveled together for the next weeks.

• After they find the young mutant, Darius, they take him back to Santiago and Selene Essex. However, along the way they were attacked by other men who worked for Essex and had the same mission as Tereza.

• Victor was angry for having gotten involved with Tereza and walked away from her after being paid by her. While Tereza took Darius to the Inner Circle. There, she told Santiago about Victor Creed's abilities.

• Tereza's payment was a Life Seed modified by Essex (207). She took the seed to Francine and Antônio and secretly made them ingest it. Unbeknownst to her, Francine was pregnant at the time.

1873 -

• During a New Year's party, Victor met with Saul (50), the two discussed Tereza They were approached by Lullaby (83) who offered them a place in the Inner Circle, however, they both followed Tereza's advice and refused.

• After the visit, they went to visit Clara (52) and noticed that her husband, Arthur, was acting strange.

• Months later, Victor was attacked by hunters and almost died when his healing factor reached its limit. Tereza, who was looking for him, found him and saved him.

• Tereza told Victor her real name (she was using a fake one) and the two start to live together in a cabin, working as mercenaries.

• Over time, Tereza and Victor became lovers, but they had nothing serious, even though Creed was quite possessive. Although they were always fighting, they understood each other and worked well together, sharing the same desire for violence and blood.

• After nine years in an unhappy marriage Clara Creed (54) thought about leaving her husband and returning to her brothers, but Arthur Bennett stopped her.

• In recent years, Bennet began to realize that no matter what happened, Clara maintained a very young appearance, which made him suspect that she was a mutant.

• When Clara tried to leave the house once again, he stabbed her in the back. Upon seeing her wound heal almost immediately, Bennet tied her to the bed and tortured her, trying to purge the demon from her body.

• Victor and Saul, who were going to visit her, heard her screams and went to save her, arriving just as Bennett threw acid in her face. Having flashbacks of his childhood, Victor had Saul take Clara away while he tortured and killed Bennett.

• Seeing that Clara's healing factor was very weak, Victor and Tereza took Clara to Antônio and Francine, who kept the brothers hidden when the city went after them for the murder of Arthur Bennett.

• Shortly afterwards Clara recovered. Her healing factor did not erase all traces of her husband's attack and she retained a scar on her face for the rest of her life. From then on, she started living in the house of Francine and Antônio, old friends of hers, helping them take care of their baby.

• Her brothers went back to work far away, but they always came back to see her.

• July 17 - Francine and Antônio Cavalcante's only son, Augusto Cavalcante, is born. (N) OC

1874 -

• (Clan Akkaba)

• One day, Etana of Okkara (OC) came silently to see the Akkaba Clan.

• Even though she was not a descendant of Apocalypse, she was one of the last Okkari, so all of the clan bowed down to her.

• During her visit, she assessed family members and their abilities. Margaret Slade tried to impress her with the strength of her eldest son Hamilton (14), who was chosen to become leader of the family.

• Etana praised and congratulated him, saying that he should take care of the Akkaba Clan, which Hamilton mocked, thinking he was superior even to his own relatives.

• Etana then ignored him and went looking for Frederick (8), as Ozymandias had had a vision about the boy. Upon meeting him, Etana saw potential in him and something she hadn't seen in centuries.

• Since the fall of the first kingdom of Okkara, Etana has watched her people and seen how members of the Akkaba Clan deceived, betrayed, and even killed their own kin just to be considered closer to Apocalypse.

• Etana knew that Fredrick possessed qualities that she rarely saw among the Clan members such as courage, justice and compassion. Within Frederick, she saw a new dawn for the clan.

• To ensure this new dawn, Etana trained Frederick in the rites of passage that would make him leader of Clan Akkaba, the Fittest One.

1881 –

• Princess Aisha of Okkara is born, a descendant of Queen Milena. (N) OC

1882-

• September 5 - The child known as Dog Logan is born in the surroundings of the Howlett's property. (N)

1884 -

• September 1 – John Howlett Jr, eldest son of Jonh and Elizabeth Howlett, is born in the residence of the family. (N)

1885 -

• July 2 - James Howlett, the mutant who would become Wolverine, was born in Cold Lake, Canada, a few months after his older brother, the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Howlett and Thomas Logan, the caretaker of Jonh Howlett's property. (N)

1886 -

• (Essex Clinic)

• Selene Essex, Lady Sinister (221), began operating an obstetrics clinic, the Essex Clinic, in New York City, conducting research on society's deviants.

• She had unrestricted access to an abundance of generational genetic material to study, including that of Daniel Summers, the first Summers in America and former victim of her experiments in London, and his wife, Amanda Müeller.

• It is assumed that Sinister experimented on Müeller and several of her newborn babies.

• Victor Creed and Tereza Márquez worked for Essex at that time.

• (The Clan Cavalcante)

• At some point, Tereza received a gift from an admirer. Victor was not happy and caused chaos in the village where they lived. After being hanged and surviving, he and Tereza had to move once again.

• Months later, Victor accepted better jobs from Essex and left the continent.

• Tereza was irritated by Victor's departure, but she accepted his letters and kept every single one in a safe place, waiting for his return. As time passed, she started to worry about Augusto's well being and her sister's.

• One day, Tereza was drinking with Theodosia Salazar and asked why Santiago is so obsessed with her. Salazar commented that Tereza has a strong gene, she just has to accept that she is special and talks about the first day they met in Colombia when Tereza was a child, but Tereza did not remember it.

• The Cavalcantes begin to experience financial problems. One day, someone saw Augusto using his telekinesis and it caused once again the townsfolk to turn against the family.

• The Cavalcantes’ house was set on fire; Tereza saved Victor's letters and killed their attackers. The Cavalcantes and the Creeds had to move again.

1888-

• Raven Darkholme (124) disguises herself as Sherlock Holmes and begins working with Irene Adler (30), eventually they became lovers.

• February 29 - Elsa Santiago's son is born, in the future he would be called Praga by his mother. (N) OC

• Tereza Márquez (73), Theodosia Salazar (87) and Beatrice Carvalho (99) were present at the birth and showed disgust from Santiago about the way she treated the baby, and confronted her, but she showed no interest in her child and dismissed them.

1894 -

• (The Fittest One)

• Frederick Slade (27) grew up training with Etana and learned to use his in a special way. He possessed his mother's molecular rearrangement ability and a new mutation that Ozymandias and Etana felt they should keep secret until the battles to come: teleportation. He was also a formidable hand-to-hand combatant honed by Etana's training.

• Everything was going as planned until his older brother, Hamilton (33), realized that his biggest opponent was in his own home. Hamilton, despite having more advanced control of his molecular structure, was petty and honorless.

• So while Frederick slept the night before the rite of passage, he used his power to crush Frederick's spine ensuring that he would never be a threat again.

• The next day, Fredrick watched Hamilton take his place as the clan's Fittest One.

• As leader of the clan, all members had to obey Hamilton's orders, whether they agreed with him or not. Most notably Jack Starsmore, a police officer at the time, was his top underling.

• Margaret Slade (59) showed little thought about what had happened to Frederick, as her pride and joy, Hamilton, ensured that she controlled the Akkaba clan.

• Time passed and people forgot about Frederick.

1897 -

• Augusto Cavalcante (23) OC decided to leave home to travel; His "uncle" Saul Creed offered to go with him and they left the Cavalcante/Creed household.

• One day, Essex (232) asked Tereza (82) to accompany her on an important trip to visit the Slade Family. Tereza agreed and asked who they were, and Santiago said that they are distant relatives of Tereza, in a way, leaving her suspicious.

• Against her good will, Tereza spent time at Santiago's house and then was taken to Alexandria House and introduced to the Slade family, an aristocratic family descendant of Apocalypse and part of the Akkaba Clan.

• The reason Tereza was invited was because she, like her mother, was descent of Etana, the oldest mutant alive, therefore she had the right to rule the Akkaba. However, Tereza had no knowledge of her lineage, nor did she cared. She was not impressed by Hamilton Slade.

• As soon she had arrived, the clan had recognized her red eyes, but Hamilton forbid them from saying anything. Tereza meet with Frederick Slade, Hamilton's younger brother, and then Ozymandias, who was surprised to see her.

• Tereza asked Santiago to explain why she was there.

• Ozyamndias, servant of Apocalypse and Etana, told them he had a vision about the future of the mutants in the world, so Santiago wanted Tereza to stay with her to ensure that things turn out in their favor when the world changes.

• Tereza asked where Apocalypse is, Santiago says that she and Essex sealed him years ago.

• Days passed, Tereza became irritated by the reverence of the Akkaba Clan. Different from the others, she was not bothered by Frederick's presence, as he was much more humble and quiet than his relatives.

• Frederick told Tereza that he was chosen by Etana to be leader of the clan, but his older brother had broke his spine and stole the title. Tereza asked why no one did nothing, and Frederick laughed and said no one cared for the weak in their family.

• Tereza asked if Etana was alive, Frederick said he saw her as a child, she comes and goes, hidden from the rest of the world. And Tereza, being part of her family, was special. But she did not believed that.

• She remembered that her mother used to tell stories about her grandmother and where she came from.

• Later, Hamilton tried to seduce Tereza and she set him on fire in front of his relatives. He was not injuried and Tereza was disappointed.

• (The downfall of the Akkaba Clan)

• March 15 - The end of the Slade family came when mysteriously several members of the clan began to be murdered.

• Hamilton Slade (36) tasked Jack Starsmore (41) with covering the clan's tracks so they could avoid being exposed.

• He then set out to find the person responsible for the death of his relatives, as he could not trust anyone else with such an important job. That was the last time Hamilton was seen alive.

• The Akkaba were left with no alternative but to call Apocalypse for help.

• However, he had been sealed years ago and those who responded to their was Princess Aisha (16) of the New Kingdom of Okkara.

• And she was in the company of Professor Abraham van Helsing.

• The moment Aisha set foot in the house, she recognized Tereza's red eyes and knew she was part of the family. But she refused to acknowledge the woman's importance.

• Aisha wanted to follow the rules of the Akkaba Clan, taking a sacrifice as punishment for being so weak; Starmore convinced her to accompany them to the morgue to prove their suspicions that the Akkaba were under attack by vampires.

• Meanwhile, Frederick Slade witnessed the return of his brother and the introduction of his new lord, Dracula, who was turning members of the Akkaba Clan into vampires to fight Apocalypse as revenge for his previous defeat and the way the immortal had embarrassed him previously

• The clan was outraged, but they were no match for Hamilton and his terrible lord; the clan was killed and transformed, all except the president and main rival Kabar Brashir and Frederick, who Hamilton thought would be a waste of time.

• When Aisha and the others returned, it was too late and the Clan was no more. They were now Dracula's new coven.

• Aisha, seeing the situation, thought that Frederick was a 'simpleton' and would have left him to die, but Tereza knew that he was not so she protected him in the battle that followed.

• When it became clear that they could not defeat their opponents and death was upon them, Frederick took them away through his secret power of teleportation.

• Frederick was instrumental in tracking Dracula and teleporting them to Transylvania.

• Aisha summoned Etana of Okkara and what was left of the army of Apocalypse to aid them in battle, and Frederick teleported Starsmore, Márquez, van Helsing, and Ozymandias directly to Dracula's castle, where they were nearly killed by Hamilton Slade.

• However, as his brother prepared to turn Starsmore into a vampire, Frederick managed to teleport his head away from his body, effectively killing him. Starsmore, shocked by the turn of events, thanked him for saving his life.

• Upon returning to the House of Alexandria, they found the estate burned to the ground and Etana of Okkara sadly decreed that it was here that the Akkaba Clan would die.

• Before leaving, Etana saw Tereza. Her own red eyes, like her daughter's, was enough to tell the ancient mutant that they were related. Etana believed her descendant was not strong enough and left her behind.

• Frederick and Ozymandias saw it as a sign of shame, but Tereza said she only desired to go home.

• With the end of Clan Akkaba and the defeat of Dracula, Etana and Aisha returned to Okkara

• The only members of the clan that survived were Jack Starsmore (41), that went back to his family's home far away from the Alexandria House, Huang Lin's (Nature Kid) grandmother, Warren Worthington III's great grandfather, Armando Muñoz's grandfather, and a relative of Ororo Munroe.

• While Tereza went back to her family and van Helsing left for Canada, Frederick and Ozymandias began to rebuild the Clan in secret

• Tereza returned home to her lover, Victor Creed, and decided to stay with him, and never told him about anything that happened in London or about her family.

• (Jonh Howlett Jr.'s death)

• June 13 - Jonh Howlett Jr. (12) was apparently born a mutant and at some point bone claws grew in his hands and he attacked his mother, scarring deeply into her back.

• It is implied that it was his father who killed him. After this, Elizabeth Howlett was hospitalized.

• Days later, James Howlett (11) visited his brother's grave with Dog Logan (14), who was forbidden from telling the truth about his brother's death.

1898 -

• After his brother's death, James Howlett (12) spent more time outside with his friends: Rose O'Hara and Dog Logan (15).

• The children were close friends, but as they reached their teens, the abuse inflicted on Dog by his father warped his mind. Dog made unwanted advances toward Rose, which James reported to his father.

• In retaliation, Dog killed James' dog, leading to his and his father's expulsion from the Howlett estate.

• April 9 - That same night, Thomas Logan, drunk and armed with a shotgun, broke into the Howlett estate with Dog and attempted to take his ex-lover Elizabeth with him. John Howlett tried to stop him and Thomas shot him in the head, in cold blood.

• Upon seeing his father die, James' mutation manifested and bone claws extended from the backs of his hands and he attacked the intruders with unusual ferocity, killing Thomas and marking Dog face with three claw marks.

• Already an emotionally distraught woman since the death of her first child, Elizabeth, completely unhinged, pushed James away and took his life immediately afterwards with a shot from Thomas' gun.

• James's grandfather ordered him and Rose to escape by train and used his influence in the town to help the pair escape.

1899 -

• James Howlett (13) and Rose later took refuge in a quarry in British Columbia under the pretense of being cousins.

• James took the name "Logan" and within months, as the hard work of mining and the difficult environment wrought traumatic changes in his body, Logan became extraordinarily healthy and fierce.

[braddocklegacy]

Excalibur #21 (2019)

[xprojectrpg]

Throwback Thursday - Clan Akkaba:

Last year, the rising of a new magical threat drew all four teams - X-Factor, X-Force, the X-Men and eXcalibur - into a mystery involving mutant smuggling, summoning spells and a kidnapped prince from another dimension. 

