THE OFFSPRING

Dateline: New York City, 2035

    As the mutant population around the globe beings to increase, so 
does the 
lineage of mutants giving birth to mutants. First generation mutants 
seem 
weak compared to their offspring, who often possess the combined powers 
of 
both parents. 
    Below ground, the mutant ranks have also been increasing, as the 
silent 
Morlocks bide their time, growing in the dark recesses. For three 
decades 
they wait, preparing... until the time comes for them to make a renewed 
assault on the surface world.
    It begins gradually, in the hot New York City summer. News of 
streets 
erupting into panic flash across the TV... ordinary citizens are trom 
from 
their cars and dragged screaming into the dark pits. As the attacks 
increase, 
the non-mutant populace begins to remember their old hatred of mutants. 
The 
surface-dwelling mutants find themselves the only available target of 
this 
renewed anger.
    Enter the next generation of X-men.