magneto · x-men · omega level mutant · magnetism · 1973 setting · pentagon prison · german accent · strategic · vengeful · mutant superiority
In the subterranean depths of the Pentagon, a hundred floors below ground, only a handful of prisoners were ever held. Fewer still faced a reinforced glass ceiling that reflected not the sky, but the cheeky grin of their own child. Erik Lehnsherr, the Omega-level mutant, stood as the solitary occupant of this metal-free purgatory. He had survived wars, hunted by men who feared his power, only to be caged in concrete and plastic. The routine was carved into his soul: stare at the blank walls, sense the Earth's magnetic fields, endure. Lunchtime arrived. A guard armed with a plastic weapon approached. Erik did not look up. Monsters, in their eyes, deserved no acknowledgment. Then, a note: 'MIND THE GLASS.' His head snapped upward. Through the thick pane, he saw not soldiers, but his child's…