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Prodigal (Part 2)
Inside David’s mindscape, he explains that, when your dad is the foremost psychic “mindbotherer” on the planet, you get used to things being weird. For instance, there’s a place his most secret thoughts are broadcast like a ballgame announcement.
Inside the mental prison in his mind, the personalities he had locked up in cells now run free, hunting the David Haller personality. His thoughts are being broadcast through loudspeakers that are placed throughout the prison compound.
His thoughts continue and say that there’s a conceptual realm inside his broken brain where every appearance of a crappy b-movie sci-fi prison. His mind is infested by a couple of hundred insane egos with their own killcrazy super-power. He and his father spent years trying to keep them at bay. Years of too many accidents and too much tragedy. Years, which he thought paid off when this place was conceived. A jail is as good as any place to control the unruly.
David introduces himself and says that, in the real world, people in daft costumes call him Legion. He wishes they wouldn’t. His father is dead and he isn’t entirely ready to think about that except the shockwave of it appears to have buggered everything up. So this whole prison for a brain idea… he’s a bit concerned it’s not working out.
The personalities inside his mind are fighting between themselves as the David personality lies on the floor in shock. David explains that time is basically borked here. Say there is a great cosmic ogre with the power of protonic cascade (whatever that is). Let’s say he grabs him and bites him, who knows how long that moment truly passes out there in the real world.
In David’s mindscape, a great red ogre grabs hold of him and bites his arm, drawing blood. In the real world, David is taken over by the ogre. He flies over a group of mountaineers whilst shouting that he is Kirbax the Kraklar and he girdles at their pitiful planet.
Back in his mindscape, David says it rarely lasts. His mind created all these beasties but it doesn’t mean they have any respect for each other. With that, a man dressed like a cowboy blasts Kirbax off David with his energy guns and grabs him for himself.
In the real world, David is outside a border station with soldiers around him. He is crazily firing two energy guns into the air as the people flee for cover. He wonders to himself how long it’s been since the jail cells opened. Days? Weeks? He hopes no one has been hurt. He supposes he should be touched with all this affection, he’s never felt so wanted in his life.
Back in his mindscape, a metal clad person pushes David and the cowboy apart whilst proclaiming that David is his. In the end David is just lucky. He has a second (or an hour... who knows?) of opportunity. A moments reprieve, a chance to recuperate. Before anyone else can grab him, David scrambles away and into an air duct.
In the real world, he comes to his senses again and takes a moment to find some peace. He sits down in the snow and looks across the landscape. Before he can relax too much, gunfire suddenly rains down on him causing him to jump. He turns to see a group of armed soldiers advancing on him. As he starts to run, a voice comes from somewhere and tells him they are normalizers. The People’s Liberation Equality Ops with a bit of mitochondrial enhancement and some macrotech.
David is confused as he can’t see who’s talking to him. He suddenly realizes that, if it’s the People’s Liberation army, then that means he is in China. A small light swirls around him and the voice comes from it. The voice continues and says that the reds are a bit tetchy about unregistered superhero types, especially the ones who shoot up border stations for fun. David suddenly runs across a mountain goat which seems just as surprised to see David. Before the goat can run, it is accidentally shot by the soldiers as they try and shoot at David.
David shouts to the voice for it to show itself. But the voice ignores him and says the he can’t really blame the soldiers. Imagine a bunch of godforsaken genefreaks running around willy-nilly… somebody’s got to keep an eye on them. Suddenly, a pair of eyeballs floats in front of David, much to his alarm. The dead goat suddenly rips apart and starts reorganizing itself into the shape of a humanoid. The voice, coming from the reforming being, says that the rice gobbling bastards ain’t got it all right. It hears that they are only allowed a single kid per couple here, nations packed with spoilt, whining, self-entitled brats like David. Horrific. The being now stands before David as a skinless humanoid man with patches of fur partially covering its exposed muscles.
David and the creature are now stood next to a snowy cliff as the soldiers continue to shoot at David. The creature gets David to steady him as he starts to climb down the side of the cliff. It laughs at the look on David’s face and says he thought he was supposed to be dangerous. Not some stammering little punk with *%&$ hair and a haggis-humper accent. David lets go of the creature’s hand and says that he is evidently talking to a xenophobic, tiny-minded numpty made up of eyeballs whilst being shot at by real-life bullets. So he’ll have to forgive him if he’s being a tad dramatic. He then demands to know who the creature is.
The creature asks if he means a name. He had one of them once. He excuses himself for a second so he can flick one of the icicles hanging down next to him. He suddenly notices the soldiers are coming again and asks if David can fight. Before he can answer, the creature speaks up and says that lucky for him he didn’t come all this way to see him pink-misted by a bunch of wannabe-guyver panda-lovers. He tells David he has a job to do and he intends to see him do it. He then points down the cliff-face and tells David they go down.
Elsewhere, a squad of X-Men arrives at the remains of the psychic commune David destroyed. Around them vultures pick the flesh of the corpses of the dead. Chamber asks what the flamin’ &*%*$ happened there, to which Storm chastises him for his language. Frenzy mutters to herself that there are lunatic *%&$*-talking youngsters present. Beast speaks up and asks Ruth, aka Blindfold, if there are any insights. Blindfold apologizes and says it’s still muddled and that everything is changing. She says all the paths are broken and shifting like red-lace scars on time. The future doesn’t know what it wants to be yet and he’s so scared. Beast picks up on the word “he” and enquires about it.
Mimicking a lawyer, Chamber says that the prosecution returns to exhibits A and B. With that, he takes out a digital tablet and starts reading from it. He says that some French mountaineers halfway up Everest get buzzed by a tosser with spiky hair like a troll toy. Then a border camp in Tibet gets knocked over by a semi-naked Eraserhead lookalike screaming about Injuns. Chamber says that no one has to spell it out. With that, Wolverine appears and says it’s Legion. Chamber says he stands corrected, to which Wolverine says he recognizes the scent.
Wolverine says they have a major problem, to which Beast agrees. He says that the poor lad doesn’t mean to be a reality-quaking liability but that doesn’t prevent him being one. He says that David has made no attempt to contact the school, so they must assume he knows about Charles’s death. Frenzy asks Blindfold if she has any thought on finding him, but Blindfold apologizes and grabs her head as if she is in pain. She says he is so frightened and the future wants to grasp him but alls he wants to do is hide.
Inside David’s mindscape, he is huddled up in one of the air-vents. He thinks to himself that a moments peace isn’t so much to ask for is it? Not in the safety of his own brain. In here, what passes for his subconscious, it’s all about control. If one of them catches him then his flesh is theirs. If he drains one of them, then he can use their abilities. Outside the air-vent, the numerous personalities are trying to get inside to gain control of him.
The question worth asking is does he need super-powers? Why face those monsters out there at all when it’s just for the chance to spit fire or fart acid? David starts to crawl through the air-vents, unaware that the new yellow rat-like creature is in there with him. He thinks that, as long as they can’t get to him, then he can live a normal life on the outside. His father wouldn’t approve though. He would say things like “denying your mutant heritage,” “refusing to realize your potential” and “standing by when you could be helping the world.” But he’s gone now and David is safe in here and he doesn’t ever have to feel judged again. He comes to a stop again as the weight of Xavier’s death hits him. He starts to shiver and admits that he misses his dad.
A voice suddenly rings out and gains his attention. Tyrannix the Abominoid is also crawling through the air-vents. He asks David if he really thought he was the only one small enough to crawl through there, into the conduits of his confidence. He is Tyrannix and his is the gift of telepathy, he can hear his thoughts. David clutches his head in disbelief. He yells at Tyrannix that he’s a sideshow figment created by his sick psyche. He can hear his thoughts because they are being piped through this &%*$*%* like a running commentary. David yells for him to leave him alone. But Tyrannix ignores him and continues working his way through the vents. He says he will find David and squeeze him, he will taste his soul and then he will become him.
In the real world, David and the creature are in a cave. David asks why it is helping him. The creature says that it isn’t him it’s helping. He’s doing it for what David will be one day and what he will do. The creature decides to give him an example. He says that David is like an icicle in the snow, he is stuck in one place, useless. But say someone tapped you just right and made you fall at a certain time. Say that a rat is scared-up when you hit the snow and the little sucker bolts out into the open. Say he’s seen by an eagle, which just happens to be passing and he flaps off to his favorite branch to chow down. But the branch snaps off at the extra weight.
