Every week The League of Extraordinary Bloggers is given an assignment. This week it's...
"One of my favorite comic book series as a kid was “What if…?” where Marvel writers pondered what might have been, had a certain event never happened, or happened differently. So, this week’s challenge for the League of Extraordinary Bloggers is…
“What if…? — Write an alternate turn of events for a pop culture storyline.”
What If...Professor X Got All Scanners On The World?!?
There are some characters that have been able to stand on their moral principles no matter how far the world has pushed them, but what if one of those characters was just a little more human, a little more weak, a little more tired of being pushed around, living in fear, seeing loved ones persecuted and executed. What if Professor Charles Xavier sat in his study one day watching the president calling for tougher sanctions against mutant kind, calling them the greatest threat to mankind. Chuck could reach out and telepathically feel the fear and hatred boiling in the minds of the normals. The words of his old comrade, Magneto, echoing in the back of his mind, "they'll always fear us...they'll always hate us..." Scientists working on a cure for people who aren't sick, engineers building machines to eradicate those that can't be controlled. It will never end. Xavier leans toward the tv and flexes his mind just a bit and BOOM! Exploding head all over every major news outlet and a STRONG voice inside of every viewers head; "LEAVE US ALONE OR WE WILL WIPE YOU OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET!"
No one is more shocked than Xavier himself...How could he have done such a thing? What now? The answer comes from the voice of a man desperately trying to get drunk but never quite getting there, "Well, bub. Now we're at war."
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