It's pitch black. Black into glowing red balloons getting brighter and brighter. Red into more vibrant hues of orange and then flickers of yellow until the darkness is banished in favor of a waking world. A teenage boy yawns, squinty-eyed fumbling across his jacket pockets until the red bottle cap lenses he sought reveal themselves. He sighs in relief as though he wouldn't be surprised if they'd been left behind, and judging from their thickness he might as well walk around with his eyes closed without them.

He peels his nearly bald head from his glass pillow, a backseat car window, rubs the spot previously suction cupped like a Garfield window cling and fluffs the small tuft of white hair atop his head. "Are we there yet?" he mumbles to the parental figures in the front of the small hover car. "You tell me, Wise Guy."

He is me. My peers call me Wise Guy because mine is the power to see into the future. My visions can be cryptic, and still being in the adolescent stages of my mutation, they're specs, mere milliseconds giving little to no effect by my knowing or altering what I see. 'Wise Guy' is less a badge of honor and more a satirical jab at my psychic inadequacy. It doesn't help that my step-dad, the famous and proud of it Roberto 'Sunspot' Dacosta is the biggest perpetuator of my reputation. He's haughty, conceited and has no qualms about his womanizing ways, but my mom is unwavering in her love and support of him despite my protests.

I don't get it. My dad was loyal, kind and goofy. At least that's what I remember of him.

"I'm a mutant."

In the past those words held so much weight on the lips summoning the strength to utter them and once they fell on human ears, the relocation process began. My parents and hundreds of thousands of their mutant brothers and sisters were singled out, hunted, captured and shipped off to Genosha just over 30 years ago. Guarded by Sentinels and crippled by power dampeners, mutantkind was at a loss living in a pit of poverty and despair.

work in progress...

All characters mentioned in this synopsis are property of Marvel, this is simply fiction for fun.

I have faith in Bryan Singer, I do, but this is gonna be a tough one. Ratner and the writers made a pretty big mess of X3 and pretty much eliminated the possibility of Rachel Summers existing. Without her, we have to find another gateway to the past...AND without Kitty even being born in the 70s (since that is the supposed decade we'll be be set in) she wouldn't have a younger self to transfer her future consciousness into anyway.

SO, I propose this....doing everything within my power, within reason and in consideration of the masses who don't know the X-ins and X-outs while still easter egging the crap out of you guys ;)

In the future timeline, we have Storm, Colossus, Kitty, Iceman, Nightcrawler....and Illyana imprisoned. After hearing the dying words of an elderly psychic woman named Irene (or maybe even Emma Frost) about a man named Essex who tampered with mutant DNA to create the Phoenix which ultimately lead to their future, the future X-Men devise an escape plan involving Illyana's newly developed time-travel portals. Obviously, things don't go according to plan. Storm is killed creating a diversion and Illyana is captured while the others make it through.

The quartet of mutants emerge in the 70s (I'm reading up on my history of New York in the 70s, they don't exactly have to arrive at a pivotal moment in history, but the historical references need to be poignant and accurate...aside from, y'know, the existence of mutants)

SOOOO Fist class left us with a wheelchair bound Xavier with a full head of hair, blue, furry Beast, Havok and Banshee....who were honestly kinda "meh" characters for me in the movie. I think if they went with a Mr. Sinister storyline, Havok would actually be pretty important (and also in this continuity's concept of time, is it more likely that he's Cyclops's father rather than his brother?) Anywho, the future X-Men seek out Xavier and his X-Men, encountering young new recruits, Storm and Douglas Ramsey (shhhhhh, I think he'd work well here)

Once Xavier accepts their proposition to find Essex, they first seek out a legendary mutant that evaded all attempts of capture by the Sentinels, Wolverine (of course) SO the lineup is Wolverine, Havok, young Storm, future Colossus, Kitty, Iceman and Nightcrawler and Beast and Cypher (the latter two of whom just fly the plane or coordinate communications, have intellectual banter and act awkward around girls (also, I'd kinda like Cypher to represent a different ethnicity, maybe latino and his last name could change to Ramirez. What?)) With such a large cast, I kinda want Banshee to go bye-bye AND I think there has to be a cameo of Dazzler, maybe even just a poster promoting her concert or a news report outing her as a mutant or something)

