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None so Blind
Utopia, ‘They’re here. Now. I saw them in a vision. They’re hiding. Or perhaps they’re invisible. But I still saw then, yes’ Ruth Aldine a.k.a. Blindfold tells Rogue. ‘Right here with us. Waiting for their time. And when that time comes, one of them hurts us. Hurts us so badly. But I don’t know which. And I don’t know when. Because it hides. Because it’s so good at hiding. And I’m so blind’. Anxious, Ruth tells Rogue that if they let it happen, then it never stops. ‘And - oh God! It all goes away! It all goes away!’ she declares. Rogue walks over to Ruth and tells her to calm down, pointing out that none of this has happened yet, that it was just a dream.
‘So is everything else, Rogue. The world is the dream we have while we’re awake’ Ruth replies. Rogue points out that Ruth’s visions have helped them in the past, and tells Ruth she is not going to try and talk her out of this. ‘But could you maybe narrow it down a little? What’s the threat here? Do you have a sense of it?’ she asks. Ruth hangs her head and replies that she doesn’t, that it waits and hides, then he touches it and it hits out at them and they break. ‘But they’re all hiding. It could be any of them’. Rogue calls out to Emma Frost, the White Queen, informing her that she needs to talk to Cyclops.
Ruth thinks to herself that Rogue goes to talk. ‘As if talking could help, but thank you, talking can’t help at all. It’s beginning. Becoming. Beckoning. Bubbling up like boiling oil so hot your flesh is gone before you feel the pain. And she won’t find it. Because to find something that’s invisible…you need to have invisible eyes’.
Rogue walks down a flight of steps, passing Match, while Blindfold exclaims ‘Oh! Oh! Oh!’ and then leaves the room she was in, walking through a corridor. Rogue arrives at Scott “Cyclops” Summers office, where Scott and Emma are waiting for her. Rogue informs them that Blindfold is terrified, that she is feeling something awful getting closer, and she cannot move out of its way. ‘It’s got her almost paralyzed with fright’ Rogue adds. ‘Something invisible or hidden. Not much to go on’ Cyclops points out. ‘Ah know it. But the last time anything like this happened -’ Rogue begins, but Cyclops interrupts: ‘Proteus. I haven’t forgotten’. Scott declares that when Proteus returned to life on Muir Island, Blindfold’s vision gave them the only window they had to defeat him. ‘But her warning was vague enough that it almost led us into a trap’ Scott points out.
Rogue tells Cyclops that she is not saying he should call a red alert, only that she thinks it needs looking into. ‘By you?’ Scott asks. ‘By telepaths, preferably. And the X-Club’ Rogue replies. Cyclops agrees on both accounts, and turns to Emma who announces that she is very happy to conduct a search and will bring in the Cuckoos to help. She adds that she has also filled Doctor Nemesis and Madison Jeffries in on the situation. ‘Good enough?’ Cyclops asks Rogue, who replies that it works for her and she will touch base with Madison to see if she can help out. Scott asks ‘What about Ruth?’ to which Rogue replies that she is a lot calmer now, and that she told her to sit tight and see what they found. ‘Weird stuff aside, she’s got a good head on her shoulders. Ah think she’ll do what she’s told’ Rogue declares.
But Blindfold approaches a door in a dark place of Utopia, where inside the room, a voice tells her to turn around and walk away. ‘Yes. Thank you. I wanted to see you’ Blindfold replies as she enters the room where Remy “Gambit” LeBeau is sitting. ‘I’m tempted to ask how. But it doesn’t really matter. I’m not in the mood for light-conversation’ Gambit replies. ‘Because of him. The other, who lives inside you. Who broke free and attacked your comrades in Limbo. You’re afraid of what he might do’. Gambit tells Ruth that he doesn’t know what she is talking about. ‘And neither do you’ he adds, before informing her that they are not having this conversation. ‘Will you hurt them?’ Blindfold asks. ‘I said we’re not -’ Gambit begins, but Ruth tells him that she is talking to the other him. ‘Will you hurt the X-Men? Speak to me!’ she exclaims.
Black energy shifts around Gambit, and he transforms into Death. ‘Well - that sort of depends on how I’m feeling at the time’ he snarls, adding that the X-Men are more or less irrelevant to what he wants. ‘And wh- what’s that?’ Blindfold asks him, taking a step back. ‘To be myself again. To be free from this tiny prison where I can barely move’ he tells her, before informing her that the one she is looking for is not here. ‘Lucky for you. When you find it - when any of you find it - that’s when your trouble starts’ he remarks cryptically. Gambit suddenly returns to normal, and convulses forward. Ruth tells him that she is sorry, but she had to be sure. ‘Go! Just go!’ Gambit tells her.
Ruth heads to the arena next, because if she stops, it will surround her. She realizes she is on a steep path with loose pebbles, and supposes she should slow down, as this road is dangerous. ‘As is the place where it ends’. Ruth approaches Julian “Hellion” Keller, who exclaims ‘So you have another one of your “doom is at hand” freak-outs and you think of me. Wow! That’s…seriously, I’m flattered. Did you see a tall dark stranger with slightly foreshortened arms?’ Julian mocks. ‘I saw someone hiding’ Ruth replies. ‘And that comes so close to making sense. Except I’m not. They don’t know what the hell to do with me. So staying our here is a public service’ Hellion mutters.
‘Perhaps. Yes. Excuse me. I don’t think you’ve decided yet. Whether you’re sorry for hurting the Indian lady. Whether you’ll hurt anyone else’ Ruth tells Julian, who stands up and tells her to get out of his head. ‘I’m not there. I’m here’ Ruth replies. ‘What I do, or don’t do…that’s mine to decide’ Hellion exclaims. ‘Yes. Yours’ Ruth replies, before turning and walking awayT Hellion, she announces that she is looking for the monster who eats them. ‘You’re a very different monster’ she remarks.
Rogue enters the X-Club lab, where she approaches Madison Jeffries. ‘How’s it going, Madison? Any smoking guns?’ Rogue asks. The former Alphan replies that he wished that he knew, and explains that he started by doing a head count. ‘Makes sense’ Rogue remarks. ‘Yeah, but the results don’t. We’ve got four mutants missing’ Jeffries announces. ‘Missing? How is that even possible?’ Rogue asks. ‘It isn’t. But they are. Or maybe they aren’t. It depends who you ask’ Jeffries explains. Jeffries tells Rogue that Danger monitors all of their life functions in real time, and says that Armor, Magma, Surge and Dragoness are no longer registered as present on Utopia.
Jeffries continues, announcing that Emma did a surface scan of everyone’s minds, and those four missing women seems to be asleep, but still here on Utopia. Motioning to a monitor, Jeffries tells Rogue that is where Danger says their four might-be-prodigals went off the grid. Rogue remarks that they are pretty tightly clustered and asks what is there. Jeffries replies that in that exact spot there is nothing, and it shows clear on visual, EM, thermal imaging and so on. ‘I even sent a out a spy drone. It got me some great pictures of rocks’ Madison adds. ‘Is it just me? Or did you get a horrible feeling of déjà vu right then?’ Rogue asks.
Blindfold continues through the complex, ‘In this house there is an invisible multitude. Perhaps the one I’m looking for is hiding among them. Certainly there’s plenty of room’ Blindfold thinks to herself, before coming to a halt outside a room where Professor Charles Xavier stands over his son, Legion, who is hooked up to some equipment. Doctor Nemesis and the Stepford Cuckoos - Celeste, Phoebe and Mindee stand nearby. Xavier tells Doctor Nemesis that he understands what he is doing, but that he is concerned for his son’s welfare. ‘This seems a brutal procedure’ Charles remarks. Doctor Nemesis replies that they are not murdering actual people, merely culling imaginary sub-personas. ‘An essential first step if Legion is ever to integrate his mind again’.
‘His name is David. And your cull of his other selves seems like a kind of murder to me. A murder of parts of his very being’ Charles declares. The Stepford Cuckoos look at Legion: ’His mind keeps reconfiguring’ one of them remarks. ’The parts we cut out move into other parts’ another explains. ’It seems that will power - like matter and energy - is impossible to destroy’ the third states. Doctor Nemesis agrees, and tells Charles that when you burst all the bubbles, the bathtub is still full.  ‘I think you’re meddling with a process you barely understand’ Xavier declares, before Nemesis asks the Cuckoos to patch the Professor into Legion’s mind to show him what they have achieved.
An instant later, Xavier, Doctor Nemesis and Blindfold are inside Legion’s mind, where all sorts of personalities are kept in boxes. ‘This used to be chaos. Now look. Every persona named, numbered and catalogued’ Doctor Nemesis explains. ‘Forgive me, but that doesn’t sound like a definition of mental health’ Xavier declares. ‘Come back in a month. I’ll show you mental health’ Doctor Nemesis replies. Suddenly, Xavier sees Blindfold and tells her that this invitation was extended to him, not to her. ‘Yes. I beg your pardon. But I needed to see. What can’t be seen. What hides’ Ruth explains. Xavier tells her that this is his son’s mind and asks her to respect his privacy.
And so Ruth goes, and she tries not to think about it. But she tells herself that she is walking towards the last place in the world she wants to be - and that place is tomorrow.
Back in Jeffries’ lab, Jeffries tells Rogue that she is right, that there are residual delta-oblique energy residues, barely a billionth of a hertz, KA spectrum. ‘when Emplate attacked us a few months back, he opened invisible doors in the air. Is this -?’ Rogue begins, to which Jeffries tells her that it is the same field signature, but tiny trace amounts. He adds that they put up a force wall to stop this happening again, and supposes that this must be one of the old doors - the ones Emplate had already opened. ‘We assumed they’d heal and close, but I guess they didn’t’. Rogue informs Madison that she wants to go out there and take a look at this thing. ‘Did you hear the part where I said “trace amounts”? This is right down at the limits of human perception’ Jeffries explains. ‘Then make me a magnifying glass’ Rogue suggests. ‘Oh, sure. Like it’s that easy’ Jeffries replies, before announcing that he just figured out how to do it, so he supposes it is that easy. ‘But the sarcasm stands’ he adds.
Outside, Ruth walks across some rocks. ‘One foot in front of the other. A step. Another step. Another. The future emerging out of the past. But it isn’t! It isn’t! And my legs are trembling so badly because I can feel it now. Steel teeth in the ground where the trap is hidden. Iron taste in the air, like blood. You can’t see it. You can’t see it until it comes for you’ Ruth thinks to herself, Suddenly, a mass of tentacles appears - and engulfs Blindfold.
