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Iowa, “Gotta use the mega-laser, Captain Marvel!” a boy calls out, playing with his action figure including an Iron Man toy and a Captain Marvel toy. “Don't do it, Iron Man!” the boy exclaims. “I gotta! We got not choice!” the boy continues playing with his toys, when suddenly, his father ruses into the living room: 'Julian – we gotta go, buddy, okay?' he calls out. 'But Iron Man's firing the mega-laser -' Julian calls back. 'Todd, let him take his toys -' Todd's wife remarks as she rushes over to them, holding another boy's hand. 'Sure, but we have to go, okay, pal?' Todd tells Julian, picking him up, the family rushes out of the house. 'We have to go right now' Todd declares, remarking that the evacuation point is out at the elementary school. 'Wait – we can't just leave like this -' the woman tells Todd, who reminds her that green alert means drop everything and run. 'We took too long as it is' Todd adds. The woman points back at the house and tells her husband that they need to lock up, that the door is open wide. The woman's eyes go wide as she looks back at the house, only to see a car crash into it. 'That – that was a car – that was a skeleton in a car -' the woman gasps as she sees Ghost Rider in the car. 'Michelle! Henry! Run!' Todd calls out to his wife and other son.
A news report advises the audience that a level three superhuman conflict is currently raging at the edge of Georgeville, Iowa, between the Avengers, and what eyewitnesses are saying is the Hulk, and despite some near misses, there have been no casualties as of yet – but obviously that could change.
There is a mighty KRRAAK as the Hulk slams a fist into Thor's face – causing him to lose a tooth! 'By Odin!' Thor gasps. 'Daddy can't help you now' Hulk snarls, looming over Thor. Captain America steps between them, 'Thor – behind me!' Cap exclaims, raising his shield, blocking a punch that the Hulk throws at him. 'Look! It's Captain Hydra!' Hulk snarls. 'When I rip off your head, will two more take its place?' Hulk asks. 'That...wasn't me' Cap retorts, holding his ground, while in the reflection of his shield, Hulk's image doesn't appear – it is Brian Banner, Bruce's father. The Black Panther tells Captain America to see to Thor, while he can take it from here. Black Panther leaps onto Hulk's shoulders, which causes the Hulk to try and shake him off. 'Perhaps this will bring him to his senses' Black Panther wonders, as he presses his fingers to the Hulk's head. The Hulk screams, then swings around, causing Black Panther to slip backwards.
'Let's hope – if not, I've got our big gun parked at 10,000 feet' Iron Man, wearing a bulky armor, announces, raising his hands, readying his repulsor rays. 'Only if we need it, my friend. Some weapons should remain the last resort – and Code: Helios is one of them!' Black Panther remarks as he leaps away from the Hulk as Iron Man fires the repulsor rays at close range. At the same time, Captain America asks Thor if he is okay, remarking that he doesn't think he has ever seen him get hit that hard. 'He...he is stronger than he was. Vastly so' Thor responds. Thor gets to his feet and tells Cap that Hulk sees the naked souls of men, smells the lies in their hearts, hidden even from themselves. 'You...you might have a concussion, Thor. You're rambling' Cap remarks, adding that lies don't have a smell. 'Are you sure?' Thor replies, pointing out that Cap lives in the mortgal world, of science and law, what he can perceive. 'But I live in a world of legend and symbol. The world of the gods'. Thor reminds him.
'Thor, are you suggesting -' Cap begins, as the Hulk stares down the barrel of Iron Man's repulsor rays once again. Thor looks at Cap as he explains that he is suggesting that in its rage, its pain, in the shadow of armageddon, his mortal world may have produced something very close to a god or a devil, perhaps. “Devil Hulk” the Hulk grins, as he announces that works for him, and he slams his fists into Iron Man's bulky armor. Inside the armor is Tony Stark, who receives critical damage alerts. His computer tels him that evasive action is required. 'Evade. Evade' the computer repeats over and over. 'EVADE THIS!' the Hulk roars as he suddenly tears Iron Man's arms from the armor. 'Warning. Catastrophic damage' the computer tells Tony Stark, warning him that cascade failure is imminent. Within the armor, Tony tries to eject. 'Motherboard – I said eject! Eject, dammit!' Tony calls out, but his armor does not respond.
Black Panther leaps onto Iron Man's shoulders and tells the Hulk that Stark will die unless they get him out. 'The man is your friend -' Black Panther begins. 'My friend?' the Hulk responds, turning to Black Panther. “Perhaps this will bring you to your senses” Hulk quotes, as he grabs one of the torn off Iron Man arms and slams it into Black Panther, knocking him backwards, while Iron Man's computer warns him of imminent failure. 'Come on – launch manual release – don't jam, don't jam -' Tony utters, before the upper part of the armor suddenly bursts open, and carries Tony upwards above the rest of the armor which explodes. Tony radios the others, informing them that he is alive, but the ndew Hulkbuster armor is a write off, and he doesn't think they are going to win this one – not without cost. He tells them that he is unlocking the big gun – he is preppring Code: Helios. 'Tony – no. This is a civilian area' Carol replies over the communicator. As Iron Man connects the part of the armor with something larger in the sky above Iowa, Tony tells Carolo that the civilians will be out of the area.
Carol is currently supervising the evaucation, as civilians are loaded into ecape jets, Tony reminds Carol that their split their forces to make certain of that. 'Anyone can punch, but only Captain Marvel can organize putting a thousand people on Alpha Flight transports'. As several of the train-like jets take off, Carol reminds Tony that it is more than people – there are homes and business. Captain America joins the conversation, suggesting to Tony that they save Code: Helios until they are out of options, and reports that he isn't seeing movement here, so it is possible Hulk was tkane out in the blast – but suddenly, the Hulk rises from the remains of the Hulkbuster armor. 'I can still fight him...once...once my troll-damned vision clears...' Thor utters, as Cap helps him to stand. 'When the time comes, soldier. For now – we fall back' Cap tells Thor, helping him to walk away from the Hulk. Captain America then instructs everyone to get out of range, deciding that they might need the Helios gun yet. Cap then tells Jennifer that he is sorry, that he didn't want it to come to this – but it is time – she is up.
The Hulk lumbers down a road, 'Huh?' he remarks when he notices a shadow fall over him. 'Huk! SMASH!' She-Hulk shouts as she drops down on Hulk, slamming her fist into his face. The road breaks up, forming a crater upon the impact, as She-Hulk pins Hulk down to the ground. 'Bruce hurt Jen! Hurt his friends! Hurt us all! So now – now -' She-Hulk calls out, before Hulk grabs her fist: 'Now you're mad' Hulk tells her, as he leaps back to his feet, both Hulks locked in combat, 'And the madder you get...right? Funny how that works...' Hulk remarks. 'Shut up! Hulk smash you – smash -' She-Hulk begins, as Hulk tells her that he was everything Banner wanted to hide, everything he pretended he wasn't. 'You were everything Walters wanted to show the world she was. Only now that line between us is harder to see, ain't it? What do you think...Hulk?' the Hulk leers at She-Hulk, who looks horrified, 'No – Hulk is not – I'm not like you!' she gasps. 'Gotcha' Hulk grins as he slams his fist into her, knocking her so hard she is sent flying backwards across the town, through a water tower in the process.
'Hulk got Jen. She's a mile away already – two – she's going to land hard' Tony reports to the other Avengers, warning Carol that Hulk will kill someone soon. 'I swear to God, that's how this ends'. Tony declares, before asking if the civilians are out of the blast range yet. 'No life signs in range aside from Banner – but Tony, this isn't -' someone starts to reply, as Tony, inside some large sort of satellite above the city announces that it is settled. 'Cross your fingers – this is a one-shot weapon. We can't use it twice' he reports. 'Tony – don't do this' Carol tells him, but Tony tells Carol that they have no choice. 'System's green...firing the Helios Laser' Tony reports, as the satellite suddenly releases a energy beam that cuts down from the sky, and surrounds the town in a brilliant glow of energy.
'What the hell – what was that?' one of the civilians aboard one of the escape jets asks when the jet is knocked by the force of the energy beam. 'Is it a nuke? What's happening?' another enquires. Captain Marvel is aboard that jet and tells the civilians not to worry, that they are safe in here, it is a little light turbulence, that's all. '...they kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in...' a woman utters. 'Did...did they...?' Todd asks. 'No. No. These are the Avengers. They wouldn't just...' Michelle remarks, while telling Julian to stay in his seat. 'He's fine' Carol tells Michelle as Julian goes over to her and holds up his Captain Marvel action figure. 'What you got there, kiddo? Is that me?' Carol asks. 'It's an action figure of you!' the boy remarks. Carol kneels down beside him and asks if she can see it. Julian tells her that he got Iron Man too, and a Thor, but Thor is at home. 'Are – are we going home soon?' he asks. Carol looks at the toy in her likeness and pauses, before telling the boy to go sit back down, as there is something she needs to tell everybody.
'What we did here today...it's not right, T'Challa. Not right at all' Captain America tells the Black Panther as they stand over the skeletal remains of the Hulk. Cap adds that he hopes it didn't hurt too much. The land around them is now black, and several lights hover around them as a hologram of Tony Stark appears and announces that it almost definitely did. Tony explains that the Helios laser was laced with UV radiation, effectively, it was a beam of hard sunlight. Tony tells Cap and T'Challa that it was the one thing they had on hand that could hurt this new “Devil Hulk” persona. 'Don't call him that. This wasn't the devil, Tony' Cap declares. 'This was a friend in need. And we killed him'. But the Black Panther tells Cap that it was a temporary measure only, and that Bruce Banner may be dead, but he suspects that without these UV drones, the sun lamps, for want of a better term, the lights which dart around them, the Hulk would soon rise again. 'Back from the death. Rested. Refreshed. Would we survive that, Captain?' T'Challa enquires.
