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The Kiss of Doom
Victor von Doom tells Prophet that he has been fighting the good fight for many years now and the clever hand of the Prophet is all over the news from the west. That is, if you know what to look for.
Prophet says that if Doom knows of his cause, then he knows why he came. Doom says that there were eleven notebooks on the Celestials that Reed Richards wrote and he performed some extraordinary research. As they walk through some tunnels, Prophet asks if the research is useful and Doom assumes he is talking about finding a way to defeat Weapon Omega. He says perhaps but then tells Prophet the real question he wants to ask is, “will he give the journals to him?” As they walk into a large room with lots of machinery inside, Doom tells them the journals were destroyed after he committed them to memory.
As much as he admires their exploits, using this knowledge in their cause would be an utter waste. Prophet asks him to elaborate before he disagrees with him. Doom tells him it is simple math. Mutants number tens of millions and the population is growing, whilst humans number in the tens of thousands and are shrinking. There was a war and they lost.
Prophet asks him if he is advocating Omega’s survival of the fittest regime and Doom tells him maybe humanity would be better off if they did. Deadeye chirps in and says they are going to change the mission. The harder they struggle to defend all of humanity, the more they have lost. If they had focused on taking power for themselves… Doom finishes her sentence and says that, if they had taken power instead of wasting time and resources on fighting, then the outcome would have been very different.
Deadeye continues and says that her brother always said they were fighting the war all wrong but they lacked the will to change their nature. Prophet tells her now isn’t the time to talk about her brother but she snaps back that he was right and he said so before Prophet sent him to his death.
Prophet asks Doom what his plans are, if he won’t share the information he has. Doom replaces his mask and asks them to walk with him. Prophet asks if the fact his people are being exterminated in camp stirs him into action. Doom replies that if he were to lead a rebellion they would all die in a fruitless cause. Instead, they are interned and their numbers are twenty-eight thousand, four hundred and twelve and growing. He has taken measures to make sure they won’t be tortured or executed, at least en mass anyway.
Prophet asks how he managed that and Doom apologizes and says at this time those measures include turning them over to the Queen. As they walk into another room Prophet asks who the Queen is and a voice calls out telling them it’s her. They turn to see Emma Frost standing before them and she informs them they are her prisoners now.
Emma Frost was a mutant who had the part of her brain that contained her telepathic powers removed.  She went on to join the Human High Council to fight to save humanity but apparently both of those things were exaggerated. She is standing before four tubes full of yellow liquid, with Harper Simmons, Goodnight, Jean Grey and Fiend in each tube. As Emma doesn’t recognize Fiend, the X-Terminator introduces herself and says that she will be the one to kill Emma. Emma is delighted at her audacity and says her mind shall be a treat to violate.
Here in Latveria, they call her the Queen and she presides over the gene pools. The protoplasmic goo that spurs forward evolution is Latveria’s chief export.
Fiend tells Emma the only thing worse than a monster is a traitor and then congratulates her on being both. Sue Storm and the whole of humanity trusted her. Emma replies that humans cut her head open and when her powers returned so did her senses. Prophet tries to reason with her by pointing out that if she turns them over to Weapon Omega it will only increase his overall power. She may find herself a queen in name only. Emma jokingly suggests setting them free to go about their terrorist ways and then tells them other arrangements have been made. As she says that a guard comes up to her and informs her that Azazel has arrived. Emma turns to Doom, a little surprised, and he says he had to call Azazel as it was protocol.
Azazel walks in the room and Emma greets him, saying that they have captured some very interesting humans. He sneers at her and says he will be the judge of that. He inspects the tubes containing some of the team and he tells Emma they don’t look like much. Emma says not to con her, as their deal was that he gets first refusal at dissidents amongst her stock. Everyone knows what a prize Jean Grey is and they says the Prophet knows more about the lives of the overlord’s ministers than the ministers themselves.
She tells Azazel to imagine the value of the secrets locked in his head, causing him to wonder if she has learned anything from them already. Emma replies they remain untouched both physically and mentally during the rights period, as Latveria has no interest in Apocalypse’s secrets. Azazel tells her he hopes so for her sake and says he will return soon.
As soon as Azazel leaves, Emma turns to Doom and tells him it was unwise to inform the minister so quickly, as she won’t be able to enjoy this like she wished. Doom says it was just as he had planned and then points out she isn’t able to read their minds anymore.
(Humanity’s Last Stand)In the cell block, Sabretooth is kneeling on the floor with blood pouring from his mouth, his son Graydon standing over him. Graydon, holding a bottle of alcohol, shouts for him to get up but Sabretooth dryly apologizes for not being around to play catch as there was a war going on. Graydon snarls back and says that’s because he was too busy hunting other people’s kids out of their hiding places to be mashed up in Apocalypse’s gene pools. He couldn’t care less about his childhood but he does care about his peace of mind. As he grabs his father by the hair, Sabretooth replies that if he wants to be judge and jury then he will have to earn it. With that, he grabs the bottle out of Graydon’s hand and smashes him across the face with it.
Sabretooth gets up and says his sins are his and tells Graydon to worry about the ones he himself is working on. Graydon wipes the liquid from his face and says he doesn’t want to be thinking about his father but he doesn’t have a choice. He angrily punches Sabretooth across the face and yells that he is out there everyday fighting for humanity, whilst deep down he knows his father was a filthy mutant butcher, as was his mother. Kicking Sabretooth down, his says that maybe he is a… but he can’t finish. Instead, Sabretooth does it for him and asks if he thinks that deep down inside him there is a filthy mutant waiting to rear its ugly head. Graydon doesn’t reply. Instead, he steps out the cell, slams the door shut and walks away.
(Latveria)Doom informs Prophet his thoughts are perfectly safe as Emma Frost is inert. She will not remember this incident or anything from the last twenty-four hours. As Emma stands there blankly, Doom continues that they don’t have much time and there is so much he has to show them.
He tells his Doombots to take the Queen to her chambers and continuously monitor her. The Doombots also free the rest of the team from their confinement and says that it was he who did the initial surgery on Emma. Her mutant power is controlled by her entire being, not a simple part of the brain. All he did was to successfully trick Emma’s consciousness into thinking it was but eventually her synapses reconnected and created new pathways. Knowing this would happen, he implanted a simple fail-safe device that would neutralize her consciousness for short periods of time. She is quite unaware of it and believes the blackouts are a consequence of the surgery.
Doom tells the team to gather their belongings as he doesn’t know when Azazel will return and he wants them to feel secure for what happens next. Prophet asks what that is and Doom tells him their coming to Latveria was known to Emma from their encounter in England. It was only the prospect of Azazel coming that kept her out of their minds.
Doom escorts them to another room, as he wants to show them his masterpiece. They enter a huge room and they see an enormous piece of equipment being guarded by Doombots. He explains that he used Reed’s research and expanded on it with his own knowledge to create the master apparatus. The Celestials imbued Weapon X with massive cosmic power on par with the Phoenix Force. The key is that Apocalypse’s death seed was given to this planet to advance evolution, not its specific host. When the host is destroyed, the power simply finds a new home. The apparatus can capture the Death Seed energy and direct it into a host of his choosing and this is how they will turn the tide and snatch victory from defeat.
Prophet asks Doom if he intends on being the host, to which Doom replies that he is the most qualified and if that is arrogant it is also the truth. Jean tells him the power must be freed from its host first. Doom says he will help them with their mission but they must kill Weapon Omega. Goodnight sarcastically asks if that’s all; it seems it’s always two steps forward and three back into an old conversation.
