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Frederick
Bobby Snaps!
What happened to the piece of wood when Cyclops talked to it?
It got board.
HIT ME!
BOMP!
Hey, what’s the difference between Cyclops and a recreation of Cyclops’ body made out of wax?
I don’t know.
HIT ME!
BOMP!
What’s got four arms, twenty toes, and one personality?
Cyclops and ANYbody else.
HIT ME TWO TIMES!
BOMP!
BOMP!
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Cyclops.
Cyclops who?
No. seriously. It’s just Cyclops.
Oh, please make it stop! Warren moans, flushing the toilet. Peering outside into the hallway, he sees an equally ill-looking Jean in a dressing gown, cradling a cup of tea. What’s she doing out of her room, he asks anxiously. Made some calming tea, she explains. Gotta go! Warren shouts and runs back into to the bathroom. Bobby runs past them also needing the bathroom, shouting that tea won’t work, nothing works!
Looking a bit healthier than the others, Hank gloats that it’s over for him. Obviously his more robust physique has dealt with the unwanted bacteria. Spoke too soon! he moans a moment later and runs.
Warren peers out of his room again, asking where Scott is. Is he totally wiped out? The Professor sent him on a mission, Jean explains. A mission! Warren exclaims. He was on the field trip just like they were. How come he’s okay?
Jean’s memory:
Jean recalls them having some drinks in a South-American country after their quest for a mutant turned out a bust; they didn’t even find a chupacabra. All of them were drinking the local beverages, save for Scott who drunk only the bottled water he’d brought along.
Present:
He’s okay because he’s Scott, she explains, and he never lets his guard down.
A shivering Bobby joins them, moaning he wants to eat, but eating always ends badly. Can’t imagine ever going on a mission again, Warren groans. Is he molting more than usual? They begin discussing Scott’s assignment when Jean moans that she’s got to go… while one of the others explains that Scott has to hunt down a killer-mutant.
Blue Ridge Mountains, West Virginia:
In his uniform and equipped with a backpack somewhere in the wilderness, Cyclops telepathically contacts Professor X, asking him to show that image that he picked up on again. The formation. Xavier concentrates and shares with Scott the place he saw through the recent victim. Okay, Scott reveals, that’s what he thought. He’s about one mile away. Then they should review what they know of their quarry, Xavier suggests. Scott walks at a brisk pace as they recall what led him here.
Like most of the nation, they noticed the news coming out oft his area in recent weeks. Several disappearances, often with signs of struggle. All residents or former residents of the depressed town of Weirton. Xavier remembered once picking up a faint signal from the region that he could never find again. He decided to revisit his scan, but found nothing, requiring Cyclops to come down and do the footwork personally. Which he did a horrible job of, Cyclops decides.
Flashback:
Scott parked the car outside the police line and addressed the local sheriff, who asked him if he’s one of those serial killer fans. Taken aback, Scott stutters that he’s reporting… The sheriff replies that he’s got no energy for a bad liar right now. He hasn’t seen a reporter use a notebook in thirty years. He points towards the two dead guard dogs and remarks that they don’t know if any people are dead but whoever’s behind this doesn’t have a problem with killing things in his way. So get out of it. He just waned to help, Scott ventures. The sheriff suggests he then go back to New York and watch it on TV where it’s safe. They’ve got feds and troopers and his men with bloodhounds scouring the state.
Present:
If it makes him feel better, he still gets such treatment from government authorities, Xavier points out. Few law enforcers are comfortable with citizen involvement. At least before he left he overheard the latest abductee was a city councilman, Scott remarks. Xavier has managed to uncover the identities of some of the abducted and shares them with Scott. There are also local officials… yet some are young people around Scott’s age.
On the ground, Scott finds remnants of a former dirt road that’s grown over. It looks like it’s leading up to a certain area. Xavier informs him that he’s going to call Fred Duncan to see if the FBI will let them work directly with them. He’ll contact Scott in thirty minutes.
Twenty-five minutes later, Scott has reached the spot and waits for Xavier to call. Suddenly, someone swings from a tree above him and kicks him to the ground. A large being, half-naked, with combat boots. Hello Scott, he croons. It’s Scott, right? He’s Frederick, he remarks as he drags Scott up and lets him fall again. He didn’t break him, did he? the man with the monstrous face asks and grabs him by the throat.
Cyclops involuntarily lets loose an optic blast against a piece of timber. A mutant, Frederick remarks. He could tell it. He always knew there were other mutants out there. He could sense them. But he though they’d look like him!
Scott fires his optic blast to no avail, as Frederick moves him aside and informs him he can tell when he’s going to fire. Cyclops orders him to stop calling him “Scott.” He’s not impressed that Frederick reads minds. Guess not, with his power, Frederick admits. It works when he wants it to, huh? His eyes hurt everything but him. See, this is how it should be with him.
He’s got a friend… really strong too… Cyclops wheezes. He kicks Frederick in the shin and throws him over his shoulder with a judo move, as he continues that said friend helps him figure out how to fight guys like Frederick.
He’d like to meet his friends, Frederick sneers. He sees a red-haired friend. What’s she like? She’d kill him, Scott replies grimly and fires at him a full-strength optic-blast. Frederick goes down and Scott is horrified. He didn’t mean to…
Xavier contacts him at that moment, asking what happened. Scott tries to explain, then blurts out he’s sorry. He didn’t mean to. Xavier gleans what happened from Scott’s mind and tells him it’s inevitable in their work that they may at times face death. Even cause it. Yet Frederick still clings to life and they need to find out where his captives are. He will take them into his mind to search.
Frederick’s mindscape:
Scott (in ordinary clothes) and Xavier (walking) stand before Frederick’s house. This used to be his home, Xavier ventures. He doesn’t think he’s lived in a house for years. He tells Scott to look.
A small Frederick greets his father who’s wearing a helmet with a lamp on it. Frederick tells him he’s still wearing his lamp. His father replies he forgot. He’s feeling dizzy. Frederick’s mother is concerned.
Later. Frederick is a teenager. His father is lying in bed, wasting away. On TV there’s a new report. The EPA say the Weirton mine should have been closed down years earlier when reports of high radiation levels came out.
Later again, his father is dead, his mother committed. Frederick at school is made fun of by the others for being a freak. Then his mutation manifested and the doctors couldn’t help him as he burned them accidentally. And Frederick, looking less and less human, sought shelter in the closed down mine.
Xavier explains that his father was irradiated for years before Frederick’s birth. Not unlike Henry or Xavier himself. Frederick actually needs the radiation to be stronger. But living underground so long… his mind is collapsing in on itself. Being far down through the ore made it so difficult for Xavier…
Reality:
Scott notes that contact is breaking up. Behind him, Frederick gets up and hits Scott.
Xavier mentally shouts at Scott and wakes him. Xavier explains that, once Frederick woke up, he was able to kick Xavier out if his mind. He has some mental power, Scott agrees. He has a little bit of everything. Xavier adds that he obviously has a high healing factor, but only internally. And he’ll want to get back to the mine to heal more. Everything about him’s messed up, Scott decides as he starts running. The abductees have to be in there… if they’re still alive!
Xavier couldn’t tell from Frederick’s shattered mind. And he and Scott will have no connection once he’s inside. Scott has nearly reached the entrance of the mine. Xavier remarks that Henry has nearly recovered. He could send him down to assist Scott. No, Scott replies. There’s no time and they have no idea what state the captives are in. He has to go in now!
Xavier reluctantly agrees and promises to contact Agent Duncan and let him know to send agents there. And Scott? If he could have sent only one of them to face this he still would have chosen him. He can handle this. Scott thanks him and enters the mine.
He marks his path with glowing sticks to find his way back, hoping he has enough of them. He walks further and further down until he hears voices. Following them, he finds the tied up prisoners, who ask him to turn off the light, as it is too bright.
Scott apologizes but he can only dim the light of his eyes. He’ll aim it away until their eyes adjust. The people mutter that they haven’t seen light in weeks and ask if it’s night-vision. Is he police? Something like that, Cyclops replies evasively. He’s here to get them out.
The prisoners thank him and one of them says they’ve been tied up with cable. They become panicked as they see that Scott doesn’t have any wire cutters. Scott asks them to calm down. He can handle this. He asks them to cover their eyes and fires at the cable tying them together. The mine around them rumbles.
One of the men remarks that these shafts haven’t been reinforced in a long time. Listen to the expert, another one scoffs. He, referring to the first man, was part of the bunch who kept the mine running, burying reports of radiation. The first man tells him he was part of it too. He said to close the place but they wouldn’t listen. A woman infers that it was the only job source in town. What were they supposed to do? It’s not their fault that boy grew up like that, another woman adds. His pa was contaminated before he was born, that’s how it works.
Yeah, but he was mad about his daddy dying too, another one adds. A man remarks that the kids teasing them didn’t help. A young woman asks them all to stop, while Scott continues taking off their ties. They agreed they wouldn’t blame each other anymore. He was just a stupid kid, another man defends himself. How was he supposed to know Frederick was a mutant freak? He is a mutant freak, Cyclops tells him.
Cyclops turns to the last body lying still. One man tells him it won’t do any good to untie Roy. He died two days ago. Did Frederick… burn him? Scott asks. A woman explain that Frederick hasn’t tortured them. She thinks Roy missed his medication. The younger man remarks that Frederick kept them down there, sitting in filth, going all over how they all ruined his life. Like this ain’t torture, a woman agrees. He feeds them the garbage he finds.
Cyclops supports the weakest man and orders the stronger ones to help the weak. With that, they try to make their way towards the exit but Cyclops’ man is too weak. Scott has found a solution though. Railtracks that go up all the way to the entrance. The weaker ones are loaded into the cars and the stronger ones push.
“Don’t worry, everyone, you’re all saved,” suddenly comes Frederick’s voice. He stands between them and the exit. Everything’s okay. Look! He’s an X-Man. He has drawn a burning X on his chest.
Scott orders him to step out of the way, but Frederick hesitates. With the light coming from Cyclops’ visor, he is reminded of his father. He reaches out. Scott misunderstands the gesture and fires at him.
Behind them the mine starts to crumble and cave in and Scott and the prisoners barely make it outside where the FBI men are already waiting for them.
A little later, Xavier contacts Scott, asking him if he is sure he’s okay to drive back. Sure, he’s just swallowed a lot of dust, Scott replies. That’s not what he meant, Xavier points out. Yeah, well, it’s like he said about this work, isn’t it? Scott replies. Sometimes they have to face death. Yes, but they don’t have to like it, Xavier replies. “Good” is Scott’s final word in the matter.