The Black Panther continues, stating that Ghost Rider and his vehicle have healed, and have taken Thor to Freyja, as his fractured skull needs further treatment, the healing magics of his people. He reports that Jennifer has been found, alive and relatively uninjured, but she won't say what the Hulk said to her. 'Let's not forget he almost killed me...' Tony reminds Cap and the Black Panther. 'And me' the Black Panther adds, explaining that the Hulk overloaded the vibranium in his suit – which is almost an impossibility. He adds that without the Helios weapon, without this sacrifice, they would be burying their own dead tonight. T'Challa tells Captain America that his conscience remains clear. 'Good for you, your highness. We've got another problem, anyway. We bear him...we've got him...now what do we do with him?' Captain America replies.
Shortly, at the US Hulk Operations base, Dr Clive walks towards a lab, 'In the end... what could they do? There were protocols to follow. Even the Avengers can't fight City Hall' he remarks. 'So Rogers handed you to Secretary Ross...and Ross, having delegated command of Hulk Operations, passed you straight on to us. And we made you nice and comfy in time for the next sunset' Dr Clive remarks, adding that he honestly didn't think it would be this easy, he thought they would have to use up an asset or two, put their agents in play, work up a sweat – but just a little bit of pressure applied to the right people, and well, here he is – right where they want him. 'Welcome tob Shadow Base, Banner. I want you to think of what's coming as...a little poetic vengeance. See, you've caused a lot of people a lot of pain over the years...and now...now it's our turn' Dr Clive remarks as the Hulk's remains have been cut up and stored in various jars, placed on shelves – including his head, which sits upside down in the jar, leering back at Dr Clive and appearing as if he is roaring.


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Shadow Base, where the US Hulk Operations are located. The green heart of the Hulk is laid out on a table. An adamantium scalpel is placed above it. The hydraulic arm the scalpel is mounted to cost seven million dollars – there are only four in existence. It can bend titanium like paper. Even so, it whines dangerously as the blade tears through the interventricular septum. When the heart was red, they had extracted it with ease – but that was during the day. Now it is night. The night is his time. The two parts of the heart are placed into containers, they lay lifeless as sliced supermarket cabbage. Dr Charlene McGown and other US Hulk Operations scientist study the parts of the heart carefully, taking notes and making measurements, before taking the heart back to join the rest of the Hulk. As a technician pushes the trolley with the two parts of the Hulk down the north corridor, just past the water cooler, before the hamster run – the sundered heart begins to beat.
“Villains dissemble no more! I admit the deed! It is the beating of his hideous heart!” Dr Clive exclaims as he sits in a chair in his lab, where the rest of the Hulk is displayed in a series of tanks around the room – his head is upside down in one tank. Hands and feet, other organs and his spine are placed in others. 'So. What's the science here? Any ideas?' Dr Clive asks, smiling. 'Not you, big guy' Dr Clive remarks, turning to the Hulk's head. Dr Clive looks at Hulk's face, frozen in a roaring motion, 'I mean, look at you. Trying to talk with no air in your lungs. No lungs. Science isn't your speciality, is it? Charming' Dr Clive remarks with a frown as he looks at a hand, which appears to be giving him the middle finger. 'A little decorum, please, Hulk. Be civil' Dr Clive calls out, before asking one of the others to hand him the Hulk's heart, as he wants to play with it a little.
Charlene tells Dr Clive that they need to do more tests, to which Dr Clive declares that this is a test, he is in the moment. 'Let's see what happens when I... oh. Well, isn't that interesting' Dr Clive remarks as he holds the two parts of the heart up – and they suddenly reform. 'Good as new. Dead meat on the table, alive again when it's near him. And it heals. Regenerates' Dr Clive states, adding that he has questions, he asks Charlene if she has questions. They leave the lab and Charlene asks Dr Clive 'Why not full regeneration?' to which Dr Clive replies 'Exactly. A little baby body on a big Hulk head. Or a new Hulk sprouting from every organ. Hulk seeds. Why this and not that' Dr Clive asks. Charlene suggests it might be a psionic link, autonomic control over the individual cells. Dr Clive tells Charlene that there is zero psi activity, plus he had his hypothalamus destroyed – and he came back from that. 'That's the key to all of it. How does he come back? What's the science? What are the rules? We have to know the rules' Dr Clive states as he and Charlene enter another lab, and look at the remains of Del Frye inside a stasis tank. 'Otherwise, how can we break them?' Dr Clive asks.
Meanwhile, aboard the Alpha Flight Space Station, Captain Marvel a.k.a. Carol Danvers stares out a window, gazing down at the planet Earth beneath her, she declares that there are rules to this – basic norms and standards – or at least there are meant to be. She recalls that the Avengers, at great cost both to themselves and the civilian population, captured the Hulk in Iowa, following which, they handed Banner, in an inert state resembling death, over to the proper government authorities. 'Where did he go from there. We don't know' Carol remarks, reminding herself that Thaddeus Ross denies all knowledge, and General Fortean, the man who requested the mission, cannot ber found, while requests for information are misfiled, Washington contacts are fired or reassigned without rhyme or reason – Banner has vanished into a sea of deliberate obfuscation. 'So. Did the US government lose the Hulk? Or kidnap him?' she asks.
'And just to check, Colonel Danvers – I can quote that, but only as an anonymous source?' Jackie McGee asks as she sits nearby, while Dr Walter Langkowski, wearing an AFSS uniform, stands near her. 'It'll have to be, unfortunately' Carol replies, explaining that it needs to be off the record, as Alpha Flight doesn't have the bandwidth for open war with this administration, not on top of everything else. Carol supposes that the bad press should put pressure on where it counts and get Banner's captors antsy – get them to make a mistake. Carol adds that if his captors move him, they might be able to locate him again. 'If he's above ground' Walter remarks, adding that also his gamma signature would need to be the same. 'For all we know, he can alter it at will' Walter remarks, before reminding Carol that they still don't really know what Bruce is capable of when he is cornered or wounded. 'And if this horror has taught me anything... it's that gamma mutation can never be predicted' Walter declares.
'Well, you're the expert' Carol reminds Walter, before telling him that his leave of absence is over, and he is now back on active duty. 'You want me back with Alpha Flight?' Walter asks, reminding Carol that the Hulk drained his gamma energy, he isn't Sasquatch anymore and might never be again. 'But you're a noted gamma researcher with combat training and some insight into Bruce Banner's mind' Carol points out, telling Walter that she doesn't need Sasquatch – she needs him – and that this isn't Alpha Flight. Carol reports that she will call a press conference later, but that since Jackie is here she can have the exclusive. Carol states that her remit is to protect the Earth, and in light about these awful rumors about the US losing one of the biggest threats to it, she is creating a new task force headed by Dr Langkowski to locate said threat. 'Uh-huh. So does this task force have a name?' Jackie asks. 'What else?' Walter smiles.
'They're calling it Gamma Flight' Dr Clive mutters as he speaks to General Fortean on his cell phone. 'Well, no, General, I don't think that's funny. It's the last thing we need' Dr Clive mutters, before asking if they still have leverage on Langkowski, and whether they could force Danvers to back off. 'Overplaying our hand? General, come on -' Dr Clive begins, before assuring Fortean that he is not raising his voice. 'I was just – no, no, I don't want to go back to prison' Dr Clive remarks, before assuring Fortean that he will proceed as ordered. He then thanks the General before hanging up. 'Thank you so much, Reggie, you monumental son of a-' Dr Clive mutters as Charlene interrupts him, asking if that was Fortean and what the problem is. Dr Clive tells her that Danvers gave a press conference yesterday evening, that she is putting a spotlight on them and Fortean's response is to go dark – to cut their ties, use the black funding streams and relocate. 'Seriously? In the middle of everything? It'll take days to -' Charlene begins.
Clive pinches the bridge of his nose and tells Charlene that he knows, and that it is not what anyone wants to hear at the end of a long night's work. He then instructs her to go get the first ready for transport to site B, while he starts prepping red dog, just as soon as he is finished with the jigsaw puzzle here. As Charlene leaves, Dr Clive turns to the the jars of the pieces of the Hulk. 'You think that's funny?' he asks the Hulk's face. 'That your super hero buddies want to make life difficult? Difficult for you, my friend. Everything we've done to you here – that was just the start' Dr Clive snarls, before telling the Hulk that what happens to them now is they ship these pieces of him to their other sites and study them cell by cell. He threatens to cut the Hulk's smile off his face and slice it down to the bone. 'Maybe – maybe we'll pop one of your eyes, huh? Like a water balloon! Rip out the other! See what grows back!' Dr Clive shouts.
The Hulk appears to grin back at Dr Clive, who exclaims 'Needles in your – your tongue, and – we're going to – we're experimenting on you, you moron! What's wrong with you? What's so funny?' he shouts, appearing to get quite agitated. Dr Clive tells the Hulk that they are going to turn him into their weapon, learn all his secrets – how his heart beats, how his fingers move – all of it. 'We're going to find out exactly – what you can do. Oh God' Dr Clive gasps as the Hulk grins back at him. One of the Hulk's severed hands begins to move in its glass jar, as the horrified Dr Clive realizes that the Hulk let this happen. 'You wanted us to...to test you. Because if we know what you can do... so do you' Dr Clive utters, as the Hulk's face appears to roar, and one of his hands suddenly smashes through its glass jar. An instant later, in a terrifying display, all of the other jars and tanks break open, and the Hulk's severed body parts – his head, hands, spine and organs - are thrown around the room as Dr Clive looks on in shock.
