American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

Chapter 161 Blood Debts Must Be Repaid in Blood, Doubled Back (4000 words)

Magneto casually waved his hand, and the heavy metal prison door opened easily.

Without the barrier of the cell door, "Doppelganger" James emerged one after another from the cramped, standing-room-only cells.

James's ability to create clones is similar to Roy's shadow clones; the clones he creates not only have the same appearance and physique, but also wear the same clothes.

Magneto looked at the seven James figures in front of him with satisfaction and said with a smile, "I can make use of your talent."

Upon hearing his words, James's main body immediately recalled the six clones beside him, shrugged, and replied, "Okay, count me in."

"Welcome to the Brotherhood of Mutants," Magneto said slowly.

After saying that, he walked toward another specially made cell.

Fireman turned to the second page of the prisoner list and slowly said, "Cain Mark, solitary confinement."

"Listen to this: this prisoner must be permanently isolated. Once he sets his mind on something, he will be unstoppable and invincible."

Magneto raised his right hand and said calmly, "Interesting!"

Bang!

As the heavy metal cell door opened, "Juggernaut" Cain, whose body was firmly strapped into the cell, came into the view of Magneto and his companions.

Like Magneto, Juggernaut also wears a helmet.

However, compared to Magneto's helmet, his helmet was much thicker.

In addition, his helmet did not have the ability to block telepathy; it was just a heavy helmet made of ordinary metal.

"What did they call you?" Magneto asked, glancing at Juggernaut.

"Red Tank!" Red Tank replied quickly.

"I don't see what makes you look like a tank?" Magneto continued to ask.

"Could you let me out first? I need to pee," the Juggernaut replied.

Magneto said nothing more and began to use his superpowers.

Immediately afterwards, the metal restraints that held Red Tank in place—his legs, hands, waist, abdomen, and head—were easily torn apart like paper.

After breaking free of his restraints, the Red Tank lightly jumped out of the cell.

He didn't jump very high, only a few tens of centimeters.

However, it was in this short distance of a few dozen centimeters that he accumulated enough kinetic energy.

The moment it landed, the entire carriage shook violently as if an earthquake had struck.

The Red Tank didn't say anything, but he had already demonstrated through his actions why he was called "The Red Tank".

"Nice helmet!" Fireman said to Red Tank.

"I look really cool wearing this, right?" Juggernaut turned to look at Fireman and said happily.

To be fair, his helmet was not only not cool, but also quite ugly.

But aesthetic sense is subjective and varies from person to person.

To the average person, the Red Tank's helmet was heavy and ugly.

But in his own opinion, his helmet was much cooler than Magneto's.

"Your joining will greatly enhance the Brotherhood's strength." Magneto said calmly after learning what Juggernaut's superpower was.

Neither he, Mystique, nor Pyro, nor Juggernaut noticed that the tremors in the carriage had awakened a guard who was unconscious.

After recognizing Magneto, the guard calmly took out a specially made magazine.

The magazine contains healing bullets specifically designed to deal with mutants.

Furthermore, to prevent Magneto from using his superpowers to control the healing bullets, the healing bullets, which resemble tranquilizer darts, are made without any metal.

The built-in laser sight fired a green targeting laser that landed on Magneto's back.

Upon seeing the laser beam, Mystique shouted "No!" and turned to stand behind Magneto, ready to shield him with her own body.

call out!

The healing bullet flew rapidly toward Mystique!

Just as the healing bullet was about to hit Mystique, the high-speed bullet hovered in the air.

Mystique stared in astonishment at the healing bullet in front of her.

Before she could figure out what was going on, Magneto made his move.

The pistol in the guard's hand flew into Magneto's hand.

Fireman immediately activated the ignition device on his wrist. Under his control, the small flame, no bigger than a finger, quickly expanded to a meter or two wide, flying towards the guard who had just stood up like a fire dragon.

The healing bullet aimed at Mystique hovered in mid-air, missing its target.

The flames controlled by the fire elemental also failed to hit the rising guard.

A green barrier appeared out of thin air in front of the guards, blocking all the incoming flames.