[mutantpowerlist]

Apocalypse - En Sabah Nur 🇪🇬

• Biomorphing • Genius level intellect • Energy and matter manipulation • Flight • Immortality • Invulnerability • Telekinesis • Telepathy • Teleportation • Techopathy • Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, endurance, durability, agility, reflexes, resilience, dexterity, and senses • Can augment, manipulate or steal the powers of other mutants

Teams: Clan Akkaba, 198, Quiet council, Excalibur, Swordbearers of Krakoa Relatives: Genesis (wife), Death (son), Famine (daughter), Pestilence (daughter), War (son), Evan Sabah Nur (clone) TV / Movies: X-Men: The Animated Series (1992), X-Men: Evolution (2000), Wolverine and the X-Men (2009), X-Men: Days of Futures Past (2014) (cameo), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), X-Men '97 (2024) First Appearance: X-Factor #5 (Mar 1986)

Past Horsemen of Apocalypse: Archangel (death), Caliban (death), Gambit (death), Wolverine (death), Banshee (death), Fang (death), Sunfire (famine), Polaris (pestilence), Caliban (pestilence), Deathbird (war)

[souurcitrus]

Now they're bringing my girl Oya back (and Quentin too, somehow) I just hope they feed my obsession with Watxm. Things I would like to happen:

• Make Logan and the other fuckers apologize to Idie for throwing her in the Pit with Sabretooth.

• Let Idie and Quentin have good moments together. As friends, not necessarily as lovers. But ex-boyfriend and girlfriend diynamic is good too.

• Mention of their time at school. I want to see that they remember their friends, please.

• Evan mentioned. Even better if Idie and Quentin try to find out about his death and bring him back.

• (Also, the tournament for Apocalypse's place as leader of Akkaba is coming 👀👀)

• Idie and her best friend Broo reunite.

• Quentin changes his codename to just Omega. He's not a kid anymore.

• Idie kicks someone's ass for what happened to Quentin when Sabretooth got him. (It's the third time one of them is kidnapped by Creed huh?)

• Kubark comes back to Earth to save his friends.

• Jia Jing, Trevor and Iara are there too.

• Idie talks about what she did while she was traveling with the Exiles.

• Where the fuck are Benji and Nathaniel?

This will nerver happen, but I still hope.

[amageish]

So, I've now done the Marvel Move Pride run! Here's my spoiler-light thoughts/impressions...

Marvel Move, art by Luciano Vecchio.

I really enjoyed it~! It wasn't quite what I had been expecting, but it was a very fun take on a mutant-themed Pride story.

Instead of focusing on the protagonist of the previous X-Men runs, this story puts us in the running shoes of Producer, a new mutant who both produces social media content with Carmen Cruz and tentacles using their mutant gift. Producer is a silent protagonist, as is to be expected, but I enjoyed their vibe - they had some fun moments of tentacle self-expression. It's also just funny to me how varied the Move protagonists have been thus far - from relatively-average humans to tentacled mutants...

I liked the angles taken with all the lead characters! Carmen was a fun host, Bobby was appropriately joke-y with a hint of (intentional) cringiness, Cam Long was as stoic as to be expected, Jumbo was a very fun queer elder type of character, and Escapade was the right balance between adorably dorky and somewhat exasperated. Carmen discussing the appeal of making clothing by hand and the value in learning that practical skill instead of just relying on her mutant gift was a very interesting character choice too - love that for her and love indirect the commentary on continuing to make art by hand and not just relying on modern technology...

The villains were very well-done and the main speaking villain's actor killed it. This work-out app story is maaaaaaybe the most unambiguous and explicit use of mutant metaphor as a trans allegory I've seen in an official Disney product? Which is kind of impressive when I think a lot of the mutantphobia of ORCHIS and especially the Coven Akkaba drew from modern anti-trans rhetoric in the comics, but they REALLY leaned into it with the Friends of Humanity's portrayal here.

That said, it does also take a more intersectional approach to mutanthood as well, with the experiences of Bobby as a gay cis male mutant obviously being different from Shela as a sapphic trans female mutant, etc, etc. It was a good balance that made sure Pride story wasn't just pure mutant metaphor content...

So yeah! Good time overall. I wasn't expecting this run, but I'm glad to have gotten it.

(Also if this post ends up in the feeds of a bunch of Marvel Move people like my last one... Hello!!! Keep up the good work.)

[merriemarvels]

If the world was just, if fate was kind, Clarice would have died in the raid on her home. Or maybe she'd have been born in a world where Apocalypse never existed, or never awoke, or was defeated before he could close his iron fist around the throat of every living being on the planet --

Instead, Clarice Ferguson had the unique misfortune of being born in this time, in this reality… and a direct descendant of one En Sabah Nur, one of Clan Akkaba. Not that she could ever have known, her parents certainly never knew they were carriers of the X-gene until their daughter was born pink. And worse -- that genetic heritage did nothing to help, when she was deemed weak, and tossed into the pens.

She became the favorite plaything of the madmen of the regime -- the bloodthirsty Dark Beast, and the twisted, perverted Sugar Man. Each had their ideas of what they could learn from her…

The Beast simply wanted to know how she worked… Testing her endurance, her strength, stress-testing her to induce further whatever potential her genetic heritage held…

but the Sugar Man had ideas, plans for her legacy. He was a geneticist, after all, and any geneticist had need of material…

Clarice has a number of surgical scars in her pubic region, mostly below the rise of the pubic bone (just above the top of where one's pubic hair starts) from having her eggs harvested several times after reaching puberty. A great fear of hers, come adulthood, is that the Sugar Man's tampering has left her infertile -- she doesn't even know if she still has her ovaries at all, all she knew was he was taking something that had to do with her ability to have children.

It's part of why she isn't particularly careful with sexual partners.

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Have you been reading X-men red? If so what are your thoughts on it and arakko at large?

I'm not current on it, but Ewing always turns in really solid work and Red is no exception. The cast is great, I love love love Ororo's look in it, Red and Immortal are definitely the books doing the most to carry on Hickman era while actually innovating on what Jon introduced, instead of just using it as background to retell the types of stories we've already seen. I do wish Rasputin IV had ended up in Red's cast instead of the main book, but that's a personal preference thing.

I actually love the concept of Arakko. I was big into the Krakoa stuff in general, but Arakko--a lost civilization of mutants descended from En Sabah Nur's first Horsemen--is one of those concepts I'm shocked hadn't been introduced sooner. Like, I suppose Clan Akkaba hits that note, but not to the degree or level of success that Arrako does.

They're also a natural counterpoint to the Children of the Vault, which is another of my favorite X-Men concepts that's been revitalized in a big way. Independent of all that "lost nation-state of pseudo-demonic mutants who border on alien" is just great as a core. Just the right about of fantasy genre to inject into the more typically sci-fi X-Men.

Also just all the MtG style names: Isca the Unbeaten, Tarn the Uncaring, Ora Serrata, Bei the Blood Moon, Redroot...yeah, Arrako's very much my thing.

[wqintraining]

NEW X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES - SEASON 3, EPISODE 9

We open three years ago in Caracas, Venezuela. Outside a humble house, a young boy flies a kite. Inside the house, overly loud Spanish music plays. 

In her room, a 14 year-old Sofia Mantega dances all around it without a care in the world. Her face is bright and youthful, there isn’t a phone in sight, her hair is plain, her clothes are simple, and she doesn’t wear any makeup. 

As Sofia continues to dance, a woman can be heard calling out to her. Sofia doesn’t hear. She keeps calling out until, to get Sofia’s attention, she barges into her room. 

MIRANDA, in Spanish: “Sofia Elizabeth Mantega, would you please turn that down?” 

Sofia giggles and she casually floats over to her out-of-date computer and turns off the music. 

SOFIA, hovering above and dropping herself on her back into bed, in Spanish: “Yes, Mother?” 

Miranda sighs and tells her she’s going out. Uncle Paolo needs her to watch her cousin. 

MIRANDA: “If you aren’t too busy.” 

Sofia blows herself out of bed and onto her feet. 

SOFIA: “Of course!” 

MIRANDA, smirking: “You still have legs, you know.” 

SOFIA: “Yes. I use them to dance.” 

Miranda laughs and musses Sofia’s hair. 

We cut back and forth between Sofia playing with her younger cousin, using the winds to manipulate a kite, and Miranda doing some shopping. As Paolo gets in a car with a friend, the friend asks him if he’s really okay leaving his kid with a mutant; Paolo assures him Sofia is family. 

In a trinket store, Miranda asks the shopkeep how much for a bracelet; she thinks her daughter would love it. 

As the kid Sofia is babysitting cheers for the kite to go higher, Miranda steps outside the shop, where an anti-government protest has popped up, due to human rights violations. Miranda gets nervous and moves with haste to get away from the area, but before she knows it, the cops have arrived. The kid continues to cheer on Sofia as Miranda moves with haste. 

Gunshots ring. 

In the present, the sound of gunshots is cut off by a wine bottle being smashed against a wall. 

Lady Akkaba, panic in her eyes, stares down at the bracelet her mother got her on her wrist. She opens up a different bottle in her bedroom (what was clearly formerly Apocalypse’s) and begins chugging it. 

Akihiro, still celebrating the Horseman’s victory, comes to check on Sofia and make sure she’s alright. What he sees instantly alerts him to the fact she isn’t. He shuts the door. 

AKIHIRO: “What’s wrong?” 

Sofia keeps drinking. With her not listening, he throws the Muramasa blade to cut it in half, so it all spills out. 

Sofia glares at him. 

AKIHIRO: “We have plenty more. Talk to me.” 

Sofia tosses aside the half of the bottle left in her hand as Death retrieves his sword. 

Sofia pants and sniffles. 

SOFIA: “Casualties among the Jean Grey School students were expected. Tag wasn’t supposed to be one of them.” 

Akihiro cringes, before sneering. 

AKIHIRO: “So Selene was right. You are soft.” 

SOFIA: “He was my friend!” 

AKIHIRO: “He was weak! Unfit! And you are Lady Akkaba. His death should mean nothing to you.” 

Sofia hangs her head in despair. Akihiro sighs. He’s pissed, but he doesn’t want to make her even more upset. 

Akihiro approaches Sofia from behind and puts his arms around her. 

AKIHIRO: “Famine is not loyal. And together, he and Pestillence are more powerful than us. The only reason they don’t act is because you command the respect and loyalty of Clan Akkaba. But if they catch a whiff of this weakness, they will jump on that, and take us out.” 

SOFIA, barely audible: “I know.” 

Akihiro turns her around. 

AKIHIRO: “If you cannot pull yourself together, tell me now. Either command me to fix your emotions, or allow me to take command myself. We won’t live to see our conquest completed if you don’t.” 

Sofia looks down, glassy-eyed. She closes her eyes. When she opens them, the cold, fierce eyes of Lady Akkaba have returned. 

SOFIA: “I apologize for that display. To my credit, I was trying to keep it private.” 

Akihiro smiles, welcoming his lady back. He understands if she still wishes to get some rest. He can make up an excuse to the others. Sofia agrees that would be for the best. 

SOFIA: “Thank you.” 

AKIHIRO, half-jokingly: “I live to serve.” 

On his way out, Sofia orders him to bring her back some of the octopus and ceviche to eat in here. 

AKIHIRO, amused and playfully bowing: “As you wish.” 

Akihiro departs. Once he’s gone, Sofia returns to a melancholy state, as she flops into bed and starts crying. 

We cut from Sofia’s shut eyes to Sofia’s eyes opening wide. 

Sofia groans and stretches out her arms as she turns off her alarm clock. She has large bags under her eyes, her bones creak, and she’s living in an apartment the size of a closet. 

As Sofia drags herself out of bed, a caption tells the audience it’s last year. 

The exhausted Sofia grabs her phone. Her lock screen is of her and Julian after getting crowned at the last dance they went to. She sees that her notifications are filled with both anti-Mutant bigots cheering on her recent comments, and Mutants and their allies cursing her out and calling her a race traitor and a sell-out. Sofia, looking dead inside, nods along at this common occurrence. She unenthusiastically makes another post. 

Sofia gets up, gets washed and ready for the day, and opens her tiny closet to retrieve her waitress uniform. She forces herself to don a wide grin. 

Outside, Sofia walks through the streets of Caracas. A gentle breeze of wind passes by, running her hair through the wind, and sending a shiver down her spine that makes her freeze in place. 

“Sofia!” 

Sofia shakes herself out of it and approaches an old man sitting on the street with his dog. 

SOFIA, cheerfully, in Spanish: “Hey Sammy Sam!” 

Sofia asks if the old man’s had anything to eat today. He tries to dodge the question, but Sofia doesn’t accept that as an answer, and tells him to come by the diner later - her treat. 

SAMMY, in Spanish: “Would you look at that? I’ve got my own guardian angel.” 

SOFIA: “I do what I can.” 

Sofia arrives at the diner she’s working at, where she’s cheerfully greeted by her heavyset friend Valentina, another waitress, and is screamed at by her boss for being late - again! Sofia sasses him that when he starts cooking real food, she’ll start treating this like a real job. 

Valentina laughs at that, heading into the back with Sofia. As Sofia gets ready, Valentina tells Sofia she’s great, but still isn’t sure why she’s here. 

VALENTINA: “Is the grift going that badly?” 

SOFIA: “The grift?” 

VALENTINA: “You know, all your anti-Mutant stuff. Saw your post this morning about how that lizard kid you went to school with sheds poisonous skin. Nasty. Looked like it was doing well though.” 

Sofia shakes her head and explains she’s no longer making money off social media. She did that when she was creating art and spreading joy, but she doesn’t want to profit off the harm she’s causing. 

SOFIA, her happy mask slipping: “I just want them to hurt a little.” 

VALENTINA: “Okaaaay. Whatever. I’d be making bank of those Muties.” She raises her hands. “Nothing personal! I just need money.” 

Sofia giggles as the two head back into the front. Valentina tells Sofia to look; her foreign admirer is here. Sofia is confused by what she’s talking about. Valentina gestures to a man sipping coffee and reading a book, who’s very clearly Akihiro in disguise. His hair is slicked back and he’s dressed like a tourist, big camera around his neck and all. 

SOFIA:  “You think he…likes me?” 

VALENTINA: “I think he’s only ever here on your days and gives you better tips than any of us get.” 

