Appearing in The Doomsmith Scenario

Featured Characters:

X-Men

Cyclops Scott Summers

Storm Ororo Munroe

Wolverine Logan

Colossus Peter Rasputin

Nightcrawler Kurt Wagner

Banshee Sean Cassidy

Thunderbird John Proudstar

Professor X Charles Xavier

Sunfire Shiro Yoshida Leaves Team

Marvel Girl Jean Grey Leaves Team

Angel Warren Worthington III Leaves Team

Iceman Bobby Drake Leaves Team

Havok Alex Summers Leaves Team

Polaris Lorna Dane Leaves Team

Supporting Characters:

Beast Hank McCoy Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only

Lieutenant General Fredricks

Villains:

Count Nefaria Appears in flashback and main story

Ani-Men Origin revealed

Previous Ape-Man Gordon Keefer Origin revealed

Previous Bird-Man Henry Hawk Origin revealed

Previous Cat-Man Townshend Horgan Origin revealed

Dragonfly Veronica Dultry First appearance

Previous Frog-Man Francois Le Blanc Origin revealed

Other Characters:

US Air Force

Joe Harris - a NORAD soldier First appearance

US Army

Unicorn Milos Masaryk Only in flashback

Scarecrow Ebenezer Laughton Only in flashback

Eel Leopold Stryke Only in flashback

Plantman Samuel Smithers Only in flashback

Porcupine Alex Gentry Only in flashback

Locations:

Westchester County, New York

Xavier s School for Gifted Youngsters

Danger Room

Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Valhalla Base

Items:

Cyclops Visor, version

Vehicles:

X-Men Stratojet - Destroyed

Synopsis for The Doomsmith Scenario

Professor X gathers the large team together in the school. He wants to congratulate them on their last battle as well as talk to them about the future. No sooner does he get the words out of his mouth when Sunfire speaks up and says he is leaving the team. Xavier tries to stop him, but Sunfire refuses. The other new members of the team stay, some hesitantly and Sunfire flies away. Banshee is asked and begins to say that he is too old for the team of young heroes, but accepts the challenge anyhow.

Unexpectedly, some of the original group, as well as Lorna Dane and Havok, decide to leave. They reason that when they joined the team, they were young and inexperienced. They have decided to live their lives on their own since Xavier has taught them to be responsible. Out of the original group, Cyclops is the only one to remain.

The next day, Cyclops says his goodbyes and tells Jean he loves her and that he is staying. She tells him she loves him and then leaves with the rest of the group. Cyclops brings the new team to the Danger Room for their first trial run. Thunderbird proudly decides to go first and a few seconds later is flung out the entrance. The next few days of Danger Room training runs the X-Men group hard. During one of the sequences, Thunderbird is grazed by a laser beam on his leg. Cyclops calls him out as being careless and tells him how he could have lost his leg if the laser was on full power. Thunderbird fights back until Xavier telepathically demands their disgraceful display to cease. He tells Thunderbird to get to the infirmary and Cyclops to report to his office.

In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, a helicopter flies near Valhalla Mountain. Buried beneath the mountain is the command center for NORAD. In the War Room, a package is brought to Joe Harris. He opens it and finds that it is a box that has written, Press Me, on it. Joe laughs and presses the button. Instantly, the box disappears and a large portal opens above them. Out of the portal come five beings looking like various wild creatures.

The creatures attack the soldiers and quickly overcome them. More soldiers flood in and the battle continues but then a voice tells them to stop it belongs to Count Nefaria He is the boss of these creatures and says that he has detained the remaining soldiers with gas. He also reminds the creatures of how he made them, after he and his last group of criminals were captured by the X-Men. He remembers how he built these new beings with the help of Maggia scientists and says that he will use them to take his revenge on the world. He begins to turn dials on the computers.

Meanwhile, Cyclops thinks of how his reactions to Thunderbird during their training may have been overreactions. Nightcrawler enters and tries to console Cyclops when suddenly a telepathic message from Xavier tells them to report immediately to the briefing room. They race there and find a video message from Nefaria playing on the main screen. Nefaria informs them that he has activated the Doomsmith Command System and demands that each country give him money as ransom and if they refuse to pay he will launch all the US nuclear missiles. He gives the world three hours to decide then the transmission ends. Beast comes up on screen and asks for Professor Xavier s help with Nefaria. The X-Men accept and head for their jet. Thunderbird demands that Cyclops allow him to join them and Professor X tells him he can, although still injured.

The X-Men are met by the Air Force when they reach Valhalla Mountain. They inform them they are taking the Avengers place in the fight and then they are told to contact Lieutenant General Fredricks. They do and though he is reluctant to trust them, he allows their help. The army is attacking the mountain as the X-Men fly toward it. Nefaria spots their jet and fires the base s SAM s at them. Cyclops maneuvers the jet around the mountain to try to destroy the missiles. They hit the jet and Cyclops hits the eject button. An escape jet breaks away with the X-Men inside. Nefaria then fires the sonic disruptors at the jet and it disappears. The X-Men, however, free-fall toward the ground... nbsp