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The Mutant Hunter
Recently…
M-Day changed everything. I’m not sayin’ we Morlocks had it easy before. I mean, we lived in the sewers. And plenty o’ people had it in for us ‘cause we were mutants. But we had each other, y’know? We looked out for each other. And then, just like that, almost all of us lose our powers. Go from mutants to just regular folks. Ugly as most of us were, you might think that’s a good things. But the people who had it in for us…they didn’t go away.
flashback:
Joe Bugs, an insect-like man with red eyes, four wings, and a stinger, flies out of a concrete canal tunnel with his depowered Morlock friend in tow. Before they get too far out of the darkness, however, a projectile bolo catches up with them and knocks them out of the air. Joe, one of the few mutants who retained his powers after M-Day, never stops looking out for his friend, even in the face of imminent death.
Joe tells his mysterious attacker to bring it on. He asks if he thinks taking down mutants is easy work. The attacker laughs. He wishes these kills weren’t so easy, but unfortunately, he knows better. He thrusts, dodges Joe Bugs’ stinger, and plunges his hunting knife into his chest. For good measure, he slices off the tip of Joe Bugs’ tail.
present:
“That’s when he turned around. Looked at me,” the depowered Morlock says. He describes the man he saw: a tall, burly, gray-skinned hunter with a red diamond embedded in his forehead. “And I knew who he was.”
“Kraven the Hunter,” Cyclops repeats. “Are you sure?” The depowered mutant, sitting in one of the Xavier Institute’s lounges alongside Nightcrawler, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, and Cyclops, swears it was him. He recognized him from a live TV broadcast a few years earlier. He looks different know, but the man firmly believes it was Kraven.  Wolverine asks the burning question: why did Kraven leave this former mutant alive? Shamefully, the man reveals Kraven let him live because of his own insignificance; he didn’t deem him worthy of dirtying his blades. Sadly, the depowered mutant almost agrees. He used to be a part of something larger. Although he never ran with a group as notable as the X-Men, he had the Morlocks, and they were a family. Now, he’s just another filthy bum who just lost his last friend.
Nightcrawler thanks the man for his help and escorts him to the cafeteria so he can get something to eat. Once they leave, Wolverine tells the X-Men he believes the man is telling the truth. Colossus doesn’t see how that could be possible; Kraven the Hunter is dead. So was Colossus, Kitty reminds him. Besides, they know next to nothing about Kraven. Cyclops agrees. Since this falls outside their realm of expertise, however, he recommends calling in a certain old friend, and asks Wolverine to contact him. “Jeez, let it go, willya? I’m not married to him…or you,” Wolverine sneers. Even so, Kitty reminds Wolverine that he knows best how to get in touch with the guy, and right now, they need Spider-Man.
The X-Men reconvene at the site of Joe Bugs’ murder in the dried-out city canal. Spider-Man sneaks up on Nightcrawler and startles him, eliciting an uncharacteristically loud response. “Oh, come on, Nightcrawler,” Spider-Man says. “The guy with fangs and a devil tail is scared of li’l old me?” Nightcrawler tells him that might not be the case had Spider-Man not attacked him the first time they met. Spider-Man moans at the mention of that particular event. He reminds Nightcrawler he was actually looking forward to a friendly reunion.
Moving on, he asks if the X-Men are sure Kraven committed this murder. As Colossus points out, Kraven was a trophy hunter, and the mutant victim’s head was removed post-mortem. Spider-Man points out the obvious: Kraven is dead – as dead as Spider-Man’s enemies get, actually, which, he admits, is not terribly reassuring. Nevertheless, before they go digging up Kraven’s grave, he suggests they look into the hunter’s family a bit. They were all crazier than Kraven; any one of them could be doing this in his name. “If I can borrow your super-mega-X-computer, I’ll find out what they’re up to,” Spider-Man says. Before they do anything, he wants to take proper care of the dead man’s body. As he wraps the corpse in a cocoon of his webbing, Cyclops mentions they can bury the homeless man in the Xavier Institute’s memorial garden. “Your school has a graveyard? And I thought P.S. 108 was tough,” Spider-Man says.
Later that night, after performing an extensive search on the Xavier Institute’s computers of Kraven’s genealogical files, Spider-Man gives up on his theory. It seems all of Kraven’s known relatives are either locked up or live nowhere near New York. He asks if there might be a chance the frightened eyewitness made a mistake. Nightcrawler supposes it’s possible, but asks why the man would mistake his attacker for someone he had never met. Why not, Spider-Man asks? There was a time when Kraven was famous, after all. He likens it to a posthumous Elvis sighting. “Hey Cyke,” Spider-Man asks, “remember the time we fought Kraven, back in the day? Him and the Blob?” Cyclops remembers, but admits it felt like forever ago. When he thinks about that era in their lives, and how young they were, and how much they didn’t know, he almost considers it a different life. “Seriously,” Spider-Man says. “Back then, I was broke, unemployed, finding new ways to take a beating every day…uh, never mind.”
Kitty interrupts their nostalgic ramblings and asks if they can focus on the bad new days instead of the good old ones. Cyclops apologizes for the digression. Besides, those days were hardly as innocent as they make them sound, he says. Spider-Man concurs. He uses the fight with Kraven as an example. At the time, they thought they defeated him, but they came to learn later he got exactly what he wanted: DNA samples from the original X-Men. Wolverine recalls how they shut down his attempt to clone the X-Men a few years later. Suddenly, Spider-Man’s heart sinks at an unpleasant thought. “Kraven… Sinister… clones… you don’t suppose,” he begins. The lights in the lab abruptly shut off. “Why do I even ask?” Spider-Man sighs.
The X-Men assume their defensive positions and look around the lab. Spider-Man asks if it might just be a power outage. Unfortunately, as Colossus informs him, the institute has its own power source and therefore does not get blackouts. Kitty Pryde looks out the window and across the plaza to the other wings of the institute. The student quarters still have power; the outage is focused on the X-Men’s current location. The mansion probably doesn’t blow fuses either, Spider-Man asks. “Don’t worry, Spider-Man,” Nightcrawler says. “Together, we are more than a match for the original Kraven. What have we to fear from a clone?”
Unbeknownst to Kurt, a laser sight from a gun materializes on his chest. Colossus notices it and jumps in the way, taking the bullet with his metallic body. Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Wolverine both look around in confusion. Their senses don’t tell them Kraven is around. What gives, they asks? In a sudden burst of red light, the Kraven clone appears out of the air and informs the X-Men they are his prey. He throws a flash-grenade at the ground and temporarily blinds the superheroes. Wolverine insists he doesn’t need sight. He lunges at the Kraven clone with his claws outstretched. He misses. The clone retaliates by stabbing Logan in the throat with its hunting knife and pinning him to the wall.
Interjecting, Colossus calls the hunter a pig as he forces him away from Logan. “You are the pig,” the Kraven clone says. “And I will carve you like one.” Colossus tells him he can vent his rage on him all he wants, but it matters not, as he cannot be hurt. The clone laughs. He feels no rage, he says, simply because rage robs the hunter of its greatest weapon: its mind. The hunter lurches forward and plunges his blade into Colossus’s shoulder, somehow penetrating his metallic form. Colossus looks at the wound in shock. The hunter gleefully explains his blade is composed of vibranium, a substance toxic to metal. He grins deviously as Piotr’s body instinctively reverts to its flesh-and-blood form.
At this point, Spider-Man regains his sight, and decides he has had enough of the Kraven clone. He begins coating him in his adhesive webbing. Kitty, meanwhile, phases Wolverine through the knife in his throat and helps him off the wall. She asks Colossus if he feels okay. He assures her he is fine, and asks her to focus on Logan. Meanwhile, Spider-Man, Cyclops and Nightcrawler take advantage of the brief respite to ascertain their enemy’s identity. Nightcrawler notes the similarity between its skin-tone and Mr. Sinister’s. Despite the fact that he’s totally hairless, he’s the mirror image of Kraven, Cyclops adds. “You were right, Spider-Man,” he says.
“I were?” Spider-Man asks. He turns to the immobilized hunter. “That your story, pal? You one of Sinister’s clones?” This question strikes a chord with the hunter. He suddenly remembers the cavernous laboratory in which he was born.
flashback:
The Kraven clone emerges from its growth chamber, completely covered in a thick, red substance. Mr. Sinister asks his new creation if it knows its identity. The clone says its name aloud: Kraven. Sinister corrects him. He may have Kraven’s genes and base brain patters, but Sinister improved him by making him obedient. His life, and his purpose, is what Sinister tells him it is. Right now, Mr. Sinister wants DNA samples from all remaining mutants, and he wants his new mutant hunter to retrieve them. Perhaps if he completes this task, and Sinister feels he deserves it, he will grant him a name. For now, however, his mission is his identity.
present:
“NO,” the Kraven clone shouts as he breaks out of the inexplicably frozen webbing. “I…AM…XRAVEN!” He breaks free before the X-Men can stop him. Nightcrawler declares he can deal with Xraven. He disappears and reappears behind the hunter’s back, grabs him by the clothes, and teleports him around the room several times, hoping to completely sap his energy. After a series of jumps, Xraven casually turns around and stabs Kurt in the shoulder.
Spider-Man and the X-Men leap to their teammate’s aid. Cyclops, on the other hand, holds back because of a shocking epiphany: Xraven has the powers of the original X-Men. Before he can do anything, Xraven freezes Wolverine, Spider-Man and Kitty Pryde in place using Iceman’s powers, and fires Colossus into the wall using the optic blasts he obtained from Cyclops. Scott is suddenly the last X-Man standing. He looks at the hunter and reveals the secret of his origin: Sinister must have cloned him with the DNA from the original X-Men. He used Iceman’s powers to freeze the webbing, and Beast’s stamina to endure the teleporting. In the end, though, Cyclops reminds Xraven he is merely a copy, while Cyclops is the real thing. He unleashes his optic blast at the villain just as Xraven does the same. Their rays collide in mid-air. Xraven breaks the stalemate by hurling his bola at Cyclops and cracking him in the head.
