Fed-X
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Fed-X
Official Name: Fed-X Team Alias: F-X, Federal Mutants,
X-Fed Status Status: Active Team Identity: Public Alignment: Good Base of Operations: X-Lair, formerly
Twin Sister Peaks Missile Base, Organization Leader(s): Geraldo Oswald, Team
Supervisor; Flare, Field Commander Current Members: Flare, Xerox,
Flame, Cinder, Rocc,
Moon Dog, Oni, and Wiz Former Members: Berserk, Aero,
Dash, Medic, Lattice, Matrix, Din, Blast, Mesmera,
Drain and Wisp. Allies: X-Men, X-Patriots,
Spider-Man, New Avengers, Jump, Behemoth, Tek,
Lasher Enemies: Red Monarch, Vengeance
Inc, Void, Cult of Selene, Kymerians, Kang,
Euphoria, Cataclysm, Four Elementals Origin Origin: Assembled by the Place of Formation: Agency X, |
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1. History 1.1 Origins 1.2 Making the
Grade 1.3 Inner
Darkness 1.4 A Heart at
War 1.5 Myself
Betrayed 1.6 New Home,
Same Problems 2. Paraphernalia 3. Notes |
History
Origins
After
the ‘official’ disbanding of X-factor, one of the government’s previous
attempts at a federally-funded mutant team, certain factors felt that the
current administration had to show they were still willing and capable of
having a mutant team they could control. Foremost in this was Oswald Geraldo, a
Mutant Rights activist, lobbyist and a mutant himself. Wishing to avoid issues
with dealing with established mutant figures Agency X, then under the Dept. of
Justice, was formed and it was decided to recruit young mutants and other
persons with special ‘gifts’ who recently became publicly known.
Unknown
to a majority of the agency, a partial list of candidates had already been made
by Oswald, after consulting Charles Xavier on several teenagers he was
presently tracking using his mutant locating supercomputer, Cerebro.
In short order Brock Lawson, Joseph Salinas, Alora and Trisha Gannon were
signed on as the first members while work began in refurbishing a missile silo
as their new headquarters in
Lacking
a proper curriculum or basic knowledge in how to train or turn such a group
into a honed and cohesive fighting force, Agency X attempted to find several
individuals who might fill in as instructors. Among several of them were
Captain
Several
months passed as Xavier trained them to control and master the abilities while
trying to determine the psychological impact of discovering their gifts in such
sudden and traumatic ways. Working on their psyches as well as their physiques
he guided them towards the beginning of self-recovery and acceptance of their
true nature as mutants. They also worked hard to win the admiration of their
hosts, The X-men which they ultimately did.
Shortly before their graduation
they met several new members of the team, the rehabilitated mutant Berserk and
the man who would be their future field commander during a Danger Room
exercise. To their surprise he was not a mutant but the solar-powered
powerhouse, Flare. After quickly beating their combined efforts he warned them
to not get overconfident about their abilities and warned then the training has
really only just started.
With tearful goodbyes they
left what had quickly become their new home and Xavier extended to each of them
an offer to be X-men if they should ever choose to return. With a new extended
‘family’ behind them, they returned to
Making the Grade
Support for Agency X was
waning quickly at the same time as cost overruns were already occurring with
the team not even officially chartered yet. The Secretary of Defense applied
heavy pressure for the team to either successfully complete a high-profile
mission immediately or risk being summarily disbanded. The team responded by
infiltrating a radical Mutant Rights group who had planted explosives across
Their second case would be
more testing. With the scant clues she gotten from the probe and Oswald’s help
Flame was able to locate the building close to DC in southern
After torturing several
members to find the extent of their knowledge about his plans they managed to
free themselves and fought him to a stand-still. Somewhere in the course of
battle the ships auto-destruct was engaged and the team escaped just before it exploded
and it seemly consumed N’rvtlr in the blast as well
as the warehouse before causing a collapse in the cavern.
In the weeks that followed
they met new villains such as Scorn, Masque, Trance and the return of N’rvtlr who was now dubbing himself, The Red Monarch as
well as Flare’s arch-nemesis, Dr Malice. They would also meet several members
of the Superhero community in the form of Spider-man, Ghost Rider, Wolverine,
and Golden Age super hero,
As they were investigating
the mysterious disappearances of several government agents in Upstate Oregon
they fell in the trap of Karen Breedlove, a mutant with the ability to control
minds with her pheromones. With the men enthralled the Fed-X females had to not
only regroup and rescue the men from her control but avoid John Talbot’s Savage
Alter ego, the mutant werewolf Moon Dog who was also under her power. After a
brutal confrontation with the Lycanthrope they discovered how to block her
pheromones. Seemingly captured by Moon Dog, Flame was taken to the villainous
Vamp who wanted to experiment on her and make her pheromones affect women as
well and sweeping herself into undreamt of power and riches. She wouldn’t get
the chance as Talbot interceded at the last moment. She blasted him with a full
dose of her mind control pheromones but Talbot wasn’t what he appeared as he
changed back into Xerox. The girls had discovered the pheromone had to be
inhaled through the nose to work and wore off after a certain time and
distance. Putting nose plugs in Talbot to protect him after the effects had
worn off so he could switch places with Xerox and free the others while they
played along to keep her busy. Furious she attempted to escape while setting
her lab on fire. She didn’t get far as the Real Moon Dog found her and was
inches away from tearing her throat out for the misery and humiliation she put
him through. Despite her mocking taunts to be a true beast he pulled away and
let her live saying he may look like beast but the real monster would always be
living inside her. Attacking him with a silver dagger as he turned his back on
Vamp, Cinder laid her out with a well placed punch.
