X-Men: Days Of Future Past by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine [Irvine, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781302489540
Publisher: Marvel
Published: 2016-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Logan hadn’t said a word since landing the Blackbird, but now he did. “You’ll see, bub.”

“Will I? She’s convinced even you?”

“Not all the way. But enough to think we’d better get to this hearing sooner rather than later.”

Warren looked to Kurt. “What about you, mein Freund? You don’t believe this, do you?”

“I do,” Kurt said. “I think you would, too, if you had seen the change in her when it happened.”

Warren had access to restricted parking areas, either because of his own influence or because Xavier was on the day’s witness list. The group spilled out of the limousine and entered through a security checkpoint far from the public areas of the building—except for Logan and Kurt, who preferred to stay out of the public eye. The group paused in the lobby to watch the introductory proceedings on a closed-circuit monitor.

The chamber was packed, as it always was for hearings on issues that lent themselves to rabble-rousing. Hearings on policy were conducted before jaded audiences of reporters and policy wonks. But change the topic to social issues, and loud voices came out of the woodwork to clog up the gallery and interrupt the proceedings with staged sloganeering.

For this occasion, anti-mutant protesters had crowded into the gallery, bearing placards and chanting at a volume just below a level that would get them kicked out under the Senate’s rules. Those rules were somewhat arbitrary, but the anti-mutant group seemed to have rehearsed their behavior—or else the Senate bailiffs had some sympathy for the anti-mutant point of view.

The floor of the hearing chamber was a rectangular space walled in on three sides by galleries. On the fourth side, a long table on a raised dais ran along the wall, facing another long table placed in front of the first row of gallery seats. Behind the raised table were ten senators—the members of the Senate Special Committee on Superhuman Security—and a single empty chair belonging to Senator Robert Kelly. Kelly was pacing around the chamber, grandstanding for all he was worth.

At the witness table, Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert waited for him to finish his introductory remarks. Xavier was his usual collected self, impeccably dressed, not a drop of sweat on his shaven head even under the blazing lights of a dozen television crews. Ororo recognized his favorite green blanket draped over his legs. Moira, equally at ease, sat next to Xavier wearing the tailored suit of an aristocrat and the practical haircut of a researcher who needed to keep her hair out of the samples. Both remained impassive, but Ororo was fairly certain that if she had Xavier’s telepathic gifts, she would be hearing a number of unflattering things about the Senator.

“We are gathered here to address an issue of critical national and international importance,” Kelly was saying. “This is not a witch hunt, but—we hope and pray—a search for truth. Much about our world has changed. We face situations—and threats—undreamed-of by earlier generations.”

Kelly paced as he spoke, angling to deliver parts of

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