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‘No. No! I knew this would happen! I knew if you tried to save me you’d die too!’ Michael Pointer a.k.a. Weapon Omega exclaims to Rogue and his best friend Calvin Rankin the Mimic. ‘God help me, I’ve turned us all into walking bombs!’ Pointer shouts as power surges from the three. Dr Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast and Rachel “Marvel Girl” Grey rush into the containment cell, as the Beast tells them that if they panic, they will hasten the moment when they will detonate, taking everyone at the Jean Grey School with them. ‘If not for your own sake, get hold of yourselves for us. And let me work on fixing this!’ Hank urges them, while telling Rachel that Pointer’s hysterical and that his energy levels are rising proportionately. He asks her if she can calm him telepathically. ‘Of course’ Rachel replies.
Rogue goes over to Beast and begins ‘You’re saying when we tried to absorb his power -’, to which the Beast explains that the energy building within Pointer was replicated in them. Rogue asks if they at least slowed down the process in him, to which the Beast tells her that it appears so, and suggests she doesn’t despair yet, as she has bought them time, and that is their most valuable commodity right now. He asks Rogue to come with her, announcing that he needs to run some tests. Remy “Gambit” LeBeau rushes into the chamber, while Pointer tells Mimic and Rogue that he is sorry, that he doesn’t know what to say. Rogue tells him that he doesn’t have to say anything, and reminds him that it was their choice. ‘This isn’t your fault, Michael. Any of it’ Rogue adds, while Gambit reminds Rogue that she can give up a power that she has absorbed, that he has seen her do that.
Rogue tells Remy that she has been trying, but that she gave up Omega’s absorption powers a minute ago. ‘This energy, though…it don’t seem to wanna go nowhere’ Rogue adds. The two look at each other, before Gambit places a hand on Rogue’s head, asking her if there is anyone she wants him to call. ‘We ain’t there yet. Right now Ah got all Ah need here’ Rogue replies. At a console, the Beast calls out to Gambit, ‘I’d like to determine if your energy conversion abilities have any applications here’ Hank explains. Gambit tells Rogue that he will be back soon, and goes over to Hank, a timer displaying 1:02:37 on screen. ‘So you and Gambit are…’ the Mimic begins. ‘Not anymore. I’m kinda seeing somebody else now’ Rogue replies. ‘Oh. And he’s -’ Mimic asks, ‘On the other side of the country’ Rogue interrupts. Mimic announces that he is confused, to which Rogue tells him to join the club.
Mimic frowns, and Rogue turns to him, asking if there is anyone they should call for him. ‘No. No wife, no girlfriend, family’s all dead’ Calvin replies. ‘Friends?’ Rogue enquires. ‘He’s over there’ Calvin replies, looking at Pointer. ‘It’s my own fault. I got my powers young. Didn’t exactly make me humble. I was entitled, arrogant…and bipolar. Real fun to be around’ Mimic tells Rogue, adding that when he looked at people, all he saw was what he could take from them - special talents and abilities, that is what the X-Men were to him - a buffet table. Rogue tells Mimic that he is being awfully harsh on himself. ‘You were the first new member they ever had, right? Professor Xavier must have seen something in you’ Rogue points out.
Mimic’s mind wanders back to his early encounter with the original X-Men, and replies ‘I doubt it. I spent practically my entire time here fighting the others. The Professor probably just waned to keep an eye on me. He could see how unstable my powers were’. Mimic declares that he would lose his powers, get them back, and eventually, absorbed the original X-Men’s powers permanently. He adds that he finally left when they thought his powers had gone forever, only they were just changing. Mimic’s thoughts turn to when he started absorbing people’s life force, killing them, the same as Michael does to mutants. He asks Rogue if she knows who risked his life to help him, and reveals that it was the Beast. ‘A guy who I was always a colossal jerk to. He didn’t care. He took on the Hulk…to save me’ Mimic announces.
Mimic tells Rogue that even when he copied other people’s powers, their skills, he didn’t get what really made them special. Calvin grits his teeth and declares that underneath it all, there was nothing. ‘I was nothing. Just a pale reflection of someone else’. Pointer’s absorbed power glows around Rogue and the Mimic, while inside the chamber, Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill and Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball are assisting the Beast. A monitor shows the countdown as 55:12, while Rogue tells Calvin that she used to feel the same way, especially because when she absorbed someone’s powers, she got their memories, too. ‘Ah was never sure if the decisions Ah made…the things Ah wanted…were really mine’.
Rogue continues, explaining that she ended up defining herself according to other people - folks who seemed real sure of themselves. Calvin remarks that it might be a moot point soon, before telling Rogue that if she doesn’t mind, he would like to know how she changed that. ‘With the help of a lot of people. A fair amount of pain. And not to sound like an embroidered wall sampler…but by helping others. Especially the kids here’ Rogue reveals. She hangs her head, and offers Calvin the truth - that she isn’t really sure she has changed much at all. ‘But…how can you say that? After all you’ve done…’ Calvin begins, before the Beast exclaims ‘All right. The time has come, the Beast said, to try many things’.
Hank informs Rogue and Calvin that the energy within them seems to be like a virus, self-replicating. ‘I’d like you to try absorbing other forms of energy. See if we can find something more powerful, yet more controllable, to overwrite it’ he explains. Hank sends Rogue and Calvin outside, just in case, before calling out to Rachel, pointing out that they have seen the correlation between this energy and the host’s mental state. ‘You want me to keep them all calm?’ Rachel replies. ‘Yes. But if it comes to it, there’s something else’ Hank begins, informing Rachel that Mimic and Rogue have bought them time with Omega. He adds that if the energy within any of them begins to approach the tipping point again, the level of critical mass, Rachel may have to shut down their higher brain functions.
‘You want me to lobotomize them?’ Rachel asks, surprised. Hank tells her to think of it as a medically induced coma, reducing their bran activity to the minimum necessary for survival, and the energy to its minimum level, allowing the energy to be used naturally by the host’s body over time, however long that is. ‘Rogue’s my friend. And you’re asking me to -’ Rachel begins, to which Hank declares that he is asking her to save Rogue’s life, if there is no other choice. ‘If you can’t do it, I’ll bring in someone who can. But I need to know now…can I count on you?’ Hank asks. With the timer down to 51:30, Rachel hangs her head, closes her eyes and quietly replies ‘Yes’.
Shortly, ‘No dice’ Rogue declares as she is with Gambit, trying to absorb his kinetic energy. Remy tells Rogue that he kind of figured that he release the potential energy that is already in the object, as it isn’t something that comes from within him. ‘Sorry to waste your time’ he tells her as he turns and walks away. ‘You’ve never wasted my time, Remy. Ah hope Ah haven’t wasted yours’ Rogue replies, quietly as the timer is down to 46:22. Standing nearby, waiting for their turn are Cannonball and his sister, Paige a.k.a. Husk, while Mimic meets with Jonathan “Chamber” Starsmore. Mimic declares that it isn’t working, that he is only absorbing so much. ‘It’s like memory on a computer…with all that energy already in me, there’s only so much room’. Calvin adds that he thought Chamber’s power would be like fire, but that there is numbness, cold. ‘Is that what you feel all the -’ Mimic begins, to which Chamber quickly interrupts, telling Calvin that he is sorry he couldn’t help, and suggests it is time to move on, the timer now at 43:08.
Husk informs Rogue that if she is hurt and sheds her skin, that she heals, like a whole new body underneath. ‘Maybe that’ll work for you. It can be painful…’ Paige suggests. ‘No more so than exploding, Ah’d imagine. Here goes nothing…’ Rogue replies as she finds that she cannot shed her skin. ‘Ow. What the hell?’ she mutters, with the timer now down to 40:10. Tapping away at various computer monitors with his fingers and toes, the Beast states that it seems the adaptive properties of Rogue’s cells are being overwhelmed by the energy. ‘In simple terms, you’re “filling up”!’ he explains, telling Rogue that she can no longer replicate powers that involve significant physical changes. ‘When you can’t absorb any at all…’ he begins, his voice trailing off. ‘It’ll be too late’ Rogue realizes. ‘Oh, no…’ Paige utters, but Rogue tells her that it is not her fault. Husk explains that she knows, but that she cannot deal with this. ‘I need to get myself together…’ she mutters, before tearing her face away, revealing a stone form underneath, and walking away, solemnly.
The school janitor, Toad, enters the room and calls out to Paige, telling her that if there is anything he can do to help he would be more than happy to, but when he gets no response, he mutters ‘Or perhaps you need to be alone’. The Beast offers to consult with various colleagues, suggesting that Hank Pym might have some thoughts. Toad begins sweeping up Husk’s skin from the floor, and tells Rogue that he knows what she is thinking, and that yes, she should call him. ‘What, Toad? Who?’ Rogue replies. ‘Magneto’ Toad points out, adding that Magneto used to insult him, hit him and order him around like a slave, but that he never felt so safe in all his life when he was with Magneto. ‘He has that quality. You know the one I mean’ Toad adds. ‘That makes you feel everything’s taken care of’.
Toad reveals that even when he left Magneto, and was leading the Brotherhood on his own, it was all an act, for inside, he was a nervous wreck. ‘I knew I’d fail. I knew without him, I was nothing. If I thought for a second he’d take me back, I’d run to him right now’ Toad declares. Rogue touches Toad by his chin, lifting his face up and tells him not to sell himself short, as it took a lot of courage to strike out on his own and join them. She adds that if she calls Magneto for the reasons he says, it is like she is giving up. She tells Toad that in spite of what he might think, he never gave up. ‘And Ah ain’t gonna either’ Rogue declares. ‘Ah, pride. I had pride. Look how wonderful it’s worked out for me’ Toad mutters as he walks away, carrying his brooms with him. Cannonball goes over to Rogue and tells her that he is sorry about his sister, explaining that she hasn’t been herself lately. He begins to offer his assistance, but Rogue tells hi that she needs to get outside and clear her head for a bit - somewhere she can’t see a damn clock.
Soon, Rogue finds Mimic who is beside the lake. Calvin asks Rogue what she is doing here, to which Rogue explains that she is trying to keep herself from calling someone. ‘He can’t help us. But Ah know he’d swoop in and dominate things. Lift the burden off me. Let me sit back and watch him run the show’ Rogue explains. ‘What’s so bad about that?’ Calvin asks, to which Rogue replies ‘How good it sounds’, explaining that he is one of the people who helped her to respect herself, by treating her like someone who deserves it. ‘Ah ain’t gonna throw that away because it’d be easier to hand the wheel to someone else. Even him’.
Looking out over the lake, Rogue remarks that it is pretty here, to which Mimic tells her that is not why he cam here, revealing that one the best moments in his life was right here. He informs Rogue that the Super-Adaptoid attacked the original X-Men, that Super-Adaptoid had all the Avengers’ powers, and absorbed the X-Men’s, too, almost killing them. Mimic explains that he had been his typical obnoxious self, had quit the team, but something made him come back - and he saved them, with the Adaptoid tried to absorb his abilities, Mimic did the some thing to him. There was some sort of reaction and it shorted out both their powers. Calvin tells Rogue that it was the first time in his life that he did the right thing, without even thinking about it. ‘Cal, hang on. Did you just say when you tried to absorb each other’s powers…it shorted them both out?’ Rogue asks. ‘Yeah. I mean, not permanently, they came back after a while, but - of. Oh my God’ he declares.