Kitty, after phasing her body out of the ice with Spider-Man and Wolverine in tow, darts forward and grabs hold of Xraven. There’s a nice, secure cell a few floors down with his name all over it, she says as she begins phasing him into the floor. Partway through, she stops, and the expression drains out of her face. It takes the X-Men only a moment to understand that Xraven, also in possession of Jean Grey’s telepathy, now has Kitty under mental control.
The mutant hunter pulls Kitty toward his chest and presses his knife to her throat. He applauds Cyclops on his skills of deduction. His limited telepathy is what allowed him to block Spider-Man’s and Wolverine’s senses, and it more than allows him to hold Kitty in place for as long as he needs. He promises not to kill her if the X-Men surrender. “Wow. Threatening a helpless girl,” Spider-Man says. “Sinister didn’t leave any of the original Kraven in you, did he? ‘Cause if he could see you know…I gotta tell you man, he’d throw up.” Surprisingly, Spider-Man’s insult hits Xraven rather hard. He lets his guard down long enough for Spider-Man to close the distance between them. However, he snaps to attention at the last second and fires at Spidey with an optic blast.
At this point, Wolverine gives up on talking and asks his teammates for ideas. Cyclops has one. Recalling how Ben Reilly defeated Sinister all those years ago, he invites Xraven to take a peak inside his own mind to see how Sinister has treated him over the course of his life. Xraven lets his curiosity get the better of him. He looks into Scott’s mind and sees a series of horrifying images: humans screaming from inside of containment chambers; a young boy in a ruby-quartz visor, strapped to a table, with a scalpel to his throat; Cyclops, kneeling over the dead body of his wife, Madelyne Pryor. Xraven recoils from the horror.
Taking advantage of Xraven’s inattention, Kitty solidifies her body and knees Xraven in the crotch. He smacks her away in retaliation, throws a flash bomb at the ground, and vanishes. By the time the X-Men recover their senses, Xraven is gone. Nightcrawler believes he has gone for good this time; Spider-Man and Cyclops seem to have struck a nerve. Spider-Man chalks it up to his own particular insight into clone neuroses. Regardless, he notes that the hunter has done it again. “The knife he stabbed Wolverine with his gone. Everyone else is cut,” he says. Cyclops curses; he got DNA from everyone! “Except me,” Spider-Man says, “…again, I gotta say, I’m a little insulted.”
Cyclops tells him not to worry about it. In fact, he should breathe a sigh of relief that mutants are Mr. Sinister’s primary interest. He’s relentless; once someone gets caught in his web of death, he never lets them go. As the only Arachnid-American present, Spider-Man takes offense to Scott’s web metaphor. Cyclops apologizes. He also apologizes for getting Spider-Man involved in the first place. Don’t worry about it, Spider-Man says. He’s certain he can deal with whatever Sinister throws his way. After all, despite the many times they have butted heads in the past, Spider-Man admits he and the X-Men make a decent team. They have a lot in common as well; too much, in fact, to not stick together. They’re all outsiders, and they’re all hated and feared by a world they’ve sworn to protect.
Wolverine scoffs at his choice of phrasing. “Where d’you get this stuff, romance novels?” Spider-Man cites this remark as a perfect example of what he means. He and the X-Men are still friends, even though they are often rude to one another, a habit Spider-Man suspects is born out of jealousy. After all, some of them can turn a clever phrase, while the artistic talents of others are limited to burping the national anthem. “The Canadian National Anthem,” Wolverine says, correcting him. “That takes skill.”
While Spider-Man wraps up his long monologue, Xraven returns to his creator’s laboratory with the vials of pilfered genetic material. Mr. Sinister welcomes his return with glee. He empathizes with the frustration his clone is surely feeling; it must be difficult to refrain from killing the X-Men. However, he reminds Xraven it is for the greater good. Replacing the X-Men with his genetic duplicates will require careful maneuvering. Once the task is complete, however, Mr. Sinister will finally unite all factions of mutants and move them forward according to his design. Mutants are too scarce a commodity right now to act as anything but a unified force.
“No,” Xraven says, crushing the vials in his hand. “You would breed slaves, not warriors.” He lunges at Sinister with his blades drawn and optic blasts firing in full force, refusing to be anyone’s slave. The fallout from their climactic duel brings ruin to the entire facility.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man finishes telling his friends Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, and Nightcrawler how important he finds their friendship. “Together, there’s nothing we can’t handle,” he says. “‘Cause at what we do…we’re the i>best there is.” Wolverine smiles and tells him he mangled the line. Spider-Man stares at him. “You just can’t let a guy have a moment, can you?


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First Encounter
The Microverse.
The celestial silence of the subatomary planetary system is suddenly shattered by the clarion call of battle. At the head of one awesome armada soars a great sentient space-craft… the living Bioship. On the bridge of the Bioship is a gallant but grim band of warriors. They are the Micronauts… champions of the Microverse.
They are approaching the fringes, the masked warrior-king Acroyear informs Commander Rann, the Spacewall separating their system from the Macroverse beyond. As all their preliminary reports indicate the frontier worlds have been devastated, Rann states. Who could have wreaked such havoc? the diminutive Fireflyte wonders. That’s what they’ve come to find out, the Warrior princess Marionette remarks. And to battle, adds the shapeless Huntarr. With the help of the biggest blamed battle fleet in the whole Microverse, their final member, the insect Bug, points out. Firepower they’re going to need as a D’arnellian fleet rises to oppose them.
But the D’arnellians are farmers who haven’t got a fleet, Acroyear protests. They have now, Huntarr retorts wryly. Rann points out that he doubts it’s the D’arnellians they are up against. Communicator silence suggests that have already been defeated or dead. Fireflyte states that she senses life on D’arnell and the living are crying out in agony.
So, another in an ever-expanding number of worlds has been enslaved by their unknown enemy, remarks a man who has so far kept to the shadows. What will Arcuturus Rann do? Addressing the other man as teacher, Rann replies he will do whatever is necessary. He addresses the battle fleet, giving the order to attack.
The ships thrust forth. The enemy is engaged. The fleets are evenly matched, Acroyear observes. They are getting nowhere, the man in the shadows states impatiently. They must take prisoners. Only interrogation will reveal the nature of their enemy. He knows what is required, Rann snaps back. Isn’t that why he chose him to lead his fleet? He has a reputation as a master strategist, the other man concedes. He had a good teacher, Rann replies.
Again Commander Arcturus Rann relays his orders through the Bioship to the battle-fleet and, from each vessel, space-suited Dog Soldiers surge forward, intent on boarding the ships from the other fleet. The Dog Soldiers are the shock troops of the Microverse, the deadliest warriors ever born or bred. The inhabitants of D’arnel, on the other hand, were always peace-loving farmers. Today they are no longer. Something has caused these pacifists to beat their plowshares into swords. Acroyear expresses his regret at the battle. Even as former king of a warrior race never has he witnessed such carnage.
Suddenly, a Dog Soldier is beamed upon their bridge. The team stands alert - none of them has heard Commander Rann utter such an order. The command was his, the man in the shadows explains and demands the soldier’s report. The enemy fights with a ferocity unsurpassed, he explains. It is not courage that drives them to die, but abject fear of he who urges them on. Then it is time to expose their unknown enemy and the strength of the alliance he shares with the Micronauts, Baron Karza, warlord of Homeworld, scourge of the Microverse and archenemy of the Micronauts, declares.
Marionette and Bug bristle at their alliance and Fireflyte reminds them that the Microverse is imperilled by an enemy whose might overshadows the Baron’s. Practically effortlessly, their mystery foe wrested entire worlds from Karza’s grip…
Acroyear, Bug and Marionette wonder if this wouldn’t be the perfect time to overthrow Karza but Rann reminds them to get their priorities straight. They’ve twice before triumphed over Karza but whoever’s out there is an unknown and powerful entity. So the alliance holds until the slaughterer from beyond the Spacewall is destroyed.
The Bioship fabricates spacesuits for all Micronauts, save Huntarr and Fireflyte, who can survive in space without them, and the Micronauts are beamed into the thick of the battle. They fling themselves into the fray and the Dog Soldiers are heartened at being reinforced by those they hunted in the past. Once again, the Micronauts prove why they have become living legends of the Microverse.
The Bioship informs Karza that it intends to join its teammates in battle but Karza calls it a fool. The Ship and he are held in reserve. Should the Micronauts fall, they must fight as rearguard action. Still, if the Bioship feels the need to do something, it should use its sensors to locate their unknown enemy. The Bioship complies and informs Karza that it has located the Entity’s power-nexus on a rising asteroid. Its emanations are alien. Karza wonders if the entity is from Earth.
Even as the Bioship detects the approach of the enemy, it flashes that information to the Micronauts. The Asteroid moves towards them and on it, surrounded by an energy corona, stands a glowing being dressed in golden armor. So, this amusing little enterprise is still in progress, he asks, before taking in the carnage and remarking that his terror-smitten pawns exacted quite a death toll before perishing themselves. If only there were more to sacrifice. But their opponents die just as nicely.
There is no blood, yet Dog Soldiers die, succumbed by an overwhelming psychic assault.
Quite entertaining, the being remarks and the Micronauts realize they now face a foe worse than Karza. Rann addresses the Entity, remarking that he doesn’t know why he wages war against the Microverse. The Entity interrupts him, stating that he does it for the fun of it.
He snaps his fingers and, before the Micronauts’ eyes, the planet D’arnell ceases to exist.
The Bioship has to raise its shields, as planetary debris devastates their fleet. He asks Karza for orders and the awed Baron asks it to scan for survivors. And survivors there are - those whom the enemy has chosen to survive. The Micronauts, now without their protective suits, are bound to asteroid debris as the Entity examines them, remarking what pretty playthings they shall make. Finally, it senses the Bioship and Karza urges it to flee before it’s too late. The Bioship hesitates still, as, if it is attacked, it knows that it will be of no use to its compatriots dead and so it flees at warp speed.