Rogue and Jeffries are in a jeep, driving to the location. ‘Go right at the top here’ Jeffries tells Rogue, who replies that right is the ocean. ‘Left, then. Left at the top’ Jeffries exclaims as they drive over sand and rocks. Jeffries holds his small magnifying device and tells Rogue that it is like looking for something small and metallic in a huge pile of dried grass or plant matter. ‘A needle in a haystack’ Rogue tells him. ‘Well, in layman’s terms, yes’ Madison replies, before announcing ‘There. Dead ahead’. The jeep stops and they get out, and Rogue sees Blindfold’s jacket lying on the ground. ‘Wonderful. Nice horror movie touch. I love that stuff’ Jeffries exclaims, before Rogue asks him to show her how this magnifying glass of his works.
‘Just hit the OP key, hold it up in front of your face and look through it’ Madison explains, telling Rogue that traces of delta-oblique energy will show up as motes of light - dim but visible to the eye. Rogue does so, and cries out as the light blinds her. ‘Dim but visible?’ she mutters, rubbing her eyes and handing the device back to Jeffries. ‘That doesn’t make any sense. Oh, wait. Yeah, it does’ Madison mutters, as he begins to play with the device, telling Rogue that the energy is cycling through an N-dimensional substrate, and when it is sideways to them, it is like it is hardly there at all. ‘But when it’s fully in phase, you’d get -’ he is cut off by Rogue who exclaims ‘The big picture’. ‘Yes. That’ Madison replies as they look up - and see a hideous tentacled creature looming over them, while Dragoness, Magma, Armor and Surge are trapped in the creatures web.
The spider-like creature screeches, then knocks Rogue and Jeffries over with a tentacle. ‘Given time, I would have figured it out’ Madison exclaims. ‘I’m sure’ rogue tells him as they dodge another tentacle, while the creature also picks up their jeep. ‘There was an asymmetrical deform in the wave front. It was pretty obvious’ Madison remarks. He is about to inform Rogue of something else he registered, before he screams as the creature grabs him. ‘Oh God! It’s a spider squid from a luminal pocket universe! I’m phobic about these things!’ Madison calls out. Rogue is knocked to the ground and decides that they need the seventh cavalry.
‘Emma, are you listening?’ Rogue calls out. ‘I try not to, but I’m morbidly aware of someone thinking my name’ the White Queen responds, before asking if there is a problem. ‘Monster from Emplate’s dimension. Big. Ugly. Probably carnivorous. Only visible from certain angles’ Rogue replies, before Emma asks her if she can borrow her eyes. ‘Go ahead’ Rogue tells her, but Emma informs her that she is not seeing anything. ‘Right. And what you’re not seeing is as big as a truck and has a web full of captured mutants’ Rogue explains, adding that she needs backup.
‘I suppose you know how this looks?’ Emma asks. ‘Like Ah’ve gone crazy? You know me better’ Rogue replies. Emma informs Rogue that Cyclops is already scrambling a team and they will be with her inside of a minute. ‘Thanks. If Ah’m not here - tell them to take down the tall one with the slimy tentacles’ Rogue replies as she grabs a stray piece of web floating nearby, and lifts herself up onto the web, close to Madison and the four captured girls. Madison tries to say something, but a tentacle is wrapped around his mouth. Rogue tells Madison that it is not a phobia, that phobia’s are irrational. ‘This thing genuinely wants to suck your brain out through your eyeballs!’ Rogue tells him.
Finding herself a little stuck, Rogue tells herself that she cannot do a tightrope walk if the tightrope is covered in superglue. She knows she needs a lift out of here, and there is only one way she can think of to get it. ‘Hey, ugly! It’s dinnertime!’ Rouge shouts at the creature, which suddenly screeches once more and looks down at Rogue, grabbing her in a tentacle, it lifts her upwards. ‘A little to the left’ Rogue remarks as she is dragged towards the four girls, she manages to touch the hands of Magma and Armor, then pull herself towards Surge and touch her bare arm. Rogue is too far away from Dragoness to touch her face - the only exposed skin she has.
Suddenly, the creature yanks Rogue upwards and pulls her towards its gaping open mouth. ‘Sweetheart, Ah know you’re just following your instincts. And another time, Ah’d probably be signing a petition saying you should be a protected species. But so should we. And you wrapped your tentacles around some people Ah happen to care about’. Suddenly, Rogue begins to glow with energy - and using Armor’s power, she wraps protective bubbles around her, while simultaneously blasting the creature with Magma’s fire and Surge’s electrical charges. ‘So back off!’ Rogue shouts.
‘Hey! Where’s the crisis!’ Iceman asks as he, Wolverine, Cyclops, Colossus and Doctor Nemesis arrive on scene. ‘Ah sort of dealt with it, bots. But thanks for coming out’ Rogue replies. Doctor Nemesis tends to the kidnapped girls. ‘How are they?’ Cyclops asks him. Nemesis replies that they are poisoned, but that the toxin is designed to paralyze the victim, not kill, and that the girls are coming around. ‘They’ll be nauseous for a while, that’s all’ he explains. Cyclops orders the whole island to be scanned, as he wants to make sure there are no more of these horrors hiding in the long grass.
Rogue finds Blindfold and goes over to her, asking her if she is okay. ‘No no no no no no!’ Ruth exclaims. ‘But you did good. You did real good. Take it slow’ Rogue tells her. ‘It’s not right!’ Ruth exclaims, informing Rogue that this was not what she saw.
Suddenly, the sun goes out. The world goes out - and nobody hears Blindfold. Darkness surrounds Utopia and a bright light flashes. ‘It’s not hiding anymore. I see everything now. Yes. And if I could stop this thing with every last drop of my heart’s blood. I would willingly bleed’…..


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Age of X, chapter 1
‘This is day 1000’ Legacy thinks to herself. ‘Did you know that? Do you keep count? I mean, maybe that’s not much. Not much of an occasion. Nobody baked a cake, or lit a candle. But still…a thousand days. Three years, almost. Went by like nothing, didn’t they? Nothing at all. I mentioned it to Magnus, and he laughed. He said he didn’t see much point in counting…when every day turns out the same’.
At this moment, several mutants are engaged in battle. ‘Iceman, below you!’ the scantily clad Storm calls out. ‘Got him, your goddess-ness. Praise be unto -’ Iceman mocks, but Storm tells him to shut up as she soars nearby, while Iceman slides through the air on an ice-sled, and covers an attacking vessel in ice., while Eclipse engulfs another vessel. Berserker races along the ground, explosions behind him, he exclaims ‘They’re folding! Why are they folding?’ Cannonball blasts alongside Berserker, after destroying a vessel and replies ‘Lack of moral fiber’, before asking Berserker to take out the armor on his left.
The battle rages on, while Colossus engages in physical combat with a tank, and Magma blasts fire at another tank, while announcing that there is another division coming though. ‘We need some back up. Is there anyone -’ she calls out, ‘There’s me’ Basilisk declares as he releases a massively powerful wide optic-beam, destroying the incoming tanks and other vessels. Storm flies even higher, and unleashes powerful lightning, which crackles down and destroys many enemy vessel. Dazzler attacks a human solider face on with a blast of light energy. Angel and the Sub-Mariner swoop down to attack, while Chamber releases a blast of energy at a tank. Cannonball blasts through more of the enemy vessel, while Colossus tips a tank over, Jubilee releases her “fireworks” at the enemy, and Moonstar and Loa join the battle also. Fortress X looms in the background.
Basilisk examines one of the soldiers and informs Cannonball that they were green recruits riding old tech, so it is no wonder this was so easy. Cannonball calls out to “X”, asking to be wormed to the General, as this was a ruse. ‘The push is gonna be some place else’ he declares. ‘Affirmative. Comms worm in place’ “X” replies.
In a room inside Fortress X, the General - Magneto - stands on a platform and observes some monitors, while the cloaked Legacy asks ‘A feint? There were 400 of them!’ Magneto explains that they were just patched up suits, salvaged from previous battles. Magneto points out that it looks as if the enemy wanted them to concentrate their strength. Examining one of the monitors, Magneto exclaims that shield 7, on the western flank, there is something big coming through. Magneto calls out to X and asks what they make of it. Over a communicator system X replies that from an initial assessment, it is forty feet high, one hundred and twenty feet in length, while troop concentration in that area is thin.
Legacy asks Magnus to let her go in, as she can hold them off until Cannonball gets a squad mobilized. Magneto turns to Legacy and tells her to be on hand by all means, but not to deploy, as this is Cannonball’s call. ‘Of course it is. And he only calls me when someone needs the last rites’ Legacy remarks. Magneto contacts Cannonball informing him that it appears to be some sort of battle wagon - very big and armed to the teeth. Cannonball blasts his way towards it while asking who is closest. Magneto replies that Tempo’s squad is three hundred yards, bearing due east. Cannonball replies that he could not have chosen better, and asks Magneto to let them know they are on first.
Down below, the large tank moves towards its prey. ‘Yeehaaaa!’ a soldier shouts. ‘Fortress X, here we come!’ he adds, while another one declares ‘Eat it, you mutie filth! Eat it by the bucketful!’ However standing on a ledge nearby is Tempo and her squad - Gambit, Frenzy and Nightmare. ‘That thing is big!’ Gambit exclaims. Nightmare remarks that big is good, and tells her companions that her grandmother said you cannot beat butter with a toothpick. ‘If that’s dirty, Megs, you can explain it to me later’ Frenzy replies, while Tempo calls out ‘Okay, you motherless sons, bullet ballet. On my mark. Go! And come back with someone else’s blood on you!’ The mutants leap into action, while Tempo begins to slow time down, Frenzy remarks that she will never get used to being a plasma bolt stroll. ‘Yeah, time control is sick, isn’t it? Imagine what you could do with it in bed!’ Nightmare exclaims.
In one of the tanks, a soldier announces that mutants are deploying at 135 degrees. ‘Port guns, they’re yours. Main missiles, lock onto the fortress!’ another soldier calls out, before telling his colleagues not to trust visual, but to obtain full computer lock then fire at will. ‘Freakin little monster! I’ma hang your head on my bedroom wall!’ one soldier tells Nightmare as she flies alongside the tank. ‘Anything you say, preak. Nice gas mask, by the way’ Nightmare replies, before explaining that skin contact is all she needs. After touching the soldier, she flies on by, while the soldier is confronted by a nightmare - a snake lunging towards him. ‘Oh, #%$@$ no! No!’ he exclaims.
Frenzy, Gambit and Tempo move towards the tank, and Gambit releases a kinetic blast, telling his colleagues that he can take out the gunners, but the tank keeps on coming. Tempo announces that she will slow time for the near-side treads, and the stress should take out the axle, before telling Frenzy to give the enemy something to chew on in the meantime. ‘Pleasure’ Frenzy replies as she begins to pull the massive tank over. Tempo begins to use her power on the tank - but suddenly, a large piece of the tank comes flying backwards - and smacks Tempo in the face. ‘Heather!’ Frenzy calls out to her comrade.