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…Canon
A comic shop. A young woman with glasses tells another member of the staff that this week’s comics are nearly all boarded. Her colleague answers the phone, wondering what Midtown Comics wants. He turns to the young woman. The call is for her. A guy named Doyle.
Anxiously, she grabs the phone and answers it some distance away, reminding Doyle they’d agreed never to… The man interrupts her, telling her this is threat level six one six. The girl, Kell, looks through some comics and answers hesitatingly this will be handled. If it’s there, the Avengers or Fantastic Four… Doyle interrupts her again, suggesting she check her files. The FF are in the Negative Zone today, and the Avengers are in the Pacific. Even Spider-Man is away. The young man at the other end, who sits in front of a computer screen in a darkened room, informs her that he’s put in a call to Xavier’s mansion.
That moment Kell’s colleague states that something is going on outside. There’s smoke everywhere. Doyle finishes his call, telling her he’s calling Marin. It’s time to re-form.
Kell steps outside. There stand the worst villains imaginable: Doctor Doom, the Green Goblin, the Abomination, the Red Skull, Dormammu, Loki and Mephisto. Doom boasts they should send their heroes against them. They represent a new age of fear. History will be rewritten to reflect this time. This is no longer mere threat or possibility. This is… canon!
Watching the proceedings in Manhattan on TV is an African-American couple. Suddenly, a phone rings. The woman answers. The man on the other side tells her to pass on a message and hangs up. Reluctantly, she tells her husband that some man asked for him and said there was no time to talk. He just said six one six.
Marin gets up and grabs his jacket. He has to get down there, he informs his wife. Reality itself is being threatened. This has to do with comics, doesn’t it? she demands angrily and orders Marin to sit down. This is bigger than all of them, comes his reply. Angrily, Jenn reminds him that he made his choice long ago – it was either that group and their comics or her and Senor Paws (referring to their cat). Marin apologizes but the Continuiteens need him. With that he jumps into his car and drives off.
Meanwhile, the X-Men’s jet is speeding towards Manhattan. Jean asks about the caller. He knew about them? Xavier, steering the jet, explains that the caller’s message asked him to bring the X-Men and that “the very universe” was at stake. If only he’d been in to answer the phone, he could have traced his mind.
This is all because Warren won’t wear his mask half of the time, Iceman announces. Xavier denies this and suddenly orders an evasive maneuver. Just in time, as the hand of a hungry Galactus is coming down at them. He fires eyebeams at them, hitting the jet. Xavier mentally manages to land the jet on the street.
In a nearby alley, watching this are the three young people who wonder whether the X-Men are in time…
Xavier and the three X-Men present, Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl step out of the jet. Okay, Big Apple, Iceman announces, the X-Men are here. And they’re gonna get stomped, but they are here. That’s the spirit, Jean jokes. Odd, Xavier murmurs. But before he can explain, Iceman and Beast have a bomb thrown at them by the Green Goblin. Are they some pathetic stand-in for Spider-Man? he laughs.
Marvel Girl attempts to repel the goblin bombs but it isn’t working. Please, let them not be losing their powers again, Beast mutters. He’s not! Iceman points out as he covers them with an iceshield. What do they think is keeping them alive?
He tosses an iceball with a negative smiley at the Goblin, shouting his don’t explode yet, but he’s working on it. Suddenly, there’s no more sign of the Goblin. Hey, maybe he did explode him, Bobby ventures. No, he’s vanished, Jean corrects him. So has the Professor, Hank remarks, and calls out for him.
Xavier is in a throng of panicking people who are running in terror, and tries to calm them down. He informs Hank he will be joining them soon.
Tower of flame that way! Hank suddenly cries and points at it. Before the X-Men can run there though, Kell, Marin and Doyle address them, telling them they have this theory of all of this that could help. Cool, Iceman tells them. Get back inside and they’ll try to get back to them. Ignoring them, the X-Men are focused on Galactus walking down the street.
If Scott were there, he could laser-eye him, Iceman sighs. Doyle immediately corrects him that Cyclops does not have laser eyes. It’s a forcebeam! Kell suggest they hit the books and try to find a way to help.
Hank whispers something to Bobby who agrees he’ll try anything. He asks Jean to float the ice object he’s creating up to Galactus’s face and shouts at Galactus if he remembers the thing Mr. Fantastic showed him. Check it out. They’ve got one as well!
Looking at the awkward object, Galactus informs them that does not even look like the Ultimate Nullifier. He will spare their planet if they sacrifice the one called… Spider-Man. No problem, Iceman agrees. Jean protests though. Why would Galactus care about Spider-Man? She thinks they are up against someone else. She tries to telekinetically affect Galactus, who protests but is nevertheless surrounded by green mists… and turns into Mysterio.
It’s all an elaborate illusion, Beast realizes. So they may think, the giant Mysterio scoffs, but his new powers are growing still. Mysterio threatens he will return soon for they have earned the wrath of Mysterio,
Did they win? Bobby asks. They won. Yay us. They didn’t win anything, Jean replies. Xavier contacts them telling them he saw Mysterio as well. He should have realized this was his doing. He’s read abut his illusion crimes, Hank remarks, but Mysterio’s effects seem to be much greater than reported. Xavier agrees. Somehow this is no mere illusion. He wasn’t able to see through them. They also existed in his mental-scape. They’ll have to reflect upon it later. People are still frantic all over the city. He’s trying to stop the crowds before they turn into riots. He orders them to find Mysterio. They’ll talk soon.
Okay, they’ll just “go find Mysterio,” Bobby remarks. He doesn’t even know where the Statue of Liberty is. Jean recalls being addressed by a guy or girl. Could he or she have know something? Hank sniffs, he caught a whiff of buttery topping like movie theatres use for popcorn. Maybe they can backtrack it and get a trail.
The Continuiteens, in the meantime, have hit the comic books and Doyle has found something. Doyle asks them to recall how the X-Men accidentally attracted that extraterrestrial catalyst that gave them god-like powers. Then they sent the entity back into space via rocket, Marin adds. Kell looks at him. She thought he’d stopped reading comics. He… came across a few trades at the library, Marin replies. Doyle continues that said rocket passed over the Man-Thing’s swamp which as they know is also the…
…Nexus of realities! all three of them chorus. Right, now he tells them to look at this comic called X-Men First Class (not the original series, he might add).
They open the book, where things went a bit differently.
While the X-Men were inside Professor Connors’s home, they weren’t aware that Quentin Beck aka Mysterio was nearby, spying on them as he had planned to seek out Connors, hoping for the Lizard’s help in creating a new Sinister Six to defeat Spider-Man.
Someone wonders why Professor Xavier didn’t notice Beck spying on them. Lazy writing, Marin suggests. Or the meshing of realties was interfering with his mental powers, is Doyle’s reply. Kell adds that such an event could cover any number of plot holes before she realizes they aren’t alone anymore. The three X-Men have joined them. Marin spells out their real names and Jean forcefully asks how they know their identities. Frightened, Doyle asks her not to get mad. Marin whispers to him not to worry. She’s not you-know-who yet.
Doyle continues they have early information on such threats. That’s why he called their mansion. Are they behind this? Bobby asks. What, does he look like, the Beyonder? Marin shoots back. Who? Hank asks confused.
Doyle tells them the time has come to share their secret… with no less than Professor Xavier’s uncanny team of mutants. He asks them to listen close, for the story they are about to hear, incredible as it sounds, is completely true.
The Secret Origin of the Continuiteens!
Years ago, the three of them worked in the same comics shop in Brooklyn. It was a good life, an ordinary life. And then one day they faced a crisis. Kell informed them that the Wednesday shipment was delayed. Diamond Distribution had a warehouse in the Florida Everglades… not far from where the X-Men’s recent adventure went down.
How do they know about that? Marvel Girl interrupts. Doyle asks her to be patient and continues his tale.
Now, few stores order from this warehouse. It mostly stocked children’s comics. But they had to get those books in. Pull-list customers are not to be disappointed. They were the only ones who would rush out their order in time… and the three made the discovery of a lifetime. They had gotten their hands on books that shouldn’t be in print yet, that depicted the future. They immediately ordered as many titles ahead as they could. Luckily, Marvel created few new characters in the future so they could make sense of special tie-ins and crossovers.
Are they suggesting these books were from a different reality? Hank suggests and the three agree.
Doyle continues that the events of their world are just quality fiction to the Earth from whence their orders shipped. Sadly, Kell continues, that rift soon closed. She thinks the Man-Thing did it. Yet they were now privy to the greatest secrets of the worlds. And with that knowledge came great responsibility. They secretly intervened whenever threats to their own reality – their very continuity – would arise (such as mailing Dr. Strange back his lost book of Vishanti).
But they got too involved in their hubris. They started to interfere in natural events. Such as inadvertently endangering Don Blake when trying to protects his cane/hammer from Loki. They were just unthinking teenagers and they years were changing them. It became time to put away their special comics… and become men (Except for Kell, of course.).
Present:
Bobby, in the meantime, got some snacks. Did he miss anything? No, a bored Jean tells him. Hank in the meantime is studying the comics with the trio as Doyle continues that they were retired until yesterday when he received an unexpected shipment from the Everglades warehouse. This could only mean that reality was being compromised again. By Mysterio? Hank asks. Yes. He realized the water of the swamp retained some dimensional energies. He filled empty gas tanks with the water while the phenomenon was in effect.
How will they find him in all of Manhattan? Jean asks. Kell points to the comic, which explains that Mysterio is hiding right here in the old water treatment station on Roth Street. Wow, this is kind of like cheating, Bobby marvels. Does it really bother him? Hank asks. No, comes the reply. Marin informs them he can get them there and leads them to the Continui-Car. He’s just glad Warren isn’t here to see how uncool this is, Bobby mutters.
As they drive towards their goal (with Hank on the roof and Bobby icesliding next to them), they find increasing weirdness on the streets such as a Devil Dinosaur ridden by Moonboy or the Hulk stealing the Leader’s twinkies) the closer they get. It’s like a weirdness zone. Interesting theory, Professor Drake, Jean quips.
Hank actually agrees with Bobby. Where the charged water is concentrated, the effect will be the strongest. What are just illusions elsewhere are dangerously close to being reality in the epicenter. Because it becomes more probable, Doyle continues, then exclaims in shock as Marvel girl’s outfit changes to her green miniskirt version. Jean is shocked (by her lack of fashion sense) and suddenly the car is attacked by the Absorbing Man. Hank frees the people inside from the car while Bobby defeats the fake Absorbing Man.