The terror continues, 'Please!' Dr Clive shouts as he tries to escape the room. 'I was – please, I was told to, I'm sorry – I'm sorry – I'm -' Dr Clive calls out as the Hulk's body parts begin to engulf him, whirling and writhing around the scientist, the Hulk's flesh and bones completely engulf him – even as he tries to reach for an emergency button on the wall, he can't – and the last part of him to be consumed by the Hulk are his petrified eyes. 'Not sorry enough' the Hulk mutters as he rubs his head, then grabs Dr Clive's labcoat which hangs over the back of a chair. 'You wanted science. You wanted a set of rules. From me. Big mistake, see... science is the other guy. And when you hurt him... I take it personal' the Hulk declares as he notices one of Dr Clive's hands still sticking out of his own chest, before it melts into the Hulk's body.
Outside the lab, Charlene arrives, 'Dr Clive? Listen, we're in the middle of transferring the first over to the portable generator – but I figured as long as we're pausing the work anyway, I'd ask you again about that – tank mix. Dr Clive?' Charlene asks as the door to the lab slides open – and she is shocked to see the lab in ruins, with a massive hole in the floor.
Aboard the Alpha Flight Space Station, a crewmember informs Walter that there is no sign of the Hulk at all, which might mean that he is underground, or in a shielded facility – but this is a needle in a haystck here. The crewmember explains that last time they got lucky after checking Minnesota and neighboring states, there he was in Iowa. 'That took, what? Best part of a day?' the crewmember remarks, pointing at a map of the states, he tells Walter that he has no starting point – it could be New York, New Mexico or California, except maybe he's underground. 'I get it, Romesh' Walter tells the crew member, instructing him to let him know if he does find something.
Walter tells Jackie that this might take a while – unless they can think of another way to find the Hulk. 'Uh, I'm sorry, “we”?' Jackie replies. Walter tells her that he could use her help. He walks down a flight of stairs as he reminds Jackie that she has been chasing the Hulk across the country for months now. 'Sure, but not as...whatever this “Gamma Flight” is. What are you right now? A super hero? A secret agent? I'm a reporter, I can't be the story -' Jackie declares, to which Walter suggests she be an embedded reporter. He adds that this is the way to get to the story, and tells Jackie that he knows she still has questions for the Hulk, and that he knows the Hulk hasn't given her the answers – and he won't – until they find him.
The desert, somewhere, the dry ground is suddenly broken up when the Hulk's mighty hand bursts upwards. He remembers being underground when he was reborn – in a mountain in the north of New Mexico, which meant he was almost home – oddly, they had done him a favor. The Hulk raises a hand to shield himself from the sun, before he begins to melt away, and Bruce Banner's naked body is reborn from the writhing mass of the Hulk. Banner takes the labocat that the Hulk carried all this way and puts it around him. He feels queasy, infected – there is a terrible certainty in his gut that a long-held line had been crossed – the Hulk had taken a life. Sweat pours down his face. For a moment, he thinks he hears his father's voice – laughing from everywhere at once. And as Bruce Banner starts to walk across the desert, the image of his father appears in the clouds above.


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The Alpha Flight Space Station, high above the planet Earth, where the crew member Romesh informs Dr Walter Langkowski that they have a hit – a positive ID on Banner's gamma signature – Los Diablos in New Mexico. 'We done found us a Hulk, ladies and gents!' Romesh exclaims as he looks up at a monitor. Standing near his monitor and wearing green and black costumes are Dr Walter Langkowski and Eugune Judd a.k.a. Puck, along with reporter Jackie McGee. Walter recalls that Los Diablos is the test site where Banner became the Hulk. 'Curiouser and curiouser' Walter remarks, before asking if anyone is up for a field trip. 'I'm in' Judd replies. Walter turns to Jackie, who rubs her head, 'I don't know. Actually going on a mission with, uh...' her voice trails off. 'Gamma Flight' Puck grins. '...right. Well, it still feels like crossing a line' Jackie tells them, before asking if this is going to be real reporting, or public relations. 'Real. Warts and all. I promise -' Walter begins, before Romesh interrupts him, alerting him to something weird on the screen, 'Looks like there's two of 'em' Romesh points out, before asking Walter what he thinks that means.
Somewhere else: 'I'm sorry' Crusher Creel the Absorbing Man utters, as tears fall from his eyes. The sky around him is red, and lightning crackles in the distance. 'I'm sorry' he repeats over and over as he covers his face with his hands.
In New Mexico, a horrific display is seen within the fenced off area 'Umm sohh ree' the skeletal remains sticking out of Crusher Creel's body utters. 'Not yet' the skinny Hulk responds as he readies himself against the remains of the Absorbing Man. 'But you're gonna be' the Hulk adds, unaware that Agent Carl Burbank a.k.a. Bushwhacker is watching him through a target. 'Holy crap. You don't see that every day' Burbank remarks to himself, before connecting to Shadow Base, asking if the line is secure. 'Good to go, Agent' a voice responds over the communicator, before Burbank asks to be put through to General Fortean. A moment later, deep within Shadowbase, as scientists look at Del Frye who remains in stasis, General Reginald Fortean asks Burbank to repeat himself, as he wants to make sure he heard him correctly. 'What exactly has happened to the Absorbing Man?' he asks. 'Patch me into visual feed and see for yourself, Sir' Burbank responds, explaining that what the Absorbing Man's body has done to itself, well, he should be dead – but he's not. He's winning.
'Umm sohh ree' Crusher's horrific body repeats again as he puts a hand to the Hulk's head and continues to drain the gamma radiation from the Hulk. 'NOBODY CARES!' the Hulk booms as the moon glows down on him. 'Yeah, that's it. You drain the gamma in me – I take it right back. Stalemate' the emaciated Hulk declares, while boasting that Creel is not taking any more of him. Crusher Creel suddenly punches the Hulk in the head, which angers the Hulk, and warns Creel that he is going to take some of him. 'C'mere!' Hulk exclaims as he grabs Crusher's spinal column and yanks it from the rest of Crusher's split-open body. Yeah? That hurt?' Hulk asks, grinning as he tells Creel 'What comes around' and boasts that here is his ball and chain, as he swings Creel's own spinal column and skeleton around and around as if it was a ball and chain – then slams it into the remains of Creel's body, shattering the spinal column and sending the remains of his body careening backwards.
'Ouch. Hulk's fighting back, General. Honestly, I don't know how Creel's alive' Burbank reports, while watching as the Hulk continues to punch Creel's remains. He then announces that he has a clear shot,  'If you want me to take it -' he begins, but General Fortean tells him not yet, pointing out that if he breaks cover he will lose his effectiveness, and probably his gun-arm, too. 'We should wait' he states. 'Wait for the moment'.
Nearby, a small spacecraft drops down onto the barren land, with Walter telling Judd and Jackie that they are coming up on the target area, adding that the gamma signature is still doing that weird doubled-up thing. 'So, wait...there's a second Hulk?' Jackie asks. Judd remarks that if Walt isn't “Sasquatch”, then maybe someone else is, and adds that he is glad he came prepared. Looking out a window, Walt annnounces that he thinks he sees something- and a blinding light from the spacecraft suddenly shines down on the Hulk and Creel's remains – both who are only several feet away from the spacecraft! 'Oh good. He's torn someone in half' Walter remarks, while Judd leaps out of his seat and declares that he will get the gun. Walter communicates with the Hulk via an intercom, 'Hulk – this is, uh, this is Walter speaking' he calls out. 'Langkowski? What do you want?' the Hulk snaps, looking up at the spacecraft. Walt tells the Hulk that they don't want any trouble, but warns him that they do have some weapons locked.
At that moment, with the Hulk talking to Langkowski, Burbank decides he can take the shot, and switches his weapon to cyanide hollow points. 'Let's  make this hurt' he remarks as he opens fire – and the bullets strike the Hulk in his head, causing the Hulk to scream. 'That wasn't me' Walter utters as he, Judd and Jackie look down at the Hulk in shock. The Hulk looks furious, he groans as he reaches up to the spacecraft and grabs it. 'Brace! Crash positions!' the wide-eyed Walter calls out as the Hulk drags the spacecraft down to the ground, smashing it hard.
'That's one in the eye for -' Agent Burbank begins, before noticing Creel's remains get up and start to run away. 'Where's Creel going?' he wonders. Watching on a monitor from Shadow Base, Fortean tells Burbank that he isn't sure, and reminds him that Creel had clear orders to subdue the Hulk, but given the damage he has taken, it is possible that Creel is no longer fully in control of his own actions. 'The question is...can he return from that state?' Fortean adds.
As gunk drops out of the Hulk's empty eye socket, the Hulk looks over and with his one good eye sees Creel running away towards the bomb site. He wipes the gunk from his eye socket, but more just pours out, 'Gamma bomb site...Banner's bomb...first...first ever...oh. The Green Door. I know what he wants!' the Hulk exclaims, looking concerned. 'I know what you want, you son of a -' the Hulk calls out, turning, he finds himself confronted by Puck. 'Yeah, yeah. I know what you want. A spare couple of vertebrae' Puck declares, aiming a large weapon towards the Hulk. 'Don't you -' the Hulk starts to say, but Puck opens fire, blasting a hole right through the Hulk's stomach.
Burbank informs Fortean that this is out of control, and tells the General that he needs orders. 'Is this still part of the plan?' he asks, watching as Creel's remains continue to run away – then suddenly comes to a stop in a crater. 'Umm sohh -' he begins, while the Hulk drops to his knees as green gunk pours out of the gaping hole in his stomach. 'Stop Creel – what's inside him – know what it wants -' the Hulk begins, while Puck aims the gun at him again and tells him to stay down. 'Sohh ree' Creel calls out as he plunges his hands into the ground, and green energy begins to radiate around him. 'Gamma. Got all he can get from me. He's after the rest' the Hulk explains to Puck, grabbing the end of his gun and crushing it – while a stream of green energy rises up from the crater and passes through Creel.