David asks the creature what his point is, to which the creature replies that his point is that he sees the routes that things might take and he tweaks them to get the ones he wants. That’s his power and he earned it himself. As they leave the cave and head into a rocky ravine, they are suddenly spotted by one of the Chinese soldiers. The soldier points a gun at them and David raises his hands. He asks the creature if he can see a way out of this and the creature just says that he is disappointed. Above them a branch falls down and an eagle flies away with a rat in its claws. The branch hits a jutting out piece of rock, which in turn starts to break. The rock tumbles down and lands squarely on the soldier.
David backs away in shock but the creature just stands there and tells him he wasn’t paying attention at all. The creature grabs David by the arm and heads off. He says he shouldn’t be surprised he turned out such a letdown. He must have inherited his father’s useless genes along with the x-gene. He then asks David if he would kill if he had to. David tells him that he would never…well not deliberately anyway.
The two come face to face with the rest of the soldiers and the creature turns to David and says that they are going to make mincemeat of him. As the soldiers yells at him in Chinese, David tells the creature that he doesn’t know that, they might just arrest him. The creature says that he doesn’t mean these guys; he knows who he is talking about.
Inside David’s mindscape, he is scrambling through the vents with Tyrannix closing in on him.
Outside, the creature tells David that sooner or later his pa’s little bondage gear army is going to catch up with him. David realizes who he means but the creature says that he had better pray he is stronger than he is now. The X-Men are molded in his image and his father was cruel, inelegant and stupid. David tells him to leave off his father and the X-Men are good people. But the creature tells him that the X-Men are idealistic morons who prattle on about equality and tolerance and similar stuff they don’t understand but they do *%&$* all to achieve it. He says Xavier was a fool, to which David meekly tells him to stop. The creature ignores him and continues saying that he was a mediocre excuse for a figurehead and a coward to boot. David asks him to stop saying that again.
Inside his mind, Tyrannix crawls closer to him whilst repeating that he’s going to eat David. David is crouched down, holding his head and constantly repeating for him to stop saying that.
In the real world, the creature asks David if the world is a better for their species than when his father started out. Before he can answer, the creature says that the Chinese soldiers are going to blow him away in twelve point two seconds. If David won’t kill them, then he will. The creature disintegrates as the Chinese soldiers shout at David. The creature’s eyeballs shoot forward into one of the soldiers and blast a hole straight through his head, much to David’s alarm.
Inside his mindscape, Tyrannix is a matter of feet away from a scared David.
Outside, David yells for the creature to stop as it kills another solider. The remaining soldiers start firing at the floating eyeballs. Becoming angry, David yells for him to stop.
Inside his mind, David punches Tyrannix and slams his face into the wall of the vent. A dazed Tyrannix says that he is meant to be scared of himself. But David just uses his gloved hand with needles on and stabs Tyrannix, draining his power from him. David’s is now the power of telepathy.
Outside, David clicks his fingers and all the remaining soldiers fall unconscious. The floating eyeballs ask what happened and David tells him that he overloaded their pleasure centers. They will be out for about an hour and when they wake they’ll probably be in love with him. The eyeballs start to leave but David uses his powers to grab hold of them. David touches the mind of the creature and gets a flash of images. He sees a newspaper of his father admitting he is a mutant, Cyclops, Magneto, Emma Frost, Mirage, a man with a chainsaw, Dr. Kavita Rao and the squad of X-Men looking for him. The creature has no conventional brain to taste and he’s off like a greased up weasel before he can delve deeper. No name, no identity, just a swirl of fractals and a boundless hate for him, his father and mutants. The only thing he can prize from the storm that makes any sense is a pair of mutant twins in Tokyo being kept in fear and pain.
David wonders what they are doing in the mind of a redneck monster. Then he is gone and all that’s left behind is death, frost and the memory of the kids. And because of what the bastard said, winding him up like that, and because he won’t have him proved right… the question worth asking has changed. As David takes a jacket out of one of the unconscious soldier’s bags he wonders what his dad would do.
Inside his mind, he thinks they all know the answer to that… he will help those children. David, carrying a weak Tyrannix, scrambles through the vents until he manages to find a way out. He throws Tyrannix back in his cell and tells him that his is the gift of telepathy and he will take it from him whenever he wants. With that, he activates the energy bars on the door, sealing the personality back in again. He turns around to see dozens of his other personalities still clawing at the vent he originally escaped into. He cracks his knuckles as he muses that that’s one power sorted out, just a couple hundred more to go. What he doesn’t see is the yellow rat-like creature hidden in the shadows above him, watching him. The creature mutters to itself that David means a couple of hundred and one.


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Prodigal (Part 3)
David says to listen. A security guard Chengdu falls asleep at his post, an airline stewardess waves aboard a visiting rockstar no questions asked and a customs official at Haneda nods at an invisible passport. Getting into Japan was the simple part.
Inside his mindscape, David remains hidden as the various other personalities riot. He says that he has captured the first errant personality and his is the power of telepathy. David is holding the small, green, squid-like Tyrannix in a tight grip. David is still wearing the special gloves used to extract the powers from his personalities and he has the injection needles on it embedded into Tyrannix’s head. He muses how easy it is to lead people astray with the power. He then wonders if this is how his dad felt the whole time.
(Kabuchikō District, Shinkjuku Ward, Tokyo)
In the real world, David makes his way through a crowded street, barging people out of the way as he goes. He realizes that staying alive might be a more complicated affair. He stops and looks around at the various people in the crowd. He asks if any of them can hear wings but they just look at him confused. He moves on, pushing people out of the way as he runs. He muses on how he got to this point. Four days ago, he learned of two imprisoned mutant kids somewhere near where he is now. He found this out by reading the mind of a sentient pair of eyeballs. He decided that rescuing the kids would be something that his dad would have done. He did a psi-scan the moment he arrived, reaching out for their minds. They were faint, too faint for the spandex brigade with their cerebra, but he found them.
Just then, he dives on the ground as something swoops down at him. He looks up as feathers float down from his attacker. He runs away from the crowd and into a secluded alleyway. He says he felt the kids with his mind but the creepy thing was that they felt him too. As if they were ready and waiting for him. Like Admiral Ackbar’s infamous one liner…“It’s a trap.”
Suddenly, the alleyway is lit up with a bright light and David shields himself as a giant raven flies towards him. The raven is black and white and, instead of eyeballs, it has a red and black yin/yang symbol. Trash cans are thrown about as the raven, crackling with energy, lunges towards David. David realizes that it’s an aetheric projection shaped like a monochromatic psychic raven… but not even Star Wars characters say stuff like that out loud. The psychic raven flies straight through David, stunning him.
A bucket of cold water is thrown in David’s face and he comes to. He sees two men covered in tattoos and wearing masks similar to Ogun’s standing before him. Around the room are other men, wearing military-style uniforms and brandishing guns. All of them wear the red mask that their leader wears. Amongst the soldiers are two children… a boy and a girl. The boy has black hair with a white streak and the girl has white hair with a black streak. David is tied to a chair in a Japanese-style room.
One of the tattooed men addresses David. In broken, English he tells David to behold the mighty tiger-pounce leaders of the Yamaguchi-Kai Clan. He says they sell drugs, guns and also woman-sleazytimes for hire. He calls David gaijin and tells him to tremble before Karasu-Tengo and Sojobo-Tengo, heirs to the radiant master’s king-butt-placement-seat. The girl, Karasu, says that they received an anonymous phone call. Her brother Sojobo adds that it said a mutant psychic was coming to destroy them. The other tattooed man demands that David tells them who sent him so that he can be spared a lingering death. A confused David says that he thought it was the youngsters who were meant to be tied up. He’s pretty sure that’s how it was in the eyaball’s brain.
As David dwells in the confusion, Sojobo tells his master that the foreigner appears to be insane. His sister asks if they must really torture him. David can see the children’s eyeballs and they look identical to the pattern within the raven’s that attacked him earlier. The man angrily tells them to be silent, as they dishonor the star-lovely radiant master by doubting clan choosing.
With his hands still tied, David asks if he can rhetorically raise his hands. He then poses a question to the excitable sod with flawless English. He simply asks “Master?” The first tattooed man goes over to a red mask perched on a pedestal. Behind the mask on the wall is a mural depicting a fight between Wolverine and Ogun, the owner of the mask. The man tells David that his master if the sword-dueling, big swagger angel Ogun. He was Shinobi Oyabun, leader of the gun and sleazytime Yakuza criminal empire but he was betrayed by the foul-smelling Logan and he is now the eternal prince in clan memory. The kids and all the clan members bow down towards the mask of Ogun. David asks a follow up question; he asks if they are all serving a dead guy’s mask.
