X-men- First Class Site

When the smoke cleared, Erik stood over Charles, who lay broken on the sand. Raven stood between them, her blue skin finally uncovered, refusing to hide.

"You're thinking about Shaw," Charles said, removing the helmet. His eyes were kind, blue as a summer sky, but weary.

"They were scared. We can make them understand." X-men- First Class

"Peace was never an option, old friend. But I will try not to kill you."

Alex's plasma blasts ignited the sky. Hank, transformed by a failed serum into a blue-furred beast, tore through bulkheads. Raven, shifting from a soldier to a general to a nurse to a ghost, sowed confusion in the enemy ranks. And in the center, Charles and Erik fought Shaw. When the smoke cleared, Erik stood over Charles,

Charles had a different vision. He had grown up in a mansion, not a camp. His pain was subtler: the loneliness of being the smartest person in every room, the ache of a stepfather who called his powers a "phase." When he found Erik, he saw a brother. When he found Raven, his blue-skinned, shape-shifting foster sister, he saw a soul as fractured as his own.

In that silence, the war began.

X-Men.