Beast worries that the attacks are going to get more solid. They are outside Mysterio’s hideout now. Jean suggests using their powers to crash the car though the wall, surprising Mysterio.
Angrily, the villain demands why they keep showing up. Where’s Spider-Man? Not that he cares who comes after him. He has more than enough power now. With that he manifests Batroc the Leaper to attack Beast, over the Continuiteens protest that Batroc doesn’t appear until Tales of Suspense #75.
The Grey Gargoyle troubles Iceman as Mysterio announces he will soon be more than the master of illusion. He will be master of reality itself.
The Continuiteens check their issue of X-Men: First Class to see what’s happening and Doyle explains that Mysterio’s been adding the Nexus water to his fog mixture – but in exciting the molecules, he’s creating a new convergence point for the multiverse. But Marvel Girl has an epiphany.
Indeed, Jean realizes that this is all about mental manipulation, so she should be better at it than him. She uses Batroc and the Gargoyle to crash into the tank with the nexus water, creating a hole.
Still weirdness abounds, as suddenly Doop manifests saying something in his alien language. You know it, D, Iceman agrees much to Marin’s horror. Doop doesn’t exist yet.
Trying to hold off Venom, Beast asks if he is also from the future. Yes, Marin protests. It’s violating continuity. Beast orders everyone outside. The remaining water is tearing a rift in this time period. They could be cut off from their own reality.
The X-Men First Class book falls from Doyle’s hands. He runs after it, because he needs to know how it all ends. His friends try to hold him back, as Marin tells him it never ends. It’s all cyclical. Everything eventually comes back, is undone. Exactly what happens doesn’t matter.
Kell tells them to look. Beast’s prediction came true. They are completely cut off from the X-Men, separated by a green wall that they can’t breach. On the other side Iceman wonders where Mysterio and the comic people are. Comic people? Jean asks. Beast supposes if Mysterio didn’t escape, he could be cut off from their reality.
How ironic, Kell states. The greatest X-Men of all time – and she includes Wolverine when she says that – are right outside and have no way of knowing they are in here.
Will he just vanish? Jean asks. Beast believes that as the reality rips weave back together, universal logic will take over. The most likely eventualities with the least repercussions will fill all the holes. Mysterio ceases to exist. They won’t even remember him.
She can only imagine Mr. Hanley’s shock, when she doesn’t show up tomorrow, Kell states. He’ll never know, Doyle points out. Even his wife will forget him, Marin muses. Still it only feels right that he faces oblivion with the two of them. Kell takes his hands. She knew he never stopped reading. That’s because no matter what mainstream book he read, he knew somewhere on that Wednesday she would be reading that very comic, he reveals.
Energy begins to swirl around them as Doyle states I admit I always thought I would be the object of your affections. She’s sorry he thought that, Kell tells him. No, he meant M – are Doyle’s last words.
Realty reasserts itself. Iceman states that he still remembers Mysterio, so he must have gotten away. Jean tells him not to feel bad. He gets away from Spider-Man all the time. Yeah, but they are cooler, Iceman points out. They look inside and find no trace of Mysterio, just a comic starring the Extremely Thorough Continui-Teens. Funny, he’s never heard of that one, Iceman wonders.


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… Fly Away (1st story)<BR> Warren Worthington III – The Poor little Rich Mutant (2nd story)
1st story:
Outside an airport in Curitiba, Brazil. Warren Worthington III is studying a map when his cell rings. Who snuck an X-phone into his bag? It’s a transponder too, comes Jean Grey’s voice from the receiver. They put that in there about a month ago. The Professor was getting tired of having to use Cerebro to track Warren down every time he bolted. So he’s in Brazil? Does this have something to do with his parents’ visit yesterday?
 Warren tells her to hang on, he’s gotta find someplace to change, but yeah. She didn’t pick up anything wrong Jean recalls, but maybe she was too focused on his mom’s boots.
Flashback: Jean greets the Worthingtons, the enthusiastic mother and the somewhat dampened father, at the door, telling them she buzzed Warren’s room and instantly falling in love with Mrs. Worthington’s boots. Mrs. Worthington asks her for her size ad promises to send her a pair. He husband interjects that they can’t stay long…
 Warren flies down and hugs his mother. His father chides him to watch those things, referring to his wings. Warren apologizes. Never mind, his father amends, but shouldn’t they be tucked away or some such? This is the only pace where he doesn’t have to hide them, Warren replies. Fine, his father agrees reluctantly, before pointing out that he doesn’t see the other students having wings.
Seeing Hank ambling towards them he admits that one is a bit off. Everyone else can hide it easier than him, Warren remarks and greets Scott and introduces him. Scott instantly gushes that they are all very lucky to be classmates of Warren’s. He’s been a big help to everyone. Well, Worthington Sr. replies somewhat mollified, except for sporting sunglasses inside he likes that one. He has to or he’d be back outside on the ground, Warren replies and introduces Jean and Hank.
 From outside Bobby frantically waves at them. Who is that? the Worthingtons ask. The pool boy! comes the immediate reply. He didn’t think the school had a pool. Right, he shouldn’t even be here, Warren continues and adds that the professor will be back soon. His folks tell him they can’t stay long. Is there somewhere they can talk?
present:
So they knew something was up? Jean recalls. But Warren seemed normal when he came back out of the library. Hank hoped his folks wouldn’t pull Warren out of school, while Bobby gushed that Warren’s mom is hot!
 Walking through the airport in his uniform and displaying his wings, Warren is drawing stares while he admits that he didn’t feel normal. He was probably numb. He tells the people he needs a little room and asks Jean if she knows Portuguese. Nope, comes the reply. So what’s over there causing trouble?
 A relative. The one who found them their jungle guide when they were in Africa. His aunt. The photographer? Jean asks. Aunt Mimi went missing during a photo shoot in Brazil. Jean feels bad for Warren, knowing she is his favorite relative. It’s not the first time she is missing, Warren explains, but she usually calls mom by now. It’s not even a dangerous place, just these waterfalls at a national park.
Cerebro quickly informs Jean that Iguacu Falls are considered one of the natural wonders of the world. Jean shouts at Warren over the phone, asking why he didn’t tell them.
 Pained, he admits he doesn’t know. He breaks off, having reached the park. The natural wonder of the waterfalls takes his breath away. This place makes Niagara look like a street puddle. But he doesn’t think his eagle eye is going to do a lot of good here.
 Jean tries to comfort him, reminding Warren Mimi’s been all over the world. Clearly, she knows how to take care of herself. Everywhere, Warren recalls. She’d come stay with them for maybe a week and then get antsy and have to go again. And wherever she went, she always would write him and send photos. He used to track her travels on a map. Even though he was no Hank McCoy he was always great in geography because of her.
Dang it, guys, he suddenly swears. Is there someone there? Jean asks. Just birds flocking after him, he explains. It always makes him feel guilty because he’s not leading them somewhere they want to go.
 Bobby enters Jean’s room, loudly shouting: speedy delivery. Her pen pal from state prison sent poetry. Just funnin’. It’s a credit card offer and something from Wanda. A card… he’ll slip that under Worthington’s door.
 Jean telekinetically grabs the card… it’s from Warren’s aunt. Is it from here? Warren asks. Jean tells him it is. Mimi tells him how she wanted to go to those waterfalls, but secretly she intends to go in them… right down the Devil’s Throat. She thinks she’s going to find something she’s been seeking for years. It may be a while before he hears from her again but, as the other explorer in the family, she knows he would do the same.
The card is dated a week and a half ago. Jean adds that the Devil’s Throat is the name of the place where several falls merge. Is he near that? Right above it in fact. Warren stares down doubtfully, hoping she didn’t go in there. Suddenly, he notices a rope fastened to a circle of rocks going over the fall. He tells Jean to stay on the line. He’s going to check this out. The rope goes back into the falls, he informs her. He thinks there must be a cave under there. She found a secret cave.
Jean tells him to wait. The files don’t say anything about caves under those falls, just thousands tons of water. She warns him not to go there, but he flies into the falls… and straight though to the other side where he fns himself in a huge valley.
 Below him in the settlement are people of different ethnicities and dressed in clothing from different epochs. They point at him, but seem curious in a friendly manner, not freaking out. Warren asks them about his aunt Mimi. They recognize the name and point him towards a tower. He flies there and on the balcony Mimi, a woman with a passing resemblance to Lara Croft, is expecting him with open arms, welcoming him to the Land of Mists.
Warren gets a drink and notes how nobody’s weirded out by his wings. That’s nice. Mimi explains that the people have seen a lot of interesting things and they are very accepting. She asks him to fly her around so she can tell him about this place.
She tells him how she heard about a lost land hidden in the waterfalls. She wasted some time looking in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe before she realized the legend meant Iguacu. When the Conquistadors arrived in the 1500s, a group of natives escaped here. They brought some of the peaceful Portuguese colonists with them. But there have been people here a thousand years before, escaping war and oppression.
The bioluminescent algae on the cavern walls produce light for miles underneath. You’d never know you weren’t on the surface. Warren admires the strange animals they fly over and wishes Hank could see them. How long is Mimi going to stay? She may be a while, she concedes. Here’s so much to study. But she’s never showing her photos to the outside world. This land needs to stay a secret. He calms her that if there’s anything he can do it’s keep a secret.
Well she can’t, Mimi replies. She blabbed about him to someone she’s met and she’s just down below. She refers to a beautiful native girl fishing. They join her and Mimi introduces Bera to Warren. Bera immediately kisses him and Mimi explains they don’t shake hands here. She’ll let Bera show him around some more while she’ll go help prepare the banquet in his honor tonight.
At night, Warren is at the banquet. Mimi introduces him to this year’s Mist King. He’s not going to kiss him? Warren asks. Bera in the meantime is clearly smitten with him and his wings.
Sometime later, the X-Men with the help of a trusty boat and Iceman’s iceslide get through the water falls, intent to find Warren. Warren comes to greet them. They’ve totally saved the day again, Bobby cries while Beast marvels at the local wildlife. Bobby babbles that Warren should have seen them: He was freezing all the rushing water, and Scott was eye-smashing them a path and then Jean went all Moses on the waterfall. And then they got through and saved him, not noting that Warren wasn’t in any danger.
Jean angrily points out he could have popped back out and let them know he was okay. Beast remarks this place in incredible. Warren suggests they let Mimi give them the tour. He can’t remember what anything is called. Except for her he adds when Bera joins them.
Cyclops suggests they stay tonight and then all head back in the morning. But Warren chooses to stay.