Valentina notes that he may have terrible fashion sense, but he’s pretty easy on the eyes. Sofia tells her she isn’t looking for someone right now, but Valentina tells her to not be stupid. He’s hot, always polite, and he’s got enough money he’s been here for weeks; she even looked up the camera he has, and seeing its price made her want to vomit. 

VALENTINA: “That is marriage material. What’s holding you back? Were you dating someone in America? Was there a bad breakup?” 

Sofia hangs her head, flashing back to happy memories with Julian. 

SOFIA: “Let’s just get to work.” 

VALENTINA: “Girl, I’ve BEEN working.” 

That night, Sofia comes home from work, exhausted. She just wants to shower, have a small bite, and try to fall asleep early. Even if that last part has been hard lately. 

“Hello, Sofia.” 

Sofia is stunned as she gets to her door, where an old friend is standing with a smile. 

SOFIA: “Derek?” 

Sofia dons a completely genuine grin of excitement as she rushes over to Derek and hugs him. He hugs her back, and the two perform their silly handshake.

 Sofia asks what he’s doing here and how he found her. Derek explains that Ms. Moonstar informed him of what happened to her, and he couldn’t think of anywhere else she’d have gone but home. He didn’t know where exactly she’d gone, but they received an anonymous tip where she was living. 

DEREK: “Likely from a concerned fan.” 

Sofia is pleased by his words, but picks up on one in particular. “They”. 

SOFIA: “Is…is my father here?” 

Derek confirms that he is. And he’d like to see her. If she’d like to get washed and changed, they have a reservation for two hours from now. 

Sofia is stunned. She asks Derek nervously if she should trust him. He tells her he can’t decide that for her, but he does believe he’s here with good intentions. 

Sofia remains nervous. 

Nonetheless, we cut to a fancy restaurant as a more put together Sofia and Derek arrive. Sofia tenses up as she sees her father at a table, so Derek holds her hand to walk to the rest of the way. 

SOFIA, after taking a breath: “Hello, Father.” 

Walter’s lips curl into a slimy smile as he greets his daughter and tells them both to sit down; they have a lot to discuss. They do so, and Walter goes on to say that he’d say Sofia looks well, but she knows for all his faults, he speaks the truth. 

Sofia clenches her fists. Her hand shakes and she has to hold it as she imagines winds around it that aren’t there. 

SOFIA: “Tell me why you’re here, or I won’t stay for appetizers.” 

Walter can appreciate her wanting to get straight to the point, but is surprised she’d be willing to turn down a good meal given her current circumstances. He’s obviously aware of where she’s living, Derek found out for him where she’s working, and apparently for some reason she’s chosen not to monetize her once profitable content. 

All of that is embarrassing to him. But what’s more important to any of than any of that is that she’s been cured. 

WALTER: “I’d fear offense at the proper terminology for your past condition, but from what I’ve seen, we seem to now be in agreement concerning Mutants.” 

Sofia, on ther verge of a panic attack, repeats a demand that he tell her what he wants. Walter complies. 

WALTER: “I’d like you to come home.” 

Sofia is shocked. Walter explains that he knows she doesn’t love him, nor would he expect her to after he had her arrested. He will not pretend to care deeply for her either. But this is irrelevant to what they can offer each other. 

He offers Sofia the chance to leave her rathole apartment and return with him back to Denver, where she may stay with him until she’s 18. At that stage, he will pay for her to attend the university of her choice. In exchange, she will work for him. Regardless of her skill with social media and comunications, he didn’t want a mutant associated with his business, but his beautiful human daughter with millions of followers who’s positioned herself to become the face of the mutant cure campaign if she so chooses? That is someone Barrett Supermarkets could use. 

WALTER: “Or, if you so choose, you may continue to waste away here.” 

Sofia cringes. This isn’t fair. Why is her life like this? Why does she have to choose between barely surviving and submitting to a man who doesn’t deserve to call himself her father? Why did she have to lose everyone who loved her? What did she do in life that was so awful that she deserved this?

Walter, not caring about her questions, asks if she’s done. He’d like an answer. Sofia breathes and requests two days to think about it. Walter gives her a day. Noticing the waiter coming over, since there’d be no point in discussing details yet, Walter departs, wishing the other two a good meal. 

As the waiter comes over to take their orders, Sofia cries, held by Derek. 

The next day at work, an even more exhausted Sofia has just finished telling Valentina what happened the previous night. Valentina knows what she’d do in her position, but she also hasn’t had to live with the jerk before. Their boss shouts at them both that he pays them to work, not chitchat. 

SOFIA AND VALENTINA: “You barely pay us at all!” 

As they do get back to work, Akihiro, still in disguise, enters the diner. 

VALENTINA: “Well, if you’re looking for a third option…” 

Sofia bites her lip, thinking about it. 

SOFIA: “He is very hot…” 

 Sofia makes her decision, quickly applying some sexier lipstick, before walking flirtatiously up to Akihiro to hand him his menu. 

SOFIA: “I’m usually meant to tell customers my name, but I would be shocked if you didn’t know by now.” 

AKIHIRO, smirking: “I tend to remember the names of pretty girls who serve me the best empanadas in town.” 

SOFIA, smirking back: “Do not let my boss hear you. He will actually believe that.” 

AKIHIRO: “A middle-aged man with delusions of grandeur? I know the type.” He flashes his perfect teeth. “My name’s Akeno, by the way. Since I already know yours.” 

SOFIA: “Well, it is nice to properly meet you, Akeno.” 

As Sofia pours him some coffee, she asks where he’s from. “Akeno” tells her he was born in Japan, but has been going to school in America, changing his speech from Spanish to English to momentarily show he speaks both fluently. 

SOFIA, as Akeno scans the menu: “Business or pleasure?” 

AKENO: “Ideally a bit of both. Taking my classes online so I get to do my internship down here and see the sites.” 

Sofia asks what he’s studying, with Akeno telling her Civil Engineering. His boss is the best in his field, but he can be a real taskmaster. 

AKENO: “Not that you’d know what that’s like.” Akeno puts his menu down. “Okay, I’ll take two beef empanadas, a cup of coffee, black…and a date to come with me to the contemporary art museum.” 

The two grin flirtatiously at each other, Sofia telling him she’ll get those first few things right away, but he’ll have to throw in some dancing to get something so touristy from her. Akeno tells her he was thinking dinner, but dancing works too. 

Sofia clicks her tongue as she walks back to the kitchen, pleased with how that went. She high-fives Valentina. 

That night, Sofia and Akeno go out dancing in a nightclub. They dance together, before Akeno goes to get them some drinks. 

SOFIA: “Buying a minor drinks? Such a bad boy.” 

AKENO: “Don’t tell my mother.” 

Akihiro heads to the bar, where he watches Sofia, leering at her as she has the time of her life letting loose. He comes back to her and hands her her drink. She thanks him. Not for the drink, but for this. She hasn’t had this much fun in a long time. 

AKENO: “You don’t strike me as the kind of girl who needs someone to take her out dancing.” 

SOFIA: “I’m not. But no one likes being alone.” 

Akihiro’s mouth opens, genuine empathy appearing on his face for a moment, before his grin returns. 

AKENO: “Well, so long as I’m around, you don’t have to worry about that.” 

The two clink their drinks. As Sofia goes to drink her’s, Akihiro fills it with pheremones. From a single sip, Sofia starts laughing, tripping over herself, and falling over Akeno. 

AKENO: “Wow. You’re that much of a lightweight?” 

Sofia giggles. 

AKENO: “Okay, mistake noted. One more dance and I’ll take you home.” 

Sofia passively nods. 

The two have one more dance, with Akihiro now leading Sofia. 

Akihiro takes Sofia to his car and gets her into the passenger seat. However…

SOFIA: “What? Not going to buckle me?” 

AKIHIRO, smirking maliciously: “Sorry. We’re going somewhere we can’t drive to.” 

From the darkness of the backseat, Lila Cheyney appears, grabbing hold of Akihiro and Sofia and teleporting them away. 

In a flash, the three appear in Apocalypse’s original throne room. 

Sofia gasps and stumbles back as she takes in her surroundings. The lines are walled with cultists, Exodus and Malice stand beside the throne, and on the throne itself sits Apocalypse. 

SOFIA, terrified: “Polaris?” Malice snickers at her. Sofia struggles to breathe. “You’re…Apocalypse.” 

Sofia dashes away from Akihiro and Lila. Akihiro waves Lila off, sending her on her way. 

SOFIA: “Who are you?! What do you want with me?!” 

Akihiro’s posture changes completely as he reveals his true name to be Akihiro, but here, he is known as Death. And he has gifted Sofia the opportunity to be in the presence of Lord Apocalypse. 

The cultists praise their master’s name. 

Sofia is freaked out, but a chill runs down her spine as Apocalypse speaks. 

APOCALYPSE: “Child. Approach.” 

Sofia hesitantly steps forward, trying to brace herself to fight, but disoriented by the pheremones. When she doesn’t kneel, Exodus telekinetically brings her to her knees. 

APOCALYPSE: “You know who I am? What I am?” 

Sofia glares at him, and tells him she learned about him in school. He is Apocalypse. The second-oldest Mutant, and the X-Men’s most dangerous and evil villain. 

APOCALYPSE: “An “evil villain”? I understand why, in their naivety, they would see me that way.” 

Apocalypse explains that Death, as well as Famine and Pestillence at his side, are his Horsemen. His most powerful servants, aiding him in his quest to rid the world of weakness. 

Sofia glares back at Akihiro as he joins the others beside Apocalypse. 

SOFIA: “You mean to rid the world of humanity and weaker Mutants.” 

APOCALYPSE: “Two groups you need not concern yourself with. Or, rather, that was once the case.” 

Apocalypse is aware of her situation. Once, she was Wind Dancer, commanding all that surrounded her. Naturally among the strong, and a prodigy even beyond that. Worthy of a place among the X-Men. 

APOCALYPSE: “But powerful as they are, the X-Men are weak. They do not care for their people, only humanity. And for putting your trust in them, you paid the price. As so many have.” 

Apocalypse’s eyes glow black, filling Sofia’s head with the images of screaming dead X-Men. Mimic, Morph, Thunderbird, Kwannon, Cypher, Warlock, Skids, Synch, and Skin. 

Sofia pants heavily, having just psychically experienced their dying moments. 

APOCALYPSE; “Now, you stand among the human masses. Weak. Helpless. Alone. Empty. Only able to experience relief by attacking what you once were. ” 

Sofia clutches her hands against her heart. 

Apocalypse tells her he cannot comprehend how painful, how agonizing it must be to wake up every day and live as something lesser than who she is. Nor does he blame her for her crisis. She is a naive child, who’s only mistake was to trust the wrong people. 

APOCALYPSE, leaning forward: “Sofia Mantega…what would you give to fly again?” 

Sofia shakes, wanting to insult him or shout at him. But…

SOFIA, hanging her head: “Anything.” 

Apocalypse smiles.

APOCALYPSE: “I am an External Mutant, but I also possess millenia of knowledge, a mastery of sorcery, and the technology of gods. If you truly mean that, I can make you whole again.” 

SOFIA, whimpering: “You can?” 

Akihiro smirks, pleased with how this is going. 

Apocalypse tells her that it will not be easy. The machine he has constructed for this purpose will kill anyone who attempts to use it who is not strong enough in mind, body, and spirit. Before she may use it, he must break her. He must rebuild her. And they must repeat this process until she is ready. 

Sofia is terrified, but a glimmer of hope appears on her face. Still…

SOFIA, glaring: “And in exchange? What? I become one of your horsemen? I become War?” 

Sofia screches, rolling over, as flames are fired at her sides. 

“HA HA HA!” 

MARTINIQUE WYNGARD, approaching from behind: “Lord Apocalypse has already chosen his generals, honey.” 

EXODUS: “All Omega or with powerful Mutant blood coursing through our veins.” 

MALiCE: “Being a Horseman isn’t for nobodies.” 

APOCALYPSE: “You will train. When you aren’t not training, you will serve. And when your training is complete, you will fight in my army with Mutants of your own caliber.” 

SOFIA, actually a little insulted, but also skeptical: “You would go through all of this trouble for a soldier?” 

APOCALYPSE: “I would go through this trouble for any of my children who have had their weapons stolen.” 

Sofia is tempted, once again hallucinating the winds around her blowing. But she also knows what he’s really asking from her. He would have her fight her friends and the X-Men. He would have her kill countless innocent people. It would be a deal with the devil. 

Sofia hardens herself, standing up. Exodus is ready to push her back down, but Apocalypse gestures to stop him. 

SOFIA: “And if I say no?” 

APOCALYPSE: “No harm will come to you. Outside the harm you’d bring to yourself, and the wave of death that will soon come for all your kind. I would have my teleporter bring you home, and you would be free to live what remains of your empty life.” 

It’s a struggle for Sofia to say it, but in that case, Apocalypse can take his offer and try it on someone else. This is not who she is. And he will regret not killing her. He is right that she’s been freeing herself by attacking her friends. No more. She will do whatever she can to help them stop him. 

AKIHIRO: “Oh, come on, Sofia. Try to be reasonable here. This is where you belong.” 

Sofia shakes her head, telling him specifically to stay away, or else. 

AKIHIRO, annoyed: “Famine?” 

EXODUS: “With pleasure.” 

Exodus’ eyes glow pink, making Sofia scream again, as this time, she is shown what has been occurring in her absence Julian and Noriko spending all their time together, with past instances of the two having sex during their intial affair tossed in, and Danger having been welcomed in by the X-Men. 

As the vision ends, Exodus, Malice, and Martinique laugh at her. Sofia clenches her fits, her eyes tearing up as they fill with rage. Even so…

SOFIA: “Send me home.” 

Akihiro sighs regretfully, while the other Horsemen mock her weakness. 

EXODUS: “A pity. You would have made a pretty servant girl.” 

Apocalypse keeps his word and tells her she may go. Lila is waiting just outside the throneroom. She may meet her there. But, if she does this, this offer will not be available again. She will have already proven that being strong and whole isn’t what matters most to her. 

Without another word, but with one more glare at Akihiro, Sofia turns around and walks away. She eventually reaches the door and puts her hand on the handle. As she does so, her hand shakes. Her eyes flicker. She trembles. And she removes her hand from the door. 

She turns back around, approaching the throne, eyed by Apocalypse and his Horsemen with amused curiosity. 

