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Cyclops: Eyes Wide
Xavier’s School for Gifted YoungstersCerebro RoomScott Summers, age 22, sporting jeans, a blue t-shirt and a pair of ruby quartz glasses, can only stare in awe at the machinery in front of him. “Scott? Are you listening to me?” the wheelchair bound Xavier asks his prize student. The elaborate setup is called Cerebro, the Professor explains, and it’s designed to detect and locate mutants. It’s for you, Charles continues, telling Scott he will soon replace him as the leader of the X-Men.
This catches the venerable field leader off guard. Scott can only stand in shock at what he just heard. “Replace you..?” he replies. Charles wheels himself over to the Cerebro monitor and tells him it’s only temporary, explaining he has to leave on urgent business and while he’s gone he wants Scott in charge.
Scott holds up his hands in protest and tells Xavier he can’t accept the position. He admits he’s been thinking about leaving the X-Men and mentions some consultations he’s had with some doctors about curing his eye-beam problem.
The monitor in front of the Professor zooms in on the continent of Africa. Although he seems to not be paying attention he tells Scott he’s also talked to Doctor Stathis and they both agree a ”cure” is highly unlikely. Scott is confused as to how the Professor knows Doctor Stathis. Xavier tells him Stathis is also a mutant, one he found using Cerebro.
After Cerebro locks in the exact location of the mutagenic signature Charles turns to look at Scott, “I need you to listen now…” He wheels himself around telling Scott it’s not his mutant power that he was born with, but his ability to lead, to inspire others, which led to his decision. Xavier tells Scott he has a responsibility to all of humanity, mutants and humans alike.
Xavier points to the bright, red light glowing over a section of northeastern South Africa, just outside of Pretoria. At that spot on the map there are three tiny red blips in close proximity to each other. Xavier explains it’s a group of three mutants, just coming into their powers, maybe triplets or a coincidental grouping of teenagers. The Professor tells Scott those three need him, as does he.
Charles also cautions Scott of the gravity of the situation, that if he does accept the position he must do it with eyes wide open, fully aware of the risks, the responsibilities, and the losses he may incur along the way. Scott grimaces, his face shifting toward the floor. “Your eyes, Scott. Are they open?” Charles asks.
Anchorage, Alaskade Havilland MosquitoWhat was at one point a fun family trip aboard Christopher Summers’ vintage WWII bomber divulges into a nightmare for the entire Summers clan. A Shi’Ar scout ship flying above strafes the Mosquito with plasma fire. Katherine urges her husband to do something, but there’s only so much one can do against an alien race with superior technology.
The plane takes a hit halfway between the cockpit and tail. Chris tells his wife to get the boys strapped into the ‘chute. Both Alex and his older brother, the ten-year-old Scott are panic-stricken, eyes wide in fear.
Katherine fastens the pack to Scott, while Alex wraps his arms around his brother. Scott protests what she’s doing not wanting to leave his parents behind. Stuttering in a frenzied panic Katherine lies to her son that they’ll be following right after. Scott refuses to leave, saying he won’t go without them.
“Scott!” Christopher yells, his voice nearly drowned out through the noise and Alex’s crying. Scott turns to look toward his father and is told Alex is now his responsibility. Despite his reservations Scott knows what he needs to do.
Katherine rushes them over to the open door telling them over and over how much she loves them. She instructs Scott to hold onto Alex tightly and to never let him go, no matter what. Then out the door they go, plummeting toward the Earth.
Alex screams as they fall and Scott does his best to comfort him. When the parachute releases, Scott almost loses his grip on his brother. He manages to keep a grip on the back of his jacket. “I--got you--,” Scott assures him.
The Shi’Ar aren’t about to let them go either. As the alien ship continues its assault on the Summers’ plane it tears a hole through the ‘chute. It catches fire, much to Scott’s despair. When Alex asks what’s going on, Scott tells him it’s nothing. He then reminds Alex of the song dad used to sing to them and tells him to keep thinking about that. “Th-the one about the plane?” he asks. “Yeah! That one!” he replies with forced enthusiasm all the while watching as his parents’ plane goes up in flames.
Alex starts singing and continues to do so as they slowly make their way to the ground. Just as they begin to near the tops of trees Scott presses the release button on the parachute. The two boys fall to the soft earth just as their parents’ plane explodes into the mountainside. Scott hits the ground first, landing on his back, with Alex still pressed up against him. The Shi’Ar jet alters course and heads toward space. On the ground below Scott rubs the back of his head while Alex cries into his hands.
As evening falls the boys have already set up camp. Sitting on a log in a small clearing, huddled in front of a campfire, Scott holds his hands up to either side of his head and rocks forward. A concerned Alex asks if he’s ok. “I must have hit my head in the fall”, Scott replies, telling his little brother not to worry. He then suggests they sing another song.
The traumatized Alex remembers Scott had a headache yesterday and the day before. In a panicked voice he asks Scott if he has a brain tumor, if he’s going to die. Scott plays it off like it’s nothing, guessing it may be a concussion, and starts toward the little lean-to they’ve set up amongst the trees. When Scott says they should try and get some sleep Alex runs over to him and tells him if he goes to sleep he’s going to die.Bending down to his eye level, placing his hands on Alex’s shoulders, Scott looks him square in the eye and tells Alex he’s right, that he’s had these headaches before, but they always go away. He then reminds Alex of the long walk ahead of them and emphasizes their need to get some sleep. Scott recalls that their parents were planning on refueling at Glacier Bay, just south of there, and guesses somebody had to have seen the crash.
Scott also emphasizes the dangers out there, poachers and other riff-raff they don’t want to run into. He uses this as the reason they need to get going at first light. He then reminds Alex of the promise he made mom and dad, the one where he would take care of him. “I’m good at taking care of things”, he assures Alex.
“Scott?” Alex asks softly, averting his eyes from his big brother. “I don’t miss ‘em yet. Is that wrong?” Scott tells him he’s just in shock, as is he, and promises he’ll miss them soon enough.
A spotlight suddenly appears on the outskirts of their camp and is quickly shining down on their faces. A U.S. military chopper hovers overhead. A voice on a bullhorn orders them to stay where they are upon threat of shooting. The voice orders them to place their hands in the air. When neither child complies the voice becomes agitated and yells at them to do it.
Alex looks over at his big brother and asks what to do. Scott rubs his head with another headache coming on, a faint whisp of red energy leaking out from his clenched left eye. It goes away quickly and he tells Alex to run, though he stays standing as the chopper slowly makes its descent.Several men wearing winter-camouflage uniforms carrying M-16s scout the immediate area. A soldier wearing a brown knit cap reports back to the officer in charge that there’s no sign of poachers or Russkies, just the kid.
One of the men approaches Scott and asks what he’s doing out there, questioning if he was on that plane that went down. Scott tells him he was and points to the woods saying he and his brother were the only survivors. He tells Alex to come out and the scared boy eventually does. The soldiers load them onto the helicopter with Scott once again promising to take care of him.
Omaha, NebraskaState Home for FoundlingsIt’s nighttime in Omaha, which means bedtime at the orphanage. The seventeen-year-old Scott has the bottom bunk in his room and once again he’s holding his hands to his head, writhing in pain from another intense headache. His top bunkmate, Nate, looks down at him and whispers for him to go to sleep. Scott complains about his head and then bolts upright.
“No!” he yells, opening his eyes wide. He’s unprepared for what happens next as his eyes let loose with an immensely powerful red energy blast that blows a hole clean through his room to the outside of the house. Scott closes his eyes, not meaning to have done that. He carefully finds his way to the crater in the wall and leaps out to the ground below. He runs over to the wall surrounding the place and climbs over top. The headmaster, Milbury, rushes out just in time to see Scott escape.
Later, Scott finds himself in an alley somewhere in the city. He sits down in his stocking feet on a slab of concrete. His hands still covering his eyes he screams out loud, “What’s happening to me?” A figure in a wheelchair makes its way toward him explaining it’s nothing unnatural. When he reaches Scott he hands him a yellow visor with a ruby quartz lens and tells him to put it on.
Scott does as told and can feel the quartz keeping his power in check. Xavier explains ruby quartz is designed to stop many wavelengths of light and energy. Now Scott’s a little bit suspicious and asks why the man is giving this to him and what he wants in return. Xavier folds his hands together and tells Scott he doesn’t have to do anything, but would appreciate it if he would at least hear him out.
Cape CitadelAll hell’s broke loose at Cape Citadel where an evil mutant has taken over. Bullet casings litter the pavement where Cyclops stands firing his optic blasts at a powerful force field centered around the control room.
“Professor? I’m listening-- are you with me?” the 22-year-old Cyclops relates to Xavier via telepathy. Xavier responds, filling Scott in as to the whereabouts of the rest of the team. He tells Cyclops he’s alone on this one; the first attack falls on him. Cyke wants to know what this “evil mutant” wants. There’s no time for psychoanalysis, the Professor tells him, and orders Scott to concentrate on tactics.
From his home at the School for Gifted Youngsters Charles tells Cyclops to link his mind with his so he can see what he sees on the mansion’s computer screen. After doing so he asks Scott if he can now see the direction of the magnetic current of the force field. The mental image of red lines relayed from Charles is clear as day. The Professor then tells him to fire a beam directly parallel to the force lines.