Inside the tank, one of the soldiers announces that there is no forward movement, but that he has full target lock on the fortress. ‘Then that monstrosity is going down’ the commanding soldier declares. The other soldier presses the launch button, but another officer announces that the weapons have not deployed, and calls out to the munitions unit, asking what is going on down there. ‘Repeat, what have you got?’ But there is no response. Instead, Warlock, formerly Cypher, rises through the floor of the tank in a techno-organic surge. ‘They’ve got… a problem!’ Warlock declares. ‘No! No!’ one of the soldiers shouts. ‘So…do…you!’ Warlock adds as he extends a techno-organic arm at the soldier, shoving it through his head.
Outside the tank, Storm, the Sub-Mariner, Colossus, Iceman and Basilisk arrive, along with Cannonball and several others. Cannonball calls out to X, asking if the tank is dead. X’s reply announces that Warlock reports no mechanical or electronic functions. Cannonball tells the other mutants to stand down, that they are good. Basilisk goes over and taps the tank, suggesting they strip it down and see what is salvageable. ‘We can use it to go to church on Sundays’ he adds. Cannonball calls Basilisk over, informing him that they have to have words. ‘What now?’ Basilisk asks, annoyed. Cannonball points out that Basilisk opened his faceplate when Magma was in his line of sight. ‘You were this close to smashing her into pulp’ Cannonball declares. Basilisk tells Cannonball to next time send him in first and there will just by the bogeys in front of him.
Cannonball removes his goggles and tells Basilisk that he knows what they did to him on Alcaztraz, how they used him to execute other mutants, and suggests that perhaps he is too broken to fight in a line unit. ‘If that’s so, I’ll use you some place else. Say the word’ Basilisk stands close to Cannonball and exclaims ‘Broken? You want to see broken, Hayseed?’, but Iceman approaches Basilisk and tells him to cool down. Cannonball tells Basilisk that he wants to see some sign that he can obey orders. ‘Look me in the eye and say it’ Cannonball declares. ‘Look you in the eye? Sure. Why not?’ Basilisk replies, optic red flashing from behind his faceplate.
Suddenly, ‘Enough!’ Frenzy screams, before announcing that Tempo took a bad hit, and her ribs are staved in. ‘Damn, I didn’t know’ Cannonball replies as he approaches Frenzy who is crouched over Tempo’s unmoving body. Cannonball calls out to Northstar, asking him to get Dr Rao double time. Cannonball leans down over Tempo and tells her that he is sorry, before asking her how she is doing. ‘Hurts to…can’t -’ Tempo begins, while Warlock emerges through the side of the tank and announces that Tempo’s glow fades quickly, and that she will join the not-living. ‘Never mind Rao, X. We need the Reaper down here! And we need her now!’ Cannonball reports back to base.
An instant later, ‘Did he call me Legacy, or -?’ Legacy asks as she appears. But X reports ‘Negative. Cannonball seldom uses that designation, despite your expressed desire. He called you Reaper’. Legacy declares that she hates that name so much, before pulling her cloak over her head and announcing that she has this, before asking if Tempo wants anyone to b here with her. Moonstar stands nearby, while Cannonball is still crouched at Tempo’s side and explains that she cannot talk, but he is staying, to which Legacy suggests everyone else go count their war wounds or something.
Legacy takes Tempo’s hands, while Cannonball removes her helmet. Legacy tells Heather that she is right here, to which Tempo quietly utters ‘Tell - tell - Maria -’, but Legacy explains that Feral is dead. ‘But Ah got you. You feel that? You feel where we touch?’ Legacy asks, explaining that as Tempo lets it go, it is all going to flow into her. ‘You won’t ever be forgotten, and not one moment of your life is gonna be lost ‘cause it lives in me’ Legacy explains. ‘You live in me’ she tells Tempo. Cannonball turns to Frenzy and remarks that he knows Tempo was one of hers from the Mutant Liberation Front days, so if she wants compassionate - but Frenzy interrupts Cannonball, informing him that she will work it out on the battle field. ‘You even think about taking me out of the line, I’ll break your damn fingers’ Frenzy warns him.
The others have still gathered around, when suddenly, ‘Look! It’s the Force Warriors!’ They’re coming to weave the force walls!’ Anole exclaims, urging the Force Warriors to build the walls high. Energy swirls around the five powerful “Force Warriors” - Psylocke, Hellion, Carmella Unuscione, Legion and Revenant. The others watch on, Bling remarks to Nightmare that Hellion is amazing. ‘Too hot to handle!’ she declares. ‘You think?’ Nightmare replies, boasting that she would teach Legion a thing or two about irresistible force. Loa tells her comrades to show a little respect, as Tempo has just did, before pointing out that Nightmare would have to get past Legion’s step-mom. ‘You know what she’s like’ Loa adds.
The Force Warriors combine their powers, while Legacy watches them work their magic. Legacy thinks to herself that it may be day 1000, but they would not have got past day one without these five, as every night, they remake the force walls that surround Fortress X, layer on layer, and all so the precursors - the baseline humans who hate mutant kind so much - have to waste precious hours breaking through again. X announces that they have gone to amber status, and recalls all fighters to the fortress. Legacy pulls her cloak down off her head and replies that she heard the sirens, but will wait until the rush dies down. As she watches the others return to Fortress X, Legacy thinks to herself that the truth is, she cannot cope with being in a crowd right now - at least her thoughts are only her own, as anyone who could look into her mind would sour like bad milk.
Soon, back at Fortress X, ‘David!’ Moira MacTaggert calls out as she rushes over to Legion. ‘Hi, Mom. You came to see the walls go up?’ Legion asks. ‘Always, m’love. Everyday’ Moira assures Legion, adding that she worries about him. ‘Yeah, I get that. But -’ Legion begins, but Moira puts her hands to his face and tells him that he pours his soul into those barriers, day after day and with no rest. Legion replies that it is an honour to be one of the Force Warriors. ‘You know it is’ he tells Moira, adding that she should be grateful Magneto will not risk the Force Warriors in the thick of the fighting. ‘Not until things get a whole lot more desperate’ he points out.
Nearby, within Fortress X, Carmella approaches the “Rat Run”, the mutants’ bar. ‘Okay, keep setting them up until I say stop’ Frenzy tells the barkeeper - Logan, once known as Wolverine. Carmella approaches the bar, while Frenzy declares that they lost a good woman today. Logan tells her that he heard. ‘But she died fighting, not hiding in a damn hole. So it’s all good, right?’ Frenzy exclaims. Logan wipes the bar and tells Frenzy to stop riding him. ‘You know why I’m not out on that field’ he tells her. Frenzy remarks that she heard stories, like a bomb was strapped to Wolverine’s heart and they pumped him full of the x-gene cure. ‘Is that it?’ she asks. ‘It’s close enough’ Wolverine replies.
Frenzy takes hold of Wolverine’s hands, wrapped in bandages, and tells him to go ahead and pop his claws. ‘I’ll die if I do’ Wolverine reminds her. ‘Better than what you’ve got now. Think about it’ Frenzy exclaims. But Wolverine frowns and tells her that nobody except he knows what he has, or what he wants. He hands her the bottle of alcohol he was pouring and tells her to keep it and to drink to hold times. ‘Maybe if you get drunk enough, you’ll start forgetting them’ he suggests.
Carmella sits down on a bar stool, a few down from Frenzy and Wolverine goes over to her, while Basilisk approaches Frenzy and tells her that he thought he would find her at home. ‘Really?’ Frenzy asks, slouched over against the bar. ‘No. Not really’ Basilisk tells her, to which Frenzy exclaims ‘Good’ and reminds Basilisk that she told him he wouldn’t work like that. They hold hands and Frenzy looks up at Basilisk, telling him that she is going to need him to take off that helmet and look her over tonight, wash the garbage right off her. ‘What I’m here for, babe. You know that’ Basilisk replies.
Several mutants sit around a couple of tables in the “Rat Run”. Psylocke and Iceman re playing a game of cards with the Sub-Mariner and Magma, and Psylocke asks the Sub-Mariner how it feels living with a goddess. The Sub-Mariner explains that Ororo does not see her self in those terms any more, that she is content to be a queen. ‘What about you, Lady Braddock? Don’t you miss the hunt balls and the best bone china?’ the Sub-Mariner asks. The glamorous Psylocke leans into Iceman and remarks that she has always loved slumming it. ‘Isn’t that right, Robert?’ she asks. ‘She likes it when I go Dick Van Dyke’ Iceman begins as he starts to quote a line from the Mary Poppins film, until Psylocke interrupts him: ‘Don’t make me hurt you, dear’ she tells her boyfriend.
At another table, Karma, Gambit, Berserker and Colossus are also playing a game of cards. ‘That’s not what I’m saying. I mean, if we’d met before. A long time before’ Karma begins. ‘How would we have met?’ Berserker asks. ‘Let’s say someone brought us together. All of us, in one place’ Karma suggests. Gambit looks at his cards and tells Karma that he does not think things would have been any different, that the Phoenix would still have eaten Albany, and the Sapien League would still have stolen the election. ‘And we’d be paddling up the self-same creek’ he adds.
Outside, Legacy walks along the perimeter, while X reminds her that this space is under solo interdict, that she should not be here alone. ‘When the barriers have just been remade? If it’s not safe now, X. I think we’re all in trouble!’ Legacy replies, while looking up at a poster advertising for mutants to be reported to a tagging team. ‘Can you see me, from wherever it is you hide yourself away?’ Legacy asks. X replies that visual monitoring is imperfect, with life signs monitoring to 97%. X announces that Rogue’s heart rate and respiration hare elevated and that she appears to be experiencing some distress. Leaning against a wall, Legacy replies that she is fine, but some bad memories from Tempo have taken her by surprise. Images of mutants - including Banshee and Mystique - being paraded down a street while angry humans watch on flash through Legacy’s mind.
Tears stream from Legacy’s eyes and she replies that she is always like this after she takes on someone new. ‘Legacy -’ X begins, but Legacy explains that it was the same with Madrox and with Kurt - so much pain and loss. ‘Ah can’t always -’ she begins, before X informs her that alert status has gone to red, as there has been a barrier breach. ‘All stations, I record a barrier breach a locus 19, west 15’ X announces. But Legacy looks around and tells X that she doesn’t see anything. X asks Legacy to withdraw. ‘But ah don’t -’ Legacy begins, X orders an emergency strike team to be scrambled at 20:06:07, and asks Legacy to withdraw.
Suddenly, Legacy announces that she sees the intruder. X reports that the threat level is unquantifiable, and asks Legacy to withdraw. Legacy approached the suited intruder and informs X that he doesn’t look that dangerous, as it is one guy on his own. The intruder, wearing a form of quarantine suit, holds a camera, and suddenly places their hand, holding the camera, through the force wall. Legacy goes wide-eyed, when suddenly, ‘Well here’s a thing. One little sheep who lost his way!’ a voice calls out as dazzling light engulfs the area, and Angel, Dazzler, Gambit, Northstar and Vertigo arrive on scene. ‘He’s got some kind of shield!’ Gambit points out, before asking Vertigo if she wants to oblige. ‘Onto it’ the green-haired mutant replies as she unleashes her power on the intruder. ‘Which way is up, sweetheart? Well, here’s a clue…’ Vertigo’s voice trails off, as Northstar speeds up to the intruder, ‘The ground is that way!’ he exclaims as he smacks the intruder to the ground.
