Bastion pressed few buttons on his arm. "Yes sir ?"

I want a portal back to Hulkbuster from Xaviers Institute for Higher Learning this instant."

"Yes sir. Doney out." Bastion waited a second as a portal of pure, blue glowing energy appeared in front of him. He spent few hours trying to re code Xavier's computers. For now he managed to find out X-Men's real names and identities, but he was just one step away from getting into the files with all the other mutants. But that could wait. Now he had some private business to attend. As he stepped through the portal he experienced the casual flashes before his eyes and sudden lack of air to breathe and before anything else could happen he was in the Hulkbuster Base.

"Good evening sir." said one of the soldiers.

"Anything new to report ?"

"Not right now sir. We are trying to locate the X-Men who managed to get away from the fight."

"Good, keep me up to date. Is Charles Xavier in his cell ?"

"Yes sir."

"Great. That will be all."

Bastion turned on his heel and left the room. He quickly walked down the hallway trying not to look too excited and finally he approached Xavier's cell. He entered without knocking and found Charles sitting on his bed staring at the wall, his back to the door, apparently thinking about something, now that his TV was disconnected. "What do you want now Bastion ?"

^How does he do that ? Every time I walk into his room he's got his back turned to me but he knows it's me. Strange^ "Xavier I have great news for you." Bastion said with a wicked smile. Xavier was less then interested and kept staring at the wall.

"Or should I call you Prof. X ?"

At the sound of these words Xavier shivered. His eyes grew large and he quickly turned around staring at Bastion. "What.... do you mean ?"

"I have found your secret Charles. You are the founder, and leader of X-Men. You are everything that I've been fighting ever since." Bastion paused as he played with Xavier's feelings.

"No... you... couldn't... how ?" mumbled the shocked Xavier while trying not to break into tears. This man would destroy everything that he had built in ten years of his life.

"And to top that of my friend I have captured all of your X-Men, and they are now my prisoners, preparing to die."

"How dare you ?" Xavier's pain turned into anger. "How dare you invade my home attack my students, how dare you judge my kind ? Who are you to do this ? You are certainly not a human to me."

"I am more human than you will ever be." said Bastion his eyes alighting red. "Now listen to me. Your dream is dead. So will be your students. And you will live your whole life in suffer paying for the crimes you committed against humanity."

You have no right to judge me." Xavier wasn't giving up.

"I have every right. You will be transported to your mansion so you can see how your dream dies. You will finally understand that you are a threat to humanity." with these words Bastion turned around and walked out of the room slamming the door behind him.

Xavier looked around with furry. ^This can't be happening^ he thought. "No !" he shouted grabbing a TV set which was right before him. With one move he threw it across the room. He swung his arm in furry brushing off everything that laid on his desk and punched the wood it was made of until his hands were sore and he couldn't feel his fingers. He slowly backed off and strolled on to his bed almost crying with rage. "God why ?" he repeated over and over to himself.

Later

"Senator Kelly ? It's Bastion here."

"Yes."

"I have certain information that might interest you."

"What would that be Bastion ?"

"I have found the base of X-Men and captured most of them. But that's not what I want to talk about." Bastion paused almost sensing Kelly's surprise as he informed him on his achievements. "I have found X-Men's identities and I would want to put them across to the public and I need your help with it."

"Do you think that it's a good idea ?" asked Kelly

"Humanity has the right to know about the threat that is around them. They could be endangered any minute." Bastion could hear Kelly was thinking it over and after a short pause he replied.

"Okay Bastion you run Operation Zero Tolerance but I want you to know that I'm not all happy with the idea. I will try to get it on TV but no promises."

"Thank you Senator. I will fax you the information immediately."

"Okay. Good bye." with these words Kelly hanged up the phone. Bastion turned in his chair to another computer and in a matter of few minutes all of the information was sent to the White House.

Later in the CBNC office

"Okay Senator Kelly my fax machine is all ready you can send me the information. And do I need to point out how grateful I am you turned with this to me ?. Okay then good bye." Roger Kren hanged up the phone with a smile o his face ^This will make me famous^ he thought to himself. Few minutes latter the fax machine printed out the information from Senator Kelly. He grabbed the paper and run out of his office.