Earth:
Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. A lovely summer afternoon, which several X-Men are enjoying at the poolside. The team’s youngest member, Kitty Pryde, intends to do the same, though her roommate, Illyana Rasputin, reminds her that they still have lessons to finish. If it were up to Professor X, they’d never finish, Kitty complains. All he cares about is work.
The Professor is in the observation booth of the Danger Room, currently running a training session for the New Mutant, Sunspot. Suddenly, he catches Kitty’s remark. Whenever she’s angry or excited, she loses control over her thoughts, leaving her wide open for any telepath to read. In battle, this liability could be fatal, so he sends her a computer message, telling her that what she said isn’t true. However, she is hereby assigned 30 minute extra study in psionic shields and defenses. Does Illyana ever have one of those days, Kitty sighs. No, she lets Kitty have them for her, her best friend replies.
Meanwhile, in the observation booth, Xavier turns his attention back to the New Mutants with him, Cannonball, Wolfsbane and Dani Moonstar, explaining that this is their first quarterly evaluation. Their new teammate, Magma, isn’t present, as she hasn’t been at school long enough.
Suddenly, there’s an explosion in the observation booth and the mutants are thrown down. Sunspot barely manages to catch the unconscious Xavier. ‘Stand aside giant or face the wrath of Baron Karza,’ a voice announces from above. Sunspot sees the dollsized Karza, who exclaims that they traced the Entity’s power to its source. That the Microverse may live, their mentor has to die. Sunspot shouts ‘no’ and, suddenly, the glove of Kara’s armor loosens, grows and tries to choke Sunspot.
Cannonball grabs Kara, recognizing him: his sister has a set of toys called the Micronauts and Karza is one of them. Could some foe of the X-Men have found a way to animate those dolls, he wonders. He’s no construct, Karza protests, as Sam smashes him into a wall. The Baron blasts him with an energy ray.
Wolfsbane and Sunspot both attack and are repelled. Dani hopes that she can make a difference with her psionic power and shows Karza the thing he fears most: himself as the man he was. But Karza realizes too quickly that this is merely an illusion. He reflects her attack and Dani is suddenly faced with an image of the Demon Bear that slew her parents and has haunted her since childhood. Terrified, she faints. Karza doesn’t know what link binds the Entity with Xavier but it doesn’t matter. His death should sever it.
Enter, the X-Men.
Storm flies in through the observation booth, attacking with lightning bolts. Nightcrawler materializes beside Xavier and carries him away, while Wolverine and Colossus enter the fray. Storm uses her elemental powers to keep Karza off-balance, while Colossus tosses Wolverine at Karza. The small X-Man actually manages to breach the armor, causing Karza once more to try the choke trick on Wolverine. Storm orders Colossus to help Wolverine, while she deals with their foe. Karza admits to himself theses are more fearsome foes than the children. He’d love to slay them but has to think of the mission. He teleports away, to appear next to Nightcrawler and Xavier. He takes out Nightcrawler with a blast.
Finally alerted by the noise, Kitty phases in through the ceiling. Seeing the ‘toy,’ she phases through it, intending to shortcircuit its electronic systems. However, as she does so, something unforeseen happens. Kitty is locked in mid-phase, as the force of Karza’s armor reacts violently to Kitty’s mutant ability. So violently that not only molecules but minds as well are displaced. And so, suddenly, Karza finds himself in the body of Kitty Pryde.
Before Karza can determine what to say to the others, the Bioship materializes in the Danger Room, explaining that there is no reason to fight unless it is against a common foe. “Kitty” urges the others to listen to him and the fighting stops. The Bioship tells its story and Karza finds that he cannot transfer his mind back into the armor. However, he can still control it mentally and animates it. Storm is suspicious of Kitty’s behavior, the New Mutants are awed, and Nightcrawler points out that he has met the Micronauts before.
‘Karza’s armor explains that Bioship’s sensors revealed that the Entity derived its powers from the Macroverse and the trail led to the Professor - hence the attack. Xavier notices that Karza generates some sort of psychic interference, which inhibits psychic communication with the X-Men, especially Kitty. He does not trust the Baron, but innocent lives are threatened and, somehow, it may be their fault. Therefore, the X-Men have to help.
Illyana joins them, with Lockheed asking that surely Kitty is going to say goodbye to them first. Suddenly, Lockheed reacts violently, almost attacking Kitty, who shouts at Illyana to get the beast away from her. Storm again silently notes Kitty’s and Lockheed’s odd behavior but says nothing.
Bioship uses an eyebeam to reduce the X-Men in size to make them more compatible with its size. Bioship regrets that it cannot facsimile a portable mode for Xavier. He has to stay behind. The Bioship shrinks as well, becoming smaller and smaller, and tells Xavier that it shall endeavor to return the X-Men in the condition he found them.
Xavier wishes he could be by their side. His thoughts cannot breach the Spacewall separating their dimensions. He cannot contact the X-Men. Perhaps, though, if he turns his mental powers inward, he can locate the link Karza spoke of and sever it. He prays for his X-Men, but fears…


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Into the Abyss
This horrific landscape is not real. It is the realm of nightmare. And like all nightmares it can hold no terror save for those who are trapped within it. Those lost in the twisted terror of this deadly demiscape are the mighty Micronauts, heroes of the Microverse. They are not feeling very heroic at the moment.
Is this where you go when you die, Bug asks fearfully. Acroyear is sure that they survived their encounter with the Entity. Bug is not. Everything he remembers is hazy. Where the heck are they now? Wherever the Entity imprisoned them, Marionette concludes. There seems but one way to go for them, Huntarr observes. Down… into the abyss. The heroes try to stay together when, suddenly, they suffer from a psychic attack that smashes them down to where the weirdlings wait to separate them from each other.
He guesses they aren’t dead after all, Bug thinks, while he fends off the green monsters’ attack. Perhaps the Entity wants to kill them slowly now. After all, he displayed a sick sense of humor when he destroyed D’arnell. And now the joke’s on Bug. The weirdlings’ attack sends Bug sprawling in the slime. It covers him, envelops him and, within, a strange metamorphosis takes place. Changed, Bug hatches out. What once had been a two-legged insectivorid now crawls over the ground as an actual insect.
Finished with Bug, the weirdlings turn to Fireflyte. She is a psychic songstress. Her melodies attune her to the binding energy of the Microverse… the Enigma Force. Thus, her singing is both her weapon and her defense. But the weirdlings have arcane powers of their own, as they suck the soundwaves out of the very air. To be suddenly deprived of her song leaves the fairy-queen maiden quite helpless and she falls.
Acroyear, former king of Spartak, fears nothing that his energy-sword can slice. Encased in his Spartak forged armor, he is all but invincible. Thus, the assault upon him strikes at the spot no armor can shield: Acroyear’s heart. Suddenly, he sees his beloved wife, Cilicia, scaling the cliff near him. Heavy with child, she has set out into the wilderness to give birth alone after their people’s fashion. He fights off the weirdlings, intent on attending the birth of his firstborn son. He hears his wife, remembering that she considers him a traitor for having sacrificed their world to defeat Baron Karza. Still, with their child about to be born, perhaps her heart will soften towards him again.
Cilicia tells him that he is deluding himself Her heart harbors only hate for him. And the child shall be the instrument of his destruction. With a smile, she tells him that she will name him Shaitan. The Acroyears are an ebonskinned race, but occasionally an albino such as this child is born among them. Such children are considered harbingers of holocausts to come. The last such birth was Acroyear’s twin. His hatred for his black-skinned brother knew no bounds. It led to the destruction of Spartak. His name too was Shaitan. Acroyear stumbles backwards and falls.
Even as Acroyear succumbs to his own private horror, Huntarr, the living weapon, finds himself accosted. He who was human once, before Karza’s bodybanks made him into a monster, now finds himself surrounded by abhorrent abominations. He goads them to slay him, but why should they slay him, they ask. Whyever would they wish to slay one who is as much a horror as them? They do not attack him. They accept him. Overwhelmed by the horror of what he has become, the living weapon cries out for his lost humanity.
Elsewhere, Marionette shudders at his scream. She has lost sight of the others. She scales a cliff to find an arena. Just like the one on Homeworld, her poor plundered planet, where Baron Karza would hold grim and gruesome games sacrificing for sports all those considered ill-suited to terrible transformations in his diabolical body-banks. In escaping from that Arena, the Micronauts were born. There, she ceased being a pampered princess and became a warrior… adopting the name Marionette by way of deriding her former master, Karza, with the fact that she was a puppet of his no longer. As phantasmic observers – among them all her friends and loved ones – stare on, Marionette finds herself losing control, until she performs a lewd dance for the edification of the mob, acting for all the world like a puppet on a string.
Commander Arcturus Rann blames himself for having failed to anticipate an attack. A true leader would never have allowed his troops to become dispersed. He finds himself in a graveyard. Rann fancies himself a leader of men. From cadet to space glider, he trained for that task. And so today he is commander of the Micronauts. Now it appears that he has failed not only them… but himself as well. He sees the corpse of his beloved Mari lying in a grave before him. Bug lies in another grave… and Acroyear, Biotron, Devil, Microtron, Nanotron, Fireflyte, Slug, Pharoid, Argon. All Micronauts once. All dead now. Because of him. How can any man live with such a failure? Obviously, Arcuturus Rann cannot. He stumbles into an empty grave. Within him, his soul, his self-respect, shrivels and dies. In that he is not alone.
All the Micronauts fall. Their nightmare is over, but another one is about to begin as the Entity urges them to follow his voice to the light. They are drawn to his kindness and he heals them. They will serve him happily now.
Interlude:
At Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Charles Xavier slumps exhausted over a computer console. His attempt to locate the Entity has given way to an irresistible need for sleep. The New Mutants pass him on the way from the swimming pool and Roberto slaps Danielle’s back with a wet towel. Dani threatens him in fun until Rahne asks both of them to be quiet.
