Marvel: Art of War

Who: Scott, Cecilia, Alison, Haylie, Wade, Bobby
What: It’s time to announce the group’s next mission.
When: Sunday, May 1
Where: The Danger Room
Rating/Warnings: presumably, there will be danger.
Status: Complete

“Okay then, Jean. You get there when you can. I’m,” and he actually gulped, nervous for the first time since he had gotten his red glasses, “going in. Wish me luck.”

She squeezed his hand, and he opened the door to the Danger Room, where he had asked everybody to assemble. Earlier, he had set up folding chairs in a circle, each with a notepad and pens, in case anybody wanted to take notes.

Some of them were there, already. Scott saw them all looking at him, curious. He was not in civvies, not anymore. He was in the first ‘suit’ he had contracted for, from friends of mutants at Van Dyne Enterprises, out of Poughkeepsie, New York. Deep blue, form fitting, specially jointed, that new cloth that was too expensive to want to talk about, a product of the first manufacturing line from the micromachines of the famed scientist Henry Pym.

( Welcome to the first meeting in whole of the X-Men )

Who: Alison Blaire; Scott Summers
What: Ali is on the street corner playing for some cash to afford food. She glows. People notice.
When: Sometime after Christmas, 1962
Where: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
Rating/Warnings: PG
Status: Closed and Complete

The snow fell softly to the ground, but the temperature in the early afternoon was tolerable, although weather forecasted a drop in temperature once darkness came. December and January were always the worst part of winter.

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