Northstar stands over the intruder and removes their helmet, while one of the others asks Northstar what he is doing. Northstar replies that he is looking for numbers, names or insignia, revealing that Corporal Sejanus 723 killed his sister, and when he finds him, he will die slowly. ‘Don’t - don’t - the whole world - nowhere! Don’t let them! Don’t let them!’ the intruder calls out. ‘She’s just a kid’ Angel announces as they stare down at her. Gambit points out that he hit her, but it went right through her. ‘Like she was -’ he begins. ‘Like she was one of us’ Legacy points out.
Suddenly, Magneto descends upon the group and announces that she is one of them - her name is Katherine Pryde and is one of the inmates from the brig - the mutants who are considered too dangerous and unstable to mix with everyone else. Magneto explains that her power is to move through solid matter, and places a scrambler harness on her, which should keep her locked out of her luminal “phased” state. Magneto congratulates the heroes, telling them that this could have been a lot worse than it was. But Magneto tells Legacy that she should not be out here by herself, that after an absorption she needs to be with people who care about her. Legacy assures Magneto that she was just about to come back inside.
Legacy informs the others that Katherine was on the far side of the barrier, and asks what she could have been doing out there. Magneto picks Katherine up off the ground and assures Legacy that will be the first question he asks when she regains consciousness, but until then, they should say nothing to anyone. Magneto takes to the air, pointing out that morale is a fragile thing, and sometimes, a single word will break it. Gambit looks at Legacy and asks her if she wants him to walk her home, as this is a dangerous neighborhood. ‘So everyone keeps telling me. Ah’ll be right behind you’ Legacy replies.
The others all leave, as Legacy tells herself that she does not want any eyes on her for this, and wonders why she never said anything about what she saw. Legacy recalls how Katherine was so young and so frightened. ‘Maybe Ah just want to know why a mutant would go outside the force walls’ Legacy tells herself as she reaches down to the rubble and pulls from it the camera. It makes a tiny sound as Legacy hit’s the power button - like the sound of a mosquito. Legacy looks at the images - and it is like she is bitten. Infected.
Deep within Fortress X, Magneto enters the brig, still holding Katherine Pryde. The robotic Danger informs Magneto that his jurisdiction ends here, so she will take custody of Katherine Pryde. But Magneto informs Danger that he would prefer to deliver her by hand. He assures Danger that it is no reflection on her, but he just wants to be sure Katherine does not get free again. Danger states that she will transfer Katherine to the high security corridor, and points out that ordinarily this would be off-limits even to Magneto. Magneto walks past Danger and tells her that he is aware of her operation protocols, as he drafted most of them.
Danger points out that it appears Katherine requires medical attention, to which Magneto asks if Danger has facilities for that here. Danger boasts that her knowledge of mutant physiology is complete, so she will attend to Katherine herself. Magneto places Katherine down on a bed and informs Danger that she went outside the barrier, and that until they know what she was doing, he thinks it best if Katherine sees no one. ‘You want to keep her isolated?’ Danger asks. ‘Completely’ Magneto replies, adding that nobody but he is to see her or speak with her. ‘Nobody but you, General. I understand’ Danger assures him.
Outside, Rogue holds the camera as she thinks to herself ‘Day 1000. 1000 days after the Humanist Coalition declared the x-gene illegal, and the whole world fell into line. 1000 days after mutants threw up their barricades and spat in the face of the law. The day it all started to fall apart.
And in the brig, Magneto walks past several imprisoned mutants - Emma Frost, Magik, the Stepford Cuckoos, Martha Johansson, and Charles Xavier!


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Age of X, chapter 3
‘Chaos’ Magneto thinks to himself. ‘Crisis. Blood and sacrifice. Can these things become routine?’ he wonders as he observes a battle raging below. Avalanche, Gambit and Dazzler engage the enemy tanks and vessels in battle, while Magneto tells himself that every day here is  struggle - every day is the same struggle, repeated with minor variations. The assault, the defense, the narrowest of victories. The mutants weigh their hearts, their souls upon the scales. If they falter, if they are found wanting - mutantkind is lost. The fortress falls. ‘And as John Hale once said… “No gap in a fortress can be considered small”!’ Magneto recalls, while Gambit fires kinetic energy at a vessel overhead, which crashes soon after.
Inside Fortress X, Moonstar and her Cadre - Magma, Eclipse, Warlock, Karma and Dust have discovered the motionless bodies of Anole and Domino. ‘Okay. No question. Reaper was here. And she only just left’ Moonstar announces as she examines Anole, while informing her Cadre that Anole tackled Reaper straight on, and Domino came in from the side, but she took them both out. Magma asks if they are dead, Warlock explains that they are only unconscious, but their alpha rhythms indicate that Reaper touched them both. Several other mutants are gathered around, while
Karma discovers some blood on some stairs which lead up to the west barracks. Moonstar remarks that she knows about the blood, and heads for another door. ‘Perhaps we should -’ Warlock begins, but Moonstar tells him to ignore it. Moonstar informs her Cadre that Reaper is moving down through the fortress, and the blood trail is way too convenient. She motions to a lock and points out that it was forced, and then put back together really carefully. ‘Inference. She wishes to lose herself on the service levels. Activity down there is constant, so she must have a particular destination in mind…somewhere she thinks she’ll be safe’ Warlock points out.
At that moment, in the “Rat Run” pub, Wolverine sits at a table and plays with a knife, and remarks that he lost his enhanced senses along with the rest of it, but that he can hear Legacy breathing. ‘You may as well come out’ he tells her. Legacy emerges from the shadows and tells Logan that she didn’t know where else to go. Logan goes over to her and steadies her, telling her to take it easy, he points out that she is a mess and asks her who did it to her. ‘Danger, first. Then…a whole lot of folks. Didn’t you hear? Ah’m an enemy of the people’ Legacy reveals Wolverine suggests they get Legacy cleaned up and dress her wounds. ‘If it’s a good enough story, maybe you get a drink on the house’ he adds.
Magneto stands on a long platform that extends from Fortress X and thinks to himself that he built this place, hammering it out on the forge of his will. He tells himself that he built it to be strong, and to endure, but he was younger then, and in some ways, naive. ‘I thought the walls would be enough. And that all threats would come from the same direction’.
Suddenly, ‘Magneto!’ Moira MacTaggert declares as she storms onto the platform, followed be Legion and a few other mutants. ‘What was it? What did Reaper attack us with? It felt like she was right inside our minds’ Moira declares. ‘She prefers the name Legacy, Dr MacTaggert’ Magneto replies. Moira exclaims that she could care less, and demands that Magneto answer her. Magneto reveals that Legacy broke into the brig and touched one of the prisoners. Magneto explains that very little is known about their powers and that they are kept isolated because X judges them too dangerous or unstable to fight along side everyone else.
‘And before that, there was a break-out’ Moira points out. ‘One of those prisoners walked right out through the force walls, and spoke with the human authorities’ she adds. But Magneto assures her that they do not know if she spoke to anyone. Moira points out that this looks like a conspiracy, a plot to bring down the fortress. She adds that if they are being attacked, betrayed, by their own kind, they have to defend themselves. ‘What are you suggesting, Moira?’ Magneto asks. Moira points out that the Force Warriors can telekinetically search this place molecule by molecule, they will find Reaper, wherever she is hiding.
Legion tells Magneto that they stand ready, that they will do whatever needs to be done. He adds that they will ensure no innocents are harmed. ‘I give you my oath’ he declares. Magneto puts a hand on Legion’s shoulder and tells him that there is no one whose word means more to him, but that he will not risk him. ‘The force Walls you and your cohort weave daily are the only guarantee of our survival’ Magneto reminds the young mutant. ‘What, then? She’s got to get caught’ Moira declares. Magneto replies that she will be, that the matter is in hand. Moira asks what “In hand” means, and Magneto puts his helmet on, announcing that it means he has joined the battle himself.
Back in the “Rat Run”, Wolverine tends to Legacy’s wounds, and asks her how come they didn’t bring her down yet. ‘Victor’s camouflage power, mostly. And luck’ Legacy replies, to which Wolverine points out that only a fool relies on luck. Legacy explains that she stole it from Domino, so it is quality stuff, before thanking Logan for not turning her in. Wolverine tells her to forget it, and points out that things are not always what they seem. ‘Like with me and this blade. I notice you didn’t ask’ Wolverine adds. Legacy tells him that she doesn’t need to ask, reminding Wolverine that he was inside her mind, she knows he is testing his healing factor, to see if there is anything still left.
Wolverine places the knife in his belt and asks Legacy if she knows what she is doing, or if she is making it up as she goes along. Legacy replies that she is chasing an idea. ‘From the moment I saw that girl, Pryde, out on the battlefield, Ah started to feel uneasy. Like something big was pushing against my mind. Trying to get me to remember it’ Legacy explains. ‘What kind of something?’ Wolverine asks. Legacy replies that she doesn’t know, and informs him that there is a man in the brig, and she thinks his name is Xavier. Legacy tells Wolverine that it was his power she stole, that is how she popped up inside his head.
Legacy tells Wolverine that when she was reading his mind, she read someone else, too. Someone real close to them, whose mind was full of one thought - “smash it”. ‘Smash what?’ Wolverine asks. Legacy replies that she thinks it might be the fortress, everything. She explains to Wolverine that she knew this Charles Xavier, although she never met him, she knew him, and he had memories of all of them. ‘How is that possible?’ Wolverine replies that it isn’t, as everyone knows there is no mutant powers that can effect the mind. ‘Well, Karma, maybe. And Vertigo. But rewriting someone’s memories? That’s flat out -’ Wolverine begins, when suddenly, the door to the “Rat Run” slams open, courtesy of Eclipse, who has arrived with Moonstar and the rest of the Cadre. ‘Here?’ Eclipse asks. ‘Here’ Moonstar replies, before Eclipse orders the others to secure the exits and search the place.
Inside a laboratory where Madison Jeffries works, Magneto approaches him and calls him “Box”. Madison looks up from the telescope and asks the General, as a favor, not to call him that, before remarking ‘You got my message, then? About the stars? It’s got me beat, I can tell you. Crazy, crazy data!’ Jeffries declares. Magneto informs Jeffries that there was a break-in last night at their holding facility - the Danger Rooms. Jeffries continues to gaze up through the telescope and asks ‘A break-in? Better than the other way around, I suppose’ Jeffries replies, adding that anyone twisted enough to break into a prison probably belongs there.