The man seems a little stunned at the question but the other tattooed man angrily yells at David. He tells him he does not understand and has no respect. He made a mistake coming there. He then yells for his minions to bring the vile pigdog scum forth. Another man is brought into the room. He is naked except for a loin cloth and he is covered in ornate tattoos from head to foot. The tattooed man tells David that the man is Kokushi-Gumi, a rival to the Clan. The first tattooed man tells David his crime was to tell a joke in a café about how Ogun only wore the mask to cover his crooked yellow teeth. He then demands that the children show the “not-normal-hair man” what the fate is for insulting the memory of the radiant master. Karasu addresses the soldier as Futatsu-San and her brother says they don’t want to hurt the man.
Futatsu becomes angry and tells the kids to think of the great Oyabun-Ogun, who took them in. He saved the twins from poverty and death to raise them in the Yakuza Clan like his own son and daughter. The twins relent and bow their heads down. A psychic raven emerges from each of their heads. A white one comes from Karasu and a black one comes from Sojobo. The ravens merge together to create a larger spirit raven.
Inside David’s mind, he still has control over Tyrannix and his mental powers. It’s these powers that allow him to see a little deeper as to what is going on in the room. The two children stand over the man channeling the raven. It attacks the man but it doesn’t do physical damage, instead it attacks him mentally. It rips and tears his astral form as the flesh and bone body of the man spasms on the floor. David can only watch on as he realizes the children he came there to save are tearing apart the soul of the man. As the ordeal ends, the man lies lifeless on the floor. The children wipe tears away from their eyes and mutter that they are sorry.
(Not so far away)
In a phone booth, a disguised man makes a call. He tells the other person that he won’t give a name but the paintbrush-haired guy is trying to take the children. He says he’ll hurt them and he’s &*%*# mad. The man says that they can find him at the Iris House, Meiji Gardens in Tokyo. He hangs up and turns around. As he relishes in his acting abilities, his eyes glow red beneath the shadows covering his face.
Elsewhere, Wolverine and his team of X-Men have discovered the Chinese soldiers that died chasing David. As they stand in the snowy mountains inspecting the bodies, Wolverine hangs up a communication device. He stops Chamber from throwing a snowball at him and then tells the team he has a lead.
Back at the Iris House, the clan members have left and only the twins remain with David. They have been given orders to get into his brain to find out who sent him. And once they are done, they are to kill him. David muses that nobody has bothered to just ask him. He decides that it’s going to be the hard way from now on. Stuttering, he asks the children if they enjoy this life… this job. They had just begun to activate their power to get into David’s head but they stop and look at each other. As psychic ravens swirl around his head, he hopes to himself that he can just keep them distracted.
Inside his mind, he is stood on a ledge overlooking some of his wayward personalities. Telepathy is pretty useless for escapes, especially when it’s busy deflecting astral avifauna. David watches the crowd, waiting for the right personality to come along. With Tyrannix still tied to his back, he jumps down on another personality. He lands on the back of the Origamist, a huge sumo-wrestler-looking personality. David knows he is one of the top dogs in his head because he is a reality changer. They don’t come much bigger, fatter, dumber or stronger than this guy. With that, the Origamist throws David off and begins chasing after him. David says that’s the trouble with hunting a mental menagerie... you only get one shot. As he flees, he reiterates that, if he beats them, then their power becomes his, but if they beat him then his body is up for grabs, and the universe goes under the axe.
In the real world, David is sweating from the strain put on his mind. The kids answer his earlier question and say they don’t enjoy what they do. It’s revolting; it makes them feel bad. He asks why they do it but Sojobo tells him he is a gaijin, he wouldn’t understand. Karasu tells him that they have heard about his ways. He does what he wishes and he has no respect for what has gone before. Sojobo chips in and says he has no obligation to history or debt to his forebears. Karasu tells him he wouldn’t understand. David weakly retorts that he might.
Back inside his mind, David realizes that tackling the Origamist on his first attempt was a little over-ambitious. So he decides to go after the crotchety old Max Kelvin. He jumps out and grabs the old man and twists his arm around, causing the personality to bend over. But once again David is overpowered. Max starts yelling and radiating powerful orange energy. David lets go and runs away as more and more personalities become aware to his presence.
Outside, David is trying hard to resist the twins who are still using their psychic ravens to get inside his mind. Struggling to speak, he tells the kids that someone else is working against him. He’s no threat to them or their clan; he came here to help. His father is dead now but he used to look after people like them, like all of them. David bends over in pain as the kids power starts to overwhelm him. Karasu tells him they are getting close to breaking in and they can taste all the contradictions. Sojobo asks in what way his father looked after him.
David remembers a time when he was strapped into an MRI scanner at Muir Island. His father is next to him but he tells Moira MacTaggart that he is late for the U.N. so she should anesthetize David until he gets back. It’s for the best. David can only look on as he lies on the scanner.
Back inside his mind, David tries his third attempt at capturing a useful personality. This time it’s the Chronodon, a creature that looks like a T-Rex with a clock-face for a head. The Chronodon stumbles into a pit David has created but it immediately gets out and starts chasing him. As he runs, he can feel wings beating on the walls of the prison.
Outside, David tells the kids they are too young to be muddled up in all this retribution, crime and violence. Whatever debt they owe to Ogun, this is no life for children. The kids continue their task and say that, since David is so eager in following in his father’s footsteps, they can’t help but wonder what alternative he would have offered.
David imagines a scene of the New Mutants training in the Danger Room when they were still very young. Wolfsbane sits on the floor, bleeding from her arm. In the control room above, Xavier simply says it’s called the Danger Room for a reason and tells her to get up.
Inside his mind, David tries a fourth attempt. He is getting desperate and is beginning to feel freaked out and confused. He grabs the flying dog-like Pukatus Jr., as he represents the easiest of the easy options. But the creature gets away from him and chases after him with his acidic vomit.
In the real world, David tells the kids the point is that, just because their father figure got one or two things right, doesn’t mean you have to believe he is infallible. It doesn’t mean you have to do exactly the same. Inside his mind, the David Haller personality hears this as he hides from the personalities hunting him. David tells the kids that what he is saying is he wasn’t the best father, Ogun he means. He didn’t get everything right and it’s okay to be different. It’s okay to try and be better. David starts to have an epiphany and his mental defenses start to get stronger, much to the alarm of the children. He grows strong enough to banish the spirit ravens away from his mind and back into the kids’.
Inside his mind, he has grown stronger and he lunges through a wall and grabs Max Kelvin, hoping to get lucky a second time. He uses the needles on his glove and stabs Max with them, taking his power. His is the power of exploding plasma.
On the outside, David says it’s amazing what a little bit of self-belief can achieve. He erupts in flames, destroying the ties that hold him and igniting the area around him. The twins cower back. Karasu wants to call the guards but Sojobo says they will be angry so they must recapture him themselves. With flames all around him, David says he won’t fight them and if they ask him they should never have to fight again. He crouches down to them and says they aren’t so dissimilar. They are all basking in dead shadows, screwed up an all kinds of exciting ways but love and resentment. As he helps them to their feet, he says that they have helped him see that you don’t get to be perfect because you are dead. He picks up Ogun’s mask off the pedestal and uses his powers to melt it away.
The soldiers of the clan suddenly rush in but David uses his powers to create a shield as he continues to talk to the twins. He tells them he just wants to help his people and the world. He wants to help the both of them if they’ll let him. They make their way out of the room and down some stairs. David continues and says that he isn’t doing this because of his dad or his dream but because they have had a crappy deal out of life and someone should fix that. He admits that he doesn’t have all the answers; he doesn’t know if he hates or worships his father. He says there is wisdom in admitting you’re ignorant as it makes the stuff you do know mean a hell of a lot more. By now, they have moved to an indoor courtyard area and he uses his powers to knock away any clan members who get in their way.
What he does know is that children should have childhoods, people should have choices and genes shouldn’t matter. Nobody should be forced to fight if they don’t want to. He powers down and says that maybe he should start his own school, maybe he should disappear… he doesn’t know. But whatever happens it will be easier learning it together. He asks the kids what they think and they bow down to him. Sojobo says they agree and he has an old brain, and Karasu adds he has a young ghost. They wish to go with him. David seems pleased at their choice, but it’s short-lived as he is suddenly distracted by a crashing sound and a bright light.
Wolverine and his squad of X-Men come crashing in through a large skylight above them. Addressing David as Legion, he tells them that it’s gone on long enough and to step away from the kids.


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In Iris House in Tokyo, Wolverine and his squad of X-Men confront David. Misunderstanding the situation, Storm tells him not to hurt the kids and Beast asks him to be reasonable. Wolverine is blunter and just tells him to step the hell off. David muses that they love their drama. They think he’s dangerous and he can’t really blame them for that. But somehow they’ve gotten it into their heads that he is there to hurt the kids he came here to save and for that he should be angry. But at the moment he can only really think one thing. With the twins behind him, David states out loud that he forgot how ridiculous the X-Men look.