Prophet asks if Doom has created a weapon and he replies he has one or will create one but first they must agree to his proposal. He says there is a mutant vs mutant war coming with Omega Red in the east and Weapon Omega to the west, with Latveria in the middle. Both sides want their gene pools and both sides have given him autonomy, which he has used to prepare the tools they need for victory. Doom suggests letting the two sides war and weaken each other, and then when the time is right they strike. With the Apocalypse power, no one would be able to oppose them. Jean asks if he means no one would oppose him, and they would have to concede the world to him. Fiend doesn’t like the sound of that but Doom says he prizes loyalty and fealty and in return he will give them a world of peace with an end to starvation, suffering and strife.
Prophet asks if he has a weapon or not and Doom retorts that he is fishing. He points out that they can always decline his offer and Jean tells Prophet they will follow him but her husband said similar things before the Death Seed took him. Doom says he has never had a keen interest in blood like her estranged husband and then presses Prophet for an answer. Prophet says he believes they have very little choice and then slyly takes out a flash grenade and throws it at Doom.
Fiend and Goodnight suddenly leap into action and fire their weapons at the Doombots around them. Prophet gets Doom around the neck from behind and demands he hand over the weapon to kill Omega or he will take his head back to Dr. Moreau to discover its secrets. Holding a blade to his throat, he says they are pure black vibranium, so if he thinks the threat is idle he will have made the first and last underestimation of his life. Doom replies that he believes him, but he also believes it is he that has stumbled.
Prophet realizes Deadeye has a gun pointed at the back of his head and she angrily asks if they have all lost their minds. She says they have been witness to the genocide of an entire species and Doom has proven his worth since the beginning. Whilst he might not be able to deliver a chicken in every pot, at least there won’t be a human in them. Prophet lets Doom go as the rest of his team stands down after being surrounded by Doombots. Doom says he would not have given them a weapon under any terms but his own, and fail-safes in his armor would have prevented them from getting his brain or any DNA from him. With Deadeye stood next to him, he says his affinity for humanity is far from selfless and perhaps when they have had time to reflect they will see that that is not such a terrible thing in these times.
Doom let them go and they left Deadeye behind without so much as a goodbye. Like Prophet, she felt what she had done was necessary. She lied, deceived, sacrificed friends and allies and made deals with the devil. Prophet never forgot that they were fighting for their humanity as much as they were for humans and to lose that was no better than being extinct. They left knowing they had made the right decision and that they would find another way.
When Deadeye stayed behind, she began a relationship with Doom. However, one night as Doom slept, she took out a blade, cut off his head and placed it in a jar for preservation. Two weeks after the rest of the team arrived home, Prophet left without a word and when he came back Deadeye was with him, carrying her prize.


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Jean Jeanie
(New Apocalypse)Keeper Murdock is the head of the Overlord’s hounds and, months ago, the X-Terminated went toe-to-toe with him. They gave better than they got and they escaped scot-free. Since then, Prophet’s team has never been far from Murdock’s thoughts or ears, as they say that once he hears your heartbeat he never forgets it.
High above the streets, Murdock and his goons survey a medical facility and he picks up a familiar heartbeat using his radar senses. He contacts Cyclops and informs him that the woman he has identified was one of the insurgents and she has been posing as a nurse in the dreg clinic. Viewing Murdock’s holographic message at his base, Cyclops tells him to monitor the situation because where there is one there is always more.
From behind him, Azazel overhears the conversation and asks Cyclops if he should inform Weapon Omega. Cyclops tells him to do so if he wants to further remind him that Azazel had Jean Grey in his grasp before but let her get away. They haven’t always had the Overlord’s wife in their possession. He calls Azazel clever but not one for getting messy, and then tells him to go distract himself with a Hellfire Club wench and to let him deal with the situation as it is about to get very messy.
(Humanity’s Last Stand)As Dr. Moreau marvels at the machinery he is inspecting, Prophet tells him it is everything from the apparatus that they were told to get. Dr. Moreau confirms it as the rest was just housing and monitors that can be replicated back here. The rest though is the most amazing piece of technology he has encounters and he commends Von Doom as a true artist. Bolivar Trask asks if it can do what Doom says and Dr. Moreau replies that it can quite easily capture and store the Apocalypse power. Prophet says the hard part will be getting the current possessor to give it up.
Dr. Moreau says Prophet should have brought them Doom’s body, or at least his brain, and they could have stripped it bare to create a weapon to take down Omega. Prophet replies it was all he could do to get the equipment out of Latveria as Emma Frost was on the warpath. They had to scuttle the lab and von Doom’s body was lost in the fire. Dr. Moreau says it is a shame because, until they have a way of killing Omega and releasing the energies, they just have a very beautiful jar with no fireflies in it.
Deadeye, who had been listening to the whole conversation, storms off and Prophet runs after her. He apologizes, as he knows she agreed with Doom and she yells back that Doom was right and they could have won, and taken back the whole world. He points out she did as he asked and she replies she didn’t like it, or him for that matter. Bolivar walks in and asks if there’s a problem, to which Prophet says it’s quite the opposite actually. Bolivar asks if he thinks they should have told Dr. Moreau they have Doom’s brain but Prophet says that he needs to be working on the apparatus. Azazel saw them in Latveria and the net is closing in on them. Bolivar agrees and asks who they are going to give the head to if it’s not Dr. Moreau.
(Church of Penance)As Penance sits in front of a mirror in her room, the Sugar Man taunts her and says it looks like she had a hell of a time at the palace. She tells him to shut up and reveals a large wound on her face. He tells her it will heal just like last time but she storms over to him and says it will heal when she has done her penance and her people are free. It will heal when he finds a way of killing that sick bastard who calls himself the Overlord.
The Sugar Man says that Omega is one tough nut to crack and Penance turns to ask Prophet what he thinks. Having been lurking in the shadows he walks forward and tells her he has von Doom’s brain and inside it is the information needed to build a weapon to separate the Apocalypse energies from Omega. Sugar Man is interested but Penance asks what they get in return for building the weapon. For starters, she would get someone who eliminates Omega without involving her, and if they should fail his anger would not be taken out on her.
(Apartment of Franny Trask, aka Fiend)In her home in New Apocalypse, Fiend sits on a sofa and teases Jean Grey, who is putting makeup on in a mirror. Jean tells her to be quiet but Fiend continues and says that she doesn’t want to get involved with Graydon as she can show her some scars. Jean says she agreed to the date because he went to see his father in return. A knock comes at the door and she opens it to see Graydon, dressed in a suit and holding some flowers. They leave and head out on their date.
(Mecca Club)Jean is impressed by the high class restaurant Graydon has taken them to. As they sit down, he tells her it’s mostly betas and gammas who come there but if they keep their ears open they can get some useful information. Jean says that Sabretooth said Graydon came to visit him, and he had some stitches on his head too. Graydon replies that he probably tripped and she asks how it made him feel talking to him. He asks if they are on a date or a therapy session and then asks the waiter for a scotch. Jean apologizes and promises no more daddy talk and they should just have fun.
Graydon tells her she is speaking his language and asks her when the exact moment was she realized she was in love with him. Jean tells him this was only a deal but he retorts and says the deal didn’t require her to get all dressed up like that. She looks a bit sheepish and replies that he told her fancy. But he says he only said they were going out, and then looks at his watch and tells her he’s late. He tells her if she wants to help him then she can give Franny a call to clear out the apartment. He gets up and says to sit tight and enjoy and he’ll be back after the first set. She is confused as to where he is going but, when she sees him go over to the grand piano on the corner, she trails off. As he plays the instrument, she sits at her table watching him.
Afterwards, as they are walking through the side streets, Jean tells Graydon he really impressed her. He tells her he picked it up from an old timer he used to share a basement with in his teens. It’s a good gig there, as he gets to hear almost all the rumors from around town, especially once they start drinking a few. As they reach Franny’s apartment block, Jean tells him she had a good time, to which he asks if this is the end. She replies it is for tonight and he asks if there will be another date. She tells him yes then kisses him but, as she pulls away, she tells him she wants him to continue seeing his father.