Suddenly, Magneto grabs Jeffries’s wrist, causing him to spill his cup of coffee over himself. Magneto frowns as he tells Jeffries that it was Legacy, that somehow she was able to disarm locks and make security cameras look away. ‘Those are your powers’ Magneto points out. ‘Well, that’s not necessarily - you can’t - Habeas Corpus, fifth…fifth amendment -’ Madison exclaims. Magneto releases Jeffries and asks him tell him what happened so he might be able to protect him. ‘Lie to me and her fate will be your fate, too’ Magneto warns Jeffries.
Madison gets out of his seat and asks ‘What…what do you mean?’ Magneto replies that, to take the obvious example, these premises take up a great deal of space - space that could be allocated to other things - barracks or store rooms. Magneto touches the telescope and tells Jeffries that he knows how hard it is for him to keep hold of his humanity when he melds with the Box armor every day, and he knows how important these toys have been in reminding Madison of who he is. ‘If I were forced to destroy them, it would be with a certain…regret’ Magneto admits. ‘You…you’re really saying this to me?’ Madison asks. ‘What did she tell you, Jeffries? And what did she show you?’ Magneto demands.
Madison hangs his head and replies that it was a camera - a camera with a whole lot of blank images on it. Jeffries tells Magneto that Legacy did not say where she had gotten it from, and then she took it with her when she left. Madison sits down on a chair and Magneto thanks him, telling him that he has been very helpful. ‘When the history of this fortress comes to be written, your name will be a prominent footnote’ Magneto assures him, before declaring that he has one final question, and then they are done.
Back in the “Rat Run”, Eclipse tells the Cadre to search the place. ‘She’s here somewhere’ he exclaims. ‘Who are you looking for? Maybe I can help’ Wolverine offers. Dust tells Logan that he can help by stepping out of their way, as they are looking for an escaped fugitive, and if they find her here, it will look back for him. Warlock finds some blood on the ground, and after analysing it, announces that it was Reaper’s. Moonstar finds a glove on the table, and remarks that it is Reaper’s as well. ‘Unless you’re going for a whole new look, Logan’ she adds.
Wolverine simply replies that a customer left it behind last night, but Dust declares that he is lying. ‘That a new power, Sooraya? Or just a plan, old-fashioned guess?’ Logan asks. Magma motions to the floorboards and mentions the door that Wolverine is standing on. ‘There’s a wine cellar down there, right? I notice you haven’t moved from that spot since we got here’ Magma remarks. Logan replies that he is comfortable where he is and does not plan on moving. ‘You want me to move you?’ Eclipse asks as he approaches Wolverine, who replies ‘I’d be interested in seeing you try’.
Eclipse tells Wolverine to stop playing the fool. ‘The cure took out your healing factor, and wrecked your metabolism. You get even a little upset, your heart’s going to burst. Maybe that’s what you deserve, if you’re keeping house with traitors’ Eclipse exclaims. ‘Killing your own people? That’s a bigger step than you think, bub’ Wolverine tells Eclipse, suggesting he contemplates that a while before he goes down that road. Eclipse declares that this is the only home he has got and will kill anyone who threatens it. Over at a window, Moonstar tells Eclipse to leave it, as Reaper is not even here, Logan is just doing his best to give her a head start. Moonstar examines some blood on the windowsill and calls out to X - ‘Do you copy?’ X tells Danielle that her signal is strong. ‘You are at Western Edge. Logan’s bar’. ‘Exactly. We’ve picked up the Reaper’s trail, and if I’m right about where she’s gone…then this hunt’s as good as over’ Moonstar announces.
Elsewhere on the grounds around Fortress X, Iceman, Cannonball, Husk and Surge have engaged enemy soldiers in combat. Cannonball hears the communications worm and tells X to go ahead. X informs Cannonball that Legacy is coming his way and that he is to apprehend. ‘Apprehend? Well, you know, we’d really like to. Really. We’ll definitely put it on our “to-do” list!’ Cannonball declares as he blasts into the air, and through several enemy vessels.
‘Looks like it may be down to us!’ Moonstar declares as she runs from the fortress surroundings towards her prey. Dust follows her, while Eclipse flies alongside. Magma flies, carrying Karma, while Warlock has transformed himself into a wheel, and races alongside them. ‘You sure she came this way?’ Eclipse asks. ‘How else can she shake us? She crosses the battlefield - camouflaged - and comes out alive in the opposite quadrant’ Moonstar exclaims, suggesting that Reaper is probably really close, as she cannot move this fast on this ground. Moonstar suggests they take away Reaper’s advantage, and asks Dust to give them a little desert storm. ‘My pleasure, Moonstar. Watch my dust!’ she adds as she creates a dust storm. ‘There!’ Karma calls out as she sees a figure up ahead. ‘Fire at will!’ Moonstar tells her Cadre as she releases an arrow, which strikes Legacy, causing her to fall off the beam she was on.
The Cadre race towards her and surround her. Moonstar asks Karma if she can lock on to her, but Karma replies that her mind is slippery, that there is too much interference from the borrowings. ‘It’s over, Legacy. Come in with us, and we’ll get Dr Rao to look at that wound’ Moonstar tells Legacy, who sits up, with Moonstar’s arrow through her shoulder. Magma crouches beside Legacy and reminds her that Moonstar said surrender. ‘What are you waiting for?’ Magma asks. ’A…one in a million chance…sugah’ Legacy replies, boasting that for Domino, they come up nine times out of ten.
Moonstar and her Cadre all look up as a massive enemy tank rolls towards them. ’Target acquired! Target acquired! Going to roast us some muties!’ a soldier inside boasts. The tank begins firing at the Cadre, breaking up the ground around them. Eclipse and Magma take to the air, with Magma declaring that these things are like roaches. ‘Big, armoured roaches, with field guns’ Eclipse replies, before calling out to Karma, who replies that she is onto it, as she takes psychic possession of one the soldiers firing weapons at them - forcing him to fire on his comrade. Warlock watches as several “smart bombs” are fired, and queries their designation, as he finds most of them pretty docile and open to persuasion, as he uses them on the tank itself, which explodes.
Karma announces that Reaper has gone, that she ran onto the battlefield, but she doesn’t think she will get far. ‘No. Neither do I’ Moonstar agrees, revealing that Dust is still with her.
Hovering at Fortress X, Magneto watches the goings-ons in the distance, when X informs him that Legacy has been located. ‘Alive or dead?’ Magneto asks. X replies that Legacy’s exact status is still to be determined.
Legacy takes shelter and pulls the arrow from her shoulder, when suddenly, she is confronted by a sand storm, as Dust materializes in front of her. Dust warns Legacy that she could flay the flesh from her bones, or clog her lungs and kill her from the inside. ‘Sooraya! Don’t!’ Legacy pleads. ‘This is my mercy. Make a move, and you’ll feel the darker side of my -’ Dust begins, before she is shot with a burst of kinetic energy, which knocks her over. ‘Wh - what -?’ she gasps as she looks up and sees Gambit. Gambit apologizes to her, and tells her he knows she will get over it. ‘But right now…you got plenty of other places to be’ Gambit exclaims as Dust explodes courtesy of the kinetic energy.
Gambit goes over to Legacy, and helps her up. ‘Why would you -?’ Legacy asks. Gambit replies that he doesn’t know, and tells her saw her fighting, and he knew what side of the fight he wanted to be on.
From above, Magneto can see Gambit helping Reaper across the ground below. He tells himself that no gap in a fortress can be considered small, and theirs is so perilously balanced and fragile. ‘If it’s divided against itself…how can it endure?’ Magneto wonders, while ordering X to tell Moonstar to call her team off. Magneto tells himself that his task, for three years now, has been to keep Fortress X standing. From day to day, from dawn to dusk. Holding off the inevitable, one drop of blood at a time. ‘If I ever had a nobler dream - a wider ambition - I threw it into the fire…and watched it burn’ Magneto thinks to himself as he uses his powers to lift up every piece of scrap metal, every beam, every car, and dump them all together - right on to of Legacy and Gambit. Several mutants including Vergio, Iceman, Husk, Surge and Nightmare gather around, and he tells them that this is how traitors die. ‘And cleave to the Brotherhood of X!’ Magnus declares.
At the “Rat Run”, drenched in darkness, Logan lights a candle, and tells his visitor ‘So that’s what she said. And I think she called it on the money’. He adds that a lot of things around here smell like lies, lots of questions never get asked. Wolverine’s visitor replies that he admits he has a few questions himself, but that they do not have much room to maneuver. ‘What did you have in mind, exactly? He asks. Logan replies that they shake the tree, kick the hornet’s nest and get some answers. ‘How about it? You feel like getting your hands dirty?’ he asks his visitor. ‘God knows, Logan, they’re dirty enough already. But I wouldn’t mind a shot at redemption!’ exclaims Basilisk as his eyes flash red!


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Age of X, chapter 5
Charles Xavier thinks to himself that waking up is like swallowing the sun - the warmth goes down to the core of him, but he has been asleep for a lot longer than one night. He reaches out with his mind and makes contact with, for want of a better term, the world. The armies come with the dawn, so on the battlefield, the X-Men wait for them. ‘They are not my X-Men. I barely know them’ Charles tells himself as several mutants including Cannonball, Storm, the Sub-Mariner, Basilisk, Iceman, Dazzler, Northstar, Colossus, Berserker, Nightmare, Husk, Jubilee, Surge and Chamber gather.
Xavier knows that Rogue and Gambit are staring into a plain wooden box - the pulse of the universe stirs between their fingers. They feel a terrifying sense of vertigo. Xavier himself remembers a room, where two men argued about medical ethics, each as ignorant as the other. ‘One of them was me’ Xavier tells himself, the other being Doctor Nemesis. But here, now, Xavier’s enemy - friend - Magneto, lies broken and bleeding, because he tried to help him. ‘I wonder if he knows how badly he failed?’ Xavier wonders.
The Force Warriors - Psylocke, Hellion, Carmella Unuscione, Legion and Revenant burst into the brig, where Magneto lies on the floor, Katherine Pryde attempts to help Charles Xavier, while Moonstar and her Cadre - Eclipse, Warlock, Magma, Karma and Dust - stand ready. Legion announces that Magneto is relieved of his command, that the fortress is now under the direct control of the Force Warriors. ‘And the enemies of mutantkind will be eradicated!’ he declares. Moonstar tells Legion that no one is eradicating anyone, but Legion asks Danielle to not stand against them, as she will only add her name to the roster of traitors.
‘Is that how it works? Asking questions is treason, now? And protesting against murder gets you murdered? I don’t remember voting for that’ Danielle declares. But Legion tells her that they are not a democracy, but a citadel under siege. ‘There’s no time or place for conscience here’ he remarks, as he uses his power to slam Charles Xavier to the ground. Katherine Pryde takes his hand, enabling him to phase like she does. ‘And what are you gonna do now that you’ve ditched your conscience? Eat babies?’ Katherine asks.