The Hulk stands back up as more green gunk oozes from the hole in his stomach, and explains to Puck that when the bomb went off, it opened a door – a green door – only it didn't open all the way. The Hulk continues, 'If Creel absorbs the gamma in the soil here – in the air – if he uses it, right here- to finish the job, to tear open that door -' he begins, finding himself interrupted as Jackie McGee emerges from the spacecraft, 'What? What happens? Tell me!' she exclaims. 'What's going to -' Jackie starts to say, when a brilliant, blinding green light washes over them. The skies above and the ground below appear to tear away in spectacular display.
'Judd! I can't see you! Jackie! Where are you -' Sasquatch calls out the sky around him turns red, and lightning crackles behind him. Puck pauses as he looks around. 'Here we are again...' he mutters, while Agent Burbank taps the communicator in his ear as he takes shelter behind a large rock, calling out for General Fortean to say something, but gets no response. Creel is on his knees still, continuing to utter 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry'. An anxious Jackie McGee looks for Walter and Puck, calling out to them, she asks  if they can hear here. 'Where – oh. Hulk?' Jackie asks as she sees the Hulk nearby. The Hulk looks over to the distance where lightning crackles again. The Hulk looks down at Jackie and tells her that they are too late, that the door opened. 'Where are we? Isn't it obvious? We're where we've always been. Where everybody's always been' the Hulk announces, as a devastated landscape can be seen around them – a city in ruin, the ground broken up, while green energy pours down from a portal above them,striking the top of a mountain.
The Hulk stares down at Jackie as he then welcomes her to Hell....


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This World Our Hell
A devastating house fire rages. What is hell?
A woman sits alone on a park bench, several bids nearby. There are places in this universe made of red rock and flame. Peopled by horned goats and fanged serpents. Built for the torment of souls.
The skeletal remains of a bird bakes under a hot sun. But these places are not Hell. They are only places. Hell is not a place.
A cat walks out of a nursery. Hell is the absence of God. Not atheism. A thing cannot be absent if it was never there.
An car and truck have had a crash and wreckage lies strewn across the street. To be truly absent, God must have once been present. God must have a face, to turn it away from you.
An elderly woman in a wheelchair sits in front of a birthday cake with dozens of candles on it, while younger people stand around her and clap. Is there another face that looks upon you when God's has gone? Does God have a shadow?
Does God have a Hulk?
Below, in a ruined landscape scorched red, the emaciated Hulk lumbers towards the edge of a cliff, followed by Jackie McGee. They look out over the destroyed city around them and see a mountain, where green energy strikes down to it from a portal that has opened above. “How do I get to be what you are?” the Hulk quotes. 'What?' Jackie frowns. Hulk reminds her that he let her ask him one question – that was the question. “How do I get to be what you are?” the Hulk repeats again. 'Really? You want to talk about that now?' Jackie asks. 'I'd just seen a man die, I wasn't exactly thinking straight -' Jackie begins, to which the Hulk tells her that is when the truth comes out, and that she is not the first to get obsessed because he broke her house – it happens. Hulk tells Jackie that she is not the first to want to climb into some gamma machine, either. 'People see me, they imagine what it's like to be me -' he begins, 'Yeah?' Jackie interrupts. She closes her eyes and tells the Hulk that she can't imagine it at all – what it must be like to feel that rage – to be able to feel that rage – to be allowed to feel it.
They slide down the edge of the small cliff as Jackie reminds the Hulk that he smashes towns, that he ruins lives and has killed people – not many, but he has, and six months later, he is on the Avengers again and all is forgiven. 'You know I was shot into space, right?' the Hulk asks. 'Yeah. You were shot into space. Instead of just shot' Jackie replies, pointing upwards before declaring that when the Hulk wrecks a city, Doctor Strange looks for a retirement home for him, and Iron Man looks for a paradise planet to put him on. 'Your anger... it's indulged. Even respected. Mine is dismissed – if I'm lucky' Jackie remarks, before telling the Hulk that they live in a world of men – white, college-educated men – men like Bruce Banner, who just rant and scream and rage and smash things – and then the world bends over backward to understand that, to reward it.
'So... yeah. I guess I'm asking. How do I get a piece of that pie, Hulk. How do I get to be what you are?' Jackie asks. The Hulk pauses, before telling Jackie 'That's good. I like that'. He follows Jackie across the scorched terrain as she tells him of course he does, that he can have a laugh at the puny human. 'No. Not that' the Hulk tells Jackie. 'How you talk about anger... like it's something that needs letting out. Like it's useful. Like it can get things done' he explains, pointing out that Jackie doesn't lock it away, call it another name or pretend it isn't her. 'You're not ashamed of it' he states. 'That. I like that' he adds, before pausing and asking Jackie if she could step into a gamma machine – she would, right? 'Sure. Who wouldn't' Jackie smiles, when suddenly, a voice asks 'What's it like, Doc? Being the Hulk?' The Hulk and Jackie turn to see a figure standing before them, his skin shucked and wrinkled, black empty eye sockets staring at them. 'I'll be it was a gas' the figure utters, causing the Hulk to go wide-eyed as he exclaims 'Rick Jones?'
And what would that Hell look like?
A shipping trawler is tossed about on the ocean as a storm rages. What is the anger of God?
The house fire continues to rage. We are told it is in the flood, or the storm. Insurance men say that these are God's acts, against which we are unprotected.
A ship has crashed into an iceberg, leaking oil out onto the water. That is the irrational side speaking. The rational side – science – says it was our doing after all. We poisoned the air, we boiled the sea and filled it up with plastic.
Police officers beat someone in an alleyway. We decided hating each other was more vital than saving each other.
The skeletal remains of a bird continue to bake into the ground as the sun burns down from above. We were given a miracle world, and we broke it. Perhaps we thought God would give us another. It won't work that way.
A fire begins to spread in a forest. What is God's anger? God's face, turning away. Leaving us alone with what we've done.
'I'm sorry' Crusher Creel the Absorbing Man utters as he sits slumped over on a red, scorched terrain. He pulls his hands away from his face and declares that he did this, that he let this happen – his stupid pride. He let this in. 'Trust me. Evil has always been in' Euguene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck remarks to Creel as he extends a hand. Wide-eyed, Creel looks at Puck, 'Who?' he asks. The diminuitive Alphan introduces himself and explains that his name is sometimes from Shakespeare, while sometimes it is a hockey joke. Judd tells Creel that he recognizes him as the Absorbing Man. 'You become whatever you touch – I'm sure that was useful to it' Judd remarks, adding 'Magic, too – a gift from a god. Doesn't follow scientific rules. I bet that's why it chose you. It's been pulling strings a while now, eh? Reaching in where it's strongest...stroking and cajoling the minds around it...' “It?” Creel asks, confused. 'Sure. It. The Devil' Puck smiles. 'Eh?' Puck jokes as Creel looks confused, while lightning crackles around them.
Puck reports that he has met a Devil, which was fun, but he thinks this is the definite article. 'The peak of my career...' Puck adds, before Creel asks him how he found him. Puck smiles as he explains that he followed certain indicators, fields of force. 'You're an important man in these parts, Mr Creel' Puck states. 'You're the key' he adds. 'You're the man who opened the door – and you're gonna help close it' Puck announces, beckoning for Creel to follow him. Creel runs after Puck, asking him to wait, to hold on for a second, before asking Puck how he knows all this – talking about the Devil, about keys and doors. 'How do you know about this? Who are you?' he demands, pointing a finger at Puck. Puck turns back to Creel and informs him that when he was eight, he hunted his first bear, a big grizzly – that was in 1922, in the Yukon – and that bear kept them through a cold winter. Puck reveals that in Spain, he fought bulls and fascists, and he let the bulls live, while in Nepal, he hunted the Tiger God and killed all fear in him. Puck boasts that he has fought the Queen of Dreams and the world's secret Master, that he has fought demons in Hell and stolen their thrones – and those thrones haven't bound him.
Puck continues, explaining that it all comes backt to one thing – that when he was eight, full of bear meat and adventure, he made a vow – he vowed he would live an interesting life. Creel looks around nervously, while Puck turns from him and remarks that he thinks he has done okay so far, as he leads Creel onwards.
Does that answer the question, though?
Somewhere, a volcano erupts, spitting lava out of its mouth which travels downwards towards a village. We speak of the anger of God. But does God have a Hulk?
At the crash scene, the truck and car still lie in wreckage. “Hulk” - means  something large, unwieldy. A word pulled from the vocabulary of a frightened soldier to name the indescribable.
Oil continues to seep from the tanker into the ocean. The primary definition is a rotted  ship. Vast and strong, but gutted. Empty of treasure.
On a wooden table somewhere, a strange object sits next to a book and a glass. A shell. There is a concept in the “Qabalah” called the Tree of Life. A map of ten spheres or emanations describing both creation and mankind's spiritual goals.
The fire in the forest continues to rage up a tree. But the tree has an opposite side. A  shadow side. This is known as the “Qlippoth”.
“Qlippoth”, meaning shells.
'Golly, Doc. You're in real bad shape' the hollow form of Rick Jones remarks. 'I thought Rick Jones was dead' Jackie comments. 'What happened?' Rick asks. 'He is' the Hulk tells Jackie, who looks at Rick in shock and asks 'His eyes... are... are they empty sockets, or...?' to which Hulk pokes a finger into the empty blackness where Rick's eyes are supposed to be and tells Jackie that they are empty. 'What are you gonna do, Doc?' Rick asks, as the Hulk states that Rick is hollow inside, just a skin, repeating old lines.