Back to the skeleton plot I'm randomly assembling: Back to the Future ;) The heads of the internment camps bring Illyana to the cells where they hold the most dangerous mutants...because it makes sense to keep all the most dangerous mutants in one place, together ;). We see some cameos here, Franklin Richards, Scarlet Witch, Proteus, Mister X (it doesn't really matter who, just some powerful mofos)....and then there's Xavier & Magneto, who'll be super old. And here's the deal, the main guy, Bastion, doesn't like having to report missing mutants to the higher ups, so he introduces Nimrod and forces Xavier to telepathically force Illyana to teleport Nimrod to exact time and place she did her teammates so they can be bagged, tagged and brought back to the future (I love typing "Back to the future" teehee) But since the portal is forced and Illyana is so inexperienced (and since Xavier is a bad mama-jama), things spin out of control, releasing several mutants, Mags and the Prof included, who snag Illyana and jump in the portal after Nimrod. By the time they stumble out of the portal in the past, Nimrod is gone and, yet again, Illyana doesn't make it through with them (It'd probably be too much for a non-comic fan audience to digest, but I'd like to later explore Belasco abducting her mid-transport....and then dive into Inferno in the 3rd installment in the 80s with Sinister's clone of a prepubescent Jean, rapidly aged to adulthood, Madelyne Pryor....if that's too much of a stretch, she just doesn't make it because she's never teleported to the past before)

....Not sure where to go from there, I'll be back

*All characters in this fan fiction are either property of Marvel or are derived from aspects of Marvel characters.

Mr. Sinister's obsession with genetic mutation led him to the the High Evolutionary's doorstep at Mt. Wundagore under the guise of an eager prodigy, there, he absorbed all the knowledge he could before devolving his "mentor" into an ape and sacrificed most of the New Men to enhanced his own Marauders with their forcefully extracted DNA.

When The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver approached Mt. Wundagore to visit their former caretaker, Bova, with whom they'd been unable to establish contact with, Sinister took it as an opportunity to control one of the most powerful beings on Earth. Sinister possessed Bova with a psychic entity called Malice to get close to Wanda and unleash her Chaos Magic to recreate the world in his image. Unfortunately, Wanda's defensive probability hex launched her consciousness into the body of Bova, leaving her own vessel to be permanently filled by the malevolent Malice, servant of Sinister.

Marauders: Sinister, Malice, Juggernaut, Cloak, Nekra, Gambit

Hellfire Club's Inner Circle: Archangel, Emma Frost, Gideon, Sage, Sunspot, Wolverine, Domino

Genoshan Gladiators: Strong Guy, Tempo, Cannonball, Blink

Avalon (combined kingdoms of Asgard, Attilan, Atlantis & The Savage Land): Thor, Crystal, Namor, Meggan, Storm, Ka-Zar, Rogue, Mystique, Sabretooth, Destiny

An unholy marriage between Mr. Sinister and Spiral brought Mojo's multidimensional monopoly, Mojoworld, crumbling beneath it's and his own weight, wiping out his servants and slaves in favor of recreating this world in their own, twisted image. With Sinister's expertise and enthusiasm for genetics and Spiral's Body Shoppe, they spawned a new army derived from the DNA of the X-Men and other powered beings in hopes of creating an ultimate weapon. Accelerating their growth and implanting false memories, Sinister and Spiral enroll their "children" in gladiatorial games to test the extent of their abilities.

Theo McKenzie AKA Totem, Parents: Meggan / Namor
Appearance: Natural form is green scaled skin, but outer appearance changes instinctively to shield from shifts in environmental conditions; growing fur in the cold, becoming organic molten rock to accommodate extreme heat, etc.
Powers: Can recall and display the power of his ancestors, the combined strength of the Kings of Atlantis and the elemental sensitivity of Meggan's otherworldly mystics. He can tap into the Earth's electromagnetic field to hurl bolts of energy or attune his senses to the wilderness and commune with nature. While he might be one of the most powerful mutants on the planet, he has very little control once he summons a "totem". If he doesn't focus hard enough, he can fall into a trance, surrendering his body and all the power that goes with it to the essence of an ancestor or a feral spirit.

Pandora Jeffries AKA Pandora, Parents: Madison Jeffries / Madelyne Pryor
Appearance: Flowing red hair with black extensions, green eyes and a cybernetic arm.
Powers: A combination of technopathy and cyberpathy. Fashioned her own cybernetic arm to enhance her offensive capabilities, with prehensile coils, a force field generator and a laser cannon.