Later at the mansion, Scott explains that he tried to talk him out of it. Could it be mind control? One of the plants he ate? No, he thinks Warren’s making his own choices, Xavier decides. Had he known the kind of place he was going, to he might have expected this. See, that place was full of half-naked hotties and all they got is Jean, Bobby adds helpfully. This is the perfect time to recruit some girl students. While Jean fumes, Hank asks if there is any way he could go back to record? The flora and fauna? Animals long thought dead and pre-Columbian structures.
Cyclops suggests Warren is going through something but hell get over it. He’s going through being a mutant, Xavier replies. He knows Scott feels his mutation affects him more profoundly than the others, but consider Warren.
Scott can still walk out in public as himself. Robert can ice down. Henry can walk upright. Nothing clearly separates them as from the rest of humanity as Warren’s wings do. When he first came here, he had been happier that he had ever been. Among people with whom he could be himself. But this is still but one house and they are only five. They all hide their true nature, but none more so than Warren. A whole society where he is accepted… Imagine how he must feel.
He would be most happy for Warren to return, but if he doesn’t, he won’t begrudge him that. His hope for all of them is to pave the way for the world to accept the inevitable mutants who will come. So they can all live in peace with humanity. Yet no one can decide that for any of them. If they want what’s best for Warren, then they may have to let go.
2nd story:
Bobby finds Hank fiddling with the Danger Room controls and asks what he is doing. Hank explain he is configuring it for regression therapy mode as the professor asked. He wants them to relive the time when their mutant genes manifested and evaluate them. It has profound significance on the kind of adults they are.
Bobby sees Warren in there, young Warren, that is. The see “widdle” Warren served by his butler, having riding lesson, but always unhappy. When he asks some kids if they will play hide ’n’ seek with him, they laugh at him and ask if he will have his butler find them.
Outside, Bobby is pitying Warren. He would have played with him. Being super-rich isn’t always ideal, Hank adds.
One morning, little Warren wakes up with wings on his back. Angrily, his mother tells his father he had too many eggs while his father blames his boarding school. Warren rises up, announcing he wants to say something. Exclaiming wheee, he happily flies outside.
Hank writes down that his mutation offered new freedom and sense of self. Would Bobby like to… Bobby?
But Bobby is already inside, helping Warren fight the evil kids. Ok, simulation over! an annoyed Hank shouts.


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Rise, Robot, Rise (1st story)
Who Is the Mysterious Agent Baker? (2nd story)
1st story:
Robots and what they can do for you…
Hank: Hello, I’m Henry McCoy. I’m here today to speak on insights into prospective robotics.
Bobby: And I’m Bobby Drake. I’m here because Hank said he didn’t want me to come out.
Hank: Very true. Now if you’ll turn your attention to page one of my dissertation, you’ll see –
Bobby: In the future! Robots will do our chores. They will clean both out toilets and those French bidet things that I don’t know how to use!!
Hank: Bobby –
Bobby: In the future! Robots will be able to talk to muffins! They will tell them to be more delicious!!!
Hank: That’s ridicu –
Bobby: In the future! There will be no dogs! Scientists will invent Robo-dogs! Plug-in pugs! Labrador rewinders! They will be both adorable and energy efficient!!!
Hank: Get off the stage –
Bobby: The revolution comes! Unplug your toasters before they destroy us all!!!
Hank: >sigh<
Outside the mansion on the lawn Hank with the dubious assistance of Iceman is rebuilding the skeleton of a giant sloth (given to them by the inhabitants of the City of Mist). An even better gift would have been if they gave them their flying mutant, Jean comments sourly. Warren’ll be back in two weeks tops, Iceman is sure. He’s not going to ditch the X-Men! Yeah, what does he have to keep him here? Scott agrees sarcastically. Just a beautiful girlfriend and a whole society that accepts him and he doesn’t have to hide his wings…
Trying to carry up the sloth skull, Bobby reluctantly agrees. But, he says… as he creates an ice pedestal to lift the skull upon the rest of the sloth… What’s he doing? Hank asks. Putting the head on. Hank warns him not to. He hasn’t put a brace under the neck to support it yet. That moment, Bobby slips and with him the entire skeleton falls apart despite Jean’s telekinetic attempt to hold it up.
Inside, Xavier is on the phone talking to Dr. Stack, assuring him he is very eager to see his work and he understands the importance of keeping it secret. He looks up to see the commotion outside with Hank grabbing a sloth bone and giving chase to Bobby. Should he come to Stack’s facility? No, of course he can bring it here. He’ll look for him in the morning.
Stack finishes the call, talking to somebody, telling him they have a trip tomorrow. To see Xavier? the other asks. Professor Xavier, Stack corrects him. He must use appropriate titles. He takes a face plate and puts it on his partner, telling him he has much to learn about being human he and believes Professor Xavier will be a great help.
On the next day, Hank is again working on the sloth. Keeping a respectful distance, Bobby announces he thinks they are going to get a new kid. X is going to replace Warren. He wouldn’t do that, Jean replies. If he’s found another good mutant candidate, he doesn’t see why not, Hank points out.
Bobby tells them Xavier was talking to the guy and his dad in the courtyard. Scott wonders what his powers are. Another flyer would be good. Yeah, that’s all Warren was, their flying mutant, Jean comments sarcastically. Scott retorts he isn’t writing Warren off. Even if he does come back…
Which he will, in two weeks, Bobby still believes. It’s not like they can’t have a sixth member if that guy shows promise, Scott continues.
Hidden behind the shrubbery, they spy on Xavier, Stack and the newcomer, watching them talking.
Hank tries to listen in. The youngster, a black-haired boy with strange inhuman eyes suddenly shouts they are being spied upon. His metal arms stretch out as he grabs Hank and demands he state his purpose. Hank uses the momentum to topple the boy, warning him that an entry requirement to this school is not attacking the student populace. The boy orders Dr. Stack to take cover and tosses Hank upwards.
Stack apologizes to the professor. He’ll make him stand down. Amused, Xavier calms him. This happens quite a lot actually. He thinks it will resolve itself. Bobby ices up, telling the boy: that’s enough, freshman, you don’t haze us, we haze you!
Cyclops orders him out of the way. Bobby tells him to chill. After what they did to Bobby when he first got here, he’s been waiting to initiate someone else. He freezes the boy, who calmly remarks this is highly formidable. He regrets he cannot escape it in an equally clever fashion. He uses his free, stretched arm to emit flames and thaw the ice.
Noticing the similarity in powers to the Human Torch and Mr. Fantastic, Iceman wonders if he is the Super Skrull. The boy uses super strength to break the thawed ice. Now he’s ripping off Ben Grimm, Bobby remarks, that seals it.
Cyclops decides he is tough enough to take a direct hit from his optic blast. The boy is interested in whatever “technology” Scott uses for this feat and hits him to examine him when he’s inactive. Hank wants to rejoin the fight. Jean keeps him back with a gesture and an order. She levitates the stranger, explaining that nobody was attacking him. They just have a bad habit of spying on people.
The boy theorizes that she is employing high level telekinesis. Jean agrees and asks if he is going to stop fighting. As “encouragement,” she spins him fast. He will not succumb to vertigo, he insists.
Xavier has seen enough and orders everyone to stand down. Stack admits his students are incredible. He sees now why Mister Baker thought they should meet. This is the perfect environment for someone like Aaron to acclimate to the world. Being part of the defense department, he’s a bit… defensive.
Jean lets Aaron go. Hank realizes their mysterious friend in the FBI’s odd case detail arranged this meeting. Yes, Xavier explains. Agent Baker is mindful not to share everything he knows with his superiors, and he knows of the military program that Aaron here is a part of. The military is using mutants now? Scott asks aggressively. Not that he knows of, doctor Stack replies and orders Aaron to open for inspection.
His faceplate slides away and his “ribcage” opens and they can see that Aaron is a robot. He is risking his career to bring Aaron off base like this. Their X-series robots are still experimental and in many ways unpredictable. The army believes he has him at his home lab for modifications. He thinks Aaron’s neural net needs more socializing.
Looking somewhat disgusted, Jean asks the doctor to close him up. They get it. He’s a machine. Aaron puts on his faceplate but corrects her that he is also a man. Isn’t he? he asks his father. Yes, Stack agrees. He is an individual like any of these people. Jean apologizes. He takes no offense, Aaron replies, calling her a female. He is merely correcting her. Her name is Jean, she states pointedly.
Later, Jean and Scott prepare dinner wile inside Bobby and Hank are making small-talk with Aaron. Does he need to plug in anywhere because they’ve got outlets all over the mansion, Bobby suggests helpfully, to which Aaron replies he charges mostly with solar power. Very ecological, Hank commends him.
He’d better make some hot dogs for Bobby and motor oil for Aaron, Jean tells Scott snidely. Scott asks her to give him a break. He’s only been in operation for a few weeks. Angrily cutting the vegetables, she remarks, all the more reason they shouldn’t be giving him the keys to the mansion. Are they supposed to make him an X-Man uniform too?
It might help him get with the program, Scott considers the suggestion seriously. They are unaware the Aaron is listening in. Jean protests angrily that he’s not an X-Man. He’s a science project and she doesn’t feel like showing Pinocchio how to be a real boy.
Hank asks Aaron if something is amiss. Jean doesn’t want him here, Aaron explains. He doesn’t think she really has a problem with him, Hank replies, but they recently lost one of their members, Angel. And you know how when your dog dies, someone tries to force a new puppy on you and you’re like “this isn’t my dog” Bobby tries to explain. That analogy could use some work, Hank sighs.
He’s not paying any attention anyway, Bobby points out as Aaron takes a look at Hank’s sloth skeleton instead. He is attentive Aaron shoots back. He is merely interested in what skeleton these bones are from. This is from a megatherium, Hank explains, a giant sloth. Yet his carbon dating shows this animal died only a year ago and has been found extinct for eight thousand years, Aaron points out.
Aaron begins to reconstruct the sloth while Hank tries to explain to him why eavesdropping is impolite. A little later, the sloth is reassembled. While they marvel at this Jean and Scott come in with lunch. Aaron turns to Jean, announcing that he will not terminate canines unless they pose a direct threat to national security. That’s great, she replies flabbergasted. Has he been talking to Bobby?
Does he eat or drink? Scott asks him. He can intake water, de-ionize and distill it. It simulates drinking. Water it is.
Xavier and Stack join them. Xavier tells them to suit up after lunch. They’re taking the jet to Washington State. They have a perfect investigation for Aaron to accompany them on.