Suddenly, another voice calls out, 'Baby girl...don't look' and Jackie turns, wide-eyed, 'Oh God' she utters, as the hollow apparition of her father appears. 'Don't look him in the eye' Mr McGee remarks, warning Jackie about the Hulk. 'Oh, God, no -' Jackie begins, while the Hulk turns from Rick to Jackie and asks if this is her late father. 'Dad – dad, please – we...we have to get you out of here...' Jackie exclaims, while her father tells her that he knows it is not as nice as the old neighborhood, but it is al lthey can afford since what happened. 'Dad – please, just -' Jackie begins, trying to get her “father's” attention. 'Leave him' the Hulk tells Jackie, grabbing her by her arm. Jackie looks at the Hulk and asks him to get off her, that this is her dad, she can't just leave him. 'It isn't. Not the bit that counts. We need to -' the Hulk begins, but Jackie waves her hands in the air and asks the Hulk how he knows. 'What do you know about – about this? He died from the stress, you know that? Trying to put our lives back together! He worked himself to death! What do you know about that?' Jackie screamsas tears stream down her face. 'Who cares about you that much?' Jackie asks.
'Well... there's that guy' the Hulk replies, pointing over to the hollowed form of General Thunderbolt Ross. 'Milksop. Got no guts' Thunderbolt Ross's hollowed form remarks. The Hulk tells Jackie that this is Thunderbolt Ross – Banner's father-in-law, and that he cared. 'Maybe not how you meant it, but...but...but that can't be right. He's not dead. Is he?' the Hulk wonders, confused. “Powerful forces” General Ross quotes. 'A bomb...is a bomb!' he exclaims as he suddenly transforms into a deformed red-skinned Hulk. Jackie looks on in shock, 'God -' she gasps, while the Hulk tells her that is how much Thunderbolt Ross cared – enoughto make sure he could kill him. Hulk suggests to Jackie that she take a step back. 'There he is! The Demonical Hulk!' Thunderbot Ross shouts as he punches the Hulk, knocking him backwards. The Hulk regains his grounding and calls out 'Nice punch...from a hollow man...but then, you always were, weren't you?' as he grabs Thunderbolt Ross's hand, blocking his next attack. 'You won't escape me again' Thunderbolt Ross snarls, as he goes in for another punch, striking the Hulk's face.
Jackie turns to the hollow Rick Jones and reminds him that he was a Hulk once, before asking if he can change into one and stop  this before it gets any worse. 'Hulk needs your help -' she begins but Rick tells her that he doesn't – he just needs a little piece and quiet, that's all. The Hulk blocks Thunderbolt Ross's next attack, and asks him what happened to him. 'You died and it stuck this time? Think that lets you off? You could've been a father to Banner – but you wouldn't let him be Couldn't lreave us alone!' the Hulk shouts, raising his voice as he smacks Thunderbolt Ross to  the ground, and punches him, 'You're dead now? Good! I'll kill you twice! Kill you!' the Hulk exclaims as he pokes his fingers into Thunderbolt Ross's hollow eye sockets. 'Milk. Sop' Thunderbolt Ross utters – before the Hulk tears Thunderbolt's head apart in spectacular display.
Jackie rushes over and tells the Hulk to stop, that he has finished. 'Hulk – Hulk?' she calls, watching as the Hulk continues to tear apart Thunderbolt Ross's form. 'He sounds fiercer. Crueler' Rick Jones comments. 'Dangerous' he addds, before the Hulk comes to a stop, his mouth open wide, 'Hulk...kill...Hulk kill! HULK KILL EVERYTHING!' the Hulk roars, reaching his body upwards, while the green energy that flows down from the portal in the sky to the top of the mountain nearby glows nearby.
In “Qabalah”, the highest point on the tree of life is called “Keter”, the crown, set above all things. It is compassion. The unity of the divine. But on the opposite side is “Thaumiel”. Where that great unity is split into contending forces, each existing at the expense of the other. Refusing to be as one. If the “Qlippoth” is a reflection, then perhaps this shadow-sphere is the lowest point. Below all. A Hell beneath all others. Some would say such a realm has a single demonic representation. A single ruler. Satan, the Adversary – he whose spiritual pride led to the fall. But this is a place without unity.
From the green glowing energy, a suited figure appears. It is Bruce Banner's father, Brian. 'There. You see? Just like I've always said. He's a monster. Believe me, son...you're better off without him' Brian remarks, looking over to what appears to be Bruce Banner, caught in the stream of green energy.


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The Left Hand
Paris, 1919:A park.Whistling Nathaniel Essex sits on a bench and reads a newspaper. The headline on the frontpage is “The end of the Great War.”
A blind, young flapper walks towards him and asks him to stop that incessant whistling. Addressing her as “Adler,” he asks if she doesn’t like it, as she sits down. He always found it most stirring. He sings out a part of the melody. It was on his mind. Did she know it was twenty years to the day it debuted? He was there. Yes, St. James Hall, Irene Adler agrees. She was there, too. She had a fit. That was her? he smirks. He remembers. The opening of the ninth variation… and then… foaming mouth and twitching limbs. He thought it an average weak woman, overcome with emotion. And he was right, he adds cruelly. He could never understand how such hysterical drama could be prompted by such a lovely piece of music. Whatever was it about Mr. Elgar’s Nimrod that disturbed her so?
A war is coming, the blind seer replies. Of course, a war is coming, he interrupts, this peace won’t last and they need to choose their sides. And, if she wants his advice, why choose anything but the winning side? Ethics, she replies curtly. But she is not here to discuss philosophy with a sophist like him. She came here to tell him something. It will change everything! She knows he is an evil man, but she fears that their fates are joined together. And whether they end up on the winning side or not, she thinks they need to be on the same side. Listen… She whispers something into his ear. Oh, he mutters. As he spasms his eyes turn from white to red and black fluid bleeds from his eyes and mouth. “You’re a ghost,” he repeats muttering, as he lies on the ground before passing out.
Was she expecting that? an elegant, blue-skinned woman asks Irene. She admits she wasn’t and is surprised. Though she supposes she could have expected it. What did she tell him? Raven Darkholme asks. Irene looks up and asks if Raven trusts her. Raven replies, if every part of the world succumbed to dust, the last thing remaining would be her trust in Irene. What they have is immortal. She helps Irene up. Irene begs her not to ask again. She will tell her if she ever needs to know, and they must hope that it never comes to that. The two women walk away, hand in hand.
The present:As he steps into his lab, Mr. Sinister sardonically thinks of his current home, Krakoa, or Utopia - the summer-remix, as he calls it. He admits it is better than the last time the mutants thought of an island home: Utopia was a dingy rock in the sea. He chides himself for referring to “the mutants.” He is now one of them. His secret lab is not on Krakoa though. Imagine Scott Summers entering and asking what all the clones are for…
He looks at his latest experiment, activating the X-gene, checks some genetic aspects then looks at the database. 25 logs. No surprise they are looking tired, he addresses his test subject. So he is 26, he muses. So, what do his messages in a bottle tell him? What’s on his schedule today? He reads the entries and grins. Today is a red-letter day! He must remember to act surprised…
Shortly thereafter at a meeting of the Quiet Council, the ruling body of Krakoa, Magneto announces that he will step down from the Council and retire to Arakko.
Mr. Sinister furtively studies the reactions of the other council members. Charles Xavier always wears the Cerebro helmet, so he cannot see the despair in his eyes. He must have guessed this was coming. For a man with his telepathic gifts to be surprised by anything speaks of his cowardice. Magneto was speaking directly to Xavier. They and Moira MacTaggert had a plan for the salvation of mutantkind and fear it is going awry. They are wrong, it is going exactly as planned. Their mistake was thinking it was their plan.
Emma Frost is jubilant. When she discovered the extent of Erik and the Professor’s scheme, she was incandescent with rage. She is entirely focused on the council now. She’s had enough of useless men.
Speaking of useless men, Sinister has no high opinion of Sebastian Shaw and figures he is entirely under Emma’s thumb now.
As far as Kate Pryde is concerned, she is so busy running the Marauders she will not notice things on the council going wrong, until it is too late.
Exodus’ nose curls in disgust as he stomps away. Sinister figures he is adding Magneto’s name to the list of villains Sinister is already on. He despises Sinister for many reasons, but that he electively became a mutant is the biggest one. In his eyes it is blasphemy. Religious nut. Supremely powerful Sinister secret: Sinister is terrified of him.
Ororo looks less surprised. She knew. As monarch of Mars, Magneto informed her of his move. She doesn’t like Sinister either, which he considers fair. He used to be a huge racist. He excised that part of his personality. All beings are inferior to him Why differentiate?
He wonders why Colossus is on the Council. Probably because he is a good man, a bulwark against bad men like him. What the others don’t know, though, is he is under some Russian mind control.
He has no idea why Nightcrawler is here either, but figures he is too busy with his not-a-religion and-not-being-a-cop with his buddy, the definitely not-a-huge-danger with a terrible haircut Legion. As such, he is arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Conversely, his mother Mystique is a big player and holds a major grudge against Xavier and Magneto. They dangled her along with the promise of eventually resurrecting her wife Destiny while planning to never do so, on Moira’s orders. But now Destiny is back as the final member of the Council.
Sinister tells himself to act surprised and shouts what!
Xavier was hoping he’d reconsider, but Magneto thinks considering recent events it is better he retreats for some time. He has done what he can as a council member. He can serve better elsewhere.
He abandons the cause once more! Exodus huffs, while Emma suspects Erik and Charles of playing yet another secret power game. She demands his stepping down should be instantaneous, meaning he has no hand in the choice of his successor. Magneto bristles, he gave everything for mutantkind. Emma bluntly accuses him of quitting. He has given up the chance of defining his legacy. His legacy is deceiving this council. She asks for a vote on whether Magneto should be removed immediately. Exodus, Shaw, Kate, Mystique, Destiny and Sinister agree with Emma, while Xavier, Colossus, Storm and Nightcrawler stand behind Magneto.
