The Pentagon Special Military Court in Washington, DC. This place was actually rarely used. Although this was also a military court, the military generally did not use the military court in the Pentagon. Because this military court was actually only for high-level generals within the military.
The UA had not dealt with generals above the rank of Brigadier General for a long time. After all, this was not an era of war. In times of war, generals sometimes needed to stand in court and accept sanctions for their own arbitrary or inappropriate behavior.
But in times of peace, many things had been relaxed. As long as there were no irreparable mistakes, the average senior general would not be sent to the military court. This was because it would be too embarrassing for the military.
General Ross, who presided over this military trial, still remembered that it had been almost a decade since a senior official above the rank of Brigadier General was sent to the military court.
This time, the UA government and the military convened several generals with enough prestige within the military to form a review team. And they used the military court in the Pentagon. Because one person made a mistake that the entire government and the military would not allow to happen.
It could even be said that in any dynasty, this person's mistakes were enough to send him to the guillotine. This was because he had mobilized a group of troops without the authorization of the Congress and the military.
Nearly three hundred heavily armed troops carrying weapons of mass destruction were sent to New York for a mission. Their goal was to destroy the Mutant School. And the person who sent this force was Major General Stryker.
Fortunately, Charles had disbanded the Xavier School a long time ago. This made Stryker come to nothing. When he arrived, he was faced with an empty school. Everything inside had been removed, and all the information had been destroyed.
Stryker couldn't even find any information about the students in the school, which made him furious.
But others felt extremely lucky. If the Mutant School was still running normally at that time, it could be imagined that Stryker would inevitably have a fierce conflict with the X-Men.
No one could predict the consequences and repercussions of this conflict. Think about it, three hundred well-equipped elite soldiers with weapons of mass destruction met the equally well-trained X-Men.
It was almost foreseeable that a violent conflict would erupt between the two gangs. The intensity of the conflict would probably be equivalent to a low-intensity war!
A low-intensity war in New York?! Just thinking about it was frightening. The people wouldn't care about the ins and outs of the whole thing. They would only know. A general led a group of soldiers to attack a mutated human school.
What kind of violent political storm would this cause? How would Congress and the White House explain all of this to the public? They couldn't just tell everyone that it was a soldier who did it on his own!
Haha! If you really said that, the entire United States would be in a panic. Perhaps everyone would think that Congress and the White House could no longer control the military. Being caught was enough to force the entire Congress to reshuffle and the president to step down.
Moreover, the reason why the General attacked the mutated human school could not be made public. Because his mutated human research base was destroyed, he came to seek revenge. How could he come up with such an excuse? If this bullsh * t reason was made public, the situation that the military and the government would face would be even worse.
Therefore, if the Mutants School had not been disbanded at that time, Charles and others would still be in the school. In the end, a war broke out between the two gangs. Then the US government and the military, who were responsible for cleaning up the mess, had only one choice.
That was to do everything possible to cover up what Stryker had done and protect him! It had nothing to do with right or wrong, maybe it had nothing to do with whether you liked it or not. Maybe the government would settle accounts later, but there was no other choice at the moment. This was the complexity of politics. It was precisely because Stryker considered this that he dared to deploy troops without fear.
Unfortunately, he didn't calculate Charles' decisiveness. Professor X thought more deeply than him. He wanted to avoid the escalation of the conflict between Mutants and ordinary people. Once Magneto's plan started, then the Mutants School would be a target.
If he didn't join Magneto's team, Charles actually had only one way to go. That was to give up everything he had done before and let his years of hard work go to waste.
And all of this was also in Magneto's calculations. He wanted to remove Professor X's influence among Mutants, and the first thing he needed to do was to remove the school!
It could be said that the whole incident could be said to be linked to each other, in the calculation of this complex incident. As an American general, Stryker may be excellent, but he was far inferior to Magneto and Professor X.
Therefore, all of his plans had failed, all of them. Whether it was the promotion of the bill or the subsequent attack on the Mutants School. He lost, and now he had to stand in this military court to be tried.
"The defendant, Major General Stryker, is accused of mobilizing troops without authorization on the night of May 10th. Does the defendant plead guilty? "General Ross briefly read the crime.
It was a felony to mobilize troops without authorization. Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon. All three parties were determined to completely destroy Stryker, and it was useless for anyone to plead. This was an event related to the fundamental power and dominance of this country.
So this trial was just a formality for the other generals to see. This was to tell them what they should do and what they couldn't do.
Stryker's head was down. He didn't answer or refute. He knew that everything he said was useless. He was afraid that the internal department had already determined his crime.
Sure enough, General Ross didn't care about Stryker's silence. He continued to say, "Since the defendant has acquiesced to the crime, then on behalf of the Pentagon and Congress, I sentence Stryker to the following punishment."
"The defendant, Stryker, committed treason, terrorism, instigating and inhumane experiments …" General Ross read according to the script. Stryker didn't care what he was saying because nothing else mattered now.
"I hereby pronounce the former UA Major General Stryker guilty of several crimes. Stryker, you will be sentenced to death for several crimes. The deadline for the death sentence is set at three o 'clock in the afternoon today at the military court of the Pentagon! Death by injection! "
After General Ross finished reading this paragraph, he glanced at his watch. It was now 2: 45 in the afternoon. There were only fifteen minutes left to prepare for the execution. For Stryker's mistake this time, Congress, the White House, and the military didn't care about any feelings at all. What they wanted was swift and severe punishment.
He waved his hand and signaled for the personnel who were already in place to start the preparation work.
"Is that so?" Stryker muttered in his heart. This was the worst-case scenario he had prepared. As a soldier, Stryker wasn't afraid of death, but he didn't want to die like a useless prisoner.
When he was strapped to the injection bed, his former colleagues watched quietly from a distance. They watched the execution personnel take out the injection injection from the suitcase.
They made all the preparations until the injection was injected into Stryker's vein. Then they watched his heart stop beating. Everything went extremely smoothly. Until the person in charge of transporting the body pulled Stryker's body away. General Ross watched as Stryker's body was pulled away before he sighed and shook his head. No one knew what he was sighing about.
… …
Death by injection was not a painful thing. It was like giving you a tranquilizer. You would soon fall into a coma, and then your heart and breathing would stop. You wouldn't feel any pain during this process.
Just like Stryker, he didn't feel any pain of death at all. He felt like he was sleeping, and then he woke up! Stryker suddenly opened his eyes. A man in a white coat who looked like a professor or a doctor stood in front of him.
The doctor smiled and said, "You woke up earlier than I expected." As the doctor spoke, he reached out his hand and looked like he wanted to shake Stryker's hand.
Stryker frowned at the doctor and said, "Who are you? Where is this place? I should be dead! "
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