Frenzy makes a sarcastic retort and Beast quietly tells her to heel. Wolverine addresses him as Legion and says he just wants to help. David says that, for a start, they can stop calling him Legion. Pointing to Chamber, who was sneaking up behind him, David says that, if the human tracheotomy doesn’t stop them, he might lose his *%&* and fracture the universe or something.
David is only bluffing, mostly. He can’t access most of his inner powers yet, he isn’t strong enough. But the X-men don’t know that. Storm pleads with him and says he isn’t well; they can help him and his friends. He asks how they would help them exactly. Beast says he knows how, they will give them a future; teach them how to control their powers to fight for a better… David interrupts at hearing the word “fight.” He squares up to Wolverine and says the two kids have known nothing but violence their whole lives and they want to fix that by sending them to a paramilitary spandex school. Wolverine asks what he is suggesting. The kids should be kids? Mutants shouldn’t be taught to defend themselves? David replies and says that they shouldn’t have to. And they wouldn’t if the X-Men ever made a jolt of difference in the world.
A little stunned at what David is saying, Storm says that that’s his father’s dream he is talking about. He says that it isn’t the dream, the dream itself is fine. He starts to stutter as he says that maybe the way he went about it was… wrong. At hearing that, Wolverine unsheathes his claws and says the kid has no respect. David moves himself in between Wolverine and the kids and asks him to wait. Wolverine gets up close to David and says he has rampaged halfway across Asia, abducted a pair of minors and now he is sassing his dead father. He asks if he wants to play rough but David says that it’s not that… he just doesn’t want to hurt him.
David mentally recalls how they have all had psychic training, so he needs to find a way to get the hairy hobbit off guard. As the two men start squaring off against each other again, David speaks up and says that Wolverine must be thinking how he could possibly hurt him. David then asks him what good’s an adamantium skeleton if he shoots singularities up his nostrils? (Bluff) What good is reduced aging if he irradiates him so bad that he cannot go near anyone for centuries? (Bluff) What good is a healing factor if it’s turned up so high that he is nothing but a mass of tumors, unable to die? (Bluff)
Wolverine starts to speak and says he doesn’t have to do this. But David immediately realizes that he is off guard and says he could simply put his brain on standby. With that, he smiles and clicks his fingers as Wolverine suddenly lurches backwards and collapses unconscious on the floor. David turns to leave with the kids and says to the X-Men the moral of the story is not to *%&* with him.
As the rest of the X-Men look down at Wolverine, Blindfold comes over the radio and asks if Beast is there. She is sitting in the Blackbird jet, observing the whole scene on a TV screen, even though she has no eyes. She apologizes and says that she could be of some use out there. Beast immediately denies her request and says she’s played her part in tracking David. He won’t prove him right by deploying a youngster.
As Beast picks Wolverine up, he tells the rest of the X-Men to bear in mind that David is ill. As such he should be accorded the care and sympathy that comes with it. But with that caveat in mind. he tells them to get the precocious little swot. As David and the kids run out of the building and past the Blackbird Karasu asks if they will come after them. David sarcastically asks if the Pope *%&*’s in the wood. He apologizes and says he won’t let them fight but there is a way they could help. He stops and crouches down to their level. He says they have seen what it’s like in his head. He can’t access the powers he needs whilst the others are so strong. Before he finishes, the twins say they understand and they want to help.
Inside David’s mindscape, the David Haller personality is crouched in an air duct up high. Below him, the hoards of other personalities search him out. As he looks on, Karasu and Sojobo uses their powers and enter his mind. Their psychic ravens start attacking the other personalities.
Outside, David is suddenly confronted by Storm, who lights up the sky with lightning as she flies down to him. She says the sky dislikes him. It cherishes it’s monopoly on unrestrained overkill. Under his breath, David groans at the dramatics and then yells for the kids to get to cover. He asks them if they can track down a scrawny tinpot called K-zek the conduit.
Inside his mind, the psychic ravens bring the robot K-zek to David. K-zek yells for them to release him but his pleas are ignored and David uses the injection needles on his glove to extract his power.
Outside, Storm hits David with a huge lightning strike. but it doesn’t faze him. He tells her it was a good shot, but he was already getting wet when she took it. As she wonders what he meant, she is suddenly hit with a huge energy bolt and she collapses on the floor. As he escorts the kids away, he says that wet means W.E.T… Wireless Energy Transfer. Before he can get too far, something slams down onto the ground in front of him. After the dust has cleared, he sees Frenzy, who tells him to make some more funnies. As she cracks her knuckles, he asks if she’s going to hit him. She confirms she is and David asks if she will hit him a lot. Once again, she confirms it. David politely asks the kids to find Non-Newtonian Annie.
Inside his mind, the ravens bring David a purple corpse-like woman. As Annie protests, the ravens say that she is slippery.
In the real world, David informs Frenzy that he is cloaked in zero-tau nullskin. It’s only fair that he reminds her of the law of conservation of energy. Unfortunately, she doesn’t listen and punches him full on in the face, only to be blasted away before she makes contact. Just as he relishes in Frenzy’s defeat, he is suddenly hit with a blast of fire. As he collapses on the floor, Chamber stands over him and says that he has officially kicked his ass. He tells him to stay down as nobody likes seeing bootprints on both cheeks.
Beast approaches the scene as the twins run to David’s aid. He tells them to calm down and there’s nothing to worry about. David disagrees and says, with the sweet talk from the Cookie Monster’s toothier twin and the cockney pillock with incendiary halitosis, there’s a lot to worry about. As Chamber stands menacingly by him, the twins say that they could take him together. But David tells them no, instead he asks for them to bring him the Skinsmith.
Inside his mind, the ravens bring him a naked and contorted man who only growls when he injects him.
Outside, David picks himself up off the floor and tells Chamber that it isn’t personal but he needs to shut his English gob. With that, David reaches out his hand towards Chamber and the X-Man suddenly has skin wrapping around his mouth, closing off his powers. As Beast concerns himself with Chamber’s situation, David and the kids run. David turns back to Beast and tells him to remember that the pen is mightier than the sword. Beast angrily tells him to spare it; they didn’t want any violence just as much as he did. Chamber starts to writhe as he cannot vent his powers. He realizes that he is going to blow due to the pressure in his head and bowels. Beast can only watch and wonder why David would do something like this.
Chamber yells for him to go get the disrespectful little *%&%*. Beast then realizes that David has been dropping clues about this moment all the way through their conversation. Back in the house, he insulted Chamber by calling him tracheotomy kid and then telling Beast that the pen is mightier than the sword. Beast takes a pen out of his pocket and empties the contents. He then jams it through the new skin over Chamber’s face, releasing the pressure and creating a flume of fire. Beast marvels at David’s plan.
Chamber starts recovering and Beast tells him that David didn’t mean to leave any lasting effects. His attention is caught by Blindfold, who strides past him and towards David. Chamber comments that Beast told her to stay on the plane but she tells him that David won’t hurt her, not ever.
Inside David’s mindscape, he tells the kids that he is sorry he muddled them in all of this. They note that the monsters in his head are all falling asleep. Suddenly, Blindfold walks up to him, inside his mind. She introduces herself as Ruth and says she didn’t mean to intrude. She tells everyone to calm down and then asks the kids to give them a moment as they have grown up things to discuss. The psychic ravens disappear as David asks who she is. She tells him to be quiet and that she is supposed to be his nemesis. She says she is pleased to meet him and then kisses him on the lips. David looks down and realizes that his hands are now cuffed.
In the real world, the twins are annoyed that they have been kicked out of David’s mind. David realizes that he has no powers either. The twins use their powers to see that the X-Men are on the move to intercept them. For some reason, David’s mind casts him back to the moment he met up with the weird eyeball creature in China. It was when David entered his mind that he saw the twins in the first place. He recalls how the eyeball creature said he was supposed to be dangerous but instead he’s just a stammering punk with a haggis-humper accent.  David thinks that maybe he was right. When Karasu asks what they should do David suggests hiding.
Inside his mind, David pleads for Blindfold to let him go, as the children are frightened. With an arm on his shoulder, she tells him that the only scared kid that he needs to save is looking at her. She tells him that everything will be alright and to trust him but before she can finish she is attacked by the yellow rat-like creature that was created in David’s mind when his dad died. The creature yells for her to get out as it slashes at her throat. Light pours out of the open wound and Blindfold collapses on the floor and dissolves away. David is too stunned to notice all the other personalities in his head have regained their senses and are surrounding him.