River Jeffries AKA River, Parents: Madison Jeffries / Madelyne Pryor
Appearance: Short, dark hair and slightly overweight. River relies on his telekinesis for everything, usually opting to float instead of walk and summon things toward himself rather than physically retrieve them. Also, instead of taking the initiative to learn on his own, he simply telepathically downloads information from those around him to learn.
Powers: Telepathy and telekinesis

Ingrid Madrox AKA Dice, Parents: Multiple Man / Boom Boom
Appearance: Short platinum hair (I imagine her to look like Swedish pop star, Robyn)
Powers: Able to generate up to five duplicates of herself. Each dupe is set with an internal clock, as they're basically living bombs. They have the same memory, gymnastics and kick-boxing training as the original but they obey her instructions after they're deployed. Dice is still learning to alter the clock once she's already designated one for a dupe. For now, if she sets the clock at 10 minutes, they go off at 10 minutes whether they've engaged their target or not.

Alistair Worthington-Frost AKA Matador, Parents: Archangel / White Queen
Appearance: Slicked back blonde hair, eyes glow red when using his power.
Powers: A specialized form of mind control that initiates bloodthirsty rage in opponents, making them "see red" and maliciously lash out at whoever Matador targets. Enraging a single person is easy, but the more minds he controls at once, the less time he can maintain the effects.

Sibyl Worthington-Frost AKA Blackbird, Parents: Archangel / White Queen

Appearance: Long blonde hair and exquisitely beautiful, framed by black feathered wings

Powers: Winged flight, wears gloves with diamond talons. Able to telepathically alter others' perception to appear invisible although electronic detection is still aware of her presence.

Nicholas Aaronson AKA Verve, Parents: Bedlam / M

Appearance: Tall, lean, handsome as hell

Powers: Heart generates bio-electric charges that stimulate his muscles, imbuing him with lightning speed. His brain also processes information at an astounding rate making him adept in trigonometry, physics and a number of languages to name a few of his "quick-study" endeavors.

Isis Neramani AKA Isis, Parents: Adam X / Storm

Appearance: Elegant, petite frame with blonde hair and blue eyes

Powers: Like her father, Isis must oxygenate her target's blood before using her powers, but unlike his, her powers are to heal internal injuries. She carries her mother's vibranium blades with her at all times and is immensely proficient with them in combination with her Shi'ar inherent agility and strength.

Beatrice "Cali" Howlett AKA Calico, Parents: Wolverine / Domino

Appearance: Albino with red and black splotches on and through her skin and hair and red eyes with feline slit pupils.

Powers: Projects a limited probability field increasing her own luck, 2 hard-bone retractable claws on the back of each hand, enhanced senses and reflexes, regenerative healing factor.

Colin Drake AKA Frostbite, Parents: Wolfsbane / Iceman

Appearance: Permanently locked in a large, white wolf-man form

Powers: Claws, enhanced strength, durability, senses and speed. Impervious to arctic conditions.

Scout Xavier AKA Scout, Parents: Rogue / Longshot

Appearance: Shaggy brunette hair with a white streaked bang, 4-fingered hands and his left eye glows yellow when he uses his power.

Powers: Able to steal one super human power at a time. He retains that power until his body decides that he's mastered it and then he loses access to it without warning. He has the secondary ability to absorb another being's pain into himself, a form of physical empathy. He can't draw in more pain than his body can handle and he can't actually heal whoever he's trying to help if they have a open wound, just temporarily reduce their suffering.

Alexis Ramsey AKA Lexis, Parents: Magik / Cypher

Appearance: She'a a dead ringer for her mother, although her eyes are brown. Carries a spell book with her like her life depended on it.

Powers: While she inherited her father's powers, she applies them towards magic like her mother, but she's yet learned to retain mystical knowledge, often forgetting spells immediately after she's used them, possibly due to ADD.

Xandra Wagner AKA Rapture, Parents: Callisto / Nightcrawler

Appearance: Scarlet red skin, pointed ears, jet black hair, yellow eyes. Unlike her father she has all 5 fingers and toes on each hand.

Powers: Ability to trade-teleport, meaning she can teleport herself to another person's position while relocating them to her previous one. She has an innate tactile understanding like her mother, making her use of power much like moving pieces on a gameboard.

Lily Proudstar AKA Wildflower, Parents: Moonstar / Warpath

Appearance: Statuesque with long black hair, 1/2 Apache, 1/2 Cheyanne.

Powers: Feeding on sunlight and the nutrients of the earth like a plant, Wildflower can survive in just about any condition. Along with granting her as of yet unmeasured strength and regenerative capabilities, her body adapts to the most extreme temperatures and pressure from changes in elevation from the highest mountain peaks to the depths of the deepest ocean floor. She is also able to root herself to the earth to stand ground in a fight or become seemingly weightless and drift on the currents of the wind.

