Not many members of the X-Men can say they once had an entire universe dedicated to their ongoing adventures, but in the late ’90s Alex Summers, Havok, got just that. The 1998 series Mutant X, primarily by Howard Mackie, Tom Raney, Cary Nord, Ron Lim and Tom Lyle, saw the younger Summers brother leading his own version of the X-Men.
Before the series began, Havok was a member of X-Factor, but when his teammate Greystone developed temporal insanity, he tried building his own time machine to return to his own time and reunite with his mother. Havok tried to stop Greystone’s reckless plan which led to the machine exploding and killing them both. However Havok was not, in actuality, dead.
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On Earth-1298, the Havok of that universe had just been shot by a Sentinel and died at the same time as Earth-616 Havok. Earth-616 Havok’s consciousness was transported to the body of his Earth-1298 counterpart, landing Havok in an Earth very different from his with no apparent way back. On this Earth, Havok’s life had played out very differently. Here, Havok was the only Summers brother on Earth, with Scott being taken into space 20 years earlier along with their parents. This led Earth-1298 Havok to become a founding member of Xavier’s X-Men.
By the time Havok showed up, however, the team was no longer the X-Men, but was instead a group called the Six. The members of the Six were alternate versions of familiar faces like Iceman, Beast, Archangel, Storm and Madelyne Pryor. On this Earth they were called Ice-Man, Brute, the Fallen, Bloodstorm and Marvel Woman respectively. This Madelyne Pryor was also Havok’s wife, with whom he had a young son, Scotty.
Named after his brother, Havok’s son Scotty is the only person on Earth-1298 who believes that Havok is who he says he is and not his Earth-1298 counterpart. This was partially because of Scotty’s precognitive powers and led to Scotty being the one person Havok could trust on this new world.
The longer Havok stayed on this Earth the worse he realized it was. He noted that everyone he met was less happy than their Earth-616 counterparts and, despite the opening of the series claiming that mutants were treated better than on Earth-616, anti-mutant sentiments are later revealed to be far worse than anything on Havok’s Earth.
During his time on Earth-1298, Madelyne was possessed by demonic forces, becoming the Goblin Queen, enabling her to control every member of the Six except Alex. Havok and Scotty were able to exorcise Madelyne but not before her actions as the Goblin Queen made everything worse.
Anti-mutant hate in the US is stirred to an all-time high, spurring the new president to recruit Nick Fury and his terrorist version of S.H.I.E.L.D. to round up mutants in camps. Despite telling the public it was for the protection of mutants, all mutants taken to the camps are executed on arrival.
The Six recruited two new members, Gambit and Captain America (who was later to revealed to have secretly been a mutant on this Earth), to free as many mutants as possible. The Six attempted to take the mutants to Canada, but faced the Earth-1298 version of the Avengers, who sternly warned them to turn back.
Still, the threat posed by Madelyne wasn’t over. A fight with Captain America led to the reawakening of the Goblin Force and therefore Madelyne’s Goblin Queen persona. The Goblin Queen along with the Beyonder and even Dracula joined forces to destroy the earth, and for the Goblin Queen to find the Nexus of Realties.
At the end of the Mutant X series, it was revealed that the Nexus of Realities was inside Havok. Havok’s battle with the Goblin Queen took the two of them into the Nexus of Realities. Discovering that the Goblin Queen was the Beyonder, Havok was able to separate Madelyne and the Goblin Queen and sent Madelyne safely to her Earth. Havok then fused with the Nexus to prevent others from using it, opening a dimensional rift that sent him back to his own Earth.
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