Soon, back in the lab, the clock now reads 20:08, as the Beast asks ‘All three of you…absorbing each other’s powers at once?’ Mimic reminds the Beast that he was there, ‘Remember what happened with the Super-Adaptoid’. The Beast does remember, but points out that the Super-Adpatoid was an artificial being. ‘None of your abilities function quite the same way’ he explains. Rogue asks Hank how many other options they have left, and looking at Rachel, Hank replies that right now, they have just one.
Down in the reinforced sub-basement vault theta, the clock now reads 14:28, and Beast turns to Rogue, Mimic and Weapon Omega, telling them that he wants them to be sure they understand the risks. He tells them that instead of shorting each other out, they could trigger each other. ‘The induced coma is still an option’ he offers. But Rogue asks how long it would take before they would be cured, and what the guarantee is that they would ever be. ‘I don’t know. And none’ Hank tells her. The Mimic remarks that he didn’t much enjoy his last coma, but will take his chances if Rogue would rather, however Rogue declares that she just started getting control of her life. ‘Ah’d rather die than give it up again’ she declares. Michael Pointer declares that they all feel the same way. ‘Let’s do this’ he tells them.
Gambit and Rachel go over to Rogue, and Rachel tells Rogue that if there is anyone she wants to say anything to, she can connect her mentally. Rogue thanks Rachel, but declares that she can do this on her own. ‘More important…Ah want to’ she explains, before she and Gambit embrace. Gambit tells her that he is right outside, waiting to celebrate her success. ‘You’re a prince, Remy LeBeau’ Rogue replies. ‘Prince of Thieves. Let’s steal one more from fate, hm?’ Gambit tells her. Hank, Remy and Rachel leave the vault, waiting outside where Bobby stands. Hank calls back to Rogue, Calvin and Pointer, telling them that there is nothing else to say other than to wish them luck. ‘If fortune favors the bold, you have nothing to fear’ he tells them.
Rogue turns to Mimic and Pointer and tells them that they should get this over with. ‘Ah got laundry to do’ Rogue jokes. Pointer tells Mimic that drinks are on him with this is over. ‘You’re on, buddy’ Calvin replies, before telling the others that they need to do this at the exact same time, on the count of three. Mimic counts them down, and at once, the three attempt to absorb each others powers. Blue energy fills the room, and when it all subsides, the vault opens, and the Beast, Gambit and Rachel race back in. ‘What happened? How do you feel?’ Hank calls out. Mimic and Rogue are standing, no energy blurs around them. ‘Ah feel…weak. Powerless. Perfect!’ Rogue declares. ‘Never doubted for a minute’ Gambit exclaims as he and Rogue hug. ‘You lying son of a…’ Rogue jokes.
‘You saved me again’ Mimic thanks the Beast, who tells Calvin ‘No. You saved yourself. Congratulations’. ‘Thank God. I don’t know what I’d have done if that hadn’t worked’ someone remarks. ‘We did it, Michael. I told you it would all be -’ Calvin begins, but as he, Rogue and others turn to face Michael Pointer, they find him surrounded by energy. ‘Oh, Michael. No…’ Mimic utters. Pointer tells Mimic that it is okay, that this is how it had to go. ‘Wait - you knew? You knew this would happen?’ Mimic asks. Pointer remarks that Mimic and Rogue copy powers, while absorbs energy, so it was never going to work for him, but that he knew once Rogue and Mimic’s powers shorted out that he could take what was left in them and make right what he had done.
Pointer declares that this is how it always should have gone. ‘Let’s be honest, it should’ve happened a long time ago’ he adds. The clock now reads 9:50, and Pointer exclaims ‘I’ve hurt people…killed people. Even when I tried to do something good, it always ended in disaster’. He tells everyone that he doesn’t want to go on like this, especially not as a shell, a vegetable. ‘Michael, you’re talking about suicide’ Rachel points out. But Michael declares that he is talking about dying with a measure of dignity. ‘I won’t let you keep me locked up here. Dangerous as I am. Not around kids’ he announces. Rogue reminds Michael that those kids have powers, too, and that each one of them could lose control, kill who knows how many people. ‘You saying we should write ‘em off, too?’ Rogue asks.
‘No, of course not. But - it’s just so hard. So hard. Can’t you just let me go?’ Michael whispers, covering his face with one of his hands. Mimic goes over to Pointer and tells him ‘No. I can’t. I need all the friends I can get. So if you don’t want to live for yourself…do it for me. Please’ he tells Michael. Michael remains silent, before asking ‘Will you do it, Cal?’ Borrow Rachel’s power…shut down my mind. I think maybe I can do this if it’s you’ Michael announces. Mimic frowns at his friend, before turning to Rachel, who explains that it is a complicated process. Mimic tells her that when he absorbs powers he also gets the instinctive knowledge of how to use them. ‘Besides, you can guide me telepathically if you want’ he adds. ‘If he can do this, s can I’ Mimic states.
Hank helps Michael into a seat, and with 2:22 left on the timer, Michael remarks that he knows Calvin is going to want to stay around, to keep an eye on him. ‘Promise me you won’t. Promise you’ll forget about me…make a life for yourself. A good one and live it for both of us. Can you do that?’ Michael asks. Calvin just hangs his head, before stating that not long ago, he would not have been able to, that he would have been afraid to try - afraid to fail, or would have just made a mess of it. But now, especially after today, he knows he can. Calvin tells Michael that there is no way he is going to forget him. ‘The things we’ve been through together…Osborn, everything since…I only got through it because of you. Because you were right there with me. Backing me up’ Calvin declares.
Hank and Bobby look at each other as Calvin continues talking to Michael. ‘Picking me up when I fell’ he tells his friend. ‘Believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself’ he adds, while Cannonball puts a comforting arm around his sullen sister, who hangs her head. ‘You’re the best friend I ever had. You made me better than I was’ Mimic tells Pointer, while Rogue closers her eyes, with Gambit standing on one side of her, and Frenzy on the other. Mimic tells Pointer that he will be here for him, no matter what gets in the way, no matter how long it takes. ‘I can be strong without you because I learned to be strong with you. And because I know we’ll be together again’.
The Beast interrupts Mimic’s speech, pointing out that the time is getting short. ‘I’m ready’ Michael announces, as the timer reaches 1:44. Michael remarks that there is something that kind of surprises him - that he is looking forward to seeing what is next. He and Mimic shake hands, before embracing. Pointer lies down on the reclining chair, and Mimic stands behind him, hands at his head. ‘Careful now…gently…’ Rachel tells Mimic, who concentrates hard, before declaring ‘It’s done. Hank…please tell me it’s done’. Rachel telekinetically lifts Michael off the chair, and Hank reports that Michael’s energy has stabilized, but points out that there is no way to predict how long it will take to cure him. He tells Mimic to rest assured, that he will not stop working on the cure.
Rachel moves Michael into the stasis tube that Hank has prepared, and as Pointer’s comatose body is covered by the tube, Rogue tells Mimic that was one of the bravest and kindest things she has ever seen. Mimic replies that everything he said to Michael was true, but the fact is, he is not so sure he could have done it if not for all of the X-Men. He adds that it is no coincidence that the best moment of his life was here, ot that Rogue has come so much further than him, even though their powers are pretty similar. ‘When you’re surrounded by the best, it makes you better. Powers have nothing to do with it. I don’t suppose…I’d like to keep an eye on Michael…’ Mimic’s voice trails off.
‘Of course you’re welcome to stay as long as you want’ Rogue tells Mimic, who smiles and thanks Rogue, remarking that it turns out he had more friends than he thought, and promises to pull his weight. Rogue tells Calvin that she wouldn’t worry about that, and that he looks like one hell of a teacher to her. They head outside, with Mimic asking if it is okay keeping Michael here. ‘I mean, I know he’s under control now and all, but he’s still a bomb that could explode any time’ Calvin points out. ‘Aren’t we all?’ Rogue asks, telling Calvin that it is more than okay for them to stay. She adds that she knows she has been talking a lot about standing on your own, and that it is good to do that, as everyone has to. ‘But today Ah remembered there’s a reason we all came together. Because it’s a lot easier to stand a lone when you got friends to help you do it’ Rogue remarks. Nearby, on one of the fields, ‘Quentin, put me down!’ one of the young mutants, Match calls out, as Quentin Quire uses his power to life him up. Wolverine and Chamber stand in amongst a group of students, learning to stand alone, together.


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‘It’s war. We’re at war with the Avengers. You all know what’s at stake’ Rachel “Marvel Girl” Grey announces as she stands before nine of the Westchester-based X-Men, in the teacher’s lounge at the Jean Grey School. Rogue hangs her head and remembers a time when she herself was at war with the Avengers, and recalls standing over Thor’s motionless body, in a pile of rubble.
Rachel tells her teammates that they have been made aware of what is going on, and that it was agreed they would stay here and watch the students - not get involved. ‘But things have changed’ she announces, adding that Kitty will give an updated briefing to bring everyone up to speed. ‘Then you’ll have to make a decision’ Rachel tells everyone, apologizing for hitting them with this so abruptly. ‘But that’s how these things go’ she points out, while Rogue recalls fighting Captain America so long ago, kicking him into a park bench.
Rachel adds that she knows some of her teammates understand the Avengers have history. ‘That’s in the past. This is about our future…and what we want it to be’ she explains, before turning to Kitty “Shadowcat” Pryde. Without standing up, Kitty summarizes the situation by explaining that the Phoenix Force is returning to Earth. ‘Yes, the powerful cosmic entity that’s destroyed entire planets’ she adds, remarking that it needs a host, and that they think it has chosen Hope Summers, and now Cyclops and his team think Hope can control the power, that this is a turning point for mutantkind. Kitty continues, stating that Wolverine, Beast and the Avengers disagree, that they think Hope won’t be able to handle the Phoenix Force, endangering all life on Earth.
Kitty’s pet dragon, Lockheed, curls around her shoulders as Kitty reports that there have been hostilities, a battle on Utopia, and right now, both sides are racing each other to find Hope. Kitty pauses as she announces that this is a difficult situation for her, as she has seen what the Phoenix can do. ‘I fear for anyone it touches’ she declares.
Rachel remarks that Kitty makes a valid point, and points out that she was one of the Phoenix’s former hosts, and was able to handle it, and that she believes Hope is up to this. Bobby “Iceman” Drake points out that Hope could use this power to change things for mutantkind and bring them back from the brink. ‘It’s clear the Avengers want to stop that’ he points out, announcing that they can’t stay on the sidelines anymore, he explains that he and Rachel are joining Cyclops. ‘We’re leaving now. Anyone who wants to come is welcome’ he states.
‘Or you can stay here. We all agree we don’t want the kids getting involved. They may want to. But we brought them here to keep them out of conflicts like this’ Kitty declares, adding that she isn’t saying they can’t change their minds later, but that they need to present a united front when they tell the students they are confined to campus. ‘So I need your decision now’ Kitty tells them. Paige Guthrie a.k.a. Husk, skin flaking from her face, remarks that she doesn’t know what to do. Turning to her brother, Sam a.k.a. Cannonball, she asks ‘Are you…?’ to which Sam replies that he is staying, long enough to settle the kids down, anyway. Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit agrees, and points out that the kids will be stirred up, so they have to keep routine as much as they can, keep the kids from doing anything stupid. Referring to her time with the Acolytes, Frenzy a.k.a. Joanna Cargill remarks that following messiahs never got her anywhere, so she is staying.