Sofia drops to one knee and bows her head. 

SOFIA: “Please…make me whole again…Lord Apocalypse.” 

Sometime later, Sofia stands in an arena, dressed in a tanktop and shorts, and having been given a short sword. Apocalypse stands across from her with his own, lightning-bolt shaped swords. 

APOCALYPSE: “Among my arsenal is my original mutation. Molecular manipulation. It can heal as easily as it can destroy.” Apocalypse takes a stance, with Sofia nervously following suit. “So long as you remain willing to continue, I will raise you each time I strike you down. Each time I break you, just like the muscles in your fragile body, you will return stronger. But if I ever sense that you arre done, I will leave you to bleed. Understand?” 

Sofia nervously tells him yes, bracing herself as she stares down the behemoth before her. 

APOCALYPSE: “This is your first time. You may scream.” 

Apocalypse rushes Sofia and runs through with his swords. Sofia screams as blood gushes out of her, the camera panning away as Apocalypse repeatedly guts her. 

When we cut back over, Sofia is a barely breathing mess laying in her own blood. Apocalypse kneels down and places his hand on her. In a matter of moments, her body is fully healed. 

Sofia gasps as she sits up, a look of horror in her eyes. 

APOCALYPSE: “That will do for your introduction. You will be expected to endure more soon. And then to survive on your own.” 

For now, he has more important matters to attend to. And Sofia has other training and work. Apocalypse hands her his swords and tells her she may start with those. 

As Apocalypse walks away, Sofia cries and hugs herself. 

SOFA, under her breath: “Monster.” 

We montage the rest of Sofia’s daily tasks and training. Dressed in a Clan Akabba cultist robe, she cleans her own blood off of Apocalypse’s sword and scrubs her blood off the arena floor. She helps clean the rest of the castle, and joins the other cultists in prayer at an altar to Apocalypse. 

The Horsemen then make use of her. Exodus uses her as an easel as he paints Jesus with the Phoenix Force, whipping her with telekinesis whenever she moves. Malice makes her feed her popcorn as she watches a crappy teen drama, threatening Sofia if she reveals to anyone else what she’s into. And Martinique makes Sofia scrub her feet and clip her toenails in the bath, while Martinique insults her and rants about how much she hates her sister Regan. 

When they’re done tormenting her casually, we cut to outside in the desert, where Sofia is forced to run barefoot on the hot sand as the three Horsemen blast away at her from above, intentionally missing to make her dance and squirm, before hitting her all at once, knocking her out. 

By the time she’s back in the arena with Akihiro, healed again, she’s exhausted. But she has a lot of anger to get out. 

AKIHIRO, taping his hands: “Having fun so far?” 

SOFIA, head cast down as she takes her hands, meekly: “Yes, sir.” 

AKIHIRO, not buying it: “Come on. You don’t have to treat me like a god like you do the others. I have real humans for that.” 

SOFIA, hands trembling as she tapes her hands: “You are all sadistic animals.” 

AKIHIRO: “Ouch. And I thought you were into me.”

SOFIA: “You deceived me!” 

AKHIRO: “And from the fact you’re standing here, you should be grateful I did.” He holds his hands out and smugly grins. “You’re welcome.” 

Sofia attacks her hand-to-hand combat instructor, but is of course completely outmatched. As Akihiro blocks all her moves and kicks her around, he tells her he recognizes her style. 

AKIHIRO: “You were learning from her, haven’t you?” 

SOFIA, picking herself up: “From who?” 

“AKIHIRO: “Wolverine. Your style is like hers, but more graceful. More elegant. I like it.” 

Sofia doesn’t care about what he thinks. He knows Laura? Akihiro answers her question by popping out his claws. 

AKIHIRO: “You could say that.” 

Akihiro grins manically as he rushes at Sofia with his claws, Sofia screeching as we cut away. 

We montage as this first day’s events repeat themselves over and over again. Waking up in a bedroom even smaller than the one she’d been living in previously, being gutted by Apocalypse, cleaning up her own blood and other parts of the castle, attending prayer sessions, being used as a slave by Exodus, Malice and Martinique before being trained in speed and evasion as they chase her through the desert, and then getting the crap kicked out of her by Akihiro. Her days end with her serving Apocalypse and the Horsemen dinner and waiting on them as they indulge themselves, before being permitted to return to her room to pass out. 

As the days go by, she slowly has an easier time getting back up after Apocalypse stabs her, she gets more comfortable reciting her prayers, she lasts a little longer in the desert before getting shot down (a fact that clearly annoys Martinique), and she starts being able to at least react a little to Akihiro. 

But at the same time, with weeks having passed, it’s clear the training is taking a toll on her, as with each day, she looks more and more tired, and night after night, she cries herself to sleep. 

One night, Martinique listens in on her crying, the sound bringing her joy and laughter. 

In Exodus’ luxurious chambers, he’s getting undressed for the evening. 

MARTINIQUE, entering: “Famine, I have a proposition for you.” 

EXODUS, looking her up and down: “Enter without knocking again and I put you through a wall.” He laughs. “And not in your wildest dreams.” 

MARTINIQUE, giggling and seated herself on a chair: “Cute, but ridiculously chizzled as those abs of yours are, I’m not interested in that.” 

Martinique says it’s about Apocalypse’s pet. She’s loving torturing her of course, with Exodus chiming in to agree, but she has a bad feeling about her. 

EXODUS, amused:  “Is this because she’s friends with your sister?” 

MARTINQUE: “No! Definitely not! Don’t even remind me I’m related to that pink-haired little bitch.” 

Martinique just doesn’t like her. The way she originally assumed she was going to be trained to be a Horseman. As if she’s anywhere close to being on their level?! And despite her reservations for her joining them at all, now that’s learning to worship Apocalypse, that may still be the arrogant little slut’s goal. 

EXODUS, yawning: “Your point?” 

MARTINIQUE: “I was just thinking, tomorrow during her training…she has a little accident.” 

Exodus grins with her, equally fond of the idea. 

Sofia tosses and turns in her bed. In her dreams, we see her flying around a golden sky using makeshift wings, happy as can be, only for the sky to turn black, a giant Danger to emerge from the ground, who proceeds to blast her, destroying her wings and sending her plumbetting to the ground. 

As she falls, Hellion and Surge fly down after her. She calls out to them, thinking they’ll save her, but they instead grin mockingly at her and start making out. 

Sofia doesn’t hit the ground, but only because she lands on Apocalypse’s swords instead, being skewered. Hellion and Surge land next to Apocalypse, continuing to make out. 

As Sofia gasps for her life and blood dribbles down her chin, Walter stands over her. 

WALTER: “Ready to make a deal?” 

Sofia jolts away, gasping and sitting up. She hugs herself. She starts crying, but stops herself, wiping her tears before they leave her eyes. She takes a breath and recites a line from the prayers she’s been saying for weeks. 

SOFIA: “I cannot be weak. I will not be weak.I must not be weak.” 

“You’re learning!” 

Sofia hops out of bed at the sound of Death’s voice. 

AKIHIRO, from outside the room: “Get dressed and come downstairs. Now.” 

Sofia fights to hold herself together. 

In the arena, Sofia asks what’s going on.

SOFIA: “Am I not even allowed to rest now?” 

Akihiro leers at her, as he starts coughing. Sofia is confused, before becoming grossed out as he pulls the Muramasa blade out of his mouth. 

SOFIA: “Why would you keep a sword inside you?” 

AKIHIRO: “When something is precious to you, you don’t risk anyone stealing in.” 

Akihiro explains to her exactly what the Muramasa blade is. Forged by his previous master, Romulus, and the legendary ninja Ogun, utilized dark magics originated by the ancient warrior Muramasa to create a blade that could cut through anyone, kill anyone, regardless of their Mutation or magics. One that would deny their enemies even peace in the afterlife by trapping their souls inside it. 

AKIHIRO, admiring the blade to Sofia’s disgust: “It did require sacricifing their souls, but I’d say the results speak for themselves.” He swings the sword around. “The only real downside is that so long as I hold it, there’s a little voice in my head telling me to kill everyone. Don’t worry, I don’t listen to it. Not when, by serving Apocalypse, I’ll get to spill more blood than I ever could on my own.” 

Sofia asks what Apocalypse is planning exactly, but Akihiro wags his finger at her, telling her she hasn’t earned the right to that knowledge yet. 

AKIHIRO: “Mutant ears only, sweetie.” 

SOFIA, glaring: “Why are you teling me all of this?” 

AKIHIRO: “Sadistic animals. That’s what you called us during our first session. And you were right. I’m a monster. A beast. Only good for killing. I am Death. And then, there’s the crusader, the body snatcher, and the biggest bitch I have ever met. Between you and me, I’m killing War one of these days.” He smiles. “I realized, trying to teach you to fight like an animal isn’t going to work. You’re not like us.” Akihiro scraped his sword against the ground, before pointing it at Sofia. 

AKIHIRO: “Show me how you dance.” 

Akihiro lunges at Sofia, as classical music begins to play (It’s left ambiguous if this is just for the audience or if Akihiro set this up). Moving at the tempo of the song, and picking up speed as the song goes on, Akihiro guides Sofia’s movements with specific of his sword and repeats them. While Sofia does get cut several times, the repetition of her graceful movements against his strikes quickly helps her learn to dodge them, even as he picks up the pace. The music ends as, eventually, Akihiro gets Sofia’s neck at swordpoint. 

He lowers his blade and claps, thanking her for that performance. 

SOFIA, when they’re done: “What…was that?” 

AKIHIRO: “That…” He sheathes his sword for the time being. “...is how I’m going to make you your own breed of monster.” 

Sofia is afraid, before striking a determined look and nodding. 

SOFIA: “Again.” 

The next day Exodus and Martinique stand atop the castle. As they snicker, they’re joined by Malice. 

MALICE: “What’s so funny, loves?”

MARTINIQUE: “Oh, nothing. Pest.” 

Malice glares at her. 

EXODUS: “Just don’t hold back as much as usual today. Lord Apocalypse has requested we push harder.” 

MALICE: “Fine by me.” 

Sofia races out of the castle at ground level and into the desert. She runs serpentine, moving noticeably faster than she did previously. The Horsemen raise themselves into the sky, with Exodus telekinetically carrying Martinique, chasing after and blasting at her. 

It starts out normally, but Sofia starts being taken back and stumbling and the blasts and explosions and sand clouds and bigger and bigger. 

Exodus and Martinique exchange smirks before firing off their biggest attacks yet. Sofia is hit and overwhelmed. She screams as she collapses to the ground, horribly burnt. 

MALICE: “Shit!” She flies down. “You dullards overdid it!” 

Malice checks Sofia’s pulse, revealing even more severe burns as she turns her over. There’s nothing. 

There’s silence. 

EXODUS, casually: “Oh well.” 

MARTINIQUE: “So sad.” 

Exodus buries Sofia in sand, telling the others he’ll shield their minds from Lord Apocalypse. They’ll just tell him the slave ran away and got herself killed. Martinique quickly seconds the idea, with Malice sighing and going along with it. 

In the throneroom, Exodus, Martinique, and Malice kneel before their master, having given their explanation for what happened. 

APOCALYPSE: “Mmm. I see.” 

Apocalypse’s eyes glow black and makes the three scream as he digs around their minds. 

EXODUS, in agony: “Lord Apocalypse…I am your most faithful servant. I swear that I would never deceive you.” 

Apocalypse lets up his psychic attack, allowing them to breathe. 

APOCALYPSE: “Your minds do not betray your words.” Exodus and Martinique grin with their heads cast down, having gotten away with it, “But my eyes do.” 

We hear panting as the Horsemen turn around. Leaning against the wall for support, covered in sand and burns, they see Sofia. 

SOFIA, spitting her words out: “Is that…the best you have got?” 

Sofia collapses onto the floor. Apocalypse gestures for his cultists to help her, as Exodus and Martinique feign relief for Sofia’s survival, unsure of what exactly happened. Malice rolls her eyes. 

Apocalypse knows something is up, but dismisses the Horsemen for now, while also commanding his servants to bring Sofia to him. 

SOFIA: “I…I can still fight, Lord Apocalypse. I will go straight to training with Death.” 

Apocalypse grabs her by the crown of head, hurting her. She thinks he’s going to crush it, but instead, he heals all of her injuries. 

SOFIA: “Huh?” 

APOCALYPSE, removing his hand: “I told you that so long as you get back after I strike you down, I will always restore you. Did you think that didn’t apply to them as well?” 

SOFIA: “I…I refuse to die. Not like this.” 

APOCALYPSE:  “And what do you think right now of my Horsemen? Do not lie. Do not restrain yourself. Bare your soul.” 

Sofia hesitates, with quick flashes to her anger-management training with Warpath. 

SOFIA: ”That I want to burn them like they burned me.” 

Apocalypse cracks the smallest hint of a smile as he rises from his throne. Training with Death is cancelled for the day. She may rest. 

SOFIA, weakly smiling: “Thank you, my lord.” 

More weeks pass. Weeks of Sofia being brutalized by Apocalypse, of being abused by his Horsemen, but now with a hint of spite in her meek obedience, of saying her prayers, with more and more confidence, and of “dancing” with Akihiro. 

One month into her training, Apocalypse has elected to evaluate her progress with Death. Today, he will not be breaking her. He will restrain himself, and give her a chance to fight back. Sofia, armed now with a katana, nods and confirms she’s ready. 

Apocalypse attacks, and, even with him using the bare minimum of his power, Sofia still has to move as fast as she can and do her best fancy footwork to not get cut in half. She primarily dodges, but does achieve a couple deflections. 

APOCALYPSE, still attacking: “How have you enjoyed your time here?” 

SOFIA, talking as quickly as she moves: “I have never known such intense pain, my lord.” 

APOCOLYPSE: “Yet you persist.” 

SOFIA: “And that is my strength.” 

Sofia tries to attack Apocalypse, but he grabs her face and smashes it into the ground. Bleeding from the head and concussed, Sofia gets right back to try again, only for Apocalypse to grab her by the shirt and throw her into a wall. She buckles, but stays up. 

Apocalypse notices that something fell off of Sofia: her bracelet. He examines it curiously. Sofia, forgetting for a moment who she’s talking to, screams at Apocalypse to give it back. Apocalypse is amused and asks what’s so important about it. Sofia keeps it brief and says it was the last thing her mother gave her before she died. 

There’s a pause. 

