X-Force #1: "Hunting Ground"
Healer: I can't ask my new patients where it hurts. But perhaps you can.
Jean Grey: I see muddy tank treads cutting through a meadow of red flowers. I see a corpse with flies crawling in and out of its open mouth. I see a silo on fire and a barn on fire and livestock on fire. I can't tell you where they hurt. Because they hurt everywhere.
Jean Grey: I see muddy tank treads cutting through a meadow of red flowers. I see a corpse with flies crawling in and out of its open mouth. I see a silo on fire and a barn on fire and livestock on fire. I can't tell you where they hurt. Because they hurt everywhere.
"I talk to the dirt, yeah? And the dirt talks back. And sometimes we get a feeling, you understand? Like all the worms are twisting inside us. I've got that feeling right now. It's a bad one, yeah?"
— Black Tom Cassidy
"We were stupid and slow and careless. It's time to be smart and swift and violent. This can never happen again."
— Jean Grey
X-Force # 3
"What I'm saying is… without the fear of death, life is less about me – and more about us."
— Jean Grey
X-Force # 10
It's like you've got measels, but the measels is pockets.
—Black Tom