Inner Darkness
It was right after these
events that Xerox began to explore a romantic relationship with His teammate,
Cinder. A seeming mismatch, the joker and the shy withdrawn girl started and
stalled out several times as they tried to explore the growing feelings between
them. Each had to battle their own demons of doubt from their past and it
seemed Alora was the first do so when a surprise attack by seemingly rogue
Sentinels were in fact part of an ambush by the Nihilist despot, Cataclysm and
his forces. After defeating Rocc, Xerox and her
sister, Alora was kidnapped to be the final member in his Four Elementals.
While his captive she was experimented on and tortured in both body and mind as
they warped her powers and sought to bring out her full potential as a
pyrokinetic.
Weeks of fruitless leads and
searching had started to push Xerox, Rocc, and Flame
to the breaking point as the team frantically tried to find her. The wait was
soon over as she came to find them. A massive explosion brought the full team
face to face with Inferno, Cataclysm’s newest warrior who was none other then
Cinder, Alora Gannon herself. Renouncing her former teammates as the pathetic
masses cuddling the weak from their ultimate end, she engaged them with the
other Elementals in a prolonged battle. Unwilling to believe their friend was
lost the team tried to reach her. All were met with searing flame-blasts and
telekinetic attacks. Effectively beaten the Elementals were recalled by
Cataclysm and congratulated. Inferno, furious they did not destroy those who
opposed them had to be forcefully subdued by Cataclysm himself as the other
Elementals feared her new powers and the rapidly growing violent and cruel
personality.
Licking their wounds Fed-X
began to track down Cataclysm’s base when a mental transmission from Alora
pleaded with them to rescue her. Oswald and Flame managed to pinpoint the
source of her psychic beacon only to walk into a trap set not by her master but
by Inferno herself. For defying their master the other Elementals attacked her
but she easily defeated them all, impaling Tremor on his own staff. She then
turned her attention to her former allies and team mates. Mad with power,
Inferno decimated the team and ground them under her fiery heel. As she
lingered to absorb the carnage she had infected on her former friends she was
attacked psychically by her sister. In a battle of wills Inferno and Flame
fought bitterly in Alora’s mind. She found this
personality had always been in her sister, buried deep in her subconscious. She
reached for her sister deep inside her mind and finally shocked her awake.
Combining their powers they confronted this echo of their past and robbed it of
its power over them. Inferno crumpled in a suddenly burst of fire and Alora
collapsed into a coma, her mind shut down temporally to heal.
Xerox’s blamed himself and
the team had no time to console him before Cataclysm reappeared. While the team
fought hard He seemed to gain the upper hand until Xerox in a near-suicidal
attack began to copy his powers. The weakened mutant couldn’t hold him alone
and was severely before being driven into the ground with a tree trunk before Cataclysm
left, his prize denied.
A Heart at War
While in recovery Xerox’
began to show extreme personality shifts finally resulting in him savagely
beating several anti-mutant gang members. With little recourse they put him on
inactive reserve for psychiatric evaluation. He immediately left the team after
a brief battle with his teammates and disappeared. With Xerox missing and
Cinder in a coma still Flare, Flame and Rocc asked
for leaves of absence. To fill in the empty roster spots several new members
were recruited, including Dinn and Blast. Berserk was
then promoted to field commander to replace Flare. This new team quickly went
to work finding a mysterious assailant who attacked people and left them half
dead, drained of their life force some how. They found their vampire to be a
young mutant girl who could draw power and strength from absorbing the
bio-force of others. Unfortunately she also needed to feed on a portion of it
regularly to stay alive. Coming up with a bio-force food bank they solved her problem
and gained another member in the process.
The team would finally learn
whereabouts of Xerox when Magneto extorted the UN into giving him a mutant only
nation. Now an Acolyte, he along with other followers began to sweep the island
nation of Genosha of its human population while fighting rebel forces. It was
believed he died in the following Sentinel attack weeks later. He would
reappear later though after being rescued by Flame and Rocc
from the island he been marooned after his close escape from Magneto.
Wisp, a young mutant
befriended by Xerox during his stay in Genosha and who had also left with him,
was offered a roster spot and took it while Xerox’s ultimate fate was
determined by Agency X. While harshly reprimanded for his previous actions he
was allowed to be reinstated in Fed-X only under the understanding that he
could not serve on the same team as Cinder to avoid another conflict of
interest.