In the Microverse, the Entity suddenly weakens.
On Earth, Rahne asks the others not to disturb the Professor. And, just as suddenly, the Entity regains his strength, vowing never to succumb to such weakness again. He shall see to it that he is responsible for these lapses is rendered incapable of causing them. And his mesmerized Micronauts will help him towards that goal.
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They will first become a force that will ravage the Microverse and then the Macroverse. He gestures and the Micronauts are dressed in uniforms resembling those of the original X-Men. They’ll soon have a chance to prove themselves, the Entity announces, as others have been dispatched from Earth to oppose him.
Elsewhere the Bioship emerges from the Spacewall that forms the boundary between Microverse and Macroverse. Above the sentient starship, in place of its fellow Micronauts, is the group’s deadliest foe, Baron Karza and his new found allies, the Uncanny X-Men. Karza points towards the planets linked in the form of a molecular chain in front of them. Homeworld, seat of his power.
However, as the Bioship closes in on its destination and images from the planetary surface begin appearing, Nightcrawler’s mood turns sombre and he points out that it doesn’t seem to be a very joyful home. There was a rebellion against his lawful authority, Karza replies. He is merely taking steps to suppress such activities and ensure they do not recur.
Wolverine gets in his face, pointing out that’s not how Bioship tells it. He says Karza is the usurper who slaughtered Homeworld’s rightful rulers and set himself up as dictator. The accusation is hardly surprising, as the vessel is one of those rebels. Karza reminds the X-Men that one must occasionally join with the devil to defeat a common foe. If they deny him aid, it is not he who will suffer but the countless inhabitants of the Microverse. Storm announces that they gave their word and Colossus tells Kitty that Karza doesn’t care a whit about his people and cares less if they know it. Kitty, whose mind has been exchanged with Karza’s, replies that he’s right. Life under slavery is still better than dying.
None of the X-Men have realized Karza’s secret, as he is still able to animate his armor, due to his mental powers. The X-Men are distrustful of Karza, but see no alternative but to ally with him. What now, Wolverine asks.
Karza explains: the Entity controls the fringeworlds nearest the Spacewall - he evidently draws power from Earth, though Karza and Bioship were unable to pinpoint the Source. He is incredibly powerful and was capable of wiping out Karza’s fleet. But he is somehow linked to the X-Men. Perhaps through them they will be able to find a way of fighting him. In the meantime, he will remain behind on Homeworld to raise a new fleet should they fail.
Suddenly, Karza adds that such a battle is no place for a child and offers that Kitty Pryde should stay behind with him. “Kitty” agrees, claiming she is scared. Storm doesn’t believe that. After all, she faced the Brood, Morlocks and even Dark Phoenix without flinching. Kitty stays with the X-Men. “Kitty” silently swears. She’ll be of no use to anyone in that child’s form.
Karza’s armor bids them adieu and Bioship warps out of the Homeworld system, while the teleport beam deports Karza’s body, now inhabited by Kitty’ mind, into the noisesome body banks, overseen by Karza’s chief scientist and minister, Degrayde.
Kitty perceives everything, but is unable to speak or move. Degrayde approaches his master and notices hat he neither moves nor speaks. He senses an opportunity to finally gain power himself. Suddenly, an image of Karza appears, calling him traitor. Degrayde debases himself and the Karza-image orders him to treat his armor as he would himself. The slightest disrespect and he will regret it. He is also to restore the bodybanks to full operational capability and create an army of Dog Soldiers, the like of which the cosmos has never seen. If he has to sacrifice every inhabitant of the Microverse in order to crush the Entity, then he shall.
Meanwhile, the Bioship informs the X-Men that they are nearing their destination. It can tell, as it is telepathically linked to Arcturus Rann. That bond was broken when it and Karza fled to Earth after their initial defeat but, since returning, it has sensed him once more and is capable of homing in on Rann.
 “Kitty” notices Storm staring at her and wonders if the X-Men’s leader suspects. Storm indeed wonders why Karza was so concerned about Kitty. She wishes they had a telepath around and asks Bioship if the telepathic link is reciprocal. Bioship agrees that Rann should be aware of it. It tells the X-Men to brace themselves for landing, and land they do… hard.
They find out that the ship seems to be in the robot equivalent of a coma, as they step outside where they are surrounded by huge blades of grass. It is as though they’re six inches tall. The Entity used Bioship’s link with Rann, Storm fears and suspects that this is a trap. She exclaims in wonder, as she finds a replica of Xavier’s school.
Wolverine informs them that this is their lawn. The facsimile is so perfect it fools even his senses. As they reach the house, Storm orders Kitty to go ahead and reconnoiter. “Kitty” stammers, as Karza doesn’t properly know how to sue her powers. Colossus decides to provide the entrance by using his strength to destroy the door. Wolverine tells the others the scents are still correct and Colossus wonders if the mansion has been shrunk and transported to the Microverse as well. Nightcrawler asks the other if they don’t feel s a sense of wrongness. Actually, a voice announces, a more appropriate description would be “evil.”
Before them, the diminutive X-Men see what seems to be Professor Xavier surrounded by the Micronauts dressed in X-Men uniforms. “Xavier” welcomes them to Xavier’s Alternate School for Gifted Youngsters and announces that he has gathered the Micronauts to serve as their replacement and orders the Micronauts to attack the much smaller X-Men.
The mutants scatter and fight for their lives, even though they notice that the Micronauts are responding too slowly. They seem to be familiar with the X-Men’s tactics but not their specific moves. That realization doesn’t help. What manner of being knows them so well to mimic their reality so perfectly? Nightcrawler wonders, as he is caught by Acroyears. Storm, too, hesitates and is incapacitated by Fireflyte’s scream, leaving only “Kitty” free. But Karza is caught before he can escape and “Xavier” gathers Kitty’s form up as he shifts back to the form of the Entity. He announces that all lives are toys to him and, with these X-Men, once he has broken their spirits, he shall play such a game as will shake the universe to its very foundation!
On Homeworld, the form of Karza screams. Degrayde asks what is wrong and his superior mocks his solicitude before cryptically announcing that he is free once more in body and mind… free to finally act!


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Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory!
On Earth, Professor Xavier sleeps uneasily, afraid that he has made a mistake when he sent his X-Men into the Microverse to stop the mysterious foe known only as the Entity. He may well be right. For the X-Men fared no better against the Entity than the Micronauts, whom they sought to save. Now both teams serve him with mindless fanatical devotion.
At the Entity’s behest, they attack an outpost kernel in the Microverse and  Charles Xavier feels not only every death but also the unholy glee in the minds of those who do the killing. He prays this is a nightmare and rages in impotent fury when he realizes it is not and there’s nothing he can do to stop the carnage. But, while in most of these soul-shackled heroes, there is a faint flicker of revulsion at the deeds they are forced to commit, Kitty Pryde is different. As she phases a soldier into a wall, painfully killing, him she seems to enjoy the pain she is inflicting on others.
Faced with that kind of slaughter, the Dog Soldiers of the Outpost soon acknowledge that surrender is the better part of valor. The X-Men and Micronauts wonder what to do, only Ariel shouts that the answer to that is self-evident. They have no mandate to be merciful, thus their captives must be killed. Instinctively, Huntarr prevents Ariel from carrying out that act.
That moment, the Entity appears and the heroes prostrate themselves before him, claiming that they exist only to serve him. Then why have they not done so, the Entity inquires. Why have they failed him? Rann protests: the kennel is his; the Dog Soldiers stand defeated. What me could he want? The Entity grasps him by the throat, announcing that he is speaking out of turn. But, since he consider himself a wise father, he will teach by example that he has no interest no conquest - only in death. With those words, he artificially ages Arcturus Rann, until he crumbles to death and restores him moments later. Rann thanks him, promising to be good from now on.
’Good?’ the Entity mocks. He doesn’t want them to be good. He wants them to be very, very bad. While they all have done his bidding, only Kitty has shown the degree of ruthlessness that he requires in his playthings. May she slay the dog soldiers now, Kitty eagerly asks. She shall receive a special reward, the Entity assures her, but the execution of the enemy he saves for himself. He gestures and Dog Soldiers scream and die in droves, their minds shattered by the Entity’s psychic assault.
Too many deaths for Charles Xavier to bear. Though still asleep, he howls like one slain himself. Moments later, the New Mutants enter his bedroom to see he has fallen out of bed. The boys put him back in and they finally realize something is wrong. Why can’t they get him to wake up? They decide not to call a doctor, though, for the moment and wait till the morning.
Back in the Microverse, the Entity turns to one sole survivor of the massacre, an archivist, and asks him if he can guess why he chose to spare him. Partially for torturing him, but mainly because it is his function to record and transmit data back to his maker, Baron Karza, and the Entity wishes the would-be monarch of the Microverse to see that which is about to transpire. The Entity snaps his fingers and the asteroid outpost shudders, heaves and literally comes apart at the seams. The Archivist dutifully records the end of that world up until his death, while the Entity and his slaves teleport away.
Back on Homeworld, Chief Scientist Degrayde informs Karza of the transmissions. The kennel and the world upon which it stood are no more. Karza says he knows and asks if he has scanned that sector of the Microverse thoroughly. Is he sure there are no possible survivors? They’ve seen that their foe is without mercy, so he though it unnecessary, the scientist replies. Besides, they can always create new Dog Soldiers. Karza tells him he was thinking about their allies in the war against the Entity: the Micronauts and the X-Men. Degrayde is shocked. Karza showing concern for their enemies? The Entity owns them now and they are thrown back upon their own resources… as he prefers.
Karza suddenly announces that he wishes the Bodybanks closed. Degrayde can’t believe this, until Karza’s separated hand closes on his throat. Karza repeats his order and Degrayde grows deeply suspicious. Since when has Karza ever shown any concern for the citizen of Homeworld? He seems a changed man, ever since their conflict with the Entity…
Left alone, Karza, or more to the point Kitty Pryde caught in Karza’s body and armor, muses upon her situation. She’s trapped in this awful role and doesn’t know how to escape. She might be Karza for the rest of her life. Somehow, she has to help the X-Men. After all, she wanted to be part of the team.
