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In [[May 2003]], [[Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters - Phase 1|Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] was attacked by a government-sanctioned military group led by [[William Stryker - Phase 1|William Styker]]. In the chaos, some residents were captured and relocated to [[Alkali Lake]], whilst others escaped and holed up in various safe houses and hotels, trying to reach their compatriots and work out a plan. With [[Charles Xavier]] and [[Scott Summers]] among the missing, this was difficult. Stryker, a Vietnam veteran and scientist whose experience of mutants had left him bitter and hostile saw Charles' refusal to 'cure' his son [[Weapon X - Phase 1|Jason]] of his illusion power as an attack and following the death of his wife due to their son's powers, he vowed to wipe out all mutants, using a bastardised version of the [[Cerebro]] technology and Charles Xavier himself.
  
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The fire hissed where the water hit it, but did not diminish and the steam smelled of burned mildew and metal. "Get wrecked fucks!" The words came from everywhere, but the jawbone of the flaming skeleton moved along with them, in a steady stream of filth. "I'll fuck you and your mum and your dog!" His bones turned inside the fire that sheathed him and he slid towards Amanda on a path of flame.  
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[[Jean Grey - Phase 1 | Jean Grey]], [[Ororo Munroe]], Logan and new recruit [[Kurt Wagner]] formed an uneasy alliance with [[Magneto - Phase 1|Magneto]], recently freed from prison by [[Mystique]]. Retrieving [[Logan]], [[Marie D'Ancato]], [[Bobby Drake - Phase 1 | Bobby Drake]] and [[John Allerdyce]] from near-arrest at Bobby's parents' house, they used Kurt's memories of Stryker's base from the time he had been abducted and brainwashed into attacking [[Jonathan McKenna|President McKenna]] to find the base underneath a dam at [[Alkali Lake]]. and began a rescue effort.  
  
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"You are not really my type." A spray of white foam arced towards his flaming back, followed by short bursts of the same substance from the fire extinguisher North had appropriated and was in the process of emptying at the Morlock, dodging the counter attack that came at him in a series of hit and misses. He recognized by now that the creature was stalling for time and thought this as hard as he could to Amanda, while wondering how their attacker would hold up against bullets.
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In the battle, Jean fought with a brainwashed Scott, and the impact of their battle weakened the structure of the dam, causing it to begin to leak. Logan disappeared to pursue his past with Stryker, who used his bodyguard '[[Weapon X - Phase 1|Lady Deathstrike]]' to delay him enough to attempt escape. After a fierce fight, Logan killed the brainwashed mutant with molten adamantium and continued the pursuit, finally catching up with Stryker but not killing him despite taunts about his 'animal' nature.
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"Wow, and Jubes says I have a potty mouth," Amanda muttered, catching North's eye and nodding. The city didn't make her telepathic, but the Morlock was the city, as much as the bricks and mortar and traffic. Water wasn't working, so she decided to go a bit more basic and with a gesture, she hurled chunks of the tiled and concrete floor and walls at the burning figure, intent on battering him unconscious.
 
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When the foam splattered against the flaming skeleton, he shuddered and screamed in pain, but the fire blazed to consume the foam. This two-pronged assault had finally eared his full attention. "Die gene traitor bitches!" The flaming skeleton man thing "yelled", in a telepathic voice that felt like the smell of burning hair tasted. One flame-sheathed bone arm snapped around, and he began pitching wads of fire at Amanda and North, missing his mark whenever one of Amanda's chunks of City cracked against his bones, but increasing his assault until the fires elsewhere diminished, and his focus was entirely on the pair of mutants he fought. The volley was impossible to entirely avoid, and one smacked into Amanda's shoulder, burning red hot through the thick leather coat.
 
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North ducked behind a pillar, looking more than a little singed around the edges. He glanced at Amanda, appreciating that her assault had not abated. But the cylinder was getting lighter by the minute, and the nearest one was a good quarter mile away. Pointing the nozzle around the pillar, he let off another stream of foam as he hefted it on to his shoulder and launched it at Fever Pitch's face. Then drawing a gun from its holster, he fired at it.
 
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Fire. I'm on fire. Fuckfuckfuck. Ignoring the flames licking at her braid and adding the smell of burnt hair to burnt leather, Amanda switched tactics. Time to finish this, preferably before she actually started with the second and third degree burns. She cast her shielding spell again, but this time as a bubble around the flaming skeleton. Fire needed air, after all. Slowly closing her fist, she shrank the bubble around their foe, until it was compressing him tightly.
 
