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1) As a noted authority on mutants, Professor Xaiver appears before Congress as the early stages of a new Mutant Registration Act are being pushed through. The X-Men are on hand to provide some surreptitious security.
2) In spite of all this security, as the Professor is leaving Congress and trying to make his way past the reporters, a reporter suddenly transforms into an Omega Sentinel and attacks the Professor, critically wounding him. The X-Men stop the Omega Sentinel before any more damage can be done... but even this doesn't look good for them. Worse, they're forced to leave the Professor to normal medical authorities. Even worse, the Omega Sentinel self-destructs, killing himself/herself, though the X-Men prevent further loss of life. So not a good day to be an X-Man. 3) One saving grace, Starbridge and Rachel are, at least, able to prevent any of the medical staff at the hospital from discovering that the Professor is a mutant, through some on the site telepathic brainwashing. Unfortunately, with high security and a high profile shooting, they're unable to get him out of there. 4) In the meantime, general violence against mutants goes on the increase, as do instances of people becoming Omega Sentinels in response. 4-b) In the middle of some one-off battle with throw-away bad guys, Toni Rhodes is attacked by an Omega Sentinel (other Avengers can also be here). This one actually flees, rather than self-destructs (so as not to draw Avengers attention--in as much as that is possible). 5) The Genoshan embassy comes under attack from the Omega Sentinels, which while they fight valiently, is slowly a losing propostion, until the intervention of the X-Men turns the tide, bringing them to the relative safety of the Institute (which fortunately contains Sentinel baffeling technology). They also manage to capture an Omega Sentinel. Not alive, sadly, but before it could self destruct. 6) An 'autopsy' of the Omega Sentinel reveals certain unique components that could only have some from a handful of locations, one of which is an abandoned Sentinel base... 7) The X-Men and Genoshans travel to the Sentinel base, battling their way through Sentinels, both of the Omega type and the regular old models. Slowly but surely, they make their way to the heart of the base, where they are confronted by... 8) Bastion. Long thought destroyed, the hybrid Sentinel has slowly been rebuilding himself over the years, looking for ways to destroy the mutant menace. Including seeding a small percentage of the population with the nanites to transform them into Omega Sentinels. And now, he's moments away from being able to globally seed the planet, turning every human into a weapon that can scour the Earth of mutants once and for all. 9) And launching the delivery system? He already did it. The team splits in half, some working to stop the rocket (guarded by Sentinels) and others battling Bastion himself. 10) The team battling Bastion himself is on the ropes, getting badly beaten. The rocket stopping team has more success and... turns the rocket back upon the base. While the other team evacuates, the rocket destroys the Sentinel base and, presumably, Bastion. At the very least, no trace of him is found. 11) What I'd really like to see here is a post-recovery Professor finally coming out as a mutant and the school itself going public... which could lead to all kinds of fun storyarcs and ideas and misadventures down the road.
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