APOCALYPSE: “Your human mother?” 

SOFIA: “What does that matter?” 

Apocalypse is disappointed. He thought she had been absorbing his teachings. Sofia insists she has been, but Apocalypse says if that were true, she would no longer care for her genetic predecessor. 

SOFIA: “Whatever you think of humans, there are good ones! Strong ones!” 

APOCALYPSE: “I never claimed otherwise. I knew the previous Captain Britain, Brian Braddock. We fought. He was a proud warrior and a worthy opponent.” Apocalypse towers over Sofia as he tosses her bracelet to her. “But the survival of a weak species cannot be justified by its exceptions.” 

Apocalypse walks away. For now, he will take her word for it that Sofia’s mother had some degree of worth. These words infuriate Sofia, prompting her to say words she cannot take back. 

SOFIA: “More than you.” 

Apocalypse stops walking as Sofia realizes in horror what she just said. 

SOFIA: “My lord, I–” 

Sofia is cut off as Apocalypse spins around and blasts her. As she takes the blast, she screams until her body seizes and her eyes glaze over. 

We fade to black. 

We return to Sofia’s dreams, where she flies around a golden sky with her wings. All is well, until she hears humming. She flies toward the sound, until she realizes it’s her mother’s voice, as the  sky turns into a starry night, and the humming transitions into her singing Cancion de Cuna de Brahms, a Spanish lullaby about how a good night’s sleep will make the baby feel like they’re in the clouds, with the moon shining down on them. 

Sofia finds her mother, looking like an angel, and cries out to her. 

SOFIA: “Mama! Mama!” 

Miranda warmly greets her angel. Sofia cries and tells her she’s missed her so much, that she’s been through so much. And she’s so tired. 

SOFIA: “You are the only one who ever really loved me. Please let me stay with you here. Please!” 

Miranda is sorry, but she can’t do that. Her beautiful daughter is still so young; she has her whole life ahead of her. Sofia becomes more hysterical and tells her that she doesn’t want to live her whole life! She doesn’t have any what she’s been through, or what she’s putting herself through now. Everything is awful! 

SOFIA: “I just want to rest.” 

Miranda wipes her daughter’s tears and her expression becomes more firm. She’s sorry she’s in pain, but she’s not accepting this. 

MIRANDA: “What do you want out of life right now?” 

SOFIA, after a moment to think: “I want….to be whole. To be a Mutant. A strong one. I want to be loved. And I want to keep anyone from ever hurting me again.” 

MIRANDA, holding her daughter: “You are resourceful and brilliant, my baby. Do whatever you must to achieve those goals. So long as you believe in what you do, I will always be proud of you.” 

Sofia hugs her mom back, still shouting how she doesn’t want to go, but her wings starts falling apart, and Miranda says goodbye. 

MIRANDA: “I love you.” SOFIA: “I love you too.” 

The last feather falls and Sofia falls into the clouds. 

In reality, Sofia’s eyes jolt open as she pushes herself off the ground. 

APOCALYPSE: “Good. You survived. Remember this. Watch your tongue. And know you–” 

Sofia screams over him, confusing him. She dashes forward, Apocalypse readying himself to continue sparring, but she instead begins dancing around him - really dancing. 

APOCALYPE: “What are you doing?” Sofia doesn’t answer, continuing to dance. “You will answer when I speak to you, or you will perish.” 

Sofia grins. 

SOFIA, continuing to dance: “I used to be a mutant named Wind Dancer. An X-Men. A hero. Those days are over. But it's taken me until now to realize even though I can no longer fly nor control the wind…” 

Sofia cuts off her routine as she finally charges at Apocalypse. 

SOFIA: “I will always be able to dance!” 

Sofia swings and swings at Apocalypse, as we get a brief flashback to her training with Akihiro. 

AKIHIRO: “Even when you were a Mutant, you weren’t like us. Your strength wasn’t from raw power. It was versatility. Now more than ever, you need to know how to keep your enemies on their toes.” 

In the present, Sofia does not impress Apocalypse with her attack; her “dancing” is best left for defense. 

Sofia isn’t bothered. She swings her sword in a horizontal arc, with Apocalypse moving his sword to block, before counterattacking. Only Sofia knew he would, so she bends her back at a 90 degree angle while swinging her blade over his, and with the split second advantage she now has, stands herself up straight and crashes the edge of her blade against Apocalypse’s neck, shattering the sword. 

BEAT

Apocalypse drops his blade as Sofia pants with the most excited grin, and the messiest hair. 

APOCALYPSE: “Were I most any opponent, you would have just taken my head.” He grins widely. “Well done.” 

Sofia’s face lights up even further at that praise. Apocalypse mentions that he shouldn’t be surprised she’d progressed quickly, given all her prior training. He’s sure Emma Frost has also been training her mind. 

APOCALYPSE: “Breaking you builds your body. My teachings build your soul. Now, we can begin to reconstruct your mind.” 

SOFIA, actually sounding excited: “Yes, my lord!” 

Apocalypse’s smile shifts. He’s not sure what just happened, but he likes it. 

In Akihiro’s bedroom, as luxurious as the rest of the castle, but also decorated with animal skins and mounted animal heads - and human heads, he sits back in a chair with his shirt off as Sofia massages his shoulders. 

AKIHIRO, moaning in pleasure: “Oh yeah, just like that.” 

Sofia rolls her eyes. Akihiro tells her he heard about her session this morning with Apocalypse. Their master is very pleased. 

SOFIA, excited: “He is?!” 

Akihiro laughs. 

AKIHIRO, amused: “Try less to sound like a schoolgirl with a crush.” 

SOFIA: “Jealous I don’t have one on you?” 

AKIHIRO: “It’s cute you think you wouldn’t if that’s what I wanted.” Akihiro waves her off as he stands up. “You know I’m the reason you were able to fight him like that. Maybe I do deserve more than a massage.” 

SOFIA: “Do not even joke.” 

AKIHIRO, teasing: “Oh, come on. Only guy you’ve ever been with is that Hellion jerk who cheated on you, right? I could show you what a real man is like.”

BEAT. 

SOFIA: “Do not speak of Julian” 

AKIHIRO: “Trying to tell me what to do? Last I checked you’re still a slave.” SOFIA: “I assure you I won’t be much longer.” 

Akihiro questions what she means by that, with Sofia simply saying that she’s been thinking of a plan over the past few hours. Death seems like a man who’d enjoy waiting for the surprise. 

AKIHIRO, grinning: “I knew I was right about you.” 

Sofia tenses up and questions what he’s talking about. Akihiro asks how she thinks she got on Lord Apocalypse’s radar. No x-gene, so it’s not like he found her while looking for Mutants to join him. No, Akihiro randomly stumbled across one of her skincare tip videos, which led him to finding her more recent content, and discovering what had happened to her. 

As Akihiro explains, Sofia’s eyes widen in horror. 

He goes on to say that he figured Apocalypse could help her, and convinced his master to give her a chance. After that, it was a matter of getting her to lower her guard, just in case she still had Storm’s number on her phone, but just to be sure she said yes, he sent to her daddy about where she was. He wanted to remind her of how evil the only human in her life truly is. 

SOFIA, pissed: “You…” 

Sofia’s head hurts and her hands shake. Images flash in her head until they become clear. In a quick flashback, we see her in the throneroom with her hand on the door handle, ready to leave Apocalypse immediately…only for her emotions to change. The viewer is shown Akihiro smirking in that moment. 

In the present, Sofia explodes in rage. He did this to her! He’s the reason she agreed to put herself through this! 

Akihiro isn’t the least bit phased by her revelation, shrugging. But she’s wrong. He did use his pheremones on her back then, but he didn’t control her. 

AKIHIRO: “I knew you were smart enough to know this was the right decision. You sure seem to agree with that now. You just needed a little bravery to make the jump.” 

Sofia cools enough, softly asking why he did all of this for her. Why he brought her here, and put so much additional time into training her. 

SOFIA: “Why are you nice to me?” 

Akihiro laughs as he walks away to pour drinks. He tells her that, for one, he really did enjoy the videos he watched. Until he got to the anti-Mutant ones. Those were just…depressing. He looked more into her after that, and what he found was that they’re the same.

AKIHIRO: “Mutant half-bloods who’ve lost the only parents who mattered, with no home in any of the worlds they should rightfully be ruling over. Betrayed, rejected, used, and discarded by all. Warriors and monsters who’ve found their proper place with Lord Apocalypse.” 

AKIHIRO, handing wide-eyed Sofia a drink: “You, Sofia Mantega…are Daken.” He raises his glass. “To Dakens looking out for one another?” 

Sofia hesitates, before asking…

SOFIA: “Who are you?” 

He smirks. He’ll tell her all about that. Sofia clinks glasses.

Another two weeks pass through another montage. Sofia now spars daily with Apocalypse, taking more than one hit from him before going down. Sofia happily says her prayers with gusto, even slapping another cultist for mumbling her words. Akihiro hogs more of her services so she doesn’t have to put up with the other Horsemen as much, the two sharing stories, drinking, and smoking together. Out in the desert, the Horsemen get frustrated as they have to use an embarassing amount of their power to take Sofia down, and in the arena, Akihiro continues to train Sofia in swordplay. 

One night, Sofia is serving Apocalypse and the Horsemen dinner as they talk. Exodus is pleased to report to Lord Apocalypse that he obtained several powerful x-genes today. Fantomex, Forearm, and Unus the Untouchable fell easily. 

AKIHIRO, mockingly “You call those impressive kills?” 

MARTINIQUE: “Um, why are we even talking about this in front of the slave?” 

Akihiro tells her to quit being such a cow. Sofia may still quit or die, certainly, but do any of them really think at this point she isn’t committed? As Sofia refills Akihiro wine, he tightly grips her chin. 

AKIHIRO: “You wouldn’t betray our secrets to the X-Men. Would you?” 

SOFIA, grunting: “No, sir.” 

AKIHIRO, tossing her back against the wall: “See? No problem!” 

Malice questions what their master thinks. Apocalypse swallows and dabs his face with a napkin. He explains their plan to release a plague that will kill the majority of the human population, and convert the worthy few into Mutants. They will conquer what remains of the world, establish a proper strength based hierarchy in the world, and rule as their new utopia’s kings and queens. 

Exodus raises a toast to their brilliant lord and their future to come. The other horsemen join him in the toast and cheer…while Sofia giggles. 

Exodus and Martinique are aghast at this response, while Malice is intrigued, and Akihiro  is clearly already aware of what’s going on, resuming stuffing his face with a knowing smile. 

MARTINIQUE: “How dare you laugh at us, you insolent bitch! My lord, let me burn her.” 

Apocalypse doesn’t give her the order to do so. He calmly tells Sofia to tell him what she finds so amusing about his plan. 

SOFIA: “I apologize. I meant no disrespect, my lord. I am just a little confused how you expect this to work. You say it will be a Mutant utopia, but not for all Mutants.” 

APOCALYPSE: “The place of the weak is beneath the boot heels of their betters.” 

SOFIA: “Maybe so. But do you not expect rebellion?” 

APOCALYPSE: “They will fear the consequences. Examples will be made.” 

SOFIA: “Which will only prompt more troubles. You abuse them, they rebel, you crush them, the status quo of abuse remains, and they rebel again. The cycle will continue. And the way you are thinning the population…that is not sustainable.” 

Exodus slams his hands down on the table. This powerless child thinks she knows better than a king and conqueror who has lived for millenia?! 

SOFIA: “Of course not. But I may have a better understanding of the modern day. If I may proceed?” Apocalypse nods. “In the days where you ruled, your plan would make sense. Things now are different. The world you wish to make will be different. Today, people…young people especially who make up the majority of the Mutant population…have no hope. Mutants and humans alike are miserable and believe that things will never improve. You are no doubt familiar with the concept that a movement cannot be crushed so long as there is hope, but it is equally true that with no hope, there is no fear.” She shrugs. “YOLO. Assuming that Mutants, weak and strong, will fall in line after you have just slaughtered all their friends and family? It won’t work.” 

Martinique is going to scream again, flames around her hands, but Apocalypse shuts her down with his telepathy. 

APOCALYPSE, leaning forward: “And what exactly would you propose instead?” 

Sofia grins. She is no queen or conqueror. But she was successful as an influencer. Millions of people loved her. But some also hated her. Were naturally envious of her. Spread rumors about her and attempt to belittle her. She still always tried to be nice to them, that’s just who she is…was…but she saw how others on her level would handle people like them. 

SOFIA: “Punching down is no longer a form of strength the masses respect. But nothing rallies soldiers to war like their gilded idols shedding crocodile tears. “Treat your people well. Even if the weak get less. When their envy makes them turn on you, show sadness that they are not grateful for all that you have generously delivered them. All those above the rebels will not hesitate to crush them for you, without you uttering a command. They will not only be okay with you punishing them from that point on; they will want you to.” Sofia removes the hood of her robe and shakes out her hair. “People do not have hope or fear. All they have are their idols.” 

BEAT. 

AKIHIRO, swallowing: “Well, my lord? What do you think of that?” 

Apocalypse glares at Sofia, and then at each of his Horsemen. 

APOCALYPSE: “Sofia Mantega…kill War in the next 60 seconds and you may have her chair.” 

There’s a moment of hesitation across the room as they all process what was just said. 

Sofia dashes forward as Martinique sets the entire dining room on fire, swearing to Lord Apocalypse that she will pass this test and punish this human appropriately for her disrespect! Apocalypse, Malice, and Exodus are all unbothered by the flames, easily shielding themselves, while Akihiro laughs as he’s set ablaze. 

AKIHIRO: “That’s what being born with a silver spoon in your mouth does. Makes you think everything is about you.” 

Martinique cackles as she burns everything around her. This human has had her fun! Being so uppity with her superiors. But now her time has come to face the power of a true elite! 

Martinique nearly gets her throat slit as Sofia, having survived the flames, comes at her from behind with a steak knife picked up off the table. War reacts just in time though, and blows a burst of flames in Sofia’s face. 

Sofia struggles to get back up after being so intensely burned. Apocalypse casually checks a pocket watch as he sips his wine. 

MARTINIQUE: “You are nothing! Less than nothing! Even as a Mutant, you were nothing compared to us!” 

Sofia glares up at Martinique. Without any audio from the scene changing, she recalls a lecture from Cyclops. She drops her knife. 