Cyclops lets loose with a thin, well-aimed beam along the current line. Xavier then instructs him to create a wider spread blast running perpendicular to it. Feeling coddled the field leader of the X-Men cuts him off and tells Xavier to let him work. As you wish, Scott… Xavier replies mentally. “…lesson over,” he states to himself.
The force field shatters in front of Cyclops. He hurries his way inside only to be met by dozens of metallic objects flying through the air at him. A man in a red and purple outfit, wearing a helmet and cape levitates in the air in the center of the room. The attack knocks Scott down and makes him a bit groggy. As he struggles to his feet he tries contacting the Professor to no avail.
“He appears to have abandoned you…,” Magneto proclaims, “…another father gone away.” Maybe Xavier’s power isn’t as strong as he claims, Magneto suggests. After all, he continues, Cyclops was able to penetrate his force field, but he was not. Magneto tells Scott he’s outgrown Xavier.This doesn’t sit well with Cyclops. With a grim look of determination he gets back to his feet and fires an optic blast directed at Magneto’s head. The Master of Magnetism blocks it with ease telling Cyclops he’ll never beat him with the same trick twice. He then slams Cyclops into the wall using his own magnetic prowess.
Magneto tells Cyclops he heard his voice traveling through the magnetic waves and heard him questioning what an evil mutant is, and what Magneto wanted. He holds out his hand to Scott and tells him to ask away.
The first question Scott has is how Magneto knows his name. He tells Cyclops he’s been monitoring Xavier’s “Institute” and the poison he’s been using to infect their minds, his fairy tales of good and evil. Magneto proclaims to have seen evil and says what he’s doing is mere practicality than anything. He rambles on about the natural order and claims Xavier denies these teachings with his preaching of cooperation and communication with the baseline humans. “A quick study of history shows: he has already lost,” Magneto declares.
The lecture continues as Magneto asks if Xavier ever explained the motives, the goals, the demons, the passions that drive him, if he trusted Scott to weigh the options and choose a side. “Or did he simply cry: ’Evil Mutant’?” Magneto ends with a flourish.
Scott seems to be at a crossroads, unsure of how to respond to his questions. His teammates don’t give him any time to think either as Magneto spies them on his monitor approaching the force field. He tells Cyclops his friends are coming, but first he wants to plant a tiny seed.
With a wave of magnetic energy he rips off Scott’s mask. Scott tells him to stop, but Magneto only tells him to close his eyes and promises not to take advantage of his condition, he only wants him to listen, for one day they will face each other on the battlefield where Magneto will show what he’s truly capable of.
Magneto levitates as he explains that one day mutants will rule the Earth. He claims his actions only hasten the day. Scott doesn’t buy it pointing out that Magneto has murdered innocents, hijacked missiles and threatened millions with destruction. It’s a fine line between revolutionary and terrorist, Magneto retorts. Doesn’t it just all depend on which side wins, he asks Scott. Cyclops, crawling on the floor in search of his mask, tells him it doesn’t.
As his fingers grasp his hooded garb Scott places it back on his head and tells Magneto he’s wrong. He does admit Xavier’s teachings might be too simplistic and concedes humans might always live in fear of mutants, but that doesn’t mean they have to wipe each other out. They can’t become terrorists because neither side will win, Cyke continues. He implores Magneto they need to be better than that.
“We can be more. We can be a brotherhood--,” Cyclops states before his teammates finally break through into the room. Magneto decides there’s no time like the present to make good his escape. Before flying off he tells Scott he has an interesting theory, one that may be put to the test after his “father” is dead and gone.
Cyclops orders the team to stop him, but they’re waylaid by a bunch of metal objects flying through the air. As the team recovers, pushing chairs and the like off of themselves, Marvel Girl asks what Magneto wanted. Scott only tells her he’s an evil mutant, one who would have probably killed him in another minute. He then thanks them for their backup. Warren places a reassuring hand on his shoulder and reminds him they’re the X-Men and they’ll always back him up.
the presentCerebro RoomHaving relived some of the defining moments in his life Scott Summers has an answer for the Professor, but first he has to make sure Charles understands something. If he is going to lead he will make decisions based on his own judgment, decisions Xavier might not like. He asks the Professor if his eyes are open. Yes, Charles replies after a moment’s hesitation.
“Then I’ll do it. I accept. I’ll lead the X-Men,” Scott states. “I’ll lead them all,” he adds, looking at the Cerebro monitor where more red blips have started to appear.


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Nativity
Many years ago in Germany a young Kurt Szardos is the acrobatic main event in Herr Max Getmann’s Traveling Circus. Kurt’s amazing agility is not what bewilders the audience though. It is his blue skin, pointed ears, yellow eyes, three fingers per hand, two toes per foot and devilish tail that not only amazes but also frightens them. Even though he is a star there is emptiness in his eyes. At the end of each show Kurt is met by Getmann, his mother Margali, and the strong man Rolfe Geht and then taken to Doc Mojo for his medicine. His mother does not approve of the so called medicine but her weak appearance and worn down eyes shows how much of a fight she can put up.The shot stings and Kurt is unconscious. Margali can only watch as her son is thrown into a cage like an animal. Kurt later is woken up by Getmann yelling at his mother about a bad tasting meal. She apologizes and tells her other children Stephan and Jimaine to prepare another meal while she visits Kurt who asks her to tell him the story of how she found him. She tells him a happy fairytale of his real mother giving him to Margali due to his real father being of a lower class than her. She tells Kurt that she went and sought the perfect home for such a blessing and that is how they came to the circus. It is a nice story but Kurt knows it is a lie, a lie he prefers.flashback to the true story:Kurt’s real mother, Mystique, is chased by a lynch mob for giving birth to a baby that looks like the devil. She is forced to abandon baby Kurt and sends him down the river. Margali finds him but is forced to leave her Gypsy home cause no one else wanted the baby around and thought it was of the devil. They came to the circus and were taken in because Getmann thought he could make a profit off Kurt’s looks and would use the rest of his family as slaves.First Getmann put Kurt in a cage just to show off. When Kurt just sat there Getmann would take him and whip him. One day Kurt had had enough lashes and used his agility to evade Getmann’s whip. Getmann found usefulness for Kurt and made him the main event for his show.present:Kurt is wakened again by his mother and Herr Getmann arguing. Armen Frellich, Getmann’s whipping boy, tells Kurt Getmann is coming for him. Getmann has decided Kurt would be more profitable if he sold him to another circus or a taxidermist. Margali tells Armen to get her something heavy, she is breaking Kurt out. Armen brings her a shovel and she tells him to leave. She breaks Kurt out and tells him to run. He does not want to leave for fear of what will happen to her and his siblings. She assures him they will be safe and then sets fire to the camp to cover Kurt’s escape.The cover does not work as Getmann sends his goons after Kurt. Kurt cannot out run the goons due to the effects of the medicine. He is eventually caught and Getmann orders his men to kill Kurt. Staring down the barrel of a gun Kurt prepares to die when all of a sudden he disappears. He reappears a little farther away out of the goons’ sight. Although he is not sure of what just happened Kurt smiles to himself and continues to run.Two days later at a church a priest known as Father Wagner hears someone in the rafters. He is shocked the see Kurt’s devilish form. Still Wagner welcomes Kurt and tells him there is food and a cot waiting for him when he is ready to come down. Over the next few weeks Wagner cares for Kurt and teaches him the bible.One night a boy bursts into the church needing sanctuary. Kurt recognizes the boy as Armen. Armen apologizes to Kurt for he has led Getmann and his goons to the Church. Getmann enters and is pleased to see that he has found both of his runaways. Father Wagner tells Getmann that the boys are protected in the church but Getmann attacks them all anyway.After Getmann strikes Armen, Kurt teleports him to a farm where he will be take care of. Kurt returns to find that Getmann has set fire to the church. Furious Kurt tells Getmann that he is going to take his advice and seize every opportunity. Kurt uses his powers to beat Getmann.Kurt is about to drop Getmann off the roof, but Wagner begs him to not forfeit his own soul. At the words of the priest Kurt frees Getmann. Getmann is not as forgiving and orders his goons to shoot Kurt. Kurt stands and prepares yet again to face his death.Suddenly a voice tells Kurt that they will not hurt them. Kurt opens his eyes to see everyone frozen except a man in a wheelchair. The man tells Kurt that he is Professor Charles Xavier and that he has stopped everyone with his mind. Xavier wants Kurt to join the X-Men. Kurt is reluctant to leave his family and Father Wagner. Xavier assures him that his family and the priest will be safe and that everyone else will think he died in the fire.Kurt agrees but when Xavier calls him Kurt Szardos, Kurt tells him that he died in the fire and that from then on he is Kurt Wagner.


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DeadPool “The Major Motion Picture”
Chapter 1: Mulholland DriveA screen writer pulls up to an appointment he has on Mulholland Drive. He sees blood leading up to the door. Suddenly a man who has been shot in the leg comes out screaming not to go in. The writer walks in anyway. Sitting in a chair is DeadPool holding a smoking gun. “Guess you’re my 3:30.” DeadPool says.
DeadPool pours himself a glass of whiskey and explains that since Hollywood is making everything into a movie he wants to beat them to the punch on writing a movie about him. But so far the interviews for screenwriters haven’t gone well. The first wanted to make it a big action flick and didn’t listen to what DeadPool wanted. He told him it needed to be “high concept”. DeadPool pulled a gun and said “This high? Or maybe a little higher?” then shot the writer in the arm. The second wanted to change DeadPool into a washed up drunk country singer trying to connect with his son. DeadPool said nothing and shot him in the leg.
