Joanna Cargill (Earth-616)/Quotes

We challenge X-Factor to try and stop us.

I was a soldier. When you're a soldier, the red rage carries you. Sees you safely through. Like a lucky rabbit's foot. Like armor that you wear on the inside. But even before that -- before Fortress X -- it was always there. The blood tide. The hot wire, in my brain, glowing like the filament in a light bulb. Bright, bright red. Even when I love someone, it feels like that. Like I'm halfway fighting them. Tearing some trophy of joy or lust out of their lips. Their flesh. Feeding that red screaming thing at the core of me. And I'm sort of thinking I should have asked this sooner. Who am I? Who's the me that's here, now, staring in this mirror? Thinking these thoughts? Joanna Cargill? Sometimes. Not too often. Frenzy. To name it is to own it.

You want an apology? A promise? I'm not about killing people any more. I -- I want what she had. The other me, in the Fortress. I want everything she had. Just... read me, for God's sake. Don't make me say it.

The great Magneto, in chains. Yeah, I remember that, too. It was why I joined Apocalypse back in the day. Because the flatscans did that to you. What they called crimes-- well, that was what made you our voice. Made us want to follow you. What happened to that?

Now that, right there...that's why I became an Acolyte.

We're not the only ones traveling to Moira's past lives.

Nothing hurts me. And if something tries, I hurt it back. Hard.