Pete Wisdom sighed to himself softly as he sat down to review
his email account. using a command center station late at night. About
half his nearly full inbox went right into the trash, a few of the more
interesting adult spam's he put aside to deal with later on. Finally,
and only with the greatest reluctance, did he open up an email that was
marked from Professor Charles Xavier.
"Mr. Wisdom," the mail from Xavier read, and he could almost
imagine the lecturing tone in his voice, "I was wondering if you could
please put together your impressions of your new teammates in Excalibur?
This information could be quite useful in coordinating your team's
activities along with the other x-teams."
"Gah," Pete made a face at that. He hated doing paperwork
anyway, especially of this kind, but... "If I don't do it," he finally
grumbled to himself, "I'll probably just get nagged about it until I
do." He got up to fill up his coffee to keep himself awake, then lit up
a smoke.
The word processing program opened up, and Pete created a new
blank document. "Now how the 'ell do I do this.." he muttered softly.
After a bit of thought he decided to go through his teammates in
chronological order, more or less. For a moment he wondered how a file
on him would look like, but he could probably guess...
Pete Wisdom: A former operative of the British Intelligence community,
who was employed by Black Air. Assigned to Excalibur as an observer, he
participated in an operation in Genosha. Working along with Katherine
Pryde he discovered the criminal activities that Black Air was involved
with. Resigning he joined Excalibur, remaining a member of the team
until a dispute with Kitty caused him to resign. Worked with X-Force,
faked his own death to go underground before reemerging to assist the
Weird Happenings Organization (WHO).
"Bollocks," Pete sighed. He leaned back, lighting up a smoke as
he considered what to do. "I hate time travel," he muttered as he began
to type.
Widget, a.k.a. Kate Pryde: Caught in a Sentinel trap, the future Kate
Pryde was killed in a temporal experiment. Her mind shattered, her
life-essence traveled back in time, eventually being contained in the
Widget Robot. Possessed of unpredictable teleportational abilities
Widget was as much of a curse to the team as a blessing. Repaired,
Widget's consciousness returned, eventually regaining the full knowledge
of her past. Kate led Excalibur into the future, battling alongside
Rachel Summers to shut the Sentinels down. She stayed in that era for a
time, but after building a more humanoid body she ultimately turned up
in my living room asking to join Excalibur.
Pete took a long drag. "I really bloody hate time travel," he
sighed, hoping the last paragraph made sense. He didn't include his own
confusion about Kate, it was personal. In some ways she was the girl he
had fell for, but in others entirely different. "Not to mention being
hung up on Rachel," he muttered. "Speaking of which.."
Rachel Summers: (No, I don't know her bloody codename, as her ma is
Phoenix now..) the time traveling daughter of Scott Summers and Jean
Grey she escaped a Sentinel ruled future to join the X-men in the here
and now. A founding member of Excalibur she was lost to the team in a
temporal incident, throwing her into the far future to found the society
that would eventually help Nathan Summers, a.k.a. Cable. Returning to
the Twenty-first century she went undercover to hide from the Dark
Sisterhood, at least until I talked her into joining the new Excalibur.
Pete reached over to take a slurp of his now warm coffee.
"Wonder if I should mention that Kate's in love with her?" he mused. He
thought about it, then shook his head, "Nah. I don't know if Rachel
returns her feelings, and either way it ain't Xavier's business."
Britannia, a.k.a. Lisa Garrison: Some people might remember that there
were two Captain Britains for a bit, but most don't remember the third.
Elizabeth Braddock wore the suit, operating as Captain Britain until she
was blinded by one of Cap's old enemies, Slaymaster. The suit itself
disappeared, but Black Air tracked it down. They were in the process of
modifying it when Excalibur shut them down, and the suit ended up with
WHO.
"Bit dry," Pete muttered before going back to type the rest of
the entry.