Magneto harumphes as he puts on his helmet and announces he will be more at home among the Arakkii. He understands if they come for you with a knife, they do it from the front. Emma snaps at him to spare them the self-pity. This is his own doing. He thought he knew better than his fellow mutants. They are all Homo superior. Save them from the men who think they are superior!
And so the Quiet Council start interviewing potential replacements: Among them is Warren Worthington aka Archangel pointing out the work he is doing with X-Corp. Plus, actual Angel is comforting optics.
His Co-CEO Monet St Croix applies for the position only because she doesn’t want Warren to get it.
Gorgon simply says his name while the even more unstable Vulcan boasts he ruled an actual space empire. He is overqualified.
Abigail Brand, head of SWORD, admits she said she wouldn’t just join Krakoa but a Council seat could convince her. They are working on a galactic scale now. She has been doing this all her life. If they play her way, they can actually win…
Brand’s ex, current head of X-Force, Beast has actually prepared a PowerPoint presentation to convince them they need his precise intellect.
Afterwards the council members discuss the candidates. Kate complains to Kurt that Hank used to be fun, remember? Before all the black ops, before he dated Brand. She can barely tell them apart. She can’t help thinking if they selected one of them, the other one would assassinate that person. Was that a bad break-up? Does anyone know? Kurt agrees that they are both completely unethical and he doesn’t trust either one on the Council. Sinister loudly agrees. Being untrustworthy is his job. Essex, Exodus warns him. Deliberately misunderstanding, Sinister corrects himself, that is their job. Plenty of unethical to go around.
Nightcrawler suggests Legion for the Council. He hasn’t volunteered, but Kurt could talk to him. Xavier believes Legion is still too unstable. He adds that he has once again approached Namor who again refused. He believes it is mostly his ego. To join someone who is strong without him diminishes his own status. He considers the Arakkii. An outsider’s perspective might be helpful. She talked to a few on the Great Ring. They were not interested, Storm replies. For them taking a seat without having to fight for it is an insult.
Kate shouts out to Cypher if he is interested. He replies in the plural that they are not. They think it will compromise everything. Sinister thinks to himself that the “we” is meaningful.
Sinister suggests that as an elite club they should be elite. There has to be someone better for them. Nothing but the best for the Quiet Council. Apparently, he has given Exodus an idea.
At Arbor Magna the Five have finished another resurrection. While they take a quick break Exodus addresses Hope Summers as messiah and politely asks her to take a walk with him. She asks him not to call her “messiah.” He accedes but she bristles, realizing he is still doing it quietly. He explains he is a mutant of faith. He has that faith in her and she cannot prevent it. Hope’s coming rekindled the fecundity of mutants. The Holy Spirit came upon her. She corrects him the Phoenix came upon her. There is no need to get religious. Exodus replies that the Nazarene mutant started a religion among humans by bringing back a few from the dead. He just watched Hope beat that in the last few minutes. And now they have given them actual Heaven. Irritated at the people bowing to her, Hope replies they don’t like that word. The Waiting Room is just a back-up. Which is a cowardly word for Heaven, Exodus retorts. They don’t like saying Heaven, because it scares them with its honesty. He touches her shoulder. Brushing off his hand, she asks what he wants from her. Exodus smiles…
A little later, the ancient mutant sorceress Selene is making her case to the Quiet Council. Emma snarks that she doesn’t think a vampire queen is what they are looking for in replacing Magneto. Selene calmly replies their real problem is that they think that they are replacing Magneto. They lost Apocalypse. They filled his place but didn’t replace him. Selene offers skills that none of them have. None of them know magic. Krakoa has borders with mystical realms. Expertise there is what Apocalypse gave them… and she knows far more magic than he ever did. They are vulnerable to anyone with a grimoire and a bad attitude. Look at the giant magical beasts the ex-Pretender threw at them. She solved that problem, not them. Then there is the Krakoan mission: The Five are at work. How long until all sixteen million Genoshans are brought back? A decade maybe or more? She brought back Genosha in a day.
She brought them back as zombies, an unimpressed Kate points out. They weren’t, Selene shrugs, but that doesn’t matter. She did it. Perhaps her knowledge can improve the Five’s circuit. Sinister is only on this council for his library of genes. They may fear her but she can be at least as useful as the pallid ghoul. Maybe Genosha could be back in a year… if she helped. But most of all? They stand at the edge of eternity: They have joined their fellow Externals as immortal. She has been there and can show them the way. She will join them, as all of mutantkind will join her…
Wait for it, Sinister grins inwardly…
Yeah, that sounds like a good pitch, a voice from outside the circle announces, but it needs to be her. Hope Summers joins them. Xavier protests that she hasn’t been invited to this session. They can arrange a time for…
Hope interrupts, they should cut to the chase. It has to be her. She steps into the circle joining a furious Selene. Calling her child, she suggests Hope has other things to do like resurrecting everyone. Calmly, Hope replies they do and will. The Five have been working their asses off on this. It’s been their whole lives, but there’s been enough stuff going on which the Five aren’t sure about. She’s been a good soldier for a year now, and the soldier has lost a little faith. They all have. Hope points out the whole island rests on the Five. If they are not being heard or are worried about what’s going on, that’s a real problem. So, if they want it, the Five need to have representation on the Council. They want it.
With a grin, Sinister asks if he is the only one who hears an “or else” here. Hope walks away again while stating it’s more than that. It’s weird, but all the mutants love them. She’s embarrassed by how much they look up to the Five. She doesn’t think that hearing she was refused will make the Council popular. It’s not really an ultimatum. She just doesn’t see that they have any other option.
Xavier turns to Selene and tells her the Council will discuss the matter. Angrily, she snaps that if Hope can play this game… the girl talks about sacrifice? The External Gate that reached Arakko… Apocalypse made it from the bones of her fellow unaging Externals. The only reason the Arakkii were here is because of the murder of her peers. Think of the disruption if the gate… just went away. She too walks away while adding to Sinister that, yes, he hears an “or else.”
Sinister thinks to himself that she is bluffing but he admires her style. And he loves her cape.
Nightcrawler wonder how seriously they should take her threat. Sinister suggests some kind of deal to help her save face. But she hasn’t got the power. He is convinced that she doesn’t but tells himself not to let everyone know he is the smartest person in the room.
Emma announces she thinks Hope has them. She used to be scared of her. No longer. She thinks, Hope will make a lovely addition to their little club.
The debate on Hope starts and Sinister watches. Exodus pushes for Hope. Sinister knows that the Hellfire group will be for Hope, as Exodus has struck a deal. Mystique and Destiny will be pro, as they explicitly owe Hope for bringing Destiny back. The rest will vote against, either out of loyalty to Xavier or wanting to consider the various candidates more closely. He plans to join them, to distance himself from the various disasters that Hope being on the council will help precipitate.
Xavier asks if they should immediately vote on Hope or continue to discuss the other candidate further?
Sinister begins to silently predict how his fellow council members will vote on Hope. A ‘no’ from Xavier and Colossus, a ‘yes’ from Mystique and Emma. He himself votes ‘no’, certain in the positive outcome. However, he is in for a surprise when Destiny votes ‘no’. He begins thinking frantically, while the others vote: ‘no’ from Storm and Nightcrawler, ‘yes’ from Exodus.
Why didn’t he just burn all of Destiny’s DNA? He cursed silently and wonders what she knows. He needs Hope on the Council. Finally, Sinister interjects that he wants to change his vote. Give the girl a chance, spirit of youth, fresh blood and all that.
Shaw and Kate vote ‘yes’. Emma summarizes that is six-five in favor, unless Sinister wants to flip-flop again. Hope takes the Autumn Seat.
Xavier announces he will inform Selene. Sinister walks away, pointedly not looking at Destiny.
Xavier finds Selene overlooking several hills and apologizes it is not the right time for a seat on the Council… but they all agree her idea has real merit and they wish to work on a partnership. Her desire to take more of a role on Krakoa is a wish they wish to encourage and facilitate and…
He suddenly notices her silence. Is this something she is taking particularly well or particularly poorly? Feelings? As if they matter, she replies with a smile. This all quite simple: they made a decision, and they’ll live with the consequences. At her gesture a giant monster rises, formed from the Otherworld Gate.
The Council members see this as well. So, she was bluffing? Nightcrawler sarcastically asks Sinister. She was! he blurts out before correcting himself, he thought she was.
The monster breathes fire at the ground.
This is what comes from a snap decision, Nightcrawler seethes. They should have taken their time to defuse this. He changed his vote on a whim. For a man who brags about being a genius, he is an absolute fool. He teleports away.
Sinister turns to Mystique and Destiny. Did Irene know this was going to happen? he demands. Why didn’t she say anything? Irene coldly replies that Mystique’s boy is right: Sinister is a fool. She doesn’t know anything. After all these years, he hasn’t learned how her powers actually work. She doesn’t see the future. There is no “the” future - there is no destiny. She and her wife walk away.
Sinister swears as he sees the other council members fighting the Kaiju. It’s already gone awry. He heads to his secret lab, where Cy-cat (a cat with Cyclops’ powers) and Professor Plod (a turtle) are waiting. He gives order to take a surface scan of relevant data from his brain and upload it to the clone. In the meantime, he wonders.
Selene shouldn’t have escalated. There’s something else he doesn’t know but he knows it now, so he can try again. He takes up a rifle and gets ready to fire it at someone. Then he stops and decides against that action. One day is not enough. The genetic breakdown is significant now, he figures. It is possible the clone is exhausted and this won’t work. Selene’s attack is a minor diversion. He needs more data. At the least he needs to earn where the point of divergence is. It could be just chaos theory, but perhaps not. Magic always throws a spanner in the works for rationalists. All sorcerers are desperately annoying. Plus, all the scented candles are just unbearable. If magic has gotten in the way of his plan he is going to be furious.
