Prejudice is in the eye of the Beholder

"Well, honey. You know that we've had mutants since the 1960s. At first no one knew... most mutants were military personnel and they were locked away in Area 51. But the radiation from the gamma bomb couldn't be contained and so it began to drift across North America and then out to sea. Also, whatever the transgalactic energy the Taurus IV brought back, our military couldn't contain that either. The only problem was, our government didn't tell anyone."

"So what happened? Babies started being born with three legs and eight eyes?"

"Some, yes. But most, no. Things were mostly normal, partly because the govenment set up a classified agency, dubbed Department M. For years they scoured the country in search of any birth or grown human that looked to be mutated. They didn't always catch everyone. Stories started to appear in newspapers about strange monsters... a huge grey hulk of a thing that haunted the deserted deserts of the Southwest, or a goat that walked on two legs in the deserts of Chihuahua. Even stories about a man who looked human but could crawl up walls. In 1976, though, the roof was blown off the whole secret."

"Why, what happened in 1976?"

"Ah, my honeybear, in that year there was a great storm in the Atlantic. It devastated the East Coast, especially New York. The emergency infrastructure of the city and state couldn't handle the number of emergencies. In the middle of that chaos and death there appeared a group of strange beings. There was a man who could freeze you with a meer touch, a man with fire in his eyes, a woman who could levitate, and a blue wolfman."

"How awful!"

"Yes... but they did not come to destroy us, but to help us. They used their powers to help the emergency personnel. And when it was all over they disappeared."

"Forever?"

"No, the newspapers dubbed them the Mystery Mutants. There was debate everywhere about who and what they were, and many questions aimed at our government. Then the M&M began to appear more frequently, always when they were most needed. Many people came to admire these strange people, but others began to see a pattern; They always showed up in the worst disaster, as if they knew of it even before it happened."

"You mean they were causing these things to happen and then showing up to make it seem they were heroes?"

"That is what many people believe. And so, as the years passed, more mutants began to appear, in our country, to the south and north, and overseas. Our government was forced to reveal what they knew... although many still beleive there is information our government is hiding. But many folks are afraid of mutants because they are so unpredictable."

"Mutants like me..."

"Yes, honeysuckle, like you. But there is something much more important than knowing that there are folks who hate mutants... how did you come to be where you are now? What happened?"

1. "I don't know exactly," said Stacy.
2. Meanwhile in a supersecret facility of the Canadian government located way north...

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