Although he wasn't blasted out of the carriage by the fiery dragon-like flames, the moment the flames were blocked, the guard who had just gotten up fainted.

The person who created the green barrier to block the flames and knock out the guards was none other than Roy.

After knocking out the guards, Roy deactivated the mirror-like green barrier and said to Magneto and his group, "I'm not with the government. Don't lay a hand on me, or you'll regret it."

Just as Pyro was about to scold him for meddling, Magneto's voice rang out.

"Who are you?"

Magneto reached out his right hand, took the healing bullet that was hovering in front of Mystique, and looked at Roy with great interest.

"A superhuman who just happened to be passing by," Roy replied calmly.

"You're not a mutant?" Magneto frowned slightly and continued to ask.

"Of course not. Mutants aren't the only ones in the world with superpowers," Roy said slowly.

Magneto paused for a few seconds, then slowly said, "Whether you are a mutant or not, you just saved Raven and prevented her from becoming a normal human."

"I don't like owing people favors. How do you want me to repay you?"

Roy calmly looked at Magneto and said, "I saved her, not you. You don't need to repay me."

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"As for her, I want a vial of her blood."

After saying that, he took out an unused syringe from the system space and tossed it to Mystique.

After taking the syringe, Mystique did not immediately draw blood, but looked at Roy with a wary expression.

Although she didn't know what Roy wanted her blood for, she still didn't intend to easily hand it over to him.

"It's just a vial of blood, let him have it if he wants it," Magneto said to Mystique.

It is now 2006, before "Days of Future Past".

At this point in time, neither Magneto nor Professor X, nor Mystique herself, knew the true value of Mystique's blood.

It will be several more years before the ultimate Sentinel robot, capable of freely replicating and sharing mutant superpowers, appears.

Roy didn't know the exact year either.

By 2023, most of the mutants in the world had been killed, leaving only a few, such as Wolverine, Magneto, Professor X, Iceman, Shadowcat, and Bishop.

It was also when the mutant race was on the verge of complete extinction that Kitty Pryde sent Wolverine's consciousness back to 1973, allowing him to stop Mystique from killing Bolivar Truss, thus changing history.

Upon hearing Magneto's words, Mystique inserted a syringe into her left forearm and drew out a vial of blood.

He then tossed the syringe back to Roy.

Roy retracted the syringe into his system space and said to Magneto, "You're currently gathering manpower to prepare for an attack on Worthington Corporation's lab on Alcatraz, aren't you?"

"How did you know?" Magneto looked at Roy with a wary expression.

"How I guessed it is not important. What is important is that I don't want the U.S. government to have control over the cure for mutants."

"Although I am not a mutant, compared to ordinary people, I am the same as you."

Roy said slowly and deliberately.

"You want to join the Brotherhood of Mutants and lend us a hand?"

Magneto continued to ask.

"I'll help you out, but I won't join the Brotherhood of Mutants."

"After all, I'm not a real mutant."

Roy spoke slowly.

If the plot unfolds as he remembers, it means Jean has been taken back to the mutant school and is about to lose control, transforming into the Dark Phoenix and leaving the school to return to her childhood home.

In the X-Men cinematic universe, the Space Stone cannot create portals.

In that case, there's no need to go to the mutant school; just follow Magneto and his group.

Magneto didn't think for long before asking, "What superpowers do you have?"

"I won't go into specifics, I know everything you know."

Roy replied immediately.

Magneto can manipulate magnetic fields to control metal, and he can also use Magneto to manipulate metal.

Mystique can transform into anyone, and he can also use shapeshifting.

As for the fireman.

Fire people cannot create flames; they can only control existing flames.

He not only knows Fire Release, but also has mastered Amaterasu.

If there's anything to say, it's that he hasn't mastered "Fire Release: Kagutsuchi" yet, so he can't transform Amaterasu's black flames into swords, shields, arrows, magatama, fireballs, or other forms.

However, this is not a big problem.

Because so far, he has not encountered an opponent who would require him to do so.

