Bolivar stared in disbelief toward the direction the bullet had come from. An officer slowly lowered her gun, and her face quickly turned blue.
Raven.
After witnessing Bolivar's brutal methods of turning Mutants into his puppets, Raven had finally been unable to hold back when she saw him about to use a Mutant to assassinate the president and pin the blame on her people. She had opened fire to protect the president.
The television broadcast kept its cameras trained on the president. The commentator saw Logan pursuing the Mutant officer while Mystique rescued the president, and exclaimed excitedly, "The president is safe! He's unharmed! But we're confused. Wasn't this assassination attempt carried out by Mutants? Why are they fighting among themselves? Why would a Mutant save the president?"
Seeing his plans fail one after another, Bolivar suddenly bellowed. His arm transformed like a sword, and a Bone Blade thrust out, pinning the president in place. "Don't move! Mutant!"
"So it was you!" President Nixon wasn't a fool. After several Mutant assassination attempts, he had sensed that something was off about these people. Their eyes had been vacant, as if someone were controlling them. Then there was Bolivar, who had a large number of Mutants at his disposal—and was a professor of genetics himself.
Now that Bolivar's intent to assassinate him had been exposed, the president finally understood that he had been used.
"You! You were the one who suggested that I get rid of the Mutants. Why are you suddenly targeting me?" President Nixon shouted angrily.
"I'm sorry, Mr. President," Bolivar whispered. The Bone Blade silently sank into the president's lower abdomen. "I need your cooperation to seize power."
The president hadn't expected Bolivar to kill him just like that. Completely caught off guard, he let the Bone Blade pierce