New arrival Calvin Rankin a.k.a. the Mimic announces that he doesn’t even know who most of those people are, while Jonathan “Chamber” Starsmore points out that it wasn’t so long ago he was on the other side of the desk, so he knows the students will be scared. ‘Figure I can do more good here than in a punch-up with Iron Man’ he adds, before turning to Rogue, remarking that he heard she has some experience with this sort of thing. ‘Ah…Ah reckon Ah do’ Rogue replies, recalling that fateful battle with the Avengers were she touched Ms Marvel’s skin. Looking away, Rogue announces that she is staying. Bobby tells Rogue that they could really use her, reminding her that she beat them all by herself. ‘Bad things happen when Ah fight Avengers. Last time Ah messed up a bunch of lives - including my own - for a lotta years’ Rogue replies.
Bobby points out that was a different time, and that Rogue was a different person. ‘You’ve changed a lot’ he tells her. But when Rogue offers no response, Bobby creates an ice-sled and begins to slide away, with Rachel flying at his side. Bobby calls back that perhaps Rogue has changed too much, declaring that she used to know there are some fights you can’t sit out.
One hour later, Rogue is teaching a class consisting of Hellion, Kid Gladiator, Oya, Rockslide, Glob Herman and Broo. ‘As it became clear the US entering the war was inevitable -’ Rogue begins, before seeing that Broo has raised his hand. ‘You have a question?’ she asks the young alien. ‘Yes, pardon my asking’ Broo begins as he enquires as to why Rogue is not going to fight the Avengers. He explains that his research indicates that she is quite accomplished in this area. Turning away, Rogue realizes that they are not going to get any work done until they discuss this. ‘Okay. Yes, Ah fought the Avengers. And yeah, Ah did all right for myself’ Rogue begins, explaining that she was a scared, angry, brainwashed kid, out to punish the world for her pain, and who used people like suits of clothes without giving it a second thought. ‘So you’re all mature now. So what? Our future’s on the line!’ Julian Keller a.k.a. Hellion exclaims.
Rogue tells Hellion that he hasn’t let her finish, and she declares that she has changed quite a bit, but that who she was then and who she is now, is still all her. ‘Ah start thinking otherwise, that’s when the trouble all starts’ she adds. Not wanting to lie to the students, she tells them that it felt good, that she felt unstoppable. ‘Which is a big part of why things went bad. Ah’ve traveled that road, again Ah ain’t going there again’ she announces.
Suddenly, everyone’s attention turns to the window. ‘Uh, I’m not trying to be a buzz kill, but…you might not have a choice’ Rockslide announces, as a small aircraft has landed on the grounds of the Jean Grey School - and from it emerge three members of the Avengers - Sam Wilcon a.k.a. the Falcon, along with his loyal bird, Redwing, Jennifer Walters the She-Hulk and Marc Spector a.k.a. Moon Knight. ‘Ya’ll stay here’ Rogue orders as she begins to rush from the room. ‘But we’re -’ Rockslide calls after her. ‘STAY!’ Rogue barks back at him.
‘We don’t want trouble’ Falcon announces as Rogue, Cannonball, Frenzy, Gambit and Shadowcat rush towards him. ‘Dropping in unannounced at times like these is a good way to find it’ Cannonball tells him, but Shadowcat announces that it is okay, as Falcon radioed in to report that they were coming. ‘A whopping thirty seconds ago. But we won’t mention that’ Kitty mutters. ‘That’s more warning than we got that a bunch of your teachers were joining up with Cyclops to attack our friends’ She-Hulk reports. Kitty is quick to declare that any faculty member entering this conflict is doing so as an independent individual. ‘Including those fighting for your side’ she announces, adding that all they are trying to do here is teach. ‘Which isn’t easy when She-Hulk lands on our lawn’ Kitty declares.
Falcon declares that things are already way more out of hand than any of them want. ‘You say you’re holding class? That’s great. That’s wonderful. We’ve just been asked to come here to make sure no more fuel gets added to the fire. And nobody else decides to take “individual action”!’ Sam remarks. The X-Men all look at each other and frown, ‘I’ll take an individual action upside your head, you smug son of a -’ Frenzy begins as she and Gambit move towards Falcon, with Gambit adding ‘You see us coming to your home and making threats, homme?’, while Kitty tells them both stand down. Lockheed and Redwing both move towards each other, while Kitty asks ‘I’m supposed to believe Wolverine signed off on this?’, to which the Falcon replies that Wolverine is out of reach at the moment. ‘We don’t know you. Or Moon Knight. Or She-Hulk. I want to talk to Beast -’ Shadowcat announces.
Moon Knight steps forward and explains that the Beast is still in space, on what is probably a suicide mission, trying to stop the Phoenix Force from incinerating this planet, like it has done a hundred others. ‘You wanna believe it’s coming to make the world all rainbows and ponies, fine. But we’ve got enough problems with out people getting in our way’ Moon Knight adds. ‘Did the guy in the white hood really just say “you people”?’ Kitty asks, folding her arms. Rogue suddenly steps between the X-Men and the Avengers. ‘Guys. Behind you’ she whispers, as she sees several of the students come rushing out of the building. ‘Before ya’ll came here we were fixing to have a school day. You got a problem with that?’ Rogue remarks. ‘None whatsoever’ Falcon replies. ‘Then maybe we can come to an accommodation’ Rogue suggests.
Kitty looks less than impressed, and tells Falcon that the Avengers are to stay out os sight of the school. ‘Watch it through binoculars, have your bird do it, I don’t care. But don’t distract the students’. She tells him that they are not welcome inside or on any part of the property where classes or activities are held. ‘You remain outside a hundred yard radius. That’s non-negotiable’ she adds. Falcon replies that they can live with that. The trio of Avengers turn to walk away, with Moon Knight asking ‘How do we know they’re not using teleporter, or -’, to which Falcon tells him to just let it go. The X-Men turn to walk back to the buildings, and Frenzy exclaims ‘Unbelievable. We stayed out of the fight, but they want to put chains on us anyway. And you all just sat there and took it. Typical’.
‘What are we supposed to be teaching those kids? How to roll over for the humans?’ Frenzy calls out. Rogue tells her that they are teaching the kids that you don’t solve all your problems buy beating the hell out of people. ‘Hnh. Well, one of these days, they need to learn that sometimes you do’ Frenzy frowns.
Shortly, 101 yards from the Jean Grey School, ‘This is a waste of time’ She-Hulk mutters as she reclines in one of the chairs. Moon Knight tells her that all stakeouts seem that way until you hit pay dirt. ‘For all we know, Hope could come here’ he suggests. ‘What I know is our teammates are out doing something while we play poker’ She-Hulk replies as she holds her cards close to her. Moon Knight throws some cards down on the crate they are using as a table and tells Jennifer not to let the cute little uniforms fool her, remarking that all those kids are combat veterans. ‘We’re outnumbered a dozen to one’ he points out. He adds that if things go south here, they are going to need their secret weapon. Falcon spills his coffee as he announces that they have a visitor. ‘Everyone stay cool’ he adds, while She-Hulk remarks ‘I know this one. She’s bad news’ as Frenzy approaches the Quinjet.
‘Frenzy. I understood you had classes’ Falcon remarks as he steps outsider, followed by She-Hulk and Momon Knight. Frenzy replies that she only teaches hand-to-hand combat and gym, and that she is done for the day. ‘Well, can we…help you with something?’ Sam asks her. Frenzy reminds him that the agreement was the Avengers would stay a hundred yards away. ‘By my reckoning, that’s right about…here’ she declares as she draws a line in the dirt with her feet. ‘You’re watching us. Making sure we don’t cross any lines. I’m doing the same to you. Can’t imagine you have a problem with that’ Frenzy remarks. Falcon doesn’t reply, he and Joanna stare each other down for a time, before he turns away, ‘Knock yourself out’ he tells her, throwing a hand in the air.
Rogue, Gambit and Mimic walk together down a corridor, and Gambit remarks that if they have to thrown down with the Avengers, Mimic could copy their powers. Mimic explains that last time he mimicked a Hulk, he got radiation poisoning. ‘But maybe if I don’t keep her powers too long…’ he suggests. Gambit tells him that it isn’t worth the risk, and suggests that they can handle the three of them. ‘Ain’t like they got Thor or Iron Man out there’ he remarks, to which Rogue tells him that she thought he didn’t want to fight. Remy replies that he hasn’t got a burning desire to, but that he doesn’t want the kids to if it can be helped. He adds that he hasn’t lived this long by hoping for the best. ‘So you’re like Bobby? You think I’m being naïve?’ Rogue asks.
Gambit smiles and tells Rogue that he thinks she worked damn hard to get here - powers under control, place to call home, a teacher, a leader, giving kids what she never had, so it is understandable she would be reluctant to shake that up, especially in a way that takes her back to a place she would prefer not to go. As they pas several students who are looking out a window, Gambit tells Rogue that he doesn’t blame her for holding tight to what she has. He suggests that if he was her, he would think a bit on what it would take to make him let go, because the problem with standing still is that the world keeps on spinning around. ‘Check it out. About time someone here took a stand for us’ Hellion exclaims as he, Match and Glob Herman watch Frenzy.
Back outside, Moon Knight addresses Frenzy by her real name and tells her that he knows who she is, that she has a sheet as long as his arm - terrorism, murder, and that she has never answered for any of it. ‘Why do you think I’m here?’ Frenzy mutters in reply, before addressing Moon Knight by his real name, and suggests they talk about him. ‘That supposed to rattle me? I produce a TB show about myself. My life’s prime-time entertainment’ Marc tells Frenzy. ‘Not all of it. I was a mercenary too, Spector. I heard the stuff a Google search doesn’t turn up’ Frenzy remarks. ‘The wetwork. The torture. You deserve a cell right next to me. But that isn’t why the other operators talked about you…why you scare stone killers. You got a rep for being a little off. Your powers, the moon…but they’ve got nothing to do with it, do they?’ Joanna tells him.
Moon Knight’s eyes light up under his hood, and Frenzy suggests that someone should tell his Avenger buddies he was a lunatic before he ever put the suit on. ‘That you doubled down on the crazy…because you like it’ Joanna exclaims. This causes Moon Knight to lunge at her, and wraps his arms around her neck. Joanna smiles at him. ‘Look at that. You crossed the line’ she points out as she raises her fists - which sport some sort of solid weapon attached to them - and she smacks Moon Knight in the face so hard that she forces him to the ground, shattering the concrete.
‘Awesome!’ Match exclaim as he and the other kids continue to watch from inside. ‘Hell yeah!’ Glob Herman declares. ‘No way are they keeping us prisoners ever again’ Hellion begins. Rogue hears their commotion and asks what is going on - but as she goes over to the boys and looks out the window, she sees for herself.