After she and Karza exchanged minds, Karza still controlled his armor and Kitty with his psychic powers, until suddenly she was free. That means something happened to Karza and her body. Hopefully nothing permanent. Karza’s body scares her. She just thought about silencing Degrayde and the hand did the rest. As she wonders what else it can do, she suddenly turns into a rocket-powered centaur. Pulling off the helmet, she desperately reminds herself that this isn’t her. She is Kitty Pryde. The face under the helmet belies her claim.
And, even as Kitty’s mind cries out in protest of her predicament, Baron Karza stares through the eyes of Kitty’s body at the trappings of his own gilded cage. Karza tries to get his bearings, recalling that the Entity promised a special reward. The Entity enters, asking if Kitty awakes rested from her slumber He wishes her to be fresh this evening. Her mind is strong, he continues. It and… other aspects of her personality intrigue him. Secretly, Karza vows to himself that, even in the body of another, he will never bend to the Entity’s lascivious desires. Hoping to divert him, Karza asks how the X-Men and Micronauts fare. They were not as faithful as she, the Entity replies, and thus they now sample pleasures of a somewhat… different nature.
The X-Men find themselves in a dungeon, the smell a cross between a sewer and a slaughterhouse, Wolverine thinks, as he comes to. No sign of the Entity, though. Something about him seemed awfully familiar, but he can’t quiet get a lock on it. And the way he pulled their skulls apart, it’s like he knows them better than they know themselves. He’s turning them into mindless fanatical slaves. They managed to hold back at the kennel, but that was pretty much their last stand. The Entity knew that too. Wolverine has fought all his life to be free. But, even now, he wants so badly to please him like a dog for its master. Next time, there won’t be any hesitation. He can’t let that happen, he decides, as he unsheathes his claws. They’re better of dead.
He intends to mercy-kill his friends, starting with Storm, when Colossus’ armored hand holds him back. They have no choice, Wolverine announces desperately. That’s the only way to win. No, that is merely what the enemy wants them to believe, Colossus calmly insists. Remember what he did to Commander Rann? They are completely within his physical power. If they die, he will simply resurrect them. What he desires is the destruction of all hope. He needs them to fully despair and that will give him his final victory.
The others find themselves agreeing, as they draw closer, but what can they do about it? Escape, locate the source of the Entity’s power and eliminate it, Storm states, matter-of-fact. What could be easier? Colossus jokes and, almost miraculously, laughter spreads through the two teams.
Huntarr can’t believe his friends, though. They are facing an unbeatable enemy from whom not even death is an escape and, if they fail, the Microverse is dead. How can they laugh at a time like this? It is precisely because they can still laugh that they know the Entity hasn’t won yet, Rann explains. Hope may be a puny thing but it’s been known to move worlds.
Earth:
Danielle Moonstar holds vigil at Professor Xavier’s side, unable to awake him from his fitful slumber. She desperately wonders what to do, when, suddenly, Xavier’s hand grabs her wrist. Suddenly, another presence overwhelms her and takes over her mind and body, as a stepping stone to freedom from the power that imprisoned him. A moment later, Dani is herself again, figuring that she needs some coffee.
Xavier, in the meantime, has moved to the astral plane. He cannot penetrate the Spacewall that separates Micro- from Macroverse, but that isn’t important. The Entity’s powersource is on Earth. He only needs to find and eliminate it.
In the Microverse, the Entity is about to make his moves on Kitty / Karza, when he senses Xavier’s mind on the loose. His astral from goes to meet Xavier’s and, with a start, Xavier recognizes the psychic armor the Entity wears as the one he himself wore when he battled the evil telepath Amahl Farouk in Cairo. How does the Entity know that?
Meanwhile, in the Entity’s bedchamber, Karza notices that his psychic self seems to have fled his body… which leaves his physical self at Karza’s mercy. Without hesitation, Karza stabs the Entity in the back with a knife. Karza muses that the Entity’s threat may be ended, but the heroes still live. Karza must first regain his own body and then see that the Micronauts and X-Men die.
On the astral plane, Xavier notices that the Entity has given a start. The odds are now evened. The Entity didn’t think Kitty had it in her to murder him in cold blood. Apparently, he crafted her better in his image than he knew.
Xavier manages to repulse the Entity’s energy and uses it on his foe to hold him in  a psychic fist. The Entity doesn’t sees overly distressed by his loss. Wondering about his carelessness, Xavier takes off his foe’s helmet, only to find his own face staring back at him. Suddenly, their shapes are changing and now Xavier finds himself at the Entity’s mercy!
His foe explains that he isn’t some outside force that snuck into Xavier’s head. He is Xavier. The evil, nasty rotten side that exists in all sentient beings. In Xavier’s case, that side developed a life and awareness quite apart from Xavier’s. And he means to enjoy it. Initially, he manifested only while Xavier was sleeping. As he grew stronger, he began manipulating Xavier. At first, he could only manifest himself in the Microverse but now this victory will enable him to extend his dominion to Xavier’ conscious mind. Every facet of Xavier’s being will be his to command and there’s nothing he can do about it!
At roughly that moment, in the catacombs of the Entity’s Microversal citadel, the X-Men and Micronauts are still looking for a way out. Acroyear suddenly holds back, admitting that he is more afraid than even when his homeworld was destroyed. The X-Men tell him they don’t feel any different and Storm explains that fear is akin to despair - only deadly when you let it rule you. The true victory is not in battling the Entity but in making the attempt. Acroyear promises to do his best.
Nightcrawler wonders why the Entity hasn’t shown up so far. He must know they’ve escaped. Bug cynically points out that the longer he leaves them alone the higher their hopes - the more fun to squash them. That guy makes Karza look like a saint.
Above them, Karza watches them with a raised weapon, now intent on getting rid of his former allies.
At Xavier’s School, the New Mutants wonder what to do. Xavier hasn’t woken up. Dani tells the others to go to bed. Xavier seems to be sleeping peacefully now. She believes the worst is over. She’ll keep an eye on him.
The New Mutants leave for their rooms, thankful that the crisis seems to have passed. They do not see a wicked, anticipatory smile flash across Xavier’s face, nor hear a sinister laugh. They remain unaware that Charles Xavier is, in truth, no more. A madman has taken his place.


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Doppelgänger!
An exhausted Danielle Moonstar slumbers over her desk. Charles Xavier comes closer her. Normally, he would never hurt her. If his mind were his own. But it is not.
In the still of the night, while Xavier slept, something sinister, spectral, absolutely evil crept into his mind and took over. He is no longer Charles Xavier, but the Entity. The Entity thinks to himself that he and Charles are the same, two sides of the same coin, manifestations of the same mind; Xavier light and reason, the Entity his nasty side all darkness and decadence. What pleasure, Charles denies himself, he muses, being surrounded as he is by such pretty young playthings.
Dani wakes with a start at his mental touch and screams, as psychic fingertips play a sensual caress across her soul. She does not scream long, however, before collapsing to the carpet in the throes of indescribable pleasure. Liked that, did she? the Entity leers. Yes, Dani agrees no longer in control of herself. Drawing her closer, the Entity promises to reward her with more of the same if she is a good girl and will aid him in dominating the New Mutants.
Within the Microverse, the X-Men and the Micronauts have just escaped from the Entity’s dungeons with not much of a plan. Escape, locate the source of the Entity’s power and eliminate it, is all Storm has to offer.
Somewhere above them on the cliff, Baron Karza, in the shape of Kitty Pryde, waits. Karza believes to have stopped the Entity once and for all by slaying his corporeal form. With that accomplished, he no longer needs the X-Men or Micronauts and intends to shoot them.
Wolverine was a soldier and a spy before he was an X-Man and his battle senses are acute. Moments before Karza shoots, he warns the others of a sniper and Colossus quickly shields Commander Rann from a deadly blast. Nightcrawler instantly teleports up to disarm the sniper, only to find that it is Kitty. Karza phases away, leaving Kurt to believe that the Entity twisted Kitty even more than he did the other X-Men.
The next moment, the landscape shakes, as Thorium torpedoes are loosened on the planet, courtesy of Kitty Pryde in Baron Karza’s armor and Karza’s battlefleet. Her goal is to stop the Entity at any cost. Looks like they caught the Entity napping, she announces to Chief Scientist Degrayde. Degrayde is deeply suspicious of his master’s behavior. Though he battles the Entity, as he must, Karza has shown an uncharacteristic concern for his soldiers and sadness at the loss of life.
However, before Degrayde can fathom his master’s newly found humanity, Karza suddenly cries out ‘Professor X,’ seeing briefly Xavier’s astral form. Kitty announces that her plans have changed. Degrayde is to suspend the assault. Degrayde protests and Kitty tells him to be silent, as she teleports away to the planet below. A pity that someone will forget to order an end to the bombardment, Degrayde thinks with a smirk.
In the Entity’s palace, Karza, in Kitty’s body, has returned, cursing his luck. He is not familiar enough with the X-Men’s abilities to slay them. Kitty, in Karza’s body, appears, grabbing Karza with her armor’s glove. At that moment, the X-Men and Micronauts break in, only seeing Karza threatening their teammate. Kitty protests that they don’t understand, which they summarily ignore, until Professor Xavier’s voice is heard in their heads, telling them that things are not as they seem.
Xavier animates the Entity’s slain body and explains that Kitty has changed places with Karza. The heroes are unsure whether to trust this information until Wolverine points out that the real Kitty could have easily phased through Karza’s hand. And, while his mind is inhabiting the Entity’s rapidly failing lifeform, Xavier continues, he fears their enemy is on Earth.
