Escalation

Escalation is a crossover event that takes place on Earth-1600. It revolves around the Avengers and the X-Men trying to stop Reverand William Stryker and the Purifiers from trying to take over the Earth and finally destroying mutantkind. It also exposes the US government's secret activities to increase American power on the world through super-powered soldiers, and what they might have to do with the Purifiers' "rain of terror."