‘Been begging for this-’ She-Hulk tells Frenzy as she punches her in the face. ‘Stuck up human cow’ Frenzy replies as she punches back. ‘HEY!’ Rogue calls out as she rushes from the building to where the battle has gone into full swing. The kids follow her, and Hellion declares that Frenzy and Rogue have gone into bat for them, so they have to back them up. Glob Herman asks Match to light him up, so Match engulfs Glob in flame and he rushes towards She-Hulk and Falcon, while Rogue tries to pull Frenzy away, and absorbs her power in the process. ‘Take your head out of the sand! This ends with us all in cells!’ Frenzy exclaims. ‘That’s where you belong!’ She-Hulk shouts as Falcon pulls her back, telling her not to get carried away, when suddenly, the flaming Glob shouts ‘MUTANT POWER!’ as he looms over them.
Suddenly, She-Hulk slams her hands together, causing a shockwave, which knocks Glob, Hellion and Match backwards. ‘NO!’ Rogue gasps, before rushing over to Hellion’s bleeding body. ‘Jen, those were students!’ Falcon declares. ‘Wh- I - I saw a monster…’ She-Hulk replies, hanging her head. ‘Course you did’ Rogue mutters, while Moon Knight declares that the X-Men attacked them. ‘Quiet. Look, this was a mistake…’ Falcon begins. ‘Damn right’ Rogue tells him, frowning, before rushing over to the Avengers, and pushing Moon Knight backwards, she wraps her hands around She-Hulk’s neck, and begins to absorb her power, while declaring ‘And y’all made it!’
Falcon calls out Redwing and tells his bird to active emergency protocols. Redwing flies over to the Quinjet, and landing on a button, causing the Quinjet to suddenly shift and change form. Frenzy tells Rogue that she could use more of her power back about now, as she tosses Moon Knight in the air, when suddenly, Rogue is knocked sideways, and a voice announces ‘I gold Falcon to only call me in case of an emergency…so I’m going to assume being nice has failed…and just end this fast’ Iron Man announces as he flies towards Rogue….


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‘Been here before, ain’t Ah? Ah was just a little super villain debutante when Ah went up against Iron Man. Mah powers didn’t affect him. Couldn’t get past the armor to touch the man inside’. Rogue thinks to herself as she recalls her first encounter with Tony “Iron Man” Stark, while battling the armoured Avenger in the here and now at the Jean Grey School, in Westchester. Rogue has absorbed the powers of She-Hulk, while Iron Man asks her if she is recalling their first fight, recalling that she ran. He tells her that if she was smart, she would do that again. ‘That was a long time ago, sugah’ Rogue replies. ‘Not long enough!’ Iron Man exclaims as he releases a repulsor beam at close range, while Rogue covers his face with a hand, but she plummets back to the ground below, landing where her fellow X-Men teammates have gathered.
Remy “Gambit” LeBeau, Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill, Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie, Calvin “Mimic” Rankin, Paige “Husk” Guthrie and Jonathan “Chamber” Starsmore are prepared for battle. ‘All right, X-Men. These Avengers invaded our house. Treated us like criminals. Hurt our students’ Rogue tells them. The X-Men rush into action, with Cannonball blasting towards Iron Man, while Mimic confronts Sam Wilson a.k.a. the Falcon, mid air. Gambit throws some kinetically-charged playing cards at Marc Spector the Moon Knight, while Rogue once again engages Jennifer Walters a.k.a. the She-Hulk in combat, while Husk and Chamber search through the rubble for the injured students - Hellion, Glob Herman and Match. ’Let’s show ’em that was a real bad idea!’ Rogue shouts.
As he punches Mimic in the face, the Falcon tells Iron Man that things got out of hand. ‘But maybe it’s not too late to -’ he begins, but Iron Man interrupts, telling him that it is. ‘They see us as the enemy. And frankly, they should’ he declares. Iron Man adds that the X-Men and Avengers are at war, so every place and every person is now an asset, a weapon to be used, or taken out. With that, Iron Man releases a sonic weapon, which causes Cannonball to cover his ears in agony and spin out of control. ‘Damnation. He took one of our heaviest hitters out in seconds. Cannonball’s invulnerable to physical attacks, so he hit him with sonics. Our advantage in numbers is nothing. Iron Man could beat us all himself’ Rogue thinks to herself as she punches She-Hulk hard in the face. Looking up at the Falcon punch Mimic again, Rogue tells herself that she didn’t want to go here, that she put the person she used to be in the rear-view, and was hell-bent and determined to leave her there.
‘But we’re running out of options. So it’s time to get old-school’ Rogue decides, leaving the unconscious She-Hulk amongst the rubble, she flies towards Falcon and pulls him from Mimic, slamming him into the ground below. ’What are you doing to him?’ Calvin asks her as he hovers above.  Rogue explains that this is how her powers used to work - that she touched someone, she got their skills and psyche, knocked them unconscious, painfully. ‘Ah’m changing the odds, making their strengths ours’ she adds as she takes Falcon’s power. ‘Same way Ah beat the Avengers back in the day, steal their powers - like Falcon’s ability to talk to birds…and use them against their friends’ Rogue remarks, as a flock of birds suddenly swarms around Iron Man. As she flies over to Iron Man, Rogue tells herself that she hates this feeling, having someone else’s thoughts in her head - it’s like an old wound being torn open again.
Rogue knows that if she lets that hold her back, her friends pay the price - and she isn’t about to let that happen - no matter how far she has to take it. She drops Iron Man off in some woods, and tells Mimic to keep Iron Man busy. ‘Ah’ll be back as soon as Ah can!’ Rogue tells him. ‘He’ll have a long wait!’ She-Hulk boasts as she rushes towards Rogue, but Rogue quickly darts away from her. ‘Hey! Since when can you move like -’ She-Hulk exclaims, but Rogue attacks her from behind and retorts ‘Since Ah took Falcon’s abilities. Like Ah’m gonna take yours’. But She-Hulk tells her that she isn’t going to make it easy. ‘Easy’s the last thing this is’ Rogue replies. She-Hulk suddenly slams rogue backwards into a tree, shattering the tree and knocking it over. Rogue begins to drown inside her own head - so many voices, yammering, like to drive her nuts.
But, she did despite being as mad as hell, her plan worked, and She-Hulk has been depleted of power, reduced to her human form. ‘Rouge? You okay? You look -’ Frenzy begins as she rushes over to the massive Rogue standing before her. ‘Mad enough to smash’ Rogue thinks to herself as she turns and growls, punching Frenzy in the face.
Back at the school buildings, ‘Kitty! Open up!’ Paige exclaims as she and Chamber help the kids to a window. Chamber is carrying the badly injured Hellion, while Kitty “Shadowcat” Pryde phases through the side of the building, explaining that the school is locked down, but she can phase them through. She does so, while Paige explains that Glob Herman and Match were just stunned, but she thinks Hellion’s eardrum has burst. Paige offers to take Hellion to the med-bay. Kitty asks how bad it is out there, and Chamber tells her that it is going pear-shaped, that Iron Man is making mince-meat out of the X-Men. He tells Kitty that Rogue has pulled out the stops, but if he was being honest, he doesn’t know that Rogue can handle it. Shadowcat tells Chamber to stay here and make sure the kids don’t do anything else stupid. ‘What’re you gonna do?’ Chamber replies, and as she dives through the wall, Kitty replies ‘Whatever it takes’.
While still battling with Moon Knight, Gambit calls out to Rogue, telling her to listen to his voice, assuring her that she can handle this. Walking out of the woods, Rogue tells Remy that she is okay, but she knows she is only barely okay, as she had no idea that She-Hulk keeps that kind of rage suppressed. Rogue hasn’t done anything like this in ages, and is not sure how long she can bear it. ‘Gotta end this fast’ she knows, and flies towards Iron Man, who is firing a close-range repulser beam at Mimic. ‘Before Ah’m more of a threat to mah own people than the Avengers’ Rogue tells herself as she suddenly cracks Iron Man’s hand.
‘Pay attention, Gambit. Your students were better disciplined than you’ Moon Knight exclaims as he kicks Gambit hard in the face. But Gambit recomposes himself quickly, and slams Moon Knight with his staff. ‘You ain’t fighting children now, homme’ he replies. ‘Good point’ Moon Knight remarks as he releases some sharp blades attached to his knuckles. ‘Let’s break out the grown-up toys’ Moon Knight declares. ‘Your call. Your funeral’ Gambit replies as he throws a series of kinetically charged playing cards at Moon Knight, knocking the mysterious Avenger backwards. Remy goes over to him, and tells Moon Knight to give up, as he doesn’t want to hurt him more than he has to. ‘Oh, it hurts all right…but it was the fastest way to show some skin!’ Moon Knight declares, revealing his now bare arm.
Moon Knight then leaps into the air, and tackles Rogue. ‘You want Avengers in your head? Have a I got a bonanza for you!’ Moon Knight tells Rogue as he shoves his bare arm against her skin. They then drop to the ground, although Rogue lands on her feet. ‘Guess the rumors’re true - he is crazy. Just giving me his powers like that’ Rogue thinks to herself. She isn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth, when suddenly, she clutches her head, overflowing with voices. ‘Too many lives at stake’. ‘I’m the best there is at what I do’. ‘On your feet, soldier’. ‘Smash you ALL!’ she hears, before dropping to her knees, ‘Shut it! Shut up!’ she cries. Gambit rushes over to her. ‘What did he do?’ Remy calls out. ‘Crippled her’ Iron Man exclaims as he flies in between Gambit and Rogue.
Iron Man explains that Moon Knight has multiple personalities, and that he manages to keep them controlled - barely - through years of practice. ‘I’d imagine it’s considerably harder for her’ Iron Man adds. ‘You heartless - gloves are off, eh?’ Gambit declares as he shoves his staff into Iron Man’s chest. Remy then leans back, dodging one of Iron Man’s blasts, although it does tear a hole through Gambit’s trench coat. ‘Impressive. You’re faster than my targeting computer’ Iron Man remarks, before retaliating by widening his energy beam, dowsing Gambit, and knocking him back. ‘Remy!’ Rogue calls out from where she is still on the ground nearby. More voices rush through her head: ‘Fly, why can’t I fly?’. ‘Forget him, eyes on the enemy -’. ‘He hurt Remy. Make him pay’. ‘MAKE YOU HURT!’ Rogue exclaims as she gets to her feet, and with her She-Hulk strength slams her fist into Iron Man’s chest. ‘Wait- doesn’t he need his chest-plate to live?’ Rogue thinks to herself. ‘Yes! That’s why you hit it! Now, before he recovers. Do it again!’ another voice inside Rogue.
But Rogue tells herself that she can’t kill him. ‘But if Ah don’t control mahself Ah could -’ she realizes, while Iron Man fires another blast at Gambit, and Shadowcat rushes over to Frenzy, asking her if she is okay. Getting to her feet, Joanna explains that she was just stunned, caught by surprise. Frenzy tells Shadowcat to go back to the school, that it is chaos out here. ‘I don’t think handing out detentions will do much good’ Frenzy adds. But Shadowcat replies that disrupting Iron Man’s systems might, which is what happens when she phases through technology. Kitty asks Joanna if she has been here long enough to know what a Fastball Special is. ‘I’m strong. Not stupid’ Frenzy mutters as she picks Shadowcat up and tosses her towards Iron Man with ease. Right on target, too, as Kitty phases through Iron Man, and tells Tony Stark that this is her school, and he is expelled, while his circuits short out.
