by John Hino » Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:54 am
He noticed her tone.
"It was my first mission as an X-Man. The university received word that some bigots were going to do something to start a mutant riot and we were sent to try and defuse the situation."
"Turned out they had a bomb. We stopped it... and you'd think that would be when it stopped being a rich kid's lark for me, when it became real, but it wasn't. It was when one of the thugs took a hostage right in front of me. I fight for him, for the innocents caught in the cross-hairs of people or forces that would do them harm, because I've been there. It just happens that my own family is now among the targeted... and I don't mean just money."