Amazing Nightcrawler

 The phone rang at around ten in the evening.

“Hello?”

“They’ve taken your daughter.”

I paused in the middle of cooking a stir fry and just stared ahead.

“My—?”

“Daughter. I’ll meet you at Saint Matthew’s Cathedral at midnight. You’ll recognize me.” And the phone hung up.

I was vaguely aware that my stir fry was burning as I gingerly set the phone down, turned the flame off, and slumped into a chair. I felt like I had just been punched in the stomach - I have a daughter. How? With whom?

My name is Kurt Wagner. According to the Mutant Registration Database, my registration number is 0757953-B. And I’m a member of the X-Men.