The Entity, in Xavier’s body, admires Cerebro, the device meant to amplify his psychic power. Multiplied by Cerebro, what might he do? He‘ll try destroying the Microverse, he decides.
The planet is still being bombarded by the fleet, despite the orders Kitty, as Karza, gave. Degrayde’s doing, Karza suspects. He must have seen this as a chance to replace him as supreme monarch of the Microverse. Rann concentrates on trying to re-establish his mindlink with the Bioship and succeeds. The Bioship comes and gathers them up, laughingly evading the shots of Degrayde’s fleet.
Suddenly, though, Fireflyte screams in pain, announcing that something is attacking the Enigma force. Should the Entity breach the Spacewall and destroy the Enigma Force, the Microverse itself would be destroyed. The frontier worlds are the first to fall under the psionic onslaught. It locates Karza’s battlefleet and destroys it. Chief Scientist Degrayde dies, his dreams of conquest unconsummated. The rest of Karza’s armies also perish, leaving only one force standing between the Entity and the death of the Microverse and the Bioship’s shields are barely holding.
They must cross the Spacewall to reach Earth, but the ship can’t do it without dropping his shields. They’d all die instantly. Fireflyte reminds them that the Spacewall is a construct of the Enigma Force. She is one with that force and can sing them through the Spacewall. She does so and the Bioship passes through a rift in space to land before Xavier’s mansion.
As the Bioship lands, the X-Men realize, for the first time, that it is alive. They have known living spacecrafts before - the Acanti - but at least they looked alive, whereas Bioship looks 100 % robotic. Rann explains that Biotron was one of the first 6000-series organic roboids. He was not so much made, as born. He died… and his memories were resurrected in this living Bioship.
Acroyear anxiously points out that Fireflyte’s light has dimmed. She has come close to singing her self out. Karza, who has dressed Kitty’s body in a new costume - much to the real Kitty’s chagrin - cynically points out that hers will not be the only song snuffed out, should they fail to stop the Entity.
Suddenly and savagely, the Bioship is struck from behind. A sneak attack launched by Cannonball. Scarcely have the heroes inside the Bioship recovered from their surprise, when the staggering spacecraft again comes under assault by the rest of Xavier’s New Mutants. Sunspot and Magma both attack, talking about their adoration for the Entity. The diminutive heroes leave the Bioship and, together, Colossus, Acroyear and Huntarr manage to heave Sunspot into Cannonball, while Storm asks if Bioship can restore them to their normal height. The damaged ship replies it wishes it could, but that would drain what little power it has left. Power that at the moment is barely keeping him and the Professor alive. Storm understands and flies off.
Inside the ship, Nightcrawler struggles to keep the fast-failing Charles Xavier alive. Xavier asks Kurt to tell Bioship to save its healing for itself. This body he inhabits should die eventually, but not yet. He requires two things. First the X-Men and the Micronauts have to keep their foe’s attention on the battle, no matter the cost. Secondly, Nightcrawler is to keep his shell alive until Xavier tells him otherwise. Then, he is to let nature take its course. If necessary he might even have to kill him.
Outside, the heroes are having trouble. Not only are they small, they also have to pull their punches against the New Mutants. The Entity focuses on the New Mutants and doesn’t dare to carry out the planned destruction of the Microverse at the moment.
Elsewhere, Magma’s lava attack badly damages the Bioship and Nightcrawler wonders what to do. Xavier can’t help him. His mind has left the body and wanders through the mansion. He finds Illyana Rasputin guarded by Lockheed, unconscious but otherwise unharmed. Xavier notices surprised that Lockheed senses his astral form. Suddenly, the dragon flies off and roars. Apparently, Kitty is in danger. Xavier nears his study, where his body, Cerebro and the Entity await.
Gathering up his courage, Charles Xavier guides his astral form into the maze that is his own mind. A psychic phantom, he does not see his brain as a surgeon might, all pulsing organic matter, but rather as a hall of mirrors, each mirror a thought reflecting another thought or memory. Memories such as the original X-Men reporting for duty, the Sentinels, the new X-Men fighting Mystique’s Brotherhood, the Brood, his first sight of Lilandra, Magneto, Dark Phoenix. That memory gives him pause. The Entity has violated this private place and must be excised, he grimly vows.
Outside, Lockheed roars at the New Mutants. Kitty, in Karza’s armor, orders him to scatter the X-babies, not hurt them. How does she know that the creature isn’t itself under the evil influence of the Entity, Karza asks. Lockheed senses the true Kitty Pryde, but he carries his loyalty too far, as he attacks Karza in Kitty’s body with flames.
Unaware of what’s happening in his mind, the Entity wonders what’s going on. He wasn’t able to destroy or control Lockheed and, now suddenly, he tries to kill his mistress. He finally understands that a bodyswitch between Karza and Kitty has taken place. Not pleased with having anything hidden from him, the Entity selects the perfect revenge, as he takes over Kitty’s and Karza’s minds, trying to force them to painfully kill each other.
Why doesn’t he just snap his finger and have them drop dead, Kitty wonders. Is it more fun that way? Xavier understands that, while this is the case, another reason is that there, unlike the Microverse, the Entity’s power is limited to affecting reality on the astral plane. He cannot destroy them physically, only seize their minds and force them to do the job themselves.
Karza’s gauntlets are choking Kitty’s body and Karza finds himself unable to phase free of them, even while the Entity is forcing the two of them to phase together. Trying to help, Fireflyte sings. And Kitty and Karza scream. Suddenly, the Entity finds pain inflicted on himself as well. There’s someone in his mind.
Outside, thanks to Fireflyte’s song, Kitty is back in her body while Karza teleported away.
The damaged Bioship tells Nightcrawler to take the Professor and flee. Magma’s heat is getting to great. He cannot maintain any internal life support systems, including his own. Kurt is in a quandary. The shock of teleporting might hurt the Professor’s weak form, but the heat of the lava will, so teleport he must.
On the astral plane, Xavier notes the Entity’s body dying. He has to act now. He begins his psychic assault on the Entity’s thoughts, which have taken root in his mind. Moments later, the Entity appears in his armor. This time, the battle is different, though, for Xavier is willing to sacrifice his own body, risk his own death, if only it will stop the Entity. The Entity senses pain and Xavier tells him hat he has caused a stroke, which will either kill him or completely destroy his cognitive functions. The Entity shrieks, as Xavier’s body slumps over.
At that moment, the mortally wounded body of the Entity disappears from Nightcrawler’s arms. The New Mutants are themselves again and they quickly find the unconscious Xavier.
The Micronauts have no reason to cheer, though: their Bioship is dying, the X-Men are still small and the Micronauts are trapped on Earth. Fireflyte offers that she can sing them back to the Microverse but they must hurry. Even now, the Enigma Force is closing the Spacewall, forever closing the Microverse off from Earth.
Bioship states that he has died before and it was rather peaceful. He asks the Micronauts to return and carry on their fight, just as he restores the X-Men to carry on theirs. The heroes wish each other farewell and the Micronauts vanish.
Xavier awakes moments later, explaining that he deceived the Entity by making it believe he was initiating a massive stroke, in essence a game of “chicken.” The Entity fled to his own body, which by then was dead, so it ceased to exist. He only wishes he could atone for his atrocities. Their battle may be over, but the Micronauts’ still continues.


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Childhood's End
Scenes of a burning town are shown on a TV set as a news reporter describes what has happened. A teenage boy named Michael Thompson manifested mutant powers, killing himself many people and destroying most of the town. The scene cuts to a civilian saying they lost everything and she knew something was strange about the teenager.
The scene was footage shot in Middletown, Missouri three weeks ago. A reporter describes how this event has brought the mutant issue to the public. It is igniting reactions from people such as William Metzger, leader of the Anti-Mutant Militia and publisher of the underground newspaper “The Militia Press”.
Metzger is making a statement that the A.M.M. is not a hate group but a revolutionary group standing up for human rights. He says that mutants are a menace her to destroy. His words and group has inspired violence in regular humans as some believed-to-be mutants have been violently killed.
The reporter segues from Metzger to show that mutants are the result of mutated cells. She shows that at a certain development stage cells in the body become mutated creating the potential for the being to become super-human. The development stage usually occurs with teens around puberty. Ironically this demographic is the primary target for the A.M.M. Teens rush to join the group not knowing whether they will become a mutant themselves.
After Metzger makes the statement that the lines have been drawn and what happens next is inevitable the tv is turned off by an F.B.I. director, Agent Cain. He asks the agent he was showing the news report to if he is convinced. Agent Duncan responds by saying the media is blowing things out of proportion. After a brief discussion over the matter Cain assigns Agent Duncan to investigate mutants.
As agent Duncan walks into his office he talks into a tape recorder saying he is not sure how he feels about the situation. As he says “Maybe it is inevitable” he is startled by a voice saying, “Let’s talk about inevitabilities, Agent Duncan.” When Duncan demands to know who is there, the voice repeats part of the conversation Duncan just had with Cain. Duncan demands an explanation. The man wheels himself to the light and introduces himself as Charles Xavier, a college genetics teacher at Columbia. Xavier explains that Duncan is about to be brain washed into thinking mutants are the enemy. Xavier knows Duncan is not like that and would like to offer him a choice. Duncan asks “What’re you… a mind reader” Xavier smiles.
Elsewhere… Shots of papers and magazines are shown with Captain America, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four in them as a shadowed winged man gets dressed. He flies off in a mask and costume with a halo on his chest. He sees a woman being mugged for her purse. In the blink of an eye the mugger is gone and the woman’s purse drops from the sky. Later the mugger is dropped on a police car tied up and gagged.
Xavier is at the home of John and Elaine Grey. He is trying to convince them that their daughter, Jean, needs more help with her mutant powers than he can give by visiting her at her home. He wants to enlist her in a school he is trying to start. He tells them he has made a contact in the F.B.I. and that he will be using his father’s estate as the campus. He also informs them that he will be approaching another potential student soon. He says he is an orphan and shows them a picture of a young man in red sunglasses. They say they will have to think about it. Xavier says, “Personally I don’t think she has any other choice”. Outside Jean is sitting, making flower petals float telekinetically.