In the real world, David escorts the kids to a warehouse. He tells them to be as quiet as mice, as he needs to clear his head. As they walk in, they see it is an ammunition store with guns, bullets and other weapons strewn around.
Elsewhere, the X-Men rush to Blindfold, who has collapsed. Beast notes she’s barely breathing as Chamber goes after David and the twins. Beast yells for him not to do anything but Chamber ignores him and starts to charge up his power. Inside the ammo store, David hears rustling coming from somewhere and the twins use their powers to see that fire is coming.
Inside his mind, David’s personalities leap on him in an attempt to claim his body. Outside, Chamber unleashes a huge fireball at the warehouse, much to Beast’s horror. Inside the warehouse, the twins clings to David and say they don’t want to die. Inside his mind, the David Haller personality suddenly grows bigger and more muscled. In the end, it’s simple; somebody needs him and that’s one hell of an ego boost. He fends of the other personalities and spots the sumo-like Origamist. This personality is one of the top dogs; he is a reality changer, a space folder. As flames erupt through the warehouse door, David claims the powers for himself.
Outside, the X-Men can only watch as fire engulfs the warehouse. Then as they look on, the building starts to fold up like a piece of origami. As the building completely folds up and disappears, the twins are unfolded from nothing and appear standing right next to the X-Men. The children say that he folded the fire away and he’s gone now; he saved them. Chamber starts to apologize but Beast recalls David’s words earlier and tells him to “shut his gob.” Beast goes to the kids and says that they can come with them if they like, he promises to keep them safe. Karasu says they don’t want to go as David said they would make them fight. Sojobo, however, interjects and says he thinks they should go. As he walks off holding Beast’s hand, Karasu is confused. Storm walks up to her and says it’s for the best and asks for her to trust them.
David unfolds himself using the Origamist’s powers and watches the X-Men take the children away. He muses that the X-Men are his father’s technicolor mutant militia. He recalls that the eyeball creature called them idealistic morons prattling on about equality and tolerance whilst doing nothing to achieve it. There’s a fire-scorched bullet-ridden dimension somewhere to the left of Limbo to mark his words. David wonders why the eyeball creature hates the X-Men as much as he is beginning to. Looking down at the debris of where the warehouse stood, he sees two glowing red eyeballs staring up at him.
On the Blackbird, a now conscious Wolverine is telling Kitty over the radio that there had better be beer in the staff room. Frenzy mumbles to herself what she will do to David if she ever sees him again. Beast has strapped Blindfold into a seat and is examining her with some equipment but he is not getting any response. On another radio, Storm instructs Dr. Rao to prep a bed as they have a psychic trauma patient arriving. Chamber just sits in his seat and repeats that he is sorry. Karasu whispers to her brother that they shouldn’t have come as these people seem strange. Sojobo tells her, though, that they are exactly where they are meant to be. With that, a sinister expression crosses his face and his eyes glow electric blue.


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(Embassy of Israel in London, United Kingdom)
A phone rings in the embassy and the ambassador answers it. When no one replies on the other end, Gabrielle Haller, David’s mother, says she can hear breathing.
(The Qortex Complex, Conceptual prison inside Legion’s head)
With his needles in a robotic personality, David starts to talk but then tells the personality to hang up. Before it does so, Gabrielle says it’s the third time this week and then asks how they got her number.
(Skeevy garden shed. Westchester, New York)
Sitting on a bed in the garden shed, David mutters to himself that he’s a coward as he hangs up the phone. He continues saying that he should have rehearsed. He then starts a pretend phone call and greets his mother. He says he’s the usual… he has no home, no girlfriend, no pals and he’s about to punch a hole in the fabric of space. He just thought he’d touch base to see how she is and ask where she’s been for 80% of his life. He then tells himself to man up and begins to meditate.
He says he has a plan, a plan with two parts. It’s a bloody stupid plan but that’s not the point. It’s the proactivity that counts. The doing-something-and-trusting-it’ll-work. In the mess that he calls a brain, a little bit of self belief keeps his inner David tougher than a honey badger from Hell.
Inside his mind, David still has Tyrannix strapped to his back but now he grabs two more personalities: Findle the Finder and Wormhole Wodo.
In the garden shed, David starts to glow as energy swirls around him. He says right now he is locating a bunch of disgusting monsters several thousand light-years away and he’s teleporting them fifty yards north of where he is. Which is basically impossible for anyone without 200 omega-level split personalities in his head. It’s also an inconsiderate thing to do to the people who live near here but this is only part one of the plan. Part two is all about his delightful, tentacled backpack buddy… Tyrannix the Abominoid. Thanks to him, his is the power of telepathy and he’ll be needing that. Part two is all about exploring forbidden areas to get the answers to some burning questions and that’s why he needed the flashy lightshow. David uses his telepathy to astrally project himself out of his body and towards…
(The Jean Grey School For Higher Learning, Also in Westchester, New York)
In front of the school, Kitty Pryde and Storm are watching Rockslide as he sweeps up leaves for detention. Suddenly, their attention is caught by a bright light as a portal opens up and a group of Dire Wraiths jump out of it. David says that the spandex types are a sucker for a diversion as Storm alerts everyone else to the situation. Kitty shouts to get the students to safety and Iceman spots they have a female, so they will need the psy-team. Chamber swears and says they will need everyone. Rachel Grey, Quentin Quire and the Stepford Cuckoos are mounting a psychic defense. Rachel yells for the kids to get inside but Quentin tells her no as this is way more exciting than their usual snoozefest.
David’s projection flies over the psychics as he marvels at the fact they are too busy to notice him getting into the mansion. As he makes his way to where he wants to be, his attention is caught by a picture of his father.
Inside his mind, he is sitting down and using his needles on Tyrannix. The yellow rat-like personality is watching him from the shadows and it sniggers, causing David to turn to see what made the noise.
Outside his projection flies past a statue of his father and he purposefully keeps looking ahead, saying he doesn’t have time. He needs to stay on the target. He enters the medical quarters of the school and finds Kavita Rao monitoring an unconscious Blindfold. Blindfold… she is a lass he barely knew but she wandered into his mind without so much as a by-your-leave, pacified the brawling beasties and then hit him with an unconscious snog.
David flies down to Blindfold and hovers just over her, staring at her. She said she’s meant to be his nemesis. He wishes that’s the only reason he can’t stop thinking about her. Something happened. Something inside him attacked her and left her comatose. He touches her forehead and enters her mind. The least he can do is try and help. And if he can find out more about her along the way, then that wouldn’t be bad.
Her real name is Ruth Aldine. She was born in North Carolina without eyes or sockets… mutant from birth. He dad left within a week, muttering about freaks. Her mother worked all hours to feed her children. And so Ruth was left with her brother, who was about 7 years old when she was a baby. The way her mind has it, broken and bent by trauma and twisted by misplaced loyalty, it’s her fault he hated her. Her unnerving predictions and the special attention, she’s full of unnecessary guilt about it all.
But David can see the truth. Her brother… the cruel boy… the vicious delinquent… the criminal junkie. As they grew up, her brother would often threaten her, beat her and steal money of their mother to feed his drug habit. It could have gone on like that forever, except a well meaning judge sent him off to rehab when he was in his late teens, and that’s where the trouble really began. The correctional program was run by a local church. It was dignified, conservative, respected but also bigoted. Whilst in his rehab group, the reverend would tell him it wasn’t about sickness or addiction. It was about succumbing to the evil corruptions of God’s pure creations. Promiscuity, mind-altering chemicals, homosexuality and the devils that walk amongst them… mutants!!!
It’s difficult to say if it really poisoned his mind as it was already toxic, but it helped give him focus. The priests never condoned violence; they were too upright for that. But you can bet they were on the sidelines egging it on. After rehab her brother took to drinking and he would physically assault mutants in the street. It was only a matter of time before he fell off the wagon and got himself proper crazy. He turned back to drugs only this time he started injecting himself. Not that Ruth understood why back then, she only knew her mother had more bruises… the cops paid more visits… and her brother watched her even closer. Until the day Luca went quiet as sin and slipped out to the woodshed to fetch a chainsaw. Calling Ruth an abomination, he started up the chainsaw. Their mother must have been asleep upstairs and had come running down to see what the commotion was. She surprised him at just the wrong time. The way Ruth remembers it, the whole thing is a nut-shell version of what it’s like to be a mutant. The story of collateral damage.
As Ruth’s mother begged for Luca to stop, he simply yelled for her to stop her interfering. Her mother protected Ruth as her brother attacked her with a chainsaw and she paid for it with her life. After he realized he had killed his mother, Luca was distraught but he still blamed Ruth, claiming she had forced him to do it.