In a mysterious room at the center of Citadel X, Legacy is with Gambit, and she holds onto the small wooden box that apparently contains the universe. ‘This isn’t what we came here for’ Gambit tells Legacy, who replies that it isn’t, but the scariest thing is that it almost makes sense. Legacy points out that Katherine Pryde went outside the force walls, and there was nothing there - no earth, no sky, just blackness. ‘The whole universe was missing. And Ah guess we just found it’ Legacy remarks. Suddenly, the voice of X can be heard, informing Legacy that it was not missing, that they put it here for safekeeping. ‘X! Is that you?’ Legacy gasps. ‘Call me that if it makes you feel better’ X replies.
Moira MacTaggert enters the room, and picks up a rifle, pointing out that X marks an unknown value, before aiming the rifle at the mutants and telling Gambit that it is a nice rifle, so she can see why he is attached to it. ‘Now give me the blood box. Or I’ll give you both a little instant brain surgery’ Moira warns them.
Outside Fortress X, the mutants stand ready. ‘Well, #%$& me. This is a bit of a god’s dinner, isn’t it? Could’ve had an extra bloody hour in bed’ Chamber mutters as he sits down on some rubble. Dazzler has her hands on her hips and exclaims that she doesn’t get it. ‘They always attack at dawn’ she reminds everyone. Surge suggests that they might have won, and calls out to X, asking if they won, but gets no response. Dazzler points out she has already tried contacting X, but X appears to be offline. Cannonball tells everyone to stand firm, as the push is going to come. ‘And we’re going to be here to meet it’ he declares. ‘Actually…I’ve got a better idea’ Basilisk announces.
Cannonball frowns and points at Basilisk, telling him to hold his damn position, ‘Or I will bounce you back to the fortress and into the brig before your heels touch the ground’ Cannonball warns him. But Basilisk ignores the threat, and points out that for three years, the enemy sticks with the same tactics, and then today, do not even bother to show up. ‘Get back in line, soldier!’ Cannonball orders. ‘That’s a little crazy, isn’t it? A little hard to explain’ Basilisk remarks, as he holds up a set of dog tags, and announces that a lot of things are hard to explain - like how come the soldiers they fight sometimes have the same names and numbers, the same dog tags. Basilisk suggests it is as if someone is making this stuff up on the wing and getting sloppy with the details.
Cannonball declares that this is not the time, as they are about to go into battle. ‘Except we can’t throw a battle if nobody comes. Listen to me, Guthrie. All of you just listen!’ Basilisk calls out, before turning to Madison Jeffries, who is wearing the Box armor, and asks ‘What was it you said to me about the stars?’ Jeffries replies that the stars don’t read right, that there is no red or blue shift, which would mean the universe stopped expanding. He adds that they are too close, as though the light is coming off the force walls themselves. ‘Detail, again’ Basilisk remarks. Cannonball asks Basilisk what he is saying - that this is a stage set, that God is getting lazy? ‘Not one thing you’ve said makes any kind of sense!’ Cannonball exclaims. ‘Exactly. That’s my point. None of this makes sense. And until it does, I’m not fighting any more’ Basilisk announces.
Basilisk begins to walk back to the fortress, announcing that his new job is looking for answers. ‘And I’m starting at the top. Anyone else who’s interested can come with me’ Basilisk calls out as he walks past everyone. But Cannonball orders them all to hold their position. ‘Everyone will hold their position until the General tells us otherwise’ he orders. But Iceman, Angel and Husk are the first o follow Basilisk. Everyone else soon follows, leaving Cannonball alone.
Back in the brig, Moonstar and her Cadre stand ready against the Force Warriors. ‘You want to kill this prisoner, you’re going to have to go through Moonstar Cadre to get him!’ Moonstar warns the Force Warriors, promising them that they will be leaving pieces of themselves on the ground. ‘You seriously think you can stand against the Force Warriors, Dani?’ Psylocke asks. Moonstar tells Betsy that she doesn’t see where she has a choice. ‘I need to live with myself when this is over’ she exclaims.
‘I’m watching you, Hellion’ Magma warns the handsome young mutant. ‘You’re watching me? I can stop your heart from beating with my mind!’ Hellion replies. ‘Not if you’re flash fried’ Magma warns him. You flex one shiny little finger, and I’ll -’, but Legion suddenly throws his hands to his head, ‘Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!’ he screams. He covers his face and declares ‘She - she said this would happen. She warned me that Xavier would turn us against each other’. Carmella asks Legion who said this, who it was that warned him, and Xavier remarks ‘Tell them, David. Tell them whose tune we’re all dancing to’.
Moira MacTaggert still holds the rifle steady in the mysterious center room. ‘I won’t be asking either of you a second time. Put the box on the floor and shove it over to me with your foot. Then stand back’ she orders them. ‘Moira! How did you even get in here?’ Legacy asks. ‘Not though the air ducts, Rogue, I’ll tell you that much’ Moira replies. ‘Rogue? Who’s Rogue?’ Legacy asks. ‘It’s just a name. Like Moira. The box, please’ Moira replies. Gambit looks down at Legacy and tells her not to give Moira the box. Crouched over, Legacy replies that she has got to, as what is in here is too precious to risk. ‘Ah wouldn’t want the entire universe to be - right in your line of fire’ Legacy exclaims. ‘Two heads with just one thought. It’s like I said. We were made for each other’ Gambit replies as he throws a kinetically-charged playing card at Moira, knocking her backwards.
Holding the now-damaged rifle, Moira tells Gambit that it will never be the same again, and remarks that she built this world, which makes her their god, more or less. ‘And you don’t take a god down with a deck of cards’ Moira exclaims as she smacks Gambit in the head with the remains of the rifle. Legacy picks up the box and starts to run away, while Moira supposes that she probably should not have kept it here, the rest of the universe. ‘It was just sentiment. He used to like it’. Suddenly, Moira appears in front of the fleeing Rogue, informing her that god is omnipresent. ‘So you’re wasting your time - and a little of mine’ she remarks as she punches Legacy in the face. Moira looms over Legacy and remarks that killing her is not going to be enough, as she knows somebody sent her. ‘I have a horrible feeling I’ll have to start all over again’ Moira declares.
Back in the brig, Xavier stands amongst the Force Warriors and Moonstar Cadre, while Legion asks him who he is and what he knows about all of this. Xavier introduces himself, and explains that at one time he was the leader of a group called the X-Men, mutant heroes who used their powers for the good of the world. He informs Legion that he is also his father. ‘And I wish to God I’d been a better one’. But Legion replies that his father died in Israel, in a terrorist attack. ‘That never happened’ Charles assures him. But Legion tells him he doesn’t believe him, that he doesn’t believe anything he is saying.
Suddenly, Xavier projects his thoughts into Legion’s mind, ‘I’m not asking for your trust, but you hear my voice inside your mind, yes? I’m releasing one of your buries memories. It will come from you, not from me, and you’ll know it for the truth’ Xavier declares. An image of Xavier and Legion hugging flashes into his mind, with the words ‘You have my word. I’ll never lose you’. Legion looks confused, ‘Wh - what as that? When did I -? what did you just do to me?’ he asks. Xavier replies that he will explain everything in due course. ‘Kitty, make I take your hand again?’ Xavier asks. ‘My name is Katherine’ Pryde tells him. Xavier replies that he will try to remember that, and takes her hand, informing her that they need to get to Magneto’s command room. ‘We do? Why?’ Katherine asks.
Xavier explains that is where Cyclops is heading. ‘Of course. Let’s go see Cyclops. Whoever he is’ Katherine mutters. Xavier turns to the Force Warriors and Moonstar Cadre and tells them all to follow him and they will learn both what they are and what they are meant to be. ‘Are we all up for this?’ Psylocke asks. Eclipse replies that he would prefer to smash something, while Unuscione suggests that they need to hear this. Moonstar tells the Force Warriors that one of them should pick up the General, seeing as how they knocked him down and all.
As they pass through a wall, Katherine remarks ‘I hope you know what you’re doing, Mist - Professor’ she corrects herself. Xavier replies that so does he, as he already lost this battle once and cannot afford to lose it again. As they pass through another wall, several mutants - Iceman, Northstar, Vertigo, Basilisk and Storm - are in the corridor. ‘We’ve got ghosts, now? When did we get ghosts?’ Iceman asks. Words flash into Basilisk’s mind - ‘It’s good to see you again, Scott. You said you wanted the truth. Come and hear it’ Xavier tells him.
Shortly, dozens of mutants have assembled in Magneto’s command room and Xavier stands before them, with Katherine at his side. ‘I know you all. But you don’t know me’ Charles begins, explaining that the time and the place in which they knew him has been stolen from them. ‘It was - literally - in another world. But that world is the real one, where you were born and made’ Charles tells them, declaring that this world is a fantasy, a skein of nonsense. The mutants listen intently, while Xavier explains that this world’s architect was a diseased mind, a of a mind, rather, sick and mad and at war with itself.
Charles continues, explaining that he did his best to stop it, but he failed, and fell. ‘And that was all I knew, until Magneto woke me’ he reveals, before announcing that he cannot explain all this to them in words, as he doesn’t have the time. ‘But I can show you, I can make you experience it, exactly as it happened’ he declares. Energy flashes around Charles as he explains that this is the moment when this world was born, and when their lives spun out of their orbits. ‘Share it. And understand’.
616 reality:
Utopia, home of the X-Men, seven days ago.  In a laboratory, Legion lies on a table, with Doctor Nemesis standing over him, and Charles Xavier approaching him. ‘Professor, I thought we’d already discussed this’ Doctor Nemesis remarks. Xavier replies that they have gone beyond mere discussion. ‘I told you what your methods were doing to my son’ Xavier exclaims. Nemesis replies that he is curing Legion of his identity disorder, deleting his alternate personalities so that his mind can repair itself. He boasts that he has made amazing progress.
Dr Nemesis explains that Legion’s mind is structured like an imaginary landscape, where his sub-personas live and interact. Nemesis tells Xavier that Legion needs to reclaim that territory, and his work - isolating and then erasing the sub-personas - allows him to do just that. Charles remarks that on a conscious level, Legion is trying to cooperate, but subconsciously, his mind is in turmoil. Xavier tells Nemesis that Legion is experiencing ego death, again and again and is starting to fight back. ‘I’ve taken all this into account in my -’ Nemesis begins, but Xavier interrupts, ‘You’re not listening to me. David’s mind is adapting to your probes. Changing, in ways we can’t measure or predict’ he declares, adding that the longer this goes on, the more intense this instinctive reaction will become.
Frowning, Dr Nemesis asks Charles to show him some proof, or stand aside and let him work. Charles asks Nemesis if he will accept a mind-link as proof. Nemesis removes his jacket and replies that he has been inside David’s mind a hundred times. ‘The Cuckoos regularly -’ he begins, until Charles interrupts, telling him that the damage is progressive. ‘Whatever you’ve seen in the past…you need to experience it now’ Charles tells him.