Graydon looks annoyed but she tells him she is seeing a change in him. He suddenly snaps and yells that she didn’t live his life and she doesn’t know jack about him. She is a little taken aback and tries to tell him it isn’t about their date. He continues his tirade and asks if she and his father are lovers and he is just a little side project or something. As he leaves, he kicks a trash can over and Jean angrily yells after him. She chastises him for talking to her like that but he replies that she obviously likes the wild ones.
(morning)In the medical facility, Jean tells Franny she is worried about Graydon as he won’t respond to any of her calls but Franny tells her he is a lost cause. Jean replies that anyone can be helped if they want to be and Franny repeats the key phrase “if they want to be,” and not if she wants them to be because she has the hots for them. As she washes her hands in a sink, Jean tells her that she thinks there is a good man underneath it all and admits she does find him attractive. Franny smiles and tells her that admitting it is the first step towards a cure.
Just then a scream rings out and they see Cyclops and a squad of soldiers coming down the corridor. As the other patients at the clinic move away in terror, one of the soldiers tells Cyclops that Keeper Murdock has the perimeter secure. Cyclops orders them to seal the exits and to locate the Overlord’s wife and her friend and to bring them to him. They are to make sure Jean Grey is not harmed in any way.
Franny immediately starts getting into her Fiend costume as Jean takes out a gun. Fiend tells her to stay back but Jean says that they will do this together. Fiend replies that she is important and she won’t be responsible for the whole human race dying because she wanted to play hero. She orders Jean to stay behind her and if anything happens she must run and leave her.
The soldiers enter the room and inform Cyclops they found the humans but Fiend attacks and makes short work of them. They make their way to another room and Fiend surmises that they will have the alleys watched but they hopefully don’t know about the hatch into the sewers. As they make their way into the tunnels, though, they run into Emplate, who says last time he only had a little taste of human but today only one is required to stay alive. Fiend tells Jean to remember their deal and takes out a small device and activates it. As Emplate lunges at them, they split apart and Fiend drops the device, which promptly blows up at Emplate’s feet. Jean manages to make it round the corner of the tunnel and shields herself from the explosion.
Back at Humanity’s Last Stand, Bolivar and Prophet are sat down having a coffee together. Prophet tells Bolivar that Penance promised that humans would be able to live in the open without fear of persecution and that he also told her they want Hawaii. When Bolivar asks if Penance will honor the bargain, Prophet replies that he chose Monet St. Croix because she is many things, not all flattering, but she is not a liar. Bolivar says he feels more hope now than he has since the beginning of the war.
Prophet suddenly gets up and listens to something going on in his earpiece. Prophet goes down to Sabretooth’s cell and tells him Jean is being hunted and he begins to offer a deal. Sabretooth cuts him off and asks if Prophet thinks he needs anything for this.
At his base, Weapon Omega tells the holographic image of Cyclops to back off Jean Grey. Cyclops tells him that Keeper Murdock has her signature and the hounds will have her within an hour. He tells Cyclops that he should be happy that they are off the hook now. Jean is in the city and she is his wife, so it falls to him to hunt her down. And, if he finds she can’t be cured of her humanity, then he will kill her.


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Hit the Fan
It had really hit the fan as months… years… worth of planning were now out of the window. Jean Grey, formerly the most powerful telepath on the planet and the estranged wife of Weapon Omega, was on the run. After being found by Cyclops and chased into the sewers, she now had Weapon Omega and his forces hot on her heels. Whilst the X-Terminated were desperately trying to catch up, none of them had ever asked why she was so important. Prophet had said she was and the rest of them were willing to die for it.
As Jean runs into more of Omega’s soldiers, Fiend regains consciousness from the explosion she caused as a distraction. Horror Show finds her and whispers that they have to get out of there before Emplate comes to. As she tries to stand, Fiend realizes her leg is broken and so Horror Show puts her on his back. She tells him they have to find Jean, but her voice wakes Emplate. Horror Show tells her off but she swings round and fires a gun at Emplate, knocking him out again. As the two of them make their way out of the rubble, Horror Show asks her if anyone has ever called her badass. She begins to ask if he thinks Emplate is dead but he cuts her off and says he doesn’t think so. He wants to put as much distance between them and Emplate as possible.
(above…)Penance tells Prophet and Deadeye that they were fortuitous in coming to them, as the Sugar Man had managed to procure a small amount of Death Seed energy he stole from Dark Beast’s lab. Were they to not have that, it would have been many months more to acquire the necessary materials. The Sugar Man then hands them a small jellybean-like object on a Petri dish. Deadeye doesn’t seem impressed and Prophet asks him to explain. The Sugar Man tells them that it’s all about bonds and the jelly in this bean will break the bonds between Omega and the Celestial energy.
Deadeye asks if they put it in a bullet but Penance tells her it needs to penetrate Omega’s flesh so ingesting it would be the easier solution. The Sugar Man hands them the pill and says that, once inside Omega, it will break the cell bonds causing a chain reaction. Deadeye points out that this is all in theory and Penance snaps back that of course it is; where would they get a test subject from? Prophet thanks her for the weapon and says that he hopes they will be able to form closer ties in the future. Penance says they shall see but for the time being she will be removing herself from the city.
In the tunnels, Jean Grey has a gun pointed at three of Omega’s mutant soldiers. She asks for them to let her pass, as she and her friends are fighting for their future as much as her own. Any reward they think they might get is nothing compared to the life they could lead. One of the soldiers tells her alls he is thinking of is the life he could he leading five minutes from now. One of the other soldiers leaps at her but she knocks him back and flees further down the tunnels.
(Hellfire Club)Donald Pierce, aka Goodnight, is dressed in his Hellfire Club costume and wanders through the building with Sebastian Shaw. Pierce quietly tells Shaw that Jean is being hunted and asks him if he knows what a mark like that is worth. Shaw replies that the Overlord wants her for himself and to go against that is to gamble with one’s own life. Pierce tells her if they get her they would be writing their own check and no one would know it was them. A little way off, Azazel sits on a sofa with a couple of women.
The two men continue to whisper and Shaw says that the only one who would possibly know would be Farouk. Pierce tells him to leave the Shadow King to him and he will round of a few of the ladies and go round his place. Shaw cuts him off and says it’s not the Shadow King he is worried about, as he supplies a constant stream of the fairer sex to keep him distracted. He is worried about Pierce as he knew he was half mad, but this is sheer lunacy.
Pierce suddenly spins around and gets the attention of a woman named Fiona, who works at the club. He asks her to spend some time with him and wanders away from Shaw. The scene does not go unnoticed by Azazel, though, who asks one of the women he is with who Pierce is. On a sofa, Pierce is fondling Fiona and he slyly asks her about the Shadow King. She tells him it’s just a job and she has to go wherever Shaw sends her. Pierce kisses her ear and says that he worries about her and he has heard the Shadow King does terrible things. If he were to be unable to find her, he would be beside himself. She is pleased Pierce seems to care about her and he asks her where the Shadow King lives, just in case.
Back in the tunnels, Jean Grey fights so her life and she takes out another squad of soldiers. She runs down a tunnel but comes face to face with Weapon Omega and skids to a halt. He tells her she has been holding out on him, as he spent years trying to teach her moves like that. Maybe she wasn’t properly motivated or maybe she found a better teacher. He could watch her do tricks all day but she is riling up the dregs now and he doesn’t need the headache right now. It’s time to come home, he tells her.