Lisa Garrison, the suit's current owner, has worked for both STRIKE and
WHO, and we've had a few run ins over the years for our respective
organizations. A very capable officer, one WHO only let go when
politicians raised a stink over her elven girlfriend. Allistair Stuart
recommended her to me, and so far she's made a fine teammate.
"Allistair," Pete sighed to himself. He wasn't quite sure how
far to trust the new director of WHO, to be honest. The man came across
like a typical befuddled scientist, but Pete was pretty certain that was
just a pose. Whatever was beneath it was what he wondered about...
Wolfsbane, a.k.a. Rhane Sinclair: raised, if you want to call it that,
by Reverend Craig, the redhead was declared a werewolf when her power
first manifested itself. Saved from the Reverend by Moira MacTaggart she
found care and acceptance for the first time, coming to look on the
Scotts woman as a second mother. Training with the New Mutants Rhane met
Dani Moonstar, a deep bond forming almost instantly between them. She
left the team to join X-factor, then ultimately became a member of the
previous Excalibur when it was based out of Moira's mutant research
station. Moira's death devastated her, and that pain called Dani
Moonstar back to her side.
"Wonder if I should put in our speculation that Craig might be
Rhane's biological dad? Nah, never proven. And if Xavier don't know that
Dani and Rhane are lovers," Pete made a face, "then he's got to be
blind. On to the other member of the pair.."
Dani Moonstar: (She's using her last name as a codename, and I ain't
typing it twice!) A native American mutant raised on the reservation
until her parents disappeared. When she first joined the New Mutants she
was able to manifest illusions of a person's greatest fears and desires,
so she called herself Mirage. She and Rhane bonded almost immediately,
developing a bit of a sisterly relationship. Injured in an adventure
with Asgardian Valkyries she left the team, eventually taking a page
from my book and going undercover as the 'villainess' Moonstar.
Eventually becoming a reserve X-Men she rushed to Rhane's side when the
girl needed her once again after Moira's death.
"Asgardian Valkyries..." Pete shook his head. If he hadn't heard
about the X-men's adventures in Asgard from Kitty herself, he probably
wouldn't have believed it. In an odd way it was comforting to know that
the X-Men had been involved in almost as much weird stuff as he had.
Probably met he'd fit right in, or something.
Spitfire, a.k.a. Jacqueline Farnsworth Crighton: the daughter of the
British hero Union Jack, she was badly injured in World War II. An
emergency blood transfusion from the android Human Torch saved her life,
but also triggered a latent super-speed ability. Alongside the heroes
called the Invaders she fought the Nazis, retiring not long after the
war ended. A few years ago Jacqueline attended a reunion of the
surviving Invaders, and got tangled up with a group of neo-Nazis. Badly
injured she was given a second transfusion from the Human Torch, with an
unexpected side effect: she reverted to being a teen again. More
recently she's been manifesting unpredictable thermal abilities, and
Excalibur contacted her to offer our assistance.
Pete killed the last of his coffee, drinking down the cold
dregs. "Who in their right mind would allow an android to give a blood
transfusion in the first place?" he questioned aloud. "I'd have thought
Captain America, at least, would have had a bit more common sense."
Dr. Cecelia Reines: (She's not technically a member, but I'll be dealing
with her pretty regularly, so...) Cecelia joined the X-men during the
craziness of Operation Zero Tolerance, when her emergency room was
attacked by the Prime Sentinels. The African-American, along side the
unlikely team of Iceman and the heroine Sabra helped stop Zero
Tolerance, then became a somewhat reluctant X-Man. She became pretty
good at using her personal forcescreen both offensively and defensively,
but she never particularly enjoyed being an member of the X-Men, and
quickly took the position here at Muir Island when the Prof. offered it.
"Guess that's it for now," Pete sighed as he rubbed at his eyes
tiredly. He saved the file, then copied it over to the email program. He
attached it to a mail to the Professor, and a click of the mouse sent it
on it's way. "Now, to bed," and with that he staggered off.
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