New Mutants Unlimited

Here you will find summaries of and links to all NMU fics. In time, I will add to the few that I have currently.

New Mutants Unlimited #1
Title: "Original Sin" - Author(s): Havok3935, Character(s): Gerald, word count: 3,157

The story begins several years ago, on Muir Island, where Gerald Stryker is discovered to be a mutant. Three months later, he runs away from the aunt who raised him, to find his father at a public meeting of the Stryker Crusade in New York City. He gets caught up in the climax of God Loves, Man Kills, and attacks the X-Men due to a psychic link with the reverend. He is defeated, and wakes up at the X-Mansion, where he is offered a place to stay. Uncertainly, he accepts.

New Mutants Unlimited #2
Title: "Madrock's Night Out" - Author(s): Last Hero, Character(s): Roxanne, word count: 4,362

Roxanne, moping about the death of Current, meets Rogue, who invites her to go to NYC for ice cream. Their bonding is interrupted by the Rhino's rampaging. Rogue fights him, but is subdued after a while. Roxanne distracts him from beating on her, they banter, but Rogue commands her to run and get help. Just before Roxanne is mauled, she's saved by Spider-Man. She's thrilled to meet him and gets a signature.

New Mutants Unlimited #3
Title: "To Leave or Not to Leave, That is the Question" - Author(s): Protoman, Character(s): Lex, word count: 1,113

After the Acolytes' attack on the Mansion, Lex is heading towards North Salem, worried that he could have been the reason for it and wondering if he should leave the team and the Mansion. He gets picked up by Cyclops, who assures him it wasn't his fault, and takes him to some of the others at a club in town. They talk to Jubilee and Iceman about the attack in a nearby diner. Lex and Jubilee hit it off, and she kisses him before they go to sleep.

New Mutants Unlimited #4
Title: "The Night Calls" - Author(s): Deathchicken, Character(s): Wreck, word count: 2,212

It's night, and Wreck heads to go to sleep in a graveyard near the X-Mansion. There, he's disturbed by the approach of a figure eerily similar to himself, who reveals he's been watching Wreck on previous nights. The figure turns out to be Bloodscream, a vampire. Shooting him preves ineffectual, and he morphs into a monster who impales Wreck and tries to drink his blood. Wreck uses his entropy-powers. Bloodscream heals, but is then killed by Wolverine. Wreck dies.

Mutants Unlimited #5
Title: "Out With The Old, In With The… Nadia?" - Author(s): TheEternalOne, Character(s): Greg/Nadia, word count: 6,209

In the X-Mansion's medbay, Greg has nightmares about his encounter with Exodus during the Acolytes' attack on the Mansion. When he comes to, he leaves to visit his sister in a hospital. Angrily, he finds his sister gone. The nurse tells him Nadia had woken up from her coma and turned into a metallic monster. Greg eventually finds her on a rampage. They fight - Nadia loses, then returns to normal and loses consciousness. Greg takes her to the X-Mansion.

New Mutants Unlimited #6
Title: "Crime and Punishment" - Author(s): Deathchicken, Character(s): Wreck, word count: 1,582

Wreck reminisces about his time on the streets, which he spent robbing and stealing with the use of his powers. Eventually, he is tracked down by the Punisher. They engage in a gunfight, but Wreck chooses to escape into an abandoned warehouse, where he is killed. He runs again, but Punisher tracks him down and kills him several times more. Then Wreck is flung away by a grenade, and soon finds himself at the entrance to the X-Mansion's grounds.

New Mutants Unlimited #7
Title: "Family Affair: Part 1" - Author(s): Last Hero, Character(s): Roxanne, word count: 3,171

In the Morlock sewers, one John Sawyers is being hunted by a female gunman. Once he's caught, she asks him about Roxanne. Later, Roxanne and Rogue are baking cookies in the X-Mansion. Roxie worries about the Calamity and her teammates, but Rogue reassures her and sends her out for a walk. Meanwhile in New Jersey, the mystery woman swears vangeance in a graveyard. She attacks Roxanne back at the Mansion, calls her a monster and shoots at her…

New Mutants Unlimited #8
Title: "Legacy" - Author(s): Havok3935, Character(s): Gerald, word count: 1,424

Returning from Los Angeles, Gerald goes to visit Beast in the medlap to get treatment for the Legacy virus. Beast urges him to step back from field duty, but Gerald refuses and bargains at least one more mission. He heads to play some basketball and meets Colossus, whom he asks to sketch him. Colossus turns out to know about his sickness, and assures Gerald he will be there for him.

New Mutants Unlimited #9
Title: "The Case of Almond Quimby" - Author(s): BornIn1142, Character(s): Almond, word count: 2,090

Almond wakes up on a parkbench in New York City, and heads for something to eat. He visits a café, but doesn't eat much, and gives the clerk a heart attack so he wouldn't have to pay. He sits down at a bus stop when he tires, and mulls over his predicament. He decides to rob a nearby liquor store, and ends up destroying most of the wares. Outside the store, he's confronted by Cannonball. They almost get into a fight, but Almond obliges to join the New Mutants.

New Mutants Unlimited #10
Title: "Sinister Revelations: Part 1" - Author(s): heatckerr, Character(s): Curt, word count: 1,288

Curt is taking a walk during the team's stay in Los Angeles, and comes on a group of four attacking a woman. He doesn't walk away like they suggest, and let them hit him several times so he could gather kinetic energy. He dispatches the group easily, but finds that the leader was just playing possum. He's shot in the shoulder, but the woman he saved kills the attacker before he can kill Curt. She then morhs into Mister Sinister, and introduces himself to Curt.

