I was thinking about Uncanny X-Men #201 recently. Always enjoy thinking about Scott Summers being a deadbeat dad and husband. "No, you're going to take of the baby, Madelyne. I'm too important to the X-Men. They can't possibly function without me. What do you mean, how am I going to make a living?"
I get Scott's a little out of sorts with Xavier being taken into space by Lilandra, and now Magneto's hanging around, but he's known he was going to be a dad for several months, and doesn't seem to have given what that means any thought whatsoever.
But I digress. Why talk about Cyclops? What I thought of was, at the start of the issue, Maddy tells Storm that considering she was in the mansion alone at the time, she got lucky. It was a quick, relatively easy birth, over almost before she knew what was happening.
For some reason, I got the idea, what if the Juggernaut showed up? Marko doesn't know anything about the team going to Asgard, or Xavier being at Magneto's trial in France. He decides he wants to give Charley and his X-kids a kick in the butt, whether for money or just for fun*. So he runs up the driveway, crashes through the front door. A little confused nobody's come out to greet him (read, get punched in the face). He yells, "Anybody home?" Gets a woman's cry of pain in response.
Cain stomps his way into the kitchen and finds a pregnant lady on the floor. She looks a lot like Jean Grey, but not identical. He has very little idea what to do with this situation. Or, if you prefer, he has a pretty good idea what to do in this situation, he just doesn't want to do it.
So we either get Juggernaut awkwardly trying to help Maddy there in the X-Mansion, or him carrying her to a hospital at top speed, probably running through a few cars (and buildings), while the cops freak because the Juggernaut has taken a pregnant lady hostage, that fiend!
Either way, he sticks around until he's sure she's OK, and everyone lets him. Because he's behaving himself, and it's not like they can make him leave, short of calling Thor for help. And you don't exactly want those two having a knockdown, drag out fight in, or anywhere near a hospital.
Bonus points if, when the X-Men return, Maddy announces that Cain Marko is little Nate's godfather. Bonus bonus points if Juggernaut somehow figures out Cable is baby Nathan, all grown up, and tries to give him a hug at some point.
* Heck, this would have only been a half-dozen or so issues after the one where he gets beat by Nimrod before Rogue drives it off, so maybe he pops by to say, "thanks." But probably not.
2 comments:
This is a great idea for a story, and it is just the sort of thing that would have worked well as a one-shot.
Thank you. One of the things I like about the Juggernaut is he's malleable enough you can realistically have him do things that aren't terrible. Sometimes he's a jerk, but not all the time.
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