"Boss you gotta see this. It's a story of the decade !" he shouted while running to his bosses office. He saw someone stepping in front of him. He stopped straight away almost bumping into the person.

"Not if I can do something about it." she said.

"Trish get out of my way, I've got a story for morning news right here."

"I don't think so Roger. You will not publish this material."

"What do you have to say about it ? You don't even know what it's about."

"Yes I do. And I refuse that anything like this will be broadcasted on this station. It's racism Roger."

"Trish you don't have anything to say about it." Roger said while trying to walk around her and get to bosses' office.

"I do now." she said. Suddenly her hand came up and she punched Roger in the face.

"Auu ! My face !" he screamed. Trish grabbed the paper from his hand and stuck it down the shredder cutting it into pieces.

Roger looked up with a bleeding nose and saw his information in million pieces. "No !" he shouted. "How could you ?"

Trish faced him her face straight trying not to show any feelings. "Roger what has come over you ? You are acting mad ever since the Operation Zero Tolerance story came out."

"Who are you to judge me ?" he shouted at her.

"I'm not judging you Roger. I'm judging your behavior. And right now you're acting like a FOH member. Snap out of it. The whole Operation Zero Tolerance business stinks and you know it. They are more corrupted than Russia. And I know Senator Kelly isn't like this. He isn't running OZT, someone else is. Someone who hates mutants like hell. And if you would present this information you would get innocent people's lives in danger."

"What the hell are you on about Tilby ? I had the identities of outlaws X-Men in my hand and you just destroyed the information. You know what you had costed me ?"

"They are not outlaws Roger, they have done as much for the world as The Avengers or Fantastic Four. And maybe one day you will understand this." Trish said while turning around and walking away from him.

"I will make sure you pay for this Tilby."

"I'm sure you will Roger." she said while not even looking back at him.

Somewhere

A tall man dressed in a brown trenchcoat that was obviously too big for him, with a hat over his head and eyes with blonde hair sticking from behind walked down the street slowly. He didn't look around a lot, but if close you could see that his eyes scanned the whole area around him making sure not to miss one detail. He turned into a alley beside a tall building that ran many stories up and disappeared in the shadows.

"It's all clear." he said while taking off the hat to reveal a face no older than twenty.

"Great Sam, now let's get going before anyone spots us." said another man.

The man with the trenchcoat dropped it on the ground and lighted up in gold energy while starting to float in the air. The other man changed into ice and forming a ice bridge in front of him he climbed upwards. Sam flew after him. From the corner of his eye he could see the rest of his teammates behind him surrounded by a magnetic field.

In a matter of few seconds they were on top of the building, which revealed a big square roof with a big four painted in the middle. As they all landed they saw a man with white hair sitting under a wall smiling at them. He had a scar over his left eye and a arm that seemed to be made out of metal. Sam walked up first to him and shook his hand whole both smiled. "Cable... sir. Nice to see yah again. Even i' these circumstances."

"Sam, I'm proud of you. Thank you for contacting me."

The rest walked behind Sam and exchanged greetings with Cable. Then they sat down. Remy pulled out a cigarette and lighted it while they all waited for another person to arrive. Finally after ten minutes a faint light shone in the darkness and from it came out Forge. He walked up to them soundlessly just like every Indian would and sat down. He was armed and ready to fight.

"First of all can someone tell me exactly what happened ?" he said while looking over the faces of his once teammates. They were obviously tired and some hurt but yet they sat there patiently, none of them complaining, even though Forge saw two of them were under sixteen.

"It be a lon' story mon ami." answered Gambit bringing him back to reality.

Later

"So they've got Storm, Rogue, Jean and Bishop trapped in the mansion and the rest somewhere in America ? Dear God what have we got ourselves into ?"

"Nothin' good mes ames." answered Gambit finishing of yet another cigarette.

"Now we need some kind of a plan." said Sam.