His plan? He has been working with the idea of chimeras – living mutant circuits - but he has had older methods, methods no one else uses, because they lack his singular perspective. You don’t need to combine mutant powers to achieve wonders. You can do a lot with a single mutant power, if you treat it as a resource and don’t get hung up on the person it is connected to. He opens a jar full of eyeballs. They are cloned from Scott Summers and are munition for a certain gun. He did it because it made him giggle. All mutants are useful tools… a resource to be exploited.
He gives orders to upload the data stream of the battle. He thinks he was a pure determinist once. He believed that, if you knew everything, you can predict everything. He found the limits of that approach, when the Phoenix incinerated him. There is the unruly move, the unprecedented. It was most annoying. He turned to empiricism. Do an experiment and repeat, learning what you can each time. Classical science, the trouble there is only one Earth. You cannot treat life as an experiment, as one cannot repeat it. Or so he thought. He grins broadly.
Imagine someone whose consciousness moved back in time to when they were born when they died, immolating the timeline when they did so. Now consider this: Take this individual, clone them, activate the X-gene. As time progresses, upload whatever you want in the clone’s brain. When you grow bored of the timeline, kill the clone. And then your earlier self can download what your future self had uploaded into the clone at that later point.
He smiles at the Moira clones in the test tubes. The problem with Moira MacTaggert? She was a terrible scientist. Believing a database as small as ten was sufficient to draw any meaningful conclusions…


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All Mankind’s Woes
Krakoa:Like the other members of the Quiet Council, Hope Summers stares in disbelief at the huge monster the External Gate has been transformed into courtesy of the sorceress Selene. Good news, Hope has just been voted into the Council; bad news, now she has to deal with this, Hope figures.
Xavier appeals to Selene that transforming the gate in a fit of pique is beneath her. Smugly, she informs him these are consequences. She’ll leave them to stew in them and will be in touch when they have had time to think.
She teleports to London, the HQ of Clan Akkaba, who offer her the protection of her Majesty’s Government. Can they do anything to make her comfortable? As they are in England, Selene decides, she’d like an Earl Grey. Either the tea or an actual gray-haired earl. She’s not picky.
Krakoa:Hope automatically takes command of the Five, ordering Proteus to get folks to safety and everyone else to fall back. Silently, she figures that is her role, not being a messiah, as Exodus wishes. Get to safety, she orders. What about her? Synch asks. She took a leadership job, she replies, so she will be out here leading. She’ll be fine. She realizes she no longer carries a weapon and chides herself for getting soft.
Some distance away, Storm and Magneto observe. While he is sure the Captains will handle this, a show of strength by the administration would be timely, he suggests, both present and outgoing. He supposes it is lucky he didn’t just leave in a huff. Storm tells him he is better than that. And he was never going to leave quietly. He’d want something for people to remember him by. Does she think him so cynical? he smiles.
They use their powers in tandem. He pierces the creature with several ferrous objects, allowing her electric charge to hit all the harder. However, they get a telepathic message from Emma Frost, who links Destiny. She is having a vision and asks them to stop.
The creature reforms. They consult Dr. Nemesis, who informs them that the creature connects multiple dimensions. Hurting it causes damage to the gateways. Their connection to Otherworld. Everything. If they destroy it, all that goes boom-boom.
Storm stops the attack and the creature rises up.
While Hope tries to evacuate people, Exodus joins her and orders her to come with him. She must not risk herself. She is the lamb of Krakoa. She doesn’t bleat and she won’t leave anyone behind, Hope snaps back. He points out sensibly that even he cannot save the whole crowd. Hope retorts that, while he cannot, she can. His gifts mean he is more powerful when people believe in him, so she can… Exodus blurts out “what?” Hope apologizes for not telling him before. When she first took his power, she saw it. She is a crappy messiah.
He replies she speaks to him, and it is a revelation. He sees himself clearer. There is nothing “crappy” about her. He addresses her as messiah. Embarrassed, she tells him people believe in her and she mimics power, so she copies his power. Together they create a massive telekinetic shield to protect the crowd from the detonation.
Hope is torn regarding Exodus. She doesn’t believe in that messiah thing, but he also told her she needed to be on the Council. She couldn’t find a reason to disagree with him. Her father raised no shirker. She guesses that makes her a believer too. Just not like Exodus. He’s #*§$ nuts. He isn’t alone in that.
From his lab, Sinister observes that one must save the day. He figures he makes one joke and people think he is a joke. Some of the thickos may even forget some of the gifts he gave himself. It is a shame he has to remind them exactly what Sinister can be. He grabs some vials from the gene closet, then steps through a gate bringing him close to the battle site.
“Fight not with monsters, in case you become a monster,” he quotes Nietzsche derogatively. Nietzsche was an idiot, he decides as he injects himself with the contents of the vial. If you fight with monsters, you should become a monster. He transforms becoming more musclebound, displaying claws and spikes. The best and biggest monster you can!
What is he doing? Xavier demands. Blasting the monster with an optic blast, Sinister replies, hero stuff. He knows how it is.
Xavier asks what is it as Sinister tackles the creature. An experiment, is the reply. Early chimera prototype. It’ s a lot of mutant genes messed together with an MGH base and some Arakkii spice. He tells him not to worry and lies this is the bespoke genetic-suit end of his work. It’s completely unstable and took him weeks of work to make it even this close. Also, there’s significant teething problems and he does not just refer to the fact it is growing teeth from every orifice at a rate he can only describe as Cronenbergian. Calmly, Xavier asks if he is going to cause a disaster worse than the disaster they are facing.
While he drags the creature into the ocean, Sinister replies that he is going to get the Kaiju clear of the island. But in about six seconds he is going to need a rescue. The wonderful beastie he is embedded in is going to dissolve or possibly explode.
From some distance, Hope and Exodus see the explosion.
In the water, Sinister believes the monster is done then has to marvel at its amazing rate of regeneration, then realizes this might be problematic for him. Luckily, that moment Nightcrawler teleports in and helps him back to the beach.
Sinister asks if he shouldn’t have a hero’s moment: crowds applauding, palms cast at his feet, grateful fans…. He would, if he were a hero, is Kurt’s reply. Touché, Sinister admits, but while he cannot change his history, he is as committed to Krakoa as anyone. They at least bought it a reprieve together today. Kurt may not be grateful to Sinister, but Sinister is grateful to him. He thanks him for the rescue. Kurt is quiet for a moment, then reluctantly praises him before walking away. Sinister mutters to himself that people who think best of others are just the easiest.
That moment, Xavier calls the Quiet Council (without Hope) to a telepathic emergency meeting. He apologizes for taking the initiative but he thought speed more important than decorum. They have decisions to make. She understands perfectly, Emma snarks. “To me, my Quiet Council.” Shaw grins approvingly.
Xavier huffs he wouldn’t make jokes at a time like this. It also isn’t the time to score petty political points. It is not his Council, it is theirs.
Storm adds that Emma voted for rejecting Selene, partially blaming her for the escalation. That was a petty political point, Emma shoots back. Kate urges them to move on; what is this tantrum of Selene meant to prove? Destiny replies it proves Selene’s point: they are vulnerable to magic. Nightcrawler muses about inviting Magik to the Council as a possible solution. Colossus is against that. His sister is enjoying being a Captain too much. She is not one for such meetings.
Xavier suggests they discuss this another time, when Selene’s creature isn’t chittering toward them. He announces the Captains will slow the creature down without destroying it. The Council will reach out to Selene, see what else she wants and work out a way to satisfy her.
Colossus asks if there are Summers Protocols for something like this. Oh please, Emma huffs. It’s Scott! What does he think?
At the evacuation site, Destiny seeks out Hope and tells her she has a vision: At 19:07, Greenwich mean time, Selene will step by a window in London. She has ascertained its address. She will stand there for a second, sigh… and then she will die.
Hope reminds her she sees probable futures, not certain ones. What is the likelihood of this happening? She dares say significantly higher after this conversation, Destiny replies coyly as she walks away with her wife.
Hope wonders why Destiny asked her. She has a competitive streak you could march an army down, but she is not stupid. Destiny’s married to Mystique. She could pull this off, but not like this.
Hope gets a high-tech assault weapon and mysterium bullets, then copies Magik’s teleportation power. She ends up falling from the sky near London Bridge, falls past the window of a room where Selene has just learned that the mutants have asked for her demands. She aims. Headshot. While a normal bullet wouldn’t kill Selene, this one is made from Mysterium, which has anti-magic properties.
Hope teleports back to Krakoa and enters Arbor Magna, where a resurrected Selene has just crawled from an egg. Hope knocks her in the face and hands her to Exodus, who uses Selene’s confused post-resurrection state to go through her mind and find the means of switching the monster off. The gate monster disintegrates and Exodus breaks Selene’s neck.
Later, Hope explains and defends her actions in front of the Quiet Council. She stresses that she didn’t break any of their laws, while Selene stomped over them in her goth boots.
Kate agrees. It was a huge risk but not even in the top ten of the worst things they have done. Emma points out that Selene broke the law “respect this sacred land,” so they would have had to throw her into the Pit anyway. A bored Shaw agrees; let’s save him from another trial. That can wait until Selene works her way up the resurrection queue.
Xavier asks Hope if she would bring Selene back, if she were at the top of the resurrection queue. Hope retorts they should table that discussion for now.
With the meeting over, Hope tells Exodus she hopes he now realizes she isn’t a messiah. Jesus didn’t shoot anyone through the head. Exodus agrees, he did not. This is another reason why Hope is a far superior kind of messiah. She laughs and playfully knocks him in the arm.
Sinister stands with Destiny and Mystique and notes that power was significant. Perhaps it’s worth bringing back Selene just to find out how she did it. Destiny predicts that wouldn’t end well for him. Why the concern? he asks. She reminds him she told him before: they must be on the same side. She and Mystique leave.
