Madelyne stood coldly to one side, watching. This was the first time she had met Jean face-to-face in person.
The feeling was strange. They were both familiar and unfamiliar to each other. Unfamiliar because this was their first meeting; familiar because they looked so much alike. It was like looking into a mirror.
Madelyne was very curious about what, exactly, still made her different from this woman.
As Jean's clone, Madelyne had begun imitating every word and action of hers from a very young age.
Mr. Sinister had secretly observed Cyclops and Jean for nearly thirty years. He believed these two were the key to the future world. This Human Geneticist, who had lived from the Victorian Era to the present day, had collected countless records. His achievements were nothing short of astounding.
Over the course of those observations, he developed some entirely new impressions.
He came to see Cyclops as something like a son. What had begun as exploitation gradually became appreciation and approval.
He gave up the idea of creating a Cyclops clone, because he would not lay hands on his own family.
But cloning Jean gave him no such psychological burden.
Madelyne was unique, but Jean's clones were not.
Mr. Sinister created a large number of clones and had them begin imitating her bit by bit from childhood.
He had them live in the room Jean had lived in as a child, with every detail arranged exactly the same. Mr. Sinister watched their differing reactions under identical circumstances through cameras.
He had them reenact several key events from Jean's life, such as the day her powers awakened and the day she first met Professor Charles. Through those events, he gradually corrected the subtle differences between the clones and the original. Madelyne was undoubtedly the most outstanding among