Rachel Summers/Phoenix | Rachel Anne Grey-Summers (cosmicflame) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2014-09-16 10:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | !network post, rachel summers / phoenix (616) |
Testimony: Rachel Summers
[Testimony given by Rachel at the Avengers meeting on 9/15; open for discussion to everyone at the meeting but done as a network post for OOC convenience :P]
"I'm Rachel Grey-Summers. I'm a mutant, the daughter of two mutants. I'm telepathic and telekinetic and I can project minds through time. I'm from the future. I'm a survivor. I'm here to tell you firsthand what I survived.
"I think most of you already know about the Sentinels-- robots designed to 'protect humanity' from the 'threat of mutants'. In my time, before I was born, the US passed the Mutant Control Act. If it sounds like an animal control act, that's because it was. It required the registration of all mutants, their identities and powers, so people could know exactly who we were, where we were, what we could do, and if we had offspring who were or could someday be mutants. The Supreme Court originally struck it down, but the administration decided to reactivate the Sentinels to make sure people were 'protected' from all these unregistered mutants.
"It took a few years, but around when I was born, they finally got the Mutant Control Act implemented. The Sentinels enforced it. If you were a mutant who hadn't registered yourself, the Sentinels could detect you and hunt you down-- and if you hadn't registered, well, you must be an enemy of humanity and you had to be treated as such. And then when I was a kid, they passed the Genetic Purity Act. Mutants were forbidden to 'breed'. Humans who were genetically 'anomalous' and could potentially produce mutant offspring were forbidden to 'breed'. Anyone with superpowers that didn't come from the mutant gene was treated like a mutant. We were watched very, very closely. As far as they were concerned, mutants and superpowered people and anyone who supported mutants were all potential terrorists. We were restricted to live in certain locations where we could be monitored as a group. There were Sentinels permanently stationed outside Xavier's School. There were barbed wires and electrified fences around our walls and missile launchers on our roof.
"And then... they stopped seeing the potential to become enemies combatants and started treating all of us like we already were. They gave us no warning. We were getting ready for classes when armed forces came and fired an artillery barrage at Xavier's School. I was the only survivor. I was fourteen.
"They... excuse me..." [Rachel takes a pause before resuming] "They broke me down and conditioned me and turned me into a 'Hound'. They made me track down other mutants, other superpowered people, so they could be captured or killed. I didn't go to some tattoo parlor and get these marks on my face-- they're my branding. I wasn't a person. I was an animal. I was their prototype and they made more.
"If you're wondering where the rest of the world was while this was happening, a lot of them supported the US. The ones that didn't were afraid-- the US wasn't respecting borders when they sent out Sentinels and Hounds to hunt mutants. And the US had nukes that they were prepared to use. Any mutants who were taken alive were put into concentration camps, made to wear power-dampening collars, and treated... well, I'm sure you know what happens in a concentration camp. Most were killed outright. The Fantastic Four-- dead. The Avengers-- dead. When I broke my conditioning, I was put in the internment camp in South Bronx with the few other surviving X-Men.
"We got word that there was a nuclear strike planned to end what the US had started. We tried a last-ditch scheme that failed. I was one of only two survivors. I came to the past and I've stayed.
"My timeline isn't the only timeline that's gone through something like that. But I'm here to make it clear exactly where certain actions will lead.
"Does anyone have any questions or comments?"