‘You didn’t think I’d have countermeasures for something like that?’ Iron Man retorts as he forces Kitty from his armor, causing her to smack into the ground. Kitty calls out to Rogue, asking her if she can hear her, explaining that they need her. ‘Can’t - Ah’m a section eight’ Rogue replies, while thinking to herself ‘That wasn’t me talking. Ah’m losing myself, just like the bad old days…’. But the rage continues to build inside her: ‘It’s her fault! Make the pain go away! Smash!’ she hears, while urging herself not to lose control. Kitty goes over to Rogue and tells her that the Iron Man armor is empty inside, that she saw it. ‘What? We’re fighting a…a drone?’ Rogue asks. Kitty suggests that it is probably just one of Tony’s older suits, running on an artificial intelligence program, possibly remote control. ‘The point is…there’s no person in there’ Kitty tells Rogue.
But Rogue covers her face and declares that she hit Frenzy, that she could still lose it and go after Kitty, or the students. Kitty replies that she understands, and tells Rogue that she has to do this. ‘Nobody else can stop him!’ she exclaims. Rogue hears more voices inside her: ‘Crush her. She’s lying -’. ‘Psy-ops. She’s trying to get into your head, ignore it -’. ‘The ythink you’re crazy. They’ll lock you up if you don’t take them all down -’. ‘Call for back up!’ ‘No. Don’t trust anyone!’ the voices calls out. ‘All’a y’all…HUSH!’ Rogue exclaims as she gets to her feet. ‘Ha!’ she declares as she approaches Iron Man, who has a hand around Frenzy’s throat. ‘Hey. Remember me?’ Rogue asks as she taps Iron Man on the shoulder. ‘AH’M ROGUE!’ Rogue exclaims as she punches a hole through the uninhabited Iron Man armor.
‘Ah’m an X-Man. This is may house. And you’re trespassing!’ Rogue declares as she continues to punch the Iron Man armor. ‘SO AH’M GIVING YOU THE BOOT!’ Rogue screams as she tears the armor apart. The armor falls to the ground, energy crackling from it. Shadowcat helps Frenzy up, while Gambit rushes over to Rogue, who still resembles She-Hulk, and asks her if she is okay, if she knows who she is. ‘Hrrr….hrrrr…hrrr…Like Ah told him. Ah’m Rogue’ comes the reply. ‘And Ah just beat the Avengers. Again’ she boasts as she picks up the Iron Man helmet and crushes it with her bare - green - hands.
Later, Shadowcat phases out of the Quinjet, and tells Rogue, Gambit, Frenzy, Cannonball and Mimic that the autopilot will take the Avengers home. I’m sure I don’t have to tell any of you this isn’t the end. We just lost any chance of staying neutral’ she explains. Rogue tells Kitty that was never an option, that they were fooling themselves to think it was. ‘Iceman was right’ she adds, remarking that there is no sitting on the sidelines in this one. She tells her friends that what has come before doesn’t matter, that it is about their future now - the difference between having one and not. ‘We let fear of the past tie our hands, we’re taking that choice away from ourselves before anyone else even gets the chance’ Rogue states. She turns to her friends and tells them to call Rachel and Iceman and let them know they are in.
Kitty turns to Rogue and points out that was just a skeleton crew of Avengers - that the real Iron Man in his current armor won’t go down as easily. ‘Good thing Ah’ve had practice, then’ Rogue replies. Gambit asks Rogue if she doesn’t want to switch back to normal, to which Rogue replies ‘Not unless you want the Avengers to wake up and turn that Quinjet around. It’s okay, Remy. Ah got the hang of it’ she assures him, explaining that it is like riding a bicycle, down a mountain, perhaps, but she can manage. Gambit suggests to Rogue that she could stay here, as he knows she doesn’t want this. Rogue replies that it isn’t the fight she was afraid of, but it was herself, in her past, coming back to haunt her. Rogue tells Gambit that he was right, that she was afraid of losing what she has got, what she has achieved. ‘But if Ah spend my life looking over mah shoulder, Ah ain’t got nothing’ she tells declares. Rogue frowns, determined, as she announces that this is their future, and she is ready to start looking forward.


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Violent conflict has been a fact of life in Narobia for over a quarter century. That ended yesterday. With just one-fifth of the power of the Phoenix, Cyclops disarmed all rebels, warlords and the government’s military forces. When the X-Men outlaw war, no one messes about. Indeed, Scott “Cyclops” Summers appeared over the war-torn nation in spectacular cosmic fury, taking the trouble-makers down with relative ease.
Meanwhile, Joanna “Frenzy” Cargill of the Westchester-based X-Men is on the ramp of a jet, in radio contact with the Stepford Cuckoos - Celeste, Phoebe and Irma. ‘I’ve been in a few war zones in my day. Let me guess: Summers didn’t get all the guns’ Frenzy remarks. A telepathic response from one of the girls points out that the Phoenix Five are godlike, but not omnipotent, so some weapons did indeed survive. ‘So, in the power vacuum left by the warlords, a few ambitious, armed wan naves see their chance to be boss’ Frenzy mutters, before announcing that she will take them out, adding that there is always going to be someone else with the same idea. ‘Not to mention sectarian violence and banditry. The locals have been at war for decades; many don’t know anything else’ one of the Cuckoos replies.
Inside a facility, the Cuckoos are with James “Warpath” Proudstar and they are keeping watch over a prisoner. ‘That’s our job. As soon as we’ve dismantled Iran’s nuclear program, we’ll be dropping in for a mass memory rewrite, replacing the bad with happy, shiny thoughts’ one of the girls explains, adding that until then, Frenzy is to keep the people will guns from killing each other for, six hours. ‘We’ll leave the specifics with you’ she adds. As Frenzy leaps from the jet, without a parachute, of course, she radios back ‘Wait, you’ve got my babysitting humans? I thought there was a target! I thought this was a combat mission! I don’t even like humans!’ Joanna adds. The Cuckoos reply that they know, which is why they were a bit vague on the details until after she jumped out of the plane.
As she drops towards the densely covered ground below, Frenzy tells the Cuckoos to read her mind so they can see what she is imagining doing to them. ‘Oh, stop. Aren’t you the one who shaved her head as some awful fashion statement? About wanting to be heroic?’ one of the girls points out. ‘For mutants’ Frenzy replies, adding that this is supposed to be the dawn of a new era for them, so why are they even bothering with humans when mutants have their own problems? ‘But we don’t. Not anymore’ one of the Cuckoos points out, and an instant later, Frenzy lands with an earth-shattering crash into the ground. Joanna emerges from the broken earth, and tells the Cuckoos not to expect her to preach peace and brotherhood to flatscans, as it is not in her vocabulary. ‘Even if I did speak their language’ she mutters.
‘You do. I’ve just implanted several regional dialects in your brain’ one of the girls tells her. ‘I’ll implant a brick in yours!’ comes Frenzy’s swift reply. ‘Really, Frenzy. You’re spoiling world peace for everyone’ one of the Cuckoos tells her. ‘Six hours. One second longer and I’ll walk out of this hellhole’ Frenzy announces, while some of the locals start to gather around her.
 ‘Pathetic’ Frenzy mutters as she examines her surroundings, when suddenly, she spins around as a voice shouts ‘Monster!’, and she sees a brutish man push a young girl to the ground. ‘Useless, willful brat!’ the man snarls. ‘You will obey me!’ he shouts, and Frenzy suddenly remembers being in a similar situation herself, as a girl, crying on the floor as a man loomed over her, hand raised, shouting ‘I warn you every time! But you just won’t listen!’
The young woman tries to get up, but the man grabs her by his wrists. ‘Apologize. Admit you were wrong and I will be forgiving’ the man declares. The girl responds by spitting in the man’s face. ‘You have the devil in you!’ the man shouts as he throws the girl to the ground, vowing to beat the devil out of her. He raises a fist, when suddenly, Frenzy comes up behind him and grabs him. ‘How dare you?’ the man declares, turning back to Frenzy. ‘Funny, that’s what I was about to say’ Frenzy replies. The man pulls back, ‘You speak our language, but I can tell you are American. You interfere with matters you know nothing about. This is my wife. She has been disobedient. It is my duty - my right - to discipline her’ the man announces.
‘His wife? Was that your idea?’ Frenzy asks, turning to the girl, who quickly replies ‘No’. The man tells Frenzy that she is a stranger here, so he will be patient with her, and suggests she return to her aid ground, hand out some food, pat herself on the back for helping the poor Africans and go home, otherwise she will learn what happens here when women do not know their place. Frenzy smiles, and replies ‘Teach me. I dare you’. The man raises a machete and rushes towards Frenzy - he brings it down to strike her, but the machete breaks against Joanna’s powerful form. Frenzy grabs the man by his wrists and breaks them with ease. He has tears in his eyes as Frenzy grabs his face and angrily tells him to ‘Consider this your divorce’. He falls to the ground, and tries to get away, ‘You’re one of them! The abominations!’ he exclaims, before getting to his feet and running off, while calling back ‘You are achieving nothing, monster. You will see. We have power too. And we will be here long after you are gone!’
Frenzy turns to the girl and asks ‘He’s with the militia?’, to which the girl confirms that he is. ‘Good. Maybe I can actually accomplish something here’ Frenzy remarks as she makes her way into the woods, following the man - but the girl tells her to wait, and explains that their camp is deep in the bush, that she will never find it. ‘I’ve done my share of tracking, girl’ Frenzy replies, before the girl declares that she knows where it is, and will go with her. ‘You’d just get in the way!’ Frenzy replies. The girl turns away, dejected, and Frenzy’s mind recalls a time like earlier, when the brutish man told her that she was pathetic and good for nothing. ‘This world’s gonna grind you up, girl. Mark my words’ Joanna remembers him saying. She frowns, before announcing that it would go faster with a guide. ‘Let’s go, if you’re going’ Joanna tells the girl.
‘You are strong’ she exclaims as she follows Frenzy, and watches her lift a massive tree trunk that had fallen onto a dirt track, with one hand. ‘I’m also not big on small talk’ Frenzy replies her, but the girl ignores the comment and asks her ‘Who taught you to fight? Your father?’ Frenzy frowns, and remembers playing with a toy gun and soldier’s hat, only for her father to smack her hard across the face: ‘If you ever touch your brother’s toys again!’ he boomed. ‘Yeah,. Guess he did’ Frenzy tells the girl, while putting the tree upright. ‘He beat you’ the girl calls out. Frenzy scowls, before moving ahead and punching a large rock, shattering it, she announces that her father was a soldier, a good one, and that he already had a son to carry on his legacy. ‘They never planned to have me. I was an accident, born premature…sick a lot. Too weak to help around the house. Just another mouth to feed in hard times’.
‘Useless’ Frenzy mutters, while the girl asks her if her mother tried to stop her father, but Frenzy replies that her mama was a churchgoing woman, who used to say that the meek shall inherit the Earth. ‘Even as a kid I knew that was crap’ Frenzy remarks, while recalling something else her mama used to say, and remembering her tending to her wounds: ‘God never sends us more than we can bear’. Frenzy punches another large rock, shattering it into small stones, and declares that her mama was wrong about that, too, before her mind wanders back….
