A Game set in the<strong>616</strong>Universe, set after the Events of the Earth Shattering<strong>Avengers VS X-MEN</strong>storyline.<br/><br/>Mutants are often hated and feared by other humans because they are different from themselves. Spending many of his adult years studying mutation, mutant telepath Professor Charles Xavier formed the legendary X-Men to protect a world that hates and fears them.<br/><br/>PREVIOUSLY....<br/><br/><strong>BACKSTORY</strong><br/><br/>Schism & Regenesis<br/><br/>After Kid Omega's attack on the United Nations, anti-mutant sentiment began to rise and world leaders began reactivating Sentinels. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Mayor Sinclair expedite the grand opening of the Mutant History Museum. Unfortunately, Kade Kilgore and his Hellfire Club used this opportunity to attack the X-Men. Despite Wolverine's objections, Cyclops ordered Idie to stop the Hellfire Club by killing them. These event lead to a giant super-Sentinel nearly destroying Utopia, and Cyclops and Wolverine parting ways because of philosophical differences. The difference ended up being more than could be reconciled.<br/>The one thing Cyclops and Wolverine could agree on was Idie would be better off away from Utopia, so despite Hope's objections Idie left with Wolverine and others to resettle Westchester. Because of the split, each X-Man was forced to choose to remain on Utopia with Cyclops or reopen the mutant school in Westchester with Wolverine.<br/><br/>Jean Grey School: the Hellfire Club<br/><br/>Wolverine founded the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. On their school's first day the school was attacked by the same Hellfire Club that orchestrated the X-Men's schism. They attacked using a variety of methods: an army of Frankenstein monsters; a Krakoa (which the school had been built upon); and the state inspectors, who were transformed into a 'Sauron' and a 'Wendigo'. They were saved by none other than Kid Omega, who telepathically accessed the Krakoa's mind. He discovered that it was not the original Krakoa but a grandchild of it; furthermore, it was a mutant. Having been tortured his whole life, Quire's telepathic contact represented its first friendly interaction. Krakoa then opened its thoughts to Rachel Grey apologizing and hoping to become an X-Man. With their plans ruined, the Hellfire Club fled. Kade Kilgore was later served papers by Matt Murdock, having been sued by Wolverine. Not content, the Hellfire Club contracted Sabretooth to torment the School.<br/><br/>Fantomex decided to enroll Genesis in the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Wolverine brought Angel to school hoping that will bring back some of his memories, but that didn't work and due to his childish behavior and his belief that he is a real Angel he was enrolled in the school by Iceman.  After bringing back the device to restore the function of Wolverines legs, Angel and Evan became friends. Angel eventually came to realize that he was indeed a mutant and not an Angel after trying to fly to heaven and being saved by Evan. However, it is revealed that his energy levels and skills are growing rapidly and that he has the power to see peoples essence. Evan begs Angel to look at him and tell him his essence and Angel tells him he can see only good inside him, despite seeing nothing but the image of Apocalypse.<br/><br/>Act One<br/><br/>In New York, the Avengers have assembled for a meeting. An object crashes into the city, sending Earth's Mightiest Heroes into action. After dealing with the damage from the impact, they discover that the object was in fact Nova, who cryptically whispers "It's Coming" before fainting. On Utopia, Cyclops trains Hope, while Emma Frost and Magneto are watching from afar. Scott pushes Hope to her limits, causing her to manifest the Phoenix. All present are shocked.<br/><br/>Captain America and Iron Man meet with the president, informing him of the situation. Nova's warning led them to discovering that the Phoenix Force was headed on a destructive path towards Earth. A team of Avengers is dispatched to destroy or otherwise divert the Phoenix from its path: a suicide mission. Suddenly, an alarm warns them of a Phoenix flare on Earth. Unbeknownst to them, it is Hope. The Jean Grey School is also alert, Beast having set similar alarms.<br/><br/>Consulting Wolverine, Captain America learns of Hope Summers and secures his support. He organizes the Avengers at the mansion, briefing them on the mission. Storm and Power Woman leave the Avengers, the former returning to the X-Men. Back on Utopia, Cyclops talks with his Extinction Team about Hope and the Phoenix. He believes it to be a potential game-changer for mutantkind. Captain America arrives to take Hope into protective custody, hoping to avert Earth's destruction. They come to blows, and Cap orders S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers to take Utopia.