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9. Two Roads - CITRUS She hates that she feels it, but her first reaction is anger. Anger that she wasn't the one to find it first. The school is abuzz with the news of a cure, X-Men and recruits alike. The world is abuzz with it. The ethics and politics are all the news stations are talking about. Cessy ignores it. She buries herself in the lab, working on her current project and almost misses Xavier's mandatory meeting on the subject. Nina and Amy find her glued to a microscope. "The talk is starting soon," Amy says. "Yeah, you're gonna miss it," Nina adds from the doorway. "Everything he's going to say he heard from Professor McCoy a

31. Charge - MIRAGE Leadership training is the only class Amy dislikes enough to try to skip. It's not just because leadership training is crazy stressful, and not just because it's Cyclops who does the program. But Amy's excuses to get out of leadership training with Cyclops only last as long as it takes Rook to complain about why he has to train and she doesn't. Then she's in the line of fire too. "But I'm never going to lead a team," she says when Cyclops has lined a group of them up at random in the Danger Room for training. "I'm never going to lead an X-Team. I'm never going to have to charge into battle or warn that the British are c

61. Fighting Chance - CUTTLEFISH Swim tryouts are the summer before school starts. Evelyn spends the days before going down the cliffs to the rocky beach under the institute with Amy and Russ and swimming laps in the ocean as fast and hard as she can while Amy times her and Russel alternates between reading a book and complaining. "Wow," Amy says, shaking out the stopwatch to make sure it's not defective. "You should have tried out for the Olympics." "I know," Evelyn says, perching on an outcrop of boulder like a mermaid. She smiles. "My mom's been telling me that since I was five." "They won't let her now," Russel says. "She has a 'Genet

26. Fantasia - Kinetic Movie night at the Institute is always, predictably, crazy. And while Russ is sure anything they watch would have had a better book, he gives in when Amy and Evelyn threaten to drag him down the stairs. All three flights. Stools, folding chairs, boxes, and mounds of pillows are set up around the Annex TV and Eddie even drives a motorcycle in behind the couch so he and Ava can sit on it. Russ sits at the foot of the couch, as Evelyn perches on the arm and Amy arranges a pile of pillows on the other side. Curtis comes around with a hat and slips of paper for people to cast their votes. He puts in "Harry Potter 1-8" lik

Issue One: Part the Second PAGE 6 Panel 1: Location shot. Xavier Institute, nighttime. TEXT BOX: Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters, 22:00 EST Panel 2: Close up of Cyclop's visor. CYCLOPS: Absolutely NOT. Panel 3: In the hallway leading to the sub-basement elevator, a crowd of New Recruits have gathered, all of them in full uniform to make their case. Ava, Muno, and Gunner stand out at the front, protesting. INFO BOX: Ava Richter, "Antimatter". Oxidizing touch. Southern belle, killer right hook. AVA: Yer out of yer flaming MIND!! GUNNER: Of COURSE we're coming! INFO BOX: Gunner Vincent, "Shepherd". Ovis touch. Not all sheepish h

Ultimate Phase Six Comic Issue One: Part the First PAGE 1 Panel 1: General Manticore stands silhouetted amid the ruins of the Area 51 army base as the sun sets in the desert behind him. TEXT BOX: Ask any soldier who ever lived to tell a tale, and he'll tell you the same thing. Panel 2: Flashback, grayscale. Evelyn is strapped down to a table, her face spiky, as she tries to fight back the chief Scientist who's aiming a large syringe at her as the building begins to shake and collapse all around them. TEXT BOX: Wars aren't measured in battles. INFO BOX: Evelyn Rivers, "Cuttlefish". Possesses all abilities of said cephalopod. Strapped to

OC Questionnaire - Cessilia "Cessy" Gonzalez codename CITRUS 1) Choose one of your own characters (OC). 2) Make them answer the following questions. 3) Then tag three people. 4) Feel free to add some questions of your own. 1) What gender are you? Female. Obviously. (Get contacts. Seriously.) 2) What is your age? Sixteen but my IQ is so much higher I feel I should at least be the average of the two by now. 3) Do you want a hug? Did you wash your hands? 4) Do you have any bad habits? I scratch at my skin when it itches. Also, I chew on my hair when I'm thinking. Then I have to run and wash it the second I realize I'm doing it. (Bush