William Stryker.
One of the most memorable villains in the X-Men film series.
Though he was just an ordinary human, Stryker was the culprit who modified Wolverine and caused Logan decades of suffering.
He had also led multiple raids on Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters to kidnap Mutant children for research, not even sparing his own biological son. He was easily one of the villains Fang Yuan detested most in his past life.
Go find him for a team-building activity?
How could Fang Yuan miss out on that?
Moreover, Stryker controlled a vast amount of resources that Fang Yuan coveted.
Adamantium, Mutant research data, and a Mutant gene bank.
While Fang Yuan could collect these things himself, he was a recognized 'good guy.' How could Fang Yuan personally involve himself in things like Mutant research data?
Letting the big villain do the research and then swooping in to pick the fruits of his labor was exactly what Fang Yuan should be doing.
The main idea was: you take the hit to your karma, and I get the results.
A perfect division of labor.
William Stryker was an extreme Mutant-hater. Even now, with the public perception of Mutants having flipped, Stryker remained set in his ways, determined to exterminate all Mutants.
In Days of Future Past, Fang Yuan knew that Stryker had once been Trask's assistant. He had likely been deeply influenced by Trask back then and continued to carry out Trask's philosophy.
His lair was currently located at Alkali Lake, the very place where he had once transformed Logan into Wolverine.
Even after that place had been trashed, Stryker still hadn't changed the location of his Base. He wasn't the least bit afraid that the escaped Mutants would return for revenge; he had truly taken arrogance to the extreme.
So what if you Mutants are powerful? I'll just stay right here and not budge, without a hint of fear.
However, this also had to do with who knew the location. That group of Mutant children had all been recruited by Professor X; they wouldn't think of revenge, and likely didn't even understand where this place was.
Logan had lost his memory in Wolverine 1; otherwise, he would have scattered Stryker's ashes long ago.
Gambit had been here too, but he had long since been lost in the void.
As for Professor X... everyone knows his style. He's the type who, if someone slaps him on the left cheek, would offer the right cheek as well. It was even more impossible for him to do anything to Stryker.
Thinking back to how the battle with Trask later caused the Alkali Lake dam to burst, leading Jean Grey to sacrifice herself heroically to cover everyone, which then led to the birth of Dark Phoenix who killed Professor X with the intent to destroy humanity...
One could only say that Old Charles deserved to take that blame.
But actually, Magneto also knew what Stryker was doing; he had even collaborated with Stryker.
Old Magneto had already fallen into extremism at that time, using any means necessary to destroy humanity, so he didn't care about Stryker. In any case, according to his design, Stryker would die in the end anyway.
But coincidentally, Stryker thought the same way. His plan was to kill all Mutants. Then, after a round of power struggles...
Professor X died.
Old Charles: "???"
One could only say that both Professor X and Magneto had to shoulder a lot of the blame.
But that was the trajectory of the previous timeline. Now that Fang Yuan had arrived, the Mutants had a savior, and Stryker's winter had come.
The people Logan called for the 'team-building' were just the four of them: Fang Yuan, Old Charles, and Old Magneto.
Because they were on a mission to completely take down Stryker this time, and it wouldn't be good for others to see.
Before coming, Jean had thought about coming along to look after Old Charles, but she was immediately met with strong opposition from the four of them.
That was not a place Jean should go.
Though a Phoenix isn't afraid of fire, Phoenix is.
"Let's get this straight first: I want Stryker's research data."
"And the Adamantium!"
The moment they opened the portal and arrived at Alkali Lake, before even seeing anyone, Fang Yuan started divvying up the spoils.
Logan immediately followed up: "I want Stryker!"
A ferocious expression appeared on his face; Stryker had been on his must-kill list for a long time.
According to past experience, Professor X should have stepped forward to stop them at this point. However, when everyone looked at Old Charles, the old bald man only replied with one sentence—
"Leave Jason to me!"
The Jason he spoke of was the Mastermind from X-Men 2, Jason Stryker, who was also William Stryker's son.
Jason's ability was to create illusions for people; the brain fluid secreted by his brain could even control Professor X.
Because Jason's ability had accidentally killed his mother—Stryker's wife—when it awakened, Jason had been modified by Stryker into one of his X-weapons.
In this World, Jason had once been a student of Professor X, but unfortunately, he was eventually taken away by Stryker.
This time, Old Charles naturally wouldn't miss the chance to save his former student.
The pressure shifted to Old Magneto, who shrugged: "Then I'll just take a beautiful memory."
He didn't really want anything; he just wanted Stryker dead.
Of the four, everyone except Fang Yuan knew the way. Once Old Magneto took the lead and reached a suitable position, he immediately raised both hands.
Then, the group felt the ground begin to tremble.
Stryker's Base was underground. It seemed Old Magneto had no intention of knocking on the door.
Fang Yuan looked toward Old Charles and found that he was completely unaffected, because before Magneto activated his power, he had made Old Charles's wheelchair hover.
"Oh, how thoughtful," Fang Yuan muttered to Logan. "But is he really not going to just make the dam burst again?"
Logan took a puff of his cigar: "It's fine, he won't die."
His intention was that Fang Yuan would have a way to save Professor X if the dam burst, and Magneto could too, but Fang Yuan nodded: "True, Charles does have two lives."
Old Charles's face darkened.
Professor X had a twin brother who had been in a vegetative state since childhood. In the plot, after being killed by Dark Phoenix, he possessed his brother's body to be resurrected, which was why Fang Yuan said he had two lives.
Boom!
At that moment, Old Magneto controlled the steel beams of Stryker's Base, carrying sand and stone as they surged upward, ripping the roof right off the Base.
The man of the hour was indeed a man of the hour, never taking the conventional path.
"Attack, quickly!"
Stryker reacted immediately upon seeing Magneto, quickly ordering his subordinates to open fire.
The soldiers frantically fired at Magneto, but Old Magneto just beckoned with his hand, and all the bullets and artillery shells froze in mid-air.
"They never learn how to attack when facing the Wan Tie King," Fang Yuan quipped to Logan.
But the title "Wan Tie King" almost made Old Magneto smash the bullets into Fang Yuan's head.
"It's you!"
Stryker also saw Wolverine and Fang Yuan. He recognized his former Weapon X-23, and Fang Yuan, the hero who helped Earth defeat the Demon King Fox.
Seeing Fang Yuan actually fly down, Stryker's face was full of shock.
"You... hasn't your ability been lost?"
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