DeadPool asks this writer what he’s got. The writer says he has nothing and wants to hear DeadPool’s story. DeadPool pours another glass of whiskey and says “Okay, then buddy. You might be sorry you asked. After all it is an Origin Story….”
Chapter Two: The Naked and The DeadDeadPool starts out by saying like so many other origin story his starts out with him naked in a tank of water with needles stuck in him everywhere. He explains that he had volunteered for some experimental trials in Canada that might cure his stage four cancer. Something went wrong in the trials which left him disfigured but gave him incredible regenerative powers. They continued to experiment on him. They shot his fingers off, set him on fire, but whatever they did he healed quickly but never to what he used to look like.
They told him that while they tried to figure it out that he could stay in Club Med. Instead they threw him in a cell. DeadPool goaded a fat guard to fight him, making the guard think he was weak. He used that opportunity to escape. He decided to become a mercenary again and got a mask and costume to cover his disfigured face. Since he now dressed in a costume and had super powers he got weirder gigs. On one job he was to kill a half cyborg mutant from the future. Instead they ended up being best friends.
The writer stops DeadPool and says he wants to know about what happened before all of that. He wants to know about the man he was before he was DeadPool. He wants to know about Wade Wilson. DeadPool replies “Huh. You want to know the truth about Wade Wilson? He was an Idiot.”
Chapter Three: Inglorious BasterdDeadPool says that Wade Wilson was a mercenary with a moral code. He would only take jobs he believed in. If the target was a bad guy who deserved to die he would do it. Then he would go back to Boston to his hot girlfriend.
After coming back from killing some dictator Wade’s girlfriend is excited to see him. She is all over him while he is looking for a letter from the hospital. He finds it and finds out he has cancer. His girlfriend tells him she will stay with him through it all. Wade swore a long time ago he would not be a burden to anyone. He didn’t want her to watch him die. So he left. Going from bar to bar wade would get into fights since he couldn’t physically fight the cancer. One night he met another old mercenary who told him about the Weapon X project in Canada.DeadPool wants to move on to the cool stuff but the writer wants to go deeper into his past. He wants to know about DeadPool’s childhood saying it is the emotional center of the movie. DeadPool says that his dad was a real kidder. His dad would go behind the front door and knock. Wade would ask “Who’s there” and his dad would do a “knock, knock” joke. One day his dad went behind the front door and never knocked. Wade thought he was tricking him so he knocked himself but his dad never answered.
Chapter Four: A Star Is BornAfter his dad left his mother became a drunk and Wade practically had to raise himself. When he was old enough he joined the army. His superiors said he was a natural survivor. After his time in the army Wade went into business for himself and became a mercenary. He was first a merc with a cause. Now he doesn’t care anymore. “You care too much, you bleed.”
While shots of a battle between him and Wolverine are shown DeadPool explains that there are two things you can do when faced with horrible situations. You can either laugh or cry. He says laughter is nature’s anesthesia and tears hurt too much. DeadPool begins to tell about a time he was fighting the hulk but the writer says he has enough. DeadPool is surprised. The writer is about to leave but then asks if DeadPool could see his dad again what he would ask him. DeadPool replies “My Dad? I think I would ask him for the punch line.”
Chapter Five: Kiss Kiss Bang BangAlmost three years later the premiere of DeadPool: Origins has arrived. DeadPool is there letting people take pictures with him. The writer pulls up and DeadPool tells him he is nervous but the writer assures him everything will be great. The movie starts and DeadPool is already upset that they put a space between dead and pool in the title.
They make the scene of him in the weapon x project comical until the first big explosion which everyone love but DeadPool. The scene with wade and his girlfriend is filled with corny cliché dialogue and a Celine Dion song which dead pool hates, then another explosion. The next scene shows a young wade asking his dad to tell him a joke. His dad says he can’t because the president has called him on an important mission. When his dad gets in the car it explodes.
DeadPool has had enough and thinks about killing everybody. He imagines shooting the audience and the popcorn workers. He imagines saying “I’m ready for my close up, Mr. Demillstone.” To the writer as he is running scarred. Instead he just leaves.
Afterwards everyone is congratulating the writer. He wonders where Wade is and then hits the unlock button on his keychain. His car explodes.
Chapter Six: The Long GoodbyeDeadPool drives out to an old house. He dug up the address years ago but never intended to use it till now. He knocks on the door. An old man answers and asks who’s there. “Wade” says DeadPool. “Wade… Wade who?” asks the old man. “Wade until you see what happened to me, dad.” DeadPool says as he pulls off his mask.
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Will & Love
This is the story of a woman who both lost and found herself…
Emma, as a young woman, nervously peers through a curtain, then walks on the stage of the Hellfire Cabaret, dressed up as an ice princess stripper.
Think of it as a sort of fairy tale… a parable… Your lurid celebrity story of the week.
Without much skill, she parades around on the stage, boring the audience who finally boo and jeer, shouting at her to take off her clothes. She’s trying the best she can, she mutters, then screams and attacks the men telepathically.
But whatever you do, whatever judgment you care to make, please understand one thing… I tried the best I could.
Calling them cretins, she shouts, are they actually looking for talent? They’ve got a girl covered in honey backstage who can do the Lambeth Walk with a boa constrictor. Maybe that will satisfy their need for culture!
Feeling her humiliation, she recalls how this scene has happened again and again, recalls a similar scene at school when she was humiliated and lashed out telepathically, shouting why there were doing that to her. It was never her intention though. All she ever really wanted to do was help. All she ever wanted to do was teach.
Flashback:
Emma as a young girl (still a brunette) plays teacher. Her dolls and stuffed toys are lined up as her class to whom she is reading one of her favorite stories: “Sleeping Beauty.” The fairy tale is interrupted by her father, who angrily berates her for playing her fantasy games with her dolls. A perfect recipe for a feeble mind and underachievement, he scoffs. Certainly not worthy of a Frost. He slaps her toys aside. Does she think she can wait until she is an adult, to get serious about life and a career? Does she think she’ll be able to just coast along on Daddy’s money till she finds herself? He viciously steps on a doll’s head. He doesn’t indulge laziness or failure. The only way to make it in this world is to work hard and be the absolute best. He grabs Emma’s face. Perhaps she ought to spend more time learning how to look pretty like her sister Adrienne or else cease her foolish play and decide to become something more than a simpering bucktoothed pansy! He leaves and a dejected Emma stares at her broken dolls.
She walks to her elegant mother who is pouring herself a drink and reveals father’s been cross with her again. It made her feel really bad. It’s just his way, her mother sighs. She’ll just learn to deal with it after a while. But he picks on her more than anyone here, Emma complains. She keeps trying but he’s always cross with her anyway. He hates her, she sobs. Trying to comfort her, her mother reveals a secret: her father seems so very cruel to her because he actually loves her the most.
(years later)
A teenage Emma (fighting with acne) sits in class, reading a vampire novel. Her teacher Miss Collier calls her out about her term paper. The other girls make fun of her and her looks. Emma tries to ignore their vicious taunts as Miss Collier announces her paper was wonderful.
Later at dinner, Emma happily announces that Miss Collier wants her to read the paper for the entire assembly of ninth graders. She thinks it would teach them a good lesson about civics and the love of learning. Predictably, her father is not impressed. Does she think reading some sentimental pap to a room full of children is supposed to be an achievement?
Here they go again, one of Emma’s sisters mutters. Emma speaks up: she won’t let him discourage her this time. She can do this and do it well! It will be a triumph! Whether she succeeds or fails in this pathetic venture is of no consequence, he points out. If she fails, they will mock her. If she succeeds, they will be jealous of her and seek to tear her down. The only goal worth seeking is not the approval of others, but power over them. Emma calls him a heartless monster. He is a Frost and so is she, he reminds her. Emma gets up. She doesn’t want to be a Frost. She wants to be like everyone else! She will never be like everyone else, he spells out for her. Her money her family, her very DNA set her apart! There is no hope for some utopian existence she has cooked up in her fancies. Gain as much power as possible and use it! That is the only way for her kind!
On the stairs, Emma experiences another migraine attack that happen more and more often when she gets upset.
The scenery shifts. Two girls at school tell her to wait up and praise her for the speech she is doing later that day. While one of them wishes her luck, the other secretly exchanges the sheets with the speech from Emma’s rucksack.
Later, Emma stands in front of the girls, beginning her speech. Instead of her notes, she finds a note saying “Emma Frost is a flat-chested zit-faced nerd who has to get her father to buy her a boyfriend.”
The two girls laugh. Why did they do this to her? Emma shouts, her migraine accelerating and, suddenly, she telepathically hits everyone in the room, in the whole school even, sickening and stunning everyone. When she hears the EMS and police coming into the auditorium, Emma pretends to be unconscious as well.
However, she didn’t fool everyone, for some time later Professor Charles Xavier and Dr. Moira MacTaggert are at the Frosts’ door, speaking to Emma’s father. In her room, Emma wonders if they are cops or from the FBI. She figures she’s in trouble. Do they know?
A mental voice tells her they do know but she is not in trouble. Xavier telepathically asks her not to be afraid. He is a telepath like her. A mutant like her. Emma storms out of her room and eavesdrops on the conversation between the adults.
Xavier telepathically explains that he has a school for children like her. Mutant children. Gifted children like her. And her father is currently turning his offer down.
Frost gets up agitated. A stranger presumes to know his child better than he?