Even the most basic Amaterasu flames are enough to faze few enemies.

Roy wasn't exaggerating; he was simply stating the facts.

But to Magneto and his companions, he seemed rather arrogant.

Before Magneto could speak, Pyro looked at him with disdain and quickly said, "I don't believe you can control fire!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Fireman activated the ignition device on his wrist again, turning a small flame into a fist-sized fireball that floated on his right hand.

Faced with the Fire Man's questioning, Roy did not use Fire Release, nor did he switch his Tenseigan to Mangekyou Sharingan.

He raised his right hand and gently hooked his index finger towards the fireball in the fireman's hand.

The next second, the fireball flew to his right hand right in front of Fireman and the others.

He certainly doesn't have superpowers like the Fireman.

But not having it doesn't mean he can't control the existing flames.

Like the Rinnegan, which evolved from the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, the Tenseigan, which evolved from the Byakugan, also possesses the ability to control gravity and repulsion.

Although flames have no physical form, it is not difficult for him to use gravity to pull the fireball over.

The healing bullets fired at Mystique would stop in mid-air because he manipulated gravity with his Tenseigan.

When the fireball came into his hand, Roy infused it with some fire-style chakra.

With the infusion of Fire Release chakra, the fist-sized fireball immediately swelled to the size of a basketball.

"Do you need me to continue demonstrating?" Roy asked calmly, looking at Magneto and the other three.

"No need, I believe you are telling the truth."

"Welcome to join us — welcome to become our partner."

Magneto intended to invite Roy to join the Brotherhood of Mutants as usual, but after speaking, he remembered that Roy had previously refused to join, so he changed his approach.

Roy nodded and extinguished the fireball floating in his right hand.

Magneto's secret base.

"They turned the drug into bullets, loaded them into guns, and that's what they call voluntary injection."

"They will definitely stir up trouble, just like before."

As Magneto spoke, he used his superpowers to bring the specially made pistol on the table into his hand.

"Then what do we do?" Fireman asked, arms crossed.

"What do we do? We have to tear off their masks and let all mutants know their true colors."

"Peace cannot be achieved through compromise!"

"A blood debt must be paid in blood, and tenfold. Only in this way will they learn to respect us!"

Magneto said with a serious expression.

After saying that, he turned to look at Roy, who was sitting at the next table drinking.

Seeing that Roy did not object, he glanced at Mystique, Pyro, Juggernaut, and Doppelganger, and continued, "Let's go. We're going to build an army, an army for mutants."

Mystique and the other three nodded.

"Roy, come on over," Magneto said to Roy.

"Okay." Roy didn't refuse, put down his glass, and replied immediately.

To Magneto and his crew, he had simply been drinking.

But in reality, while drinking, he subtly used his chakra sensing technique to detect Phoenix's location.

Because of mutants, there are many life signals on Earth in this universe that are different from those of ordinary people.

But he still quickly located Phoenix's position.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the mutant levels in the X-Men cinematic universe.

The mutant ranking system in the movies is different from that in the comics; it is divided into five levels, with level five being the highest and level one the lowest.

Phoenix is ​​undoubtedly a Level 5 mutant.

After using his chakra perception technique, Roy sensed the life signals of many mutants.

However, most mutants are not considered to have strong vitality or energy levels.

Only a subset of mutants, such as Phoenix, Magneto, Professor X, and Storm, possess life force or energy intensity far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Roy not only sensed Phoenix's exact location, but also sensed the powerful energy she had just unleashed.

Considering Phoenix's location, it's likely that her energy burst just now was the energy burst from when she transformed into the Black Phoenix.

Just as Magneto and Roy were about to leave the room, Nightcrawler and Arc Light walked in.

"I sensed something, an electromagnetic energy field, a very powerful one."

"This is a mutant, a Level 5 mutant, stronger than any mutant I've ever sensed before, including you."

Nightwalker approached Magneto and spoke quickly.

She had no idea what kind of mutant the Level 5 mutant she was sensing was.

However, after hearing her words, a name flashed through Magneto's mind, and an expression of surprise and delight appeared on his face.