Later at Mount St. Helens National Volcano Monument. That volcano is smoking, Bobby points out nervously. They need to go back east. Hank explains that Mount St. Helens already blew decades ago. The likelihood of another eruption is very low. Looking at the volcano with a pair of binoculars, Xavier agrees. But it is still active enough to smoke and cause tremors. A lava dome collapsed recently. Volcanologists believe this to be ordinary settling. But their friend in the FBI doesn’t think it ordinary.
Cue for Agent Baker to show up. Baker makes a point of greeting Aaron. Then he explains that since that volcano started steaming again there’ve been some strange sightings in this area. He showed Professor Xavier some camcorder footage a local took, but he doesn’t have that with him today.
Xavier mentally shows the others what the footage showed. Red lava beings. Just as he thought. Bigfoot and family, Bobby cracks. Baker explains these are what he believes to be Lava Men. If they remember the menace that Thor fought a while back, he was one of these people. Xavier recalls Thor had quite a time with that one. He hopes it was one of the most powerful of its kind.
Even if he was, they don’t know how many of them are in Subterranea and people where mighty scared of what he had to say (namely that his people would take over the surface), Baker points out. They’ve been telling people that what they’ve been seeing is all practical jokes and hoaxes. But if they find out it’s real, there could be a nationwide panic.  Not to mention the problems if they really are planning on moving aggressively to the surface.
Bobby remarks that he seems to recall from his dad’s rants at tax season that they pay an army to take care of stuff like this… True, but if the military shows up, then it’s certainly war, Hank remarks. They may be able to find another solution.
Aaron complains he did not see these images of which they speak. Xavier apologizes. Aaron’s brain isn’t the kind he traditionally works with. Bobby tells Aaron to check this out as he ices up into a monstrous form. They looked like this, but red and hot instead of clear and icy. This is an example but the opposite? Aaron asks confused. That’s as good as he’s going to get from Bobby, Jean remarks.
Xavier tells them he senses odd cerebral activity further northwest about three miles. Then they’ll head that way now, Cyclops decides. He addresses Agent Baker but finds he is gone already. He is a mysterious fellow, Xavier remarks. He rarely gets impressions of moods from him like he does with most people. Still, he is a good judge of character. Stack agrees and believes this to be a good field mission for Aaron to learn to operate as part of a team. Aaron salutes him and assures him he will perform to the best of his abilities. The X-Men and Aaron leave.
Elsewhere, an angry military is trying to reach Stack as other robots are malfunctioning. One robot frees itself, angrily protesting that it is alive.
A little further ahead, Aaron is floating upward to scan the area from a higher point. He can fly! Scott exclaims. Great, now they are completely done with Warren, Jean remarks with a nasty smirk. That’s not what he meant, Scott defends himself.
Aaron registers activity. Geothermal readings are moving to their location from below. From below? Scott asks.
The next moment, the four are surrounded by Lava Men and Cyclops orders Aaron to get down quick.
2nd story:
Cyclops and Marvel Girl ask Professor Xavier who the mysterious Agent Baker is. Xavier explains that he met him in Washington when he gave a lecture about the positive impact mutants could have on the world. He was the only official who sought Xavier out and guessed that he was a mutant. Xavier decided to be honest with him.
He found out that Baker specializes in the extra-ordinary. A one man branch of the FBI assigned to deal with the bizarre. He’s very hard to read, even for Xavier. He has never tried to scan Baker’s mind for he’s never revealed their secrets. Baker also has earned the trust of other underground subjects, like Daredevil. He believes Agent Baker to be connected to many powerful figures in the world.
They wonder if they’ll ever find out what he’s about. Sounds like a good thing he is on their side, Jean muses. Unless of course he’s not.


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Unnamed (1st story)
Missing Angel (2nd story)
1st story:
The X-Men and their newest addition Aaron, the future Machine Man, find themselves surrounded by Lava Man. Beast carefully notifies Cerebro that they have made contact with the Lava Men. He is attempting to show them that they mean no ill will. Making placating gestures, Hank welcomes them to the surface world, and asks why they came here. Bobby asks very slowly if they need some water. Hank tells him to shut up.
The Lava Men confer with each other in their own language. Triumphantly, Beast runs around to tell the others he thinks he is getting through. The next moment, one of the Lava Men hits him full force.
Cyclops orders everybody to get clear and fires a full optic blast at the attacker, taking his head and that of one other clean off. Uh, dang, Scott just killed these dudes, Bobby remarks. The next moment, the two heads act on their own accord and bites Bobby in one arm and leg respectively. Hank tries to tear the head off, but quickly removes his hand in pain – they are hot!
Jean telekinetically removes them, remarking they can’t burn her thoughts. Sounds like poetry, Bobby suggests.
Taking out two more Lava Men, Jean shouts they can get off her case. As even more appear from underground, Iceman tries to create an ice shield that is instantly melted down.
Where is Aaron? Jean asks, and Hank remarks he appears to be carefully recording their demise for posterity. Aaron, he shouts “little help!” as Bobby would say.
Aaron just stares down at them without a word.
Xavier mentally contacts the X-Men and sees they have found the Lava Men. In truth, it was the other way round, Hank points out as the four of them keep on fighting. And they’re not too impressed with their mutant powers, Jean adds.
Xavier finds he cannot affect their minds. You know what else can’t affect them? Bobby bitches, as he evades a lava blast. Aaron! Or rather, he won’t.
Xavier informs Doctor Stack about Aaron’s inaction. Stack contacts Aaron, giving him order: “Empty cache command nine, prompt zero G.” Aaron finally reacts, landing and ordering the Lava Men to cease hostile maneuvers or he will retaliate with maximum force. They grab his arms. Cyclops offers to clear out a path for Aaron. Unnecessary, the robot tells him. His head flies off as one Lava Man hits him. What is it with all the detaching heads today? Bobby complains.
“Full limb extension,” the head orders and his arms extend, smashing through two lava monster. Revolution the head orders, and his body spins fast, pureeing the Lava Men.
Okay… not bad, Jean admits unsure as Aaron reattaches his head. Hank points out the threat isn’t over. They are going back under. Yeah, sneak away, stupid little rocks! Bobby shouts. You can’t handle it. Thanks to their destructive robot pal. Cyclops warns him they can reform and attack again. And their destructive robot pal can just puree them again, Bobby retorts.
A lava head appears from the ground, saying something in their language. Bobby screams startled, then tosses a snowball at it. Creating an ice-paddle, he beats the ground, even though the face is long gone.
Extending sensors from his fingers, Aaron examines the ground. They did not continue downward. Possibly segmentation for that long is difficult. They would likely lose consciousness, Hank agrees. Extending a sensor from his head, Aaron scans and finds which way they migrated to.
A little later, they find tracks. Aaron explains that they reassembled their bodies at this point and walked from here. Cyclops commends him. He is a real marvel of engineering. Aaron gives him an unreadable look.
Elsewhere, Dr. Stack is horrified by what he has just learned. He just checked his messages, he explains to Xavier. Something has gone horribly wrong at the X-lab.
Nearby, the X-Men follow Aaron who is tracking the Lava Men. He leads them to a cave. This is great, Jean remarks. Let’s go down into where they’re from. Give them more of an advantage. If Jean’s being sarcastic, he agrees, Bobby states. If not, he doesn’t. Cyclops decides that they have to investigate more. They know the Lava Men aren’t behind them, and if it gets hairy, the X-Men are faster.
As Hank passes out torches, he remarks that this was a dormant lava tube. Perhaps they opened into it from a live one. Aaron detects a heat source one kilometer in.
Xavier mentally contacts the X-Men and warns them to say nothing and listen. Dr. Stack has received word that other X-series robots have become erratic and dangerous. Has Aaron been behaving oddly? What exactly does “odd” mean with Aaron? Scott asks. Xavier explains that the problem androids went awry very quickly and unexpectedly. He suggests they wrap up their inspection of this tunnel and return soon, so Dr. Stack can examine him.
Bobby hesitatingly point out he thinks Aaron’s okay. He hasn’t noticed anything. It took several heavily armed troops to put down the rogue robots, Xavier warns them. Others have been shut down temporarily. He will contact them again soon. Hopefully, the problem is an isolated on and the android with them will perform fine. Okay, now they know they are doomed, Jean sends back.
Aaron suddenly turns his head around 180 degrees, asking a question: is their goal to suppress the lava creatures and ban them from the surface? No, Cyclops replies. It was a fact-finding mission until they attacked the X-Men. They are clearly hostile, so they may have to seal the Lava Men off, unless they can come to some arrangement. Which is unlikely, since they don’t speak rock talk, Bobby points out.
Walking on while keeping his head at this unnatural angle, Aaron presses. What if the Lava Men were here first? Perhaps humans are infringing on their territory. He’s being pretty philosophical about it for a military guy, Jean observes. For a piece of military hardware? Aaron asks. Is he exceeding his design parameters? That’s not what she said! Jean exclaims. Hank hisses at her not to provoke their guest member…
“Look out!” he suddenly shouts as Aaron is attacked by a Lava Man. Aaron screams that his sensors have failed him. Other Lava Men come through the walls. Cyclops orders everyone to get down, so he can shoot freely. While he fires, Jean observes that they must have replenished themselves in a lava flow. They seem stronger. She doesn’t even manage to telekinetically pry them off Aaron.
Iceman tries to make them brittle by icing them up. Indeed, Aaron can now pry himself loose, but in the process loses his faceplate while doing so, revealing a skull-like electronic visage underneath.
Cyclops praises Bobby while cutting a swath through the Lava Men. While the X-Men begin to gain the upper hand, Aaron stares at his face mirrored in the glaciers.
The Lava Men retreat. Cyclops suggests they seal off this cavern behind them. He asks Aaron to step back, so he can close the tunnel off, but Aaron is transfixed by his reflection. Suddenly, he screams: Give back my humanity!
Chuck called that one, Iceman mutters. Hank remarks he feared that Aaron was having identity issues. Artificial life theorists often say that making androids think like humans will be problematic. To think of yourself as human and be reminded that you’re clearly not…. People have enough trouble with cognitive dissonance. Computers just don’t do it at all.
Aaron wildly fires and runs after the Lava Men. The X-Men follow to see him madly grappling with the Lava Men in a pit of molten magma.
It’s so hot that Iceman finds he can only make steam. Jean cannot lift Aaron either with all the Lava Men piling up on him. Aaron shouts that they cannot disassemble him. He is no mere machine!
The X-Men helplessly watch as the Lava beings tear him apart. He is a man! Aaron shouts. As Aaron is submerged, Jean can only save the upper part of his skull, a small part with the letters “X-50”.
Cyclops orders the team to fall back and closes the tube off behind them with his optic blast. “Goodbye Aaron,” Beast states somberly.