It doesn’t need to be this way, Xavier telepathically tells Emma. She has an incredible amount of power inside her. But that power needs training. Honing. And with that he can help her. She knows enough of how their power works to know that he can change her father’s mind. He can show him the error of his ways…
Don’t touch her father! Emma shouts out loud and strides downstairs. She tells Xavier he doesn’t know her father and doesn’t know her family! She doesn’t want to go to his stupid school! If that’s what she wants, Xavier admits defeated. Frost steps between Xavier and Emma, announcing it’s what he wants. He orders Xavier and Moira to leave, and they do.
Father and daughter look after them, then he strikes her in the face. How dare she eavesdrop on him? That moment, she thinks about burning his mind out, leaving him a vegetable. But how is that any different from what he would do? Instead, she apologizes and smiles, deciding to leave. To live with her father would have led her to be like her father and that was something she could not do.
And where did it get her? Starving in New York City. Her life skills nil, reduced to a stripper, sitting in her wardrobe after the debacle on stage. Suddenly, the door bursts open and a middle-aged man in 18th century costume comes stalking in, angrily berating her for scampering about his brain. He’s not one of her helpless Hellfire buffoons! Don’t ever enter his mind without his permission! Angrily, he smashes her face against the table.
At that moment, something snaps inside Emma and she attacks him telepathically, threatening to kill him. The man is thrown backward, then congratulates her. The full extent of her power has exceeded his hopes. What the hell is he talking about? she demands. He calls Emma a diamond in the rough. Still a bit hesitant and awkward, but just waiting for the right man to… He kisses her. And after some hesitation, Emma responds.
The man’s name is Sebastian Shaw, a bigwig at the Hellfire Club. Of course he has plan, namely for them to take over the world together… Shaw makes Emma his White Queen and while she has the power it is Shaw who gives her direction. They rid the Hellfire Club of those who would threaten mutants and install themselves as the Club’s Black King and White Queen.
Emma gains money, power, attention; the things she should have been working toward all those many years of insecurity. Together there is nothing they cannot do and they do it all… Like taking a crew of innocent, young partygoers to a bondage party and scaring the hell out of them.
Pensive, Shaw brings up the point that anti-mutant sentiment is growing. And there are too many mutant groups like the simpering X-Men who threaten the Hellfire Club’s authority. They need something more than those dullards they call guard and soldiers. They need mutants. And they need them young while their minds and wills are still pliable. Emma suggests a perfect solution, a school! And what? he mocks. She’ll be the prim headmistress then? Wear her hair up in a bun?
That’s precisely what Emma does as she founds the Massachusetts Academy and gathers her class of mutant students, the Hellions. Only teaching is giving her a sense of satisfaction, she finds, considering the children her legacy, and she takes her job very seriously.
During a training session she berates Empath for not doing anything while some of the others – Jetstream and Catseye – laugh at him. Empath points out stuttering he is only good as a PSI. He’s not fast or strong enough. Excuses don’t cut it! she tells him cuttingly. Now get the hell out of the way and let his classmates continue! He’s pathetic! Crying, he runs away.
Afterwards, the other two ask if he is okay. Did mean Miss Frost make him cry? “Cry?” he asks and begins to manipulate them into kissing each other, then hitting each other. He’s more powerful than all of them put together, he shouts at them. Remember that! He can make them do what he wants!
And just like that, Emma figures, her tutelage worked. She suddenly believes to see her father before her and realizes she is truly her father’s daughter. Perhaps if she’d accepted Xavier’s offer, things would have turned out differently… But as it is, what her father did to her, what he turned her into, is a very successful woman…
This is the story of a woman who both lost and found herself…
And so, a little later the White Queen addresses her X-Men prisoners…


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It’s dark. Jean is out on the Xavier Institute’s grounds. She’s using her powers to locate Wolverine who’s isolated himself outside. He pops out above her on a tree branch. He explains to Jean he needs to be left alone. Jean protests, telling him a week’s been long enough. Wolverine tells her as long as Sabretooth is in the house; he’s not going in. Jean continues on, telling Logan that Creed was slowly making progress. Logan doesn’t want to hear it. He tells her that if he’s needed she knows where to find him. With that, he disappears. Jean’s left to her thoughts. She realizes now that he’s run into the woods, she doesn’t recognize his psionic imprint. It’s as if he’s changed mentally.
Elsewhere on the estate, Bishop and Xavier are having a discussion about the team‘s recent trip to the past. Bishop has been having nightmares, only they seem real, more like memories instead of dreams. He keeps seeing a world where humans are slaughtered and a different team of X-Men exists; a truly horrible place. He asks Charles if he thinks he’s crazy. The Professor thinks the problem may be stress. He admits that his psi-patterns have changed since they came back from Israel. He also goes on to say that maybe what Bishop sees is the future.
In Yonkers, New York, a young man named Dennis Hogan exits a subway car. He walks off the subway platform and down some steps onto a sidewalk. He’s hungry so he walks across the street to a small diner. He knows he’s taking a much-needed break. After all, he’s been traveling for the past few days, in search of Charles Xavier. He tries to calm himself before entering the eatery. He needs to stay calm in order to keep his mutant power under control. At this point his right hand takes on a scaly texture and he hides it in his pocket, while trying to calm down. Then he walks in.
Manhattan, at the CNBC cable news network studio, Trish Tilby is pacing around rather anxiously. She attempts to reassure herself that what she’s about to do is for the good of the people; she knows that she will be betraying a friend. A man walks in by the name of Clay and interrupts her. He wants to know if she’s continuing with the story, if she’s found someone to confirm the rumors. She tells him she does, a head researcher from Muir Island. Clay tries to convince her not to do it. He tells her the hatred of mutants will only increase if she goes ahead with the story. He asks her if she will be able to live with herself. In her hand she’s holding a brown folder. The label across the top reads “Legacy Virus”.
At the Belle Fourche River Dam, X-Factor is on the lookout for Mystique. There’s a Sentinel processing plant below the dam and word had it Mystique was going to blow the dam to flood it. Forge scales the dam wall and locates the bomb. Meanwhile below, Havok and Polaris help evacuate the workers. Val radios in to Forge and tells him she’s found Mystique. Forge tries to tell her to wait, but she pretends the transmission breaks up. Val goes after her alone. Mystique is running through a nearby cave. She knows she’s almost busted and pushes onward. A shadowy figure emerges and slices up her chest with his arm. The shape says, “It… begins” and disappears. Val finds her soon after and calls in a medivac. Forge thinks to himself about his troubled past with Mystique.
Back at Xavier’s Institute, Hank and Scott are fixing up some eats in the kitchen. They talk about Gambit’s comatose condition and how it’s affecting Storm and Rogue. They leave, food in hand, and bump into Bishop in the hallway. They invite him to join them for a meal and he politely refuses. Then, out of nowhere, he grabs Scott by the face, whips out his gun and points it at Hank. He calls them “butchers” and accuses them of crimes committed in the name of the “High Lord”. Cyclops uses his optic blast to disintegrate Bishop’s gun. This only angers him more and he absorbs part of Cyclops’s energy blast to re-channel and use it against him. He rears back to deck Scott. Cyclops tries to calm him down, but Bishop tells him he won’t listen to his “lies” anymore. Beast takes to the air and somersaults over Bishop’s head, kicking him in the face. Cyclops grabs Bishop and pushes him back. Then Bishop’s mood changes. He wants to know why Scott and Hank are attacking him. Scott tells him that he tried to kill them. Bishop, looking rather scared, wants to know what’s happening to him.
Back in Yonkers, Dennis is about to receive his soup. The waitress seems to have taken a liking to him and flirts a little. He thinks to himself he shouldn’t hook up with a human, and then gets angry with himself for thinking such a thing. He’s still a human. On the diner’s TV a news report about the Legacy Virus comes on. Dennis can feel his whole arm morphing. He needs to calm himself down and hopes that he will find the X-Men soon.
Inside a drainage pipe at the George Washington Bridge, a bum by the name of Jim Davis is about to meet his maker. He had followed a bright light emanating from this tunnel and it is this light that draws him further in. Suddenly, three bones spikes course through his body and come clean out his back. He falls dead. His attacker, Marrow, picks him up by the hair and drags him away from the ceremony of light, which she was performing. No humans allowed after all. Marrow remembers the last time the ceremony was performed decades ago. Some fellow mutants did it back then, although they were not part of the Morlocks. She goes on to say that something big is going to happen and it will happen soon.
Back at the mansion, Scott, Bishop and Hank continue their walk to Ororo. Bishop wants more tests done on him to see what’s wrong. Scott and Hank try to argue, but Bishop insists that it’s for the team’s safety. They reluctantly agree. Beast opens the door to Gambit’s med-room and sees Storm sitting next to the comatose Cajun. They drop off her food and leave to run those tests on Bishop. Storm is left to wonder what’s going on. Then she wonders why he and Rogue had to kiss in the first place and what caused Rogue to leave so abruptly. She asks aloud what secret Gambit could have that would scare Rogue off.
Speaking of Rogue, her and Iceman’s are currently in Key Largo, Florida. They’re at a nightclub and Rogue is beboppin’ with some dude on the dance floor. The guy tries to grab Rogue’s bare arm, so Bobby comes over and attempts to keep him away. The big galoot grabs Bobby by the shoulder. Then he slips on a patch of ice that suddenly appeared on the floor. Most of the dancers turn to look at what’s going on. Not Bobby though. Something else has caught his attention. On a nearby TV a breaking news report has just been announced. Trish Tilby is breaking the news on the Legacy Virus.
At Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, the newest generation of mutant superheroes are plopped down in front of the boob tube. They too are watching the news report and are none too happy. Tilby goes on to report that at least one human has been affected by the supposed mutant disease. Jubilee calls for Banshee and the White Queen to check it out.
In Washington D.C., Senator Robert Kelly also sees the news. At the mention of Multiple Man’s death and X-Factor’s involvement he becomes angry. He gets on the phone and demands to be connected to Forge and Val Cooper.
Moira MacTaggert and Rory Campbell are also present on Muir Island to hear Ms. Tilby’s report. Trish continues her report saying Moira was the lone human so far that is infected by the virus. Moira shuts off the TV. Rory wants to know what they should do. Moira tells him she doesn’t know.
Back at the diner, the people watching the newscast are upset. They start spewing anti-mutant propaganda. Dennis pays his bill and silently leaves the restaurant. The patrons continue with mutant jokes until one of them notices the door still open. They suspect that Dennis left in a hurry because he might have been a mutant, or worse, an infected mutant. They aim to find out.
At the mansion, the X-Men watch as Trish’s report finishes. The most affected person in the room is Hank, who happens to have a relationship with Trish. Everyone tries to comfort him, but he remains upset. He storms off. The X-Men discuss what the next course of action should be. Professor X tells Scott to contact Cable; he has an offer for him. Suddenly the Professor and Psylocke reel back in pain. A powerful psionic presence just fell to Earth and the backlash was tremendous.
Indeed, somewhere in Switzerland, a fiery comet falls from the sky. From afar, a being called Blaquesmith watches on his data screen. He tells the computer to lock onto the coordinates. A close-up of the landing site shows that it wasn’t a comet, but a man. Nate Grey, aka X-Man, has crossed over from the Age of Apocalypse. Blaquesmith notes to himself that this is not the first temporal rift he witnesses.
Somewhere in England, a mutant by the name of Emplate shows up at the Edgerton estate. He wants to see Lady Gayle and he won’t take no for an answer. Niles, the butler, shows him the way. Niles brings Emplate to Gayle’s room. Gayle’s inside sitting in a wheelchair stoking the fire. Emplate moves in to talk and receives a hot poker in the chest. He starts to laugh for it doesn’t hurt him. He wants to know more about Jonothon Starsmore and he knows Gayle has some answers.
Back in New York, Dennis is running through the back streets of Yonkers. He trips over his own feet and falls to the ground. Dennis wonders if he should just give up. He knows the kids from the diner are chasing him, but he just wants to be left alone. He decides to get up and hopes that the rumors of the Xavier Institute being connected to the X-Men are true. Right away headlights shine on him. The kids have caught up. They accuse him of being a mutant, shaking the weapons in their hands. He pleads with them, but it’s no use. They move in for a beat down. Dennis suddenly morphs all the way and turns green and scaly. He’s nowhere near calm and can no longer control his mutation. A girl gets scared and yells for help. One of the guys takes a bat to Dennis’ head. Then, as he lay there, they proceeded to beat the life out of him.
Just then at the mansion, Xavier telepathically receives Dennis’ fears and pain. He tells Storm they need to head north immediately. She hurls him up with her winds and they take off. He reaches out to his X-Men with his mind and asks for his assistance.
In Murderworld, current home of X-Force, Cable interrupts the team’s practice session. He seems pretty irate. Up in the control deck, a hologram of Arcade’s head appears to Domino. Arcade has detected them in his hideout and has set the place to self-destruct. He tells her they have a minute to evacuate. They all make it out of there even though the place blew up after only 50 seconds. Warpath went back in to get Sunspot, and Siryn wonders if that is wise, considering all that Sunspot has done while he was Reignfire. However as the dust settles, they see Sunspot carrying Warpath out of the rubble. He says that thanks to Cable he is free of the Reignfire persona and ready to take his place among the team again. X-Force are surprised to see Cyclops standing there. He tells Cable that Xavier wants to have a word with them. Cable, of course, is happy to oblige.
Back in Wyoming, X-Factor is still dealing with the Mystique situation. Havok and Polaris are making sure the area is evacuated while Forge tends to the shapeshifter’s safety. He runs over to her location and only sees Val, lying on the ground. She says that Mystique only played possum and got away, and then asks Forge to help her get up. Forge knows that the real Val would never do that and kicks her in the face. “Val“ falls back unconscious and reverts back to her true form, Mystique. The real Val comes out from the cave. She makes a comment about their future plans for Mystique and how she probably won’t like them. Forge radios Polaris to see if they’re ready to go. She gives him the affirmative and just then Havok starts pulsating with energy. Then the dam explodes. Val yells at Forge about disarming the bomb. He assures her he did and that there must have been another one. Polaris comes flying over with Havok in her arms. They’re all right, but it wasn’t a bomb that went off, it was Havok !
In Hammer Bay, the capital of Genosha, Kitty Pryde, Douglock, Pete Wisdom and Mr. Edgerton, Genosha’s oldest mutate, search for evidence of the weapon being used to kill the mutates. Edgerton is looking through some papers of Dr. Moreau and is frightened by what he reads. He mentions something about the end of the world. Wisdom tells them to hurry it up. They need to meet up with Captain Britain and Nightcrawler. Somewhere else, Sugar Man is sitting at his desk watching the foursome as they search for their clues. He’s afraid they’re getting too close. So he incinerates mutate number 01. Not only is Mr. Edgerton destroyed, but the papers he was holding as well. Sugar Man definitely does not want to be found, he managed to stay hidden ever since he arrived in the timeline twenty years ago.
At Avalon up in space, Colossus and a trio of his fellow Acolytes head outside to examine something floating near the station. Milan links up with Exodus, who’s inside, so he can watch what’s going on. Exodus orders Colossus to bring the object inside. Then he goes on to tell the other Acolytes that it might be a sign. Amelia Voght thinks to herself that Exodus might be wrong to bring this thing on board. After all, they don’t know what it is. Outside, the team reaches the object. It’s actually a huge ball of ice. Piotr orders Rusty to melt it down with his powers though It flares up itself from within and everyone backs off. Now that most of it is melted away they can see there’s a person inside and that this person is alive.
In the sewer tunnels, Marrow has finished the Ceremony of Light, though without the desired effect – her fellows did not come. Someone extinguishes the candle flame and the lights disappear. She turns to see whom it is and is happy to see it is her “father”, the one who made them. She wasn’t sure if she would ever see him. She tells him she’s is one of many others who are finally tired of hiding what they are. He reaches out his hand and comforts her. It’s the Dark Beast who has also made it to the main reality. He can tell she’s a descendant of a Morlock. After all, they were his work. McCoy mentions that most of the Morlocks turned out to be a disappointment, besides Callisto of course. He then asks Marrow how many more like her there are, and she replies that six of them are ready to wreak havoc on the humans. Dark McCoy smiles.
Back in New York, the kids are still beating on Dennis while Professor and Storm fly to the rescue. Dennis takes a few more blows and the Professor goes blank. His mind goes out to Dennis to be with him during his torment. He can feel every punch and every kick. He can hear what they’re saying, but can’t really see them because of all the blood. Then the bat comes down on Dennis again and the Professor feels nothing. He’s ripped from Dennis’ body and screams in despair. He knows it’s too late. They won’t make it on time. The teenagers stop knowing the mutant is dead. They run off without a care that they murdered someone. They only saw Dennis as a mutant, not a person.
Wolverine, Bishop, Archangel, Psylocke, Storm and Jean arrive at Dennis’ body shortly after. Charles’ astral form reenters his own body being carried by Warren. The Professor calls out to Dennis and, surprisingly, he answers. He whispers that he knew the X-Men would help him. Charles tells him to rest. The boy is dead. The professor goes on to tell his X-Men they need to fight for a better world or else this is what the future holds for them.


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Chicago, a dance studio:Kitty Pryde is trying to recover her dancing skills. She hasn’t danced in forever but that is what returning to Chicago is about for her. Returning to who she was.
There is a knock on the window. Kitty turns to it as she tells herself no more guarding the galaxy. No more romantic entanglements with men named Peter. Only a life filled with a whole lot of normal. Or not, she realizes the knocks come from Storm, who tells her they need to talk.
A little later in a café, Kitty apologizes for not texting since she has got back to town. And by ‘town’ she means…? Storm asks. Earth, Kitty amends. Her life really got weird, didn’t it? Par for the course where the X-Men are concerned, Storm agrees. Kitty is quick to point out she isn’t an X-Man anymore. That’s what she came to talk to her about, Storm interrupts. She doesn’t know if Kitty kept up with current events. Kitty has and apologizes for not reaching out. Storm tells her she has nothing to apologize for. She herself on the other hand…
Flashback:Storm explains how she led their people into a war against the Inhumans, who in the grand scheme of things are really no different from mutants. In the face of a mysterious threat, she chose violence over peace. She indulged their most basic instinct fear.
Present:Kitty assures her she is being way too hard on herself. And from what she’s read online, Emma carries a lot of the blame (big gallopin’ shock, that). But what has this to do with Kitty rejoining the X-Men? Looking down, Storm reveals she wants Kitty to rejoin because she is leaving.
