Comics:Mutant X Vol 1 23

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Mutant X Vol 1 #23

September, 2000

Editor-in-Chief

Bob Harras

Cover Artists

Bart Sears, Andrew Pepoy

"The Gift of Fear!"
Writers Howard Mackie Pencilers Tom Lyle Inkers Andrew Pepoy, Cliff Rathburn Colourists Gina Going Letterers Chris Eliopoulos Editors Jason Liebig

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With these three acting as my psionic batteries... I will form a single unified mind... My mind! The infinite will be open to us all.

-- Charles Xavier

Appearing in "The Gift of Fear!"

Featured Characters:

• The Six
  • Havok
  • Iceman
  • Bloodstorm
  • The Brute
  • Gambit
  • Captain America

Supporting Characters:

• Magneto
• Apocalypse
• Elektra
• Jean Grey

Villains:

• Sinister
• Onslaught (Charles Xavier)
• Illusions of:
  • The Red Skull
  • William Robert Drake, Robert Drake's Father
  • Count von Dracula
  • The Assassin
  • Blue Furry Beast and Human Hank McCoy
  • Cyclops
• X-Man

Other Characters:

• Scotty Summers
• Raven LeBeau
• In flashback: (616 Versions)
  • Colossus
  • Storm
  • Wolverine
  • Rogue
  • Cyclops
  • Shard
  • Wild child
  • Mystique
  • Forge
  • Sabretooth
  • Polaris

Locations:

• Earth-1298 (Reality)
  • New York, New York

Items:

• Captain America's Shield

Vehicles:

• Magneto's ship
  
  

Synopsis for "The Gift of Fear!"

Sinister and Xavier's goo comes to life in the form of all the heroes' greatest fears, The Red Skull for Cap, Bobby's Dad for Ice-Man, Dracula for Bloodstorm, etc. Just as Cyclops emerges to torture Havok, Apocalypse and Jean intervene, shielding him from it. They pour their power into Havok, who destroys the goo monsters, and as Xavier can see his plan folding, he reveals the next step.

Sinister's X-Man is brought in to serve as a conduit and battery alongside Scotty and Raven to power Xavier's plan. He will unite all the minds in the world, absorbing them all into his own. The world will be one single unified mind, his mind.

Sinister is pretty pissed about not knowing this, and starts fighting Xavier too. He's killed, and X-Man is devastated. Everyone starts pouring it on to Xavier now, since pretty much no one likes him at this point.

Scotty and Raven figure out that the power needs to go through Havok to do damage to Xavier, so they direct all the energies that way. Xavier seems to be destroyed, only to get one last blast off at Havok, which Hank takes instead. Xavier is frozen solid by Ice-Man, but disappears from within the ice.

Hank might not make it. . .

Two weeks later, Hank is still in stasis and the kids are sent to live with Elektra and Magneto on the Moon.

The Six sit around talking about their next move when in bursts The Brute, fully functional with his intellect intact once again!

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