Suddenly, Weapon Omega is caught by an explosion from behind and thrown to the ground. A moment later, Sabretooth stands over him and tells Jean to get out of there, as he’ll take it from here. Omega gets up, sneers at Sabretooth and asks if he is more than friends with Jean now. He says that in the old days they tussled a bit but they never got to finish things. Sabretooth tells him to put down the hand cannon, referring to Omega’s weaponized stump at the end of his left hand. He tells Sabretooth it’s not really an option but he doesn’t need it anyway.
With that he unsheathes his claws on his other hand and the two men lunge at each other. Jean goes to shoot her husband but Prophet appears and grabs her hand, stopping her. Deadeye tells them they had better hurry as this will be over quick but Jean doesn’t want to leave. As Prophet makes Jean leave, he tells Deadeye to stay and watch but not to engage.
As they enter a large room, Prophet asks Jean why she is so important. She says she never really thought about it much, as she just assumed it’s because Omega prized her so much. Plus she had a lot of information. He says that has been invaluable but it’s not it. Jean asks if it’s because of the Phoenix Force and maybe there is a way to get it back. Prophet tells her of course it’s what she would think and the whole team does too and that’s why they don’t question her value. It would be sheer folly though to bet the entire human race on an infinitesimal chance of her regaining her powers back.
Prophet says that his motives were more practical, and even personal. He considers Jean his successor, a concept which seems to surprise her. He says that every single member of the X-Terminated is equal to him in every way except one and that’s leadership. Were he to fall, the movement were be sure to splinter but she has a leadership quality that means the team would follow her. Jean says they would have but now they have run out of time.
As Weapon Omega mercilessly beats Sabretooth, Jean asks Prophet what they have left. He hands over the pill he obtained from Penance and says it was developed from Reed Richards culled from Doom’s memories. The gel inside spreads from cell to cell and will separate Weapon Omega from the Apocalypse power. He has no proof that it works and he was unable to weaponize it for Deadeye’s marksmanship. It works from the inside out and he is too shielded. Jean realizes she is the one who can get close to him. She looks at the pill and asks what makes Prophet think that she will be able to do it or Omega will want to. Prophet replies that he only knows that no one else can.
Sabretooth lies on the floor in a bloody heap, but he pulls out a device and presses a button, causing a huge explosion to rip through the tunnels around him and Omega.
Deadeye manages to escape and she soon catches up with Prophet and Jean. She says it’s over and Omega is coming. Jean tells them to get out of there, as the world will need the two of the regardless of what happens next. When they are alone Deadeye asks Prophet if he told Jean everything and he says he only told her what she needed to know. What good would it be to tell her that if she succeeds everyone in the city will die?
Elsewhere, a buzzer goes off at an apartment and the Shadow King, in his human form, opens the door. He smiles and tells the women at the door to come in and let the mind games begin. The smile is wiped off his face when he sees Quentin Quire standing behind the women. Quire tells him that it was beneath him to send a human proxy to try and kill him. He does not end because he does not begin, he is everywhere and everything. He is the Overmind. He has now come to topple the false king from his mountaintop.


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The Final Battle
In his tower base, Weapon Omega yells at Dark Beast to do the tests again but McCoy replies he has done so ten times. Jean Grey is strapped into a large piece of machinery that suspends her in the air whilst Dark Beast sits at his computers. He tells Omega that he has tries numerous different tests and they all say Jean is so human she should be put in a museum as a relic for future generations. He says he is loyal and he will run the tests as many times as he wants but they will all come out the same.
Omega tells him to stop the tests. Jean has knowledge of the human rebels, so he will need to know everything before he puts her out of her misery. With that, he orders McCoy to send for the Shadow King.
At the Shadow King’s apartment, he is stunned to see Quentin Quire stood at the door with two of Sebastian Shaw’s prostitutes. Quire tells him there is no running but the Shadow King replies that if he knew he was still alive he would have come to destroy him in person. Quire tells him that’s what everyone who is late to the party says, but this is his party and the king is dead. Quire shouts “long live the king” and promptly shoots the Shadow King’s body, causing his psychic form to leap out of it. The Shadow King jumps into one of the women who came with Quire and says that he isn’t so easy to kill. Quire then shoots the woman and the Shadow King quickly abandons her and jumps into the other woman. Quire points a gun at the woman’s head and says to face the Overmind or die a coward.
(earlier…)Goodnight stands in Dr. Moreau’s lab and stares at Quentin Quire’s cloned brain in a jar. He sighs and says he wishes Prophet would have warned him about it. Dr. Moreau tells him Quire’s brain is amazing and it is actualized madness; no consciousness could find its way out of that thing. Goodnight asks if that applies to the Shadow King and Dr. Moreau says it should work. Goodnight replies that for once around here he would like to hear someone say “will” as in “this will work.” With that, he takes the jar, which has belts and buckles on it, and straps it to his back like a diving air tank. He then puts a number of sensors on his head.
(now…)With the other woman dead on the floor, the Shadow King’s consciousness swirls around the room. Quire nervously asks where he is and the malevolent force taunts him by saying his arrogance is his undoing and he should have stayed hidden. He then jumps into Quire and tells him he will now feel what it’s like to have his consciousness turned out from within. Quire falls to the floor as energy bubbles around him and the cylinder with the brain in suddenly appears on his back. He stands up and sprays something on his face, revealing himself to really be Goodnight in disguise. As he surveys the bodies on the floor, he marvels that the plan worked and then radios Prophet to inform him the mission worked.
In the tunnels below New Apocalypse, Prophet says that the Shadow King has been neutralized and Jean Grey is with the Overlord. The success of her mission is humanity’s last hope. Dr. Moreau and Bolivar Trask are ready with Doom’s machine to capture the Apocalypse energy once it’s released from Omega and before it can find a new host. Horror Show asks what they should do now and Prophet replies that the Overlord has other telepaths. Jean is strong but given time they will break her down, so they have to move up the timetable. Omega doesn’t fear them but he also doesn’t have any patience. If things become inconvenient, he will try to kill Jean and that is when she will have her opportunity. Fiend says they will fight and Prophet shows the team a fleet of small, one-man flying machines. He tells them it’s no time for stealth, so he thought he would break out the big guns.
Fiend limps towards them and Prophet goes to speak to her but she quickly tells him his leg may be broken but it’s in a splint and so she’s in. As they mount the vehicles, Prophet warns them that if Jean is successful the release of the Death Seed energy will most likely level the city, if not further. Horror Show says they will kick ass until they kill them or they die. Goodnight walks in and apologizes for being late, as you can’t just stash the Shadow King in an old gym locker. He asks if it’s too late to call dibs on the reticulated battle gloves.
In Weapon Omega’s base, Jean is in another machine, but she is suddenly ejected from it and she sees Omega standing over her. She asks if he is letting her go, but he replies he is letting her out and it’s not the same thing. She realizes the time has come and he tells her he is waiting for the Shadow King as she has a lot of information he wants. She asks what will happen then and he tells her she’s human; she doesn’t even have the Phoenix Force anymore. He tells her not to worry, as she is his wife and he won’t let anyone else do it. She says it doesn’t have to be like this, the Death Seed has changed him. He tells her the Celestials enlightened him and he sees that they showed him that what she is and he was is nothing but road kill. If he doesn’t do his job, they will come back and the whole ball will go down in flames. They say mutants must evolve and it’s his job to see that it happens. Jean shouts at him and asks if he think evolution means power, because all she sees is a descent into cruelty and butchery.
Omega tells her evolution is messy but Dark Beast walks in and interrupts them. McCoy says the Shadow King is missing and when Azazel checked things out he discovered his human form had been shot. They have had no other contact from him. Suddenly, an alarm sounds and the Dark Beast informs Omega they are also under attack.