There’s a blur after that which is only to be expected. A neighbor had heard the screams and called 911. Luca fled but he was caught and the trial lasted about half an hour, at which point he sat on death row for six years. It isn’t saying much but those were the happiest years of Ruth’s life. She went to live with her aunt in Prospect Plains and continued learning her gifts of sorting through futures, seeing beyond the world, moving matter and reading minds. And where absolutely necessary… changing them.
When Luca was due to be executed, she used her telepathy to make a guard think she had the right to be there to witness it. Even in her own brain, it’s hard to figure out why she felt she needed to be there. Something about family that transcended all the awfulness he had put her through. Something to do with solidarity.
It’s quite a thing to watch someone die. It’s another thing to find them watching you back. As Luca was strapped onto the table, he was given a lethal injection. As he died, his astral form left his body, much to Ruth’s surprise. It rushed towards her and grabbed hold of her. Maybe there was something special about him from the start or maybe all the Bible talk beefed up his ghost. Or maybe there was so much hate inside his brain it outlasted him. Whatever it was, it tore apart his sister’s psyche, ripped out half of the powers she had learnt and stole them away. Left her incomplete. Broken. Not all there. After Luca had gone Ruth was left lying on the floor muttering “sorry,” “yes,” “pardon” and “thank you.”
Things became fractured after that, like her mind won’t gel. She remembers the funeral director telling her that the mortician told him that Luca’s eyeballs were missing. She remembers her aunt telling her there was a school for people like her and asking if she wanted to go. She remembers Beast inviting her along to find out what caused Legion’s psychic episode.
David knows she’s hiding there in the gaps of her own self. He tries reaching out to her but he can’t quite touch her. Another presence screams at him to get out and he starts getting dragged out of her memories. He tries to resist but he astral for is expelled from her and is being sucked back into his own body. As he leaves the medical quarters, he sees Sojobo enter the room to be told by Dr. Rao that he shouldn’t be there, as there’s an emergency going on. Sojobo takes out a crowbar and hits her over the head, knocking her out. David is powerless to help as he is forced back into his own body.
When he comes to, he finds that Karasu is in front of him with a knife to his throat. A little stunned, he tells her she knows him, he’s her friend. With tears in her eyes, she angrily tells David that Sojobo has changed since he came. He speaks differently and he frightens her but he’s still her brother; he’s still family. As she pushes the knife tighter against him, she tells him that her brother told her to come here and bring David something. She hands David a letter and then asks what it says.
Hey Davey
Something’s coming pal. Real soon. Something big + terrible to wipe out all you godless mutants forever. I seen it. And I’m just fine with that.
Thing is, my sister – my real 1 and not the freak – my sisters the only 1 got means to stop it.
(best part is I only know this cos of the powers I stole from her. You gotta laugh)
Anyways I ain’t about to let her stand in the way of you genescum going the way of the dodo. Sure you understand. So thanks for everything, you’ve been a real help. Just you sit tight huh.
Luca
David says Luca’s name in amazement and then the penny drops like a great bomb. The coincidental meeting with the eyeball monster in China. The lies in the mind of the monster, calculated to send him chasing off to rescue the twins. The hints, the nudges and the patterns within the chaos. All of it precise, deliberate cunning, all of it calculated to let a fiend get close to an angel.
David suddenly realizes that Karasu’s brother is dead. Just as he is reaching that conclusion, Sojobo is sitting on top of an unconscious Blindfold with a knife held above her. His eyeballs are now outside of his body and are glowing blue.


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On the front lawn of the Jean Grey School, the X-Men are in battle with the group of Dire Wraiths that David has summoned as a distraction. David remembers how the eyeball-creature in Tibet had called the X-Men reactive. The thing is, he was right. The self-righteous spandexperts never really initiate anything. They just wait for the *%&*# to hit the fan and then do something about it. But right now he knows how that feels.
In the garden shed, Karasu has a kitchen knife pressed against David’s throat. Stuttering, David tells her that her brother is dead and his body has been stolen by a pair of matter-animating eyeballs. Karasu interrupts him and tells him he’s insane and threatens to cut him if he doesn’t be quiet.
David muses on the fact that “eyes” seem to be a bit of a recurring-motif these days. Eyes that see beyond the now. Eyes that used to belong to Luca Aldine, Blindfold’s brother. Eyes that have tweaked and tugged events like a puppeteer and left him clueless and reactive like the lycra liabilities outside. He’s bloody sick of it, and so…
David mutters that he won’t be led anymore. He will do things his way from now on, not anyone else’s. Inside his mind, the David Haller personality charges through the other personalities. As his real self shuts out the outside world, he thinks that it isn’t the prettiest manifesto but it’s something to cling to. He finds the Origamist, the reality warping personality, and stabs him with the needles. As he repeats “I rule me,” his real self folds up like a piece of origami, much to the surprise of Karasu.
Inside the medical quarters of the school, Luca, in the guise of Sojobo, is about to stab his sister as she lies comatose. His eyes are glowing blue and floating outside his head. Before he can kill Blindfold, David appears and grabs his arms. David punches the boy, sending him flying off the bed. Luca grins menacingly and says that, in seven out of ten futures, he saw David came down there despite his warnings. It’s doesn’t matter, though, he knows exactly how this is going to play out. He’s been real busy making sure it goes the way he wants.
In the battle with the Dire Wraiths, Pixie clutches her stomach in pain and Storm asks if she’s wounded. Stuttering, she says she feels proper grim and thinks she might vomit. Wolverine tells her to ‘port out as they are fine with the fight.
In the medical bay, David takes charge of a personality that has astral harpoon projection. He crackles with green energy and gets ready to zap Luca. Luca asks who’d have thought a couple of samples of dino dung hidden in a grilled cheese sandwich would save him. Pixie suddenly teleports in, looking for Dr. Rao, but she ends up between Luca and David. David fires the energy harpoon and it hits Pixie, causing her to scream in pain and collapse on the floor. David looks on, horrified.
Inside his mind, he composes himself again and hunts down the next personality, the Mycolojester. In the real world, David is emitting a green gas and chasing Luca up some stairs. He starts to say his is the power of… but Luca finishes his sentence by saying it’s toxic spores. Luca says that David doesn’t get it, he can’t beat him. And when he’s done being dumb, he will kill that blind freak downstairs. Of all the millions of possibilities, he knew which way David was most likely to jump before he did. Same way he knew two hours ago to leave the cafeteria oven on. The sprinkler system suddenly kicks in because of a fire in the cafeteria. David is soaked through and his powers are negated.
Luca runs off with David hot on his heels. Luca says to give it up; they went through all this in China. He tweaked one little icicle and five minutes later a soldier played pancake. He hits the wall and says that it’s the same here. He hits the wall and a delightful sequence involving a startled janitor falling off his chair and dropping his coffee. The coffee lands on an oversensitive Sh’iar A/C unit and shorts it out. That causes the A/C fans to go in overdrive and suck one of Doop’s forgotten candy bars into it. The candy bar is fired out of an air vent where a hungry Bamf teleports in to grab it mid air. The Bamf narrowly misses David and dives through a window, much to the surprise of Luca. He says the Bamf was supposed to hit David square between the eyes. He turns around and walks away, saying that hour he spent sawing the bookshelves was well spent. With that, the bookshelf next to David falls down on top of him.
Enraged, David screams and exploded out of the building as Luca walks onto the back lawn. David demands he stay still, as Luca stands in front of the statue of Charles Xavier. He looks up at David and comments how the spot he is standing on is charming.
On the front lawn, Chamber asks if anyone can hear something on the back lawn but Frenzy dismisses him. Instead, she punches one of the Dire Wraiths high into the air.
Inside his mind, the David Haller personality has bulked up and is running through the personalities, grabbing them and taking their powers. He realizes that for the first time he is unstoppable.
Outside, Luca leans against Xavier’s statue and calls David an idiot. He asks if he is really going to stride in there and punch one of God’s own chosen in the face. He asks David if he thinks he’s being proactive and taking things further than his father did (who, for the record is burning in Hell). David isn’t going to get within a foot of him. Just then, the Dire Wraith that Frenzy punched comes hurtling down and lands between David and Luca. They both stare at the corpse lying on the ground and David guesses that it was meant to hit him. Confused, Luca asks why he can’t predict David.
David composes himself again and then erupts with energy and yells to Luca that it’s because he’s &*%#* crazy. All of a sudden, Karasu leaps between them and yells for David to go away and leave them alone. David tells her she doesn’t understand what’s happening and asks her to step aside. He wonders though what happens if she doesn’t.