New Mutants Unlimited #11
Title: "Sinister Revelations: Part 2" - Author(s): heatckerr, Character(s): Curt, word count: 1,488

Curt wakes from unconsciousness, mostly healed from his shoulder wound. Sinister is there, and Curt manages to annoy him. He finds he can't use his powers, and Sinister assures that he can't escape. He explains that he's impressed by Curt's powers, and orchestrated the kidnapping-scenario to lure Curt to himself. He also reveals several things about Curt's past, and proposes an alliance with him against Apocalypse. He then sends Curt back to his hotel room.

New Mutants Unlimited #12
Title: "Shadows" - Author(s): Sephula, Character(s): Sephula, word count: 1,390

The story begins at an indeterminate time, with a 30-year old Sephula speaking to a Colonel Fury on a helicarrier before jumping off it. Colonel Fury has ordered a nuclear strike at Russia, but there seems to be an intruder on the helicarrier. Sephula is entering some kind of secret base, but is attacked by a 'human super adaptoid', whom he teleports away. He finds a bomb, but the adaptoid returns and apparently kills Sephula.

New Mutants Unlimited #13
Title: "The Devil You Know" - Author(s): Deathchicken, Character(s): Wreck, word count: 1,403

Wreck narrates to the reader that he's begun to see Mephisto every time he dies. He remembers an incident during his life of crime, when he accidentally killed a man he'd tried to rob. Insane due to the use of his powers, he'd also killed a policeman. Panicking, he managed to escape, but got killed in the process. He found himself in Hell, with Mephisto greeting him, but escaped when his body regenerated. Now, he decides to talk to Mephisto. He shoots himself in the head.

New Mutants Unlimited #14
Title: "The Devil You Don't" - Author(s): Deathchicken, Character(s): Wreck, word count: 943

Wreck finds himself in Hell. He's confronted by Mephisto, and his shocked by his friendly behavior. Mephisto explains that this whole hell, himself included, is a psychopathic delusion by Wreck, to cope with his guilt and the trauma of dying. Wreck believes it could be a lie, but Mephisto tells him he's in complete control. Wreck creates a scenario of forgiveness and affection for himself. Soon after, his body regenerates and he wakes up in his room at the X-Mansion.

New Mutants Unlimited #15
Title: "Ego Tripping" - Author(s): Oroboros358, Character(s): Dillon, word count: 3,796

Dillon finds himself held at gun-point by Addison, a former friend and lover. She's a time traveler as well, and from the future. She explains that she and Dillon had used their powers to change history, but their attempts to create a better world backfired. Cable appears and disables Addison. He says he's been watching them to prevent them from doing things like that, and warns Dillon never to try, then leaves.

New Mutants Unlimited #16
Title: "Oubliette" - Author(s): Havok3935, Character(s): Gerald, word count: 765

On the Astral Plane, after confronting Calamity with Lex, Gerald muses about Roxanne's split personality. He reviews the mistakes he thinks he's made handling her, and feels guilty he hasn't helped her more. He creates psychic images of their teammates, Golem, and Roxanne herself. To the last one, he apologizes for not helping, and promises to make up for it. He exits the Astral Plane, and cries.

New Mutants Unlimited #17
Title: "When the Man Comes Around…" - Author(s): Last Hero, Character(s): Roxanne, word count: 1,749

Roxanne, or - more precisely - Calamity, enjoys being in control of her own body again. She wakes up in a tank of green liquid, in a laboratory, and also notices she doesn't have a child's body anymore. Apocalypse appears and introduces himself, and reveals the details of her creation to her, then explains his plans and philosophy. Calamity agrees to join him, so she could keep control of her body forever.

New Mutants Unlimited #18
Title: "The Beast" - Author(s): BornIn1142, Character(s): Marisol, word count: 2,247

Marisol is alone in her room, moping. She tries to experiment with her powers a little, taking on various forms, including Roxanne's. Her perceived failure depresses her, and she goes out for a walk. In the forest near the X-Mansion, she meets Sabertooth, who was looking for Wolverine. He attacks her, but she beats him easily and kills her in her rage. She contemplates running away, but when Sabertooth's healing factor kicks in, decides to return to the Mansion.

New Mutants Unlimited #19
Title: N/a - Author(s): Sephula, Character(s): Sephula, word count: 557

Sephula is with Beast, and they're working together, attempting to cure the Legacy virus. Beast goes to rest, and urges Sephula to do the same, but he refuses. Apparently, he contracted cancer from using his powers on Deadpool. Suddenly, he thinks up a cure for the virus. At that moment, Wolverine and Omega Red barge into the room, fighting. His ideas and work are destroyed in the fight, and Sephula is knocked out by Omega Red.

New Mutants Unlimited #20
Title: "Something Evil This Way Comes" - Author(s): TheEternalOne, Character(s): Greg, word count: 5,729

Greg is in Rose Heights, in the base where the team battled Sentinels. He thinks about Current and his death. He finds and buries the corpse of the woman who'd captured them, and is approached by Mister Sinister. He attacks him, and gets into a fight with Scalphunter and Arclight. He defeats them, and Sinister explains his motivations and deeds. Promising revenge, he offers Greg a job with the Marauders. He accepts, on the condition that Nadia isn't harmed.

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