X-Men Page #4

All who see it are stunned. Frozen. A lingering moment

of confusion, then:

BOOM, the doors to the Boys Room burst open and the

occupants scatter into the gym.

INT. GYM - STALL - NIGHT

Freckles is still there, legs locked.

FRECKLES' P.O.V.

He looks at Scott who is now crying meekly in the stall,

covering his eyes again -- afraid to open them.

The door of the stall across from him swings closed TO

REVEAL:

A HOLE, PUNCHED THROUGH THE STALL DOOR framing Scott's

face perfectly. Pull back to reveal that the hole

continues through the wall, into the girl's bathroom next

door.

In the corner several girls huddle together, they are

afraid.

INT. SENATE HEARING ROOM - DAY

Packed with reporters and photographers. There's a dais -

a raised panel of senators - and a second, lower panel.

This is where the "experts" are testifying.

Panning across the faces of several G.O.P. creeps as they

watch something with varying degrees of interest.

TITLES:

WASHINGTON D.C. - THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE

A woman's voice holds over the proceedings. It is the

voice of JEAN GREY - whom we will soon meet.

As she is speaking, we come to a large screen television

at one end of the room.

JEAN (O.S.)

In every organism on Earth there

exists a mutator gene - the X-factor,

as it has come to be known. It is the

basic building block of evolution -

the reason we have evolved from homo

habilus...

FOOTAGE REFLECTS THE VARIOUS STAGES OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.

Accompanying it is a GRAPH with a DIAGONAL LINE

indicating the ascent of the "human being" as we know it.

Accompanying the graph are evolving images of the

"evolution of man."

JEAN (O.S.) (contíd)

... to homo erectus, to homo sapiens

Neanderthals, and, finally, to homo

sapiens.

The animated demo on the screen zooms in on the lowest

order of human depicted - homo habilus - a primitive, ape-

like humanoid covered in hair. As he is singled out, the

terrain of his time appears, along with the harsh signs

of his winter.

JEAN (O.S.) (contíd)

Taking it's cues from the climate,

terrain, various sources of

nourishment, the mutator gene tells

the body when it needs to change to

adapt to a new environment. The

process is subtle, normally taking

thousands of years.

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