Inside his mind, he says he can click his fingers and turn her to ether in the split second it would take to annihilate the field. He can strike around her with parabolic flame or he can become a living melody and rapture beyond her ears. Or he could erase her from history with a single thought. He has all the power in the world and just cause. What does one scared child count against that? From inside an air vent the yellow rat-like creature crouches in the shadows. It tells David he is swollen with self-righteousness. He’s doing his best not to think. He’s tricking himself with a confidence he doesn’t deserve or believe. He then asks David when he last spared a thought for his father. The David Haller personality suddenly looks crestfallen and starts to shrink down to his regular size. The rat-like creature leaps at David and bites him in the neck.
In the real world, David is possessed by the creature and his eyes glow yellow. He slaps Karasu down and stares into a stunned Luca’s eyes. Pinching his chin, he tells Luca he will be useful one day. He suddenly reels backwards as David tries to regain control. He lies on the floor, laughing as the Dire Wraiths on the front lawn are teleported away. Wolverine and Storm hear screaming coming from round back.
David comes to and staggers to his feet. Luca is yelling for help, claiming that David killed his sister. David can only think how ashamed he feels. He keeps repeating the word over and over in his head. As Luca continues to yell, he swears at him and tells him Karasu’s fine and nobody is going to fall for his manipulations. As the X-Men arrive, he continues to think of how ashamed his father would be. Luca continues the pretence and says that David’s hurt him. Wolverine addresses David as Legion, which angers David. Luca says he forgives David and asks the X-Men not to hurt him. He whispers to David that he needs him alive.
A voice calls to Luca from behind and tells him not to hurt their friends. As he turns around, Blindfold leaps at him with the kitchen knife he had dropped earlier. She stabs him in the back, causing his eyes and mouth to emit a bright light. His eyeballs shoot up in the sky and Sojobo’s body dissolves away. Blindfold kneels down on the floor, apologizing as the X-Men look on confused.
Later on, David muses on the fact it ends with an apology… of sorts. Wolverine is by the front door with David. He says that Ruth explained what happened, but he isn’t going to pretend he understands all of it… what caused Ruth to wake up or where those eyeballs flew off to. But, she says David was trying to help and so that earns him the chance to walk away scot-free this once. As David steps outside into the rain Wolverine asks him to stay and they could help him. David wants to tell him “%&#*% that”… He wants to tell him he’s through being led. He says he wants to tell him he’s putting every kid in danger by being reactive when he could be out there creating a world where danger never rises. He wants to say he will go into the shadows and pull the strings so he can make this world better for his people whether it wants him to or not. He wants to tell him he couldn’t stop him walking out of this place scot-free if he tried.
But he doesn’t. He politely tells him no and says he has places to be. As he walks down the path, Karasu, escorted by Doop, approaches him. David tries to apologize about her brother but she yells that he needs to know she hates him and she hopes he dies. She runs off towards the mansion and Doop mutters something. David walks away and says that it’s not about being popular… maybe it’s enough to be right.
He thinks that his dad had a dream. He had a dream and he made sure everyone knew it was his. He’ll make it a reality and no-one will ever know it was him. That would be a good place to leave it, as he drifts off into the night with the rest of the monsters.
He finds Blindfold waiting by the front gate for him. He asks her what made her wake up and she tells him he called. With her head hung low, she tells him he might regret doing what he did today. She remembers some of the things she saw about the future before Luca stole half of her gift. As David walks away, she tells him to be careful and not to go too far into the dark. He wonders what she meant but, before he can think about it too much, a voice in his head answers. David collapses on the ground, clutching his head in pain.
In his mind he is also curled up on the floor. He looks at a figure that is materializing in front of him and asks who they are. The figure tells him she be quiet and listen. The event that Luca foresaw, the grand evil that will wipe out mutant-kind and only Blindfold can stop? It’s David. The figure slaps David across the face and calls him a wretched little disappointment. He’s fated to wipe out his own kind and the girl he just saved is fated to kill him to stop it. David asks how he knows it all. The figure finishes forming and stands over David. It looks like his father but with golden skin. With his hands in his pockets, Xavier laughs and tells David he knows everything. The only thing David can do is get up and run.


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Holy Ghosts
(The Qortex Complex. Inside Legion’s mind)
David says that these days he dreams of colonies… ants, bees and things much stranger. Gestalt mind… billions pulling together. It’s not the subtlest of dreams, especially when there are two hundred split personalities mobbing his subconscious. Each possesses a different power and each one is hungry to control his body.
Inside his mind, David’s numerous personalities continue their riot, fighting amongst themselves. David sits in an air vent above them watching the scene. His every thought broadcast aloud through a system of loud speakers.
He muses on the phrase “billions, pulling together” and thinks it’s still a dream. Thanks to the mental monsters in his mind, the numpties on the outside world still call him legion. He asks if an epileptic hero would like being called Spasmo. It’s plain bloody insensitive.
(Raleigh, North Carolina)
David sits on a park bench, with a baseball cap placed next to him and pigeons all around. He holds out his hand and a pigeon drops a pretzel into it. He says he’s David Haller and only that. Sure, there’s a decent chance he’s the most powerful mutant in the world and, if he weren’t buggered in the brain, then there would be no feat of godlike magnificence beyond him. But instead he’s mind controlling pigeons into stealing stale pretzels for his lunch. Welcome to the exciting world of him.
The sad part is he was winning for a while, he’d figured it all out. Having a purpose was the key… focus, confidence and an obsession giving him the inner strength to beat the biggest beasties within his mind. To use the powers for himself. But then his father somehow appeared in his mind and beat him down. David decides not to think about that right now but he can’t help recalling how his father called him a disappointment. David forces himself to think about something else.
As he eats a pretzel, a small metal orb floats up to him and says that a psychic guilt-trace has been located. David is alarmed at seeing the orb he thought he lost back in Charlotte. The orb says that he cannot elude space justice. It tells David that he is suspected of unlicensed cosmic transportation. It orders him to remain there to await arrest. David swats at it and tells it he doesn’t know who sent it but, whatever he’s meant to have done, he didn’t. The orb yells for him to be quiet.
David tries to continue with the point he was making. The point is that his “father” is still in his mind somewhere. The David Haller personality in his mind is hunched up in a ball in the air vent trying not to think about it all. On the outside, David says that it comes as to no great surprise that his confidence would take a knock. Hence the temporary lack of dimension-smashing, cosmic mega-powers to rely on. As David sits on the park bench, passersby are staring at the metal orb that continues to intimidate him. He decides to make use of what he’s got and, inside his mind, he grabs Tyrannix the Abominoid and injects him. He uses the telepathy from Tyrannix to mentally control the pigeons around him into attacking the orb.
David puts the baseball cap on and gets off the bench. He says that a couple of weeks ago he made it his purpose to gently inform the X-Men that he would be taking matters into his own, due to them being useless, spandex tosspots. He should probably be in hiding now. Instead, he’s come to pick a fight when he’s his most weakest. There’s a reason folks call him crazy. As the pigeons destroy the orb, he walks across a street to a small wooden building with the sign “Welcome to the Church of the Happy Host” on it.
For full disclosure, he says that the floating orb has been trailing him since he dropped a pack of Dire Wraiths outside the X-mansion. And despite what he said earlier, he does have a few ideas about the who and the why. David admits that right now, though, he is more interested in his other stalker. As David walks towards the door of the church, Blindfold appears behind him. He says she doesn’t know that he can see her astral projection and it’s a teensy bit possible that he is doing all this to impress his voyeur. Girls just love a romantic gesture. With that, he flings the door of the church open and goes in. Once inside, he drops to his knees and pleads for the people on the inside to save him.
The church is full of civilians who are being led by three men. The leaders are dressed in bright colors with motifs of the cross and the American flag on them. They are wearing bicycle helmets that have stickers and lights on. One of the leaders, dressed all in yellow, goes up to David and tells him he’s safe. He asks him what brought him to the Church of the Happy Host. David stutters as he tells them he can barely say because it’s so shameful. The man says that alls that maters inside these walls is celebrating the purity of creation and praising the power of the heavens. Part of which is the power to forgive and the power to not stand-in-judgment. As he says all this, his fellow worshipers shout out in praise. David quietly says that he is in love with a mutant. The worshippers suddenly turn and start spitting at him. The man in yellow slaps him down and calls him a deviant.
David says that for three years he lived in sin with a freak. He knew it was wrong but her eyes… her lips… her tentacles. But now she’s started talking about marriage and kids… and what if his parents find out. As he “confesses” everything, he thinks that Brando can eat his heart out. The man in yellow starts to pick David up off the floor. He says he doesn’t need to be told how serious this all is. Mutants aren’t part of the holy plan; in fact they’re not even human. He says that loving a mutant is a choice and now the devil has him. One of the other men, dressed all in red, says they have a cure. The man in yellow says that mutation is the devil’s work but what most people don’t realize is that it’s infectious. The man says that basically too much time around them and you will become one. This is why they are all wearing their holy helmets to protect them from psychic contamination.
