WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Hellions #15, on sale now.
Mister Sinister has been quietly one of the most dangerous question marks in the current era of X-Men titles. Brought into the nation due to his reserves of mutant DNA and made a part of the Quiet Council, Sinister has quietly been moving behind the scenes in an apparent bid to create new and deadly life forms. Now, he's closer than ever -- or, rather, was.
In Hellions #15, by Zeb Wells, Roge Antonio, Rain Beredo, and VC's Ariana Maher, Mister Sinister reveals the very first model of the Chimera is in part based on his own DNA -- and is trying to fuse it with the powers of a very dangerous Omega-Level mutant to make the most powerful Sinister ever.
The Hellions have been quietly working at the behest of Mister Sinister and his secret machinations -- with their missions into Arakko and Murderworld merely covers for his true intentions. In Arakko, Sinister stole DNA from various sources including Tarn the Uncaring, an Omega-Level psionic and genetic-manipulator. Meanwhile, he gained access to an impressive lab off-Krakoan shores by stealing Murder-World. It's here that his most important and potentially ruinous work has continued. As he teased to his cloned counterpart in the previous issue of Hellions, Sinister has been working on a "Chimera." Chimeras are fusions of mutant DNA to create a new kind of mutant.
Teased to be a deadly part of the timelines featured in Powers of X, the Chimeras were powerful agents for the mutant nations for a time, only to eventually be sabotaged -- resulting in the deaths of many major mutant figures. Any mention of the Chimeras has been a cause for alarm, but the revelation of the first one is even more worrisome. Bringing the Sinister clone into his lab, the Krakoa Mister Sinister reveals he's been working on a Chimera that fuses his own DNA with that of Tarn. The resulting creation would potentially be a nigh-unstoppable force, capable of altering the DNA of its unwitting and likely unwilling subjects with ease. It would create the most dangerous version of Mister Sinister yet seen, with the demented scientist claiming it would be a version of Sinister "with the power of a god."
Such a clone would be a danger to the entire world -- which is why Havok and Greycrow immediately move to destroy it. But with Kwannon's revelation that the fate of her daughter is tied to the lab, they hold back. At least until Empath -- as a secret agent of Emma Frost seemingly assigned to the Hellions to monitor Sinister for just such an occasion -- forces Havok into an uncontrollable rage and seemingly destroys the Chimera and the lab containing all the data in the process. Although the act may also end up costing Kwannon the only copy of her daughter, it might ultimately have been for the greater good.
An omega-level Mister Sinister with psionic powers is a nightmare scenario for the X-Men under the best of circumstances, and the hints from Powers of X of Sinister's ultimate hand in the end of the Krakoa eras in previous timelines make any power boost for the former villain all the more dangerous. It's even shown beginning to awaken when Havok goes loose, hinting that there's a chance it may have survived (even if the lab didn't). But the fact that Sinister is on the path to making his own dangerous Chimera is cause for alarm for every mutant on Krakoa -- and could set up Sinister to come up against the rest of the nation more proactively.
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