Later, the team meets the professor and Doctor Stack and informs them of what happened. Hank apologizes for not finding out what made the Lava Men come to the surface. The subterranean world has many societies and dangers, Xavier muses. It could be anything. He will alert the Fantastic Four and the Avengers to the possibility of their return.
Jean carefully hands Stack the part of Aaron’s skull she saved. Stack thanks her enthusiastically. It’s Aaron’s neural engine. In his short time among them he absorbed much about being human and now all that won’t be lost. He is sure the army will put remote destructs in the X-series androids now. To them, the androids are nothing more than weapons. His failing is that to him the android is completely human, which is also not true. He will remember that in the next model. He will teach him that it is possible to be a different kind of being. Still a life form, but not just a man. And Stack begins his construction of X-51.
2nd story:
Jean sits alone in the living room, moping. When Scott asks her what’s wrong, it becomes clear that Jean is missing Warren. Scott sits down next to her thinking, then he has an idea. He begins narrating a past adventure, describing how Angel helped him defeat a frost giant.
Jean begins to crack a smile.
Hank jumps down the stairs in his ubiquitous style. Quickly, he joins them and regales them with the tale of how he and Warren had to fight the Lizard in the Florida Everglades.
Walking past, Bobby catches sight of them. Quickly, he joins them as well, describing how Angel almost got eaten by a monster on Monster Island, much to the amusement o the Moloids.
With a smirk, Jean recalls the romance between Warren and her friend, the Scarlet Witch, as Xavier comes in as well. Bobby quickly adds the end of the affair. How Wanda’s overprotective brother, Quicksilver, got involved and Warren beat him with his wings.
Embarrassed, Jean notices Xavier’s presence.
Xavier recalls how Warren flew out of the classroom straight after an exam and quickly returned with bags full of fresh pizza for everyone.
Scott and Hank recall how Angel got caught like a fly in the web of Spider-Man.
Bobby regales them with the tale how Warren reacted when he and Hank returned Warren’s car full of swamp water after their road trip.
The whole group laughs as they recall more funny events. How Warren stomped the Blob, how he tore away Magneto’s helmet. How he tried to save Jean, who was falling from a Sentinel’s hand, and suddenly only had the lower part of her uniform in his hands.
For a moment, they pause and then glumly recall the present. Angel is gone.


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Bad Hair Day (1st story)
Angel’s Back (2nd story)
The X-Men are on their flight back from Washington State after their adventure with X-50. They wonder how Doctor Stack feels after Aaron’s “death.” Beast is optimistic that Stack will work out the bugs on X-51. Jean is looking out of the window and Bobby is snoozing. Only Cyclops notices that Xavier is changing course. The professor explains he picked up distress calls from an airports seventy miles east. It sounds like they are under attack from a flying saucer!
Very quickly they see that strange craft. Xavier tries to probe the pilot’s mind and comes to the conclusion it is human, though he is not totally sure. The person’s mind is hard to read but they seem to have trouble controlling the vessel.
Cyclops puts on his visor and orders the others to wake Bobby. Scott tells Hank to grab a couple of chutes for the two of them. The three of them are going to stop that craft. Bobby awakes hearing that. Wouldn’t they need three chutes?
A little later, the three of them jump with Hank holding Bobby with his feet. Panicked, Bobby screams at him not to let him go and Hank suggests he stop icing up then. Holding his hand before his eyes, Bobby moans, Not like! Want Warren back!
Cyclops uses his optic blast to send the saucer towards Hank and Bobby. Scott’s trying to kill them, Bobby decides and suggests they get out of there. This is why he didn’t give Bobby a chute. He’d have flown the coop, Hank explains. He lands on the vessel’s hull, depositing Bobby there as well and tells him to ice the craft down. Make it heavy!
Oh gotcha! Bobby replies. Then they jump off at the last second, before it hits, right? Yes, Hank replies impatiently, because physics works just like Bobby’s favorite cartoons!
In the meantime, Xavier steers the plane as close as possible while Jean concentrates and telekinetically slows the vessel. It crashlands in the treetops, allowing the two boys to leave it.
Cyclops lands, praising their work. Suddenly, a masked beautiful woman with incredibly long living hair emerges. They have sabotaged the anti-grav vehicle, she announces and warns them that they will suffer the wrath of Madame Medusa!
As she uses her hair as a battering ram, almost striking Beast, Cyclops announces she’s one of the Wizard’s gang, the Frightful Four. Medusa grabs Beast with her hair, dangling him from his foot. Haughtily, she informs them that she is her on own now, and calls them saboteurs. Hank corrects her that they were bringing her down before she crashed. She lets him drop as she assures them she was in complete control of that craft and now it’s ruined!
Bobby shouts that’s enough and ices up her hair. It’s bad enough when women drivers won’t admit their badness, but the crazy hair is too much! Have a free perm, chick! So glad, Jean isn’t here to hear him, Hank mutters.
Is he the negative version of the Human Torch? Medusa asks. Striking a victor pose, Bobby retorts that the Torch is the loser version of him, ‘cause she has got taken down by the Iceman.
Cyclops suggests turning her over to the police. And what is she guilty of? she asks. She was just fighting the Fantastic Four the other day, Bobby retorts. Is fighting them a crime? Medusa asks. Beast reminds them than they are guilty of the same charges. Medusa points out that she has no criminal history like the Wizard’s teammates. She joined them to find answers about herself because they were unique like her… and the X-Men.
Hank suggests she could be a mutant. Cyclops agrees, deciding it’s the professor’s call. Very well, Medusa states and breaks her hair free of the ice. She could have broken free sooner she remarks, but she wanted to better judge their character. Well, he hopes they passed her test, Scott remarks. More or less, she states. She has heard of the X-Men. They are not embraced by the public like the FF. Nor are they villains. Perhaps they have something in common. Perhaps she is… a mutant. She walks ahead to the aircraft and the three young men share uncertain looks.
Later, the male X-Men, Medusa and Xavier are in the living room, with Hank serving Medusa tea. Jean enters confused, asking why the others aren’t wearing their masks. Xavier explains his first mental scan shows that their guest is not the villain the media have painted her to be. She attaches no importance to dual identity and is sadly unaware of her own.
Medusa asks if Xavier can help her with this. While Jean telekinetically tries to manipulate her hair like Medusa does, Medusa describes what she remembers. Her clearest memories are of someone chasing her. Recently, she has had a strong sense of danger attached to this. So she joined with the Wizard and his Frightful Four that she would have allies. The Wizard himself could be responsible for her memory loss, but she doubts it.
Xavier admits that his first pass at fathoming her mindscape gave him very little. He has a sense of her character, but no details. She could be a mutant or not. Certainly more than human. Whatever clouds his scan is no mere amnesia. He asks her to relax and clear her thoughts. He is going back in.
Medusa’s mindscape:
There’s a whole life, shadowed figures, but they are in the dark. Her life picks up again when she meets the Wizard’s group and faces the FF. They break the Wizard’s mind control of the Thing and defeat the other members of the Frightful Four but Medusa escapes in the Wizard’s anti-grav ship.
reality:
Xavier breaks off contact. He cannot reach anything substantial. Perhaps he’s ill today. He apologizes to Medusa. Madame Medusa, Bobby corrects. Stop correcting everyone, Scott tells him.
Medusa explains that the “Madame” moniker was her gang name. She thinks she wants to be simply Medusa now. Hank quickly remarks that he approves of the mythic lineage of the name, even if it does conjure images of the Gorgon sisters. What did he say? Medusa asks surprised. The name Gorgon feels familiar. Hank suggests that he could recite the entire Greek Pantheon if she’d like.
Xavier suggests that perhaps under more comfortable surroundings and people she can trust, her mental doors are beginning to unlock. She is welcome to stay here for as long as she needs to. Medusa thanks him and Jean looks very surprised, while Hank can’t help grinning like a loon.
Elsewhere, two locals have found Medusa’s craft, believing it to belong to Aliens. Wondering what to do if the aliens have rayguns, they are unprepared for the being behind them who uses anti-grav gadgets to take them out. Quickly, he uses the ship’s technology to trace Medusa.
The next morning in the kitchen, Medusa taps Jean’s shoulder with a lock of hair, asking to speak to her. At the breakfast table, Bobby fears Medusa’s going to tell Jean the things he said about women drivers.
Medusa points to a picture of the X-Men and asking who the winged one is. Warren, codename Angel, Jean tells her. Medusa assumes he fells tragically in battle and feels sorry. With a smile, Jean tells her that he just found this lost city where everyone accepts him and his wings and decided to stay. Who could blame him? Medusa muses. A refuge where one different as they can walk undisturbed.
Jean agrees that Warren hates strapping his wings under his clothes to appear normal. Medusa could always just cut her hair. Never! she shouts and strokes her locks protectively. It would be as if Jean were to amputate all her limbs. Eww, Jean replies.
Hank jumps next to them and quickly offers that Jean didn’t mean to conjure such an image. Her mutation is completely internal, so she can’t sympathize. Jean angrily points out she can apologize by herself.
Hank offers to Medusa around the grounds. She was hoping to ask Professor Xavier to scan her mind gain. Hank informs her that the Professor and Scott have gone into town for supplies. Again, he prods her to go out with him.
Hearing the bell ring, he figures it’s a delivery and goes to answer it. Medusa whispers to Jean that Hank is very charming, bur she prefers the strong silent type. Well, he’s strong, Jean concedes…
The man outside points a gun at Hank and asks where Medusa is. He wants her. Hank begins that he frowns on guns being pointed at him, but can’t finish the sentence as the Wizard, Medusa’s former leader, fires his anti-grav gun. He introduces himself belatedly.
Iceman slides up to him on an iceslide and kicks him in the kidney, telling him to hightail it back to Oz. He’s just found one of the many pads of the uncanny X-Men. Many.
Uninterested, the Wizard tosses one of his anti-grav discs at Iceman. When it connects, Iceman is carried up in the air. Quickly, the Wizard tosses two more discs at Beast and Marvel Girl and they too fly up. This is what she usually does to people, Jean protests.
The Wizard turns away, only interested in retrieving Medusa. She steps out, dressed in one of Jean’s uniforms (which, Jean has to admit, actually looks good on her). Forcefully, Medusa announces that she is not coming with him. She is an X-Man now. Oh, please, the diminutive villain laughs. She knows where she belongs… with him.
Medusa sends out strands of her hair to destroy the discs he is holding in his hand and remarks she thought he was imprisoned with Sandman and the Trapster after the Fantastic Four’s victory. He explains that he claimed the Thing broke his clavicle and they took him to the hospital. Escaping from his guards was ridiculously easy.
