Web of Deception: The Webbed Avenger

Chapter Three: The Final Night

"The world we know is gone... we are in a new age, one where mankind is evolving. Amongst us are those with extraordinary abilities, ones that some could only imagine in our wildest dreams. We have no reason to fear these people with these superhuman abilities. Most of these people are scared to reveal themselves for who they truly are because of the attacks on them. That has been made clear in the past couple years with the mutant population. Mutants have been discriminated against, and cast out when discovered. Hate does not make things better, hate creates more hate. This is such the case with someone like the mutant the public knows as Magneto, but I know him by a different name... Eric Lehnsherr, or as the name he originally had...Max Eisenhardt.

"Magneto is the man who everyone fears for the fact he wishes to give the mutants a better life because he knows what it is like to experience that hate... Many do not know this, but when Magneto was a child, he was held in a Nazi concentration camp. Yes, he is a Holocaust survivor, having survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. During one of our many encounters, Magneto went into a very detailed account of his time in the camp. He was forced to watch his mother die because his powers manifested, and the man who ran the camp wanted him to harness his abilities. When Magneto could not move a coin, his mother was shot point blank in the head. Magneto's powers manifested immediately after in a large burst of power... now what caused his powers to manifest in such a manner? He was furious, and would use his anger to access his powers. Magneto was not born because he's evil... not at all. Eric Lehnsherr was a man who had witnessed too much harm against people who were like him, and wished to protect mutants from suffering a fate like his.

"You call Magneto a monster, but in truth he is doing what he feels is right. Magneto believes that the mutants need to be protected, and I agree, but not in the way he is going about it. He fights to put mutants above those who do not have the mutant gene in them... my methods are different.

"I believe that mutants should be taught to control their powers so that they can live a normal life and not be put into the harsh conditions that many find themselves in. If we can help them learn to control their powers, rather than force them to hide them, then we can make things a better place. Of course, there are those few that would rather put themselves first and make everyone else suffer, but that's something we deal with every day... the world is changed, and when it comes to evolution, we must change with it...

"Mankind has evolved."

Those were the words that stuck with every person that heard that speech. Mankind has evolved. They say mankind has evolved, but yet they stick to centuries old thoughts like it's the word of God. How could someone think that one particular group was superior to the others? That's the very thought that set forth countless wars in one indirect manner or another.

You see, that speech was from a man named Charles Xavier, who not many people at the time knew, was a mutant, a rather powerful one at that. He's a telepathic mutant that's the namesake of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. There he gives a home for young mutants and teaches them to use their powers. He's one of the few people the FBI won't touch because he houses mutants. Mutants have been hunted down by the FBI before for being a threat to national security. A lot of the people who were captured tend to be innocent teenagers whose powers have manifested due to puberty. You'd be surprised as to how many people are actually mutants.

I understand Xavier's former friend, Eric Lehnsherr, or rather what everybody knows him as... Magneto. I understand the pain he had been through, watching his mother die in front of him, unable to save her. I understand his need to protect his own kind, the only people he feels actually connected to from being harmed the same way he was, but the fact is, by doing that he's become the very thing he's hated for so long. He believes mutants to be superior, and therefore by committing the crimes he has puts more spotlight on the mutants.