SOFIA: “For someone with such a high opinion of herself…I have only ever seen you fight with power gifted to you.” He mockingly smirks. “Gifted to you…like everything else in your unearned life.” 

Martinique is pissed but laughs. She wants to see her own Mutation? Okay. But it’ll be so, so much more painful than the flames.

MANIQUE: “Prepare for the next level of Hell!” 

Martinique’s eyes glow orange, as the clock shows Sofia only has 10 seconds left. But that’s all the time she needs. 

Sofia screams as her eyes glow orange, before she giggles. 

SOFIA: “Just kidding.” 

Energy crackles inside her mind as Sofia utilizes the red triangle, as it transforms into the Blue A. 

Sofia and Martinique’s eyes both glow blue, with Martinique now the only screaming as she falls to the ground. Exodus and Malice are shocked, while Akihiro has never looked more excited. 

SOFIA, picking her knife back up: “When I see her again, I will tell Megan you love her.” 

MARTINIQUE, enraged and in agony: “Don’t you–!” 

Sofia cuts Martinique’s throat, killing her. The flames in the room fade away. 

Sofia pants and drops her knife again. Her eyes widen and her bloodied, burnt hands shake as she realizes she’s just killed someone. 

While she’s still in shock, Akihiro gives an enthusiastic applause, congratulating their new potential War. Exodus and Malice begrudginly give small claps as well. 

Apocalypse gets up and walks over to Sofia, looking down at her. 

APOCALYPSE: “You took over 60 seconds. You shouldn’t have wasted time taunting her at the end.” Sofia panics momentarily that this was for nothing. Until Apocalypse reaches out his hand to her. “Come. Take your seat.” 

Sofia looks up at Apocalypse with awe as she takes his hand, for a split second flashing back to a time Julian helped her stand when she was still learning to fly. 

SOFIA: “Thank you.” 

Sofia takes Apocalypse’s hand. When she sits down, she’s not only healed, but in new clothes, her Akabba robe changed into an evening gown. And in this moment of triumph and power, all her anxieties over her first kill fade away. 

The next day, Apocalypse and Sofia spar once again. Sofia swiftly dances around Apocalypse and lasts a long time. He does manage to gut her, but that just makes her grin as she pushes on his chest to push herself off his sword, continuing to fight with the hole inside her. There is no fear of death or worry about the pain; she knows he will heal her. And once again, Sofia shatters her sword, this time by successfully lunging against Apocalypse’s chest. 

With a smug look on her face, she licks some blood off of it. 

SOFIA: “You need to go harder on me.” 

APOCALYPSE: “I would break you.” 

Sofia isn’t dissuaded. Apocalypse heals her and tells her to sit and rest for a minute. As she walks away, he attacks her psychically, but she deflects it easily. 

SOFIA: “Come on, my lord. Ms. Frost hit me harder.” She sits down and drinks some water. “If I am to be your Horseman, not just your soldier, I must be prepared.” 

Apocalypse doesn’t react initially, before laughing as he sits down. 

APOCALYPSE: “Tell me. Are all Mutant infants as strange as you are?” 

SOFIA: “No. I am one of a kind.” 

Apocalypse is inclined to agree. And he’s pleased that despite the humiliations he has forced her to endure, her confidence has soared since they met. Knowing you are fit is a key part of spirit. He commends her improved physical and mental prowess as well, along with her enthusiasm and keen strategic ability. He did not expect this much from her when Death informed him an Xavier student had been depowered. 

Sofia thanks him for his part in that, but she knows she’s achieved this herself. She was lost and without hope. She only needed a chance. 

Apocalypse looks up. Sofia will soon be ready to reclaim her weapon, and be gifted the flames of War. 

APOCALYPSE: “However…” 

For all the other ways in which she has proven herself, Sofia continues to oppose the very core of his philosophy. 

SOFIA: “I do not!” 

APOCALYPSE: “Then you will not question me once when the time comes to play your part in eradicating humanity, and all others who are beneath you?” BEAT. “You will kill the X-Men for me?” 

The proud look on Sofia’s face is wiped away. All the answer Apocalypse needs. Rather than punish her, however, he elects to tell a story. Thousands of years ago, there was an island known as Okkara. A nation home to only Mutants. It was a paradise without fear or strife. Without famine, pestilence, war, or death. The island was ruled over by a queen: Genesis. She was the most beautiful mutant to ever live, and in strength, second only to her younger sister, Isca the Unbeaten. 

Apocalypse had spent many years adrift and alone after losing all that mattered to him. Until he found Okkara. There, he and Genesis fell in love, he became its king, and they had four children. All was well. From his perspective. Okkara had faced war torn days in the past, and Genesis believed they needed to stay ready for battle and not become soft.He disagreed, wanting to let go of his own violent beginnings. That is, until the Daemons came. 

He does not wish to discuss the details of what came next, but his point is this: Had they kept their people strong, fit, and ruthless, Okkara may still exist today. 

APOCALYPSE: “My family may still be here.” 

Sofia is already overwhelmed by all this new information, as Apocalypse continues to say that he will not allow her to repeat his mistakes. He understands that in an ideal world, the extreme measures he has in mind would not be necessary. But idealism is the one luxury they cannot permit themselves. They must prepare. 

SOFIA: “Prepare for what?” 

Apocalypse doesn’t answer. Instead, he shifts the conversation to terms she can better understand. 

APOCALYPSE: “Your mother. You claim that she was strong. And yet, she perished.” 

Sofia, keeping her cool this time, tells him it had nothing to do with being strong or not. The men who shot her didn’t even mean to. Apocalypse asks why they were shooting at all. 

SOFIA: “Because…my home is ruled by an awful man. People try to fight back against him, and get shot by his soldiers for doing so.” 

APOCALYPSE: “But he does not fight himself?” 

SOFIA: “No. He is weak. And foolish. And petty and a coward. Alone in a room together, I could have killed him before I even had my weapon.” 

Apocalypse points out that this is how all human civilizations are. It is all that humans know. Those born to privilege, but without strength, lying and cheating their ways to unearned positions of power. It is as she said herself: humanity is miserable and without hope. Across the globe, those in power have proven unfit to wield it, and those without it are no longer capable of imagining something better. If included in their new world, they will only drag them down. 

APOCALYPSE: “Had someone like us ruled your homeland, your mother would still be alive. Had the X-Men not been weak, you would not have lost your weapon.” He puts a hand on her shoulder. “Only by conquering and dominating can you protect the people and things that matter to you.” 

SOFIA, eyes on the floor and shaken: “I understand. Humans will never respect our ways. And if I want to help my friends…” 

APOCALYPSE: “...then you cannot show them mercy.” 

Sofia nods. She gets it. 

SOFIA: “But I am standin my ground on weak Mutants. They are not the problem. They may not be fit now, but they can become fit.” 

APOCALYPSE: “And how do you know this?” 

Sofia’s confidence returns as she leans back, smirks, and pulls a knife from her a sheath on her left, throwing it to take out a flying bug.

SOFIA: “All they need is a chance.”  

Apocalypse is amused, but he sees her point. Perhaps this can be discussed. 

APOCALYPSE, standing up: “You remind me of my daughter. The original War.” 

SOFIA, heart racing as she stands: “I do?” 

APOCALYPSE: “Yes. Hopefully you can meet her one day.”

Sofia is confused by that statement since it sounded like War was dead, but that isn’t what’s on her mind, as she briefly flashes back to her meeting with her father months earlier. 

SOFIA, without thinking: “What will you do if after I become a mutant again, I can’t go through with being a horseman? I would never turn on you, but just…if I wanted out.” 

APOCALYPSE, curious, but unbothered: “I would be angry. And I would strip away your flames.” 

SOFIA: “This is all?” 

APOCALYPSE: “You say you would never betray me. I believe that. If you cannot see yourself as the conqueror I believe you could be, then I hope you enjoy the fruits of my labor, and are prepared to fight when your people need you.” 

Apocalypse tells her to take another sword. They have time for one more round. Sofia moves quickly, but not to take a sword. She hugs Apocalypse. The ancient king has never been more confused, which is clear as day on his face. But still, he hugs her back. 

Elsewhere, Malice enters Exodus’ chambers. 

MALICE: “You called?” 

EXODUS, brushing his hair: “Yes. We have a problem.” 

MALICE: “We?” 

Exodus is concerned about the position they’ve both been put in. Death and So…War are close, and it is apparently that despite all the forgiveness and loyalty he has shown their lord, this little girl has become his favorite. 

EXODUS: “I looked through her mind, Pestilence. Lord Apocalypse HUGGED her!” 

MALICE, yawning: “Still waiting to hear why I should care about your jealousy problems.” 

Exodus telekinetically grabs Malice, pulls her over to him, and grabs her throat to choke her. 

EXODUS: “Did you not see how easily Lord Apocalypse dismissed Martinique once he found someone he liked better? Now that you and I are the outcasts, we are equally vulnerable.” 

Exodus tosses her aside and lets her breathe. She sees the problem. What does he have in mind for a solution? 

EXODUS, most sinister: “I am glad you asked.” 

In the throneroom, Sofia kneels before Apocalypse. Two months have passed since her arrival. He has watched her grow and evolve, and shed her weakness. She has become strong in body, mind, and spirit. And she understands what must be done. 

APOCALYPSE: “Are you ready to live again?” 

Sofia looks up at him with eager eyes. 

In another area, a large machine made from celestial tech, designed for someone to step into it, awaits. Exodus and Malice await the others, and as Apocalypse’s voice can be faintly heard confirming with Death that the final check on the machine was successful, two Horsemen use their powers to shake up the insides of it. 

Apocalypse, Akihiro, and Sofia arrive, Sofia taking a deep breath as she sees her cradle. 

APOCALYPSE: “Famine, Pestilence, prepare to welcome back your lost sister.” 

EXODUS, fake: “We are oh so pleased you have survived your training.” 

MALICE, equally fake: “Greatness awaits you.” 

Sofia rolls her eyes at them both. 

AKIHIRO: “First thing after you get your weapon back, how about we go kill your father?” 

SOFIA: “Is that your way of asking me to help you kill yours?” 

AKIHIRO: “Is that a no?” 

The two exchange smiles before Apocalypse puts her in the machine. She shakes from both fear and excitement as Apocalypse powers it on and the machine rumbles. 

SOFIA, quietly: “I cannot be weak. I will not be weak.I must not be weak.” 

The volume disappears as the machine fully powers on and begins its work. The volume returns as Sofia screams bloody murder at the top of her lungs, blood coming out of her eyes, nose, and mouth. 

AKIHIRO, panicked: ”SOFIA!” 

Akihiro turns to an equally worried Apocalypse and asks if this should be happening. 

Skin starts peeling off Sofia’s face as her bones can be heard shattering. 

APOCALYPSE, quietly: “no.” 

EXODUS, barely containing his pleasure: “What is the matter, my lord? It is as you told her. If she was not strong enough, the machine would kill her. If she wasn’t ready after all you generously did for her, then she was clearly never—” 

Apocalypse casually backhands Exodus, sending him flying through multiple walls and knocking him out. Apocalypse steps toward the machine. Malice tries to call out to him to stop, but after seeing what he just did to Exodus, she’s stuttering. 

Sofia vomits up even more blood, and can’t even properly scream anymore, only able to weakly gasp as the machine destroys her body. 

AKIHIRO: “You’re turning that damn thing off, right?!” 

Apocalypse reaches the machine and looks into Sofia’s agonized eyes. 

APOCALYPSE, sneering: “No.” 

Apocalypse grabs Sofia’s face, attempting to use his molecular manipulation to counterattack the machine However, in his efforts to keep her alive, the machine punishes him as well, causing some of the same brutal effects. 

Malice cries out for Lord Apocalypse to not be so reckless. She isn’t worth it! He has to remember what really matters! 

AKIHIRO, putting his sword to her throat: “One more word. Please.” 

Apocalypse continues to struggle, but his powers just aren’t enough against the work of gods. 

APOCALYPSE: “What really matters, you say…” 

Apocalypse flashes back to the scene of himself with the original War from the start of the season, and the time he has spent with Sofia. 

The External screams as he draws his sword and slices his left arm off. As his blood gushes out of him, he uses his powers to transplant it into Sofia. If he cannot heal her through this, he will make her unkillable. 

Akihiro and Malice watch on in awe as their all-powerful master struggles to complete this process, he himself now the one screaming. 

But soon enough, the machine powers down. An exhausted and drained Apocalypse collapses to his knees The machine opens up, and Sofia, now with blue skin and no injuries, falls into his single arm. 

SOFIA: “I…feel different. It worked. It worked, my lord!”  Sofia notices what happened to him, as the other Horsemen come to aid him, and Sofia notices her own skin. “What did you do? Did you help me? If I wasn’t strong enough, it wasn’t supposed to kill me!” 

APOCALYPSE, helped to stand by the other Horsemen: “Fly.” 

Sofia still isn’t what happened or what she feels. But she knows that’s an order she wants to follow. Sofia flies up into the air, doing completely over the top twirls, instinctively using her new flames to blast her way through each level of the castle, until she finds herself outside, once again able to see, hear, and feel the winds. 

Sofia comes back down and kneels. Apocalypse has regrown his arm, but he’s still clearly severely weakened. 

SOFIA, now with tears of joy: “Thank you, my lord. For everything. I swear, whatever you did for me, I will repay it 1000 times. If necessary, I will slaughter every last one of your enemies myself.” 

APOCALYPSE: “As you said, you are more responsible for what you have achieved than anyone. Now rise…War the External.” Sofia stands and Apocalypse turns his head. “And the two of you…kneel.” He looks back to Sofia. “Before the daughter of Apocalypse.” 

Sofia and Malice are equally shocked by these words, while Akihiro just gets a kick out of it, dropping to one knee and yanking Malice down with him. Sofia smiles lovingly at her new father. 

Back in the present, Sofia is woken up from her sleep as Akihiro returns with the food she requested. She looks far better than she did when she fell asleep. 

Sofia greets Akihiro, rubbing her eyes, and thanks him, telling him to leave the food on the table. She has something else she has to do first. 

SOFIA: “Oh, and Akihiro. Thank you for bringing me here.” 

Akihiro’s not sure why she’s saying that now, but his lady is most welcome. 

Sofia flies through the castle until she enters the room where Apocalypse’s sleeping body lies. She shuts the door behind her, before approaching him. She rests her hand on his. 