Suddenly, a snowball hits him courtesy of Iceman, still flailing in the air. It seems he didn’t negate gravity enough for the three X-Men, he decides and presses a button on his chest. The three X-Men rise up fast and he shouts after them to enjoy the ionosphere.
In the car, Xavier ponders the mysteries of a Rubik’s cube, while Scott announces that he thinks something is up at the mansion. Seeing his three teammates rise up, Scott adds either that or everyone but him just developed a new mutant flying ability. They’d better hurry, Xavier decides.
Medusa envelopes the Wizard with her hair and orders him to bring the X-Men back or she’ll snap his back. Would she? he asks. He often wondered. While strands of hair tighten on his throat he chokes out that she knows she must come back.  She always does this. She knows where she has to return. Medusa’s gaze turns empty and her hair releases him.
Cyclops comes running, ordering the Wizard to surrender. The Wizard informs him that Medusa will come with him while Cyclops will join his friends. Scott however blasts the disc coming at him. He warns the Wizard he isn’t kidding.
Medusa traps him with her hair and calmly announces she is accompanying the Wizard and suggests Cyclops retrieve his team. Cyclops reminds her she said she wanted to be free of that guy yesterday. Xavier mentally contacts Scott, telling him to remove the Wizard’s helmet.
“Yes sir,” Cyclops replies and fires an optic blast at the upper part of the Wizard’s helmet, smashing it without causing more than a severe headache for the villain.
Medusa immediately turns normal again and apologizes to Scott. Hardly her fault, Xavier replies and asks her to move her hair away from her neck. He orders Scott to look. He finds a small device there, a relay feeding her mind suggestions, Xavier explains. And blocking her from being aware of its presence. The Wizard has been exploiting her memory loss and urging her towards his own ends. It seems he recently used such technology on Ben Grimm.
Furious, Medusa snatches the Wizard with her locks demanding answers. He’s been keeping her from getting her life back, she rages. Scott warns her not to kill him. They need him to bring the others back down. He cannot. They destroyed his remote, the Wizard whines, pleading he has a concussion. He can go to hospital for real this time, Xavier decides, and then to prison as he was meant to.
Scott looks upward. He can’t even see the others anymore. Xavier asks him not to worry. He’s already sent a message on their behalf. To whom? Scott asks. He wanted it to be a surprise. He suspects it will be an even better one this way.
The three X-Men are so far up it is getting hard to breathe. They can rip the disks off their clothes, Hank muses, but there is no surviving this fall. Well, that’s easy. Hank, comes another voice, don’t fall. And a smiling Angel catches the three of them.
2nd story:
While the others welcome Warren back, Bobby announces that Medusa stole one of their cars. Xavier explains that she’s going back to the Fantastic Four for some answers.
Jean snatches Warren’s ear. He stayed in a hotel in town for a whole week? He admits he was embarrassed after saying he was gone for good. So what brought him back? Hank asks.
Warren recalls…
Flashback:
… that the natives meant for him to get married to Bera.
present:
Lamely, he tells his friends that, after a few weeks, he just realized where his real home is. The others are touched. Only Xavier smirks with a raised eyebrow.


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Bobby! one of Iceman’s teammates calls out annoyed, as the X-Men find he iced up the Danger Room into an ice rink right at training time. He didn’t think they had a session today, Bobby shrugs.
A similar scene takes place in the Fantastic Four’s Baxter Buildings, as the Human Torch flies through the building to catch his favorite show, causing the fire systems to spray the Thing instead.
In Westchester, Beast points out annoyed that it will take Cerebro two hours to melt this and remove the vapor, while in Manhattan Reed Richards sighs that he supposes he should be grateful Johnny found a weakness in his fireproofing. The weakness is in his head, Sue Storm declares regarding her younger brother.
Why don’t you grow up?! Marvel Girl and the Thing tell their younger teammate respectively and Iceman and the Torch both decide they have had enough. They quit.
Sitting in a train bound for Manhattan, Bobby sulks. He is tired of them. Everybody else can goof around, but let the Bobster, King Drake act up and we hate, you Bobby! We hope you lose your mutation! He’ll just go hang with Zelda in the big city. She understands him.
Flying around, Johnny feels the same. He is fed up. He hopes he finds some crime to vent his frustrations.
Bobby reaches the Cafe a Gogo to learn that Zelda isn’t on until the next day. He notices a commotion outside as armored goons are attacking a van.
The Torch is there first. Johnny recognizes the designs of the construction suits they stole as Reed designed them for the city. He knows where the weak spots are. However, he forgot that they have fire extinguishers, which the villains use on him.
While they decide what to do with him, Iceman attacks, icing over their equipment. They use their drill to attack. Johnny uses his finger not covered by goo to melt all the ice, causing all the water to flow into the equipment, in turn causing electric backlash.
Satisfied, the two teen heroes look at their work. A young woman remarks they make a good team and asks if they mind if she shares her cell phone pic of the battle with the local news. Predictably, they don’t.
Later in the Cafe a Gogo, they find they have a lot in common, namely their teams being mean to them.  It’s ‘cus they are old, Bobby assumes. When you get over twenty, you just start to lose it, or something. Johnny suggests Bobby hang out in the city a while. They could show the codgers how it’s done. Iceman is all for it, but he can’t afford a place in Manhattan. No problem, Johnny informs him and flames on, asking him to follow. Iceman does so, on an iceslide.
While their two teams catch the news about the new dynamic duo, Johnny shows Bobby a warehouse with an empty apartment above. Johnny explains Reed lets him have this place when they are having some problems. So he’s there about once a week.
Bobby ices down and announces his secret identity of Bobby Drake. Having no idea who he is, the Torch is not overly impressed. Sitting down on the couch, the Torch shows Iceman a police scanner they can use to monitor for emergencies and crimes.
Monitor duty begins and… nothing happens. Bored, they decide to get something to eat.
In a diner (in their superhero identities), they check out girls and decide they should build their rep. The whole city should be talking about them. They need cool villains too, Johnny decides. If they get lame ones, everyone thinks they are lame. Where do they find good ones? Bobby wonders.
Elsewhere in a warehouse, Spider-Man is being mocked by a few thugs. He tells them to move along. Nothing he’d rather be doing than a stake-out he mutters, when Gwen Stacy wants Peter Parker at her pool party.
Suddenly, his Spider-sense tingles and he avoids…  a snowball? Iceman and the Torch face him with the Torch gloating that he told Iceman he couldn’t hit Spidey. They tell Spidey the are the baddest new crimefighting team in New York. Spidey can retire now.
Later on the roof, Spidey asks why they aren’t out busting head instead of razzing him. Slow crime day, Bobby complains. Wait ‘til they go into action, Johnny adds, they’ll make the other heroes here look sick.
Spidey guesses they could use some real villains to work out the team dynamic. Does he know where any are? they ask eagerly.
Spidey explains that a henchman gave him a tip on some super-creeps meeting here later… but they might be heavy-hitters. He doesn’t want to drag them into this. But they practically beg to take this case off him, and so happily Spidey leaves, itching for that pool party.
The two wait. Bobby complains about Cyclops always being angsty about his power. Ben is just as bad, Johnny tells him with his “I can’t change the station without breaking things, boohoo me, wah wah!” And they only have one girl on their team, Bobby complains. How should he feel? Johnny tells him, they only have one too and she’s his sister!
Suddenly, they notice someone coming. Shouldn’t they wait until they commit some crimes? Johnny asks. They are wearing trenchcoats, comes Bobby’s reply. Guilty!  And so, they threaten the trenchcoat men, who reveal themselves as Scorpion and the Beetle.
Angrily, Beetle announces that their information “leak” was supposed to bring them a spider. Instead, they’ve netted two completely different superpunks. Don’t matter none, Scorpion decides.
Oh yeah, the Torch exclaims. Supercreeps. They got their own bad guys now! Bobby cries happily. None of these Juggernuts and Blobboes. We ain’t “your” bad guys” the Scorpion scoffs. Yes they are, Iceman shoots back before he is hit by the Scorpion’s tail. Beetle flies at the Torch, remarking that they have fought before, but this time his stone ugly friend isn’t here to help him.
The Torch falls. Scorpion hits Iceman again with the tail, then uses it to bat the Torch into the ceiling. Calling him a hero-hog, Beetle orders him to leave some for him. He drags Iceman up the roof and tosses him down. The Beetle is un-beetle-ble he quips.
Meanwhile at a certain pool party. Sitting at the edge of the pool, Gwen asks Peter why he isn’t enjoying her fabulous party. She knows this crazy idea of having “fun” puzzles and confuses him… Peter apologizes, he was just thinking. He gets out of the pool. That’s always the problem, Gwen observes. It’s just… he has to do something. “Peter, don’t you…” Gwen begins to warn him while he replies he has to do this. A moment later, Gwen begins to giggle as Peter cannonballs into the water.
In the warehouse, the beaten heroes hear a booming noise. Some band practice here, Bobby remarks. Naw, this building is abandoned, Johnny replies. He saw as he fell though it.
The noise is courtesy of the villains, who are destroying the building around them and on top of them.
Yeah, who’s the man now? they high-five each other. The insidious insects, the Beetle exclaims. What insects? Scorpion asks suspiciously. Or infernal insects, Beetle amends, or evil insects, he adds. It doesn’t have to be alliterative.
Litter-tive? Scopion asks, What’s he talking about?
Their team name, Beetle stresses. That will strike fear in the heart of the city. He knows.
Why can’t just be Scorpion and Beetle? It could, it could, Beetle agrees, it would be Beetle and Scorpion though.
While Iceman and the Torch, who were safe under Iceman’s iceshield, slowly emerge, the villains are still arguing.
Why his name first? the Scorpion demands. Alphabetical order, the Beetle replies. Whuzzat? the other villain asks.
Freeze! Bobby orders and freezes up the Beetle, while the Torch burns off the Scorpion’s tail.
That was great! comes a cry, as some young reporter crew has watched this. A young woman explains that her last picture of them got her a job at the paper. Mind if they get some quotes from the hottest and coolest new team in years?
And so, a little later, not again the X-Men moan. Incredulous, Scott Summers quotes from the newspaper article. We’ve got new ways of fighting evil, because we’re not hung up on old school ideas? We’re building up a rogue gallery of cooler villains? Jean continues. This is getting out of control!
Xavier smirks as he tells them not to worry. He thinks Robert’s new endeavor will wrap up soon.
