Children of the Atom (Earth-1731)

## Origin and Status

### Origin

Created to be a group to protect Marutas from megacorporations but transformed into a superhero team to defend the Earth from various threats and to recruit new Marutas.

## Creators and Appearances

### First

Sprawl #5
(March, 2016)

 You aren't kids anymore. You aren't defenseless. You are **The Children of the Atom.** It's time to rise to the occasion.
—Maya[src]
The **Children of the Atom** were created by Maya and Matthew following the Chicago Incident in 2029. It began as a movement to protect young and defenseless Marutas from being hunted and subjected to experimentation by megacorporations. However, following Woods's journey to bring them a new Maruta, which failed, the Children of the Atom became a superhero team to protect the world better. As of late, the team has become the premier superhero team of the Dark Future and has inspired several others to fight back against their oppressors.

## History

### Early Years

The Children of the Atom concept began a year after the Chicago Incident of 2029 when Maya and Matthew took up residency in an abandoned Requiem base in Montana. They launched their operation to bring together several young marutas to protect them from the changing world. This led to the two recruiting Simon, a maruta with heat vision; Belmont, a mutant who can accelerate molecules; Malcolm, a maruta/mutant experiment with various types of DNA; and Dr. Elijah Gordon, a geneticist.

Having got a lead on a new maruta, Maya anonymously hired an old friend, Black Thought, to bring her to them. While the maruta, Kendrick, was brought to them, the job was a failure as Kendrick took her own life to save the Children of the Atom from Lazarus. Inspired by her sacrifice, the Children of the Atom wanted to do more for the world.

### The Fury Saga

Shortly after their confrontation with Lazarus, an evil temporal clone of Matthew arrived to combat the Children of the Atom. Being unable to protect them anymore, Maya forced the teenagers to become something more significant; thus, the superhero team was born. Their first fight with Fury would result in Matthew falling into a coma in Las Vegas and Simon, now going by Commander, to assume the leadership role. Under her leadership, Simon led the Children of the Atom through the Northern NUSA Mojave to ensure Matthew's survival by getting him to Dr. Elijah Gordon.

However, this event would reveal that the original leader of Exiles, Madame X, had survived the Chicago incident and maintained her powers. A new member would join the team in Las Vegas during this time. The seasoned hero, Sera Ballinger or Madonna, elected to help the Children of the Atom. With their help, the Children of the Atom traveled to The Homestead in San Francisco, taking up residence in the former Exiles base. Here, Madame X would reveal that Shay Daniels, formerly known as Tarantula, had also survived the incident but was depowered. Instead, Shay had taken up a supporter role due to his master's in computer science. Shay also unveils two new marutas that Madame and Shay saved, named Lana and Titan, or Warrior and Savage, respectively.

Now, with a fleshed-out roster and support from Shay, the Children of the Atom had their final confrontation with Fury in the streets of San Francisco. While successful, Fury warned them against The Voices from the Edge and disappeared from the timeline. Worried about this, the Children of the Atom traveled to Washington, D.C., to find Woods and investigate Lazarus' headquarters.

### The Voices from the Edge

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## Notes

* Children of the Atom (Earth-1731), and by extension, Legacy exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within **The Donuts Multiverse**.

## Trivia

* The name of the team comes from the 1994 Capcom video game of the same name. While it has nothing to do with the story of the game, it is simply a nice reference.
* The Children of the Atom almost mirror the original X-Men line-up with a few notable exceptions.
	+ Simon aka Commander has Heat Vision where as Cyclops has Optic Blasts.
	+ Belmont aka Gimmick has similar powers to Gambit.
	+ Malcolm aka Phantom has a teleportation ability similar to that of Nightcrawler and has a similar physiology to him.
	+ Titan aka Savage resembles later looks of Beast, but specifically Dark Beast from Age of Apocalypse.
	+ Lana aka Warrior has a metallic skin similar to that of Colossus.
* The concept of the Children of the Atom almost mirrors that of the Avengers Unity Division in so far as it is a coming together of humans and the new species: marutas.

## See Also

* 10 appearance(s) of Children of the Atom (Earth-1731)
* 2 image(s) of Children of the Atom (Earth-1731)
* 1 member(s) of Children of the Atom (Earth-1731)

## Links and References

### References

1. ↑ Echoes of Silence
2. ↑ Sprawl #1
3. ↑ Children of the Atom #1
4. ↑ Children of the Atom #2
5. ↑ Children of the Atom #3
6. ↑ Children of the Atom #4
7. ↑ Children of the Atom #5