The Main Plot



It has been many years since mutants began to appear. At first there were few,
and now there are many. More and more each day people discover what they
are, but they entering into a world where they are not welcome. In 2004 the
United States government implemented the McAllister Act, created and passed
through Congress by Senator George McAllister (R - MN). Senator McAllister never
explicitly stated what made him so partial against mutants, from school children
in Alaska to high powered lobbyists in Washington, but he carried the secret of his
daughter Marianne, a girl with chronokinesis, the power to manipulate time. Once
McAllister found out his daughter was a mutant, he arranged for the girl to be
killed in an accident and immediately went to work passing legislation so no other
family would be cursed as his was.

The McAllister Act was harsh and fast. Mutants were to be captured and executed
for the good of the American population. They were treated as terrorists, threats
to national security, each and every single one of them no matter the mutation or
age or background. One of the first captured was Representative Isaac Morton of
California, an unregistered mutant who as it turns out was an empath - he could
read people's emotions and change them at will. Mutants would have no trial, only
be subject to tests created to discover whether they were simple humans or
something more. Isaac Morton, a forty three year old married father of two was
given a public execution by firing squad as a warning to all mutants - the United
States was coming for them.

Charles Xavier was assassinated in 2005, the Xavier Institute left in ruins. Jean
Gray disappeared never to be seen again in 2007. Erik Lehnsherr, the fugitive
mutant known as Magneto, was one of twenty mutants killed in a government
sponsored bombing in Chicago in 2008. Children were taken from their parents.
Fathers and mothers from their children. Homes ransacked, burned, exploded, and
all the while public support was at an all time high. The government preached the
dangerous and unpredictable ways of these savage creatures. Soon parents began
throwing their children onto the street or calling the authorities themselves. Spouses
would flee their mutant husbands and wives and claim they were assaulted by their
powers. Anyone seen as odd or unusual was labeled a mutant. And the propaganda
began to spread across the world.

Though Xavier was dead, the X-Men lived on, albeit a lot weaker than they had once
been. They found refuge in an old townhouse in Manhattan, and soon mutants who
heard about them through the grapevine flocked to them for help and safety. The
Brotherhood of Mutants, the more violent organization, saw the same thing. The
sewers, home to the Morlocks, began to see mutants with nothing visibly wrong seek
them out. The Guthrie family of upstate New York created a safe haven on their
farm, outwardly risking their own safety to help others.

But more and more each day are kidnapped, murdered, their families broken
apart by what they are. More and more are fleeing to New York City, risking being
captured by the powerful Mutant Enforcement Unit, the paramilitary organization
staffed by humans and bribed mutants alike to capture and arrest these 'vicious'
beings. Some have lost their families. Many have lost their identities. All they have
left is one another for support.

They are the Fugitive Generation.