Outside, the X-Terminated are on their flying vehicles and shooting at Omega’s forces, whilst a fleet of Sentinels attack the skyscraper base. As the Sentinels slam into the walls, Prophet sets off a bomb, causing the building to explode. Unfortunately, Prophet gets the attention of Keeper Murdock and looks up to see Omega’s brutal enforcer squatting on a ledge above him. Prophet presses a button on his armor and another explosion rips out on the building Keeper Murdock was sat on. Prophet and Murdock dive out of harm’s way as the rest of Murdock’s forces are obliterated.
In Omega’s base, Jean Grey quickly puts the weaponized pill in her mouth whilst Omega is distracted by the chaos going on outside. He orders Cyclops to take down the rebels but to capture Prophet if possible, as he knows all there is to know about the remaining humans. Cyclops signs off and Omega turns from his monitor, unsheathes his claws and tells Jean it’s time. She tells him she loves him, even now, and she knows this isn’t him. She begs him to stop it all and they can be together. He tells her he was always the one who dealt with reality. He fought and, when he knew it was hopeless, he fought harder but he never fooled himself into thinking that it wasn’t to the death. He also isn’t going to fool himself into thinking she would ever want to see the end of the world.
Outside, the forces of Omega fight on the streets against the X-Terminated in a fiery battle. High above, Omega tells Jean the Celestials saw big things for this world and he doesn’t have the right to stop it. She tells him to let it be with someone else and to let go of the power and be her Logan again. He says he did what he could and he would make her a Horseman but, without her mutant gene, she is useless. This isn’t genocide; it’s survival of the fittest and he is the fittest. He says Omega Red will soon attack them from the East and asks if he should leave everything for his tender mercies. Jean starts to cry but Omega tells her to stop as she is made of sterner stuff. She replies that she isn’t crying for her, she is crying for him. He kisses her passionately and she stabs her in the gut with his claws.
As he lets her fall to the floor, Weapon Omega steps back, energy beginning to swirl around him. Bent over on the floor holding her bleeding stomach, Jean weakly tells him she gave him medicine to cure the world. He looks confused and she simply tells him she loves him as the energy around him gets brighter and brighter. Down on the streets, the X-Terminated stop fighting and stare up at Omega’s base, which is now shining like a beacon.


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In the desolate center of the Nevada Desert, alarm bells are ringing in Dr. Moreau’s hidden lab. The apparatus that he and Bolivar Trask built to capture the Apocalypse energy has suddenly leapt into action. As the men rush around the various consoles and instruments surrounding the machine, Bolivar wonders if Weapon Omega is dead. Dr. Moreau says he has no idea, as people keep him in the dark about so much, but the readings they are getting are massive. He would be shocked if New Apocalypse wasn’t about to be wiped off the map.
In New Apocalypse, Jean Grey had gotten close enough to Omega to use the pill that caused the breakdown between his cells and the Apocalypse energy. Omega was dying but the energy escaping from him was enough to level the city itself. On the streets below Omega’s base, the various citizens were now running for their lives, as the energy being released was lighting up the whole sky. Everyone expected to die but it was the price they would pay to free the world from the tyrant. In the Nevada Desert, the two scientists constantly checked the apparatus to see if the energy had been captured before it could find a new host.
The Apocalypse energy had other plans, though, as Jean Grey herself was now radiating energy, despite the mortal would Omega had inflicted on her. As Omega kneels on the floor, he tells Jean that the energy sees that she used to house the Phoenix Force and she would be perfect for it. As he bleeds from numerous wounds, he tells her he is sorry, as he didn’t want this for her. She looks at him, gets angry and screams “no” as the energy pulses around her. Omega’s base explodes in a huge fireball that levels the building and some of the blocks around it. When the dust cleared, though, the city still stood and the real disaster had been averted. No one knew why, and many didn’t even know what really happened anyway. Everyone could sense things would be different now and forever more.
Soon after, Penance addresses a large crowd of people who had gathered on the streets. She tells them tragedy has been averted and tens of thousands of mutant lives were saved. She calls them all to rally to her, as the old dictator has fallen and they are now in a brave new world. It’s time to reshape the world not in the image of the Overlord, a savage butcher who lived to be cruel, but in her image of beauty, kindness and penance. As she floats high above them, she tells them she will be their salvation.
In the tunnels beneath the city, some of the X-Terminated gather to take stock of recent events. As Prophet tends to Deadeye’s cuts and bruises, Goodnight says that Penance has rallied everyone around her. Deadeye asks if they should find Fiend and Horror Show but Prophet tells her no, as things are happening too fast. The energy has left a strange ionic interference and all the communication lines are down. He can’t contact Bolivar to check if the energy is contained and he doesn’t even know if Weapon Omega is dead. Since they are still alive, then it is possible he isn’t and Deadeye suggests there might even be a new Overlord. Prophet says that’s what he needs to determine and then tells her to stay and watch Penance’s rally. He tells Goodnight he needs to go back to the Hellfire Club again, because if there’s anyone who would know if the Overlord’s alive then it’s Sebastian Shaw. Deadeye asks Prophet what he will do and he simply replies what he has to.
On the streets, Penance and Colossus hand out food and clothing to the crowd as Deadeye scales a wall nearby. Penance tells Colossus it will be dark soon and she doesn’t want her people to go cold and hungry. As she picks up a small mutant baby, she says there will be no more war dogs, gene pools, secret police and hounds. Under her rule, they will all live free from the highest alpha to the lowest dreg or human being. The crowd seems shocked to hear her say she will help humans and she replies that they owe a lot to the lowly Homo sapiens. They must all pity their plight as the time for hate and fear is in the past.
Penance is suddenly hit by a beam of red energy and she is catapulted to the ground. On a nearby tank, Cyclops and a bunch of soldiers stand over the crowd. He yells for them all to get back to their homes and anyone on the street in five minutes will be an open target. He asks Penance if she thinks she can just move in and take charge. The government is still in charge and order will be restored. If their Overlord cannot be found, then a new one will emerge. From the floor, Penance looks up at Cyclops and tells him that he had better hope Omega shows up soon or else it will be too late to save himself.
Prophet runs through the tunnels when he runs into Fiend, who tells him that Horror Show got her down there during the big light show. As she limps towards him, he helps her walk and he says that he knows something has happened but he doesn’t know what. He asks where Horror Show is and Fiend replies that, after he dragged her into the tunnels, he gave her a gun, kissed her on the head and then left. He was bleeding pretty bad but trying hard not to show it.
Horror Show staggers back through the tunnels and comes to the beaten and bloodied body of his father, Sabretooth. As he crouches down, he says he thought he would be the one to do this to him but it turns out he did it to himself. He sarcastically thanks his father and then takes his gun out of his holder and puts it to his head. As he is about to shoot himself, though, he hears a small whisper coming from Sabretooth and so he leans down close to listen. Sabretooth whispers again and Horror Show puts the gun back and calls his dad a bastard.
(the Hellfire Club)Goodnight, dressed in his Hellfire Club clothes, walks into Sebastian Shaw’s office and takes a seat across the desk from him. He cuts straight to the point and asks if he has heard any rumors of the Overlord’s survival. Shaw says he has no news but he does have information pertaining to him. Goodnight smiles and says he never laid a hand on her, whoever she is. Azazel teleports in and Shaw says that the minister has told him something about him he hopes isn’t true. Azazel looks to Goodnight and tells Shaw he is the one of the human rebels he saw in Latveria.
Back on the streets, Penance tells Cyclops that they will not go back to their homes and she gives them all one chance to lay down their weapons. Havok laughs at her and asks if he should release his dogs to give the dregs a lasting lesson. Cyclops tells Penance she has one minute to clear the streets.