Xavier finds himself floating inside Legion’s mind and announces that it is astonishing how much this looks like a prison camp, with various cells below him. Nemesis replies that the imagery was carefully designed, that he wanted Legion to feel that his sub-personas were under lock and key, that he was totally in control. ‘Just as you thought you were. But was this part of your plan?’ Xavier asks as he refers to the skeletal remains of Legions many personas. ‘My God! No!’ Nemesis gasps. He tells Xavier that when they erase a persona, it is simply edited out of existence, so this is something else. He tells Xavier to break contact and get out of there now.
‘Absolutely not, Doctor’ Charles replies as his psychic form walks through the cells. Nemesis tells Xavier not to be a fool, and points out that is not ground he is walking around on, but a metaphor. ‘Everything in there stands for something else!’ Nemesis warns him. But Charles replies that he is aware of that, and announces that he is going to put right the harm that Nemesis has done. ‘And I’m going to find out what happened to the parts of my son’s mind that were in those cages’ Charles adds.
Suddenly, a voice booms ‘I ate them!’ Xavier is thrown about, as are some of the cells, while a massive being emerges and tells Xavier that he should have left Legion alone. ‘All you had to do was leave him alone!’ The being takes hold of Charles, while Nemesis asks him what he has found. ‘A new persona! Some kind of psychic antibody, created in response to your erasures!’ Charles replies. The persona tells Xavier that he does not belong here and to get out of Legion’s mind, to leave him in peace. ‘Or I’ll rip you apart!’ he warns him. ‘On the psychic plane? Creature, I think not’ Charles replies as he begins to tear the persona apart.
Nemesis tells Charles to be careful, remarking that all of Legion’s sub-selves have their own set of powers. ‘You don’t know what this one can do’ he adds. Xavier replies that it doesn’t matter, for in mind-war, he has fought far much more dangerous - but Charles stops mid-sentence, as a face emerges from the persona. ‘Charles! Acushal! Don’t hurt me! Please don’t hurt me!’ exclaims Moira MacTaggert. Xavier looks shocked, but as he stops, it gives the persona an opportunity to attack him again. ‘Not Moira, but her face. Bought me a moment’s advantage. I like it. I think I’ll keep it for a while’ the persona declares.
‘You come here! You cage us! Hurt the Legion, who is our home! But I can heal him. That’s what I was built for!’ the persona declares. Xavier finds himself trapped as the persona declares that all the little pieces of his mind, and Xavier’s mind, and the other minds here, he can weave a world out of them, better than the one they have got. Xavier is overwhelmed, he calls out to Nemesis: ‘Warn Scott! It’s power is -’, while the persona announces that he can make a home for Legion and use everyone else as furniture. And with that, Utopia is transformed into Fortress X.
Age of X:
‘Seven days? That’s all it’s been? All of this was just -?’ Basilisk remarks. ‘No!’ Legion shouts. ‘A fake world, inside of a - a bubble? He’s lying! He’s lying to trick us!’ Legion declares. Suddenly, the voice of X is heard: ‘I concur, analysis of Charles Xavier’s heart rate and skin moisture confirms that he’s lying. Everything he says is lies’ X declares. Charles hangs his head and replies ‘Whether you speak through the woman I loved, or the computer voice called X, you’re still the same entity. Neither a human, nor a mutant, but a monster that incubated my son’s mind’ Xavier announces.
‘Who’s the monster here, you stinking bald speck?’ Moira asks as she enter the communications room. ‘This is their shelter - their last refuge - and you want to take it away from them?’ she declares. But Charles replies that this is no shelter, but a dollhouse that was built for his son to play in. ‘Moira! Thank god! The things he put in my head -’ Legion exclaims as he rushes over to Moira, who embraces him. ‘Lies, David. Hideous, filthy lies!’ Moira replies. ‘He has mind-powers. It’s dangers even to listen to him’ she tells Legion.
Charles tells his son to look at this place, and asks him if he was happy here. ‘She meant you to be. You’re respected, even loved. The hero you always wanted to be. But it’s only a dream…and it’s falling apart at the seams’ Charles tells Legion. Moira declares that it is no dream, to which Xavier asks ‘No? Then why do the human battalions disappear when your attention is elsewhere? As soon as anyone takes a close look at your Fortress X, the cracks start to show’.
Moira holds the wooden box up above her head and announces that the threat is real. ‘And it’s always there. If you relax for even a moment, it will swallow you. This - this is what you get for listening to him!’ she tells everyone. The high windows suddenly shatter, but Nightmare sees out them - ‘Oh, sweet God! Guys, we’ve got incoming! We’ve got all kinds of incoming!’ Nightmare exclaims. ‘The walls are coming down’ someone remarks as countless Human Coalition vessels fly towards the Fortress, and open fire!


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Aftermath, part one
Shown with flashback images of the “Age of X”, narrated by the White Queen in the present:
‘And then we woke up - and it was all a dream. Or, at least that’s probably the least disturbing way to think of it’. Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen explains that Dr Nemesis’s attempt to cure Legion’s schizophrenia backfired, and Legion spawned a new persona, which took the form of the woman he loved and trusted the most - Moira MacTaggert. Moira’s power was to mold reality, and she made a tiny, self-enclosed world and dragged everyone into it. This was a world in which an anti-mutant coalition ruled supreme, and sent its armies against them day and night.
Moira” re-wrote their memories so they all though that world was the real one - and, sick as it sounds, this was not intended as an attack on mutantkind, it was simply done for Legion’s sake, for in that world, he was respected, loved, and a true hero. But everyone else was distorted into less flattering shapes - Magneto into a benevolent dictator, Wolverine into a reluctant pacifist, and Cyclops into a means of execution, a Basilisk. ‘A good time was not had by all’ Emma remarks, explaining that Fortress X floated in a bubble only a couple of miles across, and it was a house of cards that started to fall down when Rogue accessed photos showing that there was nothing outside of the Fortress’ walls.
In the end, Legion absorbed “Moira” back into himself, something nether the X-Men, nor “Moira” suspected he could do, and this meant he was able to access the power set that belonged to this personality, and he subsequently dissolved the world that “Moira” had made, by a single effort of will, and brought everyone home, only seven days after “Moira” hijacked them all.
Present:
Emma sits at a table with several senior X-Men and members of the X-Club including Colossus, Cyclops, Wolverine, Angel, the Sub-Mariner, Dr Rao and Dr Nemesis. ‘Unfortunately, in subjective time, we spent a whole lifetime that other world. It’s not easy to shrug off’ Emma declares. Dr Kavita Rao tells Emma that is an understatement, and announces that she is seeing symptoms very similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. ‘From people who’ve just undergone years of suffering and horror? I’m not surprised’ Cyclops a.k.a. Scott Summers remarks, before asking ‘What can we do about it?’ Dr Nemesis announces that Legion is still his first priority, as per standing orders. ‘But if brainwashing is the problem, why don’t we go with more brainwashing as the solution?’ Dr Nemesis suggests.
Emma frowns and declares ‘Because it’s dangerous, reckless and unethical. Your comfort zone, Nemesis, not mine’. Emma adds that she will not implant false memories, as they never remain stable in the long run. ‘But I’m happy to suppress memories’ she offers, remarking that nobody has to keep any souvenirs from that place if they choose not to. ‘Good’ Cyclops replies and announces that he will put the word around, before revealing that a number of people have already asked for a memory wipe. ‘Here’s the list, you can start with -’ he begins.
Later, ‘Am I ready? Oh, man, am I ready. Do whatever it takes, Emma’ Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball, of the New Mutants team exclaims as he sits down before Emma, while Emma’s prized students, the Stepford Cuckoos, stand nearby. Emma tells Sam that she thought he had it all in the other reality - command, respect, a loving populace. ‘You don’t want to keep even a few of those memories?’ she asks. ‘No. Not a second. Wipe me clean’ Sam declares, revealing that his whole family died, except for Paige, and she blamed him for everything. ‘Maybe she was right. Maybe I should have seen the gene-wars coming’ he remarks.
Emma reassures Sam that none of that happened, as they were only in the bubble for a week, everything before that was an illusion. Sam replies that it still feels real, and tells Emma that sort of stuff can drive you crazy, turning over in your mind. ‘Very well. I’ll take those memories away from you’ Emma assures Sam. ‘And from Paige?’ Cannonball asks. ‘If she asks me to, Sam. Not otherwise’ Emma replies, before turning to the Stepford Cuckoos. ‘Already there, Ms Frost’ they announce.
Soon, ‘She keeps coming back. I keep thinking she’s gone, and then she comes back!’ Megan “Pixie” Gwynn explains, hanging her head. Emma asks if this “she” is Megan’s alter ego from the other reality. ‘Nightmare. Yeah’ Pixie confirms. Emma asks if they are just talking about memories, but Pixie replies that it is more than that. ‘She’s not a whole lot like me! She’s rude and bad-tempered, and - um - really dirty minded!’ Pixie exclaims, adding that Nightmare just takes over. ‘Like, I’ll be talking, or just sitting there, and suddenly - boing! Bat wings!’ Pixie announces, referring to the bat-like wings she sported during the “Age of X”.
The White Queen asks Pixie how that makes her feel, to which Megan replies ‘Awful! She does such terrible things! And all she ever thinks about is…’ Megan’s voice trails off, before admitting that, honestly, Nightmare is kind of fun. The White Queen tells Pixie that all young women should have a fury in their armory, and assures Pixie that they can allow her to keep some edited highlights.
As the day goes on, more and more residents of Utopia visit the White Queen. The Sub-Mariner asks Emma to focus on his liaison with Ororo, as both of them have agreed to remember nothing of that relationship, explaining that Atlantis wishes to maintain friendly relations with Wakanda. Armor is next, and tells Emma that it only comes back in her dreams now, but she wants to be able to fall asleep without being scared that this world will turn out to be a dream. Dust explains that she was a different person there - harsher and crueler. ‘I do not want to believe that the potential for her exists in me’ she tells the White Queen.
‘It was misery and horror from start to finish. Rip it out of me!’ Madison Jeffries announces. Bobby “Iceman” Drake tells the White Queen that he gets enough of this “testing to destruction” stuff right here. ‘God knows I don’t need any more of it’ he adds.
However, Joanna Cargill a.k.a. Frenzy frowns and shouts ‘I changed my mind. Leave me alone!’
Meanwhile, David Haller a.k.a. Legion looks around - ‘I don’t feel good about coming back here. This is where it started. Where she incubated’ he remarks, referring to the landscape of his mind. Professor X walks alongside his son, and reminds him that Moira was only a part of him, and explains that she still is. Legion replies that makes it worse - as his own mind gave birth to a monster. ‘A monster with the power to juggle worlds like colored balls’ he adds. Legion grimaces, and asks his father how he thinks it feels to know that any one of these cells, containing other personalities, could house something worse. Charles explains to his son that they are dealing with metaphors here, visual symbols for invisible realities.