A news reporter starts talking about problems at Freeport High School such as gang violence and financial debt. In the school announcements are read over the inter-com, especially one about there being no air conditioning. Chad, Starkey, Mikey and Liza are students at F.H.S. They are picking on another student and going through his locker while talking about going to an A.M.M. rally to see Metzger speak. They also talk about meting a man named Arthur. Liza says Metzger is a whacko. Chad claims Metzger is “da Man” and shows them a copy of the Militia Press. They turn their attention to watch Hank McCoy walk down the hall. They call him a freak due to his huge hands and feet.
The school principal is interviewing a new guidance teacher. A bald man in a wheelchair named Professor Charles Alexander. The principal wonders why such a accomplished professor wants to work at his school. Alexander says that just because the school is troubled does not mean it does not deserve a good guidance program. Alexander explains he wants to help the ones who need to be helped. “Out to change the world, Mr. Alexander?” the principal asks. “You have no idea,” Alexander replies.
A skinny teen in baggy clothes and red sunglasses walks into the school with his head down. He runs into a football coach and falls down. The coach scolds him and asks his name. The boy replies “Summers…Scott Summers”. The coach tells him to get to class and that he “…ain’t winnin no fashion points with those shades…”.
In a classroom Chad is talking with another student, Ruben, about whether the freshman named Drake is a mutant. The school is so hot due to no air conditioning and  Drake is sitting behind them in a sweater shivering.
In the lunch room Hank McCoy’s friends are marveling at how much he can eat. One of them asks if he can help them understand his biology homework. Hank looks at the book for a minute but the hands it back and says its over his head too.
 Starkey, Chad Liza and Ruben are talking about stomping mutants. Ruben points out summers and says his sunglasses are weird. McCoy walks by Summers and notices that Scott is reading Beyond Good and Evil and says: “Nietzsche. Good book. Read it when I was nine.” He walks out with two cheerleaders.
In a stairway a boy sits crouched on the steps with his books and lunch scattered. His lunch is frozen solid.
On TV on “America’s Most Contemptible”, a police officer is blinded and hospitalized by a teenage mutant joyriding without a license. On 24 hour video, host Tabitha interviews controversial lead singer Charlie Munroe about being a mutant. He says if he was he wouldn’t be shy about it. On Terry Dingler a teen comes out to his dad that he is a mutant. On Empty Minutes, a profile on mutants and William Metzger will be shown. Some people are criticizing Metzger. His A.M.M. is a sparking violence across the nation. A shot of people being hanged is shown.
Xavier returns to his mansion. He comes to a metal door, presses a button, wheels into Cerebro and turns it on.
Chad, Starkey and Ruben are at the A.M.M.  rally. Metzger is telling them that humans will not got the way of the dinosaur. That humans will fight for their existence and that mutants are a plague and it is humanity’s right to destroy that plague. Watching on a hill in the shadows is Charles Xavier.
Agent Duncan’s superior is telling him about a man named Trask who wants to pitch them an idea about a robotics solution to the mutant problem. Duncan talks into his tape recorder. He says things are escalating on both sides. He is playing on both teams and he doesn’t know who to trust, or if he should trust anybody.
At a night club Chad, Ruben and Starkey are introduced to Arthur. The huge man asks them what they would do if a mutant was in the room right now. Chad said he would kill him. Arthur says that’s not enough. You have to kill his family and burn the ground they died on, to get rid of all contamination. The boys say they want in. Ruben says they have to go through initiation, to see how much they hate. He says he’ll be in touch.
The TV shows teen socialite Warren Worthington III at a charity event. Then it cuts to coverage of the mysterious winged man.
 Later the winged man is shown flying above the city. He sees a building start to shake. Suddenly a huge robot bursts out of the building. It starts chasing after him. Just as it is about to get him something stops him and he explodes over the water. The winged man looks down and then flies away unaware that he is being watched by a caped man wearing a red helmet.


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All Children Wear The Sign
Scott Summers is sitting in Charles “Alexander’s” office. Alexander tells him “I know what you’re thinking.” and then tells him he is not in trouble. Alexander says that he wants to get to know Scott. He asks about Scott’s parents dying in a plane crash. Scott doesn’t answer at first but when Alexander asks again he says yes. Alexander says he knows Scott doesn’t trust him and then asks about his sunglasses. Scott explains his eyes are sensitive to light and that he gets headaches. Alexander points out he thinks there is more and Scott says he doesn’t want to talk anymore and leaves.
Scott takes the city bus to rough part of town. He gets off at place called Joe’s Joint. When he enters his apartment his foster father, Jack Winters, is on the phone with someone talking about hacking a computer. He says he will be brining Scott to take care of the guards. When Jack hangs up he asks Scott why he is late. Scott says the bus was late and Jack yells at him saying he better not be talking to anybody. He says he owns Scott and throws a chair at him. Scott goes to his room and slowly takes off his sunglasses, Jack hears a boom and there is a new hole in Scott’s wall.
In the school men’s restroom Chad and Ruben are beating on Bobby Drake for being a mutant. Chad is about to hit Bobby with a baseball bat until Henry McCoy walks in, grabs the bat, then throws both it and Chad against the wall. He kicks Ruben back and Chad takes a swing at McCoy. He misses and sees McCoy hanging from the pipes on the ceiling. Ruben runs out but McCoy throws Chad out onto him. McCoy tells Bobby to watch out for guys like that and not to be caught in the restroom alone.
John and Elaine are woken up by crashing noises from Jean’s room. They go to find out what it is and find all the furniture and things in Jeans room violently floating around. John wakes Jen up, saying she is having a nightmare. When she wakes she cries and apologizes for what happened.
Chad and Ruben are at Arthur’s place telling him what happened at school. They tell him McCoy is a mutant but nobody says anything because he is such a great football player. Arthur tells them to get the case out from under his weight bench. There is a sniper rifle in it. Arthur tells them it is time for their initiation. He wants to know if they got what it takes and while pointing at them says “Scrubs…The Anti-Mutant Militia Needs You.”
Arthur asked about Starkey. The boys said they hadn’t seen him in a while. At Starkey’s house his mom is in the living room watching TV. She yells at Starkey to get her another beer. He doesn’t answer. He is hiding in his room because his skin is changing. “No…No…No…No…No..” he says as he realizes he is a mutant.
	At the homecoming game the Red Devils are beating the Conquistadors. Henry McCoy, the Devils’ quarterback, is leading the team to victory. In the stands Bobby Drake’s mom asks him if he knows McCoy. No one notices two people climbing the back of the stands. Chad and Ruben set the sniper rifle up on top of the announcer’s booth. After McCoy runs in a touchdown the other team fumbles the return and he goes back out onto the field.
Ruben says he is going to take the shot. “Gimme a big smile, freak…” Ruben says as he aims. The laser sight catches McCoy in the eye and he sees the two assassins. He tells everyone to get sown and jumps from the field to the top of the booth. McCoy kicks Ruben down. Chad hits McCoy with a big piece of wood but it doesn’t faze McCoy and he kicks Chad down. Ruben and McCoy both grab the gun and struggle back and forth. Ruben knees McCoy in the stomach to get him to let go. When McCoy lets go Ruben loses his balance and falls to his death.
The news covers the story at the football game. McCoy was taken into custody even though he was not charged with anything. Chad runs to Starkey’s to tell him what happened. When Chad sees Starkey he is horrified. He tries to attack Starkey saying “Stinkin’ mutie--! Yer dead!” Starkey jumps out of his window and runs away.
Empty Minutes does a piece over the incident at the football game. It also shows Metzger giving a speech saying it is time that the government did something about mutants.
Agent Duncan is talking with Xavier while Xavier is swimming. Duncan tells Xavier about the program that Trask is offering. He also tells him there was an unauthorized field test involving a winged man. Duncan asks Xavier what he is planning. Xavier tells him he plans to make a place where mutants can train their powers. Duncan says it sounds militant.
The football coach kicks McCoy off the team. The principal says he can’t officially expel him but due to parent’s complaints it would be best if he stayed away. His friends call him a freak and “Die Mutie” is spray painted on his locker. As McCoy is emptying his locker Xavier asks “How long did you think you could hide?” Xavier says he had a good plan being the big football star to hide in plain sight, until now. Xavier tells McCoy that he now knows what the rest of mutants feel like. He knows McCoy is smarter than he ever let on. He can’t hide anymore. “Welcome to the real world, Hank.” Xavier says as McCoy walks out the door.
Jack Winters is with his gang planning the robbery of Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. He says the plant was never brought online but it is still used for bio-weaponry. They are planning on stealing formulas for chemical weapons. Jack says they got an ace-in-the-hole when it comes to the guards. “Ain’t that right, Scotty?” he addresses Scott Summers.


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Children of a Lesser God
On Maple Blvd. Mr. and Mrs. Drake are eating dinner in their Dining room. Madeline is telling her husband William that something is wrong with their son Bobby. She says he is becoming more withdrawn and in an effort to calm herself blames it on the pressures of high school. Mr. Drake only says “I Know” and asks if there is anything good on TV.
A drop of water hits William on the head and he looks up. There is a massive leak in the ceiling which is directly below Bobby’s room. The Drakes knock on Bobby’s door and notice the floor is soaked. They bust in to find everything frozen and Bobby curled up in a blanket. Bobby says he think he is dying. William pulls off the blanket and sees that parts of Bobby are frozen too. William touches Bobby and his hand freezes. Bobby asks “W-why can’t I j-just be… like everybody else…?!”
At the A.M.M. headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, William Metzger is being fitted for a suit while Arthur introduces him to Chad. Metzger tells Chad that the suit is to look like the he belongs in politics. He says that his paper started out as underground literature and now has become a national movement. He tells Chad that he is now about to use the media to bring out America’s celebrities that are mutants.