On a building above, Deadeye watches the scene through the lens of her sniper rifle and she radios to Prophet that things are about to get ugly. He tells her to make sure it does and so she fires a shot, clipping Cyclops around the head. Havok sees his brother go down and he yells to the soldiers to teach them all a lesson they won’t forget. The two sides both charge at each other, with Colossus calling for the death of Omega’s gang.
Down below, Fiend tells Prophet that people are dying because of him now but he replies a civil war was inevitable. She tells him that’s just an excuse and he admits it is, as he needed everyone away from the site. As they climb up through the sewers, Fiend asks if he thinks Jean or Omega might be alive and he says he hopes not. It would mean Jean has failed or worse, the Death Seed has taken her over and she is the new Overlord. As they reach the surface, they see the devastation from the explosion as a number of samurai sentinels watch over the area.
Colossus and Penance continue fighting Omega’s forces and he tells her that they will prevail, despite how many they have to take out. Penance says that she is sick of blood and her reign shouldn’t begin like this. Havok goes to his bleeding brother and tells him not to worry, as he will handle this his way. One of the soldiers gets Havok’s attention and tells him there are too many dregs and he has called for reinforcements. As he says it, Deadeye lines a shot up on Havok’s forehead but she misses and shoots the soldier clean through the skull instead. Havok spots her and hits the building she is on with a plasma beam.
At ground zero, Prophet finds the bodies of Jean and Weapon Omega lying next to each other amongst the debris. He goes over to Jean and a small blade flicks out from above his wrist. He is about to kill her but Omega stops him and says that she funneled the power through her and away from the city and then rejected it. Prophet asks where he stands and Omega replies “on two legs,” as he gets up and walks away.
(Nevada)The apparatus suddenly springs into life as Dr. Moreau declares they have harnessed the Apocalypse power.


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(Earth 616, Japan)In a dark tunnel beneath the city, Mystique tells her alternate reality son that his dead family is now avenged. She says they are gone and there is nothing left to go back to and that this is his home now. She informs him that his skill with swords would be prized by the Hand and he would have meaning.
Nightcrawler, from the Age of Apocalypse reality, apologizes and says that she is nothing but a shade of a familiar memory of his real mother. He tells her he is tired of this place and he doesn’t take the terrible things he has done lightly. He betrayed X-Force and all they ever did was put their trust and lives in his hands. Mystique tells him not to let regret poison his mind as he did what he had to. He tells her would do it again; in fact he would trade the whole universe to see his wife again. He would trade it to rid his world of the terrible tyrant who grips on to it. It’s a fight he has been away from for too long and he must find a way to get back to the Age of Apocalypse.
(the Age of Apocalypse)Nine months have passed since the fall of Weapon Omega and even Prophet couldn’t have predicted how well things would turn out. Remnants of his regime were destroyed and new affordable living was constructed for the dregs to live in, like civilized people. Prophet and the X-Terminated prepared for the next phase of the war, which was supposed to be a power grab. Every alpha with a teaspoon of ego would come out of the woodwork and make a play for the top spot. But it never came.
The various alphas, betas, gammas and dregs all flocked to Lady Penance, as she was everything Prophet hoped she would be when he resurrected her. Strong, decisive, cruel, kind, arrogant, self-centered and completely worshipped by her people. In short, the perfect monarch. It’s not what the founding fathers would have called freedom but the ideals of democracy had little to offer on the post-Apocalyptic world. Penance promised that she would take the death sentence off the human race and she did.
She also gave them Hawaii like she had promised Prophet she would. Bolivar Trask and his daughter Franny, aka Fiend, were there organizing their own reconstruction. As Sentinels lift a huge machine into a large hole in the ground, Bolivar speaks to a construction worker and tells him the pipes need to be dug deeper before the guns are put in. Franny comes up to him and says he is more concerned with his secret bunker than hospitals and shelters. She tells him there’s peace going on, or didn’t he get all the good vibrations? He tells her he hopes it lasts but it’s his job to prepare in case it doesn’t.
She says they are getting boatloads of people daily and they are running out of space and the medical facilities suck. He tells her that’s why he put the drones on it this morning and soon there will be state of the art medical facilities on all islands. A little taken aback, she seems pleased but then adds the houses need finishing too. He ignores her and remarks that during her rant she called him dad. She smiles at him and tells him not to let it go to his head.
If you build it they will come was always a human mantra, and there were more still alive than anyone expected. 1.2 million in fact, twenty times their best estimates. People were coming from all corners of the world as they had been hiding in caves, hills and forests. They hid amongst the mutants, and many were hidden by the mutants.
Elsewhere, Graydon Creed walks through some streets as he escorts a rather short man somewhere. They enter a building and walk of many flights of stairs, as the short man complains at the distance he has to walk. They enter a room in which Graydon’s father Sabretooth lies, hooked up to medical devices on a bed. Graydon says he found various people to heal his father’s body but he still won’t wake up. He has heard that he can heal people’s minds and that he once regrew the brain of someone whose head had been completely crushed. The man takes off a box that had been concealing Sabretooth’s head and tells Graydon that if he were that powerful he wouldn’t have been living as a beggar on Yancy Street. Graydon replies that if he wakes him up there will be enough money so that he never lives as a beggar again.
The man asks, if he is with the top dogs, why is he coming to him for help? He may hate his father but he won’t put him in the Sugar Man’s hands, or that creep Dr. Moreau, Graydon replies. As the man places his hands on Sabretooth’s head, Graydon says he has spent months obsessing over curing his father but he still doesn’t know if he is rooting for or against the man. Sabretooth suddenly starts to make a noise and he wearily sits up in bed. Graydon steps back in amazement and he says he is definitely against.
The distance from fear to hate and acceptance to friendship turned out to be a pond and not an ocean. It wasn’t all flowers and love as there were plenty of incidents but they remained incidents and not a systematic infection.
As Deadeye and Prophet lie in bed together she asks if he thinks it will last. Sooner or later, they will realize they are stronger than them and they will get pushed to the bottom of the pile. Prophet replies that they will all be challenges in the new era. She continues to quiz him and asks how long it will last and when they will get put into the ghettos and reservations. She wonders if they really won or if the peace just ripped the tooth out of them. He looks at her and tells her it’s her brother talking and to have a little faith. She asks what to have faith in and he replies the spirit. She thought he wasn’t religious, she tells him, and he tells her his father was a preacher and he taught the message of God. He thought he would follow in his father’s footsteps but Apocalypse’s forces put a stop to that. Their town, like so many others, was destroyed and they became refugees. Ironically though, it was human scavengers who killed his parents and two sisters.
Prophet recalls Candra and Gideon destroying his town and then him grieving over his family’s bodies. He grew up as a wanderer, never trusting and always observing. He knew what to expect from someone when approaching them or stealing from them. He saw cruelty and hopelessness on both sides but he also saw acts of kindness and heroism. This is how he knew the war could be won and that’s what he puts his faith in. As Deadeye gets dressed, she asks if he has gambled the fate on the human race on the goodness of man. He asks why not, as it’s real and he has seen it a thousand times, but all he has ever seen from gods is hopelessness and despair.
(Buffalo, New York)Weapon Omega jumps down from some ruined buildings and quickly dodges an optic blast. Cyclops says he can’t believe Omega has followed him this far and asks why he doesn’t turn the claws on himself. However much blood he has spilled, it’s nothing compared to the old Overlord’s. Omega tells him that’s why he should shut his mouth, as he isn’t even in his league. Cyclops tells him he has walked into an ambush and orders a group of soldiers to take him out. Omega retorts and tells Cyclops he brought his own guys, as three animal-like mutants suddenly appear around him.