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Two soldiers appear at the Cargill family home. Mr and Mrs Cargill, and Joanna stand on the porch, while one of the soldiers announces that the Secretary of the Army has asked him to express their deep regret that the Cargill’s son was killed in action…. Joanna found her father in an office, bottle of alcohol in one hand, while his other hand pushes papers and books of a desk in rage. In her brother’s room, Joanna looked at a photo of her brother in his military uniform, hugging her,. She picks up one of his army hats and puts it on. Looking in a full length mirror, she prepares to salute, when suddenly, a voice calls out ‘What the hell are you doing?’, and Joanna turns in shock, to see her father at the door.
Mr Cargill lumbers into the room, ‘D-Daddy, I -’ Joanna begins, but her father punches her hard in the face, ‘You have no right! He gave everything!’ Mr Cargill booms, before punching his daughter in her stomach. ‘I gave everything! Everything to my country1 And still they took my son!’ Mr Cargill exclaims. Joanna falls onto the bed, and her father mutters ‘Left me with nothing’, while Joanna tells her father that it hurts. ‘LESS THAN NOTHING!’ Mr Cargill booms. Tears streaming down her face, Joanna pleads with her father to stop, but he doesn’t listen, so she screams ‘STOP!’ and reaches upwards, punching her father - so hard that her fist goes through his chest, and he falls to the floor. Joanna looks at her blood-covered fist, then her mother calls out to her, but Joanna leaps through the window, and runs away.
Present:
The girl continues to follow Frenzy, in silence, until she announces that when the soldiers came, they killed her father, and shot her mother, but didn’t kill her. ‘They gave me a machete. And they told me to kill her. Or they would kill me’. Frenzy turns in horror, and walks over to the girl. ‘They made you one of them’ Joanna remarks. ‘Until I turned thirteen. Then they gave me to my husband’ the girl explains, hanging her head. ‘He said I am a monster’ the girl tells Frenzy as she clings to her back, while Frenzy climbs up a vertical cliff-face. ‘He’s the monster’ Frenzy replies, while the girl points out that she has done many bad things. ‘You didn’t have a choice’ Frenzy assures her, as they climb onto flat ground, and look out over the beautiful landscape. ‘When you are grown up, you can do whatever you like?’ the girl asks.
‘Yeah’ Frenzy tells her, adding that most people don’t, as they keep doing what they always have, or find someone else to control them, something else. ‘I will be different’ the girl announces. ‘You just might be’ Frenzy replies, smiling. They continue on through the bush, and finally, Frenzy asks the girl what her name is. ‘Angelique’ the girl replies, before quietly announcing that they are getting close, when suddenly, ‘Oh!’ she gasps, as she sees her husband lying on the ground, blood drenched from a wound to his torso. Angelique starts crying, so Frenzy puts her arms around her. ‘He was a bad man. He was a bad man…’ Angelique utters, while Frenzy tells her to stay in the bushes, as she closes in on the militia village nearby.
Frenzy runs towards the men, who are gathered together, talking, doing nothing. They all begin firing their weapons at her, but she is fast, and the bullets that do strike her are useless. She reaches one man and smacks him in the face, hard. ‘Die, witch!’ another of the militia calls out, firing dozens of shots at close range, knocking Frenzy backwards, but she recovers, and grabs him by the throat. She holds him high into the air, she is angry - but Joanna glances at Angelique, who looks shocked. Frenzy’s anger turns to concern, and she drops the man to the ground, before turning and walking over to Angelique, ‘We’re done here’ Frenzy announces.
Two hours later, back at the village, locals have gathered around Frenzy and Angelique, while the Stepford Cuckoos have arrived. One of the girls announces to Angelique ‘Frenzy tells us you’ve been very brave. Don’t worry, dear, soon all the bad things that happened to you will fade away just like a dream’. But Frenzy tells the Cuckoos to hold on, and asks whether they can really pull this off - go into all their minds and take away specific memories. ‘If we combine our powers, within a limited radius, yes, why?’ one of the girls replies. ‘Because I don’t think you should’ Joanna announces. She points out that what these people have been through is terrible, and some of them have experienced things no human being can take. ‘Them, you should help’.
Frenzy continues, adding that it is probably a good idea to reduce the trauma, the post traumatic stress disorder, calm the body’s fight-or-flight response, the involuntary reactions. She tells the Cuckoos that as far as the unrepentant sociopaths go, the ones who like killing, for all she cares, the girls can shut their brains right off. Looking around at the villagers, Joanna tells the Cuckoos that if they erase these people’s memories, of what they have done and what was done to them, they are taking away part of who they are. ‘An extremely painful part’ one of the Cuckoos remarks. Frenzy tells her that pain is a survival mechanism, telling you what you shouldn’t do again. ‘Without that, they’re sitting ducks for the next warlord who comes along. And if you don’t think there’s gonna be one, you’re dreaming’.
‘Besides, some of ‘em…they’ve done things. Things they should carry with them’ Joanna declares. ‘We suppose we could do what you say’ one of the Cuckoos replies, but another suggests that they should consult Cyclops or Ms Frost first. ‘Screw them. They’re not gods. We can make our own decisions. So can they’ Frenzy replies, motioning to the villagers. Frenzy tells the Cuckoos to just do it, and that she will take the responsibility, before walking towards the jet stationed nearby. ‘You are leaving?’ Angelique calls out as she rushes over to Frenzy. ‘Yeah’ Joanna replies. ‘Things will be better now?’ the girl enquires. ‘That’s up to you’ Frenzy declares, putting a hand on Angelique’s shoulder, before turning, and continuing on towards the jet.


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China, ‘It’s amazing!’ Rogue exclaims as she looks out over a barren landscape, where Bobby “Iceman” Drake has constructed an intricate ice-sled, glistening in the sun. Illyana Rasputin a.k.a. Magik, one of the Phoenix Five, drops down beside Rogue and remarks ‘Isn’t it, though?’, as she explains that the ice will melt slowly, irrigating the land without overwhelming it - meaning no mudslides, no flash floods. ‘Simple but elegant’ the young mutant adds. ‘Ah meant all of it. What we’ve been able to do. Ah’m not surprised by you and the others who split the Phoenix’s power, but the rest of us…’ Rogue remarks. ‘Ordinary X-Men like me and Iceman, making such a huge difference in the world…it kinda blows my mind’ Rogue adds. Magik agrees that it is remarkable what they can accomplish when they are not constantly fighting for their lives.
Magik looks at Rogue and tells her that she has been a key part of that, because of her ability to replicate powers, each X-Man can be in two places at once. ‘I know we must be running you ragged. You’ve barely had a minute to sleep, let alone -’ Magik begins, but Rogue smiles and declares that she finally feels like she is done making up for past mistakes, that she is moving forward instead of looking back. ‘This is Heaven’ Rogue adds. Iceman slides down to Rogue and Magik, and calling Magik “boss” tells her that he is sorry to keep her waiting. ‘For the hundredth time, Iceman, I’m not your boss. This is not a hierarchy. Mutantkind is unified and equal’ Magik replies. Rogue asks Bobby if he is sure he can spare her some of his power, to which Bobby smiles and replies ‘To help the big easy? Anytime. Spring break at mardis gras is all that got me through accounting school’.
Rogue presses her bare hand to Bobby’s neck and asks him if he believes this. ‘Seems like yesterday we were just trying to keep our students alive, and now -’ she begins, while Bobby declares that he knows. ‘Remember that old hippie bumper sticker, “visualize world peace”?’ and states that this sure looks like it to him. ‘And the X-Men did it. We finally made a dream come true’.
Soon, Rogue arrives in New Orleans, and using Iceman’s powers, she has frozen a large lake. Soldiers look up at her from where they stand on the lake’s damn, and she tells them that the ice should hold long enough for them to make repairs. ‘But if you need it reinforced, just holler’ she calls out. Rogue drops down onto the damn and one of the soldiers thanks her. ‘With those storms bearing down on us, well, you’re a godsend’ he adds, before asking her if she has a Mississippi accent. ‘Caldecott County, sugah’ Rogue replies. The soldier adds that it is even better having a local help out. Handing her a small box, he declares that he knows it isn’t much, but thought she might like some catfish. ‘What do you say…little taste of home sound good?’ he asks Rogue. ‘Honey, you got no idea’ Rogue smiles.
Rogue sits on the side of the lake and eats the catfish. ‘Home. Can’t remember the last time someone outside the X-Men made me feel Ah had one’ she tells herself, while deciding that this must be what it’s like for the Avengers - or what it used to be like, before they declared war on the X-Men. Rogue doesn’t know why the Avengers can’t just let it go. She had concerns about the Phoenix Force too, as the X-Men know better than anyone how dangerous it can be. She knows that the power getting split into five parts must have made it easier to handle, and remind herself that it isn’t just the Phoenix Five doing this, it is all of the X-Men. ‘We made this peace together. And we’ll keep it together’.
‘Ma’am?’ the kindly soldier calls out as he approaches Rogue, he tells her that he is sorry to bother her, but that they have picked up a distress call, a navy copter had engine trouble and made a forced landing in the marshlands of the Jean Lafitte Preserve. The soldier adds that it doesn’t sound serious and no one is hurt, but more than anything, it is going to be tough to get the crippled copter out of there. ’But with a storm coming, since you’re here, I thought -’ he begins, to which Rogue tells him to say no more, and once again creates an ice-sled as she takes to the sky. As she streak skyward, Rogue knows that the bottom line is this is what the X-Men fought their whole lives for, what folks they love died for. ‘Sure, we took a chance. All it takes is one look to see it worked’. Rogue supposes that is the difference between the X-Men and the Avengers - the world already look pretty good to the Avengers, and they fought to keep it as it was. ‘We fought to make it better. And by God, we’ll fight to keep it that way!’
‘Ah mean, Ah get how they must feel. They were the ultimate authority, and all of a sudden it ain’t their world no more’ Rogue thinks to herself as she continues onwards. She tells herself that the Avengers are scared and confused, and looking for a target to take it out on. ‘Target…’ Rogue thinks to herself, before realizing that she has sled over a fair part of the marshlands, and can’t find any trace of a copter. Suddenly, a voice calls out to her ‘I know what you’re thinking’, and Rogue turns to see Carol Danvers a.k.a. Ms Marvel flying towards her. ‘There is no copter. Listen to -’ Ms Marvel begins, but Rogue believes this to be an ambush, and encasing her arms in a thick covering of ice, she punches Ms Marvel, hard, knocking the long-time Avenger backwards, and sending her crashing to the ground.
Shards of ice fall around Carol, while Rogue decides that part of her knew it would come to this. Rogue lands on the ground, ‘Of course they’d send her after me. We know each other inside and out. Ah accidentally stole her powers and her mind for years. Near ruined both our lives’ Rogue recalls, reminding herself that they have fought a dozen times since, but put the personal vendetta behind them. ‘But Ah reckon this ain’t personal. We’re at war’ Rogue tells herself. Carol takes to the air, ‘Damn it, will you -’ she calls out to Rogue, but Rogue makes a prompt response but firing a huge chunk of ice at Carol, and Rogue reminds herself that she doesn’t have Ms Marvel’s powers anymore, just a fraction of Iceman’s, that she is far from an expert at using.