Xavier remarks that this is his son’s mental landscape, and the inhabitants of the cubes are all aspects of his nature. ‘So?’ David asks. ‘So perhaps the mistake was in the imagery we chose. Walls. Cells. Prison blocks. A gulag of the mind’ Charles replies. ‘Stressing separation, instead f integration’ Charles adds, before telling David to wake up and look at what is on his wrist. Legion does so, waking up, he and Charles are in a laboratory, with Dr Nemesis standing nearby. ‘What is it?’ Legion asks as he looks at the device on his wrist. Doctor Nemesis tells him that it is the neural equivalent of a telephone switchboard. Dr Nemesis explains that keying in a number stimulates cells in Legion’s thalamus and neocortex, which creates a one-way link between he and one of his sub-selves.
Dr Nemesis continues, revealing that this will allow Legion, for a few seconds at a time, to draw on the sub-persona’s power set without being overwhelmed by its personality. ‘We’ve learned from our mistakes and are confident this new device is sound’ he adds. ‘That’s insane!’ Legion exclaims throwing his hands into the air. ‘Almost by definition. But we think it will work’ Dr Nemesis replies, suggesting to Legion that he try it. ‘This feels absurd. Like rubbing a magic lamp, or -’ Legion begins as he touches the device on his wrist, and an instant later, has increased his size, he now towers over his father and Dr Nemesis. ‘Another triumph for the scientific method’ Dr Nemesis boasts. ‘You think so?’ Charles asks. ‘Well, we’d all better hope so. But if something goes wrong, I’ll be happy to apologize’ Dr Nemesis replies, adding that he is still imagining himself in that scenario.
Elsewhere on Utopia, at the amphitheatre, ‘Didn’t’ think you were coming, you being such a busy man’ Frenzy tells Cyclops as she sits on a platform, while the sun sets behind them. Cyclops explains that he was on his way to see Dr Rao, but that the two of them had to have this conversation, and sooner, better than later. ‘No’ Joanna replies. ‘No what?’ Scott asks. ‘We don’t have to talk. This isn’t about talking. If you can talk about it, you’re not feeling it’ she tells Scott. In agony, Joanna tells Scott that she knows he is feeling it, and remarks that he wrote his name on her bruises, and she loved him.
Frenzy reminds Cyclops that when they grappled, they ripped the room apart, but Scott tells Joanna that none of that was real. ‘Liar! Seven days of it was real. Seven nights!’ Frenzy snaps back. ‘God took less time than that to make the world!’ she adds. Scott hangs his head as he tells Joanna that the man she loved was an illusion. ‘Even if I was free to come to you - even if I wanted to - I’m not him. He never existed’ Scott replies. But Joanna goes up to Scott and runs a finger across his face, telling him that he is wrong. ‘I know who I am’ Scott replies. ‘No, you don’t. I looked into your eyes, lover. I’m not going to forget what I saw there!’ Joanna retorts, before frowning and telling Cyclops that when he is tired of pretending, when he is ready to come out of his shell and be the Basilisk again, she will still be here waiting.
Cyclops tells his former enemy that it was, unexpectedly, a privilege to fight alongside her. ‘You’ve earned your place here, and nobody is going to take it from you’ Scott tells her, before turning away from her and reminding her that the rest is all just smoke and mirrors. Frenzy watches Cyclops leave, before tearing up a large slab of concrete and using her incredible strength, she tosses it skyward.
A short time later, the massive slab of concrete lands on the beach that runs around the outer of Utopia, near where Rogue and Gambit a.k.a. Remy LeBeau are sitting. ‘It isn’t about what Ah did, it’s about what Ah thought’ Rogue tells Gambit, adding ‘More than that, Ah suppose - it’s about who Ah was’. ‘Who you thought you were’ Gambit corrects her. Rogue replies that it comes to the same thing - the lies soaked into them like pitch soaks into wood. ‘Ah was the Reaper. The angel of death’ Rogue declares, explaining that Legacy thought she was a monster. ‘Monsters don’t deserve  love, and they don’t ask for it. They take what they’re given’ Rogue remarks. Remy puts an arm around Rogue and suggests to her that she can go to Emma and forget everything.
Rogue looks away and explains that she took on the memories of the dead in that place, and swore she would keep them safe. ‘Ah can’t break that promise - even if it was somebody else who made it’ she tells Remy. ‘So you keep Legacy’s memories to keep a promise that Legacy made’ Gambit states. ‘Exactly’ Rogue tells him as she turns to face him. Remy asks Rogue to remember how Legacy felt when they climbed the elevator shaft when she kissed him. Rogue replies that Legacy’s heart was beating like a steam hammer, everything was clear and everything was precious. ‘But she didn’t know if that because of you, or because she might be about to die’.
Gambit reminds Rogue that she said she was afraid to be with him until her control over her powers feels more secure. ‘I think you were lying. Not to me, but to yourself’ Gambit adds. He stands up and tells Rogue that when it comes to love, reasons for and reasons against should fall away, that you should just know. ‘There’s no doubt for me. No ambiguity. I’ve loved many women, but none was like you’ Gambit declares. ‘Remy, ah’d never -’ Rogue begins, but Gambit asks her to let him finish, and tells her that she is his home ad her harbor - not a station along the way, not a gamble or an experiment. ‘You’ll come to me when you know that. But don’t come to me before. Which means - for now - don’t come to me at all’.
Meanwhile, Cyclops has finally made it to Dr Rao, who thanks him for coming, and explains that there were several things she wanted to make him aware of. ‘I’m assuming that from your tone that they’re urgent?’ Scott asks. Checking her chart, Kavita replies that she has a whole range of flavors - good news, terrible news and everything in between. Rao suggests they start with exhibit A and motions to a room where Julian “Hellion” Keller is playing table-tennis - against himself, using one of his artificial hands to battle the other. Kavita tells him that it not just the hands, although they are amazing, and explains that as a biologist, she is more interested in the fine telekinetic motor skills Julian is using to control them.
Kavita informs Cyclops that Hellion did not have those skills a week ago, but now, it is as if he has had years of practice. She explains that “Moira” altered the neural  pathways in his brain profoundly, and globally, and the effect is not fading. ‘That’s wonderful’ Scott replies. ‘Yes. It is a miracle. But I’m afraid it’s all downhill from there’ Kavita declare, closing her eyes, before motioning to an x-ray of Chamber’s chest cavity that she took yesterday, revealing that the reconstructive work done by the Clan Akkaba has completely disappeared - meaning that physically, Chamber is in the same condition as he was when he first joined the X-Men. Cyclops examines a chart and points out that Clan Akkaba’s techniques could be used again.
‘If we had any record of those operations, yes. But it’s far beyond my level of expertise…and, I believe, Henry McCoy’s’ Kavita adds. Cyclops asks how Chamber is taking this, to which Kavita replies ‘As well as can be expected’. ‘Meaning?’ Scott asks. ‘He hasn’t tried to kill himself yet. Although it’s by no means certain that he could’ Kavita explains, before announcing that exhibit C was going to be Pixie’s wings, but that turned out to be a psychological problem. ‘So we’re left with the one person you’ve been so careful not to ask about’ Kavita declares as she opens a door, announcing ‘She said she has to leave soon. But she wanted to talk to you first’.
Cyclops’s jaw drops as he sees the mysterious Revenant hovering before him. Revenant drops down in front of Cyclops, ‘Hi, Dad. Been a long time’ she smiles. ‘Rachel…’ Scott replies. ‘Not really’ Revenant remarks, explaining that, in Fortress X, she was called Revenant. ‘Like the only way they could see me was as someone else’s ghost’. Revenant explains that she is not that, but that she is not Rachel, either - at least, not all of her. Kavita explains that the visible effect is caused by bremsstrahlung radiation from a plasma field - meaning she has no physical form as such.
Scott replies that he doesn’t understand, to which Revenant tells him that she was trying to make psi-contact with the Professor, or Emma, but she picked the wrong moment - the moment when “Moira” struck, and the universe turned inside-out, and she was carried along with it. Revenant - Rachel - reaches out to touch Cyclops’ hand, but his passes through her ghostly form, as she explains that this is just her mind, that her body is half a universe away, and whatever “Moira did to her, it severed the link. ‘Then tell me how to reach you. I mean, your physical form’ Cyclops asks. Rachel replies that she doesn’t have that information, that it seems like a mind out on its own is lot more delicate than a mind inside a body.
She adds that “Moira” gave her a bad edit, and she lost it, the words - the message. ‘She wrote over it, and it’s gone. I don’t know what it is I’m supposed to tell you’ she explains. Scott orders Kavita to convene the science team, to which Rao replies that she already took that liberty. ‘Don’t worry, sweetheart…we’re coming to bring you home’ Scott tells Rachel.
Meanwhile, Rogue looks out over the ocean, the sun setting in the background. ‘May I intrude, Rogue?’ Magneto asks as he drops down alongside his companion. Rogue looks up at him and tells him that she is not fit company for anyone right now. Magneto tells Rogue that, of all the people on the island, she is one of perhaps three whose company he would voluntarily seek - and the only one whose well-being currently concerns him. Rogue hangs her head and tells Magneto that she doesn’t want to be around him, that she cannot sort out her own thoughts from Legacy’s. ‘She loved you. Loved the General. He was the thing she clung to, when she felt like she was drowning’.
‘If it helps, he cared for her, too. He used her very much as a pilot uses a compass’ Magneto reveals. But Rogue replies ‘You’re not him. You’re nothing like him at all’ and tells Magnus that it is all like a problem in math that doesn’t relate to the real world. ‘Te real world. Yes. That’s where we have to live. But it doesn’t follow that we know each other any better here. That we see any more clearly’ Magneto replies. Rogue announces that she knows she has done unforgivable things, some of them to people she loves, and reminds Magneto that she knows he is at his most dangerous when he seems kind and reasonable. ‘Is there anything else Ah need to know?’ she asks.
‘Yes. Many things’ Magneto replies, but Rogue explains that it was a rhetorical question. Magneto calls Rogue “Anna” and reminds her that they came together for a reason. Rogue replies that “Moira” put them together, that was all, and she wrote the script. Rogue turns around as Magneto tells her that there is no script now. ‘Ah know that’ Rogue replies. Magneto asks her if she is afraid to speak her mind when the thoughts and the words are her own. Rogue looks away once again and tells Magneto that she is not afraid of him, or of anyone. She pauses, before telling Magneto that if he insists, they can talk.
‘Not here. If you’ll permit me, I prefer a little more privacy than Utopia allows’ Magneto remarks. ’Lord! It’s not a date, Magnus!’ Rogue retorts. ’No. Nothing of the kind’ Magnus replies. Rogue asks him where they are going, but he picks her up and takes flight, leaving Utopia, and announcing that they are going to the place that defines them all - the past!