What If...? #85

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SummaryWhen Professor Xavier decides to not oppose the ascension of Avalon, Magneto is able to gain undeterred leadership of the colonized space station. Years later, with Colossus as his right-hand man, the divisions within mutantkind continue within Avalon as the society Magneto envisioned is threatened to forever be torn apart!SynopsisColossus walks in on Magneto watching old news footage of Professor X announcing his support for Magneto to take willing mutants to be citizens of Avalon. When questioned why he was reviewing the past, Magneto laments that the prior events should only be experienced once. Colossus questions Magneto about the realities of his dream and Magneto solemnly declares that Avalon has become as violent as the human/mutant relations on Earth had become.Outside of Magneto's quarters two factions of Acolytes are squabbling over the direction of mutantkind. Javitz and Senyaka battle Unuscione and Katu over the latter's views that Avalon should be moved to prevent further enculturation of humankind. Javitz and Senyaka, who are led by Fabian Cortez, believe that the opposing faction are isolationists and pushovers and that Earth is the mutant's birthright. Magneto interrupts the quarrel, but it is clear that Magneto holds no real authority over the unruly mutants.Elsewhere, Rusty Collins and Sally Blevins (Skids) deliver a baby boy, the first child born on Avalon. Despite fears of rearing a child in the violent climate of Avalon, the arrival of X-Man Beast quelled their fears. During his examinations of the newborn, Beast discovers that their child has reached a new evolutionary landmark: he is a mutant capable of altering his own mutation at will, essentially capable of choosing his own powers. No longer homo superior but homo ultima, Beast fears for the child's future on Avalon.Beast's fears are validated when Scanner reports to Fabian Cortez the news about the Collins/Blevins child. Hysteria erupts as Cortez's faction of Acolytes fear homo ultima...