Zephyra Neramani AKA Zephyra, Parents: Deathbird / Gladiator

Appearance: Black feathered head crest, wings and purple skin.

Powers: Winged flight, razor-sharp talons, microscopic sight and strength and invulnerability unmatched by any.

Gabriel Eisenhardt AKA Ax, Parents: Magneto / Lilandra

Appearance: ...... Powers: .......

Akio Yoshida AKA Beacon, Parents: Polaris / Sunfire

Appearance: His body is constantly afloat and aglow

Powers: Beacon can absorb any form of energy and metabolize, transform and redirect it as any other form of energy he wishes (as long as he understands the atomic compounds) He can also fly at light speed.

Cosmo Carosella AKA Wise Guy, Parents: Tempo / Strong Guy

Appearance: Inherited his father's hairline and nearsightedness, prompting the same bottle cap glasses.

Powers: Precognitive, utilizing it in combat to predict and parry his opponent's every move. Visions predicting events further off in time are more difficult for him to pinpoint and he prefers to remain passive in battle.

Amanda Essex AKA Armada, Parents: Spiral / Mr. Sinister

Appearance: Four-armed, brunette, Caucasian female with a red diamond gem centered on her forehead.

Powers: Dextrous, agile and strong, doubled by the perfect coordination of her 2 extra arms, Armada wields every weapon she touches with expertise.

Melissa Gibney AKA Ocelot DNA Pair: Persuasion / Wild Child

Appearance: blonde female with purple skin

Powers: a feral femme fatale with heightened senses, claws and agility and the ability to emit pheromones to manipulate the emotions of weak willed individuals.

*A note: While a few of these are original ideas (some of which I've yoinked from my older blogs), a few were also piecemealed from the Comic Vine Gene Game (which I love)

**Another note: I realize distinguishing races seems a bit arbitrary, but it was mainly because other pigments are mentioned (blue, albino)

All characters in the following story are property of Marvel Comics. This fanfic is written purely out of respect for the creators of my favorite comic book characters.

There is something remarkable about alternate realities in the multi-verse. The idea that the alteration of one detail, no matter how minuscule, spawns an entire parallel universe echoing across every milli-second that follows. What if there were a ripple along this perfect cascading effect? What if a single domino weebled where it should have wobbled before teetering back onto it's natural path? This is that Universe. This is Earth 411. Fractures deviating from the ordered chaos that constitutes the cosmos splintered off from not one point in time and space, but hundreds, making Earth 411 unique in all the multi-verse.

Among these changes from what we know of Earth 616:

1) As the Shi'ar attacked his plane, Christopher Summers was ejected from the cockpit with the only parachute. He watched helplessly as the plane exploded presumably with his wife, Katharine and two sons, Scott and Alex, inside. Unbeknownst to him, the Shi'ar teleported them away before the explosion. Detecting unrealized potential in the boys, they were exploited as weapons by D'Ken until Lilandra freed them along with other prisoners of Alsibar, Lila Cheney, Strong Guy and Lockheed with the resistance and barely escaped with their lives as Alex launched himself from the Starjammer Ship in the path of a destructive photon beam. to Earth's Savage Land.

2) Without the recruitment of Cyclops, the founding X-Men greatly differed. An amnesiac, time displaced mutant named Bishop came to the attention of Xavier and as he helped to piece the shards of his memory, Bishop's natural inclination as a resourceful soldier earned him the role as field leader of a new team of X-Men including Dazzler, Multiple Man, Forge and Xavier's reformed, magically imbued step-brother, Juggernaut.

3)