"We do indeed." answered Cable

"What I think we should first do is disable all the computers in the War Room. Just think of what information is on there." pointed out Forge.

Remy's eyes stopped dead. "Information o' 'very mutant on de planet." he almost whispered to himself.

"Exactly. It wont take Bastion long to un code the information and then..." Forge left the rest for their imagination.

"And how we do that ?" pointed out Bobby.

"I know some underground tunnels that lead to the mansion that Bastion will never find." answered Cable.

"Could they take 's t' the War Room ?" asked Sam

"Yes. And no one knows of them."

"How d' you ?" asked Gambit.

Cable's eyes grew narrow for a second. After all these months they still didn't trust him. "It's a long story Gambit, not worth telling now."

Remy was unsatisfied with the answer but he didn't say anything and the conversation carried on.

"We need to regroup and some of us go to destroy the computers while others stay here where it's safe for now, I don't think Bastion will find us so easily." Forge said.

"No more than two can go back to the mansion. It has to be a small group action." Cable replied. "And I think Forge should go with me he knows a lot about the computer system in the mansion, it will be easier."

"Agreed then. Me and Cable will go back to the mansion. The rest of you. I want you to try to break into Freedoms Plaza. There is no one there now. Try finding the missing X-Men or getting some help, the communication devices there still work."

"'kay." answered Remy.

"We will establish a meeting place after the job is done." said Cable while getting up and getting ready to go. Forge got up also and farewelled the remaining people. Then he opened a portal and he and Cable stepped into it disappearing without a trace.

Elizabeth looked over the edge of the roof. It was middle of the nigh and she saw hardly any people on the street. Gambit and the rest were on the other side trying to open a door which lead into the building. She heard someone walk up behind her and saw it was Jubilee.

"Hi Jubes."

"Hey 'Beth." Jubilee teased calling her like Gambit did. "How are you taking it ?" she asked in a more serious tone.

"I'm managing somehow." a brief silence followed, "Do you think we will win ?"

"I dunno. Now we have to believe we will."

"It aint that easy..."

"Yeah I know. Don't worry the big guys will go out of their way before something happens to you." Jubilee said with a big grin.

"What about you ?" asked Elizabeth.

"I'll manage, I mean I was a X-Man before."

"Oh yeah how could I forget ?" Elizabeth smiled. "How are they going back there ?"

"Gumbo is trying to open the door with a lock pick. Icecube making fun of him saying he cant pick a lock. At that Gumbo told Bobby to shut up and that the lock just isn't a any lock. You know normal."

Elizabeth smiled. How in such extreme situation could they joke ? She was trying hard for her hands not to shake while she though what she just went through today. "Look Jubilee. There are people gathering at the bottom."

"At this hour ? Sesh haven't they heard of sleep ?" shot back Jubilee while looking over the edge. "Hey you're right. What freaks."

"There is something strange going on there." Elizabeth pointed out.

"Yeah kinda like they ripping their clothes of." said Jubilee with a serious expression. Suddenly her eyes went wide. "Holly crap." she swore. She turned around dragging Elizabeth behind her.

"Remy !" she shouted. "We are in deep you know what !" she shouted while begging to god she was wrong.

"What is it now Jubilee ?" asked Gambit looking up. He was about to say something when he saw a shadow behind Jubilee. His jaw dropped open. Everyone looked that way. It was too late to do anything.

There was about ten Prime Sentinels floating in the air their hands raised ready to attack.

[Outlaw mutants surrender yourself now or you will be terminated in a instant by the forces of Operation Zero Tolerance]

TBC....

NEXT PART OF THE STORY: "XMGB" #11, online in two weeks:

"Sacrifice"

"Operation Zero Tolerance" part 4

What is left of X-Men vs. Prime Sentinels with some guest stars on the way. Forge and Cable break into the mansion, and try to retrieve the information. And what is OZT doing to Wolverine ? Let's just say: something that needed to be done much earlier.

NEXT ISSUE:

"Striking Back"

Continuing from XMGB #11: "Operation Zero Tolerance" Part 5 !