SOFIA: “In fulfilling our dream, I killed one of my friends. But like you taught me, this is how I will protect the rest of them.” BEAT. “You broke your own philosophy for me. But it was worth it. I was, I am, special. Tag was not. Survival of the fittest took its course.” 

Sofia smiles as she lays her head down on Apocalypse’s chest. 

SOFIA: “I am so close, Father. The Witch is in my possession, and I have the X-Men in shambles. I can taste victory. And then, the world will be everything we want it to be. And you and I will be together again.” 

Sofia closes her eyes one more time, as we get one last flashback. 

Out in the desert, Apocalypse and War clash. With Sofia now armed with her winds, flames, and External strength, and Apocalypse drained of much of his power, the two can now fight for real. Only, as the two use more and more moves, it becomes clear that this isn’t a fight. Surrounded by a ring of stunning fire, and with the sand beneath them transformed into crystal, Apocalypse dances with Sofia. As the dance concludes, so too does the episode. 

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what r ur thoughts on chamber's heritage? both canon + what r ur hcs?

i am so glad u asked anon!!!! [long post ahead lulz]

canonwise, while I think its heavily possible that the descendant of a black Egyptian man is a white British guy (for a multitude of reason including British invasion of Egypt etc), i think its a rather bad decision that they made. En Sabah Nur already as a white rich guy (whodatedpaige) heir, and he does not need two

I like that retcon because it fits my Chamber agenda, but objectively its bad. I am guessing he is not meant to be like a grandson or a greatgrandson, bc I dont think any post 2000s writer would be dumb enough to throw themselves in that kind of pickle about genetics n skin colours

(although it also gave us that very good 'Creating instead of Destroying' line and a moment u can read as Trans Jono)

+also I hate that that retcon made him a rich kid. 2 me hed always be a poor West Londonian goth

as for my hc version of it, I always pictured that he was Apocalypse’s greatgreatgrandson, with his known ancestor being Jack Starsmore, Apocalypse’s son. he is infact not rich and probably would have ran away

I think that is his dad’s side who has been in England for rather long (Explaining the last name Starsmore), and I think it would be a family of Egyptian/Sudanese/Ethiopian heritage who is, in fact, not white

I alwz pictured his mom’s side as being North African, specifically Moroccan/Egyptian. I think if i had to retcon that history in an actual book without losing anyone/editorial along the way, Id go w/ the ‘he is almost a copy of his mother, his Morrocan mom has lighter skin + he is goth and does not go outside so he cannot keep up a tan’. (bc let me tell you my skin color has been decimated by living in Sweden). but if i could id just make him not white at all and refuse to elaborate

I think his name being Jono could b very easily handwaven away. from transgenderness to the anglicisation of names from Jono using a new name to get away from Clan Akkaba

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@black-geek-supremacy LOL.

Meanwhile, the resurrected members of Clan Akkaba, Apocalypse’s Earthborn descendants he claimed would inherit the Earth and who just recently found out everything he did was just to get back to his first family and he literally left this dimension without a second glance, the instant he was reunited with them:

So uh, where’ve you been, Grandpa? With your OTHER family? The one you love more than us? The ones you ACTUALLY care about?

Apocalypse, a canonical liar, but only when he wants something, any other time he flat out doesn’t care: Yes. That’s exactly where I’ve been. Was that not clear?

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Earth-18104

Since I started getting more into Marvel I made a bunch of Ocs for the media, and with time I created a whole universe to insert them in the stories. So I'm gonna start posting here my personal time-line.

These events include stories from the comics, a bit of the cartoons and the movies. Many events or characters have their backstories changed and I will include my ocs here.

It's just a project I do for fun (and has been taking my mind in the last years help). It's not complete. There's still a lot to work but I got the basics.

(This is a rewrite from my other blog :P)

Time-line

B. C - Events

• Okkara and the Enriched

• Birth of Apocalypse

• Hela and the Asgardians

• The Clan Akkaba

A. C. - Events

• Fall of Strontia

• Thanos' birth

• Creation of the Ten Rings

• Fall of Titan

15th/ 16th / 17th Century - Events

• Odin brings the Tesseract to Earth

• Rise of Count Dracula

• Apocalypse and the Army of Darkness defeat Dracula

• Fall of Tenochtitlán

• Creation of Talokan and birth of K'uk'ultan

• Trial of Agatha Harkness

• Apocalypse is sealed by his subordinates

• Selene Essex becomes Lady Sinister

18th / 19th Century - Events

• Mystique's birth

• Victor Creed's birth

• Sanguinária's birth (OC)

• Logan's birth

• Howlett's Tragedy

• Irene Adler and Raven Darkholme meet

• Fall of Akkaba Clan

• Origins: Wolverine I

20th Century

1900 - 1930 - Events

• Origins: Wolverine II

• Wolrd War I

1940 - Events

• World War II

• Johann Schmist finds the Tesseract

• Steve Rogers becomes Captain America

• Bucky Barnes becomes his partner

• Phineas Horton creates the original Torch

• Sgt. Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos

• Foundation of Weapon X by Dr. Abraham Cornelius Truett

• Captain America dissappears and Bucky Barnes is taken by HYDRA

• Logan marries Itsu. Later she is murdered by the Winter Soldider and his son is taken

• Cain Marko and Charles Xavier become stepbrothers

• Wong starts his training in Kamar-Taj

• Howard Stak works for SHIELD

1950 - Events

• Cain Marko and Charles Xavier fight in the Korean War. Marko dissapears after finding the Temple of Cyttorak

• Max Eisenhardt marries Magda

• The original Torch dissapears / dies

• Logan meets Silverfox

• Magda and their daughter dies, Max Eisenhardt changes his name to Erik Lehnsherr

• 1950 Avengers

1960 - Events

• Charles Xavier meets Moira Mactaggert and Gabrielle Haller

• Sabretooth and Wolverine join Team X

• Adam Brashear becomes Blue Marvel

1970 - Events

• Professor X, Magneto, Mystique and Destiny create the first team of X-Men

• X-Men '72

• Adamantiun tests

• Team X breaks out

• Xavier VS Shadow King

1980 - Events

• Captain Marvel

• Ghost Rider

• The Incredible Hulk

• Iron Man

• Ant-Man and Wasp

• The Summers Incident

• Hawkeye and Mockingbird

Age of Heroes - The first famous groups of heroes start to rise, the first conflicts earth went through after FF, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Defenders, Guardians of the Galaxy, Young Avengers, Power Pack and the others formed.

1989 - Events

• The Fantastic Four

• Puppet Master

1990 - Events

• The Avengers

° (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Wasp, Ant Man, Hulk, Mockingbird, Hawkeye)

1991 - Events

• Jessica Drew works for SHIELD as Arachne

• Logan adopts Amiko Kobayashi

• Matt Murdock debuts as Daredevil

1992 - Events

• The X-Men

° (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman and Beast)

• The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

• X-Men VS Juggernaut

• Sam Wilson becomes the Falcon

1993 - Events

• Simon Williams joins the Masters of Evil as Wonder Man

• New Avengers

° (Black Panther, Hercules, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkerye, Falcon)

• Jennifer Walters becomes She-Hulk

1994 - Events

• Sue Storm and Reed Richards Wending

• The Fantastic Four meets Black Panther

• Dane Withman becomes Black Knigt

• Z'Nox attack

• Wade Wilson becomes Deadpool

• Silver Sufer and Galactus

• Alex Summers becomes an X-Man

• Betsy Braddock becomes Captain Britain

1995 - Events

• Mesmero attacks Krakoa. Lorna Dane joins the X-Men as Polaris

• The X-Men and the Okkari

• Patsy Walker becomes Hellcat

• Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man

• Jessica Jones becomes Jewel

• Heroes for Hire (Luke Cage and Danny Rand)

• Norman Osborn becomes the Green Goblin

• Natasha Romanoff leaves the Red Room and joins SHIELD, working alongside Mockingbird and Hawkeye

• Frankie Raye joins the Fantastic Four as Photon.

• The Avengers battle against Ultron and Vision

• Among us stalk the Sentinels! Ororo Muroe and Sean Cassidy join the X-Men

• Frank Castle becomes the Punisher

• Jean Grey absorbed the power of the Phoenix

1996 - Events

• Hank McCoy joins the Avengers

• Greer Nelson becomes Tigra

• Secret Empire

• Avengers / Defenders War

• Flint Marko becomes Sandman

• Second Genesis.

• Hulk VS Wolverine

• Cyclops starts a new team of X-Men

° (Wolverine, Storm, Thunderbird, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Sunfire)

• X-Men VS Erik the Red and D'Ken

• Wanda Maximoff and the Darkhold

• Darren Cross becomes Yellow Jacket

• Wanda uses her magic to create her sons

• Mystique and Destiny start a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

• Kitty Pryde and Alison Blaire join Xavier's Institue

• Dark Phoenix and death of Jean Grey. Cyclops leaves the team

• Kree / Skrull War

1997 - Events

• Days of Future Past. Rachel Summers and Lucas Bishop join the X-Men

• Cyclops meets Madelyne Prior.

• Rogue absorves Carol Danvers powers

• Rhino VS Spider-Man

• The trial of Hank Pym

• X-Men VS the Brood

• She-Hulk joins the Avengers

• Wanda and Vision find out their sons are magic creations of the Darkhold

• Illyana Rasputin is captured and taken to the Limbo

• New Mutants

• The Morlocks

• Rogue joins the X-Men. Logan marries Mariko.

• Beta Ray Bill!

• Venom arrives at Earth

• Hawkeye creates the West Coast Avengers

• Forge joins the X-Men

• Curtis Connors becomes the Lizard

1998 - Events

• Jean Grey returns

• Nathan Summers is born

• Mutant Massacre

• Madelyne is corrupted by the demon N'Astirh, becoming the Goblin Queen

• Asteroid M

• Fall of the Mutants

• Franklin Richards is born

• The Punisher took over the Assassins' Guild, and later became a substitute teacher while investigating drug trafficking at a school

• Wolverine and Jubilee work together against the Hand

• Gambit joins the X-Men

• Genosha X-Tinction Agenda

• Legacy Virus

1999 - Events

• Kree/Shi'ar War

• X–Cutioner Song

• Rise of Midnight's Children

• Maximum Carnage

• Fatal Attractions

• Bloodties. Fabian Cortez kidnaps Luna Maximoff

• Sabretooth goes to the X-Men after he starts losing control of his feral side

• Cyclops and Marvel Girl marry

• Generation Next and Phalanx events. Emma Frosts takes the new mutants as her students. Blink dissapears.

• The Hellions die

• Peter Parker meets Olivia Octavius, who later becomes Dr. Octopus

• Sabretooth escapes. Angel loses his wings

• Ozyamndias comes to warn the X-Men about the return of Apocalypse

2000 - Events

• Jessica Drew joins the Heroes for Hire

• Graydon Creed's assassination

• Apocalypse returns with his Horsemen

• Okkara is revealed to the world

2001 - Events

• Mantis, the Celestial Madonna, creates Adam Warlock using the Mind Stone

• Gamora, Mantis, Drax, Groot, Adam and Rocket become the Guardians of Galaxy

• The Thunderbolts

2002 - Events

• Sepent Crown's arc. Lemuria and Talokan are revealed to the world

2003 - Events

• Jessica Drew returns as a heroes and joins the Heroes for Hire with Cage and Rand

2004 -

• The start of Infinity Gaulent arc.

° Earth's heroes lose the battle to Thanos. Half of the Universe dissapears.

• The X-Men split in Team Gold and Team Blue to defend the mutant kind

2005 -

2006 -

• Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marry

2007 -

2008 -

2009 -

• Mayday Parker is born

• Power Pack debuts as a new group of children superheroes

° Jack (12) as Zero-G, Julie (10) as Lightspeed, Jack (8) as Mass Master, and Kate Powers (5) as Energizer.

2010 -

• The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Guardians of Galaxy and Denfenders join forces to fight Thanos once more

• Event Infinity Gaulent ends.

2011 -

• The Avengers rebuilt their base.

• Scott Lang joins the team as the new Ant-Man.

• Charles Xavier re-opens the Academy X

2012 -

• E is for Extinction

• Riot at Xavier's

• Runaways!

• Jean Grey dies fighting Xorn

• Gitfted / The Mutant Cure

2013 -

• X-23 (13) tries to assassinate Logan. She changes her name to Laura Kinney

• Secret Wars

• Winter Soldier returns

• The Gray family is killed by Death Commandos Shi'ar

• Vulcan leaves Earth, deciding to take revenge on D'ken for the death of his mother

• M-Day happens

• Academia X changes the X-Men program

• With the help of rebels, Vulcan escapes from prison and frees Deathbird

• Peter Quill joins the Guardians of Galaxy

2014 -

• The Young Avengers!

° Iron Lad (16), Kate Bishop (17/18), Wiccan, Speed (16), Patriot (16), Hulking (16), Sting (14), Jonas

• The New X-Men

• Hearing about Vulcan's escape, Prestige, Thunderbird, Warpath, Xavier, Darwin, Nightcrawler, Havok, Lorna and Petra leave Earth

° Korvus Rook'shir is freed; Lilandra Neramani loses the title of Empress

• D'Ken wakes up and takes his title and asks Vulcan and Dearthbird to stay by his side

• William Stryker and his Purifiers attacks Xavier's Institute

• Vulcan's royal marriage and coronation as Shi'ar Emperor

2015 -

• Civil War

• World War Hulk

• Birth of the Mutant Messiah

• Kang's Dinasty

° The Avengers and other heroes fight Kang.

° Sam Wilson becomes Captain America

2016 -

• The mutants move to the new Utopia

• War of Kings. Inhumans, X-Men, Starjammers and Guardians of Galaxy against Vulcan

° Lilandra dies during battle; Rachel Grey avenges her family; Black Bolt defeats Vulcan

° At Lilandra's funeral, Kallark becomes majestor

• Reed Richards founds the Future Foundation

° Alex Power (19), Dragon Man, Moloids Tong, Turg, Mik and Korr, Bentley 23 (10), Artie Maddicks (20), Leech (19), Julie Powers (17), Jack Powers (15), Kate Powers (12), Valéria Richards (9), Franklin Richards (13).