As the two forces fight, Cyclops yells that he is tired of being hounded for months and he wants to end it. As Omega dodges an optic blast, he asks what happened to the icy cool demeanor of his minister of famine. Cyclops fires another blast and hits Omega on his side whilst telling him that was for Havok. Omega manages to get close and hit Cyclops around the head with his stumped hand. He points out he hated his brother but, if he wants to see him so much, he can join him. With that, he stabs Cyclops in the head, killing him.
One of Omega’s gang says the others are chasing some soldiers into Canada. Omega tells him the Summers brothers are gone but he has heard Emplate is down in Brazil. The mutant asks if they are going to have to fly in one of those things again and Omega asks if he means a plane. However he is suddenly distracted by the arrival of Jean Grey, who tells him he is a hard man to find.
Jean says he has been tracking his ministers down for months now but it will take years to get them all. She tells him it’s time to take a break and come home but he doesn’t like that idea. She tells him they have peace now and he replies she should never have saved him. She says she didn’t know she could but, when Apocalypse’s power flowed out of him, it entered her. Prophet speculated that her cells held a sense memory given that she had possessed the Phoenix Force before. Either way, she rejected it and funneled the energy away from the city and away from him. He points out she may have rejected it but he didn’t and he still wants it. There is no peace for him in this life and there never will be. The Logan she knew is dead and so he releases her obligation to him.
Sebastian Shaw sits in a prison cell when he gets an unexpected visitor in the form of Donald Pierce, aka Goodnight. Shaw tells him he is looking better and Pierce replies that he had Dr. Moreau to thank for that as well as being over seventy percent cyborg. He can also thank Shaw for it but the man stares at him through the bars and coldly tells him he betrayed him and asks what he would have done. Pierce replies he would have made sure he was all the way dead for one.
Pierce tells Shaw that no one fully trusts him because for much of the war people saw clones of him slaughtering innocents by the truckload. He holds out his arm to reveal it is now made of metal and he tells Shaw this new look doesn’t do his already shaky reputation any good. Shaw suggests that maybe people just know what kind of man he is. Pierce suggests a liar, the type of man to deceive the guards in order to slip a bit of poison into a prisoner’s water ration. Shaw suddenly looks alarmed as he has been drinking some water throughout the whole conversation. Pierce smiles and tells Shaw he isn’t the type of man to get goaded into beating on him and fuelling his mutant power of kinetic absorption. Shaw suddenly drops the cup he was holding and drops down to the floor.
In the first few months of peace, they expected a war from Omega Red’s forces to the east. His forces had overrun most of Asia and Eastern Europe with relative ease and spies said that he was sure the West was ripe for the taking. On the eve of what they thought would be the first wave of an attack, Prophet disappeared and, when he returned, war still hadn’t come, and it never would. It was all because of the canister containing the Apocalypse power that was now in Prophet’s possession.
Dr. Moreau tells Prophet he wants to study it and use the power to heal people. Prophet replies its power was enough to stop Omega Red in his tracks and it will guarantee the sanctity of the Hawaiian Island. That it must be used as a deterrent. Dr. Moreau replies that he can’t help but feel Prophet doesn’t trust him, as he hasn’t even said where the power is. Prophet tells him it’s for his own protection but Dr. Moreau asks what if the power could be broken down into small doses and used to empower humans. Prophet simply tells him his talents are required elsewhere.
Ultimately, it can’t be underestimated how tired everyone was of war and how ready they were for peace. They took to it like a baby cleaves to its mother. A victory had never been so welcome or complete.
A helicopter lands and Jean Grey gets out, to be met by Graydon holding a bunch of flowers. He smiles and says it’s a bit late to congratulate her on saving the world but he will say she is a sight for sore eyes. She smiles back and tells him he isn’t such a bad sight himself.
(Earth 616, Manhattan)If everyone would have been blinked out of existence at that moment, not a single person would have gone with regret. Unfortunately, no one can control the timing of such things.
In an underground parking lot, Dark Beast walks to his car but a voice calls out to him and says he is a hard man to find. Nightcrawler suddenly appears and wraps his tail around the man’s neck. He demands Dark Beast take him back to their home reality or he will happily teleport his head off his shoulders.


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(Chapter Five)
As he travels through the dimensional portal with his allies, Wolverine yells at them that they have ten seconds to make a plan. Northstar notes that he hit them faster than they could react, so it seems they find physical attacks harder to absorb. Howlett points out that two of them are back on that other world and the third is probably sucking the life out of Northstar’s. Plus they still have no idea how to defeat them. Hercules tells him that they have shown to be warriors worthy of Elysium before and they will do it again. As the four of them travel through the portal, they see tears in it. Through the tears, huge shadows of more monsters can be seen advancing on them. Eventually, they are thrown out of the portal and into the 616 reality. Wolverine tells Northstar to forget the other monsters and focus on the task in hand.
(San Francisco)
They look out over San Francisco and towards the Dreaming Celestial. Northstar points out that it look like it’s woken up. Indeed, the Dreaming Celestial seems agitated by the fact energy is erupting from its chest. Wolverine tells Northstar he would wake up too if he had an inter-dimensional portal explode out of him. Howlett says as far as he knows the Celestials are the most powerful things in the universe and, if they can’t deal with the monsters, then nothing can.
As high winds swirl around the area, Northstar says maybe they should concentrate on getting the civilian population to safety. Wolverine says he sounds like Prophet and if he wants an observation then he has one. Those monsters sucked the Xavier head up like an egg cream and it got bigger and more powerful. So while he’s hoping that the “most powerful thing in the universe” kicks its ass, imagine what happens if it goes the other way.
(New Apocalypse )
As one of the monsters attacks the city, the civilians flee while the local mutants and sentinels attack it. Fiend radios through to Jean Grey and says she told her dad to pull the sentinels and to send them to intercept the monster coming their way. Even slowing it down for a few seconds could make all the difference. Jean tells her not to do it, as she’ll need them to evacuate the city. Fiend looks up at the carnage and says she’s got it. If one of those things gets to the Apocalypse power before they do, then it’s all over. Fiend tells Jean it’s all up to her now and then says sorry. Before she can say anything else, she is cut off. Jean, driving her group’s escape transport, tells her to hang on and they’ll all get through it. When she doesn’t get any response, she screams Fiend’s name but there is no reply. Dazzler says she’s lost the line but Jean tells her she’s dead. Dazzler says they don’t know what happened and it could have been interference.
Dark Beast looks around the cramped transport ship they are riding in exclaims that he’s amazed anyone could travel in the death trap. Cyclops says that if they’re gone, then it was for a cause they chose. Iceman tells him it probably isn’t much comfort. Cyclops tells him the way to succeed is for everybody to do their part and not to get distracted by each other. He tells them that one of the monster is headed straight for the Apocalypse power they have hidden. If Jean can get them to it, then they can take it from there. Jean turns to him and angrily says he would like that wouldn’t he. Nightcrawler reminds her that this Cyclops isn’t the same as theirs. Jean starts to apologize and Iceman quietly says he’s keeping his mouth shut.
(The caverns beneath Humanity’s Last Stand base)
The team lands their craft and enters the caverns. Jean leads the way as Iceman jokes that he thought it would be sunnier in Nevada. As Nightcrawler and Dark Beast start arguing, Dazzler tells them to pull it together. She says she knows they have too many chiefs but since Jean knows where they are going and what to do, she’s in charge. Jean apologizes to Cyclops and says the Cyclops she knew was as cold blooded a man as ever lived. Cyclops says he understands but asks her to remember that they are not the same and, if they are to get through this, they need to trust each other. Dark Beast sarcastically says he’s not Cyclops.