Xavier walks up to Sinister. Strange times and strange bed fellows, Xavier observes. He didn’t realize he and Destiny were so close. What was Irene implying? Sinister replies, he has no idea. “We must be on the same side.” She told him no such thing!
That was almost fun, Mystique enthuses then notices something is wrong with Destiny, who admits she has been feeling queasy. That creature was a living distortion of time and space. It’s not going away… She hasn’t felt like this since…over a century, at least. She is thinking of a bed… a summer… No! she mutters, then falls. You’re a ghost… she keeps on repeating.


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Part three: The New Testament of Irene Adler
Irene Adler was thirteen years old when the future opened up to her. She was riding on a horse when the visions came upon her. She saw both the temporal world and all the worlds to come. And she knew this dual state wouldn’t last longer. She would lose her human sight in months, her mutant sight would dim after its first flush of power.She used her time to write. Thirteen volumes in thirteen months. They described all she had seen, in a mix of truth and lie, in order to conceal the future from others. The last thing she ever saw with her mortal eyes was the last line of the final volume. Her work was done. Her work had barely begun.Krakoa, now:Destiny just collapsed at the Quiet Council. She now seems to be in a catatonic state. Mystique has brought her back to their home and orders Emma Frost to scan her mind. Surface only! She warns Emma not to go any further. Emma suggests they pretend she is suitably cowed by her and reminds Mystique she is on her side. She senses that Destiny is overwhelmed by a flood of visions.Raven muses it was like that for her the first time she had her visions, when she wrote her testaments. And smartly hid them behind lies, Emma muses. She wishes she had been that smart at that age. Instead, she was a callow youth with an unfortunate nose. Still, she grew out of both. Gently, she tells Raven there is a problem. The Council will meet. Charles promises, no major votes. Storm is off at another Arakkii challenge, so she is inclined to believe him. She can stay with Irene. Raven reminds her that they do not trust Charles. Emma agrees, but promises to ensure he will stick to his word. Raven nevertheless decides to accompany Emma. Irene would not leave her like that. This time she would have told her. Raven made it clear: never die again without warning her! They both leave.Irene thinks that wife rhymes with life. She always wanted one. She would ensure there would be a world where she could have one.Flashback:Somewhere in the West of the USA:Irene, as a young woman, nervously stands outside a saloon.She was, in the language of her time, a sexual invert. The future she saw made it clear and showed where not admitting it would lead her. These futures weren’t worth living. And she saw the alternative…Hesitating, she steps into the saloon, where she will meet Raven dressed in men’s clothes for the first time. Irene steps into that room, knowing she’ll fall in love with her.Irene thinks of what a friend claimed Queen Victora asked upon discovering her lovers were woman. What do you do? She knows what she would answer: Whatever we want! Forever!Raven was her first crucial nexus. Nexuses are key to understanding her gift. She sees potential futures. In the short term, she predicts things uncannily but that doesn’t save the future. In the long-term, chaos theory puts things into a flux. Nexuses are the landmarks that let her navigate either away from or toward. For example, climate change: Any choice that does not stop the world from cooking is irrelevant in the long game. A nexus is an event that pulls things toward it. Which means timelines are more predictable afterwards, for better or worse. Mystique and her being together made her compete. There is nowhere without Raven. She’d have burned the universe for them to be together. She was the best nexus. She knew the next one would be harder.For the future to happen, Irene had to die. Krakoa was the limit of her vision. It could be a utopia. It could make them immortal; it could save the world from all the dark nexuses around it. She could not know why, but there would be no Krakoa as long as she existed. She now knows why: Moira. She’d have killed Moira and prevented this utopia form ever happening. She chose the nexus that best skewed toward it. She chose to die on Muir Isle, hoping she would be saved. She regrets not being able to tell Raven. She told her to burn Krakoa down if they wouldn’t resurrect her. She died and her last thought was sorrow for the sorrow she was causing. She left Raven alone then and she leaves her alone now.The Quiet Council:Xavier has just informed their latest member, Hope Summers, of all the Council’s secrets, including Moira’s secret. Hope doesn’t understand why they keep it a secret. They should tell all Krakoa. Xavier chides that is a horrible idea. Nightcrawler chimes in that it is an ethical idea. As Homo superior, they should try to be better.Why the pushback? Hope demands of Xavier. He knew what he was getting. If he didn’t want her to get involved, why did he give her a Cerebro helmet? Irritated, he replies that he did no such thing. Angrily, Hope insists that he did. She thought it was a reward for work well done! Xavier stiffly informs her the parts of the resurrection process need to stay separated.With a broad grin, Mr. Sinister tattles he also had a strange visitor. Magneto came to him, asking for all the Destiny DNA. He was entirely convinced it was him. But now that Hope has revealed the shocking truth, there are other candidates. And if the shapeshifter in question wasn’t him - he takes on Mystique’s face - he wonders who it could be.Mystique jumps up and screams, she will murder him if he takes her form one more time!Still laughing, he changes back and corrects her: it would be attempted murder at best. She would have to bring down all of Krakoa for it to stick.Mystique addresses the Council, informing them that burning all this down was the other option. Lying to a few of them to get Destiny back was the better option. Xavier and Mystique scream at each other.Destiny muses it is like the first time her power manifested in a rush. She is in a body that is mere weeks old when the future opens up to her once more.She has a vision of Genosha, of X-Men with red diamonds on their foreheads, of fighting the Eternals, of Exodus standing alone and being worshipped by a crowd, of the Darkchilde standing on the bodies of her fallen friends.She concentrates on several nexus events following each other. The Nimrod Extinction Event pops up often. For some reason, though, there is less future. Some timelines end sharply. A dramatic nexus, then blackness. It turns out they don’t have to worry about climate change anymore or Orchis annihilation. Any victory is slight before… nothing. Or is she wrong and some power is blocking her vision? All the timelines end in wars and horror.She tries to find a common thread, clues. She reaches out and has a vision of deep space. A word: Expanse. The distant reach of a mutant church empire. She sees a fiery starship, the Phoenix effect around, it cornering a different ship. The second vessel is enveloped in cloned meat – Shaw batteries. Massive amounts of kinetic energy stored in the muscle of a long dead man. She knows who thinks like that. Nathaniel Essex. A toddler who turns up at a party and assumes all the gifts are his.Mr. Sinister is indeed in the ship. A voice calling him gene-corsair announces they have him. It is Exodus as a giant energy form. He pronounces they have created a hell where Sinister will suffer for his crimes. The souls of those he desecrated are waiting. They have long psychic knives and eternity to pass. Calling Sinister “Judas-Prime,” Exodus judges that at long last he who burned paradise will finally suffer for his sins.Irene desperately searches for a clue and, thankfully, some people never change. Sinister calls Exodus unbearable. He taunts that Exodus has lost - it doesn’t matter how many trillions are bloating him up with belief. He is just another loser, again and again and again! He won’t be in Exodus’ hell for more than half a day and, frankly, whatever hell he has cooked up can’t be more purgatorial than his tepid company!As a giant, Exodus is about to swallow him but Sinister continues ranting that he is the only thing that exists. Remove him, and they are all gone! Does he really think Sinister didn’t think of a failsafe to burn this dumb timeline? Been interesting. Learned a whole lot, holy chump, be seeing you!And he screams and is stretched on for a subjective eternity. And then only darkness. As if his death triggered the destruction of the timeline. But only Moira can do that. No, Irene corrects herself, Moira’s gift could do that.She awakes, realizing Nathaniel has cloned Moira.At the Quiet Council, Mystique and Xavier are still arguing. Mystique shouts he promised to bring her back but he never intended to. What did he expect her to do? He retorts, she is an ends-justifies-the-means-terrorist. It’s a little late for her to play the romantic idealist.Kate states that’s some real Professor-Xavier-is-a-jerk-energy he is throwing around here. Xavier bristles he is tired of them all complaining about the steps he, Magneto and Moira took to take them all to paradise. They get to take it wherever they want now. He may be the architect, but he is not a dictator. He hopes that is clear to them, but however they presently feel about him, don’t get distracted about what’s going on here. What Mystique has done is beyond the limits of simple politics. This is an active subversion of their government undermining its system simply because of her needs. Can they seriously accept her presence on this council?Silence for a moment, until a voice announces that war is coming. Desitny steps among them and warns it is coming in weeks. They must be ready! She tells Xavier that, if his schemed-for utopia matters to him at all, he should thank her lover for bringing her back, and everyone else should curse those who kept her dead for their own petty needs.The Hellfire contingent is skeptical and suggests she let the vision be checked out by a telepath. Destiny refuses. She doesn’t trust any of them in her head. But she is committed to the cause of mutants more than anyone. After everything they must have a future.This is a lot of faith to put in anyone, Exodus muses aloud. Irene thought a man of mutant faith would have more trust in a literal mutant prophet. He agrees.As Destiny thought, he is the first to fall and, slowly, so do the others. She does not reveal the fact that she knows what she has done can be undone. She cannot give away to Sinister that she knows, or he will kill a Moira and they are back to step one.Later in their quarters, Raven tells Irene she was magnificent and tells her to come to bed. Irene refuses. The muse is upon her. She needs to write. Is she writing prophecy again? Raven asks. What does it say? Does she trust her? Irene asks. Raven hugs her and asks if she needs her to say it. She does. Raven tells her if every part of this world succumbed to dust, what would remain would be her trust in Irene. What they have is immortal. Irene takes off her mask and decides writing can wait. They kiss passionately.Afterwards, Irene returns to her desk. She instructs Raven to keep her book safe but not to read it. She writes her book in denial of her visions. She cries silently as she begins writing, because Raven isn’t in any of those futures. There is no future in any way that counts.