THE TWELVE

 

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.

MADAME SANCTITY

 

MADAME SANCTITY

Real Name: Tanya Trask

First Appearance: Askani'Son (Vol. 1) #1, February 1996

Powers: Madame Sanctity’s mutant powers include vast psionic and chronal abilities. Her primary power is time-shifting, allowing her to generate chronal energies that enable her to travel forward and backwards in time or control her temporal synchronicity. This allows her to phase in and out of sync with the timestream altogether (as was the case when her power first manifested). She is capable of displacing herself and others at least 2,000 years into the future and back again, and can travel in astral form. She possesses telepathy allowing to read minds within a seemingly limitless radius, create psionic illusions, assume mental control of a person’s mind and body, project her astral form, and project psionic energy bolts that affect the mind. She is also a powerful telekinetic who can manipulate matter with the energy of her thoughts, create force fields and fire concussive psionic force blasts. By using her telekinesis to levitate herself, Sanctity can fly at incredible speeds. She can sustain shields that can withstand Jovian atmospheric pressures, and even repel nuclear weapon attacks.