Lockheed has got to be probably the best friend I've ever had and that's telling you something with the amount of great friends I've had in this lifetime thus far.

How did this friendship start? Well I was taken prisioner by the Brood with my fellow X-men at the time during a Shiar ceremony. The Brood are an alien race that give their "hosts" a virus that will originally turn them into that creature (see my breakdown on the Brood in the foes section). Deathbird helped the Brood to capture her sister Lilandra and us, and that was when the fight for survival started.

Infected with the brood virus, we tried to struggle with the dillema that we were going to turn into an alien with no heart or soul. Storm was so overwrought that she was going to bring such evil into the world that she, in an act of heroic sacrifice, pushed her powers to thier fullest extent in space and tried to commit suicide in the heartless abyss of a vaccuum...dumb but most heroics are when it boils down to it...heck I contemplated it too a time or two when I realized I was going to turn into a Sleezoiod.

She was not successful however...she didn't need to be. An alien race known as the Acanti (for more info pick up at the Brood bio) picked her from the brink of death and rebuilt her in the heart of thier "Prophet Singer". These gentle aliens were mainly slaves to the Brood due to a virus that the Brood gave them...making them lose their free will and the ability to run away. Binary killed one for such a reason, after her powers were extended by the Brood scientists.

Me and the other X-men went down to the surface of the planet dubbed by one of us as "Sleazeworld" and there we found that Scott had been Brood for quite some time and had unconsciously turned against us because of the alien inside of him. During the mess that followed we were seperated in the battle that insued, as Logan, who had killed the Brood in himself with his healing factor, tried to fight it out with the Empress of the Brood. In the meantime I got seperated and found myself in the deepest abysses of the dead Acanti that the Brood stayed in...namely that was at one time the old Prophet Singer, whose soul could not be released due to the virus that held it to this plane.

I, while exploring the insides of the creature (can anyone say "ick" looking back on that?) unknowingly awakened one of the "first ones"...a little alien dragon that showed up right when I was about to get killed by two of the Brood. With but a shot of fire from his mouth the Brood that were going to kill me were no more...gotta love the class of that little dragon.

Sleazeworld was later destroyed and I figured the young dragon had perished with it. I found out later when another alien invasion of the mansion took place, in which I almost got hopelessly whooped, that I had been mistaken. The young dragon once again saved my life, as friends are apt to do, and helped me to defeat the aliens...he even ate the WHOLE nest of young the aliens had laid. I then named him Lockheed after the company (you know Lockheed...the big company that builds planes) that designed our Blackbird jet, and Lockheed and I have been inseperable ever since, even after the whole "I hate Pete" fiasco he went through and the Ogun thing, and a whole bunch of other stuff...God that dragon puts up with me and a whole lot more...he's going to get a good Haunakah gift this year that's for sure.

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