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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 3745627" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter Nine, “Hellfire Hostages” (Alternative X-Men #132-134 & Dungeon Magazine #25)The group materialize in a wooded countryside near a large stone wall with an iron gate. The sign on a plaque outside the gate reads “Xaviar’s Academy for Gifted Youngsters.” Clarese tells the others that the mansion is home to the X-Men, the superhero team that she was affiliated with prior to the Exiles.The gate is locked but the group has little difficulty getting over the wall. They approach the mansion but do not see anybody around. Nobody answers the door so Clarese teleports to the opposite side and opens it. They group split up and wander around the mansion, finding it deserted, with Mojo helping himself to some of the food in the kitchen refrigerator.The group reassembles in the main dining room where Clarese is busy looking at various photographs and paintings on the wall of young men and women in colorful costumes standing around a bald man in a wheelchair. A framed newspaper has the headline “X-Men Avert Nuclear Disaster in Tokyo – Moses Magnum Arrested.” The picture features the same heroes from the other pictures, this time wearing costumes made of black leather.Clarese comments “This is definitely an alternate timeline than the one I am from. In my timeline and those of most alternate worlds visited the original team of X-Men disbanded and Professor X assembled a team of New X-Men, who were the ones that fought Magnum in Japan. On this world it appears that the original team is still together. She then points to and names the various heroes in the portrait – Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Havok and Polaris.The Tallus device finally activates and after reading what is says she states, “I stand corrected. It says that we are to help The New Mutants rescue the X-Men from the Hellfire Club.” “Who are the New Mutants?” Cassie asks. Clarese replies, “On my world they were the third team of students who Professor assembled. But that wasn’t until a year or so after the Hellfire Club incident so this group of New Mutants might be different.”Cassie then asks, “What is this Hellfire Club?” Clarese replies, “A private Gentlemen’s Club in the heart of New York City. Unbeknownst to most though the leaders of it are evil mutants with the plan of world domination. On my world they captured most of the X-Men and the others had to rescue them. Things got tricky because they used telepathy to take control of Marvel Girl, who is herself a powerful telepath, and she lost control.” Cassie says, “Okay, let’s deal with this before that happens.”“So where exactly is this place?” Timothy asks. Clarese replies, “On Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, around four blocks away from Avengers Mansion.” Narg says, “Avengers Mansion, we’ve been there before. Bring us there.” Cassie says, “Good idea, we can get them to help.” Clarese teleports the group to the sidewalk outside of the mansion.They begin to discuss how to proceed when they are suddenly surrounded by a group of heroes, some of whom fly out from the mansion and land behind them as others charge out from the front door and side wall. The one calling out orders, apparently the leader of the group, is a redhead in a black leotard. One has glowing red eyes and is wearing a dark skin-tight costume with a ‘W’ in the center of his chest, beside him is cloaked man dressed entirely in white, another caped hooded man is dressed in black with a gold belt and gold wristbands, a green giantess is beside him, then is a blond guy in blue tunic holding a bow, and last is a bearded bald man in a cloak who looks a little like Alton.“Who the hell are these people?” Narg exclaims. Clarese replies, “The Avengers.” Mojo says, “No they’re not, we’ve met the Avengers – Captain America, Quicksliver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Wasp, Hercules and Thor – these clowns aren’t them.”The man with the bow exclaims, “I’m Hawkeye, and I’ve never met you people before!”   A woman enlarges before the Silver Moon who they recognize as The Wasp, having apparently been shrunk down to her smallest form before. She says, “Hawkeye is right, we’ve never met you before.”Clarese says “It’s a long story. We’re from an alternate timeline where we’ve met some of your counterparts.” Hawkeye exclaims “Alternate timeline? Is Kang mixed up in this?”  Cassie interjects, “No, not this time, but we fought Kang before alongside your counterparts.”  Mojo states, “That doesn’t answer my question, who the hell are the rest of these people?”  The redhead says “We own this place and you’re trespassing.”The Wasp tries to calm everybody down and introduces the other heroes as the Black Widow, WonderMan, Moon Knight, Black Panther, She-Hulk and Doctor Druid. Alton exclaims “Cool man, another Druid, we should swap seeds or something.“ They are then joined by another hero who the Silver Moon recognize as Quicksilver although his costume is now black and white rather than turquoise. The Black Widow suggests that they all go into the mansion instead of having the conversation outside on the street.</blockquote>

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