[Comprehensive British and American] Superhero Manual

Carl carefully put away the gifts he had just received. The desks and beds in his room were covered with large and small gift boxes.

——Today is Carl’s tenth birthday, and most of these gifts are from his brothers and sisters at school.

Of course, there is also a full set of hand-made models of the Avengers from his dearest Dad.Carl is a huge fan of theirs!

Carl touched the gifts fondly, and ran out of the room with a rattling sound.

"Daddy——" Carl's room was on the second floor, he jumped over the railing, flew down, and landed lightly beside the man sitting on the wine-red sofa below.

The man was wearing casual clothes, and with a kind smile he hugged his little son who had flung himself into his arms.

He was Charles Xavier—Carl's father.

"Honey, have you put away all the gifts you received?" Charles touched Carl's soft curly hair and asked.

Carl nodded obediently, and replied: "Put it away!" He left the man's arms, and counted the gifts he received with great interest: "Pietro gave me a limited edition Iron Man peripheral! And it's only sold in total. I bought ten copies of that! Sister Qin gave me a set of clothes, and she said that I can wear them to the banquet in the future. And Warren gave me..."

Carl was interrupted before he finished speaking, a silver light came from far to near, and stopped in front of him with a flick.In the next second, a small biscuit was stuffed into Carl's mouth, which tasted sweet and strawberry.

"Pietro! Can you slow down next time!" Carl chewed on the biscuit and complained vaguely.

Pietro Maximoff—that is, Quicksilver—relying on his speed, plucked the little boy's hair. He greeted Charles, and mentioned to Carl that he had been rejected a few days ago. Suggestion: "Don't you really need to decorate your room? Today is your tenth birthday!"

Carl dragged his voice unhappily: "Need I repeat what you did last year? It took two full weeks to clean up all the rooms, and the fireworks and ribbons that were cleaned up could be piled up into a hill Already!"

"But I packed things very quickly." Pietro said with some unwillingness to give up.

"You are also very fast in destroying things, the famous fast-silver-"

In short, Karl would never agree to this proposal from Pietro.

"Where's Sister Wanda?" Carl asked, "And Uncle Eric? When are they coming?"

"They came by car, they're still behind." Pietro smiled smugly, "No one is faster than me, so I was the first one to arrive today."

"Then congratulations?" The little boy replied casually, his eyes frequently falling on the gate, obviously already looking forward to who will arrive here next.

Charles sat on the sofa, looking at the two lively children with a smile on his face.

At the same time, he sighed softly in his heart.

Today is an unusual day. It is not only Carl's tenth birthday, but also the day when Charles and his old friend Eric made an appointment to tell Carl's life experience.

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Ten years ago.

Because of different ideas and views on the future of mutants—Charles advocated that mutants live in peace with ordinary humans, while Eric hated the oppression of mutants by humans and believed that mutants should rule humans—the two broke up. , parted ways.

At this time, Xavier School for Gifted Teenagers, the X Academy built by Charles, had just started. There were only two teachers in the school, he and Hank the Beast, and even fewer students.

Charles used his telepathic ability to find mutant children, and then invited them to study at X Academy and learn how to control their abilities.

These children generally have awakened mutant abilities, and are feared and disgusted by their original families. For them, X Academy is like a lighthouse that appears when they are confused.After all, the situation of mutants was very bad at that time, and most people agreed with Professor X's suggestion.

There are also some families that accept mutants. Their parents also agree to send their children to X Academy, hoping that the children can study in a special place.

During this time, Charles' student, Alexander Summers - codenamed Shockwave - also tracked down his brother Scott Summers.The abilities of the two brothers are a bit similar, both of which can emit red high-energy rays. The difference is that the elder brother can control the emission in the whole body, while the younger brother emits it in the eyes.

In order to control Scott's ability, Charles gave him a special eyepiece, which can be adjusted to emit light beams of different magnitudes.

Things about the school were going on in an orderly manner. When Christmas came, X Academy was also on holiday like other schools.

It was on this Christmas Eve that Charles sensed the existence of the child.

They had just finished enjoying a Christmas dinner when Hank and the Summers brothers went to clear the dining table and messy furniture.Charles drove the wheelchair and made himself a cup of tea.

At this moment, a huge energy fluctuation suddenly appeared within the range of Charles' telepathy, and it was not far away.

He thought that the ability of the child who had just awakened the mutant ability was out of control, causing an energy spill.

Immediately, Charles telepathically told the news to other people in the room, and asked Hank to go with him to see the situation.

However, at the place where the energy fluctuated, Charles only saw a baby, a baby placed in the spaceship.

Hank carefully carried the baby out, while Charles notified someone to move the unidentified spaceship into the basement.

After that, Charles began to study the spaceship, and knew the origin of the baby in the spaceship, as well as his name-Kal-El.