<br/><br/>The X-Men and Avengers wage a bitter battle for the island. Wolverine sneaks off in the melee and finds Hope. He prepares to kill her, as he had promised, when she burns him with the power of the Phoenix before running off. The X-Men fake a surrender before teleporting away. Rachel Summers, using Cerebro, reports that there are five places on Earth that Hope could be. She secretly relays this information to Cyclops as well.<br/><br/>Most of Wolverine's X-Men decide to side with Cyclops against the Avengers, after he visits the school and explains his reasoning. The children of Utopia are taken to the Avengers Academy to be put in protective custody. Initially tense, the two groups begin to get along. The staff becomes nervous when Sebastian Shaw escapes, believing him to be after the children. When three Avengers arrive at the Jean Grey School, battle quickly follows.<br/><br/>In a Quinjet flying high above Antarctica, Captain America confronts Wolverine over his behavior in the battle of Utopia. They fight, and Wolverine is tossed out of the plane.  Around the world, the Avengers and X-Men fight: in Latveria, in the Savage Land, in Tabula Rasa, in Wakanda and at Wundagore Mountain. Hope goes to Wolverine for help with a plan.<br/><br/>In space, the away team of Avengers tries multiple times to stop the Phoenix. The Force draws the attention of the Kree. The Minister Marvel uses it to resurrect Mar-vell, hoping to draw it to Hala. Captain Marvel regains control and sacrifices himself again to stop it. However, the Protector then betrays the Avengers to the Supreme Intelligence, capturing a fragment of the Force for the Kree's use. He changes his mind, but the Avengers refused to forgive him for what he done.<br/><br/>Thor tries one last time to stop the Force, but only manages to delay it.<br/><br/>The attention of Gladiator, Shi'ar commander, is also drawn. Not only are the Shi'ar long-time foes of the Phoenix, but his son is on Earth. Wolverine helps Hope survive an attack from Shi'ar Death Commandos. They then steal an A.I.M. space shuttle and journey to the Blue Area of the Moon. Wolverine alerts Captain America to the plan, and the Avengers go to the Moon as well. Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik arrive too, having used Frost's telepathy to learn of the meeting from Cap's thoughts. Suddenly, Thor crashes on the moon. The Phoenix arrives shortly after.<br/><br/>The Avengers and X-Men fight as the Phoenix descends on the Moon. Hope's power increases, and she finds herself unable to control it. Wolverine tries one last time to kill Hope, at her request. Cyclops stops him, stating one last time his belief that Hope is meant to be the Phoenix's host. Iron Man uses a specially designed Phoenix-Killer suit to try to destroy the Force.<br/><br/>At the Avengers Academy, Shaw has no true ill intentions. Instead, he wishes to free the Utopia kids from custody. The Academy staff reluctantly agrees and lets them leave.  The Lights return to Utopia, seeking Hope. Instead, they find the prisoner named Unit. He reveals to the Lights that Hope is a Phoenix Messiah, a host which the Phoenix Force would use with her Lights to correct the path of evolution. Having seen a Phoenix Messiah succeed in the past, he wishes to see what happens when one is disadvantaged. Thus, he has the Lights mind-wiped of the encounter.<br/><br/>The Phoenix-Killer seems to live up to its name, at first. However, it instead fractures the Force. Hope rejects it, and it instead possesses the five other X-Men. Now the Phoenix Five, they return to Earth to usher it into a new ages. The Avengers are unable to stop them.<br/><br/>Act Two<br/><br/>The Phoenix Five try to usher in global peace: Pax Utopia. They build a massive new floating island, a new Utopia, for mutantkind. They work to provide power, food and water for all. In front of the U.N., they outlaw war. To achieve this they try to destroyed all weapons, though some escape destruction. Cyclops, overwhelmed by his new telepathic powers, takes a sojourn to the moon to regain perspective.  The Avengers, however, do not trust the Phoenix Five. They believe that at any point they could go Dark Phoenix, and wish to have a solution to that potential problem. To do so, they wish to study the intended host of the Phoenix: Hope.