Jean whispers to Nightcrawler and says he’s the only one she can truly trust. She starts to tell him a plan and he tries to tell her something but stops. He wonders how he can tell her it’s all his fault. His over zealousness to get home ripped open the barriers between the worlds and released these nightmares. Creatures that absorb everything in sight and grow even more powerful. Now one of them is marching across the country to claim the power of Apocalypse. A power, which was recently used to keep the entire world in subjugation. He can’t imagine anything more terrifying.
In San Francisco, the monster is attacking the Dreaming Celestial. Northstar flies Howlett and Wolverine up in the air. Howlett says that it’s hurting the Celestial, but Wolverine replies that there is only one way to deal with it. Northstar drops the two men down and they land on the monster. As the monster drains energy from the Celestial’s chest, the two men hack and slash at it. They try to cut it open to see if anything is inside but they are being hurt themselves by the energy being released.
Northstar picks up Hercules, who seems to be excited at the opportunity to fight. Northstar tells him not to talk, as he’s heavy enough as it is. He throws Hercules at the monster, which is knocked away from the Celestial. They all crashed land in derelict part of San Francisco. Howlett and Wolverine are gravely hurt but Hercules and the monster are still standing. Kid Nightcrawler teleports in and Hercules tells him to get the other two to safety. As Kurt does so, Hercules grabs the monster from behind and wraps his arms around it. He lifts it up off the ground and starts to squeeze it, breaking its ribs. Kurt teleports back in to rescue Howlett and he yells to Hercules he’ll be back for him in a few seconds. Hercules, looking weary, says he has completed his labors and starts to say something else but his words trail as the monster starts absorbing him. As Kurt escapes with Howlett, the monster kills Hercules.
Kurt takes the injured Howlett to the rest of the group, who are watching the events. He yells he can save Hercules but Sage tells him Hercules is already dead and the monster is advancing on the Celestial again. Prophet tells Deadeye to find some high ground and she complies. Karma is checking over an unconscious Wolverine and confirms he has brain activity. Gambit tells Prophet he better have a plan. They didn’t delay coming through the portal just so they could watch their friends die. Prophet tells him to destroy the path to the Celestial without confronting the monster directly, as it seems to be bound to some physical laws at least. Gambit starts throwing charged cards around the monster, damaging the ground around it.
The Dreaming Celestial, energy still erupting from its chest, begins to launch itself into the air. When Kurt says it’s leaving, Sage corrects him and tells him it’s running. Northstar asks what that means, if one of the most powerful beings in the universe starts running. Prophet answers him and says it means there’s still hope. Sage asks if he wants it to leave, to which Prophet replies that they must be in possession of the stronger hand. He tells her that he sent Jean to retrieve the Apocalypse power but, if that thing drains a Celestial, then nothing they do will matter.
Back in the caverns, Jean opens a door that leas down a dark tunnel. She tells the group Prophet said the lock would only respond to either of their touches. As Dazzler lights the way, she tells him that must be trust but Jean adds it could be a curse too. They enter a dark room and go to a big metal canister in the center. Iceman asks if the Apocalypse power is in the jar but Cyclops interrupts, pointing out that Dark Beast has disappeared. Dazzler says to forget him, as the only thing that matters is getting to the Apocalypse-pod before the monster outside does. She notices that the canister is humming and Jean tells her it’s the power wanting to get out. She says that’s why she can’t risk doing it in front of anyone else, and with that she asks Kurt to get her out of there. Kurt grabs her and they teleport away, much to the surprise of the others.
When they rematerialize, Kurt says they won’t be happy and asks why they just did it anyway. Jean explains that Prophet theorizes that the Apocalypse seed is the antithesis of the energy the monsters are absorbing. It may be effective against them. Kurt says it’s a reasonable theory and suggests getting it back and having the brains look at it. Jean cuts him off and explains that Prophet wants her to take in the Apocalypse power like she once did with the Phoenix Force. Kurt says it will corrupt her but she says she resisted once and believes she can do it again. Or at least long enough to do what must be done. Neither of them notices Dark Beast watching them from the shadows.
Nightcrawler is shocked and asks how she could consider this, based on one human’s theory. She may be doing it for nothing; the monsters could just absorb her like everything else. And she would have sold her soul in the process. She points out Prophet’s theories freed their world and he wouldn’t ask unless there was no other way. Kurt says there’s always another way. Dark Beast suddenly leaps from the shadows and kicks Kurt away. He says there is another way and grabs the canister. He kicks Jean and says he heard her whispering with Kurt. He tells her she can die with her innocent soul intact, as he’s happy to be corrupted by the magnificent force. Jean pulls a gun on him and fires, but he dodges the bullets. He says after he has dealt with the monsters out there he will restore order to the world.
As Dark Beast makes his escape, the cavern starts rumbling. Suddenly, the ceiling rips open and the monster jumps down into it.
In the 616 universe, the monster uses a grappling hook to hitch a ride with the fleeing Celestial. When Kurt asks why the Celestial isn’t moving faster or teleporting, Sage guesses it must be because it’s injured. Seeing the monster hanging off a wire from the Celestial, Prophet radios to Deadeye. She tells him she’s got it and fires her rifle, snapping the wire. The monster crashes to the ground but it starts to absorb the powers erupting out of the Celestial anyway. Black energy starts to pour out of the Celestial and into the monster. Sage looks on in horror and says that the monster must have made a link to the Celestial but she has no suggestion of how to break it. She asks Kurt but he says he can’t teleport something like that. They watch as the monster continues to absorb the energy and grow more powerful as it does so. As the Celestial dies, the monster continues to grow in size and power. Sage tells Prophet that by his parameters they have lost now. He tells her they will formulate new parameters and hope that he is not as smart as he thinks.


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Diplomatic incident (3rd story)
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In the spirit of the heroic age, Washington celebrates the visiting British heroes from MI13 (Captain Britain, Pete, Wisdom, Excalibur, the Black Knight and Gloriana) with Steve Rogers presiding, who thanks the British foreign secretary. The United Kingdom was the first country to free itself from the Skrulls. The first to embrace a new deal between superheroes and the government. Today they celebrate that.
Faiza Hussain aka Excalibur whispers to the Black Knight that she wants to call him “Cap.” What about “Captain? Maybe too formal.” He calls him Steve, the Black Knight gloats. And him she shall call plonker, Faiza shoots back.
Steve shakes hands with Captain Britain, remarking they’ve both come a long way. About time he got a steady job, Brian laughs. Speaking of steady jobs, Steve retorts, they’ve told Dane he is welcome back and he is thinking it over. But how would Captain Britain like to become an Avenger?
Both Brian and Pete Wisdom are shocked. Pete gets between the two Captains, pointing out that nobody mentioned that little diplomatic subject. He only just decided, Steve begins. Did he really? Pete asks. Captain Britain is the UK’s first defence against magic, supervillains, Latveria…. Did something on their own, for once, did they? No wonder the US want to nick it!
Meggan chides Pete, reminding him who he is talking too, The new boss, Pete retorts, same as the old boss!
Pete and Brian share a silent look, then Brian tells Steve he has to turn him down. His responsibilities…
He is so good at manipulating her husband, Meggan snarls at Pete. She hopes he’s proud! Helplessly, he reminds her they were only just at war. They might be again. This “Age of Heroes” stuff… it’s just waiting for the next horror to… they have to be professional.
He helplessly looks around. Faiza glares at him too. Oh sod it, he swears. Bloody superheroes! He says yes, he announces. Pete… Brian begins. Pete orders him to shut it. They can come to some sort of… time share agreement.
Steve makes his announcement and Cap waves to the crowd. Every now and then… Meggan tells Pete. He’s nowhere cynical enough, he finishes her sentence. He hopes it doesn’t get them killed…