THE TWELVE
Roster:
Bishop (Lucas Bishop), Cable (Nathan Summers), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Iceman (Robert Drake), Living Monolith (Ahmet Abdol), Magneto (Max Eisenhart), Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Polaris (Lorna Dane), Professor X (Charles Xavier), Mikhail Rasputin, Storm (Ororo Munroe) and Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)
First Appearance: X-Factor (Vol. 1) #14, March 1987 (first mention); The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #377, February 2000
History: In
the future timeline of the Askani, the fabled Twelve were a group of powerful
mutants who could have potentially stopped the rise of Apocalypse, but
for some reason failed. Information on the Twelve also existed in the
present-day modern era, spread by Destiny's diaries and the time-traveling Askani
sister Madame Sanctity, who inputed their identities in the Sentinel Master
Mold. Rumors and confusion ran rampant about the Twelve's true purpose,
and even their identities.
In the end, the Twelve were revealed to be a sham. Apocalypse deliberately started the legends of the Twelve in order to gather a special set of mutants. These mutants acted as living components to the very machine which allowed his ascension in the first place. His forces captured all of them, and the twelve mutants are put into containment capsules and then used in a special machine. The Living Monolith is placed in the center to bundle all of the energies involved. Polaris and Magneto as opposing magnetic poles are on an inner ring, Storm , Iceman and Sunfire as extreme forces of nature are on a middle ring, and the other mutants placed on an outer ring. Cyclops, Jean and Cable representing the unity of family, Bishop and Mikhail providing as control over time and space and Xavier providing the power of pure thought. Combined the Twelve grant Apocalypse omnipotence, so he has their energies transferred into the body of Nate Grey, aka X-Man, whom he wanted to use as his next host body.
Among those mutants rumored to be part of the Twelve were Apocalypse himself, Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie), Mirage (Danielle Moonstar), Psylocke (Elisabeth Braddock), and Franklin Richards.
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