Mutant X

A teenage girl falls six stories,

then walks away unscathed.

A man bursts into flames with no signs of burns.

One thing's for sure,

it's getting weirder out there every day.

But the truth is spoken here.

Ah!

Help me.

What?

Ah!

Ugh!

Ow!

Smile, Loser.

No need to run anymore, Emma.

You're among friends.

How do you know my name?

Wait, what's going on?

All your questions will be answered.

Right now,

time to go.

Check out these shots, Adam.

Terrific. Up link to sanctuary database.

Shalimar, Jesse, great work.

Will somebody please tell me who the hell you guys are and

what this is all about.

Sorry, Emma. I'm Adam.

And, this is Mutant X.

Emma,

Your assailants were members of a security wing of Genomex,

a Bio Tech Ffirm which is actually a...

Secret branch of US Intelligence.

Now this is a visual cloak and...

Please don't panic.

I can't see.

It's only temporary.

So, why do they care about me?

It's your tele empathic gift.

Your power to sense the feelings of others

and to influence those feelings.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Pretty cool, huh?

Is that what I looked like when I first saw it?

No, you just started crying.

I'm kidding.

Shalimar and Jesse and you,

are all children of Genomex.

Genomex,

conducted a secret human genetics program

which had the

unforeseen consequences of creating men and women with

special abilities like your tele empathic power.

I keep telling you I don't have any powers.

Now, you're aware of these odd stories that we've been

hearing about recently.

Curious events,

inexplicable mysteries, human oddities.

Yeah, but I never believed those stories were true.

Yes, all right. Some of them are fake, some of them are hoaxes, but,

but to an alarming degree,

it's the children of Genomex

that are behind such phenomena.

So, it's not all aliens and crystals and reincarnation, huh?

No. Yeah, well of course not,

you've seen what Jesse and Shalimar can do.

There are perhaps a thousand children of Genomex.

Now, some of them know who and what they are, but,

some of them are terrified...

At the changes that are happening to them.

Well, I still don't get why you kidnapped me.

Well, I prefer to call it recruitment.

So, are you one of these children, too?

No.

No, I was Chief Bio Geneticist at Genomex.

There were two men and one woman.

The woman, she attacked like a Tiger.

One of the men seemed to be able to go from intangible

to massive at will.

And the second man grabbed the girl before we were able to get to her.

That sounds like Adam and his people.

Our GS Agents are new at this.

Well,

they have to get better.

And fast,

Mr. Thorne.

Yes, Mr. Eckhart.

Yeah.

Ah, good to go.

Despite your genetically enhanced abilities,

the children of Genomex are not super human.

I keep telling you, I don't have any...

It's widely important for you to recognize the toll that

these abilities take

on your body, mind and soul.

Soul? Soul.

There's a spiritual side to your condition, too.

Many of the new mutants are under the delusion that they're god.

Now, I've designed this VDD to diagnostically calibrate

your genetic enhancement

and to identify any adjustment to your DNA

that might be required, since your new mutant DNA,

It's in a constant state of Evolution.

Well, that was too weird.

I kind of like it myself.

Yeah, me, too.

Helps me get in touch with my powers.

Well, I don't have any powers.

And I'm certainly not a freak like you two.

Freak?

Jesse is very sensitive.

Shalimar is very territorial and very protective of the

people that she loves.

And that includes Jesse.

Call me paranoid.

But I figure the paranoid will inherit the earth.

I thought you'd out grown cartoons.

I'm just curious about all the stuff that's going on

Ah, it's crap.

And the interactive hot line's got to be a scam.

When you two are finished,

can we talk about how we're stepping up to the big leagues tomorrow.

The deal with Carter's a go.

I heard about all that

business last night, Mason.

Sounds like Adam to me.

You seem almost amused.

That you don't despise him

for betraying you

remains a mystery to me.

That you hold him responsible for the collapse of your immune system

would have nothing to do with that, eh?

You were always too hard on Adam.

And you were always too easy, Paul.

And that's how he stole your database.

Which I have nearly reconstructed.

So, we can make amends for the

horrific mistakes we've made.

I should have killed Adam when I had the chance.

And now Breedlove intends to go to the press and expose everything.

And I'll never get the chance

to bring Adam to the justice that he deserves.

Well, we can change all of that.

What are we supposed to do?

Well, I can't coerce her into admitting she's a new mutant.

Fine, I guess we've done everything we can, then.

Uh, maybe the next step is to get her out of town,

under Eckhart's radar.

I'll get Jesse started then.

Good.

Normal people don't want super powered freaks next door.

I don't think they'll be too thrilled about having

new mutants as covert ops either.

Well, we put them in the field as agents,

no one will know about it.

Um, sorry to barge in like this, Paul.

I wanted Mr. Thorne to have a look at security so,

he'd be able to be ready for you

when you go public.

Oh, that's a wonderful idea.

Since I'm going to the press next week with full disclosure

of what's been happening here since the inception of the program.

Well, please call me first.

We have to approach this with...

Finesse.

I'll give you a heads up.

Thanks, Paul.

You should come down and visit us more often.

A week doesn't give you much time.

Whoo!

Ah!

So I got here a little early.

Thought I'd take her out for a little test drive.

What?

You took it for a spin?

You got any idea what we could get for this at the chop shop?

what do you mean, "We"?

Unlike you, I set higher goals for myself than Grand Theft Auto.

Right on time, I see.

Mr. Carter,

you remember Brennan

and Tony.

It's a beauty.

I bet it takes the curves at 120, huh?

I meant the Hickman and Wrightson securities building.

Now, you understand that you have only a hundred and twenty seconds

once the alarm is cut to get in and get out.

When you picked my pocket this morning, you got your hands on this.

The Vice President has the twin.

These two keys need to be activated simultaneously.

Not to worry, Mr. Carter,

we won't let you down.

Yeah, see that you don't.

Because there's always somebody who wants your place on the food chain.

You!

You got stones of steel, Dog.

Taking a joy ride in the client's car.

Nice.

Yeah.

So,

now you see why a chop shop isn't an option.

What's up?