Ultimate Comics: X-Men by Nick Spencer Vol. 1
Valerie Cooper addresses the media regarding the recently released news that mutants are being man-made at a lab in Canada using experiments on the mutant Wolverine. She states that conditions within the mutant internment camps are good and, in some cases, better for some of the inmates compared to their lives before being detained. Jimmy Hudson, hearing the news about his biological father, decides to travel to Canada to investigate further. However, he is captured and brought to William Stryker by one of his followers.
Meanwhile, Rogue is being hunted by a Nimrod Sentinel, a government-created mutant-hunting machine. Shroud, Iceman, and Human Torch intervene. The Sentinels identify the mutants, excluding Johnny, and give them an opportunity to surrender. The group manages to escape and meets on a building rooftop.
Valerie Cooper enters the White House to meet with the President when she sees Nick Fury leave in a hurry. She finds Quicksilver sitting with the President and he introduces himself. They discuss White House security measures against possible mutant attacks, when Pietro mentions that he has a plan involving Cerebro.
In the Morlock tunnels, Kitty, Johnny, Jimmy, and Iceman argue over whether or not to help the mutants, which Kitty disagrees with. Kitty punches Johnny and walks away. They head out on their mission to take Stryker down. Upset, Kitty speaks with a young mutant who brought Jimmy to them earlier. He tells her that Rogue is friends with Stryker. Rogue approached Stryker a while ago, asking for mercy. She intends to lead the others into a trap.[4]
Stryker is about to demonstrate his mercy on another young mutant when Jimmy Hudson, Iceman, Human Torch and Rogue appear and warn him to let her go. Stryker reveals that Rogue is his ally and she immediately subdues both Johnny and Iceman using Iceman's absorbed powers. Stryker, two weeks prior, promised Rogue to free her of her mutant abilities if she brought the others to him. Stryker readies to kill Jimmy but Rogue demands that he fulfill his side of their deal before he lays a hand on them. He is about to heal her when the Shroud arrives and punches Stryker, knocking him to the ground.
At the White House, Pietro uses Cerebra to pinpoint the locations of every mutant on Earth, allowing the President to launch a massive Sentinel attack. Valerie Cooper discovers that Stryker is a mutant himself with technopathic abilities, allowing him to directly control the Sentinels.[5]
In the Morlock tunnels, Kitty confronts Rogue about her betrayal but Rogue reveals that she had a plan to get Stryker to trust her enough to allow her to touch him when he attempts to "heal" her. She was going to take his ability and use it on him, rendering him powerless. Suddenly, they are interrupted by an apparition of a man calling himself the Oracle of Change, telling them to come to Tian, formerly known as the S.E.A.R.. Rogue reveals that the man she was referring to as God, the man who told her about Tian and how to take down Stryker, was Charles Xavier, who visited her in a church three weeks earlier.[6]
Ultimate Comics X-Men by Brian Wood Vol. 1
Ultimately, most of the mutants in the United States take the cure. Kitty Pryde and a band of about twenty mutants, including Jimmy Hudson, Rogue, Storm, and Mach Two, rebel. Mach Two challenges Kitty's leadership but the group votes to place her in that position. Mach Two continues to plot secretly to undermine Kitty's leadership position. Kitty and Jimmy form a romantic relationship. The land on the reservation is irradiated, but mutants Storm, Zero, and Blackheath create a mutant seed that can grow in any environment.