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Wherever the foam spray had hit the flaming skeleton, the fires bubbled and dulled, until they were little more than a dully glowing flame barely sheathing the bones. But as Amanda's shield tightened, the other flames brightened, going white-hot even blue-hot. The mental word-vomit also flared, growing from simple profanity to the worst sorts of language, insults that had nothing to do with Amanda or North, but were just plain noxious words chosen to shock.  
 
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The fires went out, the bones collapsed into a man-shaped heap that left a greasy film on the ground, not unlike smeared butter, and then the fires on the ground began to splutter and fade, only lingering where they had contacted something flammable.
 
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That 'something flammable' included Amanda's jacket. But before she could actually drop and roll, she was engulfed in heavy wool, hands patting out the flames on her shoulder and back. "Ta, North," she said gratefully, looking up at her teammate. "That was a little too close for comfort."
 
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He helped her up, surveying the destruction around them. "Might have been roasted alive without you." Squeezing her uninjured shoulder in his own expression of thanks, he jerked his head at the stairs to the platform. "Come, we should see what he was distracting us from."
 
  
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Manipulated by Jason's illusions, Charles was encouraged to use his telepathy, amplified by Cerebro, to seek out all mutants on the planet and kill them. Magneto, however, had other ideas, and used Jason's confusion and Mystique's shapeshifting to convince him to use Charles' power instead to kill all humans. He and Mystique then fled, stealing Stryker's helicopter and leaving the man chained to the base. John, disillusioned with the way mutants had been treated by humans, went with them. After a blind teleport by Kurt, he and Ororo managed to stop Jason and rescue Charles as the bases began to collapse from the impact of Scott and Jean's battle. A last-minute save by Marie in the [[Blackbird]] gave them some hope, but engine failure prevented them from taking off immediately. It was then the dam fully collapsed.
  
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Jean, realising that her recently-amplified powers were the only thing that could save everyone, left the plane and held back the wall of water long enough for them to take off. Once her comrades were clear, she released her telekinetic hold and appeared to perish beneath the flood.
 
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In May 2003, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was attacked by a government-sanctioned military group led by William Styker. In the chaos, some residents were captured and relocated to Alkali Lake, whilst others escaped and holed up in various safe houses and hotels, trying to reach their compatriots and work out a plan. With Charles Xavier and Scott Summers among the missing, this was difficult. Stryker, a Vietnam veteran and scientist whose experience of mutants had left him bitter and hostile saw Charles' refusal to 'cure' his son Jason of his illusion power as an attack and following the death of his wife due to their son's powers, he vowed to wipe out all mutants, using a bastardised version of the Cerebro technology and Charles Xavier himself.

Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe, Logan and new recruit Kurt Wagner formed an uneasy alliance with Magneto, recently freed from prison by Mystique. Retrieving Logan, Marie D'Ancato, Bobby Drake and John Allerdyce from near-arrest at Bobby's parents' house, they used Kurt's memories of Stryker's base from the time he had been abducted and brainwashed into attacking President McKenna to find the base underneath a dam at Alkali Lake. and began a rescue effort.

In the battle, Jean fought with a brainwashed Scott, and the impact of their battle weakened the structure of the dam, causing it to begin to leak. Logan disappeared to pursue his past with Stryker, who used his bodyguard 'Lady Deathstrike' to delay him enough to attempt escape. After a fierce fight, Logan killed the brainwashed mutant with molten adamantium and continued the pursuit, finally catching up with Stryker but not killing him despite taunts about his 'animal' nature.

Manipulated by Jason's illusions, Charles was encouraged to use his telepathy, amplified by Cerebro, to seek out all mutants on the planet and kill them. Magneto, however, had other ideas, and used Jason's confusion and Mystique's shapeshifting to convince him to use Charles' power instead to kill all humans. He and Mystique then fled, stealing Stryker's helicopter and leaving the man chained to the base. John, disillusioned with the way mutants had been treated by humans, went with them. After a blind teleport by Kurt, he and Ororo managed to stop Jason and rescue Charles as the bases began to collapse from the impact of Scott and Jean's battle. A last-minute save by Marie in the Blackbird gave them some hope, but engine failure prevented them from taking off immediately. It was then the dam fully collapsed.

Jean, realising that her recently-amplified powers were the only thing that could save everyone, left the plane and held back the wall of water long enough for them to take off. Once her comrades were clear, she released her telekinetic hold and appeared to perish beneath the flood.

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