Appearing in "Chapter One"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (Reassembled)
- Shroud (Kitty Pryde) (Rejoins)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Rejoins)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Joins)
- Karen Grant's group
Supporting Characters:
- Valerie Cooper
- Rogue (Marian Carlyle)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe)
- Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Lensherr)
- Gen. Nick Fury
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Pleasant (First appearance)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Chelsea Pleasant (First appearance; dies)
- Mr. Pleasant (First appearance)
- God (Invoked)
- President of the United States (First appearance)
- United States Government (Mentioned)
- Aaron (Reporter) (First appearance)
- Chris (Reporter) (First appearance)
- Weapon X Project (Mentioned)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Mentioned)
- Jermaine (Reporter) (First appearance)
- Denise (Reporter) (Voice only)
- Magneto (Erik Lensherr) (Mentioned)
- Joshua (First appearance)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
- Ultimates (Mentioned)
- Kanye West (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Peter Parker (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-1610
- Earth
- United States of America
- Canada (Mentioned)
- Heaven (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth
Synopsis for "Chapter One"
Karen Grant visits the home of a young mutant named Chelsea Pleasant in hopes of bringing her under her guidance and protection. However, Chelsea's father instead murders her in her sleep.
Valerie Cooper addresses the media regarding the recently released news about Mutants being man-made through an American-funded lab based in Canada via experiments on the subject known as Wolverine. She states that conditions within the Mutant Internment Camps are good and, in some cases, a step-up for some of the inmates compared to their lives before being detained. Jimmy Hudson, hearing the news about his biological father, decides to abandon both Liz Allan and Derek Morgan and travel to Canada to investigate further.
As the President of the United States also watches the conference, he converses with Nick Fury about the situation involving Mutants and riots as a result of the released news. They are interrupted by Quicksilver, who offers his assistance to the President, against Fury's better judgement.
Meanwhile, Rogue is being hunted by a Nimrod Model Sentinel, the government's newly created Mutant-hunting machines. The story makes it's way to the Daily Bugle website where Bobby discovers it through his internet-enabled device. Both he and Johnny convince Kitty that they need to rescue her.