Charles adopted the child and did not change his surname or anything. He believed that the child would know his own life one day, and this name was one of the last remembrances left by his parents.

In order to raise the child well, Charles found another place to live, and began to read books on infant care and inquire about relevant knowledge.Neighbors around also made a lot of useful suggestions when they visited.

In this way, little Carl grew up slowly.

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In the past ten years, Academy X has developed rapidly and steadily, becoming a mutant protection base and the best mutant school in the world.

During this period, Charles also reunited with Eric, who became Carl's godfather.

Eric was also one of the few people who knew Carl's origin, they had discussed it, and reached a consensus on the fact that Carl told his parentage when he was ten years old.

Charles really regards Carl as his own child. Although he is a little special, this does not prevent them from loving him.

The students in the school also like this lively and cute little boy, and they often take him to play together, and the birthday presents are never missed every year.

Charles still remembers that Carl began to awaken his abilities when he was five years old. At the beginning, Charles didn't even realize it until the teacher at school told him that Carl was very out of gregarious, and no children even wanted to play with him. Charles realized something was wrong.

He had a conversation with Carl Jr. at the end of dinner that day, and learned the reason for the child's abnormality—he had awakened his own abilities.

When little Carl nestled in Charles's arms and asked him in a low voice and sadly, "Daddy, am I a freak", Charles felt infinite love in his heart, and he replied softly: "No, dear, of course you are not. It's just a rare talent."

"Talent?" Little Carl tilted his head to look at his father, with some sparkle hidden in his clear blue eyes.

"Yes, talent." Charles said gently: "In fact, I also have this talent. We call people with this talent 'mutants'. We are the same as other people without talent, but there is a little difference. That's all."

Little Karl nodded with half understanding: "So, am I also a mutant?" The little boy became happy now, and he told Charles about his abilities and his previous fear—he didn't even dare to tell his father, because The kids at school called him a freak.

After that, Charles took Carl Jr. into the X Academy, and introduced him to the students in his school-the Summers Brothers who can emit laser light, the little rascal who can gain the ability of others through touch, and the one who can travel through the world. Katie of various objects...they all have special abilities, so little Carl felt that he was not special at all who could barely fly.

Although he later awakened a series of abilities such as super hearing, super speed, thermal vision, frozen breathing... and so on, he still thinks so.

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"Carl, happy birthday!"

"Happy birthday to you my dear Carl!"

"I brought cake - happy birthday, little Carl!"

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Young people entered the door one after another, each of them smiling and wishing today's little birthday star loudly.

Carl hugged them one by one, and the girls kissed him several times on the cheek, making the little boy blush—while they laughed unceremoniously.

"Okay, kids." Charles was already sitting in a wheelchair and said with a smile, "Maybe you can put away your things and come celebrate our little birthday boy?"

"Okay, professor." The young people responded one after another, and Qin put the big cake she brought on the table, and found candles and a lighter.

"Hey, I brought that to Carl, you can't eat it!" John (Fireman) found Poppy (Iceman) who was stealing the biscuits he brought, and stopped him angrily.

"Don't do that, I'll only eat one piece." Bobby replied with a smile, and quickly dodged John's attack.

"If you make trouble again, I'll throw you all out!" Mystique Ruiwen's gloomy voice sounded behind the two of them.

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After everything was arranged, Carl wore a small crown, blew on the cake with ten candles on the dining table, closed his eyes, and silently made his wish.

When he opened his eyes, he saw his father smiling at him, surrounded by his relatives and friends.They sang Happy Birthday in unison, and Carl was a little dizzy with the happy wishes that flew to him.

He thought he must be the happiest person in the world.

That night, with a contented smile, Carl fell into a deep sleep.

Carl was asleep, but his two fathers were not.

Charles originally wanted to talk to Carl tonight, but the child was so sleepy that he couldn't bear to disturb his sleep, so he decided to postpone the matter for a day.

To be honest, doing this was just the result of Charles' hesitation.

"What's wrong? Can't bear to tell the child the truth?" Eric sat on the sofa with Charles and said jokingly.

"Eric." Charles reluctantly called out his friend's name, a bit of bitterness appeared in his blue eyes like the sea, and his voice was inaudible: "I'm just worried that Carl is still so young, and he will bear a whole burden of the planet."

"Don't worry." Eric comforted briefly: "He still has us with him."

Charles smiled, "Maybe you're right."

In the morning, he will take Carl to the basement to have a look.

However, when it really came tomorrow, Charles couldn't care less about his previous thoughts, because——Carl was missing.

At the same time, on the watchtower in the parallel world.

The Flash looked at the little boy who suddenly appeared in the duty room, with a confused look on his face: "Is this the new son of Big Lan?"

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