HEAVY IS THE HEAD: Part One, SINISTER LEGACY Fallout

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WHO: The Students and Faculty of the Xavier Institute
WHAT: Charity work in District X, but things are getting bad again
WHERE: District X
WHEN: Thanksgiving Weekend
WARNING(S): Violence, language, etc

So this was Christmas, and War was Not Over. The soup lines, this time, were alongside official Vaccine Centers, cures to the Legacy Virus being handed out alongside plates of hot food for the needy. Once more, winter was bleak in the world of mutants living in forced squalor. Attitudes were not particularly bright. People were no longer dying in the streets from illness, but were conditions really any better? War with Genosha was imminent. The National Guard was already standing post around the community, enforcing curfews, treating the area now more than ever like an internment community. Xavier's students were allowed to move around freely, but only with special ID badges that marked them as such. It was the same all over the country.

This wasn't Mutant Registration... it somehow felt worse. And it didn't help that the Mutant Liberation Front was still very active in the area, and many of them entirely blamed the X-Men for Renko's apparent 'death'. There were antagonistic forces around them, and desperate faces looking at them for some kind of hope. And if they couldn't get it there...

There were whispers, a lot of them, about fleeing to Genosha. About joining the MLF and working alongside Genosha for 'true' mutant liberation. About kickstarting this war on local soil. And really...

... was there anything the X-Men could do to stop it? Should they stop it?

Comments

[legendarybub]

Rider. [Logan approached him, his look as serious as ever, but maybe just a touch of fear there as well.]

If things get bad... get the kids out of the city, any possible way you can...

[endurancepoint]

[It's that little flicker of fear that worries Alex the most and speaks to the severity of the situation more than the gunfire had. Some of the others might have denied that things could go so far south, laughed it off with a flippant 'that won't happen,' but Alex is far too pragmatic.]

I will. If it comes to that.

[And though he says 'if,' he starts planning in his head. He already has five personal exit strategies for himself, has had them ever since the last time there was a throwdown in District X, but he'll have to make some adjustments for handling a group.]

[legendarybub]

I'm gonna call in some favors. Try to get the Guardsmen to back off... [He doesn't make it sound easy.]

Get in contact with Principal Munroe... Get us some rain out here to cover your tracks.

[endurancepoint]

[Alex steers another civilian toward the closest building, then digs out his phone.]

Rain might be a good thing one way or another. Help cool off some hot tempers as well.

[legendarybub]

Good thinkin, kid.

In the meantime... I have some guns to stand in front of.