X-Men (エックスメン)

Look at this.

This is the area...

...where unexplained happenings, thought to be mutant phenomenon, have occurred.

I circled the area.

At the center is a remote mountainous region.

Most likely the causes of the mutant detection interference...

...and the secondary mutations are to be found there.

Yes, please check thoroughly.

Yes, they are coming toward us again.

But not to worry. We can handle them this time.

I also asked my guys to come, just in case.

But I hope you guys can handle the X-Men.

You bet we will.

The real part of the fight is from here, Professor X.

I can imagine the look of surprise on your face.

We've been expecting you.

Hisako! What are you wearing?

Cool, isn't it?

Welcome home, Hisako, it's so good to see you.

Thanks, Daddy.

Well, just look at you. I almost didn't recognize you. You look all grown up.

You look like another person.

Emma, thanks so much for looking after her.

For selecting her as a member of the X-Men, even though she's a trainee.

Oh, don't thank me, she did it all on her own.

She's the one who managed to survive the insane training...

...that Cyclops and Wolverine put her through.

We threw everything at her but the kitchen sink.

And believe me, we've only scratched the surface of your daughter's potential.

She has grown up emotionally and developed consciousness as an X-Man.

She has a very bright future.

How can we ever thank you?

Good for you, Hisako.

I get that I still have a lot to learn...

...but I'm determined to give it all I've got as a member of the X-Men.

To build bridges between humans and mutants.

I know you all must be tired after the long journey...

...but people who want the vaccine have assembled here.

By all means, let's get started.

Thank you.

Oh, by the way....

What is it?

Actually....

While you were in New York...

...the fish in the river started dying and so did many of the trees.

We've had a number of strange occurrences in the area.

And there's a bridge in the mountains that's twisted like a pretzel.

People here are getting scared and think that mutants did these things.

I see. We'll look into it right away.

-Beast, go ahead and start without us. -No problem.

Storm and Wolverine, check out the river.

The three of us will take a look at that bridge.

It should mitigate the symptoms you've been having.

Thank you, doctor.

Although there are so many mutants in this one small area...

...it's peculiar that Cerebro didn't detect them.

Here's the next one, Dr. McCoy.

Excuse me.

This is what happened to my hand.

The second mutation....

Doctor, is the vaccine effective even for this?

At the very least, it won't get any worse.

Since when have you had this?

I see. This suddenly appeared about three months ago.

Yes.

Well, so far, this river looks fine to me.

I smell something rotten upstream...

...but there is something more....

This smell is....

Why is the river this color?

I don't know. But something's definitely not right.

Really makes me wish I didn't have these heightened senses!

What is happening? What on earth is all this gas?

Do you think people are right in assuming that mutants did this?

You cannot blame people for thinking that way.

Only Magneto is capable of something like this.

But it cannot be him, he is locked up.

Anyway, it's much worse than we heard.

Hey, Cyclops, Beast told me...

...that you have a big wound in your heart.

A wound you might never totally heal from? How did it happen?

Hisako....

Sometimes things happen that people would rather not talk about.

Depending on their ability, some mutants may be able to do that to the bridge...

...but we cannot conclude that a mutant is responsible.

The same thing goes for the gas fields.

In any case, there's something happening and we don't exactly know what it is.

What's more, people think mutants have done this.

Well, that's it for today.

You two ladies were an enormous help. Thank you both.

Any time! Totally.

I couldn't ask for a more charming pair of assistants.

We are charming, aren't we? We better go help with dinner now.

-Come on, Kyoko! -Don't push me!

I've finished administering the anti-viral.

I vaccinated the mutants with signs of secondary mutations first.

But I didn't expect there to be so many.

Some of them were on the verge of complete genetic degradation.

Surprisingly, all of them...

...live here, in this circle, where the mutant phenomena took place.

Also, they experienced secondary mutations these last several years.

It means that there is something triggering the mutations...

...at the center of this area.

I suppose so.