Rogue chases after Ms Marvel, who is kneeling in a pool of melted ice, firing energy blasts at the continuous stream of ice chunks that Rogue throws towards her. ‘But Ah can change that. Give myself something a little more…familiar’ Rogue decides, as she reaches out to Carol, and with a bare hand, presses it to Carol’s face. ‘How DARE you?’ Carol screams, more than angry. ‘You went there with me? You went there? After what you did to me?’ she shouts, knocking Rogue back with a powerful punch, sending her straight into a tree, breaking it in two. Rogue isn’t down for long though, and flies straight towards Carol, grabbing her, she forces her upwards to a series of power lines. ‘You set up an ambush. We’re at war, sugah. All’s fair!’ Rogue replies.
‘Rogue, please do us both a favor…and STAND DOWN!’ Carol orders as she smashes her in the face with her own cosmic energy, in spectacular display. Rogue begins to fly away from Carol, who announces that she just wanted to talk. ‘There’s this invention called the telephone. You might’a heard about it!’ Rogue calls back as she fires some energy blasts at Carol, who pursues Rogue and continues to fire her energy blasts also. Carol explains that she couldn’t risk calling, that it had to be in person, without the angry “firebird gods” listening in. ‘Do you really not see it? How dangerous they are?’ Carol asks. The two women keep blasting at each other with the energies, and Rogue replies that she sees hungry people getting food, wars ending, and things getting better.
‘Sure. But the power that could do that…so much, so fast…it doesn’t come without a cost’ Carol points out. ‘Your teammates…the ones who got the Phoenix power. Are they really the same people they used to be?’ Carol asks, when suddenly, Rogue streaks forward and slams into her, ‘Ah ain’t, thank God. You ain’t. People change’ Rogue points out. ‘That’s not what I mean and you know it!’ Carol exclaims, while Rogue continues to force her through the air, towards nearby buildings. ‘Right now they remember what it’s like to be regular people. To suffer. To dream. To try and fail. What happens when they forget?’ Carol asks, the two women turning swiftly as they near a building, narrowly missing it.
They fly downwards with full force, as Carol asks Rogue what happens when people find something new to fight about, what happens when they start acting ungrateful and irrational and selfish - because that is what people do. ‘Are they going to be patient with us, because they remember what its like? Or will they start rewriting minds? Or worse?’ Carol asks, as the women strike the paved road beneath them, shattering it. Ms Marvel emerges from the rubble and stands over Rogue, and declares that there is an old Twilight Zone episode about a kid with godlike power, and everyone had to do what he wanted. Because if they didn’t, he would “wish them to the cornfield”. ‘How long before your friends start wishing people to the cornfield? Or have they already?’ Ms Marvel asks.
Ms Marvel tells Rogue that on some level, she knows this. ‘You’re fighting angry, undisciplined’ she adds. ‘I get it. I do. You have the life you always wanted. You’re accepted. Useful. A force for good in the world. But it hasn’t been earned. It’s a lie’ Carol points out. She adds that it was given too easily, and the people who gave it, can take it away. Rogue frowns, and grabbing some exposed electrical wires that were uncovered when the road broke up, she shouts ‘Shut UP!’ and leaps up, punching Carol hard in the face, Rogue then takes Carol by her ankle, and pulls her into the air as she takes flight. Rogue declares that the Phoenix Five have done nothing but good since they got that power, that they have solved problems the Avengers haven’t been able to do anything about.
‘But let’s for a minute say you’re right. This ain’t five people with the Phoenix power fixing the world. It’s the X-Men. Together’ Rogue adds as she flies away from the city, still holding Carol by her ankle. ‘If something goes wrong…if they start losing touch with their humanity, start hurting instead of helping…we’ll stop ‘em. I’ll stop ‘em!’ Rogue declares as she throws Carol into a lake. ‘Because we’re X-Men, and that’s what we do’ Rogue calls out as she begins to freeze the water. ‘No matter what the odds’ Rogue replies as she stands on an ice-sled and continues to pour ice down onto the water below, while Carol looks up, frightened. Rogue knows that there is no way she will beat Ms Marvel with her powers. ‘Ah’m using them like a comfortable old shoe, while she’s been getting better’ Rogue thinks to herself.
Rogue knows that she will never use Iceman’s powers as well as him, but with a little help from mother nature, it might just be enough. But, an instant later, Carol bursts through the thick covering of ice. ‘Damnation…the woman won’t stop fighting’ Rogue thinks to herself. ‘You got a whole body of water on top of you, girl. Give up!’ Rogue thinks to herself, annoyed, continuing to make ice to trap Carol, who just punches her way through it. Suddenly, ‘Thank goodness…not sure I could’ve take much more than that’ Rogue decides as she finally encases Carol in an iceberg. ‘Fighting angry, huh? Angry like a fox’ Rogue declares, before going over, and melting the ice around Carol’s face and shoulders. Rogue radios Magik, and announces that she has a prisoner. ‘Get here soon as you can’ Rogue adds.
Carol ask Rogue to listen to her, and assures her that it wasn’t an ambush. ‘I don’t hate you. I haven’t in awhile. In fact, I’m impressed with how far you’ve come’ Carol announces, adding ‘I know you better than any of the other X-Men. And I just wanted to talk to someone on the other side who would really hear what I had to say. I thought that was you. I still hope it can be’ Carol declares. Rogue frowns, ‘Ah reckon you said your piece’ she tells Carol. ‘Yes. But I don’t think you really listened’ Carol replies, adding that she knew coming here and facing Rogue was a risk, but that it will have been worth it if it means Rogue will think about what she said - now, or later.
Rogue turns away, but glances back at Carol as the renowned Avenger asks her to keep an eye on the Phoenixes, to watch for sings. ‘I think they’re already there’ Carol adds. ‘If you see the same things I do - we do - keep your promise. Do something about it’ Carol asks rogue, telling her that she needs to open here eyes, she needs to see it. ‘Before it’s too -’ she begins, when suddenly, there is a blinding light, ‘We’ve got company’ Carol announces as Magik appears in a flaming portal. ‘Well done, Rogue. Well done. This one’s too dangerous to be running around loose’ Magik remarks. ‘Me? From what I hear you already had a pretty intense dark side before you powered up. My money’s on you to go crazy first -’ Carol replies, before Magik casts a spell, and a clamp appears on Carol’s mouth, preventing her from speaking.
‘Not to mention loud. Let’s put her where she can’t cause any more trouble’ Magik decides. Rogue replies that she isn’t sure the brig on Utopia can handle her, to which Magik announces that there is a new facility, one she made herself, and that some of Ms Marvel’s teammates are already in it. Rogue looks surprised and asks Magik if she is sure putting a bunch of Avengers in the same prison is a good idea. ‘No offense, Ah know you built it, but -’ Rogue begins, until Magik smiles and interrupts, explaining that she didn’t say she built it, but brought a piece of Limbo here to Earth. ‘And one does not easily escape Limbo. Trust me. I know’ Illyana exclaims.
Shortly, another portal opens over a volcano in the Verkhoyansk Mountains, Russia, and with Carol still encased in ice. Magik transports her to the open mouth of the volcano. ‘I promise you, Rogue, no site on the entire planet is more secure. So you can stop looking so worried’ Magik tells Rogue. They hover over the open crater, and Magik drops Ms Marvel into it. Demons are flying about, flames flicker below, and Ms Marvel falls into an organ-like pouch - her “cell”. ‘Everything is fine’ Magik states, but Rogue looks very, very concerned….


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Russia, the Verkhoyansk Mountains, where Rogue and the cosmically-powered Magik hover over the opening of the volcano. Dark cloud billows around them, and the super hero, Ms Marvel, falls into the volcano. ‘You’re just dumping her in?’ Rogue asks, shocked. She remarks that she knows this is no regular prison, but points out that Ms Marvel is an Avenger, and there are already more Avengers in there. ‘What’s to stop them from ganging up and busting out?’ Rogue enquires. With a fiery voice, Magik replies ‘What’s to stop them? Let me show you. I’m really very proud of it’, and tells Rogue that she makes an excellent point, that the Avengers have the top scientific minds on the Earth, that there is no technologically based prison they couldn’t break into, or out of. ‘So, in an era of smart phones and smart bombs, I have created my own kind of “smart prison”!’ Magik announces.
Magik teleports herself and Rogue into the volcano, and with her flaming Soulsword at her side, Magik reminds Rogue that she brought a piece of Limbo here to Earth. ‘I forget most people won’t quite understand what that means. I know you worked very hard to capture Ms Marvel. Don’t worry, Rogue, I am working equally hard to keep her’ Magik states, adding that Ms Marvel is quite literally, in a hell of her own making. At that moment, Carol Danvers a.k.a. Ms Marvel is surrounded by numerous demons from Limbo resembling horrid versions of some of her enemies from throughout her career - including one that resembles Rogue, only Rogue’s head is gone, replaced by a large mouth filled with teeth. ‘As are they all’ Magik adds as she motions down to a series of cages, strung around one part of the volcano, containing some captured Avengers.
As the original Spider-Woman is stuck in a large web, a huge spider looms over her and Magik explains that the punishments are tailored to each specific inmate, so escape is impossible. At that moment, demons taunt Luke Cage, who is being crushed under a huge weight, and Hawkeye’s arms and legs have been replaced with serpents, he is unable to reach his bow and arrow, let alone grasp his trusty weapon. Rogue looks shocked, but Magik declares ‘We’ve won, Rogue. Bring as many Avengers as you can. I have a place for them all’. The young mutant then asks Rogue if something is wrong, and looking down at Quicksilver, trapped by hideous creatures, Rogue replies ‘Ah…it’s…y’know, Ah’m guessing they’d say this is cruel and unusual punishment’. But Magik points out that they are at war, that there is no other way to hold beings as powerful as this, not without crippling them.
Magik adds that it may not be pleasant, but that the Avengers are not suffering real harm, and they won’t, unless they try to escape, which, given what they experiencing, is unlikely. Magik turns to Rogue and tells her that she realizes it looks terrifying, but that is the point, that keeping them too distracted to hurt themselves, or the X-Men. ‘Which, let’s not forget, is how they got here’. Rogue supposes that Magik is right, and agrees that the X-Men are the ones trying to make the world better. ‘They made the choice to try and stop us. Ah just hate to see it come to this’. ‘As do we all’ Magik claims. Rogue suggests that any breakout is more likely to happen from outside, as the Avengers teammates will come for them sooner or later. ‘Good. That would save us the trouble of hunting them’ Magik decides.
‘See for yourself what awaits an outsider who invades my domain’ Magik announces as she teleports Rogue away. Rogue finds herself in another part of the volcano, surrounded by a massive horde of Limbo demons. ‘Outsider’ one of them exclaims. ‘Mortal’ another declares. ‘Hello, tasty morsel’ one other exclaims. ‘Infect. Corrupt. Pervert’ another snarls. ‘…crap’ Rogue utters, but, before the demons can attack her, Magik appears. ‘Away with you. This one is mine’ Magik warns her demons. ‘Mistress’ one of them utters. Magik smirks at Rogue, ‘I trust my point is made. Let them send Thor. Or Iron Man. Let them send all they have’ she exclaims, boasting that this is her place of power, that the Avengers will fall before her armies, and end up in cells of their own.
