Upgraded Mechs

The U.S. military's operation unfolded exactly as Alexei had predicted. On the night when the X-Men's main force left the school, several helicopters flew through the sky. Their dark green paint nearly blended them into the night, making them hard to spot.

Although the tremendous noise of helicopter engines was quite disruptive in the dead of night, they were flying far from the city and at a certain altitude. Most sleeping people merely wrinkled their noses before continuing to snore.

The assault team did not wait until they reached the mansion to deploy. To avoid waking the sleeping Mutants in advance, the helicopters began dropping off team members in the small woods along the perimeter.

These well-trained soldiers, armed with tranquilizer dart guns, infiltrated the school's main building—a nineteenth-century manor—in a half-encirclement formation.

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters had actually been rebuilt. The building had been bombed once in 1973, though the main damage had been to the aboveground structures.

This time, the U.S. military had no intention of directly destroying the school with heavy firepower, allowing the building that had painstakingly risen again thirty years ago to survive.

While the U.S. military acted, Henry drove a stolen heavy truck towing an empty shipping container toward the exit of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters' escape tunnel.

The three people left at the secret base shouted excitedly through his earpiece.

Gilgamesh was using the Bullhead Mecha as well, while Thena wore the Bonnie Mech. Cassandra's Skyhawk Mecha was a full-body mech built primarily with Isu Technology and supplemented by alien technology.

This Spartan woman had actually hoped to do as she had before, wearing protective gear only on vital areas to retain maximum agility.

But after trying the support systems designed by the Kryptonians, with primitive artificial intelligence assisting her, Cassandra