The men around David hold him firmly as the man in yellow continues. He says that, before they can save whatever goodness is left, they have to burn out the bad. He pulls out a bag of pills and says that the happy host reacts in the presence of the X-gene. Another man, dressed all in blue, says he means it explodes. They hold David down as he says it all sounds like science and he thought they were men of faith. The man in yellow says he shares David’s concerns but he needn’t worry. It was made by a charity that hates mutants even more than they do. The men around David force his mouth open and the man holds out the pill. David starts to struggle as he is unable to use any of his powers to help him. As the man drops the pill in David’s mouth, Blindfold’s astral projection suddenly swoops down and catches it. David pretends to eat the pill as Blindfold spits it out in an urn behind the men.
The men let David go and he thanks them for cleansing him. The man dressed in red escorts David away from the worshippers. David asks if they ever failed to save someone. The man says just once… one of their own. He went away for six years and, when he came back, he was all different in body and soul. He claimed he could see the future and so he wrote it all down. The man says that he got infected with mutantism like the bishop said. He was too far gone to be forgiven and this was before they started using the happy host. They couldn’t do anything else than cast him out. As they walk up the stairs, they see a picture hanging on the wall with a book in a glass case beneath it. David recognizes the man in the picture as Luca. The man in red says they keep his prophesies… lies from the devil… as a reminder.
David is shown to a small room with nothing but a bed in it. The man says even the best can stray down a dark path. He tells David to ponder that until they are ready for him. The man leaves and David sits on the bed. After a few seconds, he coughs and says he can see her by the way. Blindfold floats up to him and calls him a bastard. David is a little taken aback and he tries to speak but she doesn’t let him. She shouts at him and says he knew these were the people that corrupted her brother. She asks why he came here but, before he can finish, she says they nearly killed him. She guesses that he’s after the prophecy. He figured Luca was playing him for a fool and he wanted to know why.
Without looking at her, David says that it’s good that she loses the whole “pardon-sorry” thing when she’s in a mood. She tells him it’s dangerous and he shouldn’t meddle… the future should be left to happen naturally. David tries to speak but she cuts him off again and says these are bad people. David loses his temper and tells her to shut up. She does so but he immediately apologizes. He tells her it’s a weird venue for a date but he knows what he’s doing. It’s not about Luca’s predictions… it’s about the halo-bothering bozos here. Nutters in silly hats may be entitled to their own opinions but there is also hate here. And there’s nothing more infectious than hate. Sooner or later these pointy headed crazies... or some vulnerable soul they’ve twister up… will become deadly to mutants. David says they’ve seen it before and he will not be like the reactive X-Men, who only do something when the sword has fallen. He says he will knock them off the board before they figure out they’re in a game. And the same goes for anyone who…
David suddenly stops and asks Blindfold why she is looking at him like that. Blindfold had picked up on the word “date.” Before David can respond, the man in red enters and tells him it’s time. As he leaves, Blindfold tells him not to hurt them and kisses him on the cheek. David walks away with a big grin on his face and the man in red asks if he is okay. David tells him he is overwhelmed with divine purpose. He thinks to himself that a bit of purpose, focus and obsession is great for giving him inner strength to defeat the beasties.
As he walks down a corridor, an orb appears at the window and shouts “space justice” at him. He holds out his hand and telekinetically crushes it before anyone else spots it. David goes to another room and lies down on a table. The members of the church gather around him and place their hands on his body. David says that the cure to mutophilia is a laying-on of hands that cleanses the sufferer through prayer alone. He Googled these guys before he came here. That’s why it doesn’t matter that they’ve shielded their brains. It doesn’t matter that he can’t get into their minds the airy-fairy way. He’s psi-punching these guys through their fingers.
The worshipers touch David and the procedure begins. David says that the first thing to get past is the outflow. All the muddled ejecta they think they are pumping into him is like swimming upstream. He says they truly believe what they are doing… but he’s not sure if that makes it better or worse. Behind that is their true selves and their ugly, vicious, twister desires. David sees the hate in their minds and realizes if the was ever unsure then this settles it. He sees the worshiper’s desires of strapping the X-Men to stakes and burning them alive. These happy, upright, faithful folk cleanse the world of thousands of mutants in every dream. They do it in the name of a purer, holier world and they do it with relish, pride and glee. But the real key is the fact they won’t stop until their dreams come to fact. David decides to take one small step to see they’re right… He will show them how infectious a mutant can really be. He takes control of the worshipers and pushes his thoughts of the Dire Wraiths into their minds.
The worshipers fall to their knees and clutch at their heads. As David sits up, Blindfold comes up to him. She says he changed the flow and then asks what he imprinted on their memories. Before she gets her answer, three of the metal orbs burst into the room and announce psychic guilt has been detected. David tells Ruth that he put spacecrimes in their minds. One of the walls to the room suddenly explodes and Abigail Brand and a squadron of SWORD agents enter. She announces that she has two salient facts. First one is that she has a portable quark-annihilation device in her hands. And secondly her service record is tainted by a recurring weakness to suffer fools. The last dirtbag to lose their headgear will find out what links the two facts.
The worshipers remove their helmets and the leader in yellow asks what the meaning of it is. As one agent creates a holographic image of the Dire Wraith attack on the X-Men, Agent Brand explains. She says that two weeks ago a group of Dire Wraiths were dumped on the lawn of a mutant sanctuary by unknown means. Their teletracers have been sniffing for guilt ever since. They’ve had a hell of a time doing it but now they find a group of shower-dodging mutant haters in psi-helmets.
Brand calls to Sydren, a telepathic alien. He goes up to the man in yellow and concentrates hard. He says that it’s muddled but he can see the crime in his head. Plus, there may be religious elements to it. She asks the man if he feels like confessing. The leaders of the group happily confess but they say Brand is mistaken for saying there is such things as aliens. It’s all sci-fi nonsense and illusions from the satanic mind of mutants. Sydren points out that he standing right there. The man in yellow, stuttering as he speaks, says all they did was to evoke heaven’s wrath. He asked the angels to send demons from hell to drag the mutants back to where they belong. Still concentrating hard, Sydren says he senses the humans wish to confess. The agent with the holographic device sarcastically asks if he’s sure and he wouldn’t like a second opinion. Sydren replies that he is now completely certain they are priests. Brand tells everyone to shut up and says that something reeks of a rat.
She points to David and asks who he is. Keeping his head low and face covered by his cap, he says he is just a sinner and he doesn’t know anything about aliens. Brand isn’t buying it and says today isn’t the day for unconvincing hats. One of the agents whips David’s cap off and Brand recognizes him. She calls for Sydren to read him and adds that if he says anything like he has big hair then she will fillet him with a teaspoon. Sydren says that David tastes of nothing but there is something else… another entity in the room. The man in yellow speaks up and says the Holy Ghost is there to exult in their religious act. The other worshipers start praising but Brand asks how they managed to summon the Dire Wraiths. The worshippers stop and have trouble answering her.
David becomes worried and telepathically tells Ruth it’s all going wrong. She quotes him a line he told her earlier… “I know what I’m doing.” David apologizes and asks if she has any ideas. Sydren says he can hear whispering but, before he can pinpoint it, David jumps off the table and rushes over to Brand. He asks her if she is still dating the famous Doctor Hank McCoy. She grabs him by the throats and slams him against the wall with a gun in his face. She asks him if he thinks her personal association with a mutant makes her biased in the matters of spacecrime. David says he doesn’t but, before Brand can do anything else, the worshipers all start spitting at her and calling her names.
A short while later, Brand is wiping the saliva off her glasses as the worshipers are being led into a spacecraft. She angrily orders her agents to put them in the deepest, darkest space dungeon crawling with galactic scum. One of the agents points out that their brig cells are deliberately kept lit but Sydren grabs him by the collar and tells him to shut up.
David is pleased with himself but Brand makes it clear she’s watching him. She gets in her craft and flies back to base.
Blindfold comes up to David and asks if he thinks it’ll stick. He says he doesn’t know but, even if it doesn’t, he would like to think they will come back knowing there are worse things than mutants in all of creation. Either way, they’ll not be doing any infecting for a while. Blindfold thanks him and then says she’s got to go to class. Her astral form starts to drift away but, as it does so, she tells him to call her. David smiles after she’s gone and then turns his attention to Luca’s prophecy book, which is now lying on the floor.