TheStraits of Johor,The North Coast of Madripoor:A ship is transporting Malaysan refugees, only women and children. Among them hidden is one Yuriko Oyama. One of the sailors grabs a woman, planning to rape her. Some of the other women try to help but are too weak. Yuriko tries to pretend to be normal but can’t stand it anymore. She extends her claws as Lady Deathstrike and kills him, then tries to calm the panicked women.
She decides to swim the last quarter mile to Madripoor but she barely steps on the beach before finding she is already expected, by a full-bodied woman in a white suit. She addresses Yuriko by her name and asks for a word. She introduces herself as Carla and explains the organization she works for has a position for her and it would be a dream job for her. For one, she’d be able to kill all the mutants she likes. That kind of job, Yuriko sighs. What if she says ‘no?’ Carla’s eyes begin to glow gold as she announces ‘no’ isn’t exactly an option.
Yuriko claws through Carla’s chest, killing her. Sure it is. She slightly regrets doing that, as she was trying to keep a low profile. She laughs, realizing that won’t work. She is Lady Deathstrike. A moment later, she is hit by a missile.
Carla, very much alive again, walks toward her. She tells someone over a comm. to relax. If she could be killed by a missile, she wouldn’t be much use to them. The other person reminds her this was supposed to be a stealth mission. As a black helicopter lands, Carla replies that they will be off the grid in fifty seconds. Deathstrike was profiled for a reason. She is a sociopathic loner. No one’s gonna miss her.
In Washington DC, the other person agrees. No one will miss any of them. Until it’s too late. He looks at images of Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, James Proudstar, Domino and Lady Deathstrike.
Limbo:Storm has taken Kitty to X-Haven. Kitty is shocked. Storm explains they needed a safe place on Earth. But there was no such place. Kitty asks who is living here these days. Almost every active X-Man and a fair number of students, Storm replies. In the wake of their conflict with the Inhumans, she asked them to return to discuss their future. If they have a future, at all. That doesn’t sound the least bit ominous, Kitty jokes. They cannot continue this way, Storm replies. They’ve been so consumed with surviving today they have forgotten living for tomorrow. Which makes her leaving a pretty lousy idea, Kitty points out. The X-Men need to move forward, Storm replies seriously, and she’s the one who’s been holding them back. Kitty suggest they agree to disagree on that. Before she decides to stay, she wants to take a look around. See what’s changed.
Kitty goes exploring on her own and enters her former room. She sees it’s lived in. Seeing a canvas, she realizes that the current occupant is Colossus, who is standing behind her.
‘Hello Katya,’ he greets her and immediately she recalls all the highs and lows of their relationship. He stole her room, she jokes. His was damaged during the teleport to Limbo, he replies. Really? No, he admits. He thought she wasn’t coming back and, well… but she is back. Kitty admits she isn’t sure yet. He turns around and tells her he hopes she is going to stay.
Still puzzling over his behavior, she is even more puzzled when she hears a baby scream. She finds the toddler and recalls it’s Jubilee’s adopted son, Shogo. Kitty lifts him up and tries to calm him. Kitty watches Jubilee give him a bottle and wonders when she got so old.
She looks outside to see Gentle, Surge and Pixie playing ball. She decides to take a look at the Danger Room. She enters the observation booth to see the original five, time-displaced X-Men in a training session and a discussion.
Jean Grey asks the others if they are in agreement. Iceman and Beast are hesitant. Jean doesn’t pay attention to the exercise and has to be rescued by Cyclops’ optic blast, after which Angel catches her. Iceman unnecessarily asks Scott if he noticed that Warren swooped in and saved her all heroic-like. Does he do stuff like that with his pals in the Champions? Cyclops orders him to shut it.
Jean angrily announces that, if she is going to lead, she can’t have them tripping over each other to rescue her. When Angel begins to retort, she sharply points out that he doesn’t pull that when Scott is team leader.
In Angel’s defense, Hank deadpans, Scott is… Scott. Jean repeats times have changed. The team has changed. He gets it, Warren replies. But if she thinks he will stand by while she gets smashed by a Danger Room bruiser bot, forget it! And it’s not because she’s a girl. A woman, Jean corrects. It’s because she’s Jean, he smiles and flies off, leaving both Jean and Scott to wonder what the hell that was.
Dodging some small missiles, Hank announces she’s past due for leadership. Bu it surprises him that her first act is to— She knows she is asking a lot, Jean interrupts. This isn’t their time. Maybe they don’t even belong in this world.
That’s an understatement, Warren complains. They were pulled out of their timeline thanks to Hank. Hank corrects him that a version of him from this timeline recruited them from their time. What they do not know is whether this timeline and theirs is one and the same.
The training sequence is over. Hank summarizes they tried to return to their time. That didn’t work out as expected. Their timeline displacement… the many changes they’ve gone through… maybe they haven’t broken reality.
In the observation booth, Kitty calls down to them, asking if they are running a training sequence without anyone spotting them. Seemingly ignoring her, the original five continue their discussion. Jean points out that they were plucked from somewhere. That means that there is a world without X-Men somewhere. They are here in this world and she thinks there is a reason for that, but they are not needed here, in that mansion. Cyclops assures her it’s ok. They may think it’s a bad idea but they are going to follow her because, as Warren said, she’s Jean.
In the observation booth, Kitty notices the sequence timing is out of sync. This is just a—
Below, Iceman worries that the others will try to stop them. That’s why they are leaving this message, Jean replies. They’re not going to give them the…
Stage two commences, a voice announces. Safety protocols disabled. All hell breaks loose. Kitty phases into the Danger Room. That moment, the sequence stops and the computer announces it will play the message: Jean announces that this is just a pre-recorded session. Hank set it up to run in a loop until someone came. She apologizes, but they knew the others would try to talk them out of it. They are already gone. They believe in this school but it is not their school. Anyway, they’ve got something to take care of. It’s dangerous and stupid and might get them killed. But they’ve gotten pretty good at surviving the experience. They will be here if the X-Men need them but for now this is good-bye. Their Blackbird is waiting for them.
Where the hell did they get a Blackbird? Kitty wonders.
Later, Kitty seeks out Magik in another part of Limbo. For what’s it’s worth, she really liked Westchester, Kitty jokes. Illyana is happy to see her. She didn’t believe Storm would get her to leave Chicago. Is she back for good.? Kitty admits she wasn’t sure before. She didn’t see what she could contribute. Illyana figures she’s changed her mind then. Kitty isn’t sure. Things seem weird here… rudderless. Even the original X-Men are without direction. In fact, they are leaving. So is Ororo, Magik agrees. And that is just the beginning of the exodus if someone doesn’t figure something out. That’s what she wanted to talk to her about, Kitty announces. She needs her help…
Soon all the remaining X-Men and students are gathered in front of the mansion. Kitty muses aloud that Warren Worthington once thought thirteen X-Men were a lot. Feels kind of quaint, doesn’t it? She’s been back barely a day but it feels like everyone is asking the same question. What’s next? But that’s a good thing. Because the difficult choices they’ve had to make have given mutantkind a future. And now it’s their job to grow that future into a legacy that takes Xavier’s dream and builds on it and protects the people they care about. But they are also going to show the world what they are. Not mutants, not freaks, not Homo superior, but heroes!
But they can’t do that from Limbo. They can’t even do that from Westchester. They need to be out in the open. What does she have in mind? Colossus asks. Kitty smiles.
Moments later, the school stands in Central Park, New York.This is remarkable! Storm breathes a moment later. Kitty thanks her, but Illyana did all the work. But Kitty led the X-Men there, Storm points out. It is as it should be. The student has become the teacher, the recruit the general.
She guesses she is kinda in charge now, Kitty muses. Storm agrees. Kitty announces her next act as leader of the X-Men is order Storm to stay. She is the heart and soul of the team and has been for most of the time with Kurt and Peter and a long-time leader. And when she wasn’t leading, she was there helping. Fighting. All her decisions, even the ones she’s been questioning – the war with the Inhumans, the decision to move the school to Limbo – were born out of protecting the X-Men. They can’t lose her. They’ve got too much work to do…


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The dislocated shoulder is mercifully numb. Three fractured ribs remind him he’s alive. Internal bleeding notwithstanding, it should be several hours before his collapsed right lung becomes life-threatening. In all likelihood, however, Cyclops, the first X-Man, will be dead long before that.
Standing in an Antarctic blizzard, with his ruby quarz visor shattered, Scott Summers dare not open his eyes as he calls out for the other two people who were with him when the Blackbird crashed, Professor Xavier and Storm. He realizes that his situation is grim. He can’t even hear his own voice over the roar of the wind. For all he knows Storm or the professor could be dying five feet in front of him and he has no way of reaching them.
He admonishes himself to keep it together. If the professor were around to pick up on his feeling of helplessness… That’s it! he realizes. Xavier’s the most powerful telepath on Earth. If Cyclops concentrates hard enough…
The raw unfocused thought strikes at Charles Xavier’s mind like a bolt from on high and he is shaken awake. He recalls the ambush, the plane’s impact and that it is a miracle they survived at all. Mentally he addresses Scott and allows him to see though his eyes which in turn allows Scott to pinpoint Xavier’s position.
As he walks towards his mentor, he notices that Xavier’s thoughts are weak, fading. A concussion perhaps, Xavier suggests as Scott has finally reached him. He picks Xavier up, but before he can get him into the plane wreck, Xavier tells him he can sense Storm’s thoughts but she is too far away to make contact. She’s in pain. Somewhere out there.
