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Our last chance! Okay?! We have nothing left but threats! We fought for them and they hate us! We fought alongside them and they kill our children in the streets! We pack up and move to an island and they destroy it! We move to another one and the $#%&#$% Avengers storm the #$%& beaches! We’re supposed to be the next step of human evolution yet we’ve become an endangered species. We’re everything they are not and we’re a shadow of our former selves! All we have left is threats. The threat of revolution! The threat of a fight that we hope they don’t want! So, yes, I got in front of any camera that would show my face and I looked their world in the eye and told them–They better leave us alone… I stood on the bridge of the Helicarrier and I threatened them… Because nothing. Else. Has. Worked. Xavier is gone. Logan is gone. I watched Xavier die at my feet and I thought if I don’t do something to kick-start it… The dream is really, truly dead.


A Letter to Humanity:

Today, agents of the United States government came to our house to try to take a girl into their custody.

They will attempt to mitigate this by saying it wasn’t an arrest.

I ask you, it someone arrives at your front door, wanting to take away your family, without any justification or permission, what would you call it?

This is worse than an arrest. This is an attempted kidnapping.

They will also attempt to justify this by saying “This girl is dangerous.”

By which they mean “She is a mutant.”

We have seen that mutant sovereignty, even if confined to a single island, will never be respected. WE will never be respected. Those who claim to fight for a better world are those who would keep us on our knees. Their jackboot rise only so it can crash down harder.

Previously, I have made threats. I implied there would be a price to pay for a transgression like this. I noted that we possess the power to destroy whole cities if those who persecuted us did not relent. I said that if we were pushed, there would be consequences.

They pushed us.

We have just been proven liars. Be grateful we aren’t as bad as you think we are.

In the days that come, remember this was not of our choosing. But know that even if we forgive it, we will not forget the day when our worst fears were proved true. That even those who claimed to be our friends thought us property.

Cyclops,