Agent Duncan is in his car outside Freeport High School. He talks into his tape recorder saying he is there to see Professor Xavier. He has never seen someone so “…committed to his cause, but distant at the same time.” He also muses Xavier is very manipulative and wonders if Xavier is manipulating him.
In Professor “Alexander’s” office, Agent Duncan gives Xavier a folder containing Jack Winters’ history. Xavier tells Duncan that it is hard enough to approach Scott Summers with his offer since he has been an orphan most of his life, but now that he knows Summers is being used by a career criminal, he has to be more careful. Duncan offers to handle Winters but Xavier declines, saying he must do this himself.
When Xavier tells Duncan that he believes Summers’ powers are optic blasts Duncan says “Sounds like a dangerous power for a kid to have to deal with…” Xavier yells at Duncan. Xavier accuses him of being paranoid like everyone else. Duncan yells back, saying he has put his career on the line to help Xavier and he better learn the difference between paranoia and sympathy! Xavier apologizes and Duncan leaves.
On the Charlie Ross show, Metzger begins his attack on mutant celebrities holding up a magazine with Warren Worthington III on the cover. On Tough copy, the celebrity mutant story is on again using the magazine with Warren on it.
 Warren makes an angry call to his agent, denying that he is a mutant.
 The news talks about the rise of street crimes in Manhattan. As Warren is shopping in a store the clerk is being robbed. The news covers a story about a former White House intern who might be a mutant. The robber is attacked and thrown out of a window by a masked winged man. The clerk attacks the winged man for being a mutant. William Metzger makes a statement that if mutants have infiltrated the White House, then it is time for new leadership.
Warren flees the store and flies back to his apartment. He calls the clerk a “…stupid…ingrate…” when suddenly stuff in his room starts floating around. Magneto is standing in the room. Magneto tells Warren that he is Homo Superior and that he should be ruling humans, not saving them. He tells Warren that he is the one that destroyed the robot that was chasing him. He warns him that a war is coming and offers him a place at his side. Warren blows him off and leaves.
Starkey is hiding in an alley. Two homeless guys see him and tell him to join them by the fire. One takes his coat even though Starkey tells him no. The two men finally see that Starkey is a mutant. They pick up wood clubs and beat him then run away.
At the Shoreham Nuclear Plant,the robbery is going as planned. Scott Summers and Jack Winters are in an office when a guard surprises them. Jack tells Scott to blast him. Scott hesitates but Caffe, one of Jack’s goons, knocks out the guard from behind. Jack is mad at Scott and starts to beat on him.
Outside the office, one of Jack’s goons lights a cigarette but suddenly falls unconscious. Jack tells Scott he is to blast the guard to nothing. Scott refuses. Jack tries to force Scott when Xavier announces “That’s quite enough.” Xavier says it is a joke that Jack thinks he is Scott’s master. When Xavier demands that they release Scott, Caffe points a gun at Xavier. Xavier knocks both goons out with a mind bolt. Before Xavier can explain things to Scott he runs away.
Scott gets lost in the hallways. Xavier tries to communicate with Scott through a mind link. It freaks Scott out and he tells Xavier to leave him alone. Scott is caught by Jack again. Jack starts beating on Scott. The guard wakes up and hits the alarm. While Jack is distracted Scott blasts him. Scott blasts Jack again and again until Jack is buried under rubble. Scott considers killing Jack but decides he will not sink down to that level. Xavier finds them and asks if Scott is going to go back to his old life alone. He offers Scott an alternative …


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Child’s Play
Scott Summers wakes up in Charles Xavier’s mansion. As he walks around he stumbles in on Xavier in a big computer room. Xavier explains the big computer he is working on is a tracking device. Scott tells Xavier he appreciates him giving Scott a place to stay but he doesn’t know why he is there. Xavier says he does. Scott lived with a criminal and was always on the move but insisted on going to school because he wanted to be normal. Xavier says he knows what Scott feels like because they are both Mutants.
Scott tells Xavier that he started getting headaches when he lived in an orphanage and that he ran away when his optic blasts kicked in. Jack Winters found him and took him to a doctor to get the ruby glasses. Xavier tells Scott not to look at the floor when he talks. Xavier says Winters made Scott fell like a freak and that people would kill him if they knew what he was. Xavier says Winters was half right. People would kill Scott but Scott is not a freak and doesn’T have to hide. Scott walks away saying he just wants to be normal. Xavier replies “We’ll you’re not normal. Get used to it, Scott! I know you can hear me…!”
On The Vista, Starr is interviewing William Metzger. She says he is always on the news spreading his message about standing up against mutants. She asks him if the message is getting through. Metzger say it is and that they are even hearing there might be some federal assistance to their cause.
Agent Duncan is at F.B.I. headquarters in Washington D.C. when he sees the interview. He storms to Agent Cain’s office. When he barges in he yells “Oh my god--! You can’t be serious--!”as he sees Arthur and Metzger having a meeting with Cain. Duncan is about to tear into Cain when Arthur steps behind him. Duncan turns and gets into Arthur’s face asking “Can I help you?” startling Arthur. Metzger asks Duncan if he is involved with the F.B.I.’s Mutant response directive. Duncan says that it is none of his business. Metzger disagrees and says he is there to work with the F.B.I. and has provided them with all the information the A.M.M. has collected about mutants.
Metzger says an alliance will be a “…marriage of technology and information.” Duncan asks Cain what Metzger is talking about. Cain tells Duncan that parts of the robot that exploded over the East River have been found that appear to be tracking devices. Duncan asks Cain to step outside with him. Duncan says he can’t believe Cain is talking to Metzger and says they are preparing for a witch hunt. Cain says that the decision is not debatable and to remember he is the boss. Cain says if Duncan has anything to say tell it to his tape recorder.
Duncan is driving Xavier to through a suburban neighborhood and telling him what happened. Xavier changes the subject to talk about his school. Duncan says it won’t be easy to pass Xavier’s mansion as a school. Duncan says he has to get accredited and have an inspection. Xavier says it won’t be a problem. Duncan says he is taking big risks that could break the law. Xavier says “I refuse to let the law to prevent me from helping these kids.”
Mr. and Mrs. Drake are in the living room talking to Agent Duncan, asking him how the F.B.I. knew about Bobby. Duncan says that is confidential but his associate is a specialist in mutant cases. They ask Duncan if Xavier can help Bobby. He says he hopes so.
Xavier is calling for Bobby outside the garage. When Xavier opens the garage door it is filled with snow. Xavier tells Bobby his parents said he was sick. Xavier tells Bobby he is not sick he has just been resisting his body’s changes. Xavier tells Bobby about how his powers started to manifest as he rolls up a snowball.
Xavier said he had headaches and nightmares. Once he realized that the nightmares weren’t his and he accepted the fact he was a mutant that could read minds the headaches went away. Xavier tells Bobby that is the first step, accepting what you are. He then asks “willing to take the first step?” as he throws the snowball at a pile of snow. Bobby in full transformation rises up out of the pile.
Starkey is in a dumpster in an alley. He is mumbling to himself. He feels all the hate and hunger and everything around him. Suddenly the dumpster rises up. Magneto is raising the dumpster. Magneto tells Starkey the dumpster is where humans want him. Magneto welcomes Starkey to the ranks of homo superior and asks him to join his brotherhood. Starkey says he can feel all the hate in Magneto. Starkey says it is too much and throws trash at Magneto telling him to leave him alone. Magneto says Starkey is not ready and drops the dumpster saying letting Starkey Live is a mercy he wouldn’t show a human.
While Xavier talks to Jean Grey outside her parents watch from in the house. They can’t believe what is happening. Xavier comes in and says he has told Jean he thinks she should join his school. He asks her parents if they have talked about it. John says they have but it is still hard to let Jean go. Xavier promises he won’t let Jean or her parents down but the choice is still up to Jean.
A TV news reporter talks about a story that the F.B.I. has been using tax dollars to fund projects and facilities that congress does not know about. At one such facility hidden underground in the wilderness, Agent Cain and William Metzger watch from an observation booth as scientists work on a human sized pod.
Agent Cain asks Metzger if his man is prepared for the transformation. Metzger asks Arthur if he is ready to play his part in humanity’s salvation. Arthur is ecstatic and ready to kills some muties. Cain warns him not to get maniacal. They are just preparing to fight fire with fire.
 Arthur asks if they are going to get any mutants for test runs. Cain says they are still working on the tracking system. Metzger tells Cain that he has his own lead. They step into the next room and Metzger introduces Cain to Chad. Metzger says “Chad has a friend that happens to be exactly what we’re looking for.”
John Grey brings Jean a coat while she is outside. She says she doesn’t feel the cold. She tells her dad that she has always felt safe with him and her mother, but she needs to stop hiding. She needs to learn to protect herself. She says she has to go to Xavier’s school and that he could look at it as having two daughters away at school.
On Politically Inept, Bill Czar is having a round table discussion over mutants with Actor Ted Banks, Civilian panelist Gail Stein, Professor Reed Richards and Political activist William Metzger. Bill says he can’t believe how adept Metzger is at spreading hate. Metzger says his message is not hay but more of a preparation.
Warren Worthington the Third is at his parent’s estate, watching when he notices a glow outside. While the show continues he goes over to see what it is. Warrens sees soldiers in black masks burning a huge x in his yard. They throw a grenade and start shooting and Warren jumps out of the way. While Warren is ducking the grenade rolls in front of him and he leaps just in time before it explodes. The soldiers storm the house. Warren tries to fight one but is overpowered.
Right before the soldier is about to shoot Warren he is knocked out. Behind him is Charles Xavier whoannounces the soldier will live and he has taken care of the rest. He tells Warren he is there to help. He says Warren can stay at his parents and hide as long as he wants but to look at what happens. Xavier says he knows what Warren has been doing and offers him the chance to do it on a larger scale. Since the house is burning Xavier asks if Warren would like to talk somewhere less hot. Warren responds “Uhhh…Yeah…”