"What is awaiting, I'll embrace it In the end, all I know, I have to face it" Shed My Skin - Within Temptation featuring Annisokay Polaris has a new origin in this story though she remains the daughter of Magneto. (X-Men/MCU Crossover) Lorna Xavier-Stark was one of SHIELD's best agents, who was more than just intelligent and skilled, she was a mutant with gifts that enabled her to help SHIELD in ways an ordinary human could not. Having been raised within SHIELD's walls, it was no surprise she chose to work for them. Her mother Elizabeth "Lizzie" Daniels-Xavier, sister to Charles Xavier, was recruited to the agency in its earliest days. Lorna, only a baby at the time, stole the heart of Howard Stark himself, who adopted her and raised her as his own. While she gained several siblings by her mother, it will always be Tony that she calls her favorite, though he's the only one she shares no DNA with, and she will always say it's because they're Starks. Her insistence that she's a Stark helps her separate her identity with that of her biological father people try to haunt her with, a dangerous mutant fugitive known to the world as Magneto whose toxic relationship with her mother is part of the reason Lorna has sworn off love. Her blood connection to that man is why some would consider Lorna dangerous and others have hurt her in the past. Now the world is starting to change even more since the emergence of mutants into the public eye, bringing up major ghosts of her past and causing not only Lorna but others to worry about Lorna's mental state given her past history. Can she face it all? What's this Avengers Initiative that Fury wants her help with? What role can she truly play in all of this without falling apart again? What happens when a man, who happens to be Steve Rogers, enters her life that finally tempts her with the one thing she's always truly resisted, love? Will she ever solve the mystery of the true identity of her son's father? What truly lies ahead?