

Each member were given costumes and codenames matching the X-Men, believed to have been killed battling the Adversary. Each member was subjected to cosmic and/or gamma rays to give them powers in a manner similar to the Fantastic Four and the Hulk. Dazzler was shot, but Cloak and Dagger rescued the remaining three members, and purged the drugs and radiation sickening them. The M Branch was thus formed and given the job to find volunteers to serve in a new team, X-Force. M Branch's leader, Roland Blaisdell, ordered his soldiers to open fire. The remaining team, with the exception of Rogue, rebelled against M Branch. Psylocke, Wolverine, and Longshot were the first to die. Sickened by the process which gave them their powers, the team realized M Branch cared little for saving their lives, coldly collecting data on the nature of their eventual death. The synopsis for a formally upcoming X-Force film revealed that the team was considered to be more ruthless than the X-Men, and wouldve been lead by Deadpool and Cable. Peter is the only human member of X-Force. Each member were given costumes and codenames matching the X-Men, believed to have been killed battling the Adversary. Domino found the name X-Force to be derivative. The M Branch was thus formed and given the job to find volunteers to serve in a new team, X-Force. During the super-villain event known as the "Acts of Vengeance", the US government began to question the loyalty of Freedom Force.