<br/><br/>To that end, they orchestrate an invasion of Utopia. Cyclops and Emma Frost confront them and defeat them easily. Iron Fist discovers he has a strange ability to stop the energies of the Phoenix, but is defeated by Cyclops' force blasts. The Scarlet Witch arrives, wishing to avert a dark future she predicted. She teleports the Avengers and Hope off of Utopia. Cyclops is outraged, and decides that the Avengers have been enablers of anti-mutant feelings. Thus, he makes a decree: No more Avengers.<br/><br/>Hope is taken to K'un-Lun. The Iron Fist tells her of Fongji, an Iron Fist who was a host of the Phoenix. Spider-Man teaches her Uncle Ben's old mantra of "With great power comes great responsibility". Meanwhile, Mister Sinister has built himself a city in the Moloid caverns. He fills this Sinister London with his race of Sinisters, but also keeps a populations of clones of X-Men, planning on using them to fight the Phoenix Five. Most importantly, he has a host of Jean Grey clones, Madelyne Pryor spares. He plans to use these to host the Phoenix Force for his own designs.<br/><br/>During a confrontation between the Avengers and the X-Men, the Scarlet Witch injures Magik, while Emma Frost severely burns Hawkeye. As the Phoenix Five heal Hawkeye, Cyclops reprimands them for their use of excessive force, but Magik defends that they must kill the Scarlet Witch and Namor reminds him that they are at war. In Wakanda, Hope tells the Avengers that the X-Men fear the Scarlet Witch. Meanwhile, Iron Man and Black Panther research a way to stop the Phoenix Five and Iron Fist brings Lei Kung to take Hope to K'un-L'un for training. As both teams keep fighting and taking prisoners around the world, Scarlet Witch injures Namor. Furious, Namor goes against Cyclops's orders and leads the Atlanteans into war against Wakanda.<br/><br/>As Namor attacks Wakanda, Iron Man takes Lei Kung to join Wolverine and Hope in K'un-L'un. Captain America then assembles every Avenger he can muster and manages to take down Namor in a hard fought confrontation. Meanwhile, Magneto informs Cyclops of Namor's assault on Wakanda. As the remaining Phoenix Five members arrive in Wakanda, Namor's portion of the Phoenix abandons him and divides itself among Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Colossus. The Avengers retreat to K'un-L'un, as Professor X demands that Cyclops cease the Phoenix Five's actions or he will bring them down.<br/><br/>Act Three<br/><br/>As days pass by, more and more Avengers are captured by the Phoenix Five, and Hope's training in K'un-L'un shows no results. Several X-Men feel uncomfortable about the way the Phoenix Five are treating their prisoners. Storm arrives in Wakanda in the aftermath of Namor's assault and tells Black Panther that the captured Avengers are being held prisoner in a volcano in Siberia. The Avengers then lead a rescue mission with the help of Storm and Professor X to break out their comrades but are stopped by Magik and Colossus. Spider-Man baits Magik and Colossus into taking each other out, allowing the Avengers to escape. As the Avengers arrive back in K'un-L'un, they are surprised by Cyclops, strengthened by half of Magik and Colossus's portions of the Phoenix force.<br/><br/>He made quick work of anyone that opposed him but was defeated by Hope who in an act of desperation combined the powers of the Iron Fist, Scarlet Witch's chaos magic and Shao-Lao's flames to teleport Cyclops to the Moon. The Avengers then teamed up with several X-Men who had realized that Cyclops and Emma had completely lost control. Together they attacked Cyclops and Emma and gained the upper hand until Cyclops was forced to take the final piece of the Phoenix from Emma, making him the sole host. The complete Phoenix proved too much and finally turned him into Dark Phoenix.<br/><br/>The Avengers fought Summers around the world with the help of the X-Men and Nova, as well as trying to contain the chaos the gigantic force produced around Earth, but who finally managed to defeat him were Scarlet Witch and Hope, the Phoenix left Scott and possessed Hope, but she managed to control it, repairing all the damage Scott caused on the planet, and finally, using the powers of the Scarlet Witch to manipulate reality, she destroyed the Phoenix Force with a final blast of energy which caused millions of people around Earth to manifest mutant powers. Cyclops was finally incarcerated, and Steve accepted the Avengers should've done more to help mutants, and allowed the world to hate them. As a result, he started planning a new team of Avengers in hopes of unifying mutant and humankind.<br/><br/><br/>(http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e32faa36d5c249652d3ba9e09755554/tumblr_mnvhpue18Z1sp6i0ao1_500.png)