• The Skrull Invasion takes place on Earth

2017 -

• Dark Reign

• The Inner Circle attacks Genosha

• Hope returns as the Messiah

• Annihilators

• Hank Pym opens the Avengers Academy

• Young Avengers: Children's crusade

• Generation Hope

• Attack on the Mutant History Museum

• Sabretooth becomes the Invisible King of Asia

2018 -

• The Schism between the X-Men happens

• Fear Itself

° Thor becomes King of Asgard

• Apocalypse Solution

° Warren Worthington III becomes heir of Apocalypse

° Genesis, clone of Apocalypse, wakes from his chamber

• Logan opens the Jean Grey School For Higher Learning

° There's a room where the light won't find you (Watxm fanfic)

• Miles Morales (13) becomes Spider-Man

• Sabretooth and his goons kidnaps Genesis

2019 -

• The Phoenix returns

° Hope Summers fixes the mistake made during M-Day, sacrificing herself.

° Rachel Grey becomes the new host of Phoenix.

• Rage of Ultron.

° Hank Pym sacrifices himself to defeat Ultron once for all

• Terrigenesis Mist Arc

2020 -

• Khamala Khan (16) becomes Ms. Marvel

• Jean Foster is diagnosed with cancer, later she becomes an Valkyrie

• Moon Girl (9), together with Devil Dinosaur, tries to become a superhero

• Riri Williams (15) debuts as IronHeart

• Robert Reyes debuts as the new Ghost Rider

2021 -

• Dead Man Logan

° Logan dies and is buried in a secret place in Canada. Storm becomes the new headmistress at JGS.

• Ms. Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man create the new Champions

2022 -

• Strange Academy

2023 -

• The Mutants create Krakoaland

• Empyre Event: Kree Alliance - Skrull

2024 -

• Mayday Parker becomes Spider-Girl.

[excalivur345]

"No Tengo Ganas de Bailar"

Pícara le dice a Júbilo que nunca la había visto tan hermosa. Júbilo le dice que hoy tiene una cita interesante, ¿no es así, Shogo, Fistaaaaaa responde Shogo emocionado. Aunque malhumorado dice que odia las fiestas, pero Júbilo le dice que lo ha visto enfiestado Rictor  responde: si es verdad, solo odio está la capitana británica responde vamos, siempre es buen momento para estar increíble delante de alguien a quien odias. 

Todos están disfrutando de la fiesta menos Rictor que malhumorado dice.Yo te recuerdo A (Apocalipsis) pero supongo que vosotros podéis disfrutar de los canapés refiriéndose a sus compañeros cuando de repente algo o agarra por atrás estirándole .

El que le había estirado había sido estrella cubierto de sangre. Rictor sorprendido y molesto, se va diciendo que está lleno de sangre que le había hecho pensar. ¿Qué era buena idea? La capitana británica hace que estrella se vaya diciéndole que se vaya con otra persona a hacer una copa.

Todos están celebrando por la victoria de la Patrulla-X diciendo en alto ¡Por la Patrulla-X!. Gambito dice que brindarán para su miembro favorita de la Patrulla-X ma femme. Picara agradece a todos diciendo que  no eligió formar parte de su club precisamente, pero que se lo ha pasado genial diciendo que jamás se esperaría acabando formar parte de excalibur la capitana británica dice que siempre serán bienvenidos en el faro y no espero que quieran quedarse Gambito dice que no se preocupe chère tiene planes y  Gambito también. 

Jubilo y Picara van a ver si Rictor está bien, pero está peor si ya quería reventar esta fiesta por una docena de veces. Ahora aparece su ex salido de una pelea de MMA. Mientras que de repente Piter Windson le dice a la capitana británica si le concede un baile. Peter Windson agarra del brazo a la capitán británica. La capitana británica dice tienes suerte de que puedo leerte la mente y saber que no está cómodo conmigo. Pete dice, no miras con suficiente atención, capitana británica, dice pete. Pete dice Me alegra tenerte de vuelta, pero tienes que saber qué pasó en tu ausencia.

La mentirijilla de pícara funcionó bastante bien para quitarte de encima a Aquelarre Akkaba. Se contentaron con hacerte quedar como una farsante que cogió el título y se jugó dejando al Reino Unido sin defensas.  Incluso se han asegurado de que todo el mundo sepa de qué no eres británica, sino Krakoniana. La capitana británica dice que es ridículo, estaba hecha pedazos con los trucos de nina. Peter hace callar a la capitana británica diciendo que se apegue a la charla mental diciendo: Están aquí han sido nombrados protectores del Reino.

Eres un cobarde, dice la capitana británica, te cortarías la mano para alejarte de mí del miedo que tienes de tener a una capitana británica mutante. Eres un monstruo,  Charles, no es cierto, Charles responde diciendo que no es tan grosero como para meterse para fisgonear. El embajador dice: "Usted nos abandonó"

Decidimos entrar a la gala para informarles sobre la disolución sobre la alianza de Reino Unido con Krakoa El embajador dice que los documentos serán enviados a usted de inmediato para poder aceptarlos. Bretaña  rechaza el trato con Krakoa Sus ciudadanos serán bienvenidos como extranjeros, pero sus portales no. Los brujos que incumplan las leyes en nuestra tierra enfrentarán nuestra propia justicia. De ser necesarios usaremos nuestra magia. ¿Qué magia?, dice la capitana británica, los mutantes defendieron abalon con sus vidas y la hemos amado como si fuera nuestra. La única entrada al otro mundo es mi y a través de mí, dice la capitana británica. Ya no es tu tierra, Arturo, es el auténtico Rey. 

El embajador dice que puede que sea un faro, pero sigue siendo tierra nuestra el embajador ve a Rictor y a Jubilo pensando que son espías y diciendo que no hay trato Rictor se piensa que se están burlando de él diciendo si sabe quién es el. El embajador dice si un druida falso Rictor be que lo estan subestimando y va arremeter contra el embajador pero Piter calma a Rictor diciendo que lo invitara a unos tragos Rictor se va hartándose de ese sitio

En la siguiente viñeta vemos como Lord y Lady bardock teniendo una conversación. Lady bardock le dice a lord bardock que tiene un poco de hambre yendo a buscar comida cuando de repente Lady lord siente un olor a cerillas. 

De repente aparece Kurt Asustando a Lady Bardock Kurt se disculpa diciendo que puede que parezca el horrible rondador nocturno, pero son viejos amigos  Lady Bardock contestando has aparecido tan súbdito Kurt se disculpa otra vez diciendo que la bebida se la ha subido a la cabeza no debería asustarla en el estado que debería felicitaré apareciendo Lord Bardock Diciendo que hablan Contestando lady bardock diciendo de nada y gracias por el queso 

En la siguiente viñeta vemos a Rachel con la capitana británica bailando, diciéndole si era la primera persona en la fiesta que le invitaba a bailar sin pedirle información. La capitana británica  Afirmando con si la pregunta  Rachel le dice sé que disculpa por como actuó cuando la malicia se apoderó de ella no fisgoneo en ella y le pido que los demás tampoco lo hicieran porque sabe lo mucho que odia que fisgonen la capitana británica agradeciendo y diciéndole que se pase por el faro que se la echa de menos

En la casa de reunión del  Aquelare había acabado  Reuben (Embajador) pregunta a mariana si estaba preparada Reuben comienza a decir un discurso a los miembros del Aquelarre mientras que Wisdom va a buscar la salida, pero ven que no le dejan ir Reuben después acabar el discurso dirán que descaderaran a su reina víctima de intromisión de brujos romperemos las cadenas con magia y la traeremos a casa con sangre mutante

Todos los miembros del Aquelarre agarran a Winsdom para ofrecerle como un sacrificio. Windsom dice que por gente como vosotros se avergüenza de su país, Winsdom intenta pedir ayuda a la capitana británica, hasta que es apuñalado por Mariana con una daga.

En la siguiente viñeta se ve cómo a La reina hechicera de Avalon se le rompen las cadenas con las que estaba encadenada gracia al sacrificio y la sangre de mutante que derramó el akelarre para que sea liberada

Rictor está invocando a todos los druidas de esa tierra, mientras se ve cómo una luz verde sale desquebrajando el suelo  y Rictor diciendo que les pedirá el favor de que esta noche le quitaran a alguien una cosa que no merece. 

Del suelo sale un bastón que  lo agarra Rictor sorprendido de que hayan venido y dudando de que si podían hacerlo, tenía miedo de comenzar y después fracasar. Los druidas dicen que podrán hacer todo lo que él ordene. Rictor al escucharlo, levanta el bastón con todos los druidas y dice, A mí, mis druidas, mientras los druidas gritan, salve, se ve un rayo verde que parte el suelo. 

En la siguiente viñeta se ve a Morgan le Fay está estrangulando a unos guardias antes de pasar al portal creado a partir del sacrificio de  mutante. Mariana dice: Ahora abrimos la puerta al bañar su vida maldita con su propia sangre. Mientras se ve a la reina Cruzar el Portal. 

Una nueva costa se ha creado y salva a la nueva isla. La selkies la protegerán bien, dicen los druidas.Qué narices es eso?, dice Rictor. Se ve cómo una luz verde ilumina el faro y una voz conocida se oye por la espalda. ¿También es un mal momento ahora?

Era estrella, se disculpa por cómo se había comportado, debería haber preguntado si te apetecían unos tragos. Si ese hubiera haber sido un buen comienzo, dice Rictor ven que te enseñaré la isla que he creado. Estrella dice: ¿Dónde has estado? Rictor dice: Te diré dónde he estado y dónde estamos ahora.

[xprojectrpg]

Moment of Awesome - Hope Summers/Mimetic:Third time turns out to be the charm, when Marius and Hope finally talk, following their rather violent first meeting.

"You really didn't join them on purpose? For whatever they were offering?" Hope didn't ask what Clan Akkaba was; she knew. But something about the way she asked - maybe the uncertain, scared undertone of her voice - said that this was a question she needed to ask, and have answered, directly. Not something she would take for granted, assumed from other conversations.

"I am an *X-Man*."

The answer was automatic, delivered in a tone that indicated this should have been an explanation sufficient in itself.

Marius cleared his throat and walked back some of the intensity before he continued. "However, if it must be said: the answer is an unambiguous no. Once Akkaba had me an offer was made, but there was never to be any choice. I refused. Over, and over. It made no difference." The Australian paused for a moment, considering whether this was truly an overture he wanted to make, then accepted that he had nothing else.

"Your dad's mission being what it is, I was thinking . . . if I were to tell you how Horseman are made, might that perhaps come in useful?"

Hope shifted, sitting up a little straighter. Her face lost a little of its cautious restraint, too - not giving way to excitement for intel, but rather reacting to what Marius had said just before that, eyes flashing with sickened unsurprise. "That - that might be helpful," she said, clearly trying to choose her words with care. "But . . . " Her more-natural countenance conveyed some sheepishness. "I did throw a table at you. And steal Kyle's mutation and try to attack you too. You don't owe me anything."

The seriousness of her reply left Marius amused despite himself. "I'm still in the process of making amends to those inconvenienced by the attempted genocide, which I don't mind saying is something I am finding quite difficult to gift for. In short, I find myself in a helpful mood."

Hope blinked. "You're . . . giving people gifts because you tried to kill them?" she guessed after a moment spent trying to parse Marius's words.

"Correct. The gesture is largely symbolic, I admit, but in your case . . ." Marius brushed a curl from his orange eyes. "If a bit of knowledge can help someone in the next world, well, it wouldn't be the worst thing."

Hope considered this. "My world already had, um, he was already - woken up. And killed. But my dad helps other worlds, and I want to too. So - " She nodded, decisively. "Okay."

[spongebobafettywap]

My headcanon for Blink and Nightcrawler is that their appearance and teleportation abilities are a semi match because it's a side effect of being related to Apocalypse. On different levels tho

Okay so here's the lore I still remember: Apocalypse can teleport but that's not a power he has under "normal circumstances". The power upgrade through celestial mumbo jumbo machines actually gave him that neat party trick... It came out of thin air tho. No predispositions. No enhancement of what was already there. Literally nothing could have made it so he'd be a teleporter if celestial tech didn't directly graft that onto him. This makes it an ability that COULD be passed down but would need specific factors and lots of time to actually show up

Blink is from Clan Akkaba, a long family line that came from Apocalypse himself. A combination of the clan's strong bloodline and maybe influenced matchmaking resulted in her being born a mutant with her specific abilities and look

Nightcrawler's genetic material (pre retcon at least can't believe I gotta specify this now) is from a mutant born in ancient times. That mutant was probably born when Apocalypse was ruling over his kingdom and first starting the clan. Coincidences like what Blink and Nightcrawler have are rare so maybe Blink's family branch was parallel to many others with the same power potential but lots of them got lost or axed. Maybe that ancient mutant came from there but contrary to Blink's family line, his got cut short because of a feud, a split or being locked up in a hell like dimension by a magic seal (this era did introduce this very specific plot element into Apocalypse's backstory with his new family... Which was a strange choice)

TL;Dr: Blink is a distant descendant of Apocalypse while Nightcrawler is a close descendant. Because of the time hiccup between the two family lines, two descendants ended up existing at the same time with similar powers even if one seems more basic than the other all thanks to present day matchmaking doing its magic

Now this headcanon kinda implies that the ancient mutant that fathered Nightcrawler, Azazel, is somehow related to Apocalypse. I guess the blue had to come from somewhere for some of his other kids to have it ?

Anyway,that's all I got. Toodles!

Huh I always kinda viewed Blink as being more directly related to Apocalypse whereas Nightcrawler would be more distant. Like its possible that Angel and Nightcrawler are distantly related but I guess from your theory they're closer in relation.

[souurcitrus]

In a world where Sabretooth's family is less dysfunctional and he's a good father and brother, I know the Creed are unstoppable. Because we would have:

Graydon Creed, who is very manipulative and smart, and if he is like his variant from Age of Apocalypse, he is basically a super soldier and shooter.

Kyle Gibney (who i believe is also Sabretooth's kid with all my core), who is a smaller version of Victor, but more savage and wild. He's a Hound dog, point him in a direction he will attack. But is also very loyal, like his AOA version.

Clarice Ferguson, descent of Akkaba, teleporter. She has so much power, but she's scared of using it to hurt people. We see in Exiles what she can do.

And maybe David Richards (Sabretooth's adopted son in Exiles), one of the most powerful mutants in his universe. Maybe he could be a less creepy if he was raised different.

And of course, Clara and Saul Creed, weaker than their big brother, but still deadly. Clara is a sharp shooter and Saul is just as ferocious as Victor.

Good thing most of them hate each other and could never work together.