The Outliers

The Outliers are a group of teenaged mutants facing strange and deadly threats but they must first understand their powers to defend themselves. Guided by a mysterious voice and hunted by a mysterious monster, they track down the X-Men and the merry mutant’s powerhouse and leader Anna Marie LeBeau, AKA Rogue, takes them under her wing.

Schooled in Their Powers

When a group of young mutants are hunted by a monstrous woman, Sarah Gaunt, AKA Hag, they hear a voice that calls to them, saying that the X-Men could help. Little did they know that the voice was from a young psychic mutant Harvey X. The four teens travel to Louisiana where the X-Men are located. They find Rogue’s X-Men, a splinter group from the rest of the X-Men, arguing and without their leader Charles Xavier, AKA Professor X, who was imprisoned after the fall of Krakoa. The young mutants desperately ask for help, but James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine, could smell death on them and goes on the offensive. Meanwhile, Remy LeBeau, AKA Gambit, sets off the Left Eye of Agamotto, a powerful artifact, and its energy strikes one of the teens, Valentin Correa, who responds by hitting Logan with a powerful blow, and setting off a fight between the teens and the adult mutants. Jubilation Lee, AKA Jubilee’s sudden arrival and intervention ultimately calms down the two groups. The X-Men have a sidebar and agree to train and protect the teens. Though Wolverine leaves, with the responsibility of caring for the young mutants in Rogue’s capable hands. They stay with the St. Juniors' family at Haven House.

When it becomes clear that the Outliers are each in need of understanding their powers, Rogue starts training them near Haven House, outside at a makeshift Danger Room, with the teleporting mutant Kurt Wagner, AKA Nightcrawler assisting. As the teens show off their powers, they prove to be strong but wild and do not work together.

Team Players

The teenagers that form the Outliers include mutants Sofia Yong, AKA Jitter, from Singapore who can access talents and skills, but only for one minute; Valentin Correa, AKA Ransom, from Buenos Aires who has a black hole in place of his heart and can absorb a weapon’s energy, seemingly turning it into superhuman strength; Hotoru, AKA Deathdream, from Kyoto who can choose a state of life or death at will, and has a deep connection to the spirit world, able to summon souls and power of the unliving; and Becca Constance Simon-Pinette, AKA Calico, from Virginia, who shares a powerful connection with her horse, Ember, who can transform into a variety of different horse-forms at her command. All of them are learning more about their powers and to work together when it counts.

Monstrous Foes

The Outliers’s earliest foe is the monstrous Hag, who is desperate to kill them. She loses her child, becomes something otherworldly, and blames Professor X for it all, taking out her grief on young mutants.

The group of teens also face bullies at school and the deadly Wolfpack Sentinels, an unstoppable pack of stealth Sentinels based on dogs whose mission is to hunt down and kill mutants. These bone-chilling bloodhounds severely injure Deathdream.

X-Allies and Mentors

Harvey X is The Outliers first ally. He psychically guides them to Rogue’s team of X-Men, who become the group’s first staunch allies while they’re being hunted by the monstrous woman known as the Hag. Rogue and the X-Men teach them to understand their powers and how to protect themselves. The St. Juniors' family in Haven, Louisiana—friends of Rogue’s husband Gambit—allow her team and the Outliers to live with them at their home, Haven House. Marcus St. Juniors gives them all house rules to follow while his wife Alice and their daughter Chelsea  show kindness toward their new housemates.

Lessons Learned

While Rogue was overseeing the Outliers as they used their powers, she received a sudden psychic message from Wolverine who was dying, and rushed off with Kurt to help him. Gambit soon received a dire warning from Dr. Corina Ellis, the warden of Graymalkin Prison, formerly known as Xavier’s Academy. Ellis warned that the Hag sought to kill the young teenaged mutants in their protection and had already sent a small army to do so. When the army confronted the X-Men, the four teens joined in the fight without hesitation. They worked together this time, and Gambit used the Left Eye of Agamotto to blow the villainous army back. 

Meanwhile, Kurt had returned with an injured Wolverine and Rogue was in a fight for her life with the Hag. She had some help from the recently perished 12-year-old psychic Harvey X, who had imprinted on her consciousness prior to his death, allowed her to access his psychic powers and gave her a grave warning. With Harvey-X’s powers, Rogue defeated the monstrous woman, leaving her in Ellis’s charge at Graymalkin Prison. Rogue returned to Louisiana to a healing Wolverine and a young team that still needed training.

When the X-Men suggested that the teens go to school, Calico refused, calling mutants goblins and ordered her horse Ember to buck Wolverine, which hit him so hard, he questioned her power, which prompted Rogue to recall the warning from Harvey X, who said that one of the kids at Haven House might be the Endling, the last mutant on earth who watches as all other mutants die. Rogue and Gambit tried to calm Calico down, who vehemently believed she was not a mutant, but it was Gambit who finally reached her. He assured her that she did not need to change what others saw about her and she accepted that she was a mutant. She promptly apologized to Wolverine and announced that she was going to school. Dressed in school uniforms, the teens waited for the school bus along with Chelsea St. Juniors, who gave a stuffed animal to Calico to comfort her, since she couldn’t take Ember with her. The group agreed to keep their powers to themselves. The bus ride proved to be a tough start when they met their fellow non-mutant students who made fun of Sofia’s stutter. At school, Calico announced that she was a mutant, blowing their cover. Valentin and Hotoru got back at the bullies from the bus and a fight ensued, meanwhile a group of masked men electrocuted and abducted Calico.

Calico was taken to Graymalkin Prison, as was Jubilee, so Rogue’s team of X-Men and the three remaining teens helped liberate their comrades only to run into Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops's team of X-Men. In the ensuing conflict between the groups, they were attacked by the bloodthirsty and relentless Wolfpack Sentinels. Both teams prevailed but had to leave the prison’s mutant Trustees and the X-Men’s former mentor, Professor X, behind. 

The teens were on lockdown, which did not sit well with Ransom, who ended up attempting to run away. Wolverine caught him and convinced him to stay as long as the adults loosened up. So the teens were allowed to go to the mall in New Orleans to buy civilian clothes, while Chelsea stayed home to help Kurt paint. When paint fell, she stopped it by creating a force field and laughed, suggesting that her X-Men name be Dome. Meanwhile, the teens at the mall were attacked by the Wolfpack Sentinels and Deathdream was savagely injured. Jitter activated her focus sense to a combat medic’s knowledge, and had one minute to learn how to treat Deathdream with Ransom’s assistance. Calico fought off the Sentinels with her horse Ember until the rest of the group entered the fray along with the arrival of Wolverine, Jubilee and Nightcrawler. The robotic dogs moved on from their primary target and onto civilians watching in awe, and the Outliers and adults quickly defeated the deadly drones. Though their battle was caught on camera by a nearby news crew and onlookers, making them look like heroes.