History
When he was fifteen-years-old, the government-sponsored Sentinels began tracking and killing mutants. Young Bobby Drake ran away from his family in New York City to protect them, fearing that the Sentinels would kill him and/or his family if it was discovered that he was a mutant. Also in New York, Professor Charles Xavier, a mutant rights activist and mutant himself, used his psychic-enhancing machine Cerebro to locate Bobby. Sending his team of assembled mutants on their first mission, the X-Men found Bobby alone and scared on a bus in downtown New York City. Before the X-Men could offer Bobby a place alongside them at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a group of Sentinels attacked. read more