Magik teleports herself and Rogue back into the volcano, and Magik states that at the end of the day, this is her facility, and she is the final line of defense. She adds that the removal of an inmate from their confinement will mystically alert her, no matter where she is on this world or any other. ‘I can be here in milliseconds’ Magik boasts, adding that the escapees will find there are worse things than Hell. Rogue frowns, and as she motions to the opening at the base of the volcano, where a storm rages outside, Rogue tells Magik that she has all the bases covered. Magik excuses herself, announcing that the others have located one of Dr Strange’s safe houses, and she is needed to undo the protective spells. Magik tells Rogue that she will return for her shortly. Rogue tells her not to worry, as she will just call Ariel and have her teleport back to Utopia in two shakes. ‘Ah could use some R&R’ Rogue adds. ‘Of course. Here I am yammering on, and you must be exhausted, sorry. I’m starting to forget what that’s like’ Magik declares, before teleporting away. ‘Ya don’t say’ Rogue mutters.
Suddenly, Rogue slams a fist against the side of the volcano, ‘Damn it. We’d won. All our dreams had come true. All mah dreams. Damn it to hell!’ Rogue shouts. She leans against the wall, before realizing that it was she herself who damned Ms Marvel to tell. ‘And me who promised if Magik and the rest start losing their humanity, Ah’d do wha Ah could to make it right’ she reminds herself. She looks at the exit, and asks herself ‘So, what’s it gonna be, girl?’. She continues to stare at the raging storm outside, before turning and walking back into the volcano, ‘Talk about mah mouth writing checks mah butt can’s cash…’ Rogue mutters.
Examining her surroundings, Rogue decides that Magik was right - there is no way any fights through the army she has got here, so Rogue knows that she has to move fast. Sliding down a path, Rogue is noticed by a large red demon with four arms, a long tail, horns and a slobbering tongue. ‘Outsider! DIE!’ the demon exclaims as he races towards her. Rogue knows that she will die here if she doesn’t belong, so decides that she has to fit in, and she removes a glove, touching the demon, she hopes and prays her power will allow her to do just that. She screams as she is seemingly merged with the demon.
‘You’re a strange mortal, aren’t you? Not many of you so eagerly seek out demonic possession’ the demon muses. Rogue lunges towards the demon, telling it that she knows something about possession. ‘You wanna call the shots here, you’re gonna have to fight for it!’ she tells him, only to get punched backwards. ‘That’s the fun part. Feeling you struggle while I sink my claws into your psyche…and make it my own!’ the demon boasts. Rogue screams as the demon tears at her mind thanks to their touch earlier. ‘Hey! You! What’re you on about? Something wrong’ a scrawny demon calls out. ‘Heh…no. Everything perfect’ the Rogue-like demon exclaims in reply. The demon lumbers onwards, and tells Rogue to fight it, that it won’t do any good, as the deeper it takes her into Limbo, the stronger its influence, the more hopeless her cause. ‘I already control your body. Your mind is just a small, trapped animal.
The demon punches at Rogue, boasting that the more of her psyche he takes, the more it understands - he knows Rogue came to free an ally from its mistress’ prison. ‘How hilariously stupid’ the demon exclaims. He adds that the only way to pass unmolested through Limbo is to be of Limbo. ‘And now you are!’ he points out. He picks Rogue’s limp form up, ‘Too bad for you…it’ll be a permanent state’ he tells her. ‘Soon. But not yet’ Rogue retorts as she pushes the demon away, and punches it in the chest. ‘Ah ain’t exactly new to this. Been doing it a long time’ she tells the demon. ‘Been a passenger in mah own body before. But a passenger can still look out the window…and make suggestions on which way to go’.
The amalgamation of Rogue and the demon arrives at the cells, and inside Rogue’s body, the demon pushes Rogue downwards, ‘Well played, I appreciate a good gamble. Too bad you’ve lost. You’re fighting time itself. Your last defenses are crumbling. In moments you’ll be mine’ the demon warns her, adding that he thinks that is delicious.
The demon tells Rogue that he is going to make her watch helplessly, while he kills the one she came to save. The amalgamated body breaks off a large spike from the cells, but Rogue cries out ‘No! You’re right. It was a gamble, and I pushed it to the limit. But Ah’m gonna win because Ah’m fighting for a woman Ah jkust realised is a friend, and now Ah’m fighting for mah soul!’ she declares, breaking free of the demon’s grasp, she shoves that spike “their” body picked up and shoves it into the demon’s chest, causing the demon to scream in agony. ‘Ah ain’t losing either to the likes of you!’ Rogue declares.
‘HRAAA’ Ms Marvel screams as she punches back one of the demons harassing her. The face-less “Rogue” demon moves towards her, tongue flicking - only a large spiked rock is shoved through the demon’s toothy mouth. ‘Carol. You were right. I was wrong. C’mon, let’s get you outta -’ Rogue begins, before lunging backwards as Carol looms towards her, fist ready to punch. Rogue suddenly realizes that time is wonky in Limbo, so for all se knows, Carol feels like she has been here a hundred years. ‘If being here’s driven her crazy, Ah’m a dead woman…’ Rogue thinks to herself.
Rogue calls out to Carol, admitting that she messed up by putting her in here. ‘But Ah swore if Ah was wrong about Magik and the rest Ah’d fix it. That’s what Ah’m here to do, if you’ll let me’ Rogue explains. ‘R-Rogue? It’s…really you?’ Carol asks. She adds that people keep showing up saying they are here to break her out - Captain America, Iron Man, only they are all demons, all lies to crush her hopes. Rogue assures Carol that it is her, but knows there is nothing she can say to prove it, nothing the demons couldn’t have plucked from Carol’s mind. ‘If it’s gonna take you beating on me a while to convince you…well, go ahead. Can’t say Ah don’t have it coming’ Rogue adds.
Carol leans back against the side of the volcano, and declares that the worst that could happen is that she ends up back here, before asking Rogue if she really has a way out. ‘Ah hope so’ Rogue replies, before asking Carol if she has tried flying. ‘A hundred times’ Carol replies, adding that the demons drag her back down, that they are endless. ‘What about the way you came in?’ Carol enquires. Rogue replies that it won’t work, as the demons will be ready for her. ‘Besides, once you leave your cell, Magik will know. She’ll stop us before we hit daylight. There really is no way outta here’. Carol tells Rogue that she isn’t loving her plan so far, but Rogue tells her to hear her out, and explains that Magik built this place to be inescapable, and that is a point of pride with her. ‘Maybe we can use that against her’ Rogue suggests.
Rogue continues, explaining that when Magik senses Carol leave her cell, she will come to make sure Carol doesn’t escape. ‘And I’ll be waiting’ Rogue declares. ‘You - you can absorb the power of the Phoenix?’ Carol asks, concerned. Rogue explains that she can’t, as the Phoenix is sentient, so it won’t let her, but that does work in their favor. ‘She won’t consider me a threat. And I f Ah can touch her…Ah can absorb Magik’s regular mutant power’ Rogue exclaims. ‘Teleportation’ Carol remarks. Rogue states that she will teleport them to the Avengers and other X-Men. ‘Magneto, Gambit, Storm…we got a few key folks on our side, it’s a new ball game’ Rogue reports.
However, Rogue reveals that there is one hitch - she is currently powerless, so she will need to absorb someone’s abilities to fly out of here, and the only choice is Carol. ‘Ah know our history. Ah know how much it bothered you when I did it in New Orleans…’ Rogue begins. Carol removes a glove and holds her hand out. She smiles, and tells Rogue that this time is different, and points out that this time, Rogue asked. They clasp hands, ‘Let’s do this’ Carol exclaims as some of her power flows into Rogue. The women take flight, but as they do, a horde of winged demons descend upon them. ‘We’ve got incoming!’ Carol exclaims. ‘That’s just the start’ Rogue replies. They begin flighting the demons, ‘On your eight!’ Carol warns Rogue, who replies that there are too many. ‘We can’t hold out much longer!’ she exclaims, while wondering where Magik is.
An instant later, a fiery portal opens, and Magik appears. ‘Oh, Rogue. I am so disappointed’ Magik announces. ‘You think you’re disappointed now -’ Rogue begins as she flies towards Magik, and with gloveless hand, reaches out to touch her face, while Carol fires energy blasts at Magik to distract her. ‘Yes! Carol, get set! We’re outta -’ Rogue begins as a finger touches Magik’s face. Suddenly, Rogue realizes that her plan hasn’t worked. ‘Ah, hell’ she mutters. ‘Really, Rogue? I have the power of the Phoenix. One of the primal forces of creation. There is no longer a part of me that is not the Phoenix. What makes you think you could steal anything I have?’ Magik asks as she knocks Carol aside with fiery energy, and wraps Rogue in flaming chains. ‘Kinda hoped we could take you by surprise’ Rogue tells Magik.
‘Please, I have senses now I can’t even explain. I could tell you had bouts. Why do you think I left you here? It was a test…and you failed’ Magik declares, adding that she is honestly not sure she can be surprised anymore. ‘No, I lie…I’m genuinely shocked you made it this far’ Magik exclaims, before declaring that it is too bad it was pointless, as she tosses Carol back down into another cage, where huge leech-like demons writhe around her. Magik adds that it wasn’t completely pointless, as it showed her she was over thinking her methods of confinement. ‘Sometimes it’s best to stick to the classics’ Magik remarks, as the demons latch on to Carol. Rogue calls out to Magik, asking her if she can’t see how wrong this is. ‘Me? You made it come to this!’ Magik replies. ‘Go on then. Toss me into your little slice a’ hell. See how that goes over with the other X-Men!’ Rogue threatens.
Rogue asks Magik if she thinks that the other X-Men will accept she is a traitor. ‘You think, once they get a good look at this place, they’re gonna be any less disgusted than Ah was?’ Rogue asks. She adds that even the true believers are not gonna go for this, not Iceman or Magneto - they will realize what she has - that Magik is losing her mind. Magik lunges at Rogue and raises her flaming Soulsword to Rogue’s face, ‘You think Magneto would choose you over his lifelong dream come true? A paradise for mutant and human alike? Are you really that full of yourself?’ Magik asks. Magik turns away from Rogue and decides that she shouldn’t be surprised, as Rogue’s life has only gotten better since she joined the X-Men. ‘But you’ve seen what the rest of us have sacrificed. The pain…the loss…all so we could get to this moment. And you’d throw that away?’ Magik exclaims.
Magik declares that Rogue is the one who is not thinking clearly, and releases the chains from Rogue, while a fiery portal opens beneath her. ‘You don’t deserve to be punished, you’re just…confused’ Magik remarks, before telling Rogue that she was a wonderful part of their Pax Utopia, and so happy helping people, so there is no reason Rogue shouldn’t keep doing that. ‘I’ll tell the others you went on a mission, and it’ll be true’ Magik declares. Magik tells Rogue that she will get to continue what she loved, being a hero, doing good in the world. ‘It just won’t be this world’ Magik exclaims, as Rogue falls through the portal, and finds herself  in the middle of a strange alien-world battleground, with large armies looming on each side of her!