The two men begin a search for their fallen comrade, unaware she is less wounded by the crash itself than by what she has learned in its aftermath. Cyclops finally sees her through Xavier’s eyes. Huddled on the ground, hugging herself in a state of shock. Xavier mentally addresses her, asking what’s wrong. She replies that whatever caused the blast tore and shred at the very womb of Mother Earth. She shares a bond with the Earth and she feels her pain … as if it is her own.
Elsewhere, a young blonde woman in a bright costume slowly gets up from the snowy ground. Nothing she’ll get used to any time soon, she moans. She tells herself that the E.M. scar stretches about a hundred yards in every direction. Not too shabby, considering this is only the third time n her life she used her mutant power. Here’s hoping it was worth it.
She gets up and stumbles to an small isolated building. Inside, several scientists greet her effusively as Miss Blaze, yet seem clearly frightened by her presence. She curtly thanks them and asks them if she won. They don’t quite understand the question. Xavier, Cyclops, Storm… did she kill them? she specifies.
They admit hat truthfully they don’t know. The elecro-magnetic nature of her power has produced an unexpected effect in their sensors. By their estimate it may take weeks before the E.M. bands return to normal. Until then, they have no way of telling if her quarry is alive or dead.
Another voice points out they could ask him. The scientists gasp. Who is he and how did he get in here? Only Siena Blaze is unsurprised as she states that there are very few places that are off-limits to the Gamesmaster.
The mental projection of the Omnipath informs her that no, she did not win. The leaders of the X-Men still live. Energy crackles around her fists as Siena states that she’s sure she speaks on behalf of everyone here when she says she’s sorry to hear that. Surely she does not hold them responsible, one of the scientists protests. It is the last thing any of them says as again Siena uses her power. Blaming others for her own shortcomings is probably her biggest character flaw. Coming in a close second, is her total disregard for all human life, including evidently her own.
Temper, temper, the Gamesmaster admonishes her as she stands in the ruins of the building. “Every time you use your mutant ability to disrupt the E.M. spectrum you run the risk of destroying the most delicate layer of Earth’s eco-system.”
Her father told her that, Siena recalls. Three weeks after the initial manifestation of her power, the Gamesmaster completes her sentence. He knows. He knows everything. There is not a single thought on all the planet that escapes his attention. For this reason he is the perfect arbitrator in the competition between Siena and her fellow Upstarts. It’s why he can tell that despite her best efforts four of the world’s most powerful mutants are alive out in that Antarctic wasteland.
Siena boasts that this is about to change before realizing that the Gamesmaster said “four.” She thought there were only three aboard that plane, but the Gamesmaster has already gone.
At Xavier’s School, Psylocke informs the newest X-Man Bishop that they lost radio contact with Scott and the others twenty-six minutes ago, the exact moment their electromagnetic sensors indicated a rupture in the Earth’s E.M. field directly along their flight route. Before Cerebro’s circuit-breakers automatically engaged, it identified the source of the disturbance as biogenetic. An “evil” mutant then? Bishop asks. So it would appear, Psylocke agrees, although “evil” is a subjective term. She is saying they were ambushed, Bishop continues. If they somehow survived, Betsy replies, they were downed in the Middle of the Antarctic, no doubt wounded with little or no shelter. She would not use the word ambushed. She would say they were slaughtered.
In the meantime, the three X-Men have gathered in what little shelter the plane wreck provides. Cyclops ties part of his belt in front of his eyes to not inadvertently open them. Xavier finds that any attempt to repair their comm-board is futile. Scott suggests they examine the events leading up to this situation. Xavier agrees and asks the two X-Men to open their minds. They can create a psi-composite, starting with the afternoon festivities in the Savage Land:
Memories:The X-Men were there to gather Vibranium needed to fuel the ship’s cloaking device. Storm was admiring Shanna and Ka-Zar’s baby son, while Ka-zar jokingly asked when Scott was going to make Jean an honest woman and start raising little mutants of their own. Jean is an honest woman, Scott deadpanned. Has he ever heard her lie?
Their departure was without incident. A pre-liftoff check indicated the Blackbird was functioning well within safety parameters. Scott contacted Psylocke to confirm their arrival time and confirmed their flight plan would lead them out of the hidden land. They had reached mach 4, one hundred and fifty miles due north when the disaster happened.
To their unspoken horror, the three realize their separate impressions were wrong. It was not a malfunction which caused the explosion nor was it the result of some natural phenomenon a “white twister” unique to the frozen wastelands. The energy signature is unmistakably biogenetic – similar in effect, if not origin, to the power of the Phoenix.
Within seconds the plane fell. Nav-system gone, propulsion gone, comm gone. Cyclops ordered Storm to get the professor out. He pointed out that even if they survived the impact, they’d be dead from exposure within moments if they lost the shelter of the ship.
Storm flew outside to do her best. Storm’s first impression was that the natural weather patterns were somehow askew. She saw the point of origin of the assault, though she could not focus on it with concentrating on the Blackbird’s rapid descent and the more immediate danger of the flames igniting the fuel tanks.
Xavier noted the immense psionic interference and told Scott that Storm could not maneuver a ship this size. Then they’d have to see about making it smaller, Cyclops replied and ordered Xavier to strap in and grab hold of his arm. What is he planning? Xavier asked. He’d rather not say, Scott replied, because Xavier would try to talk him out of it. Cyclops sheared off the rear of the aircraft even as his visor flew away. Storm immediately realized his intent that he was trying to make it easier for her to land the Blackbird. As it was, between the wind, the rate of descent and the damage of the initial blast, it was nothing short of a miracle that they managed to survive at all.
The present:What’s the old saying, Storm muses. “Any landing you can walk away from”… “Is a good one,” Scott finishes. Whoever said that, probably didn’t get to psionically relive the experience after the fact. Xavier agrees and glumly states that, until the after effects of the blast subside, it won’t be possible for him to mentally contact the others over such a great distance. If only he could see the extent of the damage, Scott groans. He would be as frustrated as them, Ororo remarks.
Suddenly, they hear a screeching nose as a section of the wing lands just this moment. Fed up, Storm tries to control the local weather. Xavier orders Cyclops to stop her and explains that the Antarctic is an entire continent, three thousand square miles of torrential blizzard. For all her power, Storm cannot hope to alter that much of the planet’s eco-system. She’d have better luck trying to recalibrate the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
Though Storm outside doesn’t hear the words she understands as much in her heart. And it makes Ororo Munroe angry. Uncharacteristically so. Storm flies wildly. When her powers developed, she gained a second sight, a broader perspective, one capable of seeing the weather patterns that envelop the planet as a series of different colors dancing across a palette and she was the artist. In this moment, it is as though someone has scarred the canvas. Where there once was beauty, there is only chaos, a world she cannot hope to control. She screams silently and the weather around her goes wild.
In her jet, Siena Blaze sees the electrical storm about fifty miles away and now has a pinpoint on her quarry.
Ororo falls down exhausted. Xavier orders Cyclops to act. If she falls from this height… Xavier orders him to open his eyes as wide as he can: Scott pulverizes the snow ahead of him, thus cushioning Storm’s fall.
Cyclops touches the unconscious Ororo to find her skin is hot. He can barely hold her as he takes her back inside the plane with Xavier playing his eyes. He places her on the chair next to Xavier. Xavier explains he can control her biorhythm by entering her mind and psionically lowering her body temperature. Won’t that affect him in his weakened state, Scott asks worried. Profoundly, comes the reply.
He thought Storm’s body was immune to the effects of weather, Scott asks. Straining, Xavier replies that this may be the most foolish thing he has ever heard. What could immunity to the weather possibly mean? That she doesn’t get wet in the rain, won’t get bruised by hail?
Scott asks his name questioningly as Storm screams. Xavier explains that her body changes temperature in accordance with her environment. The colder the air gets, the warmer Ororo becomes. In the center of a raging blizzard, she nearly fried her system, until he psionically lowered her body temperature.
With Storm recovering, Scott remarks that Xavier nearly lost his own life while saving hers. His point? Xavier asks curtly. Scott replies that since the day he created the X-Men Xavier’s entire life has been a sacrifice for his students. He even left Lilandra to be with them. What about him? When does he get to live his own life?
Xavier retorts he could ask the same question of Scott. The difference being, Scott replies, he didn’t have a life, before they met. There wasn’t a single night at the orphanage that he didn’t lay awake for hours, staring at the ceiling, wondering why his brother Alex got to leave and he had to stay and be passed up by every potential parent in the state of Nebraska. One day Xavier arrived. He knew about his secret, his optic blast and told him it was okay. He was destined for something special, he entrusted Scott with his dream. He never had anything to sacrifice, because his life began with the X-Men.
Then he is wrong, Xavier remarks. Their motives are not so different as he might think. There is nothing he wouldn’t do for any of his students. Now he’d like Scott to do something for him. Stop calling him “professor.”
Scott tries to change the subject and Xavier calls him on it. Every student of his first graduating class has reconciled themselves with addressing him as a person rather than their instructor. Henry, Jean, Bobby, Warren, they all have called him “Charles.” If they are to die here in the middle of nowhere, he would very much like it to be as equals, rather than as student and teacher.
He is being ridiculous, Scott remarks. He could call him Chh… by his first name. He is bluffing, Xavier goads. Scott has to attend to some debris first. He is stalling, Xavier challenges him. Scott still can’t do it as he binds his eyes closed with his belt. Say it with him, Charles goads him. Scott decides that he could do it if he wanted to, he just chooses not to. He applauds his self-control, Xavier remarks ironically.