Genosha and its aftermath
would also show how Fed-X wasn’t able to cope with multiple problems leading to
the teams expanding yet again. This marked the beginning of Team Blue under the
command of Flame with Flare taking over as Team Gold leader from a less then
reluctant Medic. They would soon see action as a conflict of global proportions
began. The time traveler, Kang the Conqueror lead an invasion of Earth and his
forces soon captured members Team Red and Gold. They would be broken out by
Team Blue and the remaining members of both teams and lead an all-out assault
on his forces along with other super heroes to force him on the defensive as
the Avengers attempted to defeat him once and for all.
Myself Betrayed
During this time Agency X
would be transferred to the Dept. of Homeland Security and several new
regulations were passed regarding membership and security. The teams were
reshuffled to meet these new requirements. Mutant members were singled out for
special questioning and placed on probationary lock down in the base.
Protesting this treatment of his team, Wiz was terminated as Team Supervisor by
the Agency X director and replaced with Rem Quesada.
Under Quesada even more changes would occur, seriously damaging morale as he
seemed to promote rivalry and dissent among the three teams. This would come to
a head when Dr Malice assembled Vengeance Unlimited, a group of former foes and
freelancers (Dr Malice, Trance, Vamp, Red Monarch, Poppet, Kobold and Backstab)
and began an elaborate plan to destroy Fed-X. Temporally capturing Team Blue, Rem would turn out to be the master of disguise, Masqurade working for Dr. Malice as well as attempting to
hide from his vengeful former lover, Scorn. Buffeted from all sides they used
the villain's egos to tear their team apart by implying Vamp, Trance and Poppet’s powers had been used to make them more agreeable to
the team up. Red Monarch then decimated most of his former teammates before
being overcome himself. Threatening to expose the fact Agency X had let a known
spy deep into its midst Wiz was reinstated as Team supervisor and the former
regulations repealed.
Still recovering from
Masquerade’s deceptions the team found themselves in a game of cat and mouse
with the Revitalized Cataclysm. Splitting the team up they fought various
aspects of his master plan to cause a global conflict and end all life on the
planet. In a daring final move he captured Cinder to reclaim Inferno from
inside her and use her thermal powers to release death spores from pods already
in low earth orbit. He seemingly succeeded until in a burst of power Cinders
burned the spores into ash before they could affect anyone and turned her
powers on him. Wounded he retreated by teleporting. Arriving at the X-lair
though, they found the lair a wreck, Wiz unconscious along with the mutant,
Jump. Cataclysm’s escape it seemed had not been a device but Jump’s mutant
power to teleport objects. Jump attempted to battle them teleporting objects at
them before trying to teleport them away but using Null’s mutant cancellation
ability negated Jump’s power and knocked her out. Cataclysm then appeared that his
diversion had worked. A powerful neutron device was buried somewhere deep in
the base and set to go off in a matter of seconds so even Dash and Aero’s great speed wouldn’t let them find it in time. Best
yet the blast will look like a foreign nuclear strike and cause the world wide
devastation he’s so longed for. Jump also learns Cataclysm had duped her when
threatening her ‘lost’ parents to obtain her obedience. Jump then teleports the
entire base into deep space. Mortally wounded by massively over-extending her
powers she tells Xerox to use her powers to get the team back to Earth which he
does. Cataclysm attempts to flee the doomed base only to be frozen in place by
Jump. Caught in his own explosion Cataclysm is apparently killed along with
Jump. The team grieves for the young woman who’d been a close friend and ally
to them but Cinder and Xerox doubt Cataclysm is truly dead.
With the total loss of their
base and all equipment the government disbands the team after a judicial
review. Most would try to return to living a normal life while others including
Flare either tried solo careers or joining new teams with varying levels of
success. It would be months later that an invitation from Moon Dog brought most
of the members back to his ancestral manor in
New Home, Same problems
After several successful
missions in their new home they were contacted by Agent Sanders of the DHS and
forced under their previous oaths to infiltrate
Months later a reformed
Vengeance Inc would attack the house after mind controlling several friends and
family to find their new location. After a titanic struggle the team would win
but lose not only their newest home but most of their members as Decimation
wiped out 99% of all mutant powers on Earth. Financially unable to repair the
manor and with all three teams seriously undermanned they disbanded Team Gold
and Blue and reformed the remaining members into Team Red. Unlike other teams
their identities were not known publicly but several of the former mutants
feared going home with violence increasing as various groups began to pick off
de-powered mutants. Working with others Matrix and Flare produced several
armors and devices to replicate or replace their lost powers and sent them to
overseas where the violence was much lessened as their new sister team, the
X-Patriots.
Buying an abandoned
warehouse in
Paraphernalia
Equipment: Nomex/Kevlar
uniforms, The Pit
Transportation: X-Cruiser, Starship X (Destroyed)
Weapons: None
Known