X-Men #5 Fantastic Discoveries (or, It's Clobberin' Time)

There's a tinge of sourness in the air after the X-Men's first meeting with the Fantastic Four. None of them are all they were cracked up to be. The leader of the team is aloof and dismissive. His thoughts are nowhere but in his science. The other members are brash and compulsive. In this world of emerging heroes, how will the superheroes find common ground if they can't find it in themselves to get along? Calling Reed Richards was a good idea. He'll take the pile of robot parts back to his lab and possibly even return to the school to examine Jim once more, and he'll find the traces of something fascinating. He'll see the humanity in this scrap heap. He'll discover the self-replicating material present in all living beings; the map of the living's genetic superhighway. He'll also discover that the robot that Jim calls his other was indeed female, however the inscription on some of the hardware says "M1OTHER," which looks more like "Mother". There's a computer terminal left on. Technology twenty years ahead of what earth should have. It's a simple letter from a complex mind. A mind full of doubt and puzzlement.

There's something to be learned from the fight with the Fantastic Four. There's something to be learned from the robot now called Jim. There's something to be learned from mid day picnics on the Xavier property. What happens to this information? Do we hold on to it? Do we share it with the world? Jim has nuclear codes. He knows the location of a super secret government prison that holds supernormal criminals. He knows that Mystique was sent to befriend and betray the X-Men and specifically, Wolverine. And Jim knows that Mystique was always expendable. Jim knows other things that he won't divulge, and maybe that discretion is a good thing. Because, what would happen if we knew all of the secrets? Nothing good. The X-Men has a new ally, it seems. Jim is a living being. He's a new mutant lifeform. But he is just a child and children need supervision. In the future, the near future, Jim will be of tremendous help in locating wayward mutants. He will be an amazing resource. And maybe someday he'll even be an X-Man.