Several hundreds miles away and approaching at Mach 4 is the X-Men’s other Blackbird, piloted by Psylocke and Bishop. The newest X-Man expresses some confusion. This Antarctic storm seems more violent than he would have imagined. Psylocke agrees. This is evidently a manifestation of the attack on the X-Men. Suddenly, she shouts at him to fly the plane hard about, then orders a full stop. She explains that according to her reading that wall of electro-magnetic flux may abort their rescue efforts completely. Along with the rest of the ship, if they had collided with it. She’s saying they have to wait until it dissipates? he demands. How long will that take? Far longer, she replies glumly, than it looks like they have.
Elsewhere, within the broken Blackbird, Ororo awakes without a sound. Her lips too parched to speak then name of the man she was dreaming about. In the darkened cabin, in the fanciful moment between sleep and being awake, she thinks she sees her former lover Forge and reaches out for him for protection against the cold, a cold that has gripped her heart from the moment that he left. She wants to explain to him all the reasons why they shouldn’t be together. But more importantly why none of those reasons matter.
She reaches out to the man working in the semi-dark, only to find out it’s Scott. The Professor found a piece of ruby quartz in the wreckage, allowing Cyclops to now have a makeshift visor. But she shouldn’t be up. She’s fine, she assures him, only to sink into his arms the next moment. She asks why she’s so cold and he promises her it’ll pass. Ororo whispers, asking Scott if he thinks he knew? Forge. Does he think he knew how much she loved him? If he didn’t, Scott comforts her, he will when she tells him.
The night passes and, in the morning, Scott and Ororo have a suggestion for the professor, only to find he is no longer in his seat. One frantic search later they realize he’s taken the only ATV that was in the remnants of the Cargo hold. Even with Forge’s finagling its range is nowhere near enough to puncture the E.M. interference range, Scott fears. What could he possibly have hoped to accomplish striking out on his own?
Ororo points out that Charles isn’t given to impulsive behavior. It is possible he sensed a life out amidst the hostile terrain and chose to confront it on his own. The question is what can they do to assist him? That one in a millions suicide run they planned? Scott remarks. It just became their only chance.
Twenty minutes away, Xavier is driving on the ATV through the snowstorm. They would have stopped him, he tells himself. He would have stopped him if he’d thought this through. But the psionic imprint he was picking up was so vague, so jumbled through the interference from the blast.
In front of him he notices a citadel. This can’t be the origin of the assault he tells himself, because Storm noted a charring at ground zero. Whosoever resides in his tower, might be their only hope.
But that moment, the cold causes the engine to seize. He tries to calm down, reminding himself that Forge equipped the ATV with a self-lubricating anti-freeze pump which… is empty. The initial crash damaged his vehicle as well. He abandons the ATV and tries to crawl towards the citadel, until he passes out.
Within the hour, Storm and Cyclops are on their way through the snowstorm. Cyclops is within an escape pod while Storm maneuvers it from the outside. No sign of the professor though. She’s all but blinded, Ororo complains. He knows that feeling, Scott mutters. Fortunately, the jury-rigged sensors are holding. A miracle if you consider he used half the comm-badges.
Perfect! he exclaims as he sees a ping, and orders Storm to take the pod down. They see a still body lying in the now, still alive according to the sensors. Cyclops touches the body, announcing they’ve come to bring him home. Suddenly, the body turns around, revealing the leering face of Sienna Blaze. Without so much as a “what’s your sign?” she asks. Really, what kind of woman does Cyclops take her for?
As if sharing a single mind, both team leaders of the X-Men act simultaneously. Without a word between them, Storm and Cyclops come to the same conclusion. This young woman is the mutant responsible for the ambush. More importantly, any amount of damage she caused to the Blackbird was nominal compared to the injuries she could inflict on them. Together, they avoid her most recent assault as Sienna begins using her power while shouting that while they won’t be alive to send a gift, but if anyone in the hereafter asks, Siena Blaze is a Capricorn.
The two X-Men immediately instinctively attack and return the favor, causing Siena to bitch why they are still alive. Don’t they know when to give up? That will not happen while there are still many questions unanswered, Storm retorts, the first being why she is so determined to kill the X-Men. And right behind that… how is it she is shrugging off the combined effect of his optic blast and Storm’s compact hurricane, Cyclops adds.
Firing another blast at Storm, Siena explains that: a) she thought it would be a fun way to kill a weekend and b) the two of them are about to drop dead from exhaustion whereas she hasn’t even used a fraction of her powers. Which is just as well for the rest of the planet, considering every time she tears the E.M. field, she runs the risk of splitting the Earth like a ripe melon. But where’s the joy of living if you don’t take chances?
Cyclops is disgusted by that blasé attitude. Siena shrugs his contempt off. Growing up a mutant, they should know that most people don’t go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. No one watched out for her, why should she care for the rest of the planet? Sinking down in exhaustion, Cyclops mutters “maybe to be better than them.”
Siena laughs. She isn’t better. She’s the worst. “They” made her who she is today. Now they have to deal with it.
She tries to step on Cyclops’ face but finds her foot passes though his head. She turns around to find Cyclops being held upright by Storm and Professor X next to them. It was he who created the illusion, giving Storm and Cyclops an opportunity to recover. Cyclops offers Siena the chance to surrender.
Siena mocks them. What are they going to do, land on her when they drop dead? This was fun at first, but it has gone on long enough. Xavier agrees. Siena tries to use her power, and finds that she can’t She believes that he cut her off from her power. Not at all, Cyclops explains. All Xavier did was manage to keep her body from registering the effects of her electro-magnetic bio-blast. That was stupid, Siena points out. Her body’s building up a charge but her mind isn’t going to be able to control it.
Cyclops fires at her. They’ve got it covered, he assures her. His blast buries her in a glacier of ice to absorb the brunt of the blast. Siena isn’t impressed. Xavier orders them to act as they planned.
Storm creates an electrically charged and wind-generated tunnel directing Siena’s power upwards and Cyclops’ optic blast prevents any excess energy from harming the trio. Their goal is to at least temporarily burn out the young mutant’s power and live through the experience.
It seems they got half of what they wanted, as Siena asks them if they are finished. She can’t possibly possess more energy than it’s taking her to stand, Cyclops believes. Maybe not, she admits. They may have weakened her, but she doesn’t need to fire off another blast. She only has to leave, she cackles. She can ride the Earth’s electro-magnetic field not unlike their Nightcrawler. The difference is that she’s part of that field. The instant she’s gone, she won’t be here anymore.
Xavier believes she’s rambling and offers help. They don’t get it, Siena laughs. She leaves, she takes a chunk of the EM field with her. And nature abhors a vacuum. Cyclops understands. E.M rushes in to fill the void created by her absence. A variation of the bamf created by Nightcrawler’s ‘port.
Siena raises her arms, dramatically, enjoying the moment. Before she leaves, she feels she should let them know if they thought her first potshot she took at their ship was impressive, the aftermath is worse.
They realize they can do nothing but make it back to the life pod and hope she is exaggerating. Storm disagrees. To stay in one place and hope amounts only to waiting to die. She intends to use Siena’s power to their advantage. Just as the electro-magnetic field swirls and coalesces about the remains of their ship Storm reaches out for what may be a final embrace with her goddess and pulls, tugs, shoves and pushes at the weather patterns. She lets the wind bring them to the cusp of the explosion, hoping the force of the blast will carry them past the boundaries of oblivion somewhere to the outer fringes of survival.
Elsewhere, the Blackbird is still trying to breach the E.M storm. Psylocke insists they can’t accomplish anything else here, unless Bishop’s intent is they die here as well. They aren’t dead, Bishop insists. Fine, she agrees sarcastically. Then they should at least spare them the sight of escaping from that EM web only to discover their charred bodies in the wreckage of this ship. If they don’t return to the mansion to refuel immediately, they won’t be of any use to anybody because they will be dead!
Bishop reluctantly agrees, but only to refuel. Suddenly he sees something and orders her to stay the course. Something just punctured that web. Psylocke tells him to use the tractor beam They can’t waste another moment. Bishop complies and the tractor beam pulls the lifepod aboard.
Later:Xavier, Storm and Cyclops share some hot drinks and Ororo asks how Xavier managed to survive the blizzard alone. Xavier admits he doesn’t really know. The last thing he recalls before passing out was lying face down in the snow. Comforted on some level, by the knowledge he’d be reunited with all the X-Men who went before them.
As fate would have it, he woke somewhere inside the tower he had glimpsed from the distance in a bed. A quick psionic probe failed to identify the person responsible for saving his life. His host wanted to remain anonymous. Equipped with a hover-disk which responded to his mental commands, Xavier returned to the two of them in hopes they could return to the tower together. But thanks to the battle it would be impossible to locate the complex.
Psylocke interferes over the comm., not having found any trace of Sienna. Xavier asks her to take them home and mentally sends his thanks to his mysterious benefactor.
Somewhere in the icy water, a lone cloaked figure watches the Blackbird disappear, knowing full well he and the man he saved, Charles Xavier, will soon meet once more. Silently, he returns to his citadel to make ready for that day.
The rest of the X-Men’s journey is made in silence. Not because these three have nothing to say to each other, rather because their actions that day, motivated by honor, respect and love, have spoken more eloquently than any words available to them.