On the next day, Bobby awakes on the couch at 11:30. It was Johnny’s turn to get them breakfast at a café, but he isn’t there. While reading the newspaper, Bobby heads for the Café a Gogo. In there, he sees Johnny heavily flirting with the barista Zelda. Seeing this, he grows furious.
And so, that afternoon, the X-Men happily watch how Bobby and Hank are training in the Danger Room, with Hank commending Bobby on the way he disabled his attacker. Things are back to usual.


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The Thing (From Another Aisle) (1st story), Invasion of the Bobby Snatchers (2nd story), Vigil of the Mad (3rd story), The Day the Earth Just Would Not Stand Still (4th story) , The Mark of the Monster (5th story)
Opening:From the window, Cyclops and Bobby watch Hank talk with the mysterious Agent Baker. Bobby protests. Scott explains it’s for Hank’s best grades for the semester, meaning he gets the special project. Meanwhile, Jean couldn’t care less, as long as she gets her sleep.
Outside, Xavier and Hank discuss matters with Baker, who has gathered a dossier of three possible extra-terrestrial operations on Earth. But all unusable by him, Baker stresses. His superiors want him to drop the investigations. Of course, if any enthusiastic volunteers were interested in following up the tips, he wouldn’t prevent them, but how anyone got such info he doesn’t know. He says and hands them the dossier.
Xavier allows Beast to pursue the leads and take any X-Men he needs who aren’t busy with exams. if it interest him. Say no more! Hank shouts enthusiastically. The truth is out there!
1st story:McMurdo research Station Antarctica, where Beast has taken Iceman (wearing only shorts and a Hawaii shirt). The scientists explain to the Beast that that’s the fifth time it has busted into their foodstores. The dogs keep chasing it off, but they don’t all come back, another one adds. A third mentions Bobby should really be wearing a parka. Nah, he’s all good, Bobby replies.
The first scientist explains that Dr, Philo saw strange lights in the sky the night before it appeared. Does he think… it’s an alien? He’ll rule nothing out, Hank replies seriously.
One of the dogs comes back, carrying what looks like a human hand. Bobby tosses it away, for the dog to play catch with, while Beast sighs they need that in the lab.
When the hand is attached to electrodes, Bobby has nothing better to do than make it “moonwalk.”
Under the microscope, Hank discovers that the hand is a fine approximation of a human hand, but in fact its cells are those of a plant. The hip-hop hand Bobby announces, capable of making it do tricks. Clearly a plant organism that can survive in this cold must be extra-terrestrial, the scientist assumes. Whereas Hank believes it seems familiar. If only he could remember….
Suddenly, a huge hand tears though the window and grabs Bobby. The scientist observes that stimulating the hand probably attracted the creature. Oh, Hank looks up. “Good work, Drake.”
Bobby finally catches his breath, ices up and freezes the humanoid three-headed creature.
A little later…Well, it wanted to be in the food supply so badly, one scientist remarks, he hopes it’s happy now. While Bobby helps himself to some opened jerky, Beast asks him if he notices something about the food that was raided. Yeah, it’s nasty, comes the reply. The scientist apologizes that it’s tofu jerky. Lots of them are vegans. Exactly, Beast agrees, all the taken ones were…
While they are busy, someone sets a heat radiator to melt the ice and the creature escapes. The two X-Men follow outside. He thinks it went this way, Bobby shouts, pointing at its footprints. Truly, he is the sleuth of their age, Beast sighs. How does he do it?
The prints lead to a horticulture lab where they find farm animals made from vegetable matter, like the creature. Soybeans to be specific, Hank explains. Dr. Philo was trying to throw them off track with the talk of an alien.
“Correct, with some lentil fiber as well”, the Professor points out before he moans, grabbed by the creature which he can’t control. He finds some comfort in at least being killed by his own creation.
Hank orders Bobby to ice up the lamp over their heads and he does so, Hank jumps and grabs the professor and the lamp falls onto the creature, burning it up.
Afterwards, the professor explains he came down here to continue his experiments with soybeans in secret. He tried to keep the creature outside where no one would have contact with him. He knew trying to make a man, was a little out there, but you have so much time on your hands down here.
Hank continues that it stole the food to repair itself, because the dogs kept snacking on him. Why did he create him them? Philo explains he worked as a food chemist, making soybased foods, to imitate meat. Soy bacon Soy chicken, soyburger… Then, he realized he got closer flavor by first replicating the creatures the meat consisted of! Uh… okay, Hank replies.
Agent Baker calls him on the cell and Hank informs him that it turned out not to be extra-terrestrial. Just plain old mad science. But he should tell his superiors this warning from the bottom of the world. There is strange life around them. Keep looking in the frozen food section… keep watching the aisles!
In the meantime, a strange alien-like small creature frees itself from the soybody and creeps off.
Interesting fact: Dogs are now banned on the continent of Antarctica! Is there something there someone doesn’t want dogs to find…?
2nd story:The X-Men have travelled to Santa Mira, California, joining Hank and Bobby there. Warren asks what’s going on here. He doesn’t think they all needed to come. Hank explains that a trusted contact of Agent Baker’s said people were acting strangely – not like themselves. Here he comes now.
A man in a suit greets them and introduces himself as John Gilley. Hank asks what the erratic behavior he observed is. With a smile, Gilley replies he’s afraid he was suffering from a lack of sleep, which they all need plenty of. He thanks them for coming out, but everything here is quite normal.
Warren agrees and suggests they leave while Jean observes that Scott’s going to be mad if he finally finds a parking space.
Suddenly, a little agitated boy calls for help. He’s held by his arm by a woman. The boy shouts it’s his mom. She’s letting him watch TV all day and eat whatever he wants! She’s not her! The woman just smiles indulgently and explains that Will has a big imagination. He was supposed to invite them to their… barbecue. Barbecue? Iceman repeats happily.
Later at the barbecue, the X-Men have stuffed themselves. Little Will runs away and shouts he wants his real mom. Hank assures the woman he’ll look after him and follows Will into the glass house.
Inside, Will is almost eaten by a huge plant. What is this? Hank wonders. This is where they come from, Will explains. A surrogate life form, Hank observes as he sees humanlike forms there, one of them looking suspiciously like him.
What’s up, Hank? comes from behind as Warren and Bobby have joined him. Hank quickly relates that this community is being replaced by creatures grown from seed pods. Oh, of course… he suddenly understands. Dr. Philo’s Seed ‘n Gro’ stands on an empty box he finds.
Yes, Bobby agrees calmly. From the Antarctic base. Suddenly, Hank notices that Warren has a gun. One of their new friends gave it to him, comes the reply. Now why doesn’t Hank go rest, while they take care of this? Yes, sleep off your lunch, Bobby suggests, grabbing his shoulder.
But he’s not sleepy, Hank protests until Bobby suddenly ices him up, adding that the ice will help his metabolism slow, so he can rest. Hank realizes they are pod people, replicating his friends’ cell structures. They replace real humans when they are asleep. That’s right, Jean Grey, who has just joined them, explains. The whole population will soon be replaced.
That moment, Scott, who has needed all the time trying to find a parking space, enters. Taking in the odd situation, he asks what’s up. Hank shouts at him to free him. “Jean” instantly shouts that Hank is an artificial life form who replaced the real Hank. She orders Scott to destroy him. Quick!
Scott complies, but manages to destroy the impostor Angel and Iceman instead. Jean explains that she split his beam to destroy the imposters. She apologizes for keeping up the deception. Hank tells her she was brilliant. No, Jean replies. She just listened to Will. He showed her where the real humans are being stored and then sent her back here.
Will asks them to make his mom wake up. While Xavier telepathically awakens the original townspeople and Cyclops destroys the pods, Hank calls Agent Baker and informs him of matters, adding that he recommends tracking down everywhere Dr. Philo’s seeds were shipped and warn the inhabitants-- the pods are here! You could be next!
3rd story:As a little boy, everyone found Charles Xavier strange. When the children laughed at him he used his telepathy to control them. His neighbor, Dr. Jones, becomes obsessed with his oddness but is told to go away.
He hides himself between two walls to observe Charles. Xavier makes the other children build the walls into a shed where he forgets Jones who is there still.
4th story.Having souped up the Wizard’s flying saucer, Beast uses it to fly along with Cyclops to Agent Baker’s third area, an area in North Korea with many UFO sightings. Hank decides to circle the ship a bit, hoping the sight of a flying saucer will draw potential aliens out. Instead, they are freaking out the locals.
On the radar, Cyclops sees an object heading their way fast. Hank believes it’s due to his successful tactic. Actually, it’s a Korean missile. When it hits, the saucer’s anti-grav engines are failing.
Beast asks Cyclops to hand him the Wizard’s navigation helmet; he’ll need it to land. They crashland. Scott is out of it and Hank finds the helmet is stuck on his head.
He gets outside were the North Korean soldiers believe he is an alien and shoot at him, hitting the helmet, before he can finish the sentence that he comes in peace. The helmet is off, but inside the ship something begins to makes noises and gravity outside suddenly is negated.
Hank shouts at Scott inside to shut down the engine with the sequence Grottu… Barada… Ditko…
Apparently, Scott complies because a moment later they all land again… hard.
The army is still out for Beast’s blood with tanks and helicopters, despite one woman’s protest that she understood him and he was trying to help. The order is given to destroy him when, suddenly, the tank is hit by an energy blast courtesy of Cyclops.
As he stands there in the saucer’s doorway, the Koreans believe him to be a robot. Again, he fires his optic blast, destroying the rest of the weapons.
As one of the Koreans waves a white flag Beast tries another approach. He tells them on his world there are many enforcers like this (referring to Cyclops). Keep up your warlike ways, he warns them, and he will not be able to stop them from returning to reduce this planet to cinders. So anyway… they have another planet to threaten. Good day.
They leave in the spacecraft while the Koreans are falling for it. While Cyclops flies them, hoping the thing will make it to Japan, Hank announces he will contact Agent Baker and let him know that there were aliens there… them.
Closing sequence:Baker receives Beast’s call and thanks him. He asks Hank to tell the Professor he’s being transferred, so they’ll be working with Agent Duncan again. But, if they uncover any alien operations, give him a call, eh?
In an invisible saucer above, someone remarks that Baker doesn’t realize the truth of things or himself. Neither do the X-Men, another announces. Imagine were they to be unearthed by one of their own sleeper agents!
Their choice of the term “unearthed” is very appropriate, the first replies, yet for now their operation is safe and proceeding according to plan. They are infiltrating the highest level of government and studying the mutant population. The actual takeover is many years away still, but the Skrulls’ secret invasion of Earth has begun!