Avengers + Justice League = Justice Avengers

Captain America + Flash = Captain Mach

Namor + Wonder Woman = Imperia

Hulk + Superman = Gamma Man

Iron Man + Batman = Iron Night

Black Panther + Vixen = Sphinx

Spider-Man + Shazam = Arachnid

Black Widow + Catwoman = Tarantula

War Machine + Black Lightning = Warbolt

Hawkeye + Nightwing = Nightwatch

Mockingbird + Batgirl = Nightengale

Thor + Hawkman = Thunderhawk

Valkyrie + Hawkgirl = Brighthawk

Ant Man + Captain Atom = Atomic Ant

Wasp + Fire = Firefly

Photon + Green Lantern = Green Sceptre

She-Hulk + Supergirl = Gamma Girl

Jack of Hearts + Martian Manhunter = Jack of Mars

Hercules + Aquaman = Neptune

Moon Knight + Blue Beetle = Silver Scarab

Guardians of the Galaxy + Teen Titans = Titans of the Galaxy

Star-Lord + Beast Boy = Beast-Lord

Nebula + Starfire = Stardust

Rocket Raccoon + Arsenal = Red Rocket

Groot + Cyborg = Cygroot

Moondragon + Raven = Dragonfly

Captain Marvel + Dr. Light = Captain Light/Doctor Binary

Gamora + Maxima = Maximora

Silver Surfer + Harbinger = Satellite

Starhawk + Firestorm = Starstorm

Galactus + Monitor = Galanitor, Collector of Planets

Thanos + Mongul = Monos

MI:13 + Justice League Elite = Justice Knights

Captain Britain + Sister Superior = Brother Britain

Psylocke + Manchester Black = Gloriana Black

Jamie Braddock + Klarion = Jamion Black

Pete Wisdom + Coldcast = Redforge

Meggan + Menagerie = Nahual

Black Knight + Guardian = Gold Knight

X-Men (future) + Legionnaires = Exemplars

Domino + Triad = Dice

Polaris + Gossamer = Molecula

Quicksilver + Lightning Lad = Silver Spark

Sunfire + Dragonmage = Dragonfire

Cypher + Brainiac 5 = Vertex

Dani Moonstar + Dawnstar = Dani Dawnstar

Fantastic Four + Metal Men = Ferrous Four

Mr. Fantastic + Gold = Bigshot

Invisible Woman + Platinum = Chîc

Human Torch + Mercury = Fahrenheit

Thing + Iron = Sledge

Hellfire Club + Fatal Five = Hellfire Five

Selene + Emerald Empress = Ebon Empress

Emma Frost + Silver Swan = White Swan

Donald Pierce + Tharok = Dark King

No-Girl + Zymyr = Zyrtha

Fitzroy + Mano = Chronomano

Dark Illuminati + Legion of Doom = The Doominati

Ultron + Brainiac = Ultimatum

Loki + The Joker = Trickster

Doctor Doom + Two-Face = Doom Face

Mephisto + Trigon = Trifecto

Baron Zemo + Riddler = Baron Enigma

Red Skull + Doctor Cyber= Cyber Skull

Magneto + Lightning Lord = Vector

Goblyn Queen + Poison Ivy = Succuba

Mr. Sinister + Sinestro = Mr. Sinistro

Independent Villains:

The Mandarin + Ra's Al Guhl = Ra's Khan

Baron Blood + Silver Banshee = Bloodscream

Abomination + Bizarro = Deviant

Mojo + Toyman = Monopoly

Venom + Black Adam = Recluse

I'm seeing now how mucho-mucho complicated blending such detailed backgrounds from 2 universes seamlessly together can be. Back when Amalgam was out, I didn't like how in some instances characters were pieced together from 3 rather than 2 individuals, or how bits of 1 character were carried over into 2 amalgams...but it turns out this was necessary to make sense of this mish-mash reality.

myself and a gaggle of other comic viners played match- maker to create a future world of x-babies, collaborating on character creation and plot. This is our list of creations we plan to use, divided into 5 teams: 
 

@papad1992:

Synopsis: Professor Charles Xavier dreamed of a world of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants, but he and the X-Men were framed for heinous crimes against humanity and locked away to weaken mutant morale.

As an anomaly from the future, Bishop managed to evade capture and found asylum on Muir Island, a remote island containing the world's most sophisticated genetic research facility. It is from here with the help of disembodied telepathic super brain, Cerebra (formerly known as No-Girl) that he sent out a coded psionic pulse to summon young mutants from around the world and build a resistance.

Answering the call: Shadowcat, Iceman, Colossus, Warpath, Blink and Sunspot (The same future X-Men from DoFP)

It's supposed to be when the X-Gene is activated at the onset of puberty, BUT there are several "mutants" whose powers and alternative appearances were apparent at birth. Nightcrawler, Madrox, Meggan and Catseye are examples of this and in reading the bio of Damian Tryp it seems that they're most likely Changelings, a genetic throwback preceding mutants. Apocalypse and many of his descendants (Blink) may also fit into this category since their physical mutations were evident at birth.
There's also the tricky task of pinpointing the outside factors that trigger mutancy. I remember in the 90's X-cartoon, Beast mentioned a few possibilities including pollution, ozone, and even television (although he was being a bit sarcastic) as igniters of the X-factor gene. But can you put mutants with a natural progression of inherent and evolved genetic traits in the same category as one who's genes were altered by their parents' exposure to cosmic rays/radiation (Franklin Richards) or submersion into a vat of chemicals (Persuasion/Mimic/Fenris)?