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X-Men #11: Danger Room Practice Run

The following is a summary of information taken from the FBI’s interviews of the staff and students at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, as told by Special Agent Jacob Farber. Havok... X-Men field leader. He said, “Why don’t we have the Danger Room put us through a scenario where we fight the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? That way we’re more prepared for what’s to come.” The X-Men had just learned that for much of their time at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, their Headmaster, Charles Xavier, was not Charles Xavier at all, but an impostor. He was a mutant called Mastermind, an illusion caster with a sick mind and a nasty sadistic streak. Somehow, Mastermind got close to the X-Men. He lived with them. Traveled with them. Disguised as Professor Xavier, he took them to Santo Marco to remove the mutant terrorist, Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from power. According to the school’s cook, the professor as imitated by the Mastermind, often displayed suspi...

X-Men #10: Meet Silk Spider

Marvel Girl and Mystique came in from the grounds of Xavier’s mansion with a guest, a strange man in a black butterfly mask, red cape and hood.  It was Wolverine that noticed the scent of ozone, blood, and fear on the man. They’d been in a fight, on the property and this man, a mutant, was what they came back with. Jean had received a strange psychic signal that alerted her to noticed four unknowns wandering the property. She hadn’t heard them. She hadn’t seen them. But she knew they were there. Three fugitives, escaped from the super-powered detention center in New York City and the teenage super-hero that was hunting them.  The fugitives were Crossbones, with whom Marvel Girl was already familiar; The Vulture an octogenarian super-powered bank robber; and the media famous, Vanisher. The hero was the Silk Spider, a new NYC based crime fighter, with arachnid abilities.  Marvel Girl